Posted on 06/19/2019 11:08:33 AM PDT by Gamecock
Organizers of an annual conference that brings together people who believe that the Earth is flat are planning a cruise to the purported edge of the planet. They're looking for the ice wall that holds back the oceans.
The journey will take place in 2020, the Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) recently announced on its website. The goal? To test so-called flat-Earthers' assertion that Earth is a flattened disk surrounded at its edge by a towering wall of ice.
Believers in a flat Earth argue that images showing a curved horizon are fake and that photos of a round Earth from space are part of a vast conspiracy perpetrated by NASA and other space agencies to hide Earth's flatness. These and other flat-Earth assertions appear on the website of the Flat Earth Society (FES), allegedly the world's oldest official flat Earth organization, dating to the early 1800s.
Whether or not the FEIC cruise will rely on GPS or deploy an entirely new flat-Earth-based navigation system for finding the end of the world, remains to be seen.
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Thanks fieldmarshaldj. Hard to pry them away from binge-watching "Under the Dome".
I wonder how they explain two ships at sea sailing apart suddenly can’t see each other at a fairly short distance no matter how powerful the optic they are using?
Your post reminded me of another Sea. Thanks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bo4ByFhLM
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Why would a publication about science publish this?
Ridicule. Shame. Scorn.
Take your pick.
That a good one.
Hank Johnson U.S. Representative for Georgia, will be calling for this to stop or the world will capsize!
Why should we laugh at them.
So many believe in “man made climate change”
B$. There are plenty of videos on YouTube that show the ship having disappeared over the horizon only to be brought back into view with a P900 or P1000 camera. Their argument is with the mathematical calculations not agreeing with what they observe. I don't believe the earth is flat but they do have several points that need better explanations. Saying they are nuts just dismisses the legitimate questions they have.
You might get a question answered if you review some of the infrared photos/videos of those distant mountains, sure made me curious.
If they go there they might discover the space craft used to fake the moon landings.
And they’ll reach the toe of some glacier, and declare success.
Hey, if the earth is flat, all we have to do is flip it over and get the cool side, just like a pillow. Global warming solved
“Ridicule. Shame. Scorn.”
That’s what science is about?
I think you ought to look up the meaning of the word mitigate.
“Don’t any flat earthers have cameras? And can’t they buy an airline ticket? Sounds like a case of “Willing Ignorance.””
This flat earth thing is exaggerated and essentially a hoax.
Meant to smear people with guilt by association. Leftist Alinsky crap.
Turtles.
Scientists like a good laugh too, now and then.
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