Why Flat Earthers Scare Me | Asmongold Reacts 

The Earth is a cube. Every minecraft player knows this.

Years ago every village had an idiot, now because of the internet they can get together and have conferences

If the Earth was flat, these people would believe that the Earth is round.

"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid" Best line I've heard to describe Flat Earthers.

there's a somewhat famous quote from a national park ranger I believe that is something like "The reason its so hard to create a bear proof trash can is that there is considerable overlap in intellect between the smartest bears and the dumbest people"

"Think of how dumb the average person is and then realize half of them are dumber than that," - George Carlin

My favorite documentary was the flat earth documentary where they used science to “prove” and then disprove their own theory

Some people feel that their lives are so boring that they need to feel persecuted in order to feel important.

I lost my shit when the dinosaurs got yeeted to the outerspace.

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." - Charles Bukowski.

People don't want the truth. They want to be right

"you cant reason someone out of a position they didnt reason themselves in to" this is just...chefs kiss*

People have a strange belief that people in the past were less intelligent than we are now, or that they didn't think exactly as we do today. They did.. people have not changed at all, they just had less tools, less resources and limited language.

Flat earth is so last year its all about the flat hollow earth now.

My elderly father asked me a while back: 'if the Earth is spinning at 5,000 miles-per-hour, how does all the water in the oceans not spin off into space?' All I could do was look at him in shock. I'd have a far better life now at almost 50 if I hadn't listened to any of his advice as I was growing up. When you're a kid looking for guidance you are relying on your parent to set you in the right direction. It's a lottery. He may have had some of that passed to him, so he thought that was how to raise a kid, but that doesn't help me much.

The flat earther X account tweeted "Flat Earthers have members all over the GLOBE!" yes, they actually used globe...

Actually the world is resting on the backs of four huge elephants which are standing on the back of an enormous turtle, named Great A'Tuin.

Maybe it was George Carlin (or some other comedian) who said "tell someone there are a billion stars in the sky and they will believe you, but put a "wet paint" sign on a wall and they have to touch it to be sure."

Flat earthers are proof of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

3 quotes that will help you in your life. 1.Arguing with an idiot feels like running in circles. You end up exactly where you started but more exhausted. 2.The problem with arguing with idiots is that they often confuse arrogance with intelligence. 3.The moment you engage in an argument with an idiot, you've already lost. They thrive on wasted time and frustration.

The funniest shit is flat earthers doing experiments to prove the earth is flat and then proving it's round.

Saying “trust science” or “believe in science” is a terrible way to put it, science challenges science all the time, science disproves science all the time. The problem is when people challenge science with nothing but voices in their heads and their ignorance in the topic. You don’t “believe” or “trust” science, you understand that the evidence is compelling enough to be accepted as true

"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid." Well said.

Why don't flat-earthers use GPS? Because they can’t find the “flat” option.

The Earth isn't round or flat, it's fucked

The best thing the internet did was to give voice to everyone, the worst thing it did was to give voice to everyone.

Flat earth conspiracy is my logic check... If I start believing in it, I know I've gone off the deep end officially and require help.

"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid." That's the most impressively concise explanation of flat earth I've ever heard.

Its easier to fool someone then to convince them they have been fooled. Its cognitive dissonance* Insult me all you want this statement rings true.

"Humans were supposed to eat raw potatoes and die at the age of 32 due to a tooth ache" is probably the funniest thing I have heard all week. I love that.

The irony is that flat earthers use technologies to "spread their knowledge" that was made and are possible just because scientists built it around the fact that the earth is a globe...

Believing something you can’t prove wrong is called having faith. Believing something you can prove wrong is just being dumb.

Just add 4 elephants and a giant sea turtle underneath, that would atleast make it sensible.

21:59 “This (flat earth) is a GLOBAL conspiracy” Lmao 😂😂😂 Indeed

"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid." Nailed it. Interest in Flat Earth as far as YT and other video platforms are concerned probably has a lot to do with the anti-Flerf channels that are enjoying a lot of popularity also.

People don't go to school and learn a bunch of varied facts so that they will remember them for the rest of their life. People go to school and learn a bunch of varied facts to build a sense of schedule, and to give them the opportunity to decide which facts they are most interested in to choose their own livelihood.

22:30-22:50 This is the main point of the matter. I saw a scientist mentioning how these conspiracies became widely spread in a period that contains 2 factors: - Mass communication accesible for most people. - Highly divisive politics. They are merely a symptom of a divided and distrustful society.

