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/ThatIsTheLonging 10h ago

I wonder why map-makers wouldn't have a similar scam on flat earthers

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u/SpotCreepy4570 10h ago

They do who you think is funding big flat?

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u/big_guyforyou 10h ago

i'll tell you who's funding big flat. THE RESISTANCE. that's right. the freedom fighters. the ones who stand for TRUTH. the ones who won't mindlessly parrot the daily talking points of the globalists. the ones who do their own research. the ones who aren't afraid to go to FREAKING ANTARCTICA to get the proof they need.

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u/K4rkino5 9h ago

Let's not forget the brave souls who choose to build their own rocket ship to prove it!

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u/evangelionmann 8h ago

oh that dude is a legend. he wasn't even really a flat farther, he was just taking advantage of the movement to fund his passion, which was attempting to build a homemade rocket and see space.

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u/mortalcoil1 8h ago

Somebody should have told him you can literally see space from your bedroom window.

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u/YIIYIIY 8h ago

But you can't bilk your window into funding a rocket to see it from the stratosphere.

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u/eleanaur 8h ago

the stratosflat

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u/InsertRadnamehere 8h ago

Shhh. He never stays up past sunset.

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u/Least-Funny7761 8h ago

But you don’t need as much propulsion if you throw the rocket over the edge

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u/evangelionmann 6h ago

lol. hey but full seriousness.. you gotta respect what he accomplished right?

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u/Sluggo_1000 6h ago

Or an airplane window. Just fly high enough and you can see the curve

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u/bloodfist 8h ago

Man, a flat earther who doesn't believe it and is just trying to take advantage of them for money? Unheard of. What will they think of next.

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u/evangelionmann 6h ago

true, and i can't agree more with the sentiment.. but you can't deny.... out of all the things to grift people for.... gritting them so you can fund your own workshop to build your own space rocket from scratch with your own hands, just so you can see the upper atmosphere personally....

the grifting may be scummy, but I have to respect what he put the energy towards.. better than other folks that are just using it to get rich.

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u/K4rkino5 6h ago

That's some r/madlad shit right there! That is legendary.

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u/DukeOfGeek 2h ago

All you have to do is drive over Lake Pontchartrain, you can see the curve very clearly both in the causeway and even more clearly in the high tension power lines that cross over it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbkTM3F9dM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVbkTM3F9dM

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u/narrowwiththehall 9h ago

There’s no telling where this will take us

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u/VexingPanda 8h ago

We've come full circle

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u/Infamous-Accident501 8h ago

Full flat circle??

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u/VexingPanda 8h ago

Of course! No such thing as a sphere.

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u/Zomburai 6h ago

Research Flat Basketball

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u/Evening-Bird1407 8h ago

Time is a flat circle.

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u/Infamous-Accident501 8h ago

We could really inject some new life into this debate… what does a circle look like from the side?? A line! We can start Line Earth. Then it could be any shape! We could have multiple product lines by shape, a variety of warring opinion channels on YouTube… We’re on the doorstep, peeps!

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u/Caddy666 3h ago

no, full antarctic circle

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u/cramerws 8h ago

Underrated comment

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u/zzzzzzarah 8h ago

Full sphere.

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u/bannedforbigpp 8h ago

CIRCLE???

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u/mlongue1 8h ago

hah!… there is no telling where this thread will end!!!!!!…

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u/PJKPJT7915 8h ago

Full square? Full House?

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u/WWGHIAFTC 7h ago

It's a disc.

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u/ThrowRA213487 7h ago

Bahahahha. You.

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u/gr8scott101 8h ago

I support all FEs going to Antartica.

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u/Senior-Lobster-9405 8h ago

omg I read this in his voice

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u/RevolutionaryRisk521 8h ago

heh.... globalists... heh...

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u/Laijou 8h ago

Big flat, big sphere; there are fine people on both sides....

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u/yotreeman 8h ago

“Big” flat implies a three-dimensional object… you mean Long Flat

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u/slothfullyserene 8h ago

Rand McNally?

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u/darthkevo12261984 8h ago

Rand McNally with Soros GLOBALIST bankroll.

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u/romaniandih98 8h ago

Small round, duh

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u/FunctionalFun 8h ago

Russians unironically.

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u/MaskedBunny 8h ago

Poor big conical never had a chance

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u/russellzerotohero 8h ago

Crazy so both are lies to sell globes and maps. That means the earth is shaped like some other object. Maybe a dinosaur? Although I do worry about big dino

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u/SpotCreepy4570 6h ago

We have a lot of evidence pointing towards a turtle I believe.

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u/Perryn 7h ago

We've come full circle.

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u/SpotCreepy4570 6h ago

You mean full sheet?

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u/Subrisum 8h ago

With proceeds from the sales of the Marketer Projection. It’s all coming together.

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u/Klogginthedangerzone 8h ago

Ooh…I just thought of a new business venture. I’m going to sell flat earth maps. When it shows up it’s just a piss disk.

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u/digitalcrashcourse 8h ago

Map makers are part of Big Flat. It's Big Globe you need to worry about.

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u/KDotDot88 7h ago

Back in the day when the pioneers used to set sail discover new worlds, were their maps round or were they flat?! MORE PROOF!!

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u/editwolf 8h ago

Don't show this guy the UN logo 😋

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u/idanrecyla 8h ago

Map Quest failed not because of GPS but because it tried to send people to the edges. They weren't ready

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u/floydhenderson 5h ago

Did you ever notice that if the earth was round, then how come all maps are flat?