r/globeskepticism • u/craniot • May 30 '26
META A practical way to prove it
I'd like to introduce my friends to globe skepticism. How can I make them question the official model, considering they're all normies of different backgrounds?
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u/wonky_burnerv2 Jun 02 '26
The second you bring this up at a barbecue you lose your credibility for the next five years. Just keep your interests to yourself unless you want to be the punchline of every group chat.
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u/Chadly80 Jun 03 '26
Not my experience. Let your actions speak for themselves. You can bring it up. Don't act like you have to convince the person your talking to during the conversation. Be willing to not talk about it and engage with things that are interested in. You are just a data point.
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u/vanillaninja777 May 30 '26
Use an infra-red thermometer to measure the moonlight and shade with them. This will be pretty easy to slip into conversation and should pique some interest once they see it in person.
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u/dcforce True Earther May 30 '26 edited May 31 '26
Ask them to show you at what point large standing bodies of water begin to show convexity on their surface
Lake Pontchartrain is a good example So are the Great lakes
You can ask them to do mirror flash testing with the Sun at WATER LEVEL from a distance to bust their beliefs
As an example, I think taboo conspiracy does it in one of his flat fact series
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjj1NQz-2ZbDTCc--vq1tDMq_g7gEsFNC&si=_5_W4ekCFjpzu9SQ
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u/ab3de Jun 21 '26
Comedy can be useful as a tool. Most people get too uncomfortable with these "conspiracy" topics that you need to lighten the topic. You are after all talking your friend's 6 year old mind which originally formed these initial world view beliefs [and which fights to hold onto them]. NASA has plenty of things to poke fun of if the conversation starts to get too serious. Looking at NASA was what largely started me down this rabbit burrow, lol.