There absolutely ARE people who believe flat earth though. It is designed to be an intellectual trap for people who find out they are being lied to, but who aren't capable of verifying their own theories so they choose to simply invert their belief structure. If they see a theory on the internet that is being attacked by everyone as "obviously wrong" they assume it must be right.
I flew in an airplaneb once. I do business with people in other time zones. I understand the basics of geometry. I've studied meteorology a little. I've searched for the path of an eclipse that hasn't happened yet. I've seen real time data for a forest fire happening in the hills near my house which came from a satellite in orbit. I've researched the history of different types of map projections. I've been above the Arctic circle and experienced 24+ hours of daylight.
Many flatearthers were pilots. Time zones are a social construct. What about non-Euclidean geometry? What does meteorology have to do with geometry? Why aren't astronomical phenomena explainable with a flatearth? Why couldn't the reports of the forest fires be taken by people in hot air balloons? What does artificial mathematics have to do with the shape of the earth in reality? The 24-hour sun isn't proof of round earth.
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allogonist ago
I thought that was common knowledge.
There absolutely ARE people who believe flat earth though. It is designed to be an intellectual trap for people who find out they are being lied to, but who aren't capable of verifying their own theories so they choose to simply invert their belief structure. If they see a theory on the internet that is being attacked by everyone as "obviously wrong" they assume it must be right.
smokratez ago
What research did you do to prove the Earth is a spinning ball?
allogonist ago
I flew in an airplaneb once. I do business with people in other time zones. I understand the basics of geometry. I've studied meteorology a little. I've searched for the path of an eclipse that hasn't happened yet. I've seen real time data for a forest fire happening in the hills near my house which came from a satellite in orbit. I've researched the history of different types of map projections. I've been above the Arctic circle and experienced 24+ hours of daylight.
Antiracist10 ago
Many flatearthers were pilots. Time zones are a social construct. What about non-Euclidean geometry? What does meteorology have to do with geometry? Why aren't astronomical phenomena explainable with a flatearth? Why couldn't the reports of the forest fires be taken by people in hot air balloons? What does artificial mathematics have to do with the shape of the earth in reality? The 24-hour sun isn't proof of round earth.
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Bojangles ago
How come toroidal earth isn't as popular as flat earth?