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The idea resurfaced at a some recent gathering of the so-called Flat Earthers in the Birmingham recently where over 200 people came together to confirm to each other that the Earth is nothing more than a giant pancake.
The origin of the "fake Australia" post started on Reddit back in 2017 and was written by a Shelley Floryd. But it appears to be back in the minds of the spherically-challenged at the moment.
"Australia is not real," the rant begins. "It's a hoax, made for us to believe that Britain moved over their criminals to someplace. In reality, all these criminals were loaded off the ships into the waters, drowning before they could see land ever again. It's a coverup [sic] for one of the greatest mass murders in history."
Moreover, the post reckons that all Australians are nothing more than computer generated personas and if you've ever been Down Under yourself: "you're terribly wrong".
Hilariously, the pilots are apparently all in on it - and have just been flying you to parts of South America all these years. Flat Earth theories have been shot down by just about everyone capable of rational thought, but the theory is still enjoying a current resurgence. Over 200 conspiracy theorists gathered at a hotel in Birmingham for the UK's first Flat Earth Convention. The convention, which took place over three days, saw nine speakers take to the stage to explain their theory as to why the Earth is flat.
According to The Telegraph , Dave Marsh, an NHS worker who spoke at the conference, said: "My research destroys big bang cosmology.
"It supports the idea that gravity doesn't exist and the only true force in nature is electromagnetism."
While NASA has proved that the Earth is round using GPS, satellites, and images from space, Flat Earth believers claim that they have evidence that the space agency is lying. So what do you think about this? Let us know in the comments!
Reader Comments
The Ship Over the Horizon is a classic example of an early round earth proofEver heard of a Nikon P900 ... It's zoom function allows you to see over the curve
You can also add a infrared filter and this magically allows the camera to see objects way behind the curve
If something is visually behind the curve, using normal eyesight, then using some sort of zoom function is not going to make that curve disappear
Objects do not disappear from the bottom up - over distance, the bottom gets compressed but it is still visible










Comment: One of the more obvious symptoms of society's inability to think. There have been proofs since ancient times of a round earth, but they require the ability to hold an abstract idea in one's mind and extrapolate beyond what is immediately before one's eyes. The Ship Over the Horizon is a classic example of an early round earth proof