If only we could do this to all the flat-earthers.
As if it would work. They have the "conspiracy" joker card, that allows them to always win the "conspiracy game" they are playing by themselves. If you sent them to space to see the round earth, they would simply say the conpirators have all the money and power and are able to create such a fake simulation to try and hide the truth.
As if it would work. They have the "conspiracy" joker card, that allows them to always win the "conspiracy game" they are playing by themselves. If you sent them to space to see the round earth, they would simply say the conpirators have all the money and power and are able to create such a fake simulation to try and hide the truth.
You can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. I’m surprised more people don’t believe in the moon and think it’s a holographic projection
You can’t reason people out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. I’m surprised more people don’t believe in the moon and think it’s a holographic projection
Oh, there's definitely a moon... but it was blown out of orbit into deep space in September 1999. It was replaced with a battle station which became fully armed and operational a short while later and protects us from the terrible secret of space.
Oh, there's definitely a moon... but it was blown out of orbit into deep space in September 1999. It was replaced with a battle station which became fully armed and operational a short while later and protects us from the terrible secret of space.
I heard the moon is actually a huge space station manned by the aliens who are our true leaders.
As if it would work. They have the "conspiracy" joker card, that allows them to always win the "conspiracy game" they are playing by themselves. If you sent them to space to see the round earth, they would simply say the conpirators have all the money and power and are able to create such a fake simulation to try and hide the truth.
Or they claim they were secretly given a hell of a drug to see this hallucination.
Let's be truthful; however ridiculous flat-earthery may be, as with most things, the only reason we individually know better is because we were told so.
It's not like there was no fixed opinion and we each proved the truth by working it out for ourselves.
Let's be truthful; however ridiculous flat-earthery may be, as with most things, the only reason we individually know better is because we were told so.
It's not like there was no fixed opinion and we each proved the truth by working it out for ourselves.
The point about the round Earth is that you can actually prove to yourself, that it is in fact round. There are many observable phenomena that reveals it, which are flat out impossible (pun intended) to explain with the flat-earth theory, such as that the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is always round, no matter from where you observe it; the fact that the entire sky is visible only from the equator and that if you move away from the equator towards the poles part of the sky becomes hidden from you; that only half of the globe can see the Sun at any given time; the seasons, etc.
The point about the round Earth is that you can actually prove to yourself, that it is in fact round. There are many observable phenomena that reveals it, which are flat out impossible (pun intended) to explain with the flat-earth theory, such as that the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse is always round, no matter from where you observe it; the fact that the entire sky is visible only from the equator and that if you move away from the equator towards the poles part of the sky becomes hidden from you; that only half of the globe can see the Sun at any given time; the seasons, etc.
All of those make sense to you if you already believe that the Earth is round from being told so, and then think about things that prove it. Yes, you could hypothetically figure it out if you were left a complete tabula rasa to try to figure out the universe yourself and you were rational and scientific in your attempts to make sense of the world, but as Claverhouse says, it's not like you had to be. You learn the vast majority of your scientific facts (and the entire philosophical framework of the scientific process, itself) from reading a textbook or listening to a lecture. Standing on the shoulders of giants is the very basic bedrock of modern education, after all.
Cognitive Dissonance means that if you're told something when you're young enough, you just accept it without proof, and it's really, REALLY hard to get some people to accept things even when they are objectively and undeniably provable if they go against some firmly-held concept of one's identity.
When I was in elementary school, at my bus stop, there was a kid who normally sat in his mother's car, and only ran out as the bus came. (I later on figured out it was because the mother was afraid of him being exposed to us evil other children... incidentally, I was the only male, the boy was older, the others were sisters and we were all honor-rollers, so we were far from a gang of thugs.) One day, this boy actually came to the bus stop, himself, presumably because his mother couldn't helicopter parent him this one morning for some reason.
At that time, I was complaining about how we were being taught The Water Cycle AGAIN, even though we'd been getting taught it every single year since 2nd grade. I was starting to get insulted that they apparently thought we were too stupid to remember something as basic as clouds forming from the condensation of the same water that had previously evaporated.
It was at this point that this boy I normally didn't deal with jumped in and said "Nuh-unh! Jesus makes the clouds! Mommy said so!"
The rest of us just did a double take at this kid.
I tried to go into a quick explanation of what the water cycle was, but that was just met with, "Are you calling my mommy a liar?!" The girls were giggling at him quite openly at this point. I tried to explain she probably didn't mean Jesus was literally physically standing in the sky knitting cotton balls together to make clouds solely and specifically for the part of the sky he, personally, could see, and that physics is a system that operates on its own, but he just started to try physically shoving me while crying and screaming "Mommy's not a liar!" at me. Fortunately, the bus came soon after that, presumably because he was timed to come out just before the bus so as to have as little exposure to real humans as possible.
We never saw the kid again. Either he was driven to school after that, or more likely, he was home-schooled or taken to some hyper-religious private "school" that would keep him safe from us darn other kids and our educations about science.
Oh, there's definitely a moon... but it was blown out of orbit into deep space in September 1999. It was replaced with a battle station which became fully armed and operational a short while later and protects us from the terrible secret of space.
Watch out for the pusher and shover robots. Their idea of helping people is knocking them down a flight of stairs.
Let's be truthful; however ridiculous flat-earthery may be, as with most things, the only reason we individually know better is because we were told so.
It's not like there was no fixed opinion and we each proved the truth by working it out for ourselves.
That might be have been true centuries ago. Right now there's satellites that take a picture of the Earth every 10 minutes, and you can easily rent a weather balloon, buy a go-pro and stick it on said balloon, and verify by yourself that the earth does in fact have a curvature. Or you can take a telescope, go to the ocean and look at the ships that sail beyond the horizon. There's really no excuse nowadays given the wealth of resources one has, to verify yourself whether it's true or not.
Hell, you can even see the ISS from earth with the naked eye if you have good enough eyesight and it's a clear day.
The Earth looks blue if viewed from space!No way! I've seen it from above and it's green! Why would it be blue?There are a lot of oceans in the outer world, so from outer space the Earth looks blue!That's a lie, and I'm gonna prove it!The Earth was round after all..?