Will they finally accept that the Earth is round, or will they say that it’s fake and the windows on the space stations are monitors?
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A few years ago, a documentary on flat-earthers featured a trained geologist who has become convinced that the earth is flat. To test it, being a trained scientist, he designed a good experiment to measure the altitude of a laser beam at a distance from its emitter. He calculated the predicted measurement if Earth is flat and the measurement if Earth is spherical. When he ran the experiment, he got exactly the value he had predicted for a spherical Earth.
The rest of the documentary was him trying to find the error in his instruments and measurements since he knew for a fact that Earth is flat.
It was sad.
Behind the curve, on Netflix I think
Quite possibly. It was an interesting look at a strange mental illness.
There is enough proof without going to space, so it’s safe to assume proof has no effect.
You can always find some superficially credible alternative explanation to any proof. With those, you can use the language of reason and logic to construct a belief consistent with what you had in the first place.
As long as the person has their identity tied to a certain belief, and is of a mindset to find ways in which the belief is correct, they are immune to change. Those are the areas you will need to work on to change their mind.
The spacecraft windows were curved, causing an optical illusion
People that deep into a conspiracy theory aren’t going to have their opinions changed by any amount of evidence.
The conspiracy merely deepens.
See the Behind The Curve documentary for conclusive proof of that.
At least two experiments, involving lights and gyroscopes, and then merely go “hmm, interesting” before going right back to believing nonsense.
Likely that, or something about the windows distorting the image. What you have to understand about flat earth is that it’s a religous conspiracy theory. If they accept a spheroid earth, their faith comes into question, and that’s not something most prople are willing to let happen.
no it’s a flat circle from space
You are an idiot. It’s not a circle. It’s a flat rhombus. You’re just falling for the circle propagandists, which are backed by the billionaire elites in the Illuminati.
HE’S A SHEEP!
Well first they’d have to “trust” the people taking them up. They’d claim they weren’t actually taken to space.
Basically, its impossible to convince them otherwise.
I know a flat earther and he claims that you’re looking at a fake view when you’re on an aircraft and that it’s a hologram. He likes to throw sci-fi words around even though he has no idea what they mean.
Conspiracy theorists don’t actually know what they’re talking about so they will always come up with some excuse as to justify why they are still right and you are still wrong. Trying to prove otherwise is a waste of your time talking to them is a waste of your time.
If the earth really was flat someone would have worked out a way to commercialize the edge. It has to be useful for something right, waste disposal springs to mind, in any case it would be far more profitable to just publicly announced that the world is flat than to construct this elaborate conspiracy for no obvious reason.
Flat earth, along with many many conspiracies, boils down to “my life sucks and it’s someone else’s fault” almost every time.
Lol they can’t even make stuff like that yet
You cannot reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Have you seen the documentary “beyond the curve”? There’s a lot of “reasoning” going on, but they dismiss all their own findings that prove them wrong.
Flat earthers aren’t real. Even the ones claiming to be are just making a show
You overestimate the intelligence of humans.
It started out as a debating group, working with an obviously idiotic concept. Unfortunately it ended up attracting enough idiots who actually believed them that it drove/scared off the original debaters.
It’s a fascinating phenomenon, quite akin to religious indoctrination.
This is my plan if I ever meet one - Just absolutely deny that they believe it themselves.
Since the whole game is “I’m better than the masses because I claim to have secret knowledge” I’ll just deny that claim.
Probably along the lines of “Flat earth was maybe worth a small chuckle in 2006 but the joke is really old and played out now.”
Yeah just answer with “Flat earthers don’t exist. don’t believe me? Do your own research”
My uncle legit thinks it is flat. Granted he has little education. I once had to explain how a mirror worked…
Did you tell him it’s a portal to the opposite dimension, or did you lie to him?
Lol I wonder what would have happened if I did. My explanation on light bouncing back did not work.
did you try blinding him with a lazer?
Lol never crossed my mind. I will have to use one for the cats next time. Hope I remember.
There was a flat-Earther called Mad Mike Hughes who tried to build and launch his own rocket to see the shape of the earth for himself. He died in the attempt.
My bet is they know its round and want to be part of something and this is the something they chose.
They’re too dumb to pass any exam that would be required to send them there- so we’d never know.
In like 100 years we’ll have a colony on the moon and there’ll be people claiming the moon is flat too.
The earth is not real man, it’s just a sticker.
They’ll say that its fake. The only way for them to believe is probably letting them orbit the Earth for a while in a spacesuit.
They’ll say the helmet projects fake images.
Irrationality cannot be beaten.
with cameras on weather balloons or iss footage (if they dont outright claim its fake cgi)
they usally blame the camera lens or curved windows, and claim its just the fisheye effect
We could design a special ship for them with windows that open just to be sure
I hope they can process information before they die to know how wrong they were.
just give them a one way trip to space so they’ll know how stupid they are right before they die
