The last time I read anything about The Flat Earth Society, it all seemed to be run with a huge sense of irony and gave me the feeling that no one involved took it really seriously. However, this article in the Guardian shows that all that has gone and that the society's members have a new found confidence in their basic view. I rifled through the forums and came to the conclusion that a good bashing with a large encyclopedia would not go amiss. The number of deferrents and epicycles being introduced to explain away all the evidence that the world is oblately Spherical shows a dedication to a position not seen since The Pope realised that Galileo was not his friend any more. Why if the Sun and the Moon are spherical as the President admits why on Earth is the Earth flat?
The society also seems to assert that gravity is produced by the acceleration of the Earth's disk directly upwards. I can't really be bothered to work out how fast that means we are moving after all that regular 1G acceleration or to even think about how Relativity comes into the picture. I'm saving the newsletters from the 70s for a time when I really need a good laugh.
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