They also say that Earth’s gravity is an illusion, and that objects do not fall downward. The flat-earthers believe that these photos taken from space are photo shopped. This can be argued by the people in NASA who have been to space and have taken multiple pictures from satellites showing that the Earth is round. The society members claim that NASA employees guard this ice wall to stop people from climbing over, and in theory, falling off the disc of Earth. They believe that the Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the center and Antarctica, a 150-foot-tall wall of ice, around the rim. There is ample evidence that the Earth is round, but they believe since only what they can see from Earth’s surface is flat that that is the only conclusion. Believing that the Earth is flat is one of the ultimate conspiracy theories. The flat earth society contains people from America and Europe and has been growing since 2009 (Wolchover 2017). While on the planet’s surface, it feels and looks flat, so they believe they dismiss all evidence to the contrary. Their ‘lamp-shade’ or the ‘spotlight’ explanations fail to explain it.People who believe in the flat earth theory do not think the Earth is round. They would have to invent just another ad-hoc ‘explanations’ how the sun illuminates such an impossible area. On the other hand, flat-Earthers insist the azimuthal-equidistant map is the map of a flat-Earth, devoid of any distortions. An area of the map closer to the center represents a larger real-world area compared to the same map area farther from the center. This fact is not a problem because the azimuthal-equidistant is a map, and like any other map, it has distortions. During the equinox, the sun would appear to illuminate a half-circle area. If we plot which areas of the Earth that are getting sunlight on an azimuthal equidistant map centered on the north pole, the sun would appear to illuminate a somewhat elliptical area during the northern hemisphere summer, and a lopsided Bat-Signal shaped area during the winter. The reason is that the sun is very far, and it would illuminate a hemisphere of the Earth, and leave the other dark. At any given time, there is an equal area of the Earth that is experiencing daytime, and that is having a night time.
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