Look, anyone with half a brain will tell you that if air pressure would be the cause of gravity, objects in a vacuum would float.
Denying the existence of vacuum when we can prove that we can create one and prove that beyond our atmosphere there is no air, is (I have no other word left) fucking bonkers.
I miss the old days of the Flat Earth hypothesis, when people argued the Earth accelerated upwards. That, at least, conforms to many of our observations.
It's still untrue (since the Earth is a globe following an orbit) but UA did not require the systematic breaking of all of Newton's laws.
There has to be a point, even in scepti's mind, where he realizes that for his one idea to work so many other known facts need to be discarded.
I though Zetetic reasoning meant you intuit a solution to a new phenomenon that fits previous knowledge?
This is of course the best way to learn nothing, but it has the advantage of, you know, NOT THROWING AWAY CENTURIES OF SCIENCE.
Yes, I am frustrated. Because if Flat Earthers don't even follow their own rules, then nothing can ever make sense!
"The Earth is flat and there is no intertia. Gravity is caused by... let's see... dandelions. A vacuum can only exist on Mondays that have 25 hours, and the grass is actually purple, Perspective changes that, you know. Oh and there is no Sun. We only see light because God said there would be."