The Only Thing Flat Earthers Have

to Fear is Sphere Itself

By: Larissa Koitmaa     Feb. 15, 2018

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Members of the Flat Earth Society claim that the earth is flat. Through the eyes of flat-earthers, they see and feel flat ground and believe that the earth cannot possibly be a sphere. This belief is definitely a conspiracy and not scientific, and their reasons are ridiculous.

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The flat-earthers think that the

world is in fact a circle, but not

spherical. They see it with the

arctic circle in the middle, land

around the arctic circle, and that

Antarctica is just a rim of ice at

the edge of the earth. They believe

that NASA employees guard the 150

rim of ice to prevent people from

jumping out. They also claim that

the moon and sun measure 32 miles and circle 3,000 miles above the plane of the earth. Gravity is just an illusion; because gravity “doesn't exist”. Objects don't fall down, but instead, the Earth accelerates up at a rate of 9.8 seconds squared, so the Earth just catches up to the falling object.

 

Their reasons are inconvincible and preposterous: they think that all pictures of the Earth are fake or Photoshopped. They believe that when you’re on an airplane, you are flying in circles over the land and not in a line around a globe. They’re not sure what's under the earth but some say it’s just rocks. They’re not even sure why NASA and the government tell us it’s round, as if it's something to hide.

 

Many believers have gotten creative and have tried to test these theories. One man boarded a flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Seattle, Washington and brought a bubble level with him. He “proved” the earth was flat because the bubble stayed in the middle the whole time. He claimed that if the earth was round, the bubble wouldn’t have remained in the middle.

 

Mike Hughes, a flat earth believer, was planning on proving the flat earth theory. His plan was to build a rocket and launch himself 52 miles up into the air to see for himself if the earth was a sphere. He got the publicity he wanted, but the launch never happened. Hughes says that if he sees the curvature of the earth (which he would), then he’ll believe its round, but he just needs to see it for himself.

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We’re not sure why flat-earthers think the government and NASA would want to say the earth was round if it wasn’t. The idea that the earth is flat is an absurd and ignorant theory. They have no legitimate scientific proof that the earth is flat, and they are constantly failing at proving their theory.