Got my uncle to finally drop the flat earth thing by asking one specific question

He was going on about the horizon again at a family BBQ in Phoenix, so I asked him to explain how cargo ships disappear bottom-first if the water is flat. He spent 20 minutes on his phone, came back and just said 'huh'. What's a question that actually made someone pause on a conspiracy they were sure about?

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david_martin3d ago

Love that ship question, it's a classic for a reason. Got my cousin off the moon landing hoax train by asking how all the governments that hated each other in 1969 managed to keep the secret. He just stared at his drink for a solid minute. Sometimes they just need to hear the quiet part out loud, you know?

anna_coleman3d ago

My uncle was deep into the moon hoax stuff for years, had all the grainy YouTube videos saved. What finally got him was the mirror thing, you know, the one they left up there that scientists still bounce lasers off of today. He couldn't explain how a fake mission left real, measurable stuff behind. It's like what you told your cousin, @david_martin, about the governments keeping quiet. Once you actually say the big secret part out loud, it just falls apart. I used to just get mad and argue, but now I see asking those simple, quiet questions is the only thing that works.