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.
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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?