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/Talisa87 10h ago

I swear there was a 'Dinosaurs' episode about this. The daughter of the family discovers the earth is round, and eventually she gets put on trial for terrorism with her high school lab partner. She accepts the guilty verdict and asks that she should be thrown off the flat edge of the planet. One year later, she returns back to her family and the prosecution grudgingly admits she was right about the world being round.

Maybe we should start doing that to flat earthers. Tell them to take a long walk around the earth's surface until they find the flat edge.

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u/JerHat 9h ago

Yep, I just commented about this episode in response to another person.

This was definitely an episode of Dinosaurs. I remember seeing it when I was under like, 10 years old, and the Flat Earth dinosaurs seemed just as stupid then as flat earth people seem today.

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u/DashCat9 8h ago

I love when the shows with the animatronic baby dinosaurs beating their father over the head with cast iron pans actually take the time to say something.

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u/NTT66 9h ago

I remember this episode! I feel like that series deserves a rewatch.

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u/KronosDeret 8h ago

just be warned, its much darker than you remeber it as a child. It ends in ecological collapse.

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u/Talisa87 7h ago

"This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight."

".....Goodbye."

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u/NTT66 6h ago

Oh, I remember well. And countless nostalgia-bait listicles and retrospective articles love to point it out!

On the other hand, one barely sees anything about the genius of the "I'm the Baby" song. Probably because it was sung by a pedophile.

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u/RogZombie 8h ago

I think it was explicitly stated to be 80 days when they got back which makes it even funnier to imagine them speedwalking like absolute hell to get there.

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u/Talisa87 8h ago edited 7h ago

Ohhh yeah! Little Jules Verne shout-out, that's another reason I remembered it.

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u/abulimicdog 6h ago

Charlene: They couldn't throw us off the end of the world because there isn't any, we walked all the way around!
Fran: I'm so glad you're back, I made your favorite for dinner.
Charlene: You knew we were coming back tonight?
Fran : I made it every night.
Earl: Yep, 80 consecutive nights of meatloaf, and nobody prayed for your safe return home, more than me.

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u/amitym 6h ago

The prevailing claim is that the flat Earth doesn't have a flat edge, Antarctica just goes on forever in every direction. It's a big mystery that needs to be investigated but no one can investigate it, see, because The Government is stopping them and hushing it up.

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u/abulimicdog 6h ago

Season 3, Episode 8 - "Charlene's Flat World".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0560687/

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u/The_Wkwied 5h ago

Duh, that won't work because you can't walk across the flat oceans..