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My buddy's whole 'flat earth' argument fell apart when I asked him to explain time zones.
He spent 20 minutes trying to draw a flat map that accounted for Sydney seeing sunrise before Los Angeles, then just said 'the government fakes the satellite feeds' and changed the subject.
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milab756mo ago
Oh man, that's the whole playbook right there. I see it all the time with stuff like this (not just flat earth, but other wild theories too). When a simple, real-world fact wrecks the whole idea, they just jump to a bigger, unfalsifiable claim like "everything is faked." It's a way to never have to admit being wrong, because you can just say any proof against you is part of the lie. It gets exhausting.
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harper2545mo ago
Man, I saw a video once where a pilot explained how flight paths work. He said flying from Chile to Australia, which happens all the time, would be impossible on a flat map. You'd run out of fuel. The only way the trip makes sense is on a globe. What do they even say about that, that all the pilots are in on it too?
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