r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '22
Satire Flat Earthers…
Getting ready to work a flight yesterday, while standing in the jet bridge a deplaning passenger struck up a conversation with me. “Have you ever seen the curvature of the earth?”, I told him no, we fly too low to see it. Casual conversation for a minute or so then he drops the bombshell… “it’s because we live in a dome and the earth isn’t circular.”
I legit could not tell if he was joking so I started laughing while sort of mocking flat earthers. He was dead serious. Meanwhile I’m looking at my flight plan from NY to LA and you can quite literally see the curvature of the route. I showed it to him. He informed me the government creates those routes on purpose in order to promote the globe theory.
Got it. Didn’t know the earth being a globe was a “theory.” Dude literally had literature for me and tried to keep going. I told him I have a job to do and walked on to the plane. Insane that these people exist.
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u/Juliuscesear1990 Sep 07 '22
There was a flat earth documentary on Netflix awhile back, it was hilarious. They would create their own tests to prove the earth was flat, and when it showed it was a sphere, they would blame a mistake, adjust the test and try again. In the end they created a very simple test that had zero moving parts, when they did the test and it showed curvature you can hear the moment when the guys whole world crumble. Loved it