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<Devil's advocate>No point sending a camera up, the camera manufacturers have tweaked the firmware to create the illusion of curvature.

I _know_ the earth is flat, so I already know that GoPro are in on the conspiracy as well.</Devil's advocate>

Your "throw them on a rocket" idea is the only realistic way to convince them I would imagine. Which gives me an idea, maybe that could be my ticket to the moon

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Won't work. The "rocket" is simply an advanced simulator with the ability to simulate zero G with high-def displays. No matter what kind of evidence you provide, they will always provide a (far fetched) counter argument.

You can't even convince me that there is a Moon until after you release me from this simulation.~

Right. And even if they conceded that they were on the moon, they'd argue that the 1969 landing was still fake, with props brought to the moon way later.

I'm considering starting a solipsist meetup group. I can't be sure that there are any like-minded solipsists out there.

Which one of us is me?

It might be able to simulate zero-G, but any linear acceleration in excess of 1G cannot be simulated by a stationary device.

That's what you want me to think but you're part of the conspiracy too...

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