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I haven't met anyone who believes in a flat Earth. I'm also wondering if anyone here has. Or if anyone anywhere has. I wonder if they really exist. My current t
by gexla 5y ago
I haven't met anyone who believes in a flat Earth. I'm also wondering if anyone here has. Or if anyone anywhere has. I wonder if they really exist. My current theory is that the belief is a wildly successful joke which has created a community in which they can all share in. Maybe the flat Earth people are the good ones.
ETA: Which also means I screwed up a great opportunity to continue the joke by posting information on why the world really is flat.
- stevenwoo 5y agoI have met people who work in Silicon Valley who believe in a flat earth. After pressing the issue a bit, no matter what logical argument you throw at them, they can excuse it as "the earth might be curved a little bit, but it's not a sphere" (so no mathematical argument backed by facts they can see is going to persuade them) or "there's a conspiracy so no astronaut/satellite can see/show the true shape of the earth". It's not worth the time to engage someone who holds such a belief in conspiracy nonsense.