Anyone think the Earth is flat? AIBU to think these are stupid?

[Fresta]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/41973119/why-do-people-still-think-the-earth-is-flat

I mean... really?

I don't think the earth is flat.

Elvis is dead too.

Funny that someone who believes this crazy shot gets their information from a mobile phone marketing campaign via The Mirror. Serious fucking research there!

Well I am sceptical about the supposed moon landings. If NASA really faked that then they could also fake photos of the earth.

You can see the curve of the earth in certain locations - usually pretty remote or very large stretches of empty land.

There's somewhere in Australia that I want to visit, and apparently if it's clear enough, you can see the curve. Can't remember the name though...

Well I am sceptical about the supposed moon landings.

Amongst other things left was a mirror. You can reflect a laser back from it (well if you have a big enough laser and know where to point it, don't try it with a pointer the c\at chases).

Well I am sceptical about the supposed moon landings.

Phil Plait has an excellent demolition job on the Moon Hoax conspiracy. www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html

He includes a link near the beginning to a page of links to other demolition jobs. The tl;dr version is that Moon Hoaxer claims vary between childish misunderstanding, more subtle misunderstanding due to not considering how different a vacuum environment is from an atmospheric one, and obvious fruit-loopery needed to pretend the other stuff is consistent.

The earth isn't round or flat, it is elliptical. www.google.co.uk/search?dcr=0&ei=YgEMWrmpEaPSgAayz6nwDQ&q=elliptical+shape+of+earth&oq=elliptical+sha&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.3.0l5.15642.18449.0.20033.4.4.0.1.1.0.429.1341.2-1j2j1.4.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.4.1121...0i67k1.0.zzdXv2SutGw

It's actually an oblate spheroid, which Isaac Newton wrote in the Principia in 1687, which only serves to prove my point.

There's somewhere in Australia that I want to visit, and apparently if it's clear enough, you can see the curve. Can't remember the name though

Can’t you see the curve of the Earth from high in an aircraft? I always have, anyway.

If NASA really faked that then they could also fake photos of the earth.

it's not just nasa in on this conspiracy. My parents, brother, science teacher... Also, well well well before nasa, it was thought the earth was spherical.

There are also a lot of reasons to think the earth spherical besides nasa. In fact, really, the only reason to believe it's flat is that it is so big, so it looks flat near you.

snorts loudly, departs

Flat Earthers are stupid people, period.