Flat Earthers Using KSP music in YouTube clip

[Rucifa]

Hey Guys and Gals,

Long time player, first time poster.

Not sure if this is the right place to notifiy the developers of this or not but I just noticed that one of the flat earth guys is using the KSP theme music in their YouTube clip. Not sure if it is with consent or not so just thought I'd mention it.

 

[Deddly]

Hi @Rucifa, and welcome to the forum! Thanks for thinking about that - nobody likes to see other people's work taken advantage of. In this case, though, all the music used in KSP (apart from the main theme music and the credits music) is royalty free. In fact, you can even use it in your own projects, if you want to. http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/most/kerbalspaceprogram.php

[worir4]

The bit that was the funniest was where they said that the space shuttle leveling out was proof. XD The person who made this should play Kerbal.

[ZooNamedGames]

Ahh the irony, it's too blunt and obvious!

[Kerbart]

Aaah, so refreshing in the morning. Icing on the cake was the flat earth. It was refreshing to see that this one started with the freemasons, instead of bringing them up half way. Even conspirisists can be innovative!

[pxi]

@ 1.50 When you're using the Weekly World News to support your claims, you're officially not trying.

And yeah, the music is from Kevin MacLeod's huge catalogue, not specific to KSP, though it's what I think of every single time I hear it being used.  Cool Hard Logic on youtube uses a snippet of it in his intro for example.

@Deddly Thanks for the link, nice to be able to get all of the tracks in one convenient zipfile.  (Now if Squad and Incompetech were to conspire to put out a physical CD of the complete soundtrack, I'm not saying I'd buy that, but I'd probably buy that.)

Edited September 13, 2016 by pxi

[HoloYolo]

"The Earth is flat"

 

[p1t1o]

You know how climate change deniers will have automatic responses like "Yeah, thats such a liberal source of data" or "Consensus isn't proof!" etc.

Im curious, what do flat-earthers say to the fact that anyone can prove the earth is a sphere with some simple observations and geometry? Pythagoras was a left-wing conspirator for big oil? Foucault's pendulum is only a single datapoint and cannot be extrapolated from?

Or am I giving them too much credit?

I would donate to a kickstarter to send one selected Flat-Earther into space. You could probably make your money back from the royalties of the video showing his reactions.

[Deddly]

22 minutes ago, p1t1o said:

I would donate to a kickstarter to send one selected Flat-Earther into space. You could probably make your money back from the royalties of the video showing his reactions.

I would also donate to that, but only if there is no return ticket included

[worir4]

54 minutes ago, Deddly said:

I would also donate to that, but only if there is no return ticket included

Even the moderators are joining in! 

As for sending one into space, i think they would just say it was a simulation and they were still on Earth.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, p1t1o said:

Im curious, what do flat-earthers say to the fact that anyone can prove the earth is a sphere with some simple observations and geometry? Pythagoras was a left-wing conspirator for big oil? Foucault's pendulum is only a single datapoint and cannot be extrapolated from?

Or am I giving them too much credit?

You are giving them not enough credit.  It's not their fault that there are no real pictures of Earth from outer space.

Flat Earth is a critical thinking exercise.  It's a short pit stop on one's journey to the eventual realization that we've never been beyond low Earth orbit.

[Dman979]

3 hours ago, DOCTOR DEMENTAL said:

Flat Earth is a critical thinking exercise.  It's a short pit stop on one's journey to the eventual realization that we've never been beyond low Earth orbit.

Consistently never been beyond LEO. But we've been to the moon, no?

[moogoob]

2 hours ago, Dman979 said:

Consistently never been beyond LEO. But we've been to the moon, no?

If by "moon" you mean soundstage, then yes we have.

[Dman979]

14 minutes ago, moogoob said:

If by "moon" you mean soundstage, then yes we have.

Right........

 

[Slam_Jones]

Flat-Earthers are like Anti-Vaxxers: they have no idea what they're talking about and attempt to use psuedo-science to justify their claims.  They hear a few buzzwords and then parrot those, despite having no idea what any of it means.

That, or they are simply very patient trolls.

Anyway, I've always wanted a Flat-Earther to go to the edge of the Earth and take a picture.  Surely it can't be that hard, right?

Edited September 14, 2016 by Slam_Jones

[razark]

1 hour ago, Slam_Jones said:

Anyway, I've always wanted a Flat-Earther to go to the edge of the Earth and take a picture.  Surely it can't be that hard, right?

Of course it's hard.  If it wasn't, there would be pictures.  Obviously, the lack of pictures proves how hard it is.

Depending on who you ask, it's because Antarctica is a giant ice wall around the earth, or the Illuminati/reptillians/government/Roswell Greys/Monsanto are guarding it to keep people from finding out the truth.

 

A serious question to flat-earthers that believe the truth is being hidden from the world: WHY?  Why would someone want to hide this truth?

[Slam_Jones]

1 minute ago, razark said:

Of course it's hard.  If it wasn't, there would be pictures.  Obviously, the lack of pictures proves how hard it is.

Depending on who you ask, it's because Antarctica is a giant ice wall around the earth, or the Illuminati/reptillians/government/Roswell Greys/Monsanto are guarding it to keep people from finding out the truth.

 

A serious question to flat-earthers that believe the truth is being hidden from the world: WHY?  Why would someone want to hide this truth?

Not gonna lie, I laughed out loud at the underlined part.

[Dispatcher]

On September 13, 2016 at 4:30 AM, ZooNamedGames said:

Ahh the irony, it's too blunt and obvious!

... which is why its likely that the poster doesn't believe in any of that stuff, but does have a sense of humor.  But hey, as long as people who should know better keep watching and listening to it ...

[MarkusA380]

On 14.9.2016 at 7:48 PM, moogoob said:

If by "moon" you mean soundstage, then yes we have.

I hope you were saying this ironically. Seriously.

Edited September 22, 2016 by MarkusA380

[moogoob]

4 minutes ago, MarkusA380 said:

I hope you were saying this ironically. Seriously.

I was hoping the winky face was enough to avoid Poe's Law, but obviously not.

Poe's Law:  "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

"Flat Earth" and "Moon Landing Denialism" being just as valid as fundamentalism in this example.

[MarkusA380]

4 hours ago, moogoob said:

I was hoping the winky face was enough to avoid Poe's Law, but obviously not.

Poe's Law:  "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humour, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won't mistake for the real thing."

"Flat Earth" and "Moon Landing Denialism" being just as valid as fundamentalism in this example.

I have seen too many cases of the winky face being used as a "I am better and more intelligent"-metaphore combined with belitlling sarcasm to interpret it as humor/irony on the first try. But thanks for clearing this up, I was already fearing for the scientific sanity of this place.

[RainDreamer]

I remember there was one of them actually call KSP propaganda.... So yeah just don't give them views.

 

[MarkusA380]

30 minutes ago, RainDreamer said:

I remember there was one of them actually call KSP propaganda.... So yeah just don't give them views.

 

I will watch whatever I want!

And laugh about it!

[pxi]

3 hours ago, RainDreamer said:

I remember there was one of them actually call KSP propaganda.... So yeah just don't give them views.

If we don't watch them, how then do we refute them and/or laugh at them?

[icedown]

1 minute ago, pxi said:

If we don't watch them, how then do we refute them and/or laugh at them?

Why would you refute them, that is some quality entertainment there.