My loathe for conspiracy theorists-flat earthers especially-kind of makes me want to watch this.
Didn’t work when Chris angel offered 1 mil to prove magic is real.
The crazies spun a “noble witch” narrative that anyone who practices magic is above materialism. As if fortune tellers aren’t more aggressive than knife salesmen.
Then they don’t get the money. I think the concept is pretty simple.
These people already cling to fringe beliefs because they feel marginalized by society. Bullying them on national television is not going to make them any more likely to change their beliefs. It’s only going to make them double and triple down.
If you can explain how magic works, it isn’t “real magic”. Sort of the paradox of magic as a concept.
If I can dangle a steel penny in the air with a couple of magnets, is that a miracle? Only if I don’t know how magnets works.
Iirc the rules were prove magic is real as described. Ie. Prove the rules of divination as written in their belief system. Of course it’s a scientific approach, and it would make the unexplained explained, conventionally that means it “stops being magic” but all they had to do was prove their beliefs aren’t bullshit.
My loathe for conspiracy theorists-flat earthers especially-kind of makes me want to watch this.
That’s quite literally what they are hoping. This is rage-bait sensationalistic reality TV. Don’t fucking give it the time of day and stop sharing for fake internet points… let it die as it should.
Edit: Also downvoted the article because I’m using the same logic… it’s not personal - I just am so tired of seeing posts that are effectively free advertisement for things I despise and don’t want to encourage it.
Wow. We should only cater to your needs and wants. Got it, champ. 🫰
We should though. He seems like a cool dude with a good head on his shoulders and we’d all be better off if we took his advice.
Nice tertiary account. You’re sad.
And downvoted by me (for the avoidance of doubt, the article, not your comment) because it has nothing to do with science.
They will sue the producers and the experts for won’t listen as had no intension of actually paying the prize.
They will lose.
I’d like to see them try LMAO 😂😂😂
So they’re gonna lure a bunch of idiots on their program and film it to show the whole world what massive fucking idiots they are and then tell them to fuck off without pay because what kind of expert will be swayed by a massive idiot’s argument about things we’ve known were true for quite a long time.
tell them to fuck off without pay
Nah. Appearing will get you money (and visibility), rewarding these loonies.
So it’s basically a talk show.
Quick, someone throw a chair
It should be a panel of former astronauts who listen attentively and take notes throughout, before slowly turning and pointing at a big photo of the spherical Earth that they took from space before returning to it.
Do this for every contestant.
Photos won’t convince people like that because they’ll just think it’s all fake. I suspect even if we all pitched in to buy them a trip into space, they still would think it was all fake – screens instead of windows, like an amusement park virtual reality ride.
Oh no, they’ll believe when we kick them out the airlock. Don’t worry they’ll be in a spacesuit, we’ll see how fervently they hold onto convictions when we offer them the opportunity to take the helmet off. I doubt there would be many takers
Nah, the spacesuits view port will be a screen, and no one’s dumb enough to take the helmet off in space, they know they’d die.
They think the earth is flat, not space won’t kill them.
They seem to think the Earth is housed in some kind of giant sphere. Presumably air fills this magic sphere so they’d be okay.
I don’t know, I don’t subscribe to their delusions.
I’ve often thought it would be fun to get a big group of Flat-Earthers involved in a scientific project to ‘prove’ that the Earth is flat. They’re not allowed to rely on any existing science that might be biased towards ‘Big Globe’ so they have to start from scratch using simple instruments. Using existing maps and GPS are definitely out of the question. Have them conduct cartographic surveys and take astronomical measurements so that they can show that reality is inconsistent with a round Earth. Basically, see how long you can keep them going for before their brains break.
Didn’t the kinda do that in Behind The Curve?
They used a long body of water as a flat reference, set up 3 columns with a hole through them at the same height above the water reference.
A torch shone through 1 end should be visible at the other end if all of the holes are on the same plane.
Because of the curvature, they had to lift the last column to be able to see the light.
They didn’t manage to explain that oneEratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth more than 2000 years ago with a stick and counting steps.
They will just put a ruler on the ground. If earth was perfectly round, then the ruler would only touch the ground in exactly one point. But the entire ruler touches the ground. Hence, the earth cannot be perfectly round, so it must be flat. QED.
I’m convinced, give him the prize!
(we’re still sharing, right?)
How much are they paying? And how much for the expert to be bribed to change their mind?
Asking for a friend.
The earth is flat…
Do you agree the earth is about 2/3 lakes, rivers, oceans etc?
Are they carbonated?
No, the world is flat … Give me money…
“Ocean acidification refers to a reduction in the pH of the ocean over an extended period of time, caused primarily by uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere.” - https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/acidification.html#:~:text=The ocean absorbs about 30,the levels in the ocean.
You know there are some naturally carbonated springs. The Earth is not flat after all.
True but they are so rare, it’s basically a “rounding” error …
so, is it legal to advertise and reward stupidity? no wonder the whole human race is dying slowly… I wish it would be faster…
Um… yes?
For millennia.
This is nothing new.
The human race is not dying lol! Per evolutionary theory, it’s skiing quite well. Billions of us on Earth right now - and counting!
Why is this in a science community?
I want to read real science content here.
Who will be on the show: people with more time than sense.
People who won’t: the dozens of actually intelligent
cult leadersgrifters who are making a living off flat earth believers.It has been known for centuries that you see a different night sky depending on how far north or south you are. A flat earth model has to explain why northern pole star is only visible in some parts of the world, while southern cross is only visible in other parts.
Not to mention the sun setting and rising, timezones, the sun being visible for six months from north and south pole, lunar and solar eclipses that can only be explained with pretzel like reasoning and so on.
Pictures of space are photoshopped, as is the giant photo of space that the scientists have pasted upon the firmament to fool you.
What a stupid show idea. Everyone knows that the best reality show is to take an activity usually undertaken by your grandmother and turn it into a global franchise.
Competitive knitting, competitive watercolors, competitive cooking, competitive dressmaking you name it. If your grandmother does it it can be turned into a television program.
Why are they messing around with this crap?
You’re saying your grandmother doesn’t try to convince everyone she meets the Earth is flat?
If their target audience is baby boomers with dementia, then maybe this flat earth thing qualifies.
Lock the flat earthers and hollow earthers in a room and let them fight it out. ;)
Then a new theory emerges, the lost filling pie earth, in which the creator was actually in the midst of forming the planet, got distracted and threw the shell in the oven without the contents.
This has the added benefit of explaining global warming and it conveniently fits over the shell of a giant turtle.
Sounds promising
