![]() ![]() Once upon a time, it made sense for people to believe that the Earth was flat, says University of Melbourne cartographer Chandra Jayasuriya. So what’s causing a renewed interest in something that’s been scientifically disproven for the past two thousand years or more? What does it say about social media? And how did we actually establish that the world is round in the first place? And it has some high-profile supporters.įrom basketball players to musicians, rappers to TV hosts, a number of celebrities are jumping on the flat Earth bandwagon. Interest in most of these other far-fetched theories remains stable but the flat-Earth movement is growing, particularly in America. In fact, a recent YouGov poll found that only around two-thirdsof Americans aged between 18 and 24 believe that the Earth is round.Īlthough the idea the Earth is flat has been scientifically discredited, there seems to be a growing belief in the conspiracy theory.Īnd it’s getting more traction than some of the other conspiracies out there, like chemtrails (which proposes that a plane’s long-lasting condensation trail is actually made up of chemical or biological agent). If you type ‘flat Earth’ into Google, you’d be joining a group of people that have helped to triple the search term over the last couple of years. The world is flat.Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat… and social media plays a role. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me. So, listen, I drive from coast to coast, and this shit is flat to me. ![]() So, what does that tell you? Columbus didn't discover America. In school, first thing they teach us is, 'Oh, Columbus discovered America,' but when he got there, there were some fair skinned people with the long hair smoking on the peace pipes. Listen, there are three ways to manipulate the mind what you read, what you see and what you hear. Hall of Fame basketballer Shaquille O'Neal - who, at 7 foot 1, should technically be able to see the curvature of the Earth if he stands on the top of a tall hill - said this on a recent podcast, "It's true. ![]()
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