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RE: More Round Earth Observations
Flat earthers are my "dearest" friends. No matter what you bring them as an argument, they just don't accept it. You always hear from them just the example with the ship on the sea (at least here in Germany, maybe they have other "proofs" in Australia).
It's as easy to see as it really is. SpaceX has a rocket launch almost every month, where you can see the curvature of the earth.
They also claim that only the earth is round. What about the other planets? May they be round and only the earth may be flat?
My favorite on German Youtube was "vegan und lecker". Unfortunately, the channel was deleted, maybe he fell over the edge of the earth? Who knows :-D
Some of the best Globe earth proofs are actually from flat earther youtubers. One flat earther regularly posts videos from a Nikon P900 showing ships going over the horizon. Once you start looking into the flat earth culture, you realise that at least 50% know the earth is round but for whatever reason (money, youtube views, trolling) post flat earth "proofs".
What ever pays the bills I guess. Unfortunately spreading disinformation is damaging to society.
I'm afraid that's true. Everything is exploited for its own advantage and with a bit of luck, there will be a few (or even many) stupid followers who will spread the word.
This is the problem with this, and I think it is worth calling out. Flat earth belief may not be a great problem to society (most people see it as entertainment) but there are other false beliefs that can potentially cost lives.
Yep, that's pretty much the Crux of it. It breeds a culture of distrust of factual information that flows over into other topics.
Sadly true, through your in-depth "analyses" their uncover much more evidence for a spherical shape than for their own view. But all this is suppressed, concealed or simply interpreted differently.
I also think it's just about clicks, trolling and public attention
This is unfortunately in German, but maybe the google translator can do it. Unfortunately, a lot of humor and sarcasm will be lost.
https://www.dlr.de/next/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-12657/22082_read-50426/
If he's not smarter than the rest of humanity. :-D
Btw. youtube is full of videos with action cams on weather balloons so he doesn't need to put himself to an altitude of 68 miles in an balloon.
I think one thing positive is that watching the debates with flat-earthers (and other beliefs) is that you learn a lot about logical fallacies and how they are employed to win arguments. I recently saw a debate between an (alleged) scientist and a flat-earther and the scientist didn't do so well because he seemed unable to deal with the tactics that came his way including the use of logical fallacies.
The way these fallacies are employed is one of the reasons I think at least 50% don't believe in flat earth themselves and are just trying to get attention.