• Ordoabchao@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Can we not do some global crowd funding to send anti-vaxxers and flat earthers into space, preferably a one way trip?

    Asking for my sanity.

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        11 months ago

        It’s quite the opposite of what they want, It would probably mentally break them to see actual space and planets being a globe or they would just say “LOL NICE DIGITAL WINDOWS, THIS SHIT AINT REAL!!!1111ONEONEONE”.

        It’s a big problem in this day and age. People arguing ferociously against things that have already been proven. For some reason…

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          11 months ago

          I think the reason is that they have no other way of feeling smart except idiotic conspiracy theories

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        11 months ago

        You seem to think that it’s lack of evidence that they remain convinced that the world is flat.

        They regularly ignore the results of their own experiments when it shows a round earth.

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          11 months ago

          I loved it in one of the documentaries on Netflix (I think that’s one from there) when the guy is saying scientists have too much to lose from admitting they lied and the interviewer ask him “Ok, but isn’t that also your case? You would lose all your followers if you admitted the experiments prove you wrong and the Earth isn’t flat.” and the guy just stays there speechless 😐

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            11 months ago

            Yes, “Beyond the Curve”

            It really goes to show that the whole flat earth movement was not actually about evidence. It’s a group devoted to using something called Natural Observation or something like that.

            Basically it needs to be something that they can handle physically and prove physically in order for it to exist. It’s not an accident that these same crackpots are often the same people who don’t think COVID is real.