• smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.

    Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or “refraction”. Images from space? CGI.

    At one point a flat earther launched himself into “space” with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.

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      1 year ago

      i wouldn’t say sadly. he launched himself up in what would be a scale rocket to the water pump rocket toys for water play. Dude literally got proved wrong as he came up to see the curvature of the earth and karma met him on the ground below. A grown ass adult, who builds his own homemade bottle rocket then dies in the process of being a flat earther experiment, no, i wouldn’t say sadly at all.