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Questions I Would Love to Ask a Flat-Earther
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The whole ‘flat-earth’ movement baffles me, it’s like an intellectual regression to the times of stupid.
Of course the world is full of conspiracy theories, and sometimes a hypothesis cannot be proclaimed to be emphatically untrue unless there’s outright evidence to the contrary, but the flat earth movement is beyond me.
If the Earth is flat, how thick is it?
A few miles? A few dozen miles? Surely not more than a hundred?
If it’s flat then it’s far less thick than it is wide, otherwise the earth would be more of a rectangle or a pie-type of shape.
And if it’s flat then drilling down would reach the other side of it, right? Where you could fall into space? Drill and see.
Are all the other planets flat too?
How come the earth’s flat and all the other planets are round?
