If flat Earthers, or at least a good number of them, could be abducted and taken to Mars...

Round earthers havent been to mars yet. They are going to look stupid when they realise they have been conned.

No, they would attribute the experience to a demon's deception

True, but seems THAT hugely a psychotic break wouldn't be possible in 100% of them, but honestly couldn't guess how much less than that it would be.

No No....they are abducted from the inner Earth which is flat and they still think they are there. Look at the West and North East Coast of the US. All those mofo's are from inner Earth. They don't have to learn to be actors, anchors or any performer. They just have to be themselves.

Read the delusions of round earthers in this thread. Observe their indignance. A complex is the first sign of madness.

Hey look, a flat earth tard

Observe this round earther here. His primitive ego demonstrating a resort to insultive comments. He is insecure.

See, here we go. We got us an inner earther. Bless it's heart.

Be great woth no more completely looney tunes roundyround.

You’re the one going roundy-round. You think you’re falling over backwards faster than the speed of sound while watching a sunset.

This.

Gotta wonder how potentially violently terroristic these wackjobs are.

Foucault Pendulum
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The Foucault pendulum which was displayed for many years in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History was removed in late 1998 to make room for the Star-Spangled Banner Preservation Project and there are no current plans to reinstall it.

The Foucault Pendulum is named for the French physicist Jean Foucault (pronounced "Foo-koh), who first used it in 1851 to demonstrate the rotation of the earth. It was the first satisfactory demonstration of the earth's rotation using laboratory apparatus rather than astronomical observations.

If you start a Foucault Pendulum swinging in one direction, after a few hours you will notice that it is swinging in a quite different direction. How does this happen?

Imagine you are in a museum located at the north pole and that the museum has a Foucault Pendulum suspended from the ceiling at a point exactly over the pole. When you set the pendulum swinging it will continue to swing in the same direction unless it is pushed or pulled in some other direction. (This is due to a basic law of nature called Newton's First Law.) The earth, on the other hand, will rotate once every 24 hours underneath the pendulum. Thus if you stood watching the pendulum, after a quarter of an hour or so, you would be likely to notice that the line of the pendulum's swing has changed to a different direction. This would be especially clear if one marked the position of the line of swing in the morning and had the pendulum knocking down pegs arranged in a ring at the center.

However, if you are standing on the floor of a building housing a pendulum (which is connected to the earth), you will naturally think that the floor is stable and the pendulum is moving. This is because we naturally assume that the base on which we stand is stable unless our eyes or sense of balance tells us otherwise. If our base moves slowly or accelerates smoothly, we are easily fooled into thinking that another object we see is moving. You have probably experienced this in a car, a train, or an airplane, that begins to move very slowly and smoothly, and for a split second you think that a nearby car, train, or even a building, seems to move. Thus, after thinking for a while about the total situation you might be willing to agree that what you are seeing is a real demonstration that the earth is rotating under the pendulum and that the line of swing of the pendulum just appears to rotate.

At the north pole the apparent rotation would be a full circle of 360 degrees each 24-hour day, or about 15 degrees per hour. This case is fairly simple, because here the earth and the pendulum are not exerting much influence on each other. As you move off the north pole down to a more southerly point like Washington, for example, the earth not only rotates under the pendulum, but it carries Washington, the building, and the pendulum, in a great circle about its axis. That is, the motion of the earth is now mixed in a complicated way with the motion of the pendulum. As you can prove if you watch the pendulum for a while, the effect of this is to slow down the apparent rotation of the swing. Instead of seeming to rotate 15 degrees (about 1/24 of a full circle) in one hour, it only changes by about 9 degrees (about 1/40 of a full circle). The further south you go, the slower the apparent rotation gets, and at the equator there is no rotation at all. Below the equator the apparent rotation begins again, but in the opposite direction.

this^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Round earthers are away with the faeries.