Very insightful! Every side of arguments are believers certain of themselves, it is interesting to see how their skepticism brought them to this stage.
It's interesting to see how scepticism sometimes leads to naivety.
I suppose that is an unfortunate side-effect of rejecting conventional wisdom.
"So if they want to carry on thinking that the earth is flat, what's the harm?"
Hold your horses there video, there's plenty of harm with letting anti-intellectualism fester. Conspiracy theories aren't always fun sideshows, they can snowball into seriously dangerous thinking. You wind up with people like Alex Jones, who harass the parents of dead children. Things like the sovereign citizen movement, who are one of the most dangerous groups in America because they believe the government is out to kill them. A guy walked into a pizza parlor with a gun for christ sake.
I like these kinds of videos for highlighting how nutty Flat Earthers can be, but I'm not okay with the video playing it off like it's harmless fun.
Using a level in a plane to see if it's flat.
http://i.imgur.com/6YToyEF.png
It's ok guys, they're all just very dedicated trolls
I think my favorite part is the guy claiming that literally every kind of enclosed helmet ever is actually made by nasa and distorts flat things to make them look like globes
Flat earthers have never had an understanding of optics. You'll see them bringing up fisheye lenses whenever possible, but they've no idea what fisheye and rectilonear projection really is and how it works.
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