This likely began during the … ‘Space Race,’ in which the USSR and USA were obsessed with beating each other into space to the point that each faked their accomplishments. in Human Resource Development at Barry University.)Īmong the Frequently Asked Questions, such as what about astronauts perennially in orbit around our globe, some answers from FSE: the “space agencies of the world are involved in a conspiracy faking space travel and exploration. Shaquille O’Neal joins the Flat Earth movement!” reads a headline from March. And it’s being egged on by celebrity endorsements. I am sorry to say that a little Googling around shows the Flat Earth Society not only still very much exists, but would seem to be gaining ground, as it were, in our lying, anti-scientific age. It has been almost 50 years since the astronauts snapped the first photo of our (very round) planet, out there halfway to our (very round) moon. In my youth, you referred to someone with antedeluvian views as a member of the Flat Earth Society, which actually did exist, British-based, somewhat religious in nature, still I suppose viewing Galileo as a heretic.
Of course I knew there were people in the past who declined to accept the Copernican model.
“They say the horizon is a government-created myth, seeing as the Earth is flat. “Not according to the Flat Earthers,” Drew said. Driving home on Highway 395 after fishing in the Eastern Sierras earlier this summer, my nephew Drew riding shotgun, the bleak landscape of the desert receded before us all the way to the horizon.
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