My loathe for conspiracy theorists-flat earthers especially-kind of makes me want to watch this.

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    7 months ago

    It should be a panel of former astronauts who listen attentively and take notes throughout, before slowly turning and pointing at a big photo of the spherical Earth that they took from space before returning to it.

    Do this for every contestant.

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      7 months ago

      Photos won’t convince people like that because they’ll just think it’s all fake. I suspect even if we all pitched in to buy them a trip into space, they still would think it was all fake – screens instead of windows, like an amusement park virtual reality ride.

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        7 months ago

        Oh no, they’ll believe when we kick them out the airlock. Don’t worry they’ll be in a spacesuit, we’ll see how fervently they hold onto convictions when we offer them the opportunity to take the helmet off. I doubt there would be many takers

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          7 months ago

          Nah, the spacesuits view port will be a screen, and no one’s dumb enough to take the helmet off in space, they know they’d die.

          They think the earth is flat, not space won’t kill them.

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            7 months ago

            They seem to think the Earth is housed in some kind of giant sphere. Presumably air fills this magic sphere so they’d be okay.

            I don’t know, I don’t subscribe to their delusions.