![]() ![]() Indeed, this was one of the first cosmic facts to be worked out correctly by ancient people because evidence of a spherical Earth is visible to the naked eye.īy the time of the philosopher Socrates and his student Plato, many Greeks understood that the Earth could only be a sphere. The globe has been clearly understood for thousands of years. Portions of this article appeared previously in Daniel Loxton’s detailed history of the Flat Earth movement in Junior Skeptic #53, bound within Skeptic magazine 19.4 (2014). However, we do not need to rely on evidence from modern space agencies to confirm the roundness of the Earth for ourselves. ![]() It is unreasonable to dismiss all of the evidence from the entire history of space exploration, especially when there is zero evidence for a decades-long “globularist” conspiracy. Flat Earthers claim that all images of the globe are fraudulent inventions, and all testimony from astronauts is false. 3 Most obviously, there are many thousands of images and videos of the Earth from space, including a continually changing live stream view of the globe from the International Space Station-not to mention all the astronauts who have personally seen the Earth from orbit. The evidence for a spherical Earth is overwhelming. According to believers, government forces promote a completely fictitious model of the cosmos in order to conceal the true nature of the Earth. Recent news stories, 1 celebrity endorsements, and Google search trends 2 have highlighted an apparently growing conspiracy theory belief that the Earth is not a globe, but instead a flat disc. ![]()
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