Carl Sagan talks about Eratosthenes. A man who estimated the circumference of the earth using just a stick, eyes, feet and brains. Debunking flat earthers 2200 years ago.

I mean if you actually looked at both sides you'd realize the earth isn't flat pretty quickly.

I'm really interested in how flat earthers are able to explain gravity, GPS, the ISS, or the fact that you can easily observe other planets in our solar system.

I mean that's mostly the easy stuff and doesn't even get into how bizarre the whole conspiracy would even be, how it would mean that everything from architects to engineers to mathematicians would need to be in on the lie going back thousands of years.

Extreme conspiracy at its core is really denying reality in favor of fantasy but even given that this is pretty extreme. I think believing that there are secret lizard-people among us would be easier to swallow. The fact that people genuinely believe the world is flat is kind of morbidly fascinating.

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