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Some guy in a Facebook group argued the earth is flat using a balloon and a level, and 40 people agreed with him
I keep a little folder of bad takes because they crack me up, but this one from a local Facebook group in Peoria last Tuesday actually made me stop scrolling. This dude posted a photo of a balloon tied to a fence post with a bubble level taped on top, and he swore it proved the ground was flat because the string hung straight down. He wrote "if the earth was round the level would show it" and that was his whole proof. Within a few hours he had 40 comments and most of them were people saying stuff like "he has a point" and "nobody has ever shown me a curve from my backyard." The wildest part is a retired science teacher jumped in and spent like 300 words explaining gravity and how a level works, and the guy replied with a YouTube link. I sat there reading the whole thread and honestly could not tell if he was serious or just farming attention. What gets me is these takes never die, they just get a fresh balloon. Has anyone else watched a family member fall down a hole like this in a group chat?
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