Just a thought experiment, let’s say the earth is flat, looks like many professionals would know, including

  • Pilots/ATC/sea captain

  • Land surveyor and civil engineers

  • Astronomers and Geologists, at least the one dealing with experimental data

  • Militaries, at least radar operator and artillery

Just these categories are already a lot of persons, I assume I miss a lot of others. So how many person does it make in total ? 10 % of the population ?

  • Conyak@lemmy.tf
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    10 months ago

    More than just people. Some form of greater intelligence has to be at work since anyone can run a simple experiment to prove it’s round.

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      10 months ago

      The ending of the Netflix documentary where the flat earthers prove the earth is round is hysterical.

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          Stealing this from OP, it’s called “Behind the Curve” and it is hilarious.

          They do an experiment with a navigation unit from an airliner and it consistently proves them wrong too.

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      That is unironically part of it. When people do experiments that show the earth is round they get told to pray and do it again. This suggests that their rationale is that the devil is tricking you into seeing bad results and if you pray hard enough you will eventually see five lights.