As I have commented many times in this blog, most flat-earthers seem to have the cognitive capacity of a 7-year-old. This is not just a random insult and spurious defamation. I'm being 100% serious. They seem to be, in many aspects, stuck at the 7-to-10 years old level of intellectual, mental and cognitive capacity, while having the life experience of an adult (this life experience being about the only thing that allows them to function in society acceptably well.)
One good example of this is how man of them seem somehow incapable of understanding the concept of "force", and they have the same misconception about it than a friend of mine had when we were about 12 or so: And that's that they think that a "force" being applied to an object towards a certain direction means that the object has to move towards that direction (and, thus, if the object doesn't move to that direction, or moves to some other direction, that means that there is no such force.)
While not all of them, a few of them seem to have a 5-year-old's concept of how the Sun and the Moon work, and think that if the heliocentric-spherical-earth model were true, that would mean that the Moon only appears during the night, and thus you wouldn't be able to see them at the same time. (I have genuinely no idea why they think that, but some of them apparently do.)
Most of them seem to think that math is nothing but a bunch of made-up gibberish that has no meaning, and which people just believe because some "math gurus" make up random meaningless scribbles. They somehow seem incapable of comprehending the most fundamental nature of mathematics, what it is, and why and how it works.
In fact, overall they live in this strange imaginary reality that's pretty much the Bronze Age with modern technology. In other words, they seem to think that while we have developed a bit of fancy technology, we have no idea what's actually happening in the universe outside our immediate surroundings, and that people are just making completely random baseless guesses about what's beyond the sky, just like people did in the Bronze Age. Moreover, they live in this imaginary reality where humanity is actually physically capable of organizing into an absolutely massive world-wide conspiracy to teach people lies, and to deploy a fleet of thousands and thousands of navy warships to patrol the "ice wall" that's surrounding us, as if they had nothing better to do (and, mind you, an absolutely massive army of warships that nobody has ever seen, photographed, filmed, or even testified to exist, and which no whistleblower has ever given any evidence of.)
One of the reasons why the believe and cling to the flat Earth conspiracy theory is that it gives them a very childish sense of superiority. If you read the comment sections of popular flat-earther YouTube channels, they just reek of this sense of superiority: These comment sections are full of believers who are extremely smug, and who post nothing but smug mockery and ridicule of the peasants who have been fooled by NASA into believing nonsense. Obviously they themselves are above being fooled like this, they can see all the lies, and are laughing at the masses who have been fooled. They are the smart intellectual ones, while the masses are stupid and gullible.
(Ironically, their smug messages are most often written in extremely childish language, using very poor grammar, usually no punctuation, being mostly gibberish and making little sense, writing a random stream of random vague claims, and of course stock full of laughing emojis.)
Anyway, one of their favorite situations where they feel superior to the deluded masses, where they "see through the deception" because they are smarter, more intelligent and more observant than the stupid peasants, is when they smugly and mockingly point out how broadcasts of space flights use computer graphics to depict what's happening to the spacecraft.
Those broadcasts most often will indeed use a computer graphic to show to the viewers the status of the rocket or spacecraft, showing a 3D model of the thing, in order to illustrate its position and orientation, which boosters are currently active and so on, usually with many numbers surrounding it showing its speed, altitude and so on. Obviously they are showing this for the benefit of the viewers, because the alternative would be to just show an empty screen full of numbers and nothing else, or something other than anything depicting the rocket or spacecraft (eg. just the sky full of clouds).
It is, of course, completely obvious to normal people that it is just a computer-graphics representation of what's happening, ie. just a computer drawing a 3D model representing the real thing. No normal person would ever think that it's supposed to be showing live footage of the rocket. It's very obvious to everybody that it's just a graphic, essentially a diagram updated in real time.
More importantly, the broadcasters themselves assume this to be so completely obvious that they usually don't insult the intelligence of their viewers by putting some kind of text saying "computer graphic simulation, not live footage" or similar. They assume that it's obvious to the viewer.
But flat-earthers are so infantile that they don't understand that. They honestly seem to think that the broadcast is trying to fool the viewers into thinking that it's live footage of the rocket itself, and then the flat-earthers laugh at it and feel so superior because they can't be fooled so easily! "Haha! Look at their ridiculous attempt at fooling people into thinking this is real footage, when it's so obviously fake! They can't fool us! We are way too smart for that!"
The are incapable of understanding that they are not trying to "fool" anybody, and instead they assume that it should be completely obvious that it's just a graphic, not real-life footage, and thus they don't need to explicitly specify that. And then the flat-earthers feel so smug and so superior when they have cracked their subterfuge and figured out that it's just CGI and not real!
The sad thing about this is that that sense of superiority and smugness also forms an impenetrable wall that's impervious to any reason and explanations: Try to explain to them this, and they will just ignore it. They can't let go of that sense of superiority, the dopamine rush that they get when they think that they have "cracked the code" and are so much smarter and superior to the masses.
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