History of the Flat Earth Society
The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham's Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. After Rowbotham's death in 1884, followers of his Zetetic Astronomy founded the Universal Zetetic Society.
Flat Earth theory spread to the United States, largely in the town of Zion, Illinois where Christian Catholic Apostolic Church founder John Alexander Dowie and later Wilbur Glenn Voliva promoted Flat Earth theory. Voliva died in 1942 and the church quickly disintegrated. Flat Earthism remained in Zion, gradually becoming less popular into the 1950s.
The International Flat Earth Society was formally founded in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the Royal Geographic Society. Shenton died in 1971 and Charles K. Johnson became president of the International Flat Earth Society. Johnson actively and charistmatically promoted the Society and, over time, its membership increased to over 3,000. His wife Marjory took an active role in the Society as well, often contributing articles to the Flat Earth Society Newsletter.
In 1995, a fire destroyed the Johnson's home as well as all of the Flat Earth Society's library, archives and membership lists. Following a long period of poor health, Charles K. Johnson's wife Marjory Johnson passed away in 1996. He vowed to rebuild the society. Sadly, Charles K. Johnson passed away in 2001 at the age of 76, leaving the Society's future uