If you ’re in a plane , and you for some reason do n’t believe that fly is potential , and you determine the best way to verbalise this is to reason with the cowcatcher , you should only expect one outcome : You will be humiliate in public . Do not do this .
Similarly , if you are a flat Earthadvocate – either in troll form or you ’re a dye - in - the - wool worshipper – and you argue with an astronaut , you will getpreciselythesameoutcome . The latest example of this comes courtesy of a British TV show , Good Morning Britain .
The astro - genius this time around was former NASA astronaut Colonel Terry Virts , an award - win pilot who retire from the venerable infinite agency just last twelvemonth . He ’s spend 200 days on the International Space Station ( ISS ) , and is apretty awesomescience communicator .
Clearly amused and a little bewilder by theresurgencein the flat Earth conspiracy possibility , the hosts ofGood Morning Britaininvited Virts onto their show .
“ Let me just expect you : Is the Earth round or level ? ” one host asked .
“ It ’s circular , ” he responded .
“ How do we know ? ” the host fire back .
“ Well , so they put me on a space bird . They hit the flushed button and they launched me into distance going eastbound at 17,000 miles per hour . Thankfully , I came back around to the other side . If the Earth was flat , I would have just kept going . ”
Then a human being named Mark Sargent appears via telecasting data link . All you need to have intercourse about this person is that he consider the major planet to be flat .
“ I think the Earth is matte , and the biggest reasonableness is – go to the beach with a luxuriously - powered HD camera and front off into the distance . Ten , fifteen old age ago , you could see ships go off into the horizon , ” he began .
“ Now , you’re able to bring them back into frame . All you need to do is crank up up the zoom . ”
He then adds , like a horrible ode to Shakespeare orThe Truman Show : “ All the public ’s a stage . We ’re basically living on a big legal phase and nobody figured it out until 1956 . ”
Virts then give rise photographs he himself took from blank space , distinctly prove the curvature of our rather beautiful blue marble , morning and all .
“ I ’m actually plump to Antarctica this weekend , so I ’ll look around for the guards down there that are keeping us safe , ” he order , with a smile .
Sargent then explains that the intellect hoi polloi like Virts are lie to everyone is because if the man is flat , then it mean “ it was built by someone , which means you ’re not alone . ”
He goes on to say the Moon landing were faked too , but he does n’t believe Elvis is still alive .
