One recent survey found that — shockingly — 10% of Americans believe the Earth is flat.
"I lost a good friend to the 'theory.' It started with her listening to a bunch of podcasts and saying, 'It's not true, but what if?' like a funny joke. As she became more drawn into the Flat Earth world she started isolating herself from her friends, and in regular conversation, she'd have to say something about it every 5–10 minutes. You could just tell she was obsessively thinking about it.
"I was debating a flat earther in Mexico, and I asked him about how GPS worked if there were no satellites. He said that they had devices in the ground to route you. I told him the Mexican government is barely able to put decent water pipes in the ground; did he really think they had the tech to put routing devices in the ground? He just chuckled with a thousand-mile gaze.""I spent a year infiltrating the flat Earth community on Instagram.
"A lot of flat Earthers have made it such a large part of their personality that it's not as easy as just changing their opinion. They have to basically reconstruct themselves which they won't do.""I convinced a flat earther, temporarily, by asking him if it was possible for a sphere to be so large that you could not tell it was a sphere by simply being on the surface of it.
"I got a flat earther to question his beliefs by giving him the proof he asked for, to which he responded 'mainstream science and media are lies.' I asked him why he asked for proof if he could just disregard it as lies either way, then told him that since he required no proof to believe something, it made him the easiest person to deceive and that it seemed pretty sheep-like to me. He deleted all of his flat earth comments and hasn't posted about it since.
"1. Losing my father. It was such a life-changing event at that age that it made me reconsider everything in my life.
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