The weekend, in no small part, revolved around discussing and debating science, with lots of time spent running, planning, and reporting on the latest set of flat Earth experiments and models. Yes, flat earthers do seem to place a lot of emphasis and priority on scientific methods and, in particular, on observable facts. There was also a lot of team-building, networking, debating, workshops – and scientific experiments. It was well attended, and wasn’t just three days of speeches and YouTube clips (though, granted, there was a lot of this). Yu says.Speakers recently flew in from around (or perhaps, across?) the Earth for a three-day event held in Birmingham: the UK’s first ever public flat Earth convention. "You might not be convinced, but I encourage you to visit your local science museum or planetarium," Dr. So, why do flat-earthers believe there would be such a lie about a round Earth? Some say conspiracy, while others turn to God. Flat Earth believers say an ice wall keeps us from falling off the surface. Yu says.īut to flat-earthers, science's facts are fiction. They realized that if you had sticks in the ground and you were able to measure their shadows on the same day, the lengths of the shadows would actually be different," Dr. "This is how the Greeks knew the earth was round. "We've known for over 2,000 years that the earth is more or less a sphere, a ball or a round shape.
Ka Chun Yu, the curator of space science at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, says he was really surprised when he heard about the number of flat-earthers. "If you do trust your senses, you're seeing things different than what you're being fed," says Debra Auden, who traveled from Texas to the conference.ĭr.
Some of those accounts have tens of thousands of followers. Social media sites like YouTube have made the flat earth theory more available in recent years. Most of the people gathered at the conference held in Denver, Colorado believe Americans live on a lie. The flat Earth believers think pictures of the earth are fake and astronauts are actors. “NASA has obviously lied to us on numerous occasions,” says Wendell, a conference attendee. Welcome to the Flat Earth International Conference. "If you believe we live on a globe, I know you're deceived." The shape of the Earth is a spheroid, right? A YouGov study conducted this year says a third of people ages 18-24 aren’t sure our planet is round.
0 kommentar(er)
