Comment on Assuming the earth is flat, how many people are part of the conspiracy
Aceticon@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Anybody who has ever flown far enough Eastwards or Westwards and saw how the time of day changed either much faster or slower than the time their clock said it was.
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Forget that. It’s even simpler. Phone someone in a different time zone around sunset. If they say the sun isn’t setting where they are, either the earth is a sphere, or they’re lying and part of the conspiracy.
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
If I understand correctly they have some kind of explanation where the sun works like a spotlight or something. But it also requires light to curve in weird ways to make any damn sense, soooo…
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
I’m just not quite sure I understand what the point of the conspiracy would be. If it turned out that the earth really was flat, how would it be worth it to lie and say it was round?
I can’t see any reason for anyone to lie about it.
merc@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, light curving is much more logical than the earth curving.