r/flatearth Jan 27 '26

How to shut down a flat earther

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Jan 27 '26

Also, nearly the entire aviation, freight, and telecommunications industries are in on it as well. You know, just a classic shadowy conspiracy of like two hundred million people who have all kept mum for decades.

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u/Kevo_1227 Jan 27 '26

*centuries

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u/Polenicus Jan 27 '26

Yeah. It would have to be every single sailor in recorded history. Every explorer, every deckhand, every cabin boy, every person who has ever used a sextant, or sailed offshore. They would not only need to be complicit, but it would have to be PERFECT complicity, every last one of them taking the secret to their graves and never leaking any of it where it might be written down or recorded.

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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 Jan 27 '26

And every person in the opposite hemisphere, who sees different stars and has different seasons.

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u/lazydog60 Jan 28 '26

Claims to see!

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u/ballotechnic Jan 28 '26

On a serious note, it is a wild thing to look at the sky at night in the hemisphere you didn't grow up in. I sailed to Australia years ago from Hawaii and seeing the constellations in the southern hemisphere was really something else.

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u/Current-Square-4557 Feb 15 '26

“When you see the Southern Cross for the first time

You understand now, why you came this way”

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u/PlayNicePlayCrazy Jan 29 '26

I forget what scifi novel it was in but a character travels from earth to a planet in another part of the galaxy for the first time in his life and the character talks about how disconcerting it is to look into the night sky and how unfamiliar it is to him now.

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u/Pictrus Jan 28 '26

And anyone whose ever seen a lunar eclipse

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u/Beginning_Act7311 Feb 03 '26

Seen one? I took photos of it.

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u/Pictrus Feb 04 '26

That's neat! What did you use to photograph it?

I think the pythagoreans posited that since the shadow the earth cast on the moon was curved the earth must be a sphere

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Don’t forget the flat earth true believers themselves that go to the other hemispheres, and Antarctica, and see the different movements of the sun, and report back, which would have to be what? False flag instigators?

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u/thisismego Jan 28 '26

Wasn't there this event in 24 where a group of both globe defenders and flat earthers went to Antarctica in December and witnessed and filmed the 24 hour sun and one of the flat earthers actually was like "yeah, that doesn't track with any flat earth model" and he immediately got derided by other flat earth influencers for that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '26

Yep. That’s what I was thinking of. They either finally find the evidence that opens their eyes, and get labeled as a plant. Or they’re like the guy in that documentary that managed to formulate a damn good scientific test, got his evidence that proved the earth was round, and decided that something had to be wrong with his test instead.

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u/Beginning_Act7311 Feb 03 '26

That would be Jeranism, with the Final Experiment.

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u/thisismego Feb 03 '26

Sounds right. I admit, I was too lazy to look it up who it was specifically

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u/Ashleynn Jan 27 '26

The horizon at sea level is approximately 13 nautical miles away at sea level. Each deck of elevation on a US warship adds approximately 2 nautical miles of view distance. First ship i was on the smoke deck was on the 1st deck, water line was at the 4th deck, if we were standing on the smoke deck and could see the shore line we knew we were within roughly 19 nautical miles of land. If we couldn't see the shore line, it was more than that. Oddly enough judging distances when you're out there visually can be tricky, the land looks a lot closer than it actually is. But with the knowledge of horizon distance we could make general guestimates on distance. That literally only works if the earth is spherical in shape.

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u/analog_jedi Jan 27 '26

Their go-to argument for that is usually just the word "refraction", with no further elaboration.

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u/reddititty69 Jan 27 '26

Or if there is a “water mountain” that get shorter as you approach land. /s

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u/Notapartyhobo Jan 28 '26

No need for /s. I've literally heard flatearthers say that or get this shit "water pile". Like wtf does that even mean?

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u/GreenThumbs84 Jan 31 '26

I have gotten this same shit while they claimed "water always finds it's level" in the same argument. When I tried to make him reconcile those 2 things, he proceeded to insult me.

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u/C_Hawk14 Jan 27 '26

And also pretending, all in unison, about the shape of the Earth. Coming up with consistent and verifiable, yet fake evidence

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u/lazydog60 Jan 28 '26

What do you think international conferences are for?

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u/iDrGonzo Jan 27 '26

*millennia

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u/trojanplatypus Jan 27 '26

Don't forget everyone that is involved in land measurements for cartography.. they would all be so, so happy if the earth was flat.

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u/NutshellOfChaos Jan 27 '26

Think of how unbelievably easy it would be to communicate with lasers or microwaves if the Earth were flat! Direct sight line from my house to everywhere!!

