Sorry, flat Earthers...

[AZ8theist]

...But the Earth is a SPHERE.
As the moon passes behind the Earth, it makes a curved shadow. The ONLY WAY you can create a curved shadow is with a round object.
Humans have known this for thousands of years, yet in 2026 we are still battling idiots who think the Earth is flat.




Image was captured around 3am in Arizona. Unable to get decent pictures of the "blood moon" due to high clouds.
But enjoy this photo of the start of the full lunar eclipse!

[malaise]

1. Was stunning here

Never looked red - black. Still ongoing but it sank too low for us to see it so we’re watching on line😀

https://www.space.com/stargazing/lunar-eclipses/watch-the-blood-moon-total-lunar-eclipse-on-march-3-with-these-free-livestreams

[niyad]

2. We have always had definitive proof that the earth is not flat. . the cats

would have knocked everything off of it by now.

[malaise]

3. Haha

😀

[Towlie]

4. Have you ever met a person who believes the world is flat?

I've never met a person who believes the world is flat, nor have I met a person who has met someone who believes the world is flat. In fact, I've never met a person who claims to have met a person who claims to have met a person who believes the world is flat.

I'm not convinced that such people even exist, and even if there are people who purport to believe that, they could just be expressing some philosophical, Socratic, point about epistemology along the lines of "the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing".

[NewHendoLib]

5. Kyrie Irving

[mwmisses4289]

6. A freinds son in law has one in his family.

But they also believe covid is a hoax, and expect everyone else to raise their kids.
They are absolutely impossible to talk to.

[niyad]

7. I have, and there is no Socratic thing going on. The person is wedded

to their bs qanon beliefs as well.

[Dr. T]

8. I've never read the bible but I'm pretty sure

it says something about the Earth being flat. And it's only 6000 years old. And dinosaurs coexisted with humans. And all land on Earth was submerged in water. Those guided by blind faith need no proof other than their guiding manuscript.

[JT45242]

10. The bible says neither...bad interpreters may have said those things

The moronic British clergymen who came up with the 6000 year old earth based on the Hebrew texts would be laughed at by every Hebrew scholar and Rabbi on Earth for thousands of years.

He took the bad English translation and came up with that number.

As for the Earth being flat, just not addressed.

[Towlie]

20. The Bible (mainly Genesis 1) doesn't say it but everyone believed it at the time.

[Towlie]

21. And the Bible certainly doesn't say anything about dinosaurs!

[Dr. T]

22. I think the dinosaur thing was the guy who owns the Noah's Arc

park. Thank you for educating me. Apparently, there's a gap between what the bible says and how people interpret it.

I might be wrong about this also. The bible has been translated and retranslated from languages that no longer exist. It's like that classroom exercise where the first kid whispers something into the ear of the kid next to him. That kid turns to the kid on the other side and paraphrase what he thought he heard. By the time it gets to the tenth kid in the chain, the original statement is lost. What are your thoughts about that? I'm genuinely curious, not trying to make trouble.

[AZ8theist]

25. You're thinking of Ken Ham

The "Answers in Genesis" clown who built that ridicuous park.
He had a debate with Bill Nye some years ago. Bill Nye, the "Science Guy" was an educator, not a scientist, who nonetheless eviscerated Ham in a debate about the bible and the ark. It's well worth a look:

Unfortunately, the dabate was held at the "Ark Encounter", so the audience was made up of believers, so one sided to start.
Nye probably changed very few minds.

[wolfie001]

12. They have conventions

It's a full-time gig for some of these morons. Just like 'The Joe Rogan Show.' People get rich off this up-to-their-neck horseshit.

[Aristus]

15. For people who don't exist, they sure have a lot of YouTube channels.

n/t

[Tetrachloride]

9. As anyone who has seen the Death Star knows

[nuxvomica]

11. But it could be just a disk

A flat, round disk would cast a circular shadow.

[AZ8theist]

24. True, but not every time. And not from different perspectives.

Also, eclipses cannot be explained above a flat Earth, since everyone on the planet sees the same moon at the same time.
And the moon is inverted in the southern hemisphere. That can only be explained when viewed from a globe.

[J_William_Ryan]

13. *Playing Devil's Advocate*

They really don’t believe the Earth is ‘flat.’

It’s more of a question everything mindset, don’t believe something unless you see it or experience it for yourself.

[mwmisses4289]

14. The sad part, as i understand it, is the whole flat earth society thing started as a joke.

Couple of college students back in the 1990's, iirc. They were flabbergasted at how many people actually took them seriously.

[niyad]

16. Sorry, flat earthers have been around for millenia. Just google

"flat earth" and "flat earth societies".

[mwmisses4289]

18. Ah. I must have been living under a rock, lol.

I had never heard of them until about 1990's.

[niyad]

19. No, you probably just lived around rational people.

[Botany]

17. In Germany in 1862 it was proved that the more CO 2 you have in a body of gas the more heat that

… body of gas will hold. That has never been proven false in the 164 years after that was shown
to be the case and yet we have millions of Americans who claim that the case of global warming
hasn’t been proven. Sadly a lot more of Americans believe that crap then that the earth is flat.

[ornotna]

23. Last I heard, it is flat

On the back of four elephants on the back of a giant turtle.

I read that somewhere.

[NoRethugFriends]

27. Turtles all the way down

[Conjuay]

28. I think I know were...

can you name any of them?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. The earth is NOT flat

[Conjuay]

29. Back when the internet was younger,

I found a bulletin board for flat earth types.
I went on there to laugh at the rubes, but once there, I realized these people had conspiracy theory about EVERYTHING!
The 'lunatic fringe' is a lot larger (and scarier) than I ever realized!

[GreenWave]

30. Their brain waves are flat too.

[Goonch]

31. ;-{)...

[VGNonly]

32. I've come across flat earthers.

Also moon landing deniers, young-earthers, evolution deniers and Noahs ark believers.