Flat-Earthers Reveal The 'Evidence' That Convinced Them Of Something Patently Silly

From Redditor /u/formulated:

I start with the salt plains of Bolivia. I explain why land masses appear on the other side when the Earth's curve should hide them. I mention the Danakil desert in Ethiopia and Lake Baikal in Siberia. Then I finish with the University studyA finding shows Kansas is flatter than a pancake.

From a former Redditor:

The side that sinks on a balance scale carries the heavier object. It sinks because it is heavier. No gravity is needed.

If gravity pulls things down, helium balloons and vapor would not float up.

From a former Redditor, when asked to explain darkness:

If you walk in a dark field holding a lamp, you see a spotlight on the ground. The rest of the ground stays dark. Walk in a circle; an ant looking at the lamp acts like the sun.

From Redditor /u/Sideshow2525:

Looking deep into this makes it hard to understand. There is evidence for either/or, and it will never be fully explained. What always gets me is figuring out exactly where Antarctica is.

From Redditor /u/scantier:

If the Earth isn't flat, why does NASA keep denying it?

From Redditor /u/tonyflint:

[The ice wall surrounding Antarctica] only has protection from the environment and elements. No one officially says an army stops people from reaching this ring. But natural conditions in the Antarctic regions stop normal people from going there to prove it. This is a job for nations, but governments are easy to manipulate in the current political situation.

From Redditor /u/sky999777:

Have you ever seen the supposed curvature, or do you just trust authority figures like people in the dark ages trusted their priests? You trust everything they tell you.

From Redditor /u/DerInselaffe:

If Neil DeGrasse Tyson does not debate you on your subreddit, we can all assume the Earth is flat.

From a former Redditor:

Disney made the first globe and planet paintings. They used the same globe painting for about 30 years. They have changed a lot recently because the flat earth idea gained ground in the last five years. There is an outline of Pluto the dog on Pluto the planet. Is this a weird coincidence or just a Disney mark?

From Redditor /u/zolikk:

If the vanishing point means the object is too small to see, altitude does not matter. Only distance and object size matter. If the object is below a certain angle, you cannot see it. Your height or the object's height has no effect.

Also, you should see the object you missed using just zoom optics.

From Redditor /u/tonyflint:

In 2017, space probes went to the solar system's other end. Robots sit on Mars. Cassini supposedly crashed into Saturn. Bellends exist. People still push this nonsense instead of expecting NASA to show video proof of a rotating Earth.

From a former Redditor:

Left and right swap if someone is upside down or facing backward. People on a globe are upside down sometimes; their left and right sides switch.

If an upright person and an upside-down person watch a car on the right side of the road, the car appears on the left for the upside-down person.

From a former Redditor:

An object at rest stays flat. The flat model explains this perfectly. The ball model needs oceans curving around the ball Earth.

From Redditor /u/surd117:

[ISS] stream videos are not live. They cut in and out. When matched to the ISS tracking system, they do not align. For instance, you can find the exact supposed ISS location online. If the ISS is over land, you will never see a stream matching that location. These streams are fake and not live.

From a a former Redditor:

Earth spans millions of miles, or some think it is an infinite plane. The known Earth is a small spot in a huge ice lake called the greater Earth. This ice lake covers the size of the whole universe. The greater Earth holds resources.

From Redditor /u/whenipeeithurts:

This is unknowable. The same holds for "what holds the sun up" and "what makes it spin around us?". People hide this because it points to God. Humans in pride think they can solve everything. Job 38 and 39 (KJV) show what God thinks of people who think they know and understand all.

From Redditor /u/One_Hundred_Eyes:

The Sun and moon are LOCAL; this fact proves it easily. They do not sit 250,000 and 93,000,000 miles apart. Earth shows no curve at any height. The horizon always rises to eye level even from hundreds of thousands of miles up. I think stars and "Planets" belong in the Ether or the firmament.