![]() ![]() ![]() A recent Flat Earth Conference in the UK heard that there are four-dimensional walls across each side of the planet, and when people pass through them, they are transported to the other side of the world: Like in the video game, Pac-Man. Others have identified Earth as being a “snowglobe” shape – flat on the bottom, but with an atmosphere and a sky that curves round like a semi-circle. The sun stays in position, with the moon making its way from side-to-side. Okay, so if we’re not round, what are we? Some members theorise that we are on a rotating disc and that we spin in the same way a record or CD would. ![]() ![]() Here’s what else the group are saying… Five other weird flat earth theories: Earth is something between a disc and a snowglobe We’ve only just scratched the surface with this one. Allegedly, Australia is “just a cover-up” as Britain never actually took their criminals there. When you fly to Australia, you’re actually being taken to different islands near “South America”. They came up with an average distance of about 5000 stadia, which was the diameter of a ‘regular’ stadium.Apparently, all Australians are “computer generated” or “actors”. So Eratosthenes hired a few bematists to pace out the distance. A bematist was a professional surveyor who’d been trained to walk in steps of equal length, and also not to deviate to the left or right – to simply to walk in a straight line. Luckily, back then, there were people called bematists. The second problem was measuring the distance. No biggie that would introduce a relatively small error. First, Alexandria was not exactly north of Syene, but about 20 degrees off to one side – to the west. A painting depicting Eratosthenes teaching at the Library of Alexandria. If Alexandria was exactly due north of Syene, all Eratosthenes had to do was measure the distance between the two places, multiply that distance by 50 and bingo! He had the circumference of planet Earth. (Back then, scientists were pretty good at basic geometry.) He found that his stick cast a shadow of about 7.2 degrees, roughly one fiftieth of a complete circle of 360 degrees. So, the following year, on that day, at the same time, he measured the shadow at his location in Alexandria (about 850km away, or a month’s easy walk). ![]()
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