• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    There was one of them a while back who got up pretty far in some homemade device and subsequently abandoned flat earthism

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Experiment_(expedition)

    I like this one where some guy took 48 flat earthers to Antarctica and made them see a midnight sun.

    The participating flat Earthers all admitted that the midnight sun was a real phenomenon. The larger flat Earth community has largely rejected the results and accused the participants, including the flat Earthers, of having faked the expedition and of being part of a larger conspiracy to promote the spherical Earth model.

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        There’s an even better grift where they’ll pay for your food and lodging if you get a PhD first. I’m trying to pull a fast one on NASA and get on the ISS to avoid paying rent.

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      Alabama pastor Dean Odle suggested that Satan created a fireball to act as a false sun. Some flat Earthers accused Duffy of taking funds from his church to finance the expedition, which he has denied. Dominic Enyart, a friend of Duffy and a member of his congregation, said the accusations were baseless

      hahaha