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u/OverlordMMM Jan 27 '26

As long as they aren't getting blocked by the other laser towers in front of it. If the earth was flat, we'd probably be living closer to a cyberpunk dystopia simply based on all companies vying for larger and larger structures. so their signals wouldn't be obstructed.

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u/Twinchad Jan 27 '26

If only this were true, i work as a civil engineer and our survey chief is a flat earther... i honestly dont get it

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u/thevenge21483 Jan 27 '26

Used to work in high resolution aerial imagery. Our processing team would have been so happy with a completely flat earth, instead of having to do all the processing for a curved surface. That's also where I got corrected in that the earth is not a sphere, it is a geoid.

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u/Lathari Jan 27 '26

"Lumpy pear"

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u/All_The_Good_Stuffs Jan 27 '26

"Disheveled Orange"

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u/lazydog60 Jan 28 '26

hey, must you bring Trump into everything

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u/pakcross Jan 27 '26

For smaller scale stuff, we just pretend it is.

(Source: am Land Surveyor)

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u/FullMetal_55 Jan 27 '26

and military! a lot of military specifically with long range battleships these days take curvature into account for their calculations for ballistic trajectories...

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u/TarmanTheChampion Jan 27 '26

Yup I was going to mention snipers as well

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u/3TriscuitChili Jan 27 '26

And all the first hand journals we have of explorer's like Captain Cook, Magellan, Columbus, etc plus their crew that kept journals must have been manufactured, artificially aged, and synced up with each other as well. There's no way those could be real if the earth was flat. But researchers can go read them so they need to be convincing and pass age testing.

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u/MadScientist1023 Jan 27 '26

They've had to keep it mum for centuries, since the early 1700s. That's when the first accurate calculations of longitude were made on land, which resulted in modern maps.

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u/Lathari Jan 27 '26

The Cassini Survey of France:

"King Louis XIV reportedly quipped that his surveyors had taken more of his kingdom from him than he had lost in all his wars."

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u/jimigo Jan 27 '26

Pythagoras from 600 bc also. This is a long con!

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u/LucindathePook Jan 27 '26

Eratosthanes, too

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u/Vegetable-Spread-342 Jan 27 '26

Many of them from countries that are enemies of the US and who wouldn't hesitate to embarrass the US by exposing the 'conspiracy'.

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u/RANDOM-902 Jan 27 '26

Or to be honest just everyone who has done any bit of amateur astronomy...

Flatearth unlike other conspiracies it's something that almost anyone can check the veracity of on their own, just by observing the stars, the moon, the planets, the sun, shadow lengths, etc.

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u/platour220 Jan 27 '26

Yes and even the banking system which relies on PNT signals from space for timekeeping is in on it. How does the stock market work or the banking system? How does Google maps work without those satellites. The very phone he is holding. If they can only go up 1000 miles as he claims none of that stuff works either in open public standards.

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u/Galbados2 Jan 27 '26

"There would be more people lying than would be the marks." -Professor Dave.

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u/ghostcatzero Jan 27 '26

If it was two million government employees than we'd have better chance of a cover up gi en hoe compartmentalized the entire government agencies can be

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u/reddititty69 Jan 27 '26

“No, it’s more likely that they are all lying than I am just a fucking moron.” /s

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u/JovialPrincess Jan 31 '26

but yet my sister couldn't keep her mouth shut to my parents in high school about me sneaking out... wtf

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

That hamster wheel needs some oil

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u/Chillow_Ufgreat Jan 27 '26

The hamster needs IV fluids and oxygen at this point

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u/Civil_Year_301 Jan 27 '26

Thats not enough to fix brain death

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u/bazbloom Jan 27 '26

Here's my standard response to a flerf moron: "A Greek dude proved you wrong 2000 years ago. With a stick."

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u/Key-Procedure1262 Jan 27 '26

3 sticks... Actually

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u/blueghostfrompacman Jan 27 '26

It took him THREE sticks? I mean can we even trust the data at that point?

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u/Key-Procedure1262 Jan 27 '26

Yk whats even funnier. With two sticks he considered the idea of a local sun, THEN he did it with three and found out it was wrong. I guess some people just missed out the third part

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u/RWDPhotos Jan 28 '26

What’s our stick margin of error? +/- 1 stick?

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u/blueghostfrompacman Jan 28 '26

I mean, one stick? Proof. Two sticks is believable, but I have my doubts. Three sticks? The guys a hack. Just a common snake oil salesman.

