Wiz Khalifa thinks the earth is flat

[Luke Cage]

Do flat earthers have an explanation for why i can watch a live football game at 10pm and its dark af outside on the east coast. but the game being played on the west coast its still day light?

Why do we have time zones if the sunlight reaches everyone at the same angle? If the earth was flat everybody would have the same day and night cycle.

 

[Patrick Kane]

Do flat earthers have an explanation for why i can watch a live football game at 10pm and its dark af outside on the east coast. but the game being played on the west coast its still day light?

Why do we have time zones if the sunlight reaches everyone at the same angle? If the earth was flat everybody would have the same day and night cycle.

Dude you’re literally providing the answer to your question and disproving a flat earth and why time zones exist

The reason it can be dark in New York and still daylight in California during a live football game is because the Earth is a sphere. As the Earth rotates, different parts face the sun, giving us day and night at different times. The Earth rotates once every 24 hours. As it spins, only one half of the Earth faces the sun at any given moment, so that half experiences daytime, while the other half is in darkness (night - like how it’s currently 11:29 PM in Beijing and 12:29 AM in Tokyo). When you’re watching the game from the West Coast and it’s still daylight, you’ll notice that the sun is beginning to set if it’s a late game (7PM LA time) but by 10 PM when the game is done, it’s dark out.

There’s 24 hours in a day, it takes 3 hours for the sun to reach its angle in the sky on the west coast (now 10 PM on the west) that already happened 3 hours earlier on the East Coast. Since the Earth is round and rotating from west to east, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west. This is why we have time zones.

Now, on a flat Earth, the sun would have to hover and spotlight only certain areas at a time for time zones to make any sense. But that doesn’t line up to reality because:

1. We’d see the sun from everywhere on Earth at once, it wouldn’t ‘set’ below the horizon. Go and watch a sunset for this effect. Even better at a beach.

2. The sun would have to shrink or fade out—not dip bottom-first below the horizon like it clearly does. You see this very clearly watching the sunset.

3. There’d be no clean dividing line between night and day, like we can see clearly see from high-altitude flights.

But I get the idea this will mean nothing to you and you’ll believe what you want

 

[Luke Cage]

Dude you’re literally providing the answer to your question and disproving a flat earth and why time zones exist

The reason it can be dark in New York and still daylight in California during a live football game is because the Earth is a sphere. As the Earth rotates, different parts face the sun, giving us day and night at different times. The Earth rotates once every 24 hours. As it spins, only one half of the Earth faces the sun at any given moment, so that half experiences daytime, while the other half is in darkness (night - like how it’s currently 11:29 PM in Beijing and 12:29 AM in Tokyo). When you’re watching the game from the West Coast and it’s still daylight, you’ll notice that the sun is beginning to set if it’s a late game (7PM LA time) but by 10 PM when the game is done, it’s dark out.

There’s 24 hours in a day, it takes 3 hours for the sun to reach its angle in the sky on the west coast (now 10 PM on the west) that already happened 3 hours earlier on the East Coast. Since the Earth is round and rotating from west to east, the sun appears to rise in the east and set in the west. This is why we have time zones.

Now, on a flat Earth, the sun would have to hover and spotlight only certain areas at a time for time zones to make any sense. But that doesn’t line up to reality because:

1. We’d see the sun from everywhere on Earth at once, it wouldn’t ‘set’ below the horizon. Go and watch a sunset for this effect. Even better at a beach.

2. The sun would have to shrink or fade out—not dip bottom-first below the horizon like it clearly does. You see this very clearly watching the sunset.

3. There’d be no clean dividing line between night and day, like we can see clearly see from high-altitude flights.

But I get the idea this will mean nothing to you and you’ll believe what you want

you're preaching to the choir breh. I just want to hear what the flat earthers explanation for it is.

 

[Patrick Kane]

you're preaching to the choir breh. I just want to hear what the flat earthers explanation for it is.

You had me for a sec bruh

Really can't stand this level of stupidity. Especially when its coming from black men, just disheartening. nikkas need to pick up a book or at least listen to an informative podcast that would explain this shyt and not nikkas spewing misinformation

I can't get over the fact that people really listen to this garbage for 2-3 hours out of their day.

 

[Krs2]

you're preaching to the choir breh. I just want to hear what the flat earthers explanation for it is.

You had me for a sec bruh

Really can't stand this level of stupidity. Especially when its coming from black men, just disheartening. nikkas need to pick up a book or at least listen to an informative podcast that would explain this shyt and not nikkas spewing misinformation

I can't get over the fact that people really listen to this garbage for 2-3 hours out of their day.

I hate mofukkas that can't read. Dude clearly said he wanted explanations from flat earthers and you replied like he was one.

