....Anyway the first commercial flight of the New Shepard suborbital crew capsule is supposed to take place in April 2019 ... ( Maybe a bit later given the usual delays to make sure everything is perfect )
Leave us plenty of time to imagine our dream team of flatonauts !!!
Who do you think has the best potential to challenge our vision of the world and rewrite history ?
I would definitely put Eric Dubay on my list and maybe John Davis ...
To anyone , who would you put on your roster ?
Nah...
I wouldn't want to watch the launch, and find myself hoping it explodes on the pad!
I mean, it's not like we need to prove the shape of the Earth to a handful of paranoid delusionals.
I used to think like you that the whole flat Earth thing was a small , benign population and a well of endless laughs .
But the more I get acquainted with the flat Earth theories the more disturbing it becomes .I believe it has definitely the potential to hurt some fragile people with a gullible and paranoiac mindset , (except maybe the ones that feed and thrive on the social stigma toward them ) .
How are you supposed to feel in the world when you believe that everyone around you is a brainwashed sheep and that everything you are told is a lie ??
I'm sure it has broken people by shattering the connection with their family and ended the trust toward their community ....
Moreover there are plenty of snake-oil salesman around that prey on fragile people to manipulate and influence them in order to sell books, seminars, counseling and other crap ....
The flat Earth theory is not a stand alone cabal but part of a wide web of bullshit formed with all the other conspiracy theories and it's probably the mother of all conspiracies...
So we all wonder how is it possible in our age of ubiquitous knowledge that such backward and deny-all trolls still roam this plane.
This idea of FE is so preposterous, it's probably a mental pathology in itself and it deserve more serious studies to help those poor souls get out of their parallel universe imaginarium !
When spelunking into the archives of this site from it's inception in 2005 you can see that every possible argument has been made in every possible form and yet we are still here trying to crack those nuts ..... This is pure madness !!!
We send all kinds of animals in space to study their reactions to zero G or radiations , so why not send a bunch of half donkey half human FE'rs chimeras?
Monitor what happens or do not happens in the brain of a hardcore FE'rs while he gaze trough the window. Use the momentum and build from there ....
Also would be interesting to know the reason to refuse such an opportunity at satisfying one's curiosity , there is no space you dummy ?, fear of hitting the dome ? fear of burning in the sun ? fear it's a simulation ? fear it's a CIA plot ?
In the end, modern conspiracy theories probably represents one of the last frontier of human ignorance .
And FE is peculiar in the way while it's the mother of all conspiracies but it's also possibly the easiest one to debunk with the state of the art tools ....
Inside their shiny aluminium armor they think no demonstration can reach them, but with such a blow we might be able to crack the tinfoil helmets ...
Disproving FE is not only about getting rid of the most absurd argument out there , but also to get an opportunity to expose all the other conspiracy theories orbiting around it and polluting the mind of so many people ....
It's way broader and deeper than just FE , it's a fight against obscurantism , it's a fight to defend the intricate achievements in science and arts produced by the sometimes marvelous human mind ....