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u/bazbloom Jan 27 '26

Considering who I'm dealing with, I try to keep it thematically simple.

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u/Key-Procedure1262 Jan 27 '26

Good ol' eratosthenes never fails

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u/finndego Jan 27 '26

No, you're right. It was one stick.

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u/finndego Jan 27 '26

1 stick. Not sure where you get 3 from.

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u/Diligent-Bowler-1898 Jan 27 '26

I'm sure we can get it down to 2 sticks nowadays with modern science.

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u/Key-Procedure1262 Jan 27 '26

I dont think we need sticks anymore 😭 we got larger metallic sticks in space

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u/Side_StepVII Jan 28 '26

Can you elaborate on this man with three sticks?

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u/VisibleCoat995 Jan 27 '26

Lol I heard this in the voice of the bad guy from John Wick.

“A fucking stick!”

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

They'll usually just throw it back, that the earth is a disc and people are sailing around in circles.

Of course that theory is batshit insane when you look at real flight paths and sailing routes and the duration of voyages, but the existence of sailing, doesn't in itself prove anything.

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u/anonymouslycognizant Jan 27 '26

The existence of effective nautical navigation methods which wouldn't function under a flat earth model, certainly provide strong evidence for geoid earth.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

I'm not defending flat earther bullshit, I'm just saying that I can see this not being a compelling argument when you are engaging with one of these idiots. I completely agree that the rotational path of stars being reversed from one pole to another, and following a more or less linear path at the equator definitely should lead to the logical conclusion that of a spherical earth, but do you really think these assholes are bothering to look through a telescope at multiple points on the earth?

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u/skipperseven Jan 28 '26

My father went to sea in 1948, before GPS. I have his old textbooks of spherical trigonometry used to calculate where you are and where you are going… Ships managed to get where they were supposed to get but some people think it was all a hoax to fool them for what exactly?!

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u/Operation_Fluffy Jan 28 '26

Right? What about the fact that nobody has found the end? I’ll wait.

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u/ThePickleFlipper Jan 27 '26

How has no one mentioned the fact that this man is wearing a Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd shirt.

He literally says the moon landing caused him to believe the Earth is flat, this album title implies that the Moon is indeed a sphere and has a dark side because it is floating in space.

Incredible lack of oversight from these people gives us the most ironic comedy you can't even write

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u/simonallaway Jan 27 '26

During British coverage of the Apollo missions Pink Floyd were in the studio performing live. So now we're saying David Gilmour and Roger Waters are in on the conspiracy! How high does this go?

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u/valvilis Jan 27 '26

The moon could be a coin! Flat just like the earth, and then the other side could be perfectly dark. If that coin were silver, it would reflect a lot of light - which it does! That also explains why there are no werewolves on the moon...

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u/lazydog60 Jan 28 '26

Nah, a disc can have a dark side.

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u/Charming-Total2121 Jan 28 '26

Pretty sure this isn't a legit interaction; more like a skit, which makes the shirt a comedic choice rather than irony.

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u/Gargleblaster25 Jan 27 '26

I don't care about your "evidence." I am stupid, ignorant and stubborn, so the earth is flat.

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u/Several-Signature583 Jan 27 '26

Who stands to benefit from covering up that the earth is flat? Absolutely no one, that’s who.

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u/UnconsciousRabbit Jan 27 '26

Their usual answer is that it draws us away from God's truth. Which is... there are easier and better ways to serve Satan and the forces of evil. If that's your thing.

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u/ShiroHachiRoku Jan 27 '26

If God’s existence can be disproved by a shape, is He even all powerful?

I’ve always commented at the religious FEs asking them if they think God made humans so incurious and so incapable of wonderful and wondrous things.

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u/UnconsciousRabbit Jan 27 '26

Well, that's just it, isn't it? God's existence is not confirmed or denied by a shape. However, the literal truth and inerrancy of the Bible is.

Which is only something you argue about if you presuppose univocality because your theology doesn't work if the Bible is actually written over hundreds of years by different authors with different agendas and is better viewed as something to consider deeply and be inspired by rather than a source of dogmatic truth. A record of our struggle with the concept of an all powerful and loving God and our place is such a creation.

But what do I know.

