![]() ![]() He was going to build a rocket ship, blast into Earth’s upper reaches, and see for his own eyes whether the horizon was flat or curved. He had earned his fame by taking the theory to its logical conclusion. Until that moment, Hughes had been one of the most famous living Flat Earthers. Hughes’s rocket crashed into the dust with absolute finality. But the parachutes that had bloomed above Mike Hughes on his previous death-defying rocket launches were nowhere to be seen. “Come on, parachute,” one watcher murmured anxiously. To onlookers on the ground, the ship and the man inside it were a blur of black. For a moment, the rocket seemed to hover, oblivious to gravity. A jagged trail of steam traced the ship’s path across the sky, up thousands of feet above the California desert. True believers, however, are an extreme minority, and there will always be people who choose to believe in “alternative facts.” Let’s hope they remain a minority.The rocket took off like a punctured balloon, wobbly and erratic. Should we bother to convince Flat Earthers they’re wrong? Some on the internet could be trolls toying with arguments and theories. “Our system needs to train you not only what to know, but how to think about information, knowledge and evidence,” he said. Or Google has laid cables across the oceans to track you.Īstrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson blames the educational system - not for teaching insufficient science subjects so much as needing to improve critical thinking skills. Or the signals are really from giant towers and the G stands for ground. GPS satellites aren’t in space - there’s a “celestial dome” over the Earth. Anyone who tries is met with an argument that their evidence is faked or faulty. How do Flat Earthers explain GPS? Is there a way to convince them that they’re wrong? Probably not. So far, he’s raised less than $7,000 of his $1 million target. ![]() ![]() B.o.B.’s campaign wants to “launch multiple weather balloons and satellites into space” to observe (and try to disprove) what centuries of science and technology have already confirmed. used Twitter to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, even starting a GoFundMe campaign to find Earth’s curve. Last year, the flat Earth idea became national news when rapper B.o.B. The 1893 Orlando Ferguson map imagines Antarctica as a wall of ice around the world. ![]()
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