It’s hard to believe that these loons are still around in the 21st Century. The shocking fact is that flat Earth beliefs are gaining traction, mainly from conspiracy theorists and pseudo-scientists – the types that think the Apollo Missions were faked and that Elvis is alive and working in Burger King. For instance, In 2017 the US rapper B.o.B started a crowd-funding campaign to raise $1 million to launch a satellite to seek evidence that our planet is flat. The campaign fell flat.
Apparently 7% of the Brazilian population – some 11 million people – believe that the Earth is flat. This has been attributed to a resurgent evangelical Christian church. Religious fundamentalism is spreading these ideas in Islamic countries too. In 2017 a geology student in Tunisia was intending to submit a PhD defending her work on a flat-Earth model. These views have also been fuelled by You Tube and Twitter.
There are a number of flat-Earth theories. Some propose that the Earth’s edges are surrounded by a wall of ice holding in the oceans. Others say our flat planet and its atmosphere are encased in a huge, hemispherical snow globe from which nothing can fall off the edges.
To account for night and day, flat-Earthers think the Sun moves in circles around the North Pole. Another idea suggests that the Sun and Moon are 50 km in diameter and circle the disc-shaped Earth at a height of 5500 km, with the stars above on a rotating dome.
Many flat-Earthers also reject gravity, suggesting that the flat Earth is accelerating through space up at 9.8 m/s2 to give the illusion of gravity. The adherents of these views believe there is a massive conspiracy, involving NASA and the astronomical community, to cover up the existence of a flat Earth.
Some may think Flat Earthers are harmless eccentrics. They’re not. They are dangerous. Before long they will be combining with proponents of intelligent design to push the frontiers of scientific illiteracy even further. Soon they will be saying belief in a round Earth is a colonial and racist imposition, dreamed up by white men.
A bunch of flat headed cunts.
They also believe Australia doesn’t exist and is a fictional place manned with actors pretending to be from there.
Nominated by – Marvellous Mechanical Cunting Machine




