It reads like a joke but it's just a straight description of how flat earthers think.
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Since their view would always be through glass, they'd say it was all a simulation
It's quite literally a joke about the Antarctica trip. There was one who changed their mind and was heavily ostracized for it.
My favorite theory from that whole debacle is that those guys actually went to the Las Vegas Sphere, which is apparently a giant green screen now (its not)
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It's a description about how so many people think about so many things. Flat earth is just an obviously silly one that we can mock people for.
The reality is that so many people simply refuse to accept new information that contradicts their previously held views. To the point where it has contributed to societal breakdown.
YEAH BUT I SAW IT IN A MOVE THAT PENGUINS ARE MONOGAMOUS FOR LIFE, in a movie 20 years ago.
I don't want to be told that they are only monogamous for each year and they over their lives they have 20 different partners.
One thing is beautiful and magical, the other means they are disgusting flightless sluts.
TIL I might be a Penguin.
>Go to doctor
>Get CT scan of my head
>Totally normal, eyes not hacked
>NASA must have replaced the windows in the space station with 8K screens.
Correct. The only way to know for sure is to walk out the airlock and see with your own eyes.
>Put on suit for space walk to get past the screens
>Stupid me, obviously the helmet is a top secret VR system
>Take off helmet
>
> die
> arrive in afterlife
> ask god if earth is flat or round
> god says it's round?????
> realize the roundoid conspiracy got to him too
> sent to hell for doubting god
> persecuted for challenging the lies
> clearly the conspiracy feels threatened if they're going this far to silence me
> validation! vindication!
Chuck Palhanyuik vibes intensify
God, that scene fucked with me as a child.
It gave me a long term phobia of explosive decompression that fucked with me for decades after. I honestly can't comprehend what the fuck the showrunners were thinking when they decided to portray a child taking off their helmet in the vacuum of space
I did a shit from a high tower to measure whether it fell straight to earth or curved, indicating a round planet. It curved, that's when I realized NASA must have replaced my anus.
they hacked your anus
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“NASA hacked my eyes” is honestly peak commitment to the bit. No amount of evidence can defeat advanced denial technology. 😂
No. When someone goes into outer space NASA actually rolls out a giant painting of "round" Earth. There are no limits to the craziness these people will go through to hide the truth.
gotta keep those artists employed somehow in the age of AI
We need to understand that flat earthers don't lack the knowledge or experience to accept the evidence that can be made objective, but that they refuse a worldview that is not made by them.
Flat earthers are just a niche whacko conspiracy group that’s being amplified by those participating in real conspiracies so that the general population thinks all conspiracies are just crazy talk.
ofc, but they work because people are alienated and need a feeling of control
The round earth viewpoint is very boring to discuss. It is round, obviously, but anything fun about that feels like math to talk about. A myth about a flat earth feels mystical and like you're in a secret group. There's an appeal in believing something that skeptics have a hard time understanding. I know, I've been both in my life, and the struggle is real. (Never a flat earther, though)
same with vaccines. saying they just work, isn't exciting.
claiming they cause autism and are destroying society and we're better off without them, makes you feel special and smart. your kids won't get them because your kids are different and healthier and better, than those lowly vaccine-riddled kids.
also HER NAME IS SPELLED ASHLUIY.
Science is used to help Describe, Explain, Predict, and Control any phenomena studied. The Describe and Explain part would be the pure science, and the Predict and Control parts are the applied science part.
Instead of letting a Flat Earther moo on and on about the Describe and Explain part, force them to show devices, procedures or processes that have been created out of Flat Earther Descriptions and Explanations of reality.
If their observations are accurate, they should be able to demonstrate or generate something useful from their special knowledge. It should be something that simply cannot be generated using conventional Round Earth Descriptions or Explanations.
Tl;dr: Flat Earthers are unable to demonstrate practical application of their special knowledge that improves any process.
If they don't produce, the discussion is over.
Look, they can make experiments, the problem is that every single one they do proves the earth is round.
I love the experiment flat earthers used in a Netflix documentary. They put a light source and two panels with small holes at the same height in them to focus the light. If the earth is flat, a camera would capture the light if it is at the same height as the last hole:
And if the earth is round, the camera would need to be higher to capture the light
When they checked the experiment at the same height, there was no light. Thinking it was a problem with the setup, they raised the camera and the light appeared. Their comment was "Huh" or something similar.
As far as I know, there are no flat earth explanations for this result.
hold on, i know that earth is an oblate spheroid not a sphere. i'm trying to think of how to flat earth this and it's really hard. i'm just not smart enough to be that stupid and it really impresses me at some of the people who put together straight faced arguments for it. they must have to do so many takes.
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I do get a good laugh when every once in a while a flat earther comes up with a newer and more convoluted way of proving that the earth is in fact round. Then there's the bonus round where they do the Olympic level mental gymnastics to explain why their own results don't prove anything.
Hey, back in the 90s, I went to an theme park and they had those IMAX screen with moving chairs and you felt like you were getting chased by the shark or the dinosaurs. So imagine what they can do now when they stuff you in a small cabin, they can make you believe ANYTHING! Who's crazy now huh?
Tap for spoiler
/s, obvs
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What I thought I'd do was, I'd pretend to be one of those deaf-mutes.
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I know this is a joke, but there was that group who was taken for a free trip to antarctica. We must stop rewarding flat earthers and anti science! Just ignore them, don't try to prove anything to them, show them they're not worth even getting close to
no no, you're right, the earth is flat, it's always been flat. it's just flat in a round way which can trick people who dont know how to look properly.
that's one funny way to describe a massive sphere lol
only flat earthers can think that we have reached technology 2 just to fool them
What's the explanation for the shape of the Moon, Sun, all other planets, etc... in the flat earth mindset?
One aspect of flat earth is to put earth back to the center of the universe. Other planets are just dots in the sky, we are the real thing
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Probably that they're flat discs as well
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I remember once while debating religion, Sam Harris making a point about how, when sharing certain beliefs, people pay an immediate price when they talk about them. The one in particular is that Elvis is still alive.
He wasn't specifically talking about conspiracy theories, but it made me think about them, nonetheless. If I did my math right, were Elvis still alive, he'd be 91 years old today. So, it's far, far more likely that Elvis is alive than it is that the Earth is flat.
Flat earthers do pay that sort of price, but I don't think we ridicule them enough, compared to how much more ridiculous their views are than the people who think Elvis is still alive.
See I thought he was doing it just to get free tickets to space.
Occam's razor insists that you were de- and then re-programmed to think that you were in space viewing the Earth, when, in fact, you were in a black room hooked up to an IV with a lurching goon whispering into your ear.
You never left the Denver airport.
IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN NOT. It happens every day.
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They didn't hack your eyes it was all just special effects.
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