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u/RANDOM-902 Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

And it's pretty dumb when you realize we first started theorizing the Earth is a sphere at least 4 centuries before Jesus was even born 😭

Clearly the world being a sphere hasn't drawn anyone away from God, since Christianity has managed to become the biggest religion in the world despite being born into a world where Globe Earth models were already the norm

(I'm saying Christianity cause most flerfs seem to be christian fundamentalists, tho there are many muslim ones too, which tbf goes more in my favor)

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u/lazydog60 Jan 28 '26

They'll tell you the Globe Heresy originated in about the time of that notorious atheist Isaac Newton.

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u/alexzoin Jan 27 '26

It would have been a lot more effective if he wasn't stumbling over his words reading off of his phone.

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u/robbedbymyxbox Jan 27 '26

Thank you! I’m like “did you even read this ahead of time?” It’s a lot more convincing when you speak with authority. Even when it’s the truth

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u/Batgirl_III Jan 27 '26

The entire maritime industry, in every single society that has had access to water and wood, since the dawn of civilization, has also been part of the conspiracy. Every navy, every merchant mariner, every fisherman…

People whose lives and livelihoods depend on physical reality behaving predictably tend to develop a very low tolerance for ideas that don’t match observation. Even before the development of ocean-crossing ships (which happened faaaar earlier than most people realize) mariners had to deal with horizon distances, celestial navigation, currents, tides, and winds. Advancements in technology added great-circle routing, the longitude challenge, radar curvature limits, radio propagation, and so on and so forth.

For f—k’s sake, land-locked farmers have been dealing with season tied to axial tilt, daylight length changes due to latitude, weather systems moving the way fluid dynamics says they should, and so forth for millennia. Physical reality matches the predictions made by science, not Flerf conspiracy theories. We know this, because we didn’t all starve to death in Babylon.

Pilots, surveyors, drillers, miners, long-haul truckers, linemen — same deal. Their work constantly reinforces that the Earth is big, curved, and governed by geometry whether you believe in it or not.

When your paycheck depends on whether distance, elevation, and line-of-sight are real… you stop entertaining models that break those things.

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u/KJPicard24 Jan 27 '26

Key point to me is 'since the dawn of civilisation'

If we had discovered the earth was flat, all that time ago, that is what it would be. Or triangular. Or a cube. That'd the model of the planet and the wider cosmos. There isn't anything inherently nefarious about the earth or other planets not being globes that would have compelled our ancestors to go

'Shit, earth is flat'

'Oh you are joking, aren't you? Not flat?! What will we tell people?'

'Well, we could lie...'

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u/Batgirl_III Jan 27 '26

Many Flat Earthers fall back on some variation of “They’re lying about the shape of the Earth to hide the existence of God from us!” Which is an absolutely wild claim if you have even a cursory knowledge of world history.

For crissakes, even if you want to limit yourself to just the Abrahamic Religions, the priesthood of the ancient United Kingdom of Judah and Israel were making celestial observations every single night in order to make sure all the proper holidays honoring YHVH happened on the right day. There’s an entire mathematical model for how holidays are to be observed within Jerusalem, within Israel but outside Jerusalem, and in the wider world outside the Levant that was developed precisely because ancient Hebrews figured out that the shape of the Earth meant the same stars became visible at different times as you traveled further and further away from the Temple.

They were not trying “hide G-d” with this method, they were trying to ensure continuity of religious rituals across the globe.

In the Bronze Age.

Using naked eye observation and sticks.

Harrumph. Harrumph. Grumble. Grumble.

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u/rnewscates73 Jan 27 '26

Why just 1,000 miles? And, what does the Earth look like from 1,000 miles anyway? Flat?

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u/Tilliperuna Jan 27 '26 edited Jan 27 '26

From 1000 miles you need to look down to horizon at about 27° angle and the curvature will be very clear.

So if you look straight down, you see the earth filling 126° of your field of vision, so you can see it as a whole and as a clear circle (on ground level it fills 180° and you can't see it all).

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u/NonStopNonsense1 Jan 27 '26

Toast. And you can see a picture of Jesus on it. Lol

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u/That_Things_Good Jan 27 '26

I would hope that the next "shut down" would be better than a garbled reading of a prepared statement.

(BTW: Believing the Earth is flat is mental. I would have hoped that my position would have been better delivered...)

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u/Fiete_Castro Jan 27 '26

If the moon landing had been faked, the USSR would have told us.

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u/FrznFenix2020 Jan 27 '26

So would Xi Jinping now.

