“I have an acquaintance I met in the Navy, who joined specifically so he could see that the Earth was flat while at sea. Responding to a question posted on Reddit, user Trungus McTungus wrote: Sign up to our new free Indy100 weekly newsletter Luckily, though, some former flat earthers have managed to extricate themselves from their beliefs. Only selected people know the truth, they believe, like the NASA agents who guard the ice wall at the end of the Earth. They don’t help themselves, either, when they make claims like there being no Flat Mars Society because “unlike Earth, Mars has been observed to be round”.īut they are quite serious in their claims that the Earth is flat and that NASA images that suggest otherwise have been doctored. It is difficult to take the Flat Earth Society, which peddles the antiquated belief, seriously amid all the jokes about them having members right across the globe. The ‘Flat Earth’ conspiracy theory is so ludicrous that people often take it to be a parody.

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