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Flat Earther confronts NASA worker with ‘proof’ the world is flat
In the past couple of years, YouTube channels supporting the idea of a flat Earth have become common – and Flat Earthers have become a passionate online minority.
Two weeks ago, an American basketball star came out and admitted that he thought the Earth was flat – and other players joined in.
NBA star Kyrie Irving said in a podcast, ‘This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat. I’m telling you, it’s right in front of our faces. They lie to us.’
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This week, a prominent online Flat Earther – Nathan Thompson, founder of the Official Flat Earth and Globe Discussion – finally confronted a NASA employee.
For the uninitiated, Flat Earthers believe that NASA is a gigantic conspiracy – dedicated to fooling us all that the Earth is in fact round.
Thompson says on YouTube, ‘I’m here with a real NASA employee. A legit NASA employee
He immediately busts out ‘proof’ the Earth is flat – an incident where an Italian ESA astronaut’s helmet filled with water on a spacewalk.
Thompson says, ‘And I asked him. I said, uh, astronauts have almost died in space. Uh, they get water in their suit and they almost drowned and he said it was because of saliva. This guy right here, hang on, I’m gonna wait for him to get to the front of the line, and then I’m gonna ask him some more questions.
The incident is trumpeted by Flat Earthers as ‘proof’ that NASA missions aren’t in space at all – but in fact, it was simply a water filter failure in the suit.
An in-depth explanation from NASA can be found here.
Sadly, that doesn’t satisfy Nathan Thompson – who then claims that the fact that the NASA employee stops talking to him is ‘proof’ that there’s a cover-up.
Thompson says, ‘Look, he was all nice. He was all nice. He gave me NASA cartoon frigging emblems. And now he won’t talk to me at all.
‘You’re not the boss of me, bro. Ok, I’ll leave because you asked me to, that’s fine, but NASA’s a fraud, bro. They lie about everything.’
‘Well I just got kicked out of Starbucks for asking a NASA employee questions, because he’s lying. He’s a blatant liar. What a joke that was! Now we’re outside. Beautiful America. Man that was ridiculous. And then I start asking him questions and he told me to go outside of Starbucks; I’m frigging shaking.’
