Is the Earth flat or flat?

Is the Earth flat or flat?

Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat… and social media plays a role. If you type ‘flat Earth’ into Google, you’d be joining a group of people that have helped to triple the search term over the last couple of years.

Is the flat Earth Society growing in popularity?

According to the Flat Earth Society’s leadership, its ranks have grown by 200 people (mostly Americans and Britons) per year since 2009.

Why did ancient people believe the Earth was flat?

Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space Radio, and author of How to Die in Space. A number of ancient cultures believed that the Earth was flat because, simply, they didn’t know any better.

What is the best way to debate a flat earth person?

Probably the best way to debate a flat-Earther would be to send one up to the ISS and let them tell you what they see with their own eyes.

The whole earth consists of 4 concentric rings of land, each ring having its own sun and moon, which would be our wandering stars,” he says on the convention website. Flat-Earthers like Kenny agree that the planet is a flat plane, though they have varied ideas for the disk’s particular layout.

What are the seasons and weather like on a flat Earth?

The four seasons and weather on a flat earth can be easily explained and understood, and it perfectly explains what we actually see and experience. The sun is close and small and circles around and above the flat earth in a spiral pattern on the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Summer months,…

Is there a flat Earth Society in Australia?

Sure Australia has its own chapter of the Flat Earth Society, or tried to, with a website last updated in 2001. For the most part, the south doesn’t even bother, they know better.

Why doesn’t the south believe in a flat Earth map?

For the most part, the south doesn’t even bother, they know better. They have their own spinning polar sky, an since they experience the same earth deformation from the opposite Pole, the don’t buy into the northern flat earth map because they can make their own. It would look like this

Why can’t we get to the edge of the Earth?

According to “Flat Earthers”, we cannot get to the edge because of Government policies and protection. Another version of “Flat Earth Theory” is that there is no edge, the Earth; and by extent, Antarctica; continues to go on forever and ever.

Do flat Earthers believe there is an edge to the disk?

Some flat earthers don’t believe there is an edge, they think the disk is infinite and, as I understand this subset, all of it is ice apart from the patch we live on. The main alternative as I understand it, is that the “firmament” is joined to the disk somewhere beyond the coast of Antarctica.

How many flat-Earth groups are there?

However, the oldest flat-Earth organization, the Flat Earth Society, claims to have 555 registered members as of August 2016. According to the society’s website, the group was founded by an English inventor named Samuel Birley Rowbotham in the 1800s.

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Flat earthers argue the earth is a flat plane with the North Pole in the center and Antarctica is a ring enclosing the oceans. The equator a circle half-way between the Noth Pole in the center and the outer ring that is Antartica.

Can you see the Polestar from anywhere on a flat Earth?

On a flat earth you should be able to see the polestar from everywhere. Flat earthers can’t explain why there would be a southern polestar around which the southern stars rotate. Some deny this occurs, and suggest it is different to what happens in the northern sky.

Does north and South still exist with a flat Earth?

North, South, East, And West still exist with a flat earth … they’re directions… stop looking up for north and down for south. Neil degrasse tyson said the earth is pear shaped and wider south of the equator (southern hemisphere) so this actually does work on a FE map.

Why does the flat Earth model fail in the southern hemisphere?

So many elements of the flat earth model fail in the Southern Hemisphere. We have a southern celestial pole which the stars rotate around in the south, the opposite way the stars rotate around the Polestar in the north. This is consistent with what you would expect to see on a rotating globe, not what you would expect to see on a flat earth.