Even if your reply got good points it's hard to take you serious after that

 

[3rdWorld]

They need to stop interviewing spaced out rappers and non academic public faces..it's meant for deliberate jokes now.

 

[O.T.I.S.]

It’s crazy how dumb the world has become

When u have dumb asses like
Joe, Melyssa ford and all these other podcasts that be trying to do these type of conversations and u have some idiots who will be inclined to believe it

All this technology and nikkas still dumb af

And social media gives the biggest dumbasses the biggest voices

 

[Soundbwoy]

I honestly blame the government for that because most disinformation comes from 3 letters agencies

 

[Diyhai]

You had me for a sec bruh

Really can't stand this level of stupidity. Especially when its coming from black men, just disheartening. nikkas need to pick up a book or at least listen to an informative podcast that would explain this shyt and not nikkas spewing misinformation

I can't get over the fact that people really listen to this garbage for 2-3 hours out of their day.

you just as dumb or can't read
his question was clear
Flat Earthers commonly respond to the time zone question by proposing that the sun acts like a "local light" moving in a circular path above the flat Earth, similar to a spotlight or flashlight. According to this model, the sun only illuminates a specific area of the flat disk at any given time, creating regions of daylight and darkness, and thus, time zones. As the sun moves, different parts of the Earth experience sunrise, noon, and sunset at different times, which they claim accounts for the observed time zones.

I 'm not a flat earther

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

I mean this is what’s celebrated in society now. The dumbing down of people. And the Internet made it so pockets of dumb people can find other dumb people and because they have numbers, they start to feel superior to those sheep that use techniques like critical thinking and such.

False consensus effect - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Diyhai]

All this technology and nikkas still dumb af

And social media gives the biggest dumbasses the biggest voices

There are intelligent takes on it
But I really don't get that deep because how would it change my day to day?
but people talk about how there are different dimensions of physical space
people try to base things on what we see but there are plenty of things beyond human perception
its just more comfortable to believe what they already know
I'm not opposed to people challenging the status quo

 

[trap101-ETHout-Allegri-In]

You know what breh, for some reason or another I like you .


We're both engineering majors and I'm low-key jealous that you went to a better school than me (g tech vs my umd). I just wonder how you went down this path given that I know what your curriculum looks like. We took the same abet accredited physics classes. It's like physics 100 stuff.

I'm not going to argue with you, but I'm curious if you had these thoughts before or after the intro physics classes. It's interesting that you mention Newtown because he basically invented calculus to solve the relationship between acceleration, velocity, and displacement with regards to the kinematic motion of projectiles (a being g on the y axis )

Wait...... this fool has an engineering degree????....... He's literally had to do all the foundational work and considering y'all are engineers (i'm a mathematician) also had to do physics and he still holds these beliefs????.......... I reserved this sort of thinking for people who perhaps never encountered university level math and I could give them a bit of a pass because their thinking skills in this realm were not developed........ but finding this out really blows my whole conjecture out the water.........

 

[b_b]

The problem is not one person checked him about it, because nobody wants to hurt feelings and mess money up. That is the most disgusting and sad part.

 

[Patrick Kane]

you just as dumb or can't read
his question was clear
Flat Earthers commonly respond to the time zone question by proposing that the sun acts like a "local light" moving in a circular path above the flat Earth, similar to a spotlight or flashlight. According to this model, the sun only illuminates a specific area of the flat disk at any given time, creating regions of daylight and darkness, and thus, time zones. As the sun moves, different parts of the Earth experience sunrise, noon, and sunset at different times, which they claim accounts for the observed time zones.

I 'm not a flat earther

Nah you right I fukked up there

I was just so damn hot after seeing that stupid shyt Wiz said and seeing some of the responses in here I got in my physics bag too quick

Like I said though, the sheer level of ignorance and stupidity that comes from that podcast that is spread to the masses, mostly being black men is repulsive. That shyt is not “jokes”

 

[Th3Birdman]

How does him believing the earth is flat affect yall in any way??

Wiz is one of the most chill celebs ever and now yall are mad at him??


Huh?

Civ, the problem with Flat Earth (and other conspiracy theories) is that they are gateway drugs to anti-intellectualism, which is harmful to society at large.

For example, someone who believes "the governments of the world are lying about the shape of the Earth" also likely thinks vaccines are harmful.
This leads to vaccine hesitancy, which leads a parent or two (or a hundred) to not vaccinate their child against measles, for example.

Now, tell me what we are currently seeing with measles, a dangerous disease that CAN kill you?

As you can see, there is a tangible effect to believing in conspiracy theories. Wiz is a celebrity, and as stupid as it is, people trust celebrities and use them to validate and color their own opinions.

You people don't exist in a vacuum.