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Behind the Curve. Behind the Curve is a 2018 documentary film about flat Earth believers in the United States. Directed by Daniel J. Clark, the film was released in the United States on November 15, 2018, and for wide release on Netflix in February 2019. [ 1] The documentary details ideas of the flat Earth from different perspectives, including ...
Since 2015. Mark Kendall Sargent (born c. 1969) is an American conspiracy theorist, who is one of the leading proponents of, and recruiters for, the discredited flat Earth conspiracy theory in the United States. According to critics, his YouTube videos have greatly accelerated the popularization of modern flat Earth belief, one without ...
Pseudoscientific beliefs in a flat Earth are promoted by a number of organizations and individuals. The claims of modern flat Earth proponents are not based on scientific knowledge and are contrary to over two millennia of scientific consensus based on multiple confirming lines of evidence that Earth is roughly spherical. [3]
Well, walking around on Earth's surface feels and looks flat, so more Americans are starting to deem all evidence to the contrary as lies purported by NASA. RELATED: Stunning photos of earth from ...
The Hollow Earth is a concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space. Notably suggested by Edmond Halley in the late 17th century, the notion was disproven, first tentatively by Pierre Bouguer in 1740, then definitively by Charles Hutton in his Schiehallion experiment around 1774.
Empirical evidence for the spherical shape of Earth. The roughly spherical shape of Earth can be empirically evidenced by many different types of observation, ranging from ground level, flight, or orbit. The spherical shape causes a number of effects and phenomena that combined disprove flat Earth beliefs .
The myth of the flat Earth, or the flat-Earth error, is a modern historical misconception that European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the Earth to be flat. [ 1][ 2] The earliest clear documentation of the idea of a spherical Earth comes from the ancient Greeks ( 5th century BC ).
Known for. Flat Earth proponent and author. Spouse. Annie Gillett. William Carpenter (25 February 1830 – 1 September 1896) was an English printer and author, and a proponent of the flat Earth theory, active in England and the United States in the nineteenth century. [ 1] Carpenter immigrated to the United States and continued his advocacy of ...