Madeline: Science denial really grinds my metaphorical gears, and Flat Earthers are some of the most egregious about it. So manhandle them into strait jackets and shove them in the damn rocket already.

  • Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    You really think they’re going to believe their lying eyes and ears? I think not. They’re in a collective psychosis.

    • RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 years ago

      Pshaw, when people are handed direct evidence of something, they’ll totally come around to reality!

      *looks at twitter posts

      …oh.

  • Davel23@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    There was one flat-Earther who built his own rocket in an attempt to prove his claims. He ended up crashing and dying.

  • Doolbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m with you. It’s time to create some concents from Neal Stephensons Anathem.

    • JunctionSystem@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Madeline: I haven’t encountered any (that I know of), so cannot answer this question.

      Madeline: Though I would be quite interested in what ANYONE would stand to gain from lying about the shape of the world. I’d really want to dissect those motives.

      • walnutwalrus@lemmy.world
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        2 years ago

        say I’m a flat earther, I say you look at the oceans and they’re flat, and you look at water and would expect it to just spill over (how can it be flat on a round earth? it makes no sense how the waters look on a round earth…)

        or say you acknowledge that the composite images of the “Blue Marble” view of the earth have been faked: https://qz.com/192700/the-guy-who-created-iphones-earth-image-explains-why-he-needed-to-fake-it

        how do we know the earth is the shape it is then if people are not honestly giving photographic evidence of its shape?

        Or say with GPS, I say that could be done on the land, there is no need to rely on satellites. Then how do we need to believe in satellites orbiting the earth, when land operations are sufficient for explaining them?

        Or say someone says they don’t know why people are lying about the earth being flat, when we know it is. What are they trying to hide by lying about its obvious flat shape?

        and so on, to give you an idea of how a conversation might go

  • Jay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I feel that way about most deniers/conspiracy theorists/religious nuts etc but we’re always going to have them.

    I wouldn’t be sad if these flat earthers went to find this supposed edge of the world and jumped off though. We have enough problems here on “God’s dinner plate flying through space.”