Conspiracy Theory – Flat earth:
Fact: No, not true
Earth is flat. Some early humans and even some people today believe earth is flat. No we all know earth is not flat. If someone claims like that send them to Google earth or real time satelite pictures or pictures taken from International space station so they really know how earth looks.
Even if some claim earth is flat after all the evidences then just move on. Crazy people live in their own world with own theories.
Gonna be even more interesting to see what happens to SpaceX when he goes full flat earth.
I watched mark in a documentary perform a test to show the earth was flat, it obviously failed, and watching his brain trying to do mental gymnastics was painful to watch.
Behind the Curve for those wondering what documentary
If I recall correctly, there was a website for Flat Earth but it was more of one of those “don’t believe everything you read on the internet” kinds of sites. I believe that was the general start to the whole thing, people taking it seriously.
I could be wrong though.
Very well written a very informative
It is not unusual for schools to teach that priests opposed the voyage of Columbus because Catholics believed the world was flat and that he would sail off the edge.
In fact, Catholics at that time accepted the Ptolemaic model, which includes a globe earth. Scholars (who were typically clergy back then) objected the voyage because Columbus had miscalculated the circumference of the earth as smaller than it really was. It was not possible to carry enough supplies to reach China as he intended. If he had not come across an unknown continent, they would have starved.