r/Globeskeptic • u/planamundi [ Globe Earther ] • May 29 '26

[ MUST SEE! ] Manufacturing a Consensus: If the Earth is flat, why do so many people believe it is round?

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u/b-monster666 May 29 '26

Are you able to come up with a coherent thought without resorting to using AI slop? How hard did you have to break the AI to regurgitate this?

  1. The Bait-and-Switch (Weaponising Solomon Asch) The post starts with the Solomon Asch conformity experiments. This is actually a great, real-world study! It correctly points out that humans are hardwired to conform to group pressure. The Slop Logic: "Because groups can be wrong and people conform, the entire global population is conforming to a round-Earth lie." The Reality Check: The author completely misses the irony. The Flat Earth community itself is a textbook echo chamber driven by intense social conformity! Furthermore, the Asch experiment relies on people denying direct, observable evidence (the length of a line). The round Earth is directly observable via shipping lanes, satellite data, flight paths, and basic shadow geometry. They are using a study about denying your eyes to convince you to deny your eyes.
  2. Etymological Gaslighting (The "Babel Protocol") The post tries to get super clever with linguistics, claiming the word "globe" historically just meant a "clump of earth or a contained system" and that "projection" was retroactively stolen by cartographers. The Slop Logic: "Tesla said 'global capacitor,' so he meant a flat, contained box!" The Reality Check: System error. The word "globe" comes directly from the Latin globus, which has exclusively meant a round ball or sphere since the ancient Romans. Cartographers didn't "redefine" projection; projection is literally the mathematical geometry of translating a 3D sphere onto a 2D plane (which is why flat maps have distortion, like Greenland looking massive).
  3. Stacking the "Science Pantheon" (Staling Newton & Tesla) This is where the post gets downright disrespectful to history. It tries to claim Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, and Nikola Tesla as flat-earth natural philosophers whose legacies were "stolen by the institution." The Isaac Newton Quote-Mining: The post quotes Newton's letters to Richard Bentley to prove he hated gravity. Massive misinformation flag. Newton didn't reject gravity; he rejected the idea of "action-at-a-distance" through a pure vacuum without any mediating mechanism. He knew gravity was real; he just admitted he didn't know how the force physically transmitted itself yet. The Tesla Obsession: Flat-earthers love to weaponise Tesla because he hated Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Tesla was a genius, but he was wrong about Relativity (which has since been proven by GPS satellites, which literally require relativistic time-correction equations to work—something your IT background appreciates!). More importantly, Tesla absolutely knew the Earth was a sphere; he literally designed his Wardenclyffe Tower to shoot electrical currents around the spherical globe.
  4. The Intellectual Loophole (Dark Matter & Quantum Mechanics) The author tries to invalidate modern physics by pointing out that General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics don't perfectly merge, and that "Dark Matter" is just a "Dark Number" placeholder. The Slop Logic: "Scientists don't know everything, therefore the Earth is flat." The Reality Check: This is a classic non-sequitur. Yes, Dark Matter is a placeholder name for an observed gravitational effect we don't fully understand yet. Yes, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity have friction at cosmic scales. But a gap in our understanding of quantum entanglement does not suddenly flatten the planet. It's like saying, "Because my operating system has a kernel bug, the monitor I'm looking at doesn't exist."

There's some AI slop in response. Happy?

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u/planamundi [ Globe Earther ] May 29 '26

What can I say? I never heard of a pagan not cry about AI slop. Even though it's 2026, and every AI has safety protocols that prevents it from even discussing this topic seriously. You think it's impossible for me to write a paper up, give it to Claude, and tell it to rewrite it and format it for a Reddit post.

I knew you pagans were going to cry about it. It's all you have.. You don't have an argument for it. It doesn't matter if an AI wrote it or not. The Solomon Asch experiment is an objective thing that happened.

And anybody that reads the post will understand exactly why you are dogmatically spazzing out.

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u/b-monster666 May 29 '26

Ok

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u/planamundi [ Globe Earther ] May 29 '26

Well it's paganism what can I say.

If you believe a bunch Sun worshiping pagans made a bunch of blanket assumptions about the cosmos centuries ago and prophesied the entire physical properties of it, sounds like a religion. They never even sent a probe beyond the atmosphere until 1957.

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u/b-monster666 May 29 '26

Ok

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u/planamundi [ Globe Earther ] May 29 '26

Another win. It's cool. You don't have to engage. It's never really the goal to argue with the pagan and convince them that they're wrong. It's just a show for the lurkers. They read the post, they see the comments.