But for the majority that thinks they are round, the explanation is as simple as “because they’re not Earth”. Some people also believe that the rest of the planets are flat. This way they opened “tremendous amounts of funds to embezzle as it only takes a fraction of the total budget to fake space travel”. After the war, it kept going because of greed related motivations rather than “political gains”. The goal? “Keep pace with the others supposed achievements”. and USA were obsessed with beating each other into space to the point that each faked their accomplishments”. For them, it likely began during “Cold War’s ‘Space Run’, in which the U.S.S.R. This wall is the responsibility of NASA and other agencies and its goal is to prevent people from climbing over or falling off the disc, “holds in our oceans and helps protect us from whatever lies beyond”, it’s written on The Flat Earth Society Forum.įlat earthers don’t have a justification for the reason why the governments would lie about the true shape of the Earth but their guess is financial related. According to their leading theory, Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the centre and Antarctica is a 45-meter ice wall, surrounding all of it. The flat earthers believe that the Earth is (that’s right) flat. What is the Flat Earth Theory?Īt first, it seems like a joke. “They saw those videos and they thought ‘that’s it, this makes total sense to me’”, says Marshall about Eric Dubay’s 200 proofs (being “the horizon looks flat” the first one) and Mark Sargent’s 14 videos.īesides that, several public figures such as the rapper-singer Bobby Ray Simmons Jr (B.o.B.), NBA player Kyrie Irving (even though he later said it was a joke)and the TV personality Tila Tequila have assumed to be flat earthers on social media.

“There were plenty who say these were seminal moments in their journey to being a flat earther”, explains Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., a small pro-science and anti-pseudoscience charity to BBC. The movement caught fire around 2015/2016 when a series of videos were published on YouTube, attracting a lot of attention.

“We continue the age-old tradition of questioning the Round Earth doctrine and challenging authorities”, it’s written on their website. Universal Zetetic Society, Samuel Shenton’s International Flat Earth Research Society and now Flat Earth Society.

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