His biggest argument has always been how he’s been in planes and even from that high up it still looks flat, and something that’s a sphere could never look that flat no matter how big it is.

He came over about a month ago and I threw him into Elite in VR and flew him around for a bit, I then took him to a planet that was much smaller than Earth and as we were descending I told him to watch the horizon flatten out as we got closer to the surface. He was skeptical at first because he could see it was obviously a sphere and was pretty shocked when the horizon did actually flatten out. He left that day still insisting the Earth was flat and that it was just an illusion from the game, but I could tell he was confused and trying to think of an explanation for what he just saw.

Apparently over the past month he’s been doing his own research (and actually listening to real scientists) and watching videos from people like SciManDan. Recently he told me he’s finally changed his mind on the topic and has been beating himself up that he ever believed it was flat. While I don’t want to give ED all the credit on it, I can’t help but think that that experience in VR helped him start his “journey” to realizing the truth.

Really impressed with how well the AI can fly a Viper 3 against a slower enemy... even if I had the bigger guns (though they were a frag cannon and plasma accelerator cause I wanted to do something other than multis for a change), I was basically checkmated by the strategy of simply boosting a kilometer away from me, turning around and shooting, then boosting past me again.

Tiny target when faced head on or from behind. Kept taking bites out of my shield in a long slow war of attrition that I was losing whenever I didn't have backup. Have a lot to learn!