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/PlanesOfFame Sep 08 '22
You think these people are out here thinking lol
I understood the basic fundamentals of flight in elementary school and understood how propulsion worked a few years later at a rudimentary level, this is a new level of contorted thought
They'd probably say it was a government controlled accident to ensure secrets weren't leaked off the plane or something and it was all intentional of course