Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat. Check out these hilarious (and pretty logical) facts that made them change their minds.
1. GPS
“I was debating a flat earther in Mexico, and I asked him about how GPS worked if there were no satellites. He said that they had devices in the ground to route you. I told him the Mexican government is barely able to put decent water pipes in the ground; would he think they had the tech to put routing devices in the ground?”
2. A Museum
“An ex of mine was brought up as a Creationist. She said there was a moment after she moved out to university and she went to a museum and there was a display about evolution and her mind was BLOWN”.
3. Sunsets
“Sunsets, man. One day, somebody asked me if the sun is a spotlight in the sky, then how does a sunset work. I was like uh… and I looked into it and I couldn’t find anything that makes sense”.
4. NASA
“The thing that made me stop was just the question ‘Why would NASA lie to you’. It doesn’t make any sense”.
5. Kyrie Irving
“The basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association hasn’t been doing press conferences lately. He had to apologize for saying last year that the Earth is flat, explaining he didn’t realize the effect his comments would have”.
6. Mobius Strip
“The Mobius strip earthers had more compelling arguments. Although there would be no need for arguments since we’re all on the same side…”
7. An Analogy
“I convinced a flat-earther by asking him if it was possible for a sphere to be so large that you could not tell it was a sphere my simply being on the surface of it. I used an analogy of an extremely long line that was so slightly curved that you could not tell by looking at a small section of it. Eventually, he said yes to the sphere and I told him that was how big the Earth is”.
8. No Edge
“If the Earth is flat, there would be an edge(s). And there would be a Disney park at the edge, and we could bungee jump off the side and paraglide into the void. Plus, someone would be making a ton of money off of it”.
9. The Media
“Not me, but got a flat-earther to question his beliefs by giving him the proof he asked for, to which he responded ‘Mainstream science and media are lies’. I asked why he asked for proof and if he could just disregard it as lies either way, then told him that since he required no proof (or evidence against) to believe something, it made him the easiest person to deceive and that it seemed pretty sheep-like to me”.
10. Fireworks
“I went outside on July 4th to see the NYC fireworks and realized I couldn’t see them. I live in western Canada”.
11. Airplanes
“The captain turned around to him and motioned him to unhook his seatbelts. He did as he was commanded. They both left their chairs and glided over to the tiny glass windows to overlook the magnificence of Earth. ‘What do you think now,’ said the Captain”.
12. Carl Sagan
“I was told to watch Carl Sagan. ‘The Cosmos’ series was on YouTube, and once I watched it, I had to know more. Finally, a video from the channel MinutePhysics convinced me, in no uncertain terms, that the Earth was round”.
13. Lack Of Time
“Lack of time/means to dig myself a deeper hole. I started college and a full-time job took up all my time. I had none to buy further into the newest crazy theory. I had no Facebook/Twitter/IG/”.
14. A Community On Instagram
“I spent about a year infiltrating the flat Earth community on Instagram. I garnered a decent following with an account. For all the phony accounts like mine, there are still plenty of people out there willing to drop a couple of hundred dollars on a flat Earth convention”.
15. My Job
“I talked to a flat-earther about my job working for a company that tracks ship locations, routes, and speeds by satellite. None of this would work at all if the earth was flat. I could only explain the most basic concepts, but it was enough for him to understand and realize that I was right and that he’d been convinced by someone who had no practical experience of the spherical nature of the Earth”.
16. My Dad
“The day that changed it forever though was when I asked my father what happens when you get to the edge of the world, of course said the world is round like a ball. Being about five years old I thought that made a lot of sense”.
17. A Globe
“I went to kindergarten and saw a globe. That was it”.
18. I Stopped Feeling “Unique”
“I believed those theories because I just wanted to be ‘unique’ and different from everyone else. I would say I disliked a movie because the majority likes it”.
19. Stars’ Movement
“After I saw a computer simulation of how stars movement would look like if we were indeed on a flat surface. It was based on the human point of view aka how our own eyes see stars and planets. If I find it again, will share it here”.
20. A YouTube Video
“I understood what exactly flat Earth belief is. As Dan from the channel ‘Folding Ideas’ puts it in his excellent video ‘In Search Of A Flat Earth'”.
21. The Government Lack Of Intelligence
“Our government couldn’t even keep the Bill Clinton’s Oval Office thing a secret. You really think they can keep something that big a secret?”.
22. Physics
“I fell into a rabbit hole of conspiracies. Thankfully, physics is a mandatory subject in Switzerland”.
23. Seasons
“What I think got through to my friend the most was seasons. I explained that because the Earth is round, it’s possible to have winter in Brazil and summer in the USA and vice versa. He nodded and stared off into the distance silently”.
24. Planets
“I asked a flat-earther colleague why the Moon and all the other planets look round. Are they standing on their edge?”.
25. A Laser Test Over Water
“What convinced me the Earth was a sphere was a video I came across of a group of flat earthers doing a laser test over water. They found a stretch of level water around 2 miles long and then used level lasers to measure the distance from the water. The test came back quite accurately indicating the Earth was a sphere and not flat”.
26. The Soles Of Our Shoes
“The friend of a student of mine once said the earth had to be flat as the soles of our shoes were flat and if it were round we wouldn’t be able to walk on it. I was so baffled I couldn’t even answer. Took me a while to think of telling him that actually the soles of our feet are arched”.
27. Math
“I studied math in college, and the Flat Earth webpage had a link to explain the math behind why the Earth is flat. I was curious to see whether they actually could mathematically prove the Earth is flat. The math was wrong and I realized then that I was making a huge mistake”.
28. Live And Let Live
“I was really into flat Earth, I never admitted to being 100% sure it was, because I wasn’t, but I know the general aspect of how it could be possible. I’m not sure if I “converted” but I just decided to stop giving it the time and attention I was dedicating it”.
