Stop taking flat earthers seriously, they don't deserve any respect.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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The flat earthers have gone very quiet lately.
The Final Experiment in Antarctica about a year ago fractured the community. The way this sort of thing generally works is that a lot of them break off, but the remaining ones are even crazier than before. As examples, see the Great Disappointment among Adventists, or 1975 among Jehovah's Witnesses.
That said, they still lost some major voices. If you don't follow this sort of thing on YouTube a lot, you're probably going to miss them completely.
They're busy oppressing minorities for the government.
work around it
Heathen!
Woah, woah, woah!!! .... wait a minute. This is a northern centric interpretation.
Who says the center of the flat earth plane sits on the north pole?
If the center is in the south pole, you wouldn't have to refuel at all.
Check mate libs
no offense but the world clearly revolves around the north pole, not the south pole.
How do they think the sun works?
There's a few different solutions. They tend to invent brand new physics in the course of explaining it.
Oh man, this would be hilarious if it didn't make me feel like I was having a stroke.
trick question: they don't think.
but if you want to know how they say the sun works, it is a combination of light having a limited range and some weird thing about angles that they use to justify sunrises and sunsets
Think?
To be fair, there is only one non-stop commercial flight between Australia and South America. I'm not a flat earther but pointing out this fact sure makes me feel like one 🤔
Is there one that isn’t nonstop (excluding stopovers in New Zealand- not because it doesn’t count, but because I’m wondering whether there’s a place to stop between South America and Oceania)?
You can do this same sort of thing in the Northern Hemisphere. It just gets more obvious the further you go south.
For example, check a direct flight from LA to Seoul. On a Gleason map (the most common flat earth map, though there are a few others), flights between those two should be going well over Alaska and parts of Russia. On a great circle route, they barely go over the Aleutians and don't go into Russian airspace at all. Guess which one flights actually use?
but that is already 1 too many for a flat earth
Australia doesn't exists anyway (according to flat earthers)
What’s an Australia? Is that like one of those New Zealand’s?
It is the west island of the mythical land of New Zealand
It's next to Switzerland
It's magnetism and solar winds, or something. Don't ask me how it works, your round earther brain wouldn't get it. ~this is sarcasm~
... Wouldn't the flight path be over the South Pole?
On a globe, yes. If the earth were flat as depicted in the above map with Antarctica as the edge then no. This simply points out one of the many illogical points to flat earth conspiracies.
The great circle route doesn't quite get over Antarctica, but it's close. Planes generally avoid going over Antarctica for safety reasons even when it's technically the shortest route. It's better to go down in cold ocean where there's a chance of being picked up by a boat, rather than going down over an icy hellscape where nobody can get to you.
Depends on which side of the flat Earth you are on
Butter side down.
There's a rule that the flight has to be within so many minutes of a diversion airport at all times, and this is hard to do in Antarctica.
Nowadays, 180 minutes is fairly common, and there are some planes and airlines that can go to 240 or even as high as 370.