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Are Flat Earth believers for real?

Joseph R. Price
4 min readJul 26, 2018

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Did you know that some people think the Earth is flat?

Apparently there are, but I still have trouble believing it.

Why?

Because I just cannot believe someone is A) that stupid or B) that willing to deny reality and more than 2,000 years of evidence.

It was already generally accepted that the Earth was round when Christopher Columbus “sailed the ocean blue.”

Even when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, it was generally accepted by pretty much anyone that received an education that the Earth was round.

A thousand years before Columbus (give or take a couple of hundred) Aristotle, Euclid and other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern astronomers had reached the same conclusion: The Earth is round.

You’d think that the single-surviving ship and its crew of 18 that completed Ferdinand Magellan’s first trip around the world 30 years after Columbus crossed the Atlantic (hundreds of years after the Vikings, I might add) would be proof enough.

In addition, people have flown around the world, we have photos from space and we have a pretty much universally accepted model as to why the Earth is round.

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Joseph R. Price
Joseph R. Price

Written by Joseph R. Price

Weirdo who writes futurist-tinged columns about technology and science’s impact on society by night. Unfortunately, 2020 compels me to do politics too.

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