Be amazed by the uses of Tech...

While the general message of this meme is true, almost none of the internet actually goes through satellites. There are huge cables all around the world connecting the whole thing. And while launching rockets and deploying satellites is really cool, I think ocean crossing cables are impressive all on their own. Imagine a cable not only long and strong enough to cross an ocean, but also resting on the ocean floor, exposed to the environment and expected to work for decades. And to think the first of these cables was deployed back in 1858.

Billy lives out in Bumfuck, Idaho and thus needs Starlink.
- We have high speed Internet here in bumfuck... But yes, statistically Billy is likely a dumbfuck if he lives here.
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The cables are flat!
I guess the point still stands, I'm sure you need to account for the circumference of the earth when laying those cables
- Yeah that's true!
  
  But the cables aren't exactly running in a straight line I think, so I would need to do some math and research to figure out if the circumference actually matters. Someone get on this!
Worse for the eco-system than a satellite though

Fun Fact!: If you think the earth is flat, your brain is flat.

I specifically remember being told that the internet would make people smarter.

It does, having all the humanity knowledge in your pocket is amazing and you can learn a lot which people do use to learn and get smarter. Sadly not everyone uses it that way and some just refuse to learn but that's just loud minority (I hope).
- I would argue that it’s contributed to the collective stupidity of humanity on a global scale. It’s had a lot of positive impacts as well, of course. I guess the negative ones just seem more palpable.
- I would look at it from a different angle. Before the internet you had to have a lot of knowledge in different areas to be able to sound and behave smart, and also to make good choices.
  
  Now you have knowledge readily available everywhere and there is much less incentive to learn things you don’t currently need, just to have it available in case you talk to someone about this topic.
  
  This has become even more evident with AI, where you don’t have to skim through a lot of context to find your information, you just ask what you need and it is presented the way you need it right away.
Internet can make people smarter, if they actually want to get smarter.
I think I'm general it has, but it also makes the dumb ones very loud.

internet is mostly below or at ground level. we have underwater cables for international internet.

I thought it was implying he was in some hard to reach location, and they were pulling the stops out to connect the last guy on earth without internet.
I wonder where the notion that the internet is satellite based comes from? Sat TV?

I honestly don't understand how people can think the Earth is flat in 2023. You can see it for yourself. Go to the coast of a sufficiently large body of water, and try holding a ruler up to the horizon.

I think at this point, it's more a lifestyle and less a theoretical argument.

Yes, a flat earth doesn't stand up against science. But also, for most people it doesn't make a difference in their day-to-day life. So they have little to no incentive to ever tackle that notion.
Clearly it's just big water mountains
- They alter all rulers to hide the flat earth!!!!
It not flat! It's concave! Flippin sheeple. Do your research!

/s
I wish I had thought of this when I was growing up on the coast. How long would the ruler need to be to see the effect?
anyone who unironically says they believe in flat earth is a fed

Does gravity work the same on a disc, or is that just another piece of evidence they ignore?

I've seen them say that things fall "because of density".

Like we fall down because we are heavier than air.

Like they think they've avoided the problem but they haven't.
- I mean obviously we fall down, because down is where the things fall to. /s
Wake up sheeple! Gravity is an obvious lie from the NWO illuminati lizard people! We're actually all implanted with small steel sheets in our feet at birth, and everything on the planet has a small amount of iron filings in too. The flat disc we live on is completely magnetic. That's how we don't fall off.

I thought everyone knew this!
- I remember a guy arguing that flat Earth is constantly accelerated upwards on God's will, and never reaches speed of light due to Einstein relativism. Was quite fun to listen to this unusual fusion
I think some of them reckon the disc is moving "forward" at speed .
- That "forward" would be upwards? In does that people acknowledge relativity, but won't accept geometry or gravitation?
If the disk had the thickness of Earth's diameter and through some black magic fuckery made it so that only the mass directly below you affected the force of gravity on you, then yes.

It's probably easier to make an FTL engine than to make any sense of flat earth theories.
- There's probably some distribution of mass that would result in uniform gravity across the whole disk. I'm guessing there would need to be more mass near the edge to counteract the diagonal pull of the mass near the center on the area near the edge.

Internet is made of tubes!