Anyone else continually find it hard to believe that flat earthers aren't just fucking with us?

This is the view from the international space station as it passes over africa. Is this a hoax/conspiracy or are we looking at the flat disc of the earth?

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english · 56-60, M

ponder this,up until the 15th century everyone agreed the world was flat ,that includes the greeks ,the Romans ,all those great minds ,the bible. I stopped watching mainstream news 10 years ago. If you really are interested ,in whats the truth check out this documentry called hellstorm make sure you have a stiff drink nearby with a box of tissues . xx

RoboChloe · 26-30, F

@english That's just not true. Greek mathematician Eratosthenes measured the circumference of the Earth (For which it would have to be a sphere) ~200 years BCE.

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Graciebaby · F

@RoboChloe prove it

RoboChloe · 26-30, F

@Graciebaby We have mounds of evidence, not only of Eratosthenes, but of other scientists in other cultures accepting and proving the world to be round.

I have better things to spend my time on than finding all of that evidence and collating it just for a crackpot flat-earther to inevitably ignore me anyway, so if you want to find it, go ahead, though I presume you'd rather sit in ignorance than let your worldview be challenged, because it makes you feel special to be the underdog that knows the [i]real[/i] truth, while the rest of us sheeple believe the scientists' lies. *sigh*

MethDozer · M

@english Incorrect. The round Earth was proven by mathematics IN ancient Greece. Flat Earth was not a common conception in the 15th century. It's a myth they did based on a mocking joke against the Catholic Church.

Graciebaby · F

@english seen it, it's heartbreaking. But is this planet flat?

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@Celine Not to mention that if anyone else proposed any difference of viewpoints they tended to get burned. It's not that there wasn't any difference of opinion, it's that now they can't legally put anyone to death for it in America at least lol.