• @Daft_ish
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    ‘Billionaires bodies are filled with candy and they want you to retrieve it by any means necessary’: the new conspiracy coming to life online.

    • @Agent641
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      811 months ago

      How do you do, fellow flatlander?

  • @Mango
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    1611 months ago

    Fake is fake. Fight me.

    • @deus
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      They’ve got it all wrong. Space is flat and Earth is fake.

    • @[email protected]
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      At this point, basically yes.

      While there used to be more diversity of impossible nonsense theories attempting to explain ‘the flat earth’, at this point a large, or at least loud majority of flat earthers have landed on the old school biblical interpretation that the earth is a flat disk with a giant dome around it.

      The sun and moon do logically impossible nonsense ‘orbits’ that widen and tighten around the north pole, that can be trivially disproven by just having two people in different spots on the real Earth and measuring their viewing angle off the horizon of the Sun or Moon at the same time.

      Also, somehow light from the sun casts a cone of light as if it has a lampshade instead of just out in all directions.

      The sun and moon are also inside the great celestial dome.

      Sometimes the moon is a hologram.

      Sometimes the stars are a hologram, other times they are fixed into the dome, other times its some magic mystical nonsense that is not even parsable in english as a coherent concept.

      They also have largely abandoned the idea of gravity, opting for ‘buoyancy’ as the sole reason why things on Earth fall or float.

      People have attempted to explain to them countless times that buoyancy requires gravity to work and they always disagree.

      So, they think that theres a giant dome in the sky and that all the stars are some kind of ‘not as they appear’ and then they /can’t/ be actual stars the way stellar formation theory says because they already know that requires gravity which they do not believe in.

      You cannot penetrate the sky dome, so all space missions beyond what we would call low earth orbit are fake and hoaxes to them.

      Yup.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Yes and no. You describe it as a scientific theory which it is not.

        To really understand flat earth, you have to understand the “copernican desillution” (there is a similar term for that but I can’t find it). If the earth goes around the sun instead of the other way around, we are just an insignificant planet moving around just an insignificant star.

        Flat earth puts the earth back to the center, where is always belonged, and goes all in on that by making it flat again

    • @ChicoSuave
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      511 months ago

      Sounds like they need exposure therapy to space and seeing earth from a distance.

  • Dr. Coomer
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    1411 months ago

    “Yeah, you see all those lights in the sky? They drones put there by the government to make us think we’re small.”

  • andrew_bidlaw
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    I vouch for a programme,

    a grant, or a constitutional right,

    to shoot any consenting person into space

    to see what Earth really is, with no return.

    • Dr. Coomer
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      311 months ago

      Just make sure they’re not a flat earthen or else they won’t accept the truth.

  • @glitches_brew
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    811 months ago

    So a government installed the stars that were used to navigate ships for many centuries? Interesting 🤔

    • @[email protected]
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      711 months ago

      Those are obviously small holes in the bubble dome that keeps hot potato soup from smothering our world.

  • @j4k3
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    511 months ago

    - A satirical take on corporate participation in the housing market in the age of neo feudalism. /s

  • nifty
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    411 months ago

    It’s a scheme to get the hoi polloi to not demand space settlements, the billionaires are twirling their mustaches wanting to keep space all to themselves, you see? Nyah.