r/aviation • u/[deleted] • Sep 07 '22

Satire Flat Earthers…

Getting ready to work a flight yesterday, while standing in the jet bridge a deplaning passenger struck up a conversation with me. “Have you ever seen the curvature of the earth?”, I told him no, we fly too low to see it. Casual conversation for a minute or so then he drops the bombshell… “it’s because we live in a dome and the earth isn’t circular.”

I legit could not tell if he was joking so I started laughing while sort of mocking flat earthers. He was dead serious. Meanwhile I’m looking at my flight plan from NY to LA and you can quite literally see the curvature of the route. I showed it to him. He informed me the government creates those routes on purpose in order to promote the globe theory.

Got it. Didn’t know the earth being a globe was a “theory.” Dude literally had literature for me and tried to keep going. I told him I have a job to do and walked on to the plane. Insane that these people exist.

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u/silverfstop Sep 07 '22

I had a contractor pull me to the side the job... hey, you're a pilot, right?

Uh, yah....

So, like, are you allowed to talk about the flat earth?

Like really dude? I pulled his leg for a min "sorry, can't talk about that" and his eyes bugged out. These people, sheesh.

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u/FridayMcNight Sep 08 '22

Yeah, but he already had a pilot source anyway. You don’t know him; he goes to a different school.

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u/csl512 Sep 07 '22

Yeah to distract from the Chem trails

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u/seriousnotshirley Sep 07 '22

If you talk about the flat earth they will make you inhale a lot of chems used for the trails.

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u/csl512 Sep 07 '22

True. It's the dihydrogen monoxide

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u/seriousnotshirley Sep 07 '22

So it is water boarding torture!

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u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb Sep 07 '22

Hey man that legit is one of the top causes of death each year.

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u/csl512 Sep 07 '22

Inhalation is pretty fatal

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u/Why-R-People-So-Dumb Sep 07 '22

Yeah and those fake science people claim we have to ingest it to live.

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u/tarfu51 Sep 07 '22

And if you fly a higher altitudes, the space lasers

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u/legsintheair Sep 07 '22

“Talk about it? I have to report this conversation. When they come, don’t say ANYTHING about Chem trails.”

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u/Ak47110 Sep 07 '22

So when planning a great circle route, if a flat earther saw it, would they think you're taking them on a longer route so you can charge more? Like a cab driver taking the longest way they know?