• CptInsane0@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    My interactions with them point to them not believing those things are real at all, or are not planets, etc.

  • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
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    Flat earthers are just nutjobs that don’t even agree with each other. There us no point to investigate them.

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      My favorites are The ones who think that the Earth is kind has kind of a rim around the edge and the moon rolls across that like a ball lol

      But I’ve seen plenty of them that are perfectly fine believing that all of the other planets are spheres.

      It doesn’t really matter, I always just tell them to lower a GoPro over the edge and let us know what they find down there. I mean if there’s an edge there’s got to be something under it right? Well they better get going, that award-winning documentary isn’t going to make itself.

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        But I’ve seen plenty of them that are perfectly fine believing that all of the other planets are spheres.

        That’s fascinating. Why do they think Earth is Not Like The Other Planets?

  • NONE@lemmy.world
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    For most of them nothing is real, neither the stars nor the planets, and any mention of those things before modern days was planted by the shadow government or something. Some even think the moon is fake too and the sun is some kind of big light bulb in the sky or whatever.

    More than believers, they are deniers, of everything.

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    The sole purpose of being a flat earther is to be a very difficult person to deal with, so the content of their little belief system is irrelevant.

    They’re the sovereign citizens of earth science.

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    2 months ago

    The claim is “Earth isn’t a planet”, sometimes with the addition of “space isn’t real”.

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      I think you’ll find that flat earthers from all around the globe are in total agreement.

  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
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    The flat earth conspiracy is just made to make money of dumb people. There is nothing more to it and what ever they believe doesn’t matter.

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      Where’s the money to be made? Or are they just easily identifiable targets for sale of essential oils, healing crystals and chiropractor gift cards?

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        Yeah they pay for these conventions, flat earth merch, flat earth messuring tools, maps and a bunch of other crap.

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    Aren’t all of those just fake images the government displays on the dome LCD covering the world inside ice walls? If they were real they would have dropped out of the sky already.

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    I can never tell what they really believe. But I once saw a picture about flat earthers.

    It basically said other planets are round because they have been observed to be round. But Earth is flat because it has not been observed to be round.

    Though if they did see Earth from afar, I’m sure there would be some excuse as to why it’s fake.

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      To them photographs are all made with fisheye lenses which is why only the earth looks round and distorted but fucking nothing else in the same frame.

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    I’m definitely not a Flat Earther, but I watched a documentary about them and a lot of them seem to think the Earth is flat and the sky is like a glass dome, and the other stars and planets are presumably just projected onto the dome somehow? Kind of like this: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/flat-earth-1.jpg

    As for what’s beyond the dome or why nobody’s ever encountered the edge of it, I honestly couldn’t tell you lol.

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      I used to work with a flat earther and this is the description he gave. He was raised Christian and attended a Christian college, so I guess he was never taught much science.

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    If you’re trying to apply reason to the theory, I think you’re misunderstanding the theory.

    When you dig to the roots of flat earth, it’s a “don’t trust the secret globalist government feeding you lies” kind of thing (Aka a dog whistle for antisemitism)

    • Iapar@feddit.org
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      Pff Jews aren’t even real. The government invented them to control the population.

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        “all antisemitic conspiracy theories are deliberately introduced cognitohazards from the illuminati to control the populace” is the best conspiracy theory regarding jewish folk i’ve ever seen.

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    As I’ve heard it, they believe that other planets are around because they can be observed. Any observation of the earth being round is a lie.

    These people are crazy

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Uses telescope to observe Mars

      Yup, that’s round.

      Is taken up into space to look down at the round Earth

      No, it’s still flat. The windows are curved to make it look round.

      Is taken to Mars with the same telescope and it’s pointed at Earth

      The glass on the telescope is round, which makes the Earth look round.