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Do flat earthers think other planets are flat? All of them or some of them? Are stars (including and excluding the sun) flat too? (self.asklemmy)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm definitely not a Flat Earther, but I watched a documentary about them and a lot of them seem to think the Earth is flat and the sky is like a glass dome, and the other stars and planets are presumably just projected onto the dome somehow? Kind of like this: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/flat-earth-1.jpg

As for what's beyond the dome or why nobody's ever encountered the edge of it, I honestly couldn't tell you lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I used to work with a flat earther and this is the description he gave. He was raised Christian and attended a Christian college, so I guess he was never taught much science.