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Since 2017, images have circulated online supposedly showing a Facebook post by The Flat Earth Society — a conspiratorial group that attempts to convince people the earth is a flat disk, not a ...

From there, pitfalls can be easily dismissed – like photos of the Earth from space, which flat Earthers believe are photoshopped. “This all goes away if they put a 24/7 camera feed on the moon ...

The claim: Pictures show the Earth is flat, and sea levels haven’t changed. A July 31 Facebook post (direct link, archived link) features a collage of images showing natural disasters, Chicago ...

This flat Earth map drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893 is also considered the Bible Map of the World. (Image credit: CalimaX / Alamy) The leading flat-earther theory holds that Earth is a disc with ...

Maybe this obsession with the flat earth is one of those. Or maybe they’re just contrarian. I don’t know, it’s one of those things that I find so difficult to get my head around.

A disc world’s center of mass would not be located straight down from most parts of the surface. People on the outer edge of a flat Earth would experience gravity pulling them at a different angle.

A conference aimed at disputing the idea that the world is round just wrapped up in North Carolina. The first-ever 2017 Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) was held in Raleigh on Nov. 9 and ...

Stuart Clark: It’s so clearly obvious that the world isn’t flat. We see when ships leave the harbour you can see as they gradually disappear below the horizon. You can see if you go up on top ...