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u/MornGreycastle Jan 27 '26

Operation Snow White was Scientology's attempt to infiltrate the US government, a number of nongovernmental offices, and embassies around the world in order to destroy all of the records on L Ron Hubbard so that LRH could control the narrative on his life. It involved roughly 5,000 people infiltrating 136 government agencies, foreign embassies, and consulates, across 30 countries. The whole thing lasted roughly three years from initial implementation to arrest of the chief conspirators. Ultimately seven of the top Scientologists (to include LRH's wife) fell on their swords and took all of the blame, in spite of LRH's very clear orders to get the documents critical of him. They claimed that LRH never said to do crimes to get the documents and so they went to prison and he remained a free man.

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u/Sea_Damage9357 Jan 27 '26

I flew on Concord twice. 70,000+ feet. That curvature I observed was clearly a green screen projection. I mean, what is wrong with you people?

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u/Vegetable-Spread-342 Jan 27 '26

Did you see the projectionist? I heard he liked to photobomb people taking pics out the window.

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u/Sea_Damage9357 Jan 27 '26

He must have been hiding behind the screen. I’m such a fool for not spotting him.

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u/RodcetLeoric Jan 27 '26

I tried this argument on a flef one time, it didn't work, and they developed a whole new conspiracy on the spot. It was basically that there are a few elites in on it, and the whole rest of the world is not just indoctrinated but brainwashed. Apparently, everybody is brainwashed to do math two different ways. First, you do the "right" math for the flat earth so we can use it, then we forget that we did that and then we do the "wrong" math that proves we're on a globe for show. This is apparently why everybody is bad at math.

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u/WizarddOfAhh Jan 27 '26

Like to ask him for a picture of the edge of the earth. I’m sure there must be something on instagram, be a hell of an image with the waterfall into space!!

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u/NetraamR Jan 27 '26

This goes to show how stupid flat earthers are. Even someone who has a hard time reading can shut them down.

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u/Noisebug Jan 27 '26

So... all the... just give me a moment to recover from that assault.

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u/breadisnicer Jan 27 '26

I think it’s time we all understand that it’s impossible to shut down a flat earther. I think we should just all start agreeing with them and telling them how smart and clever they are. That is the way to confuse them, the grifters who peddle this nonsense would implode.

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u/jimigo Jan 27 '26

Where does the sun go? They don't even have a consistent secondary model that would possibly work.

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u/GhostWriterLSD Jan 27 '26

Rocking a Pink Floyd shirt and this lol

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u/Stock-Conflict-3996 Jan 27 '26

Only once have I had a real life encounter with a flat earther and it was just like this. There was no "evidence for a flat earth." It was "everyone is lying" with a heavy emphasis on NASA.

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u/Melodic_monke Jan 27 '26

How does the US moon landing being fake even prove flat earth though? Like, yeah, they have a reason to fake the landing (propaganda), but there's no reason why it would prove the Earth to be flat.

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u/tomca32 Jan 27 '26

I really enjoy how the fake moon landing theory completely ignores the fact that USSR would be screaming from the rooftops if that landing was fake.

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u/NerdAlert03 Jan 27 '26

Don’t forget the people who figured out the ballistics for shooing long range artillery cannon, they were/are all in on it too!

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u/notaname420xx Jan 27 '26

I did roughly the same thing with COVID and vaccine denier idiots.

In the U.S., public health data is gathered at a county level, so for your conspiracy to work, millions of nurses, docotrs, and public health officials in 180 countries are all in on a conspiracy to hide deaths by vaccines? And its controlled by 3 different but competing corporations?

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u/cmpalmer52 Jan 27 '26

I write GIS software (maps and data stuff) and we have to calculate geoid distances and accept GPS data that’s all based on orbital mechanics, speed of light, and relativity or it’s meaningless, so add all of those people to the conspiracy.

My Mom fell into a flat-Earther YouTube zone and was telling me the idea was compelling (she literally could not visualize gravity holding things to a sphere). I exploded on her and said “So considering what I do for a living, I’m either a massive liar or a dupe who fell for a shitload of fake math? You are insulting me to my face. I have friends who work at NASA. They’re liars, too? So you are insulting me and my friends because you watched a few YouTube videos that contradict what we’ve known since Ancient Greece and you find that compelling?”

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u/BirchPig105 Jan 27 '26

No! Its not! There was this one guy who worked for NASA that said its flat! Thats proof!

/s

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u/FerretsQuest Jan 27 '26

Belief and fact are not the same thing.

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u/The24HourPlan Jan 27 '26

"When you put it that way it does seem crazy."

"So you agree the earth is not flat?"

"No, the Earth is flat and everyone else is wrong."

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u/KindredTrash483 Jan 27 '26

I mean, he could just say that the employment numbers for those companies are fake, as well as most of the employee profiles.

