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About the only people more fun to get into arguments with on the internet other than PETA supporters and anti-vaxxers are the Flat Earth Truthers.
Noted people who have been accused in the past of being members of the Flat Earth Society include NFL quarterback Geno Smith, NBA star Kyrie Irving, rapper B.o.B., and NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal.
Noted debunkers of Flat Earth Truthers include Neil deGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk.
The debunkers win there.
Flat Earthers have at various points in the past claimed that our planet is actually shaped like a donut, threatened to kill a friend with a crossbow for arguing about it, and blasted off in a homemade rocket in a search for “the truth.”
So they’re a pretty dedicated bunch of kooks conspiracy theorists truth-seekers.
In fact, they are so dedicated to their Flat Earth beliefs that when NASA astronaut Jessica Meir recently tweeted some photos from the International Space Station (ISS) of Earth looking very, very round, they were not having it.
The first orientation may make more sense to you, but to me this is the ever-changing skyline on @Space_Station (photo 3). Perspective. The constant traffic of visiting vehicles makes for diverse vistas. Now the #Canadarm2 keeps #Cygnus company after @SpaceX #Dragon’s departure. pic.twitter.com/jfLMcDaf8R
— Jessica Meir (@Astro_Jessica) January 10, 2020
Nice try with the fish eye, but it's flat.
— Daren Willcock (@mmafightcoach) January 10, 2020
Yes. That's fish eye lens. Make earth looks like round. Actually, the earth is Flat!
— j̶̶a̶c̶̶k̶⚡ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@Sakadaekk) January 10, 2020
I don't believe you're up there!! Also how r u able to use Twitter? Genuinely wanna know *yep I'm a flat earther. Loud n proud 😉😂
— Miss Emotional #energyshift ♎️ (@ixi0310) January 15, 2020
Not everyone who responded is crazy thought Meir was trying to pull a fast one, however.
Can someone please sponsor a mission to fly all these flat-earthers to space so they can all shut up once and for all? Actually, that would be a huge waste because they still wouldn’t be convinced.
— 🌎🌍🌏🔥🔥🔥 (@_wantobefree) January 13, 2020
Can you all start randomly picking flat earth believers to go on missions. Like once per month. Fly them up, let them take photos, their cameras, whatever and let them prove to themselves that earth isn't flat..
If this is about the cost.. no one said it had to be a round trip
— AlexanderNcc1701 (@RavenskyalexB) January 15, 2020
Now we just need Meir to blow the lid off the all the UFO and alien coverups because as we all know by now…
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