text; un: archangel

[thearchangel]

WHO: Garrus & All
WHERE: Libra
WHEN: Early March
WHAT: Internet happened
WARNINGS: n/a


Okay, what the hell is “flat earth theory”?

This isn’t serious. There aren’t actually humans who think their planet is flat. You have space exploration - more or less.

This has to be some kind of joke.



Right?

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text | un: blackbirdtarot

[drewthetower]

unfortunately it is not a joke

sometimes science education fails people

and we have the internet

so they congregate

text; un: lycaon

[paraselenic]

I am sure this is nothing new to you. Humans are a rather suspicious species by nature.

When one lacks education, they fear what they do not know, and try to explain it in ways they can understand.

Then, they convince themselves that is the truth.

text; un: h1ghw1nd

[fightbydawn]

[You know.......]

i've seen flat worlds before.

[It was a book. Books are flat, right??]

i don't think this is one of them, but i haven't seen it from space, myself.

un: hextechnician

[hexcrafter]

you would be amazed what comes from stupid people who think they're smart

text: un: lightkeeper

[lanternae]

I have lived quite a long time. In fact, I have seen when that theory was the prevailing one among Europe, only for it to fall out of favor once more evidence came forward of a globe, as well as the concept of space beyond, where the moon sits.

Then again, many older civilizations had found the existence of planets. It is hard to see what the pattern is aside from spirituality.

If their deity created everything, and 'space' was not part of 'everything', then it does not exist.

un: captainkenway

[jackdawvision]

...I am older than this country has been independent and I can tell you that if you told the flat earth theory to anyone on Nassau back in 1721, you would be laughed out of the tavern and robbed of all your worldly goods.

But unfortunately: yes, there's people who believe, despite all evidence to the contrary, that the Earth is flat. Wonder what they think happens to someone should they sail off the edge.

text: un: trienemybest

[droptheious]

Something touted by people with zero brain cells. Don't even entertain them, nothing they say will be even slightly normal.

[earthborn]

You know how they say I'm stubborn? Trust me, I'm mild compared to some people.

It is amazing how stupid people can get.

[thearchangel]

It doesn't even take a science background! There are images from your satellites and space missions everywhere.

You can see the damn thing isn't flat. There are no flat planets!

[thearchangel]

But the images are right there. The data is there.

You don't even have to have an education - it's there. You can see the planet is round.

[thearchangel]

[Riku.]

[Riku don't do this to the man.]

You're joking. That's not a thing.

[thearchangel]

Viktor, the data is right there.

You have images from probes, satellites, even humans from manned explorations. You have children's experiments. It's ... You can see the damned thing is a sphere.

If you have a flat thing in space, it's an asteroid, or a construction project, it's not an entire planet.

[paraselenic]

They will say the image is doctored.

Even worse, there are some select few that think that the Moon Landing of 1969 was faked just so that the United States would be the first to do it. They have strongly argued that it was filmed in a NASA facility.

So even photographic and video proof is not enough to convince.

[thearchangel]

Exactly! If even their ancients could figure it out, what the hell is wrong with modern humans?

... You're kidding me, it's some kind of religious garbage?

[thearchangel]

... Right, I want to agree with all of that, because you're right. But -

1721? Excuse me?

[thearchangel]

But the data is right there.

You have - there's an entire database of it for free. You have children's experiments that show it. I've met stupid people, but - this just isn't physically possible.

[thearchangel]

I don't understand.

There's data right there. There's so much of it. Images, readings, papers - how the hell do they just -

Shepard, flat planets aren't physically possible. How do they not know that?

[thearchangel]

[Hang on, man's doing some googling.]

... Given the first hit I got was one of the actual crewman decking one of these people in the face, I think I like him.

I don't - I can't pretend where I'm from is enlightened, or has no issues. But at least people damn well know planets are round.

[hexcrafter]

i know this, and you know this

do you know what happens when a group of people who don't know something get together

related question: have you ever listened to flocks of seagulls yelling at each other

[paraselenic]

I will reiterate that this is only a very small group of people across the planet.

Surely the concept of a minuscule population of fanatics believing the most inane things is not foreign to your world, yes?

The only difference between them is what they believe.

[drewthetower]

photoshop

with photo editing software people who don't wanna believe shit won't believe shit

[droptheious]

I know, Garrus. Believe me, I know. But these people are insane. Do you know some think the moon is a hologram? Despite knowledge of the moon going back millennia? There's no helping some people.

[earthborn]

I know that, and you know that, and everybody who can do even basic math can do that.

But have you considered that if you go outside and look at the horizon, it looks kind of flat? Checkmate.

[thearchangel]

But there's detector programs for that. Aren't there?

[thearchangel]

[Sudden flashes of Big Floating Jellyfish yammering about "The Enkindlers" - ]

It's not, but... generally it doesn't involve the shape of planets.