Why flat earthers scare me

Social media has taught me two things. First, there are some incredibly brilliant people in the world. Second, they are vastly outnumbered.

Isaac Asimov said: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

The asteroid literally flipping the dinosaurs of into space is just bloody funny 🤣🤣

That graphic of the sun and moon bouncing in and out of the ocean is amazing and the dinosaurs flipping... Im convinced, this flat earth thing sound like fun.

Wikipedia says "The Flat Earth Society has members from all over the globe" Now that is what i call humour.

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire

There's 2 kinds of Flatearthers: 1- The ones with a larger shoe size than IQ, and 2- The ones who know it's all nonsense, but make a lot of money out of it.

Denying science in general is very dangerous. 😶😶

I watch a lot of flat earth stuff on YT. What I've learned is that flat earthers don't want to learn anything. They just want their opinion confirmed. Anything that deviates from that is rejected.

As an Aussie I'm worried about them too. They said Australia dosen't exist, so I'm worried about where I've been for the last 65 years.

I saw the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. I challenge Flat Earthers to come up with a  model that does all of the following: -Explains why solar eclipses occur -Explains why eclipses don't happen at every new moon -Explains why we can also get annular solar eclipses where the Moon doesn't fully cover the sun and leaves a "ring of fire" around the edges If you can't come up with a self-consistent flat earth model that explains all of the above (which I know you can't), then that means that all the Flat Earthers are wrong. However, the globe earth explains all of these perfectly: - The Moon orbits the Earth and the Earth orbits the Sun. The Moon's orbit occasionally takes it directly between the Earth and the Sun, briefly casting a shadow on a portion of Earth's surface. -Solar eclipses do not happen at every new moon because the Moon's orbit is tilted about 5 degrees relative to the plane of Earth's orbit around the Sun. This means that the Moon often does not pass directly between the Earth and the Sun at the new moon; solar eclipses only happen when a new moon occurs near one of the points where the Moon's orbit intersects the plane of Earth's orbit. -The Moon's orbit isn't quite a perfect circle; therefore the Moon's distance from Earth is not constant. When the Moon is near perigee (the point when it is closest to Earth), its angular size in the sky is larger than when it is at apogee (when it is farthest from Earth). When the Moon is near perigee, its angular size as seen from Earth is slightly larger than that of the Sun; we can therefore get a total eclipse. However, if an eclipse occurs near apogee, the Moon's angular size isn't quite large enough to cover the entire Sun, and the best that we can get is an annular solar eclipse, where the Moon appears directly in front of the Sun but leaves a ring visible around the edges.

But without flat-earthers, who will deliver our pizzas? 🤷🏾‍♂️

Maybe we can get them to compromise. First get them to settle on the idea on Earth being a cube. Then we can gradually round off the edges over time.

I think part of the attraction is also being part of a select club and feeling smarter than the "sheeple" because you "figured something out" that others haven't.

When I try to have a diskussion with flat earthers, none of them can explain it to me. They all type: do your researche😂😂😂

Once a person buys into a couple conspiracies, you are vulnerable to the cults that seem to be growing unconstrained.

I recently had a....debate with a flat earther. We were proceeding with the discussion up until he told me, AND I QUOTE, “not to use science and logic” when trying to persuade him. So ended THAT conversation.

As a New Zealander, I'm concerned by how dangerously close they've placed us next to the edge of the world where the water drops off 💧😭

I've personally met a flat earther and someone else who thought that making math-inspired drawings was the same as doing maths. The problem in both cases was that they believed that they could figure this stuff out on their own. The flat earther read stuff online and was simply unable to detect bad physics because he didn't know physics. In the process, he was ruining his life by forcing his views on others. I think that the reason why people become flat earthers is that, in their own mind, they've become scientists, while previously, they held or failed at jobs with much less social status.

Gene Wilder says it best when he explains to Clevon Little, "You know..........morons."