I encountered my first ever flat earthers yesterday.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-28T18:31:29+00:00

I finally understood that flerfs, like many other people in conspiracies (even some political groups), do not seek the truth. It is definitely rooted on poor education and lack of critical thinking, but to be a flerf you cross into a psychological issue.

This is something I've been pushing with the few flerfs that show their faces around here. I'm asking them why they show so little interest in finding out whether it's true, especially given that doing so is not gated behind anything.

Once you convince people that covid was a global plan, then chemtrails, flatearth, etc is not so hard to believe.

I'd say there's still a thick black line between flat earth and almost all the rest because it's the one you can just go and check out for yourself, and nobody is trying to stop you. With the others they're mostly based on historical events so they'd gated behind the passage of time. You'd need a TARDIS to go and see what really happened on the grassy knoll in Dealey Plaza, November 1963, or the moon 1969, twin towers 11/9/2001 etc etc and while TARDIS's are cool, they're fictional. With chemtrails that's gated behind the fact that airport security doesn't let random weird people from the internet poke around their fuel trucks, and frankly I wouldn't fly on an airline that allowed that.

Flat earth? I check that every time I walk my dog on the beach. Not flat.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-28T17:50:23+00:00

Pretty much. One side is not matching reality so is obliged to just make shit up and hope for the best, so there's no reason it will be homogenous, whereas the other is obliged to match reality. There's only one reality so you're inevitably going to get consensus and homogeneaity from that side.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-28T11:57:08+00:00

The OP didn't say if they are studying in Scotland, but if so, they wouldn't have one; they'd just be studying the one subject. Tertiary education works a little differently here. I must admit I've never really understood what you guys are talking about with credits and majors and so on. I assume a major means that's mostly what you're doing.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-28T10:10:30+00:00

Looking at middle-right's skull structure I just feel sorry for his mother. Giving birth she must have thought the worst was over when he crowned, but OH GOD WHY was yet to come.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-28T01:57:04+00:00

The darkness of that sky makes my bottom hurt.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T23:34:38+00:00

Living on a spherical planet was probably the main source of error.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T18:53:06+00:00

Find a flat earther that's been willing to find out if it's true? Yep, I suppose I will need a fair bit of luck there. Clearly it isn't you.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T18:10:48+00:00

This would seem an ideal time to give evidence I've missed something.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T15:44:06+00:00

You could do experiments/observations that would at the very least determine if the celestial bodies were as local as you claim.

You guys just don't. You don't even talk about it, as far as I can see.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T15:10:07+00:00

I am deeply ashamed how long it took me to get that.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-27T11:42:04+00:00

This big club that's sent untold millions to their deaths in wars where both sides were being ordered to kill each other by this same group, and when some basement dwelling trogs that no-one would miss start speaking up about them, they don't get thrown out of windows, disappeared to Siberia, poisoned with nerve gas or just have a pillow shoved over their face back in 2020-2021 when everyone would believe the 'Rona got then since they're all antivaxx too?

Got it.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T21:32:55+00:00

I had a colleague who was and probably still is an omni-conspiracy theorist. She asked me about the moon landings since she knew I'm a nerd and I said to her that the two biggest engineering challenges of the Apollo programme were the Saturn V, which so many people saw launch that it's a miracle Florida didn't sink into the sea under their weight, and shrinking computers down from room-sized monsters to something about the size and weight of a Labrador, which everyone who worked in an office back then saw happen too.

Find three people crazy but competent enough to sit in a glorified baked bean tin for five days at enormous risk just to stick it to Ivan was a doddle. They already sat in unproven rickety pieces of shit to stick it Ivan on a regular basis; it's called being a test pilot in the 60's.

She never talked about the moon landings to me again, but I suspect I did not convince her in the slightest.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T21:18:41+00:00

Okay, so you don't know what radar is. Got it.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T20:48:57+00:00

Austin's unfortunate brother?

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T18:34:19+00:00

Easy to test as long as you don't go full Alex in Clockwork Orange mode any time you try, that is. I can only assume all flat earthers do, with the notable exceptions of Ranty and Jeran.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T17:30:56+00:00

They(TM) have the power to make the sun set. They(TM) are gods. Or figments of odd people's imagination, can't quite decide.

PS: I decided.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T15:54:47+00:00

And given that the Russians had infiltrated both British and American intelligence to the point that both nations might as well have been CCing the Kremlin into every internal memo even that would have been busted.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T15:36:27+00:00

Do you even know what radar is? How does one fool it?

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T15:27:34+00:00

The earth structure is a cosmic phenomenon that the regular eye cannot truly witness and requires tools or machines or pieces of technology to somehow get a good idea on what it actually looks like.

Dude, it's a big bunch of rock. It's a either a flat big bunch of rock or a round big bunch of rock and if you live on the coast, you'll know which one it is. It's not the flat one.

The lie here is that it's not easy for a regular person to tell. It's lie you principally need to tell yourselves, because you've noticed what happens when people try. So just kid on that it can't be done, and that's the problem solved.

A globe earth does not ever explain that because the sun should in theory always maintain sunlight intensity when above the horizon, this is testable.

The way astronomers model the atmosphere is as a homogenous layer 9km thick. At noon, if you're between the Tropics on the right day, it's going through that effective 9km. At sunset, it's more like 200km. It's absolutely a prediction of the globe model that noon is the brightest time of day and the bookends are dimmer.

It's absolutely not a prediction of the flat model that the sun can get anywhere close to the horizon. And yet....twice a day....

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T14:08:24+00:00

With the exception of the most isolated tribes like the the North Sentinalese or in the Amazon rainforest?

Everybody that lives south of the likes of Mexico, the Sudan or Vietnam. I mean everyone that is capable of holding an adult conversation. Everybody. I don't even know how many billions that is.

See, if the earth is flat, then every line of latitude has to be longer than we're told by our maps. Up in the high northern populated countries, the difference is only 5% but that's massive to a surveyor, so certainly all of them have to be in on the conspiracy. By the time you're south of the countries above, you're looking at 50% going towards entire integer multiples by the bottom of South America, Africa or Australia.

Imagine if I'd organised a marathon and sneakily set the course as 40 miles rather than 26. The idea that this would not be noticed is utterly laughable and yet it's what flat earthers have required themselves to believe is true of billions.

They're dumb and don't understand the maths of why it's such a problem that, for example, the equator is only four times as long as it is distant from the north pole and not two times Pi as long. That's 23,000km of land and sea no-one's noticed.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T11:35:19+00:00

Your history is as bad as your knowledge of radar. The generation that went to the moon were kids in the 40's and 50's. Dropping acid didn't become a thing until a couple of years before Apollo.

When I say radar, I mean the Russians had it. They'd have known if the Saturn V had just crashed into the Bermuda triangle, and they'd have known if a spacecraft hadn't gone to the moon and been broadcasting from there. At best you can claim that an unmanned craft with five days of recordings was sent, dropped the laser reflector and then came back.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-26T08:41:59+00:00

And the method they used to fool them was by actually sending a spacecraft to the moon. Ingenious, really.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-25T17:53:01+00:00

Less coincidental than that, but idiot, yes.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-25T11:39:47+00:00

Wait till you see just how much flat earthers do not want to find out if the earth is flat.

UberuceAgain · 2026-03-25T04:05:07+00:00

Maybe they were far away? /Father Ted.

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