Seattle
Valued Senior Member
Maybe the astronauts really aren't your friends or maybe they aren't really astronauts. Either way that isn't proof. Nor is flying in a small plane over the flat Earth. When you flew over the flat Earth you only assumed it was round. People think they see it but most commercial airline flights aren't high enough. The windows are curved.Ah, but there's the rub.
If you live in your Mom's basement and spend all your time on Facebook, there's no demonstration that works. Scientists post pictures of Earth from space; flerfers post "proof" showing such pictures are false. They post pictures of the Moon landing; flerfers say it was all a hoax.
I'm a pilot, and I've literally flown around the world. (I wasn't flying for that trip.) And two friends of mine are astronauts. So it's pretty clear to me. But most people don't have experiences/friends like that. And if all their information really comes from a screen - they're going to believe whatever is on it.
The 'chemtrail' hoax is another one. Lots of people claim that a small contrail that spreads into a larger one, then becomes a big cloud, cannot possibly happen in nature. They have never seen a clear sky with one small cloud in it become cloudy and overcast, and so believe that such a thing is unnatural. And everything they see on Youtube (at least, the Youtubes that the algorithms steer them to) confirms that.
See even you have been fooled.

