How cheap would commercial spaceflight have to be before Flat Eartherism died out?

[Proteus_MST]

The Flat Earthers surely have a lot in common with Young Earth Creationists

[Lorizael]

Just looked a little bit around in their Forums ... they really have a big similarity with Kid and his Trumpism (or Ben sometimes) ... especially when it comes to how they try to dodge any uncomfortable questions that they cannot explain with their flat earth model.
For example when they are asked about providing mathematical formulae that allow to predict solar clipses on a flat earth

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/...?topic=63176.0

They seem to be missing that predictions about eclipses aren't just about when they will occur, but what the nature of those eclipses will be. Shadows on a flat surface and shadows on a curved surface look distinctly different, and unlike other things which NASA might be able to (read: could not) fake, eclipses are completely public.

[pchang]

They would probably claim the math is fake too.

[Ben Kenobi]

Just looked a little bit around in their Forums ... they really have a big similarity with Kid and his Trumpism (or Ben sometimes) ... especially when it comes to how they try to dodge any uncomfortable questions that they cannot explain with their flat earth model

Not a flat earther, not a YEC either... not sure why I get lumped in with them.

[Proteus_MST]

Not a flat earther, not a YEC either... not sure why I get lumped in with them.

You aren't and I didn't claim you are
Nevertheless sometimes, just as Kid with his Trumpism, you remind me of them ... for example when you defend your idea that catholics are persecuted in the USA, or that gay marriage would affect heterosexual marriages

[-Jrabbit]

Definitive proof the Earth is not flat:

[The Mad Monk]

Just looked a little bit around in their Forums ... they really have a big similarity with Kid and his Trumpism (or Ben sometimes) ... especially when it comes to how they try to dodge any uncomfortable questions that they cannot explain with their flat earth model.
For example when they are asked about providing mathematical formulae that allow to predict solar clipses on a flat earth

https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/...?topic=63176.0

There have been worse constructions...



(credit to Loinburger)

[Lorizael]

Indeed. Are those circles on the left? Terrible.

[giblets]

Clearly not to scale either.

[Lorizael]

Could be a logarithmic scale, if the Titius-Bode law were really true.

[The Mad Monk]

Just shut up and watch Saturn.

[Lorizael]

Currently looking at spectra of Uranus' moons.

[giblets]

hur hur uranus

[The Mad Monk]

An actual space elevator is much more likely to be a passive cable made from really strong materials. While an active attack to cut it down would result in a lot of damage to the ground, I don't think it would be as bad as in the anime. Anything above the break point, would be slung out into space. Half the remaining stuff (I posit would be made of carbon nanotubes) would probably burn up in the atmosphere before striking the earth. The remaining stuff would cause quite a bit of devastation, but only in a very narrow, though wandering, path.

In the anime, the actual cable (or whatever) wasn't shot through but was damaged, and they had to shed the external shielding to reduce the strain.

[The Mad Monk]

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