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Oh the irony of riding an airplane as a flat earth believer. Kyrie Irving (a famous American basketball player) was in the news recently for being a flat earth
by MaxfordAndSons 10y ago
Oh the irony of riding an airplane as a flat earth believer. Kyrie Irving (a famous American basketball player) was in the news recently for being a flat earth believer, and it blew my mind because here's a guy who must take at least 100 if not 200 flights in a year. And it occurred to me that holding those beliefs is tantamount to accusing all pilots and other aviation professionals of being gatekeepers of a massive conspiracy - if the earth isn't round, something about the "public" model of flight is the most wide spread fabrication in human history, and the pilots must be in on it or else planes would be crashing left and right.
- nathan_f77 10y ago> And it occurred to me that holding those beliefs is tantamount to accusing all pilots and other aviation professionals of being gatekeepers of a massive conspiracy Haha yeah, I brought that up. His position was that all pilots are involved with the conspiracy. I asked why no-one has said anything yet, and his answer was that they were paid a lot of money. Not only that, but they would be killed, along with their spouses and children. He also mentioned that there was a force field above the earth, so it was impossible to go into space. And above this forcefield is a layer of water. Something about the "waters above the firmament", which got weirdly Biblical, because he didn't seem to be religious at all.
- treebeard901 10y agoFor some reason earlier this morning, I started thinking about this out of the blue. My hope is that he is just trolling but who knows these days. If I ever meet a flat earther, I just want to ask "Have you ever seen a full moon? and if so, how do you explain it?"