Forgive the terrible photoshop. It’s more of a conversation starter.

[At the court martial hearing]

We were observing a pre-warp civilization. The mission was going according to plan until they told me they thought their world was flat. They weren’t in the equivalent of our 14th century. No. They were just so contrarian that they were willing to believe any unsubstantiated claim that had a website. They were willing to go back on the conclusion their society had rightly drawn about the shape of the planet on which they live.

Many of the people there, and by ‘people’ I mean ‘idiots’, claimed to be “questioning” types who asked why they should just “go along” with the claim that their planet is round.

Well, I told them why: because we came from space, looked out the window, and took a bloody photo.

Are we the baddies?

(Adapted from this segment)

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    6 months ago

    Oh, that photo that if you pay attention you’ll notice is flat?

    How can you be certain it’s not a disk with textures that keep mutating to emulate a rotating sphere?

    (\s of course.)