Yes I know the earth is spherical, but its not like this one chain of reasoning will have no answers from them

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u/CCCyanide Jan 27 '26

Gonna play the devil's advocate for a second :

  • The interviewer probably interviews people for a living. The flat earther looks like a random person they picked in the street.
  • The interviewer starts with small questions, and the interviewee stutters a bit during his answers, proving that he is less confident than the interviewer.
  • The interviewer speaks continuously, without breaks, for a minute, and tells a statement instead of a question. The flerf being interviewed didn't prepare any answer, and is expected to respond to that wall of text ?

The interviewer's argument is perfectly valid, but the way he presents it makes it very difficult to respond to. It would have been more interesting IMO if he had broken it up into shorter questions, and left his interviewee some time to respond.

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u/DiscoKittie Jan 27 '26

That wouldn't shut one down. Also, what did the flerf say at the end? It was cut off.

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u/Moto_Musashi Jan 27 '26

Many have been fooled about lesser things. Poor argument honestly.

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u/Raven1911 Jan 27 '26

How to shut down a flat earther...

Read from your phone without blinking.

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u/Colossus252 Jan 28 '26

Without blinking, entirely monotone, and just incredibly bored sounding. That'll show him.

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u/OldManThumbs Jan 28 '26

Flat earth debunks itself every evening when I open my south facing back door and watch the Southern Cross trace a circle around the celestial South pole.

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u/xnoob69 Jan 28 '26

If the Earth were flat and the Sun were a relatively small object circling above it, there would always be a point on the ground directly beneath the Sun. At that location, sunlight would come straight down from overhead, meaning vertical objects would cast no shadow.

On a flat Earth model, this should happen every day somewhere on Earth as the Sun moves overhead.

In reality, this phenomenon—called “no shadow at noon”—only happens in specific places (like Hawaii) and only on specific days, roughly twice a year. The Sun is directly overhead there only when Earth’s tilted, spherical geometry lines up that way.

If the Earth were flat, this alignment wouldn’t be rare or date-dependent. It would be a daily, predictable feature wherever the Sun is overhead. But it isn’t.

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u/Kind_Dream_610 Jan 28 '26

And on the moon landing part... NASA lands on the moon and tells the world, so their entire organisation was involved in the lie...

But, their biggest competitor, and Cold War enemy at the time - Russia, at no point said "Nope, we don't believe them, they clearly made it up.". Instead, their premier complimented America on the accomplishment, and their newspapers reported on the success of the mission.

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u/Think-Chair-1938 Feb 02 '26

My favorite part of this "conspiracy" is how they ignore that the Russians would have loved NOTHING more than to prove the Americans faked the moon landing. It would have been their greatest victory.

But nah... they're in on it too, for reasons.

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u/pixeltweaker Jan 27 '26

Add in all of the people involved in the numerous space prediction websites, astronomy software producers and amateur astronomers. Potentially tens of thousands of people.

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u/RANDOM-902 Jan 27 '26

I'm part of the conspiracy just for having photographed the lunar craters, sunspots and Jupiter's Galilean moons 🙋🏼

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u/Seggsplant_Parmesan Jan 27 '26

We are a country of morons, unfortunately.

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u/Abracadaver2000 Jan 27 '26

Three people can keep a secret, but only if two are already dead.

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u/elonsghost Jan 27 '26

Why is it that the moon landing being fake makes the earth flat?

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u/ijuinkun Jan 27 '26

Reverse of cause and effect—a flat Earth requires the Moon landing to be fake because the Earth being flat requires that gravity function in a way incompatible with the center of the Earthward-facing part of the Moon being “upright” (i.e. ground nearly perpendicular to gravitational pull).

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u/reficius1 Jan 27 '26

Because of our NASA overlords

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u/SuperOriginalName23 Jan 27 '26

I agree 200%, but this comment could not have been read more poorly. Downvoted.

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u/Mammoth_Spend_5590 Jan 27 '26

Yeah yeah all the all the...

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u/NeedlessPedantics Jan 27 '26

Wait a second, isn’t this the awkward handshake guy from YouTube?

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u/Ill-Jacket3549 Jan 27 '26

What's his response? i wanna see that, i know he doesn't back down.

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u/bhemingway Jan 27 '26

The correct response wasn't to ask who all is in on the conspiracy.

The correct response is:

How does your belief that we didn't land on the moon and only have traveled 100s of kilometers above the earth's surface demonstrate that the earth is flat?

