I was actually think the same.... I have just shown this to my son... I said "If they were in an aeroplane, I bet they would say the windows are concave or something to explain the curvature they would see..."Ignorance knows no bounds for some.
You could take them into orbit and have them peek out of a window, but they would still claim something as stupid as "That's not a window, it is a display showing a film" or other equally dumb statements.
I'm still convinced that most of it is an act, and few people genuinely believe it. Others just want attention and they get it by opposing known facts and voicing unpopular opinions. Deep down they probably know they're wrong, they just don't want to believe it because they like the attention, whether positive or negative. This is a known phenomenon, though I cannot remember what it's called, where people feel better about themselves when they disagree with popular opinions:
I was actually think the same.... I have just shown this to my son... I said "If they were in an aeroplane, I bet they would say the windows are concave or something to explain the curvature they would see..."
Ha Ha I had forgotten about them.Don't forget the Pastafarians.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1703746966333143Wonder what the view of the Earth was like from the station
Last night, I went to Youtube in the hope of catching some good eclipse videos.
There are quite a few, but my surprise was that it is also inundated with flat earthers which argue that the eclipse fully demonstrates that the earth is indeed flat. Some even maintain that this proves the geo-centric nature of the universe.
How can someone, in the XXI century, cannot be convinced that the earth not only is round, but that it circles around the sun, which in itself revolves around our galaxy? Who taught these people to think like that?
Out of curiosity, I googled Flat Earth, and noticed that there are literally dozens of groups and societies which believe the earth is flat.
It can be sometimes difficult to tell if some one or many is making whatever up intentionally vs. actually seeing it that way, double edge sword?
Concept, some are actually be looking for an attempt to be called on the "views" in awaiting an confrontational argumentative opportunity regardless of the topic or conversation.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that, under U.S. customs regulations, the tomato should be classified as a vegetable rather than a fruit. The Court's unanimous opinion held that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words "fruit" and "vegetable," instead of the technical botanical meaning.
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