Man tries to prove the earth is flat

From what I remember I don't think he was " fucking idiotic" as he tried to justify his flat earth claims. I don't think for one second the earth is flat but hodge genuinely seemed to believe it was, which I'm fine with.
How can flat Earthers try to justify it when the evidence that counters their claim is staring them in the face? They’re all on the wind up
 
It's mind bending the numbers involved isn't it?
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second and a light year is the distasnce light travels in one year. Given that Betelguese is our nearest star, bar our own sun, well, as Douglas Adams phrased it; "Space is big, really big. You may think it's a long way to the chemists but that's just peanuts compared to space".
The distances are truly mindboggling, however Betelguese is far from our nearest star, that is Proxima Centauri which is just over 4 light years away.
 
some of the more prominent flat earthers make a fortune feeding the gullible their lies.

Look for eric dubay on YouTube. Millions of views and subscribers making him a mint to peddle bollocks to fools.
 
The distances are truly mindboggling, however Betelguese is far from our nearest star, that is Proxima Centauri which is just over 4 light years away.


Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour.
Thas orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!


Monty Python, Galaxy Song
 

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