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flat earth- (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by Shivananda on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +87Score on mirror )
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Captain_Raamsley on scored.co
1 year ago 4 points (+0 / -0 / +4Score on mirror ) 2 children
I heard a story about a guy who said the germans could only bombard england with their giga-artillery because they used "flat earth math". No, I'm not kidding.
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TallestSkil on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
As a kid, I heard a story about how the evil not zees thought the Earth was a bowl, so they went somewhere at night to look up at the sky with a telescope to get targeting data for a distant nation and they didn’t see anything. Ha ha those stupid Germans! They deserved genocide, didn’t they kids?
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Captain_Raamsley on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
???
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TallestSkil on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror )
No, seriously. I actually read that somewhere. Damned if I can find the reference now. But the book (or whatever it was) said that the Germans believed in [*this* specific version of “flat earth”](https://i.etsystatic.com/26214993/r/il/fb8c17/3079016391/il_fullxfull.3079016391_i3j7.jpg) (or one similar) where it’s not perfectly flat, but bowled and upraised (which allows the Sun to set) so that some land is “above” other land. Thus you should be able to spy on foreign countries by pointing a telescope at the sky at night and seeing that distant land “up” on the crest of the Earth-hill. “Ha ha, those stupid national socialists! The Earth isn’t curvy like that! Good thing all of their political positions are illegal for all eternity, otherwise we’d be stupid, too!”
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jack445566778899 on scored.co
1 year ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
In a way, that’s correct. It was known as the Knickebein system.

“Flat earth” math (and by that I mean mathematics that assumes a mostly flat/planar world) is used by many agencies effectively, including the faa and nasa.
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