DaveH
Striker
was expecting the planetarium response to be honest.Or something along the lines of "you see what you see but none of that proves we are standing on a spinning globe"
I don't think he has any capacity for analysis or actual thinking, just what he watches and repeats from youtube
Every time you can show that what you observe exactly matches a 3d model, or I demonstrate something changing like the storms of Jupiter, then he talks about video projectors in planetariums. Good response. A very good video projector could show all this, could show the rotating sky and could make the southern hemisphere rotate the opposite way. It makes a lot of things work. It also still fails in how you can see the southern cross in every direction but north, but you can't have everything.
But it opens up a new question. Why is there a video screen hidden in the middle of the earth projecting an image exactly like you would see if we lived in a 3d universe. It is perfectly designed to trick us by behaving exactly like objects in a circular motion would do. This points to a sinister intelligence at work. And in that you have taken the leap from science and the sum of human knowledge, to all that being lies, to seeing a conspiracy and finding another 'truth', to putting your faith into something made up and then coming to the natural conclusion that you need some powerful intelligent made up entity who has designed something really complicated and like the world leaders, also want to trick us.
In general humans have gone from god/spririt/magic -> science and knowledge. This completes the circle by bring in a god type figure, only not a good god, a god that wants to fool us and keep us from knowing. Keep digging in the various flat earth conspiracies and you find that not only do the followers behave like it is a religion, taking away all critical thinking and analysis, but actually it is a religion with a god. Only they don't name or always acknowledge the god and certainly don't worship it. But it is there, supporting the conspiracy and using magical powers to make all the unexplained things work, which is right back where we started in neolithic times or before.