Author: FENews
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?
