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I like those memes floating around that say if the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now (I'm too lazy to link to the pic but you can google it).
Seriously, though, I wonder if any of them will be flying to Raleigh for the conference. If so, a simple look out the window will disprove their ridiculous theory.
The concave shape of the plane's window creates an optical illusion that simulates the "horizon effect".
I like those memes floating around that say if the earth was flat, cats would have pushed everything off it by now (I'm too lazy to link to the pic but you can google it).
Seriously, though, I wonder if any of them will be flying to Raleigh for the conference. If so, a simple look out the window will disprove their ridiculous theory.
You have to get above 40,000 ft before even a hint of curve starts to show, and it's pretty rare to be up there in a passenger plane.
The worst. I am convinced in most of the West we are in an anti intellectual phase that will see countries like India, China, Japan, South Korea pass us by. I always ask flat Earthers for a pic of the barrier they say is in Antarctica lol
In a very sick way, this conference reconfirms a very small amount of faith in humanity for me. This is obviously a crackpot theory believed by only the smallest of the fringe. You know - roughly the appropriate number of people who should believe in nonsense like this. No matter how crazy, stupid, and disprovable any idea is, there will always be a non-zero number of people who believe it, and that's fine as long as that number is proportional to the insanity of the idea in the first place. This is an example of that. The world-wide international conference of flat-earthers should be able to fit in a single hotel in Cary. Perfect.
It's when the ideas are just as easily disproven but the believers would require the entire Vegas Strip to hold their world-wide conference that I get worried. Think birthers, anti-vaxers, climate deniers, those people who think the earth is 6000 years old and Noah had dinosaurs on the ark with him, etc. All of these are ideas that have just as much evidence against them as the idea of a flat earth, but have such a disproportionately large number of followers that one can not help but get scared. So to the flat-earthers coming in November, I say Welcome!
I think I'm going to stand outside, at the entrance and sell Chinese-made MAGA hats. Business should be brisk with this group, maybe I can retire early......
It's when the ideas are just as easily disproven but the believers would require the entire Vegas Strip to hold their world-wide conference that I get worried. Think birthers, anti-vaxers, climate deniers, those people who think the earth is 6000 years old and Noah had dinosaurs on the ark with him, etc. All of these are ideas that have just as much evidence against them as the idea of a flat earth, but have such a disproportionately large number of followers that one can not help but get scared. So to the flat-earthers coming in November, I say Welcome!
You can say that about any group of like-minded people.
Just look at the religion, there are churches larger than college campuses these days. I mean really, there is zero evidence of any type of God existing anywhere yet billions of people around the world (and in various parts of history) all believe theirs is the one "true" one.
In other words, the group of people who believe the earth is flat are going to be around the corner from the group of people who believe the earth was created in 6 days.
But somehow one group's beliefs are more humorous than the other's?
I assume most of these people just do this for attention and aren't actually this stupid.
I think they just love pulling legs. Google the premise and you'll find some serious minded people rebutting their program. I think the flatlanders enjoy the heck out of inciting them.
"As silly as anti-vaxers without the rationale"
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