Some People Honestly Believe the World is Flat
August 6, 2008 · Print This Article
Amazing as it seems in this day and age, there really are ‘flat-earthers’ – and I’m not saying that in the typical way it’s used, to describe someone ignorant or grossly misinformed. There are people who actually believe that the world is flat, and evidence of a round earth is simply a vast conspiracy dreamed up by people who want to take our money… wait, this is starting to sound really familiar.
From BBC News:
Flat earth theory is still around. On the internet and in small meeting rooms in Britain and the US, flat earth believers get together to challenge the “conspiracy” that the Earth is round.
Mr Davis, a 25-year-old computer scientist originally from Canada, first became interested in flat earth theory after “coming across some literature from the Flat Earth Society a few years ago”.
Mr Davis now believes “the Earth is flat and horizontally infinite - it stretches horizontally forever”.
What about all the photos from space that show, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the Earth is round? “The space agencies of the world are involved in an international conspiracy to dupe the public for vast profit,” says Mr McIntyre.
Flat earthers apparently believe that the photographic evidence is fake. They see the North Pole as central and Antarctica as a ring that runs along the edge of the earth. Oh yes, and our disc-shaped earth is also 9,000 kilometers deep. Yes, they’re serious.
Right – and global warming is a hoax, we never landed on the moon, Prince Charles is the antichrist and Bigfoot roams the Pacific Northwest. We get your message loud and clear, flat earthers.
Link [BBC News]
Photo credit: BBC News & Newsweek
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To the people who are not convinced of global warming:
With the population of the earth exponentially increasing, isn’t it necessary for us to be good stewards of the earth anyways? One of the best things we can do is support ‘green’ businesses that provide a desirable good while also being eco-friendly. For example http://www.simplestop.net stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment.
I think you miss the point Gustavion…I (and others) completely support green business and eco-friendly living. Why ruin the planet? We should be doing everything we can to keep it clean and beautiful.
But that doesn’t mean we are buying into the “global warming” myth (ok, *theory* ). I don’t believe in alien abductions either, but that doesn’t make me ignorant or on the same level as a “flat earther”.