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Skeksify
I also like that the first line intends planes can't fly over land
stopdoggybarking3
Ah, the cons of a flat square world , those Japanese eh, formidable pilots.
TheDiscoVampire
I really hope that no one thinks this is the route they took. There is a much shorter route.
GrowinWildontheFunnyFarm
I want to believe people arent this stupid. At the same time, My grandmother believed they would rotate underwater tunnels (due to lines being top and bottom), and died adamantly advocating the pink panther was a cougar.
OptimusPom
My Kindergarten math checks out. This is totally plausible. ( thank you spell check for anything above 2 syllables)
Freightshaker
After the attack, it was thought that Germans were flying the aircraft since it was assumed the Japanese could never fly well enough to make the attack.
WeMistbornsNeedNotMakeSense
A battle of wits among unarmed opponents
pdp1
And that's also how the Japanese invented the baseball field
vintagebroad
And they are in control of our government
Faraupl
I am chill with hot satire on satire action.
ElvishPresley666
Kamikaze was meant to be one way only.. soo no need for return.
Orlandonuts
This is why is won!!!
HumanCats
If only they'd have thought of using some sort of sea vessel that could carry aircraft.
Kemdir
The pain will not go away , too many stupid people .
OhIfIMust
Part of the theory is based on the fact that so many people dropped the ball on sending or responding to alerts, but fails to recognize just how UNWILLING out brains are to recognize an emergent situation, even when it’s unfolding right in front of our eyes. It was quite literally too big for a lot of people to comprehend, even for those trained for and tasked with doing just that!!
Fanner50
But MacArthur had plenty of warning in the Philippines. And…not held responsible…
writerbuddy
He's right, you know.
BellsTheorem
They took an Eastern route, off the edge of the map, around the History 101 classroom, then back on to the map from the other side.
madsander
Duh, the earth spins so they just flew up and waited for Pearl to rotate under them.
ComfortMisha
*The 1905 Russian Baltic Fleet has entered the chat.*
YippeeKayakOB
They are both stupid, could have traveled across land (ironic)
ImmaCatImmaSexyCat
Actually, how do flat earthers explain Pearl Harbour? Do they just say it didn't happen? Or do they think it was the Pacman effect?
access
Clearly all they had to do was fly up and wait for earth to rotate around them.
StillNotYouTube
I know it's a joke, but they actually couldn't fly from Japan to Hawaii.
shorey66
Good job they brought some carriers shopping just in case
Amomani
That's why they put the planes on big boats that carriers them. Called aircraft carriers.
MyBigMouth
For fecks sake, everyone knows there is a wormhole to the west of Hawaii that comes out east of Japan. Where else did they get the idea for Pac Man?!?
zubax
Ah, for a second I forgot flat earthers exist. Won't be making that mistake again.
troelsm
Flat eathers who also believe carriers are a lie.
pareidoliaperson
I can't believe I've never told flat earthers to fly from this point to this point and just use a stop watch and see the difference.
ThatHurts
It wouldn't matter. To believe in a flat earth model in the first place requires such insanely complex and convoluted things to be true that anyone who actually believes it (not just as a trolly joke) wouldn't be convinced by anything as simple as a verifiable experiment.
modis
I think even the majority of flat earthers are aware that planes can fly over land.
MizzerCow
ah! a rookie mistake! Planes flying over land would be seen by someone! And we all know Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. Which of course means they could've only flown over the ocean! Absolutely no other explanation whatsoever!
KaptainObveeus
A straight line on a mercator projection isn't a straight line in real life. But the world "wraps around" so they would go right not left on this map.
Someshithead241
Most flat earthers don't believe this map is real anyways. They often go on about an ice wall or some bullshit. I don't know, it hurts to listen to them
QwerkyOne
Well, duh. Antarctica is an ice wall and the North Pole is at the center of the Earth. How else do you think Santa can visit every kid in the world in one day? /s
Detacheddavid
Flat Earthers normally believe in this map:
RemlapBor
The really sad thing is that people this stupid (and worse) actually exist.
vnqx
The problem usually isn't the people posting it, it's the stupid people reading it
Oatmealman1
Yeah, they have an R by their name.
metalrulercid
Some of them aRe even presidents of the united states
BipedalHumanoidWithSlightlyDifferentNoseRidge
Probably. Also those who think it's real.
IGotTheMusicInMe425
I'm regularly depressed by the thought, "I am way too dumb for THIS many of you to be THIS much dumber than me!!!"
