Elon Musk made the most perfect point about the Flat Earth conspiracy

To be a flat Earth conspiracy theorist takes a special kind of ignorance and dedication.

You have to ignore a fact that has been scientifically accepted as truth for hundreds of years, and debate around hundreds of counter arguments that prove the conspiracy to be demonstrably false.

You also have to come up with your own explanations for, say, the extinction of the dinosaurs:

You also have to decry Nasa's images of Earth as fake; and try to explain the Coriolis effect, the ice caps, or the rotations of the stars in different hemispheres.

It becomes a bit of a headache.

Tesla and SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk is the latest to muse on the phenomenon.

Musk, having tweeted about the sunrise and sunset on Mars, then wondered why there was no Flat Mars Society?

Possibly because you can observe from Earth that Mars is spherical, whereas flat Earthers probably haven't seen the spherical Earth from space.

Honestly, it's not worth thinking about.

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