# Why are people obsessed with flat earthers?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 29, 2025, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-obsessed-with-flat-earthers/1022587 "2025-08-29T21:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-people-obsessed-with-flat-earthers/1022587/53 "2025-08-31T21:17:52Z")

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We had a flat-earther here a few years ago

[https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-june-25-2010-how-does-the-earth-s-rotation-affect-the-path-of-a-bullet/](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/article-june-25-2010-how-does-the-earth-s-rotation-affect-the-path-of-a-bullet/)

Maybe he was kidding; he seemed like someone who had picked up a lot of lies about what the Earth being a sphere actually meant, and also had never experimented with a flashlight to see how shadows behave, but who was absurdly sure of himself.

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