Showerthought: My buddy in Austin talked me into a flat earth video and now I'm spiraling

My friend Jake, who builds race cars for a living, sat me down last Friday and walked through this whole NASA footage analysis with specific time stamps and math I could actually follow. He showed me how the curve in some high-altitude balloon footage doesn't match what the globe model predicts, and it hit different because he's not a tinfoil hat type. Has anyone here ever had a solid, smart person change your mind on something you thought was settled?

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torres.sage18d ago

In my experience, smart people can be wrong about things too, their confidence doesn't make footage conclusive.

the_pat6d ago

So why do we trust their takes over a clear video then?

reesemiller18d ago

Footage conclusive" is a pretty funny way to put it honestly. But yeah, confidence doesn't mean much when the video itself is shakey and bad quality. I've seen WAY too many people get totally fooled by stuff that looks obvious to someone else. It's like people forget that being smart in one area doesn't mean you can't be dumb about a grainy video.