• MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    You’re assuming these people believe we even send things to space. I had a serious ass conversation recently with my father’s roommate. Typical conspiracy theorist ding dong. Full on flat earther and everything. I asked him how he thinks GPS works if the earth was flat. He admitted he didn’t know but then when I started to explain how it works by pinging satellites we put up in space he cut me off and said space isn’t real. Like legitimately thinks space isn’t real. He on a separate occasion also complained that we didn’t need to wear masks during covid because we apparently make our own viruses in our bodies and viruses don’t spread between people.

    These people don’t even understand how logic works. Let alone that people could be smarter than they are.

    • fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      Well, if you reject all knowledge you cannot obtain through direct observation, you can kinda start to understand how they ended up where they are.

      They’re intimidated by the scientific method.