CapttainKillJoy
And vote and serve in the government
jknoch
The first route is notable because it is not just the wrong direction but it also avoids flying over land. 🤦🏻♀️
eetsumkaus
even worse, is that ALL of us have been this stupid at one point or another.
OnlyByMoonlight
Every flat earther.
grhope
I don't think it's fair to call the first guy stupid, he probably just forgot and didn't think about the gravity detail. I think we can give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he just forgot that gravity could pull them down for the second half of the trip.
MizzerCow
The second guy is the stupid one. While gravity would have made it a much faster attack route the Japanese would lose the most significant element of any Military Operation, that being Surprise! The gravity route goes right over China, Russia, Greenland, Canada and then the US! All allies of the US or at least adversaries of Japan in WWII. They would have tipped the US off and spoiled their attack. Which is why they needed the slower, over sea route.
SunFart
Remember when Spielberg murdered that poor, endangered Dinosaur then posed in front of the corpse! That horrible man!
SwissScars
hence presidentt Rump
SarcasticComment
I once witnessed a girl ask "how do they "make a state"? did they just put land down and call it a state?" https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dXR3ZmMxeXJnN3I1MW5kMWxucDBlMGx5OGRqeTQ0amxnZW81bWp1NSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/FcuiZUneg1YRAu1lH2/200w.webp
xzinik
a girl in my class that was as dumb as a brick one day when we were were studying the different homo sapiens she asked the teacher how did the cromagnon manage to live like 30000 years avoid getting killed or going hungry and why we now can only live like 80 years only with all the medicine we have and if they did get bored with that much time, the worst part is that she had really good grades but only because se could memorize anything on command but she was unable to rationalize
Fanner50
So many pre-meds…memorize anything…logic = zero
SarcasticComment
that happens. the girl who asked my question was an A student. Could memorize very well but was terrible at understanding content
scuba7jb
Instead of mandating bibles and the 10 commandments in every classroom....... how about we mandate a globe. https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1MW9pN2ZoYzJvdDZ4Z2J3YTkwdno5bnBoM2libmN0NXd4cDFvNzRwayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/mA7MJveYoHHs6sGDoM/200w.webp
ChewyTheWookie
I bet they are banned in some
spud497
'cause the earth is flat and if you say that it isn't you're oppressing my beliefs which goes against free speech or something.
oldguyexlurker
We HAD globes in my schools. Including elementary. But that was back in the early 70s. Don't know what's in there today.
alyssajones123
We had flat pull down maps in the classroom. But we had a globe at home! I still have it. It has USSR and an east and west Germany.
oldguyexlurker
I love exploring old globes. (Wish I could explore more of the real one.)
captainenhancement
Does anyone else wonder if Godzilla was involved?
Captainplanetmotherfucker
He didn't exist yet. He came after the A-bombs dropped. If he had been involved...Hawaii would be have disappeared, never mind Pearl Harbor.
CapttainKillJoy
I know he was
faethorferenc
Wait you want to say... Godzilla threw the planes like we throw paper planes?
xRHIN0x
Son of a bitch lol I was gonna say he threw the planes and they glided the rest of the way so as to save on fuel
OldenPickles
DecapodianSaysWoopWoopWoopWoop
As a kid i believed "back side of Earth" is just massive amount of water. Was pretty shocked when I realised Alaska is 100km from Russia.
Hal1918
That's why you don't diss the Prime Meridien. So it was foretold in 1884 in the land of your forefathers
ProbablyPoe
Except there is a backside of earth with massive amounts of water? Not where you thought it was but most of our landmass is on one ‘half’ ish of the planet
loma45
It's been said that if you live in Alaska you can actually see Russia from your house
dorenavant
The distance between the US and Russia is a lot shorter.
“Little Diomede belongs to the United States, and Big Diomede is part of Russia, separated by a mere 2.4 miles (3.8 kilometers).”
https://www.geographyrealm.com/separated-by-2-4-miles-and-21-hours/
Shewy92
TBF, the backside of Earth is actually mostly water. Here's the Pacific Ocean.
Wargamez
Sadly there are grown adults that still believe this.
ProbablyPoe
But there is almost half the earth covered by water, it’s just not between Alaska and Russia
OookOookOookMotherFudger
The back side of Earth is mostly just a massive amount of water... We call it "the Pacific".
Shewy92
OookOookOookMotherFudger
dontmagpie
.....whoa
grhope
How can Alaska be 100KM from Russia when Alaska is next to Hawaii in the southwest corner of my US map? I think you are confused.
baggypants12000
Hawaii must be 102KM from Russia.
grhope
Oh, that makes sense.