Origin of Captain Picard character (Flat-Earth Wackiness)

[Masato]

Hey all

Was coincidentally recently wondering how or why the creators of the Star Trek TNG series chose the name PICARD for their captain. How the hell do you choose one name? Could be so many cool names for a starship captain. Picard - how odd!



Then I stumbled on this; PICCARD was a dude in the 30's who went way the fuck up in his own crazy invention of a metal ball attached to extreme high-altitude balloons - way before any rocket programs. Super ballsy, and totally groundbreaking research, as clearly no human before him had ever been so high up to see what he saw.





Surely, the Star Trek character was named after this brave and bold explorer.

According to a 'Popular Science' magazine of the day, Piccard gave a testimony in which he describes the appearance of the earth from his experiment:

"It seemed a flat disc, with upturned edge."

So of course this flat earther dude goes nuts about this, but also shows a strange commercial for some expensive Liquor depicting Piccard's journey where he appears to break through a DOME into WATER! lol this is more flat earth stuff, as many FE'ers refer to the biblical model of a 'Firmament' or dome, beyond which is water.



Here is the commercial he refers to:


Many have accused Star Trek of holding a degree of propaganda, to condition the public toward science-based communistic society etc, but taken to this flat-earth extreme, could it also have been used to propagate the ball-earth lie? If so, using the name PICARD would appear to be some purposeful play on twisting the reputation of perhaps one of their biggest secrets...

Furthermore, the real Piccard was SWISS.

OCTO-GONE!!!!
:D

[Masato]

Here is a guy proposing to devise an experiment to prove conclusively re: the flat earth hypothesis

It appears he hasn't done it yet, I hope he does


Seems a legit experiment, I've thought some similar ideas as well.

Flat Earth is so weird, lol

Everything we know would suggest that the Flat Earth idea is absurd, yet when you really get down to it, if you are willing to take NASA out of the equation, it suddenly becomes really quite difficult to prove to one's self either way which model we are in fact living on.

I met a guy at the Tesla Festival boasting a Tshirt that said: FLAT EARTH: NASA LIES

Of course I had to chat with him, lol. He was convinced, but I think this is kind of foolish. The flat Earth model is a fantastic stretch for the mind to grapple with, but in the end it is dependent on a concept of conspiracy so huge that it really boggles the imagination. That's a dangerous leap to make imo without significantly more proof

I hope this dude in the video goes through with his experiment, would be interesting to see one way or another

That testimony of Piccard is weird though, if true. What he describes seems in fact the exact opposite of what you should see on a globe model

[Canuckster]

I dont think its that much of a conspiracy, the authorities who espouse this info would not need much effort to control the narrative

[Masato]

^ what do you mean?

not following...

[Masato]

I just read a conversation discussing the fact that in the Northern hemisphere, stars rotate around the North Star, while in the southern hemisphere there is a different point around which the stars appear to rotate, but oppositely

This would seem to be a strong case for the globe model

[Masato]

Here is a documentary about a test that was done that supposedly 'proved' that our earth is actually conVEX, and we live on the INSIDE of a sphere

This would concur with Piccard's statements...

The Rectilineator Experiment

lol, I love it



One weird thing is that the test was done by a guy named KORESH, who was a self-proclaimed messianic visionary, claiming to be an incarnation of Christ. Koresh created a religious COMMUNE called the 'Koreshan Unity', and was adamant that the truth about the nature of our world was being hidden from us.

...sounds a bit like another 'Koresh', no?
:D

[Masato]

Complete CGI model of the Koreshean Concave Earth model through 1 entire year, seasons, motion of sun and moon and stars included. Someone put a lot of work into this, lol



Dude claims it works better than the Flat Earth model


how bizarre, I had never heard this before

[Canuckster]

You said this

Everything we know would suggest that the Flat Earth idea is absurd, yet when you really get down to it, if you are willing to take NASA out of the equation, it suddenly becomes really quite difficult to prove to one's self either way which model we are in fact living on.

[Masato]

^ yeah still not following what you meant, lol

Are you saying it would be easy to control the narrative about a false model of our earth?

[Canuckster]

yes, if you're holding all the cards to be the ones to get up there and confirm things. its very easy to control the narrative the conspiracy to conceal the info would be relatively small and easy to manage.