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[–] BloodSlut 107 points 11 months ago (2 children)

but imagine how fuckin cool it would be if they were

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago

It wood be really cool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] RePsyche 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Flat Earth has entered the chat. :-D

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

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 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] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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...

[–] Something_Complex 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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.

[–] Theharpyeagle 10 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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.

[–] xantoxis 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Erdtree O Erdtree,

Erdtree O Erdtree

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 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.

[–] NoSpiritAnimal 4 points 10 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!"

[–] MycoBro 2 points 10 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 10 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] 21 points 11 months ago (3 children)

my brother thinks mountains are fossilised giants.

not kidding

[–] whereisk 7 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

And so random...

Brainfuck of the day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

He must be a fan of the xenoblade games

[–] Daft_ish 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PainInTheAES 8 points 11 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 11 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!

[–] Flokman 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ultraviolet 9 points 10 months ago

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

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

Flat earth wasn't silly enough?

[–] IndiBrony 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] davidalso 2 points 11 months ago

That's fun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I’m obviously not getting this one lol

[–] Decoy321 22 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Ahh okay, that makes more sense. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You could say that my formations have been rocked.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Plateaus are stumps of mountains.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer 3 points 11 months ago

Not pictured: Teldrassil

[–] Batman 3 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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