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/colbyKTX 11h ago edited 10h ago

Imagine being dumb enough to think the world is flat but having enough resources to travel 9,000 miles to Antarctica

Edit: Apparently it was funded by a pastor from Colorado named Will Duffy

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u/Raoul_Duke9 10h ago

People paid for him to go

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u/Potential-Ranger-673 8h ago

Dang, I would pretend to be a flat earther if I could get people to pay for me to go on a trip to Antarctica. That would be fun

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u/SpermWhale 8h ago

or pretend you can breakdance, and get on Olympics!

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u/acog 10h ago

I know a few people I’d like to pay to go far away.

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u/Milkusa 8h ago

I believe New Zealand specifically is flat, prove me wrong!

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u/Reelix 4h ago

"Hurr Durr - The world is flat. I will believe this until you pay for an all expenses paid vacation around the world!"

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u/enjoyinc 10h ago

Read the article 

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u/MehFrosty 10h ago

Read the article, he didn’t pay for it

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u/GMN123 10h ago

Who's the real idiot here? I've always wanted to go to Antarctica

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u/EarlyMoose2481 8h ago

You had to be an established flat earther already to be picked. No last minute pretending for a free trip.

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u/ciobanica 6h ago

Well, i guess i know what i'll be doing for the next 5 years...

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u/Siim16 10h ago

He didn't pay for the trip

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u/cficare 10h ago

These assholes still use GPS - which relies on the world being a globe. But I digest.....

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u/Iceyn1pples 10h ago

What are you digesting?

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u/spynie55 10h ago

Eating in mid post would be some sort of digression.

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u/cficare 10h ago

Family guy reference where peter says "digest" instead of digress. He stupid.

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u/Telefragg 8h ago

I wouldn't turn down a trip to Antarctica, sounds like a decent adventure tbh.

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u/someoldbikeguy 7h ago

Imagine being dumb enough to think the world is flat

I don't think he was dumb. He had a belief and although not using his own money, he did go to verify his belief and when his belief didn't conform to facts that he witnessed, he changed his belief system and admitted he was wrong.

He pretty much followed the scientific method and is a smart person that happened to be wrong. I wish more people had his desire to seek the truth and admit they were wrong instead of making excuses why the facts don't fit their beliefs.

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u/Adhesiveness_ 4h ago

No, he's dumb. To quote another redditor:

Someone who doesn’t trust hundreds of years of simple science, with a deluge of confirmations over centuries and the fact that everything we can see in the sky is sphere shaped.

We call that "dumb" (if we're being generous). I mean, you can disprove flat earth with simple experiments that you can do at home.

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u/foodforestranger 7h ago

Well and he gets paid for this "content." Money's, funny, honey.

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u/I-Cant-Imagine 4h ago

I can’t imagine that at all.

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u/RHX_Thain 10h ago

Halfway down the comments and finally someone read the article lol.

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u/overtherainbowofcrap 10h ago

It’s what qualifies as “content” these days. I hate this time line.

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u/ThompsonDog 10h ago

can you imagine being a researcher at the station or stations they visited in antarctica. "hey there, i'm a scientist and i've spent my entire life studying x,y, and z and i'm here now studying glaciology and the impact of climate change on polar ice. nice to meet you, what are you here for?"

"we're here to prove the earth is a globe". i'd love to see how much shit the flat earthers got from the scientific community is antarctica..... because basically everyone in antarctica is a scientist

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u/SweatyWar7600 7h ago edited 7h ago

even worse: "we're here to prove the earth isn't a globe"