Destroying Flat Earth Without Using Science - Part 2: The Stars

As we learned in the previous installment of this series, we don't need any science whatsoever to prove that the earth isn't flat. We just have to look at things in the sky with our eyeballs. In fact, that's how we figured out the earth is a sphere thousands of years ago, before science even existed. Last time we looked at the moon, so today let's look at the stars. How do they move through the sky, and can we make sense of it on a flat earth? Spoiler: no, we definitely can't. But be a lamb and watch anyway, would you?

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[bettercalldelta]

I was a flat earther for 4 years. Then I turned 5

[finaoo]

You can mock us if you want, but there are flat earthers all around the globe.

[mrsir]

As an Argentinian it seems obvious to me that flat-earthing is a northern thing, there's so many observations in this part of the world that just don't match with the flat-earth model. I had a friend who was flat-earther for several years and this startrails arguments was one of the things that turned him back to believing the earth is spherical, he was so depressed tho, imagine the feelings of emptiness and shame he felt when he had no choice but admit flat-earth is wrong, kudos to him for being sane at the end

[HalfBreadOrder]

the thing I hate most about flat earthers is that they ALWAYS change the topic no matter what you talk about

[kaustubhillindala]

So a friend was a flat earthed, believe it or not, and I showed him this and he actually had an explanation for this. It’s still a disk, but the equator is the edge, so you can’t see the other side. I then asked him how humans would travel to the other side, and he said it must be very gently curved, that way we wouldn’t notice!

All the excitement on his face died when I told him that he was describing a sphere

[eliadore]

So, do flat earthers also believe you find lava at y=11 and bedrock at y=0 ?

[Lunarcreeper]

"allergic to thinking" is going in my dictionary of insults

[Dauwschijn]

I tried explaining this once to flat-earthers over on Twitter and they either can’t comprehend this or straight up denied the existence of the southern cross (and by extension, any stars specific for southern hemisphere)

[danwilliams]

I have a friend called Stewart who's a flat earther. His proof is the word planet has plane in it. I pointed out that his name, Stewart, has the word stew in it but that doesn't make him a casserole.

[noneed]

this guy sounds like a science teacher that explained the same thing a thousand times to the same class

[AsmodeusMictian]

Professor Dave,
My day has been utter garbage so far, and finding this video brought me therapeutic levels of laughter. Thank you so much.

[_Fanzy_]

3:30 bro just destroyed the whole flat earth community by just asking what does south even mean

[Wolfness]

When Elon Musk tweeted the flat earth society asking "Where is the flat Mars society" they replied saying"Thanks for the question Elon! Unlike the Earth, Mars has been observed to be round." This literally just speaks for itself.

[lucidcross]

The fact that this video needs to be made in modern time is depressing.

[PaulineLovesPhysics]

I met a flat-Earther recently at work. I used the stars as an argument, he claimed the stars didn't exist, and I've only seen pictures of it...I quickly gave up. He talks about this to everyone at my job...including his boss.

[greghelms]

I have a family member that is a flat earther. When I told him the stars we see don’t move in circles. He sent me a video of the stars at the North Pole as yes they do. I told him congratulations, you just proved round earth to yourself. 😂

[earmite]

I like how other youtubers are like, "I'm not going to attack the intelligence of flat-earthers, I'm just going to rationally disassemble their arguments" and this guy is like, "I'm going to obliterate their arguments, and then insult them for believing them". It soothes my soul. :)

[AnonJohn]

"You're allergic to thinking, and there's no point talking to you." I love that quote so much.

[DaveTexas]

This has been my argument for years. I live in North America and used to be a professional photographer. As an astronomy buff, I’ve done time exposures of the stars rotating around Polaris. On my first trip to Australia, I was very eager to spend some time looking at the southern sky. We drove about four hours west from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road to view all the rock formations along the coast one day. We stayed out there into the nighttime, where we were able to see the night sky on a moonless night with essentially no light pollution. It was the best view of the night sky I think I’ve ever experienced.

While we were out there with a telescope and my Hasselblad (this was nearly 25 years ago, when I was shooting medium-format film), I did a couple of lengthy time exposures pointed toward Sigma Octantis. I can say that I’ve seen the rotation of the Earth in respect to both pole stars with my own eyes. There is no way to debunk the physical reality of that in a way that even comes close to scientific.

This is one of the ways of "proving" the globe Earth that the majority of flerfers can’t or won’t respond to. As hard as those tiny little rusty gears in their heads turn, they can’t come up with an explanation that makes sense even at their level of "logic."

I have to add that the other super-cool thing I discovered (that I didn’t know before my trip) was that the equatorial constellations — the ones visible from both hemispheres — all look upside-down from the Southern Hemisphere. The very first constellation I noticed at night in Australia was Orion — but he was upside-down! It makes sense when you think about it, but it blew my mind when I first saw it.

[acrazyp]

I love how not only you disprove all their talking points and you destroy their self-esteem 😂😂😂