This article has been imported from chorus.fm for discussion. All of the forum rules still apply. Alan Burdick, writing at The New Yorker: If you are only just waking up to the twenty-first century, you should know that, according to a growing number of people, much of what you’ve been taught about our planet is a lie: Earth really is flat. We know this because dozens, if not hundreds, of YouTube videos describe the coverup. We’ve listened to podcasts—Flat Earth Conspiracy, The Flat Earth Podcast—that parse the minutiae of various flat-Earth models, and the very wonkiness of the discussion indicates that the over-all theory is as sound and valid as any other scientific theory. We know because on a clear, cool day it is sometimes possible, from southwestern Michigan, to see the Chicago skyline, more than fifty miles away—an impossibility were Earth actually curved. Maybe, and stay with me here, the internet was a massive mistake. Expand - View Original
I think about it every time I read the comments sections below online articles on my Facebook news feed.
I wish more people would get serious about that “joke” that Australia isn’t real, and it’s just a made up place and Australians are just American actors. Flat earth is getting old.
It's almost like living in a world where experts and folks who spent their lives committed to studying a subject have an equal opportunity to have a voice with people who know nothing and don't care about learning or studying is a bad thing. We have lots of problems in our modern world. But an alarming number of them are created by that fact - trolls and experts have equally loud voices, with equal weight to the masses.
every time i think about flat earth, i always think about that dude who decided to rocket himself on some sketchy missile device.
Comments sections on news articles were a terrible idea. I realize the irony, but I don’t mean this site!
And that dynamic has empowered idiots into positions of power where they can continue to suppress or ignore experts in favour of vote buying slogans and soundbites. And yes, I may be a civil servant in a field that continues to be trampled by politicians who have no interest in evidence based decision making...