Bill looked around at the empty diner and said, “C’mon. She told him that she had to finish her shift.

He dropped a sixty-dollar tip on a dollar-fifty check, flashed the waitress a smile, and invited her out. He ordered only a black coffee and puffed cigarette after cigarette. In 1998, while on tour, the science bad boy Bill Nye found himself at a diner in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Why can’t this be just another ploy by the rich and powerful to keep us oppressed?ģ. The government has proved time and time again that it is willing to lie to the American people in order to keep us docile and ignorant. If our planet were round, surely the buildings in the distance would begin to slant, no?Ģ. Standing on the ground and staring straight ahead, I can’t see the curve of the Earth. Here are the four major arguments that shifted my thinking I have a feeling that they will change yours as well:ġ.

I recently watched “Behind the Curve”-a new Netflix documentary about the community of people who believe that the Earth is flat rather than spherical-with the expectation that I’d sit back and have a laugh at the expense of the flat-Earthers.

Flat earthers documentary