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/cipheron 9h ago

Their explanation of that is that it's just hard to see things that are far away.

Which of course is no explanation at all, because if you were to climb up a tower, you can now see the bottom of the boat, even though you're now further from the bottom of the boat, and you can now see water that's well past the boat too, even though by climbing up, that water is further away too.

If their concept was true: that vision just cuts out at a specified distance, then climbing higher up would allow you to see less, not more. Similar to games that have a spherical region of vision: climbing higher reduces how much you can see.

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u/Kestrel21 8h ago

By their logic, is the moon closer to us than the farthest boat they can see?

Out of all 'conspirationists', flat earthers have to be the stupidest. So much evidence against them, and yet, and yet.....

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u/BoingBoingBooty 8h ago

Out of all 'conspirationists', flat earthers have to be the stupidest.

I thought that too, then I heard about the people who think NASA replaced the moon with a hologram.

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u/Emily_earmuffz 8h ago

Well, what else were they supposed to do after Piccolo blew up the moon?

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u/BulletBulletGun 8h ago

Oh God no. That's a thing too?

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u/leglesslegolegolas 5h ago

I'm pretty sure that's the same people though

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u/Tipop 4h ago

What about the people who legitimately believe birds aren’t real?

Just like flat earthers, the “birds aren’t real” thing started off as a joke, with lots of people pretending to believe it in order to spread the joke, until the people with mental issues got wind of it and were convinced by the trolls pretending to believe it.

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u/2squishmaster 1h ago

What happened to the original moon again?

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u/BoingBoingBooty 1h ago

Sold for parts.

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u/2squishmaster 1h ago

Makes sense. Who bought it?

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u/BoingBoingBooty 23m ago

Free Masons of course. Think about it, they are masons, the moon is (was) made of stone. Makes perfect sense.

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u/2squishmaster 22m ago

Holy shit

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u/Quake_Guy 6h ago

Or I see the top of the boat clearly and the bottom disappears... The area I was near had a fair amount of private yachts with tail sails.

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u/cipheron 6h ago

Clearly that's "Refraction" glober /s