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My friend pushed the flat earth theory on me for two years. I finally looked into it myself.
He kept sending me videos and articles, saying I was just believing what I was told. So I spent a weekend, maybe 8 hours total, checking the main points. I looked at ship hulls disappearing over the horizon and how flight paths work. The math for a globe just adds up, every time. I told him I couldn't see it his way, and now things are kinda awkward. Has anyone else had a friendship get weird after digging into a theory like this?
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michaelross2mo ago
Yeah, the ship hull thing is what got me too... I used to wonder about it until I actually watched a boat with a good pair of binoculars. The bottom disappears first, which only makes sense on a curve. After that, the whole flat idea just fell apart for me.
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the_robin1mo ago
Have you ever noticed how people get so caught up in the math of it all that they forget to just look? I remember driving out to the coast with my nephew a few years back, we brought a cheap telescope and just watched tankers go by. The funniest part was watching him argue for about twenty minutes that it was an optical illusion or something in the air. Then a seagull landed on the side of the boat, and he saw that bird go down below the horizon line before the smoke stack did. He just sat there quiet for a long time and finally said "well, I guess that settles that." It really is something about seeing it with your own eyes that changes your mind, no amount of talking can do the same thing.
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