A Fascinating Look Inside the First Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina

[steve2470]

https://laughingsquid.com/flat-earth-international-conference/

BBC News travelled to Raleigh, North Carolina, the site of the very first Flat Earth International Conference and speak with the attendees in order to learn why they believe that the world is flat, despite scientific evidence stating otherwise.

The Flat Earth International Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, attracted hundreds of attendees who believe the shape of the Earth is a disc instead of a sphere.

In 2014, VSauce addressed whether the Earth is round or flat.

[Binkie The Clown]

1. The human brain doesn't quite make the cut, evolutionarily.

Another reason we are in the process of driving ourselves toward extinction.

[L. Coyote]

17. This explains Republicans so well. If you believe the world is a disc, Trump isn't a liar scumbag.

Of course, if the world isn't a disc, logically, Trump is ....

The thing flat-earthers fear most.... is sphere itself, and the truth.

[Binkie The Clown]

18. The strangest thing is, you can look through a telescope and see EVERY OTHER PLANET is a sphere.

And every moon, too.

Why would Earth be any different? It's beyond "moron" and well into "brain dead".

[Ilsa]

2. Holy shit.

Someone, please tell me this is a joke.

I can't begin to imagine what people in other countries might think of us if they knew there was more than a handful of idiots here, looking like normal people.

[steve2470]

3. sadly no

I'd like to hope that it's 690 news people and 10 attendees.

[Takket]

4. i would make a simple offer to these people.....

get in a boat........
sail to the edge of the earth..........
videotape the journey......
bring a Navy admiral with you to verify it.......

and i will believe in a flat earth.

just sail to the edge.........

that's all i'm asking

[Ilsa]

6. Some of them think there is an ice wall at the end of the earth.

[Grown2Hate]

8. Ok, cool. Sail to the ice wall. Prove it. Or they can just STFU. :) EOM

[edhopper]

12. Not any more

The Wight King destryed it with his zombie dragon.

[Ilsa]

13. I saw the dragon do that with my own eyes!

So it must be real!

[Oneironaut]

5. Well, we are a post-fact society now. If you "feel" something is true, then it's true!

Don't let anybody tell you otherwise! Bonus points if you can find a Blogspot post that backs up your theory - it's just as good of evidence as any scientific publication.

[Ilsa]

7. There is a website with an extensive forum.

Seriously, the proof they offer is, "I believe what my eyes see, and just look out your window!"

[Gabi Hayes]

9. And if you happen to se some p**** out there,

just run out and grab it!

Then keep running, all the way over to the nearest locker room, for some manly man talk

[JHB]

10. Gods, I remember when the Flat Earth Society was a drinking club...

... that survived on novelty and maybe tax breaks.

[Snackshack]

11. A disturbing by product...

Of the PC society we live in now. Where everybody’s opinion is valid and should be heard.

[Takket]

14. no joke........

i was listening to a sports talk show one day and they were all having a good laugh about this stuff.... well a guy called in and offered his rationale for why the earth is flat.......

he said it has to be flat because if it were round, and you flew from New York to Sydney Australia, when the plane landed in australia, it would crash because the "top" of the plane would hit the ground first (with the landing gear pointing up towards the sky)

i wish i could have talked to the guy because i would have grabbed him, a baseball, and an ant. i would have put the ant on top of the baseball and watched it crawl around to the bottom and asked him if the ant was "upside down" or if its feet were still on the baseball.......

[3catwoman3]

15. I like the explanation that the Earth can't possibly...

...be flat, because, if it were, there would be nothing on it - cats would have knocked everything off. True enough.

[struggle4progress]

16. Oh so close --- but no cigar, guys! The earth is actually a great stellated dodecahedron!