"The Flat Earth society has members all around the GLOBE"

Chemtrail folks have absolutely lost the plot too. 99% won't get back out of that rabbit hole.

Flatearth map reward now over $91M. I wonder what's taking so long...

Never thought I'd see Asmon react to Hossenfelder

Hollow earth > flat earth

Flat Earthers source: trust me bro

A couple years ago I had some insane coworkers at my job. They were super racist, antivax, and flat earthers. I’m so glad I got out of there

My personal theory is that Flat Earth started as a massive troll post that spiraled out of control. Like a few people online posted some pseudoscience nonsense that they thought no one would be stupid enough to believe, and then watched in some combination of horror and amusement as they found out that yes, there are people that stupid.

"You can't reason a person out of a position they didn't reason themselves into." Asmon be saying some fire quotes sometimes. This literally applies to most of the morons on twitter and reddit.

What people don't understand is they think a theory is a guess. In science that's absolutely not true. A hypothesis is a guess. A theory is formed when dozens, if not hundreds, of hypothesis' are found to to be accurate. In science a theory is the closest thing we'll ever get to a fact.

I WAS A FLAT EARTHER FOR 3 YEARS! here's what I found. It's not that the people are dumb they are just bored with their lives, and being a flat earther brings about excitement. the kind that is addictive. People subconsciously knew it was all bs. At least I did.

The Greeks worked out the Earth wasn't flat using sticks, shadows and distance, it's not difficult.

The only good thing about flat earth is their map illustrations, it's obviously innacurate but it'd go so hard on a DnD campaign

I understand our ancestors thinking the earth being flat. But not us.

"you shouldn't trust most science as its mainly theory" MY LITTLE BROTHER IN CHRIST THEORY IS THE HIGHEST STANDARD IN SCIENCE

I think the whole "Look at who you can't criticize and you'll see who rules you" is referring more to when it's actually forbidden and illegal to criticize a person or group, rather than just what's socially acceptable. It may be frowned upon to criticize kids with cancer but it's not illegal. But if disagreeing with someone, criticizing them or their beliefs, or simply not going along with their ideas leads to you being arrested, fined, or jailed, then that quote becomes a lot more valid.

Flat Earthers have proven more times that the earth is round then flat and everytime they are like "hmmm, this data says we are wrong. Lets ignore this data"

“People like to act like a person is more than a monkey” 😂😭 bro sounding like Frieza

$10,003 FlatAfrica flight chart reward. 32 flat paper flight charts cover Africa. First person with a roll of tape wins! I added $3 to cover the cost.

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?" - Sam Harris

Can’t believe Asmon is a woke round earther, smh

The images with the dinosaurs changed my mind, now its so obvious why they are gone. 😂

"I believe this thing because I dont understand the truth and because I dont understand the truth, people that tell me the truth must be lying."

"flat earthers has members all around the globe" Idk is this phrase is real but it just sums up everything to me

Birds arent real is the coolest thing ive heard ina long time

the earth goes into the square hole. i said it!

This started as a 4chan troll movement

I had a flat earther friend once, and had a debate over what the sky would look like if the Sun went in circles. After I brought up several points that he could not reconcile with a flat earth, he, without joking, told me that "the sky is glitched". That it's like a projection or distorted portal to another realm, and it makes it look like the earth was round, while in reality it's flat. Asmon is absolutely right that taking flat earthers to space wouldn't solve a thing.

The ancient egyptian mathematician Ptomely wrote that the Earth was likely round due to all known evidence. He was big into geometry and astronomy.

couldntcareless6969 said something like don't trust science because it's just a theory, then followed that with "but all scientific laws should be followed" and it's obvious they have zero knowledge of science. A science theory is a description of that scientific law you think should be followed. Think of it this way. That laptop you're interested in, is a physical laptop. The spec sheet is the description, or in science terms, the theory, of that laptop. Now, the laptop description is not really a theory, it's a description, but in science, that's what a theory basically is. It describes the observable law. We see things act in a certain way, ie fall to the ground when dropped. The theory of gravity explains the how that happens, it describes the details of how that law works to interact with the object, the ground, the air around it, etc. And then he said there were 500 testimonies of Jesus returning, and that is 100% wrong. There is a claim that it was witnessed by 500 people, no names ever provided to that group of 500. Even in different books of the bible, they can't agree on who was there. Belief in Jesus is a 100% faith position, which, if you read the bible, that is what Jesus seems to want, so why bother trying to prove it to others? just believe and move on.

there is that one argument that flatearther cannot explain : why is the night sky different in the "south" and "north" emispheres? If earth was flat, the sky should be identical.

