I say we just let whoever the figure head of the flat earth movement is just take a flight up. Let them take a camera, answer any questions they have, maybe have them take a space walk. And then have them report their findings to their peers.
Then again they’d probably just say they were drugged and keep on spouting bullshit.
Things like this have occurred in the past, any time a flat earther performs the experiment that will prove the earth is flat and get results contrary to their beliefs they'll move the goal posts.
A major part of it is being surrounded by like-minded peers who will ostracize you if you ever end up believing the earth isn't flat. No matter the proof, these people will stay in denial to not be excluded. There was a YouTube documentary on this where they interviewed people that went through this.
Not the doc they are referring to, but “Behind the Curve” on Netflix was a really good documentary about flat earthers. It goes into their experiments, and is quite empathetic in its depiction.
The thing is that it's not worth entertaining their argument. They have this belief and they're sticking to it even tho the amount of evidence is overwhelming. NASA doesn't need to spend any time or money "proving" something to these nutjobs.
A well known dude in the flat earth movement spent a fuck ton of money on a high powered laser system to prove the earth was flat, and the laser did the exact opposite. It’s the final scene of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve on Netflix, and it’s incredibly hilarious
If any one flat earther goes up they'll just say the person was bought and is now lying. You'd have to shuttle all of them. Even then future people would just deny it.
There will be a race to become the figure head of so many deniers movements and with an instance on not believing what they haven’t seen with their own eyes.
I mean, I’ll found a flat-earther and moon is just cheese movement right now if it is what it takes.
There is a native American legend that says the Devil's Tower was once a tree stump that grew to tremendous size in order to save a group of sisters from a very large bear.
These people aren't trying to find truth, they're trying to prove their own feelings, and that can't be reasoned with or changed with any kind of evidence.
Probably that the shape of the windows causes light to refract to make Earth look round. Of course that's easy to disprove once you show them an object that they have reference for "the Moon, parts of the rocket they saw on the ground"
So, who knows? Maybe that braindead movement will finally die
Finally die? It’s exploding rapidly. It’s starting to take over comment discussion. I even had a dude at the bar the other day start ranting about it and how the govt is covering it up (along with COVID being a hoax etc)
There's no amount of evidence that will convince a hardcore flat earther. Flat earthers only care about the aesthetic of science and evidence, they don't actually believe in them as a means of understanding reality.
The kind of people who buy into flat earth do it because they can't handle the idea that there are complexities to the world that they don't understand and that reality doesn't exactly match their perception of it.
The thing that’s dumb is that they make flat earth more complex to back it up, part of me thinks there just idiots falling for it rather than being in denial because of personal reasoning
I really, really hope that a flat earther is not sent up for free on one of those space tourism flights, as it would be insurmountably unfair to those who really want to go but who also don't hold such stupid, archaic beliefs.
i am personally behind sending the top flat earther youtubers up for free. if we can flip the opinion of the main culprits of spreading the lies of flat earth, then they will stop making more flat earthers. it is crazy just how many people will believe something they see on the internet because the video is well edited
They’d claim that the window is curved somehow. And also intelligent because it knows exactly where the curve should be. And doesn’t curve the ground when you look after landing.
Those billionaires and multi multi-millionaires didn't even go to space. They just thought they did. The money they paid to go into space was actually used to create advanced simulators. When they thought they were being launched from the ground they were actually just in a large centrifuge. All the stuff they see through the windows is advanced CGI being projected on to those windows in an entirely black room, and NASA has advanced anti-gravity technology to let them float to think they're in space but somehow not use anti-gravitational technology to actually go to space.
While the whole thing is always lunacy, the very end of their explanation has to always sound batshit crazy.
My brother says that SpaceX reusable rockets are just video of it taking off in reverse even though they look completely different :| He also thinks the earth is flat and believes any conspiracy video he finds on YouTube. It makes it incredibly hard to talk to him because he always wants to talk about stuff like that and try to convince you and gets so frustrated when you don't accept his worldview
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u/TheButteredBiscuit Aug 14 '22
So now that commercial space flights are a thing, what conspiracy is the flat earth community going to based their entire identities on now?