About a year ago at someone’s party I was talking with a guy I’d never met. He advanced the idea to me that the government had faked the moon landing. I wasn’t interested in his theories so I just said “Anything’s possible”. This only encouraged him and he continued by saying the reason the government made it up was to make us believe the earth was round. It’s propaganda he said, just look at the horizon. It’s a straight line.
I was trying to think of a way to politely walk away but I couldn’t help myself. I told him I’d ridden in a military jet fighter and that at an altitude of 60 thousand feet the curved horizon starts to become perceptible.
6 thousand feet? he asked. I said no, 60 thousand.
He looked at me as if I was the biggest BS artist he’d ever met and walked away.
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