The flat earth doctrine is that everything we think is being done by satellites is done by towers on the ground, like cell phone towers. Unfortunately, that's not so easy to pull off.Flat earthers deny the existence of space so they need to deny the existence of satellites also. Starting from this mindset, nothing NASA or Musk releases can be considered trustworthy only going into space to find the curve with one's own eyes counts. There's a name for this, the Zetetic method ,which holds personal sensory experiences above all other forms of information gathering. (The organizer of November's flat-Earth conference is a Christian creationist.) Others simply don't trust anything they can't see with their own eyes. Some flat-Earth believers are motivated by their interpretations of the Bible as saying the Earth is flat. The Flat Earth Society lists 555 members, and the organizer of a flat-Earth conference that took place in November 2017 in North Carolina told Live Science that about 500 people attended.Įxperts in conspiracy belief say that, despite their strange insistence on ignoring more than 2,000 years of scientific observation, flat-Earth theorists may be fairly similar to believers in other conspiracies: They tend to be drawn to these beliefs out of the sense of control and special knowledge they confer, and the believers tend to like black-and-white versions of the world in which clear "bad guys" try to pull the wool over the eyes of the "good guys." It's impossible to say how many people actually believe that the Earth is flat - especially online, where trolls and true believers are difficult to distinguish. In the thread following The Flat Earth Society's tweet, the person in charge of the feed referred most challengers to the organization's Wiki page, where members posit that the planet is a flat disk with the North Pole at the center and an ice wall (what most people know as Antarctica) skirting the edge.
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