There has been quite the movement of people who are claiming that the world is flat, there are you tube videos, articles with some questionable scientific facts and mathematical equations and I have been rolling my eyes ever since I first heard about this theory.
I was at my favorite fast food place yesterday waiting for my food, and while I waited I usually pick up an Edmonton Sun newspaper and quickly browse through the articles. I was flipping pages and on some of them and throughout the whole paper someone had wrote "The earth is flat" with a black felt marker. Some other pages had different flat earth "Facts" that claimed there was no curvature when sailing on the ocean because the earth is obviously flat.
I laughed to myself thinking this was quite humorous, but then I thought "How naive do you have to be to believe in this claim?"
If you question whether the earth is flat and you think the world has fabricated up this diabolical plan to deceive us, have you ever stopped to ask why? What possible reason would scientists and government officials around the world lie to everyone? There is absolutely nothing to gain from such a hoax.
Lets go through some other facts:
There is a space station in space, at this very moment, shooting live footage of the planet earth, if you watch it you can see the earth turning and it is not flat.
If you look up at the sky, what do you see? The moon, the sun, and you can see they are spherical, and if you had a telescope you could see the other planets in our solar system. What shape are those planets? They are rotating balls spherical in shape. I would hazard a guess that every single planet in the entire universe is a sphere, so what makes you think that out of every single planet and star in the entire universe that the earth is the only one that is flat.
Do people not have any common sense? You can visually see for yourself if you simply look up at the night sky. This is so absurd it's funny. I really love how people believe a rapper (Bobby Ray Simmons jr) over NASA, or Neil Degrasse Tyson.
Scott Goerz
