Spent 2 hours arguing with a flat earther and actually got him to reconsider one thing

I run a little meetup group here in Austin where we debate conspiracy theories for fun, but I was getting nowhere with this one guy who was all in on flat earth. He kept throwing out the same tired arguments about NASA faking photos and the horizon looking flat. Last month I tried a different angle - I brought up how satellite internet works, specifically Starlink. I asked him to explain how a signal can bounce off a curved atmosphere if the earth is flat and rectangular. He got quiet for a minute and then said 'huh, I never thought about that.' It was a small win but it felt huge after months of circular debates. Anyone else found a specific detail like that that made someone pause in a conspiracy argument?

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