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[–] [email protected] 104 points 9 months ago (2 children)

but imagine how fuckin cool it would be if they were

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

It wood be really cool.

[–] Klear 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sadly it's the other way around. Tree stumps are nothing but small rock formations. How disappointing.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Those giant trees had to be cut because the earth was risking turning upside down from the weight.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Flat Earth has entered the chat. :-D

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Considering the giant trees is part of flat earth yeah it was in here the whole time

[–] robotopera 45 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Giant earth theory is wild. I followed a guy on Reddit who had some absolutely insane videos "teaching" the subject. He also thought multiplication was a lie because if you do 5x5 by counting your fingers 5 times you still only have 5 fingers.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I'd say he's trolling but Terryology is apparently serious so anything goes, some people will gaslight themselves into anything.

Or maybe he's just amazing at the bit. He is an actor...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In every dumb movement you have the tucker carlsons that say shit they don't belive in, the trumps completely demented even lower iq and truly believe those things they say. And who ever the hell are the monkeys that whatch it.

[–] robotopera 6 points 9 months ago

If he was an actor he was performing for an insanely small audience. This guy was legit some of his videos were years old with less than 10 views.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But like... so what? What does this add to the flat earth "theory"? Like, okay there were really, really big trees once. Now what?

I know I'm looking for logic where it doesn't exist, but this really baffles me.

[–] robotopera 3 points 9 months ago

I'll see if his YouTube channel is still up so you can get the crazy sauce straight from the tap. Be warned, it is difficult to find a cohesive thought let alone any logic.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Ah yes, all natural phenomena including checks notes the one where someone cut down a tree with a saw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe someone cut down that mountain with a really big saw?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Erdtree O Erdtree,

Erdtree O Erdtree

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

🤔 This is honestly evidence that the universe is mathematical, that the shapes of trees and mountains are formed under similar mathematical rules despite being different sizes and materials.

Like galaxy formation and brain cells also look similar and that's ostensibly the reason why so it stands to reason why this would be a thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I remember someone posting a Neil Degrasse Tyson video and he was interviewing a guy talking about finding equations at the root of the physical world.

Neil seemed blown away, but isn't mathematics just our interpretation of the natural laws of the universe?

Like reading Cliff's Notes and then the actual book and saying "hey these are similar!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Good job with pointing that out. I think you are correct. I still feel the same wonder at it though. Gets me right in the pickle. I like to think about tree “experience” and stuff too. So many different ways to be and do in this universe. Understanding the world through math is batshit wild and I wonder what method a giant armillaria mellea uses to understand the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

fractals baby, it's all procedurally generated here in the matrix.

and there's a valid query regarding the world as simulation. but to take the leap from 'this geology shares properties similar to this stump' to 'damn, that was a big tree that grew out in the middle of this desert.... well that takes drugs kids.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

my brother thinks mountains are fossilised giants.

not kidding

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Bloody hell mate.. maybe he likes to rile you up? I mean, hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And so random...

Brainfuck of the day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

I had a friend that i guess I slowly drove away by always calling him on his bullshit and amongst the thousands of insane things he did and believed, he legitimately thought that there used to be giants roaming the Earth and he would argue this point intensely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

He must be a fan of the xenoblade games

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can you imagine the size of the chain saw!!?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Is a quasar not just a giant chain saw? Are spiral galaxies not just giant sawblades? It's giant trees all the way down, baby. Checkmate, Arborists.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wow does anyone know where that first picture comes from? That mountain range looks like someone just jammed a bunch of glass shards into the ground!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that’s the Cerro Torre in Patagonia :D

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Flat earth wasn't silly enough?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

The line between creative worldbuilding and batshit insanity is surprisingly thin.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I have three words if you love laughing at idiots like this: Mud. Fossil. University.

Enjoy.

[–] robotopera 5 points 9 months ago

Holy shit that's a deep library. I'm going in

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's fun.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I’m obviously not getting this one lol

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No need to overthink a meme, but here's my guess.

They're correlating the shapes of the objects, implying some causation.

There isn't.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat 5 points 9 months ago

Ahh okay, that makes more sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] PrincessLeiasCat 4 points 9 months ago

You could say that my formations have been rocked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Just be happy that you don't get it. There are flat earthers out there who will say it unironically. Not sure if it's only flat earthers but I think so. It really is wild

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

My dataset says there is a one to one relationship between mountains and stumps (n=3). Infinite-Power.jpg.gif

[–] Assman 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Plateaus are stumps of mountains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not pictured: Teldrassil

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This sounds like it could be cool lore for some niche book