ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5
Do you demand a simple and concise explanation of complicated and complex topics?
Fret not, dear voater, for ELI5 is here! Ask a complex question, and get a simple answer!
General guidelines:
Your explanation should be friendly and straightforward, but not condescending.
- 1.1. Above all, you're here to answer questions concisely. Don't get needlessly hostile or complicated in your response.
- 1.2. We aren't literally 5 year olds. Well, most of us aren't. We can handle big words and long sentences. There's no need to dumb down an explanation unless specifically asked to do so by the asker.
- 1.3. If specified by the asker, responses to particular levels of expertise are encouraged.
/v/ELI5 is a place to get simple explanations of complex topics.
- 2.1. Yes/no answer questions, and questions pursuing an answer without an explanation of that answer, are not allowed.
- 2.2: If it doesn't have an explanation, it isn't an explain like I'm five question.
- 2.3. Refrain from posing hypothetical or personal questions. Ideally, every question should have a factually based, reasonable explanation.
Feel free to send prohibited questions to /v/nostupidquestions, they'll help you out instead!
This isn't a debating subverse:
- 3.1. Don't ask for personal opinions (and don't ask potentially loaded questions)
- 3.2. Don't present a biased response
Top-level comments should be on-topic.
- 4.1. Self-explanatory, really.
- 4.2. Jokes are allowed and appreciated if they're on topic and not a whole top-level comment.
Someone came here for an answer, don't send them somewhere else.
- 5.1. Your response should not consist wholly of a redirection link within a sentence.
- 5.2. It is acceptable to link to outside sources for singular words or concepts. This can be done to save you explaining concepts that are non-central (yet still important) to your response.
- 5.3. Don't copy+paste from outside sources without paraphrasing. Outside sources don't always explain concepts in layman's terms.
Don't know? Don't teach.
- 6.1. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to teach someone else about it.
You are allowed to post a question that's been posted before, but to save your own time, search for it before posting anyway.
Tag your post as "Explained" once you're satisfied with an answer
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[–] OneOfTheBoys 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Firstly, I am not a flat earther but I have seen quite a few youtubes - some I have found to be very entertaining.
• Q1A: there is no
spoonspace.• Q2A: many theories, most based on old religions this seems as popular as the turtle
• Q3&4A: those "planets" and "stars" are holes in the firmament.
•Q5A: if you are hell rich, yes. Otherwise it depends how you science and define proof.
[–] Fibbideh [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
While interesting and answering other questions I've had about the flat earth theory it doesn't explain satellites. Any insight on this?
[–] OneOfTheBoys 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
An expansion to Q1A would be "everything you see relating to space is faked."
... if you refer to GPS satellites I believe their answer is "CGI and mobile phone towers."
[–] [deleted] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
[–] Fibbideh [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
While true, i will at least listen to the theory anyway.
Almost all explanations I've heard thus far have been easily refeutable pseudo science or religious in nature.
[–] Viropher ago
They believe eclipses are caused by an obsidian black, moon sized object that blocks out the sun that orbits the sun at a 5deg angle,and is only detectable during an eclipse. Im not joking.
[–] Fibbideh [S] ago
Wat.
Source?
[–] Viropher ago (edited ago)
https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=62432.0
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/7-diy-experiments-b-o-b-the-earth-is-round/
http://wiki.tfes.org/The_Lunar_Eclipse
[–] iamrage ago
As with any mentally ill person, ignorance is bliss.