Author: FENews
One of the most famous basketball players in the world believes the earth is flat…or does he? In a recent NY Times interview, Celtics point guard Kyrie Irving spoke about flat earth theories. Irving was naturally evasive when confronted with the question “Do you believe the earth is flat?” High profile players with big endorsement portfolios have to be careful about what they say.
Luminaries such as rapper B.o.B and NBA star Kyrie Irving have sprinkled doubt — whether in jest or not — that the Earth is as it appears in pictures. And now a YouGov survey of 8,215 American adults comes out that offers troubling results. The numbers appear to show that only 84 percent of Americans have always believed the Earth is round and had no doubts about it.
Several years ago, Daniel Clark was looking to direct a documentary when he read discussions on Reddit about an increasingly popular topic: whether the Earth was actually flat, and if we were living in a Truman Show-like simulation. Clark’s curiosity brought him to the Flat Earth International Conference.
On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powered rocket. He’d been trying for years, in one way or another. In 2002, Hughes set a Guinness World Record for the longest ramp jump—a hundred and three feet—in a limo, a stretch Lincoln Town Car.
A vicious falling-out, alleged death threats, an arson attempt. This is the story of how Australia’s first flat-Earth conference destroyed itself from the inside out.
A recent poll of over 8000 Americans exposed the weight of flat earth theories. We can see the amazing results by projecting the percentages across the US population of nearly 330 million people. This means that 2% of everyone and 4% of millennials (18-24) don’t agree with what they have been “taught” in schools about the shape of the earth.
This article is a great example of flat earth arguments that have been playing for more than 100 years. The numbers are astonishing even considering how remote agricultural Canada may have been in the last century. Did Mr. McClelland have to convince all the people in his town the earth is flat or were they “born” that way?
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