That was the case when hundreds of flat Earthers gaggled in Denver in mid-November for the second annual Flat Earth International Conference. When they do venture past the World Wide Web it’s by and large among their like-minded brethren. Not even the biggest names in science can dissuade them. The growing droves of believers in a flat world convene chiefly online, their message often spread through YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. If you thought flat Earthism was gone, think again. Picture the Earth as a flat plate sitting in a snow globe and that encapsulates their beliefs sort of. Some call it post-truth.įlat Earthers hold to a 14th Century understanding of our home world. Or is it? This is 2018 and nothing is irrefutable. The Earth, NASA’s blue marble, has been shown by a mountain of scientific evidence to be round, held in place by gravity and orbiting the Sun. He instead refers to himself as an observational scientist and considers the state of the world to still be an open question.įew things in life are as unassailable as the ground under our feet. Marine sergeant from Dallas, Texas, isn't a full-fledged flat Earther. Joella Baumann/CPR News Miguel Angel, a former U.S.
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