Flat Earthers say no one has ever crossed the whole continent before. It's a giant wall of ice surrounding the flat disk Earth. in space), objects of different mass float.Ĭlaim: Antarctica isn't a continent. Still not convinced? Then think about this: when you weaken the effects of gravity (i.e. "Gravity happens because of the mass of an object," Thomas told me. Asteroids are like rocks too, but they are humungous and out there in space. Rocks are tiny and on Earth (a place with its own gravity). That's why rocks don't have their own gravity, but asteroids do. An object's gravity depends on its mass, explained Thomas. What we think is gravity is actually the buoyancy of objects of different mass interacting with each other. So now, the next time you see one of the following arguments on Facebook, you can just share this story and call bullshit on the whole thing.Ĭlaim: Gravity is a hoax. I also called up David Lawrence, a former British Airways engineer, and the dad of our own Iyas Lawrence, to ask him about all the aeronautical "evidence" Flat Earthers like to use so much. That's not the framework of scientific thinking." "They just took a bunch of terms from all over the place and hilariously connected them to Flat Earth theories. "Flat Earth has no scientific elements in it whatsoever," Thomas told me. But does he know if the Earth is actually round? So, of course, Thomas knows a lot about space. We never went to the moon or sent a man into outer space, but we still built a fair amount of satellites. I called up Thomas Djamaluddin, the head of the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space (LAPAN), to ask him what he thought of the whole Flat Earth thing. Especially when I'm being paid for to do it. And even less people have the time to look up all the evidence to counter their claims.īut I do. Well look, not everyone out there has the patience to deal with the whole Indonesian Flat Earth fringe. It was my article that set this whole thing off, after all. The whole argument is a bunch of nonsense, but I couldn't help but think I had to do something.
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