yeah, the information age hit us before we could come up with an education age
(Meme from 2019)2019, the good old times when we thought that line would go up instead of down
To be fair, same thing happens to people who claim that earth is flat.
Just ask a person who thinks the earth is flat to scientifically prove it. They can’t.
A person can use a lake and a pair of binoculars to calculate the circumference of the spherical earth.
If the earth is flat, what is at the center? Is North America at the center? I once tried projecting the NASA high res earth texture onto a flat disc in blender, for a laugh, and quickly ran into that problem. If the earth is flat, then how are the continents arranged, such that travel times AND the travel of celestial objects and constellations makes sense?
The North Pole is the answer I’ve seen given. At least some of them believe that the azimuthal equidistant projection map on the UN’s emblem is what the world really looks like from above
Tried that one too. Shit gets pretty fucky with how celestial bodies traverse the sky, as well as equatorial and southern hemisphere travel times pretty quick.
Well no, it doesn’t make sense, but if that was an obstacle to them they probably wouldn’t be flat Earthers
