Will they finally accept that the Earth is round, or will they say that it’s fake and the windows on the space stations are monitors?

  • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My guess is they would not go in the first place.

    or will they say that it’s fake and the windows on the space stations are monitors?

    But if they did, this would be my guess. They have not used logic or accepted any proof that they are wrong so I doubt they would in space.

    Some flat earth guys designed a great experiment to prove whether the earth is flat or round. The only problem was they when their own results showed it was round…

    They rejected the results they had come up with as it did not fit their belief.

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      1 year ago

      The problem, fundamentally, is that flat earthers don’t become flat earth advocates because they have a sane skepticism that what the vast majority of humanity agrees is obvious might be wrong, but because in the thin margin between coming across a “smart” flat earth argument and understanding why it’s flawed, they feel special that they “know” they’re above the vast majority of humanity.

      Being able to design and run an experiment on whether the Earth is flat or not is legitimately cool, and might as well be seen as a source of self-worth, but because accepting the results means suffering the humiliation of accepting how stupidly over confident they’ve been in the first place, they can’t take the small L in order to score the big W.

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      Reality is a team sport, to some people. Rational argument is a learned behavior. It’s plainly not what they’re doing. They don’t change their beliefs to fit the evidence because they don’t understand why you’re supposed to.

      And they think we’re the idiots for not maintaining our conclusions just because someone proved us wrong. Pick new excuses, stupid.