Today, on twitter, I had the displeasure of tweeting back and forth with a geniune "flat-Earther" who also believed that nuclear was a hoax. He believed that nuclear bombs were all fake, that nuclear power was actually zero-point fusion and the Chernobyl disaster was a "Psy-op" (his word) in which "they" poisoned the water supply to mimic a massive nuclear catastrophe which resulted in a nuclear reactor blowing itself to bits.
Just when I was feeling bad about myself things have a way of making it seem that I'm really very, very smart!
So how do we convince a person like this that the Earth is round? Assuming they're not completely insane that is.
You can't show them photos of the Earth taken from the outside... they simply show you a rejigged NASA logo, redone to spell the word SATAN and tell you it's a hoax, or the photos are Photoshopped!
You can't show them images of the Earth from inside, clearly showing the curvature of the Earth because they insist that the curvature isn't there and there is only a straight line.
You can't explain that satellites and the International Space Station are orbiting the Earth because they'll tell you that they are all a hoax too.
No... really... that's what this guy actually said!
Yeah, I thought he was a jester too... very soon into the conversation. However, it seems he was deadly serious.
So how do you convince someone like this?
The only way I can think of is to either take him along to a nuclear power plant and lock him in a room with some depleting uranium, which will solve the problem fairly quickly, or send him on a round the world trip in the ISS, so that he can see it's not a hoax and that the Earth is a spheroid, with his own eyes.
Anyone care to raise the money to do that?
I was thinking of putting that on my lottery bucket list. Given the level of denial they seem to be able to muster, I believe they would claim that we'd drugged the poor fool.
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Yeah, they'd muster up some excuse like that I'm sure.
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