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[sigmaleph]

I hope we end up with widespread human habitation in space and plenty of sci-fi megastructures because I want to see them develop their own flat-earthers. I want people living on ringworlds to come up with their own version of the north-pole-centered map. I want people living on an asteroid you can walk around in an afternoon to tell us it's all a scam somehow. I want people in those spinny space-stations with visible curvature to insist there is none.

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[contrarianarchon]

Surely the typical space conspiracy would be "earth is still fake but, like, entirely fake, it's just space stations all the way down". After all, we all know ecosystems take a lot of effort to manage and would be horrifically expensive! And how many historical figures do you know the names of - you don't really need to posit *seven billion people all on one station* to justify them!

[sigmaleph]

yeah this would probably happen

bonus points if Earth is still inhabited and people there are actively sending you transmissions

extra bonus points if you still live in the solar system and Earth is like, both visible and a trip doable in a human lifetime

[contrarianarchon]

Of course! Most of the internet is fake and procedurally generated by AI anyway, right? And everyone knows the place earth-visitors go to is just a dome with a fake "sky" to trick visitors.

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

Earth is real, but nobody's been there. They faked all that using a soundstage on Europa.