If the earth is round how come when I talk to my friends in Australia they aren’t upside down in the zoom video?

Wait until people find out the United Nations logo is the flat Earth map.

I bet there's some overlap with flat earthers and Holocaust deniers.

I had upwards of 95% in math tests and I still didn't graduate high school. Terrence Howard graduated high-school and look how that turned out. High-school graduation doesn't measure your intelligence and capacity to reason or even to retain information. It just measures your capacity to put in enough effort to pass each test. I didn't graduate high-school because I got burned out from school. Much later on, at 25 I completed it studying at night. Don't get me wrong, most of the time I was a mid grader. I was lazy and didn't take classes seriously, didn't do homework, didn't pay attention, etc. Every time I put in effort my grades got high. But that's true of anyone that puts in effort at school.

When the Dinosaurus flew off I laughed so hard I almost pissed myself.

"Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool." - Wizard's First Rule

I've genuinely never understood the 'purpose' of believing the Earth is flat? What do they gain from arguing that it is? Is it just an act of defiance against scientific authority?

I hate when people say it's mainly a theory. People don't understand that theory in the scientific world is not the same thing as what you think it is. What you think and what the scientists call it is called a hypothesis! A theory is very well proven

Ive never understood why the idea earth is round could be that unbelievable. Every object visible in the sky is a globe…

Love that they go for the Christian religion because talking about any other one would be offensive

Im so glad you geeked when those dinosaurs got flipped off 😂😂😂

1:56 This is a fact. "Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason." -James Randi (A legend)

I like the conspiracy that flat earth is in fact a conspiracy to discredit other conspiracies

"keeps water from escaping" Escaping where? from falling off the edge of a disc? why would water fall off the disc if there's no such thing as GRAVITY.

When everyone eventually sees the turtle the earth is laying on, the people will finally wake up.

The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is not having myocarditis. -Round Earther

My theory is that flat-earthers are so aggressive about their beliefs and so unlikely to change them because they're desperate to be right about something that nobody else is. It would mean that for the first time in their lives, they're the smart one and everyone else is the idiot.

Watching this video with a master degree in Geodesy is painful. Why do ppl believe this shit in 2024...

Flat earthers are the kind of people who would've believed the earth is a sphere, if the world had been flat. It doesn't matter what the truth is. They just want to be outliers

The whole thing about flat earth coming from a complete and total distrust in authorities and everything is so true. I know a flat earther irl and that's pretty much their whole reason. And yeah, they also believe in a bunch of other conspiracy theories etc.

Its hard to have discussions with flat earthers as a HAM radio guy, because as soon as you explain beyond line-of-sight radio communications they shut down. And they cant justify why VHF and UHF communications dont go as far as HF, because they cant get past the hurdle of the earth being round.

one of my favorite statements about this is "if the world was flat, flat earthers would believe in a round earth". Enough said

2:02 "you can't reason someone out of a position they weren't reasoned into" I've heard Matt Dillahunty say that a few times

"It doesn't sound crazy if you're stupid" man, so good.

With a quick google "The earliest clear documentation of the idea of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks (5th century BC). The belief was widespread in the Greek world when Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of Earth around 240 BC." Sabine has an awesome channel, amazing to see you give her some love!

Very well articulated analogy why conspiratoriats are so ridiculously stubborn. In fact, I've always considered globe vs. flatearth debates to be science-themed interventions than an actual debate about something that requires any amount of sincere scrutiny. For example, an Oswald vs. Cube debate regarding the Kennedy assassination is a legitimate debate, but something that's been understood for 2,500 years? Nah.

People try to shame me for not voting, but I know I'm dumb and I don't understand this shit. Every time I was forced to vote, I just chose whoever had the coolest name because I don't know these people and I don't understand what they stand for.

flatearth is wild.. BUT HAVE YOU HEARD OF "SPACE IS FAKE".....

RU-vid adding a "for context" wikipedia article about how flat earth is nonsense unironically gives it legitimacy 🙄

when my internet goes out i sit there refreshing it til it comes back

Scarecrow hears about flat earthers from Dorothy. When he makes it to the wizard of Oz he says there are other beings on another planet that needs help worse than himself and asks the wizard to help them instead.

This was figured out as long ago as there were boats with sails. As soon as the first person noticed that a boat disappeares first then the sail over the horizon they knew the earth must be round. Its so simple even a caveman could do it....