I'm watching Behind The Curve as I type this.

I just want to say that these people are, undeniably, irrevocably, delusional. If you're a flat earthier and you're reading this, listen carefully, ask questions later.

I studied physics in higher education, which already makes me more qualified than 99.999% of flat earthers. I also studied psychology, which plays a big role in why exactly people are coming to this belief.

A lot of it is to do with religion more than science, people believe what they want to believe, it really is that simple. I believe the earth is a globe. I base my beliefs on facts and on logic, and on science. Flat earthers base their beliefs on a lack of trust in authority, and the sense of community that comes with being a flat earther.

In many ways, us crypto people are exactly the same, deep down, we know that our way is the best, that it'll overthrow the establishment, and usher in a new era. Then we'll get to say "I told you so". Difference being, that crypto is real, you can own it, it does threaten current power structures. Believing that the earth is a disc does not change anything, it is a conspiracy theory, and it can not be proven, because it is wrong.

Flat earthers will often say that scientists are government puppets that have been brought up in education to believe that the earth is round, and therefore, their worldview is closed and cannot comprehend that we live in a two dimensional world. What they fail to realize is this:

Science - The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.

Scientists are not there to push an agenda, they are there to test, and to work out what the truth is. Sometimes they realize they were wrong when sufficient evidence becomes available, such was the case in the creationism vs evolution controversy in the 19th century.

What flat earthers do, is they look for the slightest thing that'd prove what they believe, if they don't find it, they'll try again elsewhere. In Behind The Curve, we witness many attempts to do scientific experiments to prove the flatness of earth. They all fail. The most notable one is where one of them spends $20,000 on a laser gyroscope, only for it to read a 15^o rotation. They don't like the results, so they put the gyroscope in various containers made from various materials (already, this is unscientific, because they've ignored evidence after testing a hypothesis for themselves).

Later on, they try to use a laser to measure a curvature of the earth. The guy dosen't get the results he wants and instead of saying "Oh, I must be wrong.", he goes "We're gonna have to try again tomorrow, I think there's something wrong with the test.".

"I only see what I want to see." Is essentially what he just said there. Which is funny when you take into consideration how much conspiracy theorists like to say "question everything" - while often believing near every conspiracy they're told (chem-trails, big-foot, fake 9/11, fake moon landing, vaccines are bad, etc).

Delusional.

I'm fucking done with Americans. Watch behind the curve on Netflix.