What happens if flat Earthers go to space?

"These aren't windows, they're just sophisticated high resolution 3D monitors. NASA has had this tech for decades, they've just never let the secret out. You're not seeing the Earth, you're seeing a video. Why can't we go see it with our own eyes outside? Exactly. Seems very convenient we're being asked to wear suits with image projection helmets."

You will never win with people this fucking stupid.

My guess is they would not go in the first place.

or will they say that it’s fake and the windows on the space stations are monitors?

But if they did, this would be my guess. They have not used logic or accepted any proof that they are wrong so I doubt they would in space.

Some flat earth guys designed a great experiment to prove whether the earth is flat or round. The only problem was they when their own results showed it was round...

They rejected the results they had come up with as it did not fit their belief.

Many of them will find some way to rationalize it. There was a documentary about an infamous series of experiments some of these geniuses set up - they were obviously consistent with a round Earth, so they dismissed it and started mumbling about mistakes in the experimental design and so on.

You can lead a horse to water, but horses can be intensely moronic animals.

A few years ago, a documentary on flat-earthers featured a trained geologist who has become convinced that the earth is flat. To test it, being a trained scientist, he designed a good experiment to measure the altitude of a laser beam at a distance from its emitter. He calculated the predicted measurement if Earth is flat and the measurement if Earth is spherical. When he ran the experiment, he got exactly the value he had predicted for a spherical Earth.

The rest of the documentary was him trying to find the error in his instruments and measurements since he knew for a fact that Earth is flat.

It was sad.

There is enough proof without going to space, so it's safe to assume proof has no effect.

You can always find some superficially credible alternative explanation to any proof. With those, you can use the language of reason and logic to construct a belief consistent with what you had in the first place.

As long as the person has their identity tied to a certain belief, and is of a mindset to find ways in which the belief is correct, they are immune to change. Those are the areas you will need to work on to change their mind.

The spacecraft windows were curved, causing an optical illusion

People that deep into a conspiracy theory aren't going to have their opinions changed by any amount of evidence.

Likely that, or something about the windows distorting the image. What you have to understand about flat earth is that it's a religous conspiracy theory. If they accept a spheroid earth, their faith comes into question, and that's not something most prople are willing to let happen.

Even if you could convince a flat Earther to go to space, I suspect the vast majority would not be swayed.

As you suggest, they'd instead likely say that it's all fake trickery. Even if you gave them a space-suit, put the helmet together right in front of them showing no electronics of any kind, and let them walk outside, they'd still say it was all fake trickery.

They would never believe their own eyes, because they've already made up their minds. An allusion to the Earth being round is an illusion.

You don't even need to go to space to prove the Earth is round. As @PonsAelius already said elsewhere in this thread, there was even a show made and funded by Flat Earther's to try loads of different tests, and they ended up rejecting all of them because they accidentally demonstrated that the Earth had to be round.

Their mind is already made, and they'll only accept results that conform to that belief. Anything else is either fake, trickery, or flawed.

no it's a flat circle from space

Well first they'd have to "trust" the people taking them up. They'd claim they weren't actually taken to space.

Basically, its impossible to convince them otherwise.

I know a flat earther and he claims that you're looking at a fake view when you're on an aircraft and that it's a hologram. He likes to throw sci-fi words around even though he has no idea what they mean.

Conspiracy theorists don't actually know what they're talking about so they will always come up with some excuse as to justify why they are still right and you are still wrong. Trying to prove otherwise is a waste of your time talking to them is a waste of your time.

If the earth really was flat someone would have worked out a way to commercialize the edge. It has to be useful for something right, waste disposal springs to mind, in any case it would be far more profitable to just publicly announced that the world is flat than to construct this elaborate conspiracy for no obvious reason.

You cannot reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.

There was a flat-Earther called Mad Mike Hughes who tried to build and launch his own rocket to see the shape of the earth for himself. He died in the attempt.

Flat earthers aren't real. Even the ones claiming to be are just making a show

They'll say that its fake. The only way for them to believe is probably letting them orbit the Earth for a while in a spacesuit.

My bet is they know its round and want to be part of something and this is the something they chose.

They’re too dumb to pass any exam that would be required to send them there- so we’d never know.

Some will some won't. The contrarians will never budge, the "I'm not anti-science, I just don't trust evidence I didn't gather myself" ones should. I suspect most flat-earthers are the former.

We could design a special ship for them with windows that open just to be sure

Oh my god they've blown the earth!

Probably the same people that won't wear a space suit because they don't believe in the widely accepted science that space suits keep you alive.

They've tried... And crashed back to earth while their family and friends screamed in horror.

Don't waste a thought on these irrational dickheads.

When they see that the earth doesn't have an edge after a rotation or two they will say "It was amazing, we traveled that same rate the disk was turning so we couldn't find the edge."

I think it would depend on the individual. Some would admit it, once they see the whole globe through that glass it would be like trying to say apples don't exist in response to someone handing you an apple. Their senses would override the belief. They might not be very thrilled to admit it...

Then there would be the people that are fanatics about it... They would probably get hysterical, or check out mentally, or get violent, or some other sort of emotional break. I would also guess these people would be unwilling to go into space in the first place.

Didn't the COVID pandemic basically clear this question up?

They will say they've been abducted by aliens of course!

i remember some flat earther attempted building a rocket and was successful, except it had no way to land and yeah...

well they will still only be able to see one side of it at a time, in their minds they will still think it's a circle, not a sphere, so you can't fix stupid.

They combust.

Oh, you think the window is fake? So you won't mind it if I break it, right?

Everyone knows the real shape of the Earth is a cube

There was that one guy who built steam powered-rockets and claimed to be a flat earther then died https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hughes_(daredevil)

To be fair, his PR team said (after his death) he only made this claim to attract funding. Make of that what you will

They'll crash into the firmament at high speed, and die. God will probably smite their corpse for doubting Him.

They would believe you can do both.

Space will become flat. /j

They will continue to troll you.

They know the earth is round. It is not like the moon landing that was obviously faked.

Yes, we should sent flat-earthers into space

They just deny it. They deny everything, even obvious facts, to gain control over the conversation and no one sees through their bullshit.