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muriel_volestrangler

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9. Sadly, that's not the kind of proof that would make a dent in any flat-earther
Mon Dec 8, 2025, 01:59 PM
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They'd just say "it's an illustration - someone faked it".

I'd ask them if they think the entire population of the Southern Hemisphere is lying when they say their stars circle around a southern pole in the sky (and some countries even point that out on their flags). Because two poles is basically what gets you a sphere (mathematicians two thousand years ago were good enough to work it out from the different rising, falling or never rising and falling of stars as you go further south, without having to get all the way to the equator; but I take it as given that a flat-earther cannot do any math whatsoever).

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