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Beyond flat earth map1/31/2024 As conspiracy theories go, this one takes the biscuit. It’s one of those fundamental ideas we are taught on the first day of primary school the world, is 100% round.īut, humour me, what if it’s not round? What if we got it right the first time? The Earth is flat. No more proof no more evidence, it was accepted into mainstream society and still is to this day. From these calculations he surmised the world was round. It wasn’t until Copernicus in the 16th century realised the world spun at over 1000mph and 60,000 mph round the sun, that he proposed the globe model. They believed the Earth was flat and at the edge was protected by something called the firmament – whilst they might have differed in their beliefs, they were united on this. All 5 big religions, had accepted and promoted theories of a flat Earth. Curtsey of Wiki: The Flammarion engraving (1888) depicts a traveler who arrives at the edge of a flat Earth and sticks his head through the firmament.įor a few thousand years, we thought the world was flat. When something so ridiculous, so controversial it couldn’t possibly be true, sews just the tiniest seed of doubt. In my defence I was only 12 when they were released in 1999. They messed with my head, my perception of reality in a way I cannot explain. The two biggest culprits being: The Matrix and The Truman Show. There are a couple of films that after the first time I saw them, I felt a little bit less sane.
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