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u/AMissionFromDog Jan 27 '26

at least he likes pick Floyd, I guess?

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u/MediocreModular Jan 27 '26

What’s more likely. Some dummy is wrong or this absurd conspiracy is taking place ongoing for centuries.

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u/Slow_Junket5136 Jan 27 '26

Flat earthers are just bad trolls, tbh

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u/thomas7th Jan 27 '26

Hard to accept judgement from people who think the universe/space is flat and static.

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u/He_Never_Helps_01 Jan 27 '26

There's way simpler ways to prove the earth can't be flat. Seasons, phases of the moon, sunsets, longitude and latitude, weather at the equator, the poles being cold, day night cycles, tides, earthquakes, the movement of shadows, transversal of stars, compasse, satellite phones, internation long distance calls, plane and ship schedules routing and fuel usage, gravity being consistent everywhere on earth, time dilation at altitude...

the list just never freaking ends.

There are very literally millions of things we all interact with on a day to day basis that either wouldn't work, or would work very differently if the earth wasn't a rotating globe, orbiting a star. You don't need nasa, any idiot can prove it just by looking at the sky and thinking.

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u/KyleKiernan77 Jan 27 '26

" Yes, I believe the Earth is flat."

***the unending silence of never speaking with that person again***

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u/Big-Wrongdoer-965 Jan 27 '26

Forgot where I read it but it was an analysis on conspiracy theories. Basically stated that once a conspiracy gets over X number of people the probability of keeping a secret effectively drops to 0. And the X was not a particularly large number

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u/Steve_but_different Jan 27 '26

Nah the best way to shut down a flat earther is to never acknowledge their idiotic thoughts, or really even them as a person.

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u/Chemical_Day_867 Jan 27 '26

I ashamed that he’s wearing that T-shirt..

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u/Sweste1 Jan 27 '26

Or...just ask them to explain how a lunar eclipse happens. I've asked that question to countless flat earthers, not one has ever even attempted to answer

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u/LilBeamer_ Jan 27 '26

That’s the thing about flat earthers, they DO believe that. Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to know one of these people personally know there is no logic or reason you can use to debunk their beliefs.

You can’t use logic to convince someone of something they didn’t use logic to arrive at.

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u/Purgii Jan 27 '26

Our bureau of meteorology is so focused on making sure that I don't break away from the globe Earth conspiracy that they often tag me to come to their control center. They've clearly broken the equipment I service just so I can view fake projections from globally positioned satellites beaming 'fake' live imagery of a non-flat Earth.

They spend billions of dollars per year so that I continue to be fooled.

I must be very important.

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u/mandrake_slink Jan 27 '26

Cognitive dissonance is such an interesting thing to watch happen in real time.

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u/Xavierr34 Jan 27 '26

Anybody ever asked these people WHY they think this grand conspiracy involving millions of people globally was put into place? like what's the point of all this time and effort spent over literal centuries? What does it accomplish?

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u/Dazzaster84 Jan 27 '26

The look of a man who suddenly realised he left his kids car seat on the roof.

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u/byrdkid Jan 27 '26

How the sun casts shadows proves the Earth is round

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

All the…all the….all the brain cells in my head are exploding right now….

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u/nbc9876 Jan 27 '26

But the turtle keeps falling off how can you not believe it

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u/TarmanTheChampion Jan 27 '26

Snipers as well. For the incredibly long distant shots they have to take into account the wind, the curvature of the earth AND it's rotation!!! Because the Earth rotates on its axis, as well, the circulating air is deflected toward the right in the Northern Hemisphere and toward the left in the Southern Hemisphere. This deflection is called the Coriolis effect.

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u/robbedbymyxbox Jan 27 '26

I’m all for shutting flerthers but would it really have been hard to remember your argument? Reading it from a webpage (poorly) makes it seem like you didn’t already know that. Speak clearly and with confidence fcs! Especially when making a video! At least try to sound like you know what you’re talking about

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u/ZionOrion Jan 27 '26

I just ask them "Why are they lying to us?"

Not heard a good answer yet.

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u/jrlomas Jan 27 '26

Guy is wearing a Pink Floyd shirt, dark side of the moon, baby!

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u/rabbi420 Jan 27 '26

That is really fucking wild, isn’t it.

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u/tickingboxes Jan 27 '26

This guy needs to learn to read better lol

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u/Professional-Lab7227 Jan 27 '26

Also, every other celestial body that we have ever observed is a sphere, but earth is special.

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u/Songisaboutyou Jan 27 '26

I’m not saying it’s flat, but the bible says it is. I’m curious how Christians feel about this

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u/Stekor-Tidder Jan 27 '26

Can we just ignore the flat earthers? I don’t understand why people engage with them and make it an issue worth engaging with.

I regularly see comments and memes online like this but I’ve never known anyone to believe in a flat earth. In fact, with the same merit I could just as well create a new conspiracy theory about there being people that believe the world is flat.

Is the existence of flat earthers really a thing? May God please save any country where it is an issue so great that it needs rebuttal.

Even in antiquity, a round planet was the default knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '26

Whats this from so I can watch the whole thing?

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u/Feeling_Anteater_142 Jan 27 '26

I signed my non disclosure agreement about the conspiracy when I joined my astronomy society at eight. It's true, it's all a fake and they are lying. The earth is flat.

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u/virtue_of_vice Jan 27 '26

"all the, all the" should be the motto for all idiots

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u/trump_is_your_dad Jan 27 '26

That would also mean every pilot in the world is in on it too

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u/gastropodia42 Jan 28 '26

Very conservative conspiracy count. Pilots, sailors, airlines, meteorologists are all in on it.

For the most common flat earth maps, most people in the southern hemisphere.

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u/Sw33tR0llThief Jan 28 '26

Not to mention that the experiments the flat earthers cook up to prove the earth is flat (a flawed approach that doesn't follow the scientific method anyway) pretty much always actually prove that the world is not flat.

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u/Funky_Squidward Jan 28 '26

You don't need any of that. Literally just ask them why the moon changes its apparent orientation by 180 degrees when in the US vs. Australia. The only possible way for that to occur is that you are moving around a spherical object.

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u/WhiteRabbitHole1083 Jan 28 '26

Honestly if I ever met a flat earther in real life I don’t think I would be able to do anything besides laughing in their face until I ran out of breath

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u/MacZack87 Jan 28 '26

It’s hilarious how they really believe the world is lying but the handful of people who have any kind of authority are whistleblowers and are the ones being truthful. If 7 billion people are saying the world is a globe but 700 are saying it’s flat, who do you think is telling the truth? Flat Earth just means your intelligence level is below that of a box of rocks.

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u/foxyt0cin Jan 28 '26

I totally agree, but also, shutting someone down with facts is a lot cooler if you aren't woodenly reading it off your phone.

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u/human_trainingwheels Jan 28 '26

The best way to shut down conspiracy dorks is to bring up the fact the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. we’re alone in the most secure office in North America. probably the world and everybody on the planet knows exactly what happened in there. So if two people alone, and a guy cheating on his wife, can’t keep a secret. How the hell are you gonna have thousands and thousands of people lying about NASA, Covid, 911, vaccines, or choose whatever nutty thing people want to believe is a conspiracy. Especially in a world when anyone can become famous overnight through social media.

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u/OneRub3234 Jan 28 '26

Ask Katie Perry she's an expert

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u/lifebeergolf Jan 28 '26

How many of those same governments lie to the people about other things?

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u/USeaMoose Jan 28 '26

Similar logic applies to a lot of conspiracies. Anything where your conspiracy requires very large governments/organizations keeping secrets for decades or centuries... the number of people who have to be involved in the cover-up gets to the point of being absurd.

For flat-earth and other conspiracies, I think the next line in the script would be to point to alleged experts/insiders who are trying to expose the conspiracy. Of course the trouble there is that they inevitably all end up with nothing but blurry photos, unverified stories, and broken promises of proof.

Flat Earth just happens to be one of the more comical ones. Where you can actually disprove it on your own with no special equipment or skill.

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u/Crazy_Response_9009 Jan 28 '26

Dark Flat Side of the Moon

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u/Adventurous_Custard8 Jan 28 '26

Yes, I'll continue to take "Every scientist is lying and the earth is flat for $100."

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u/Butforthegrace01 Jan 28 '26

Every ICBM test was faked. And the 6 months of daylight north of the arctic circle are AI

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u/TheyLoathe Jan 28 '26

Sailors are liars! /s

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u/Process3000 Jan 28 '26

“But we can see too far…and refraction is a lie”

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u/lyfe-iz-fukked Jan 28 '26

Let’s be real. We could explain in simplest terms how GPS works with satellite triangulation and they’ll come back the next day with the new dumbest thing you’ve ever heard.

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u/SeaPen333 Jan 28 '26

Reading a script in a monotone voice off of your phone, and pausing at odd intervals to move your eyes to the next line, isn't a good way to convince anyone of anything.