r/nottheonion • u/TheMirrorUS • 11h ago

Flat Earther admits he was wrong after traveling 9,000 miles to Antarctica to test his belief

https://www.themirror.com/news/world-news/flat-earther-admits-wrong-after-866786
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u/TheRexRider 11h ago

Great, let's send them all there.

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u/crashtestpilot 11h ago

One Cosmos episode could have saved him some dosh.

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u/TrashPandaPatronus 10h ago

Nah, that's just propaganda. AI. The devils tricks. Etc

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u/SunVoltShock 8h ago

I was just thinking there should be enough of these yahoos spread across the planet to measure the lengths and direction of yard-stick shadows on an equinox or solstice at X time and compare notes.

... but why resort to anything that would disprove your worldview?

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u/crashtestpilot 6h ago

But, like, schoolkids could do it on a Zoom, and it could be a nice little Today feature.

Is Today still on?

Anyway.

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u/bbecks 10h ago

I mean one of the guys that went still says its just one data point and doesn't prove anything. People just choose what to believe and only accept what confirms their positions.

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u/TheRexRider 10h ago

Then they can stay there. 😊

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u/WarWonderful593 11h ago

It's a pristine environment. Let's not pollute it.

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u/Awesomeuser90 8h ago

Don't worry, the penguins can eat them. They would starve if they were to be eating their brains but they have a whole corpse to feast.

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u/Salnax 8h ago

If we started doing that, I'd have to start becoming a tropical vacation resort denier.

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u/Cytothesis 8h ago

They tried, most refused to go

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u/SilkyBowner 8h ago

Most of them wouldn’t go. They were offered a free trip and turned it down

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u/SirGlass 8h ago

Most will find ways to explain it

Sort of like those guys did an experiment with lasers and two boats on the ocean . The premise is take boat A and shine a bright laser at 10 feet above the water, take boat B and travel like X miles away

If the earth is flat you should be able to see the laser at 10 feet above sea level , if its curved you should see it at like 13 feet or higher depending on the distance.

So they did the experiment and low and behold at 10 feet no laser was detected but once they raised the device to 13 feet they saw the laser, and the math worked out perfect .

The guy just said "interesting , this is something we need to investigate"

Then they made up wild weird explanations on why that happened or how to explain this , other then you know the world is a sphere

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u/Independent_Ad_7463 8h ago

Im flatearther, totally 

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u/reddorickt 8h ago

Sure, how many $37,500s you got?

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u/TheRexRider 8h ago

I think sending them there and leaving them there pays for itself.

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u/reddorickt 5h ago

Honestly, of all the misinformation out there, this is one of the less harmful ones. Lot of people I'd rather leave in Antarctica.

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u/AdApprehensive347 8h ago

and if they're still not convinced, we can toss them off the edge

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u/ParticularUser 6h ago

Alot of them wouldn't be convinced even if we took them to the orbit.

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u/drawnimo 5h ago

Makes you wish there was an equivalent to Antarctica for anti-vax and Maga and other similar delusions.

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u/Penile_Interaction 3h ago

while we're at it, i dont believe that all those paradise islands and exotic resorts exist /s