Assuming the earth is flat, how many people are part of the conspiracy

Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 135 points –

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 ?

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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.

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

What's the documentary called?

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.

Is that the one where they use the lighted poles at night and a board with a hole in it to prove the earth is flat? In that one they seemed a bit baffled and said they'd need to do the experiment again. To their credit, when they ran it again with the same results, they said they'd need to reevaluate their beliefs.

during the credits the guy was making excuses for why it failed, did he come out later saying he was wrong?

In the one I saw, he was definitely contemplating his beliefs after the second failed test. But that doesn't mean he didn't justify and explain away the results later. It is very difficult for people to change core beliefs, even to the point of being painful for some people. In the case of this guy, idk what he eventually decided on, because the show didn't show it.

It wasn’t the main guy but one of the guys on site doing the pole experiment. I recall him saying “that’s interesting” after confirming the test worked, proving the curvature. It sounded like he was questioning his beliefs, but during the credits he’s on a podcast or radio show making some bs up about how the test was wrong.

I must have shut it off before then. That's too bad. I kind of wondered if he would later explain it away. What a dummy.

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.

Even math is involved? Dang this thing goes further than I thought.