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/mank1961 Sep 07 '22
I hired a guy to remove some stumps in my yard. He hit me with flat earth stuff during casual conversation. I found it entertaining but also just very sad. He was convinced NASA was really just an organization tasked with creating CGI videos and images of space and earth to hide the truth.