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NASA returns images sent from a probe a million space-miles that shows the Earth to be as round as a new golf ball. Then, strangely, Director of the National Planetarium and Space Museum Neil DeGrasse Tyson says that Earth is pear shaped. Someone should get together with this guy and tell him so he’ll quit making himself look stupid.

In July of 2018, the National Weather Service uploaded a photograph to their Twitter account. It showed a picture of a thunderstorm in Kansas. The sky cam is elevated off the ground at about 30 feet. According to the Earth Curve Calculator, the horizon should be about 6.7 miles away from the camera if it is at that height. The city of Larned 120 miles away is in the picture.

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 aΒ Truman Show-like simulation. Clark’s curiosity brought him to the Flat Earth International Conference.