Posted on 02/08/2018 5:04:29 PM PST by Simon Green
Yesterday's successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket also sent an unusual payload into space: a cherry-red Tesla Roadster "manned" by a dummy named Starman and equipped with cameras that provided gorgeous views of Earth against the backdrop of space.
But flat-Earthers aren't buying it.
"People who believe that the Earth is a globe because 'they saw a car in space on the Internet' must be the new incarnation of 'It's true, I saw it on TV!' It's a poor argument," tweeted The Flat Earth Society, an organization dedicated to spreading the (incorrect) notion that the Earth is not round. "Why would we believe any privately held company to report the truth?" the organization added.
Trust no one
Flat-Earth conspiracy theorists have a long history of mistrusting the government when it comes to space. On forums devoted to the belief that the Earth is a flat disk, "NASA" often gets mocked as standing for "Never A Straight Answer," and astronauts' attempts to answer the common flat-Earth call of "show me the curve" are regularly dismissed as hoaxes and lies.
Now, Elon Musk's private spaceflight company has apparently joined the ranks of the hoaxers and liars, the flat-Earthers say. On Twitter, flat-Earth accounts posted about "FakeX" and insisted that photos of Starman against a round Earth were Photoshopped. On Starman's live YouTube feed, chatters trolled one another with taunts about how the video proved flat-Earthers wrong, or was part of a vast conspiracy, depending on who was doing the trolling — flat-Earth opponents or believers.
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‘Must be a out on. No one could be so stupid.
Ignorant arrogance knows no bounds
Flat Earthers are as fact-free as the Russian Conspiracy hoaxers.
Refusal to face reality is as old as recorded human history.
Except me. “p”
Kids have gotten large balloons + helium, attached a cell phone to it, and sent it up - to get a view of the curve of the Earth. Not hard.
(Cell phone in bubble wrap survived the fall. Phone camera videoed the whole trip. Phone GPS announced location on impact.)
...hmmm. Now I’ll have to do that with _my_ kids...
You call them stupid, I call them Democrats.
They need Algore as their national spokesman
Ding ,Ding, Ding..... Winner Winner Chicken Dinner
Right up there with the nonsensical assertion the freezing weather in South Korea is proof of climate change.
its winter. DUH
hmmm...... how did they release the phone to fall?
If only there was a vaccine for it!
Unfortunately, there are those who are just that stupid. We even have a couple of Flat Earthers here on FR.
Attention seeking morons.
Unbelievable.
As you rise in the atmosphere, the air pressure decreases, yet inside the balloon it stays the same. The balloon keeps expanding until, at a certain point, the balloon bursts.
I do think some of them are trolls but then again there are people who really believe the Earth is flat and that the Moon landing was faked.
I hope these Flat Earth FReepers are completely and irredeemably sterile. No need to add more floaters to an already dangerously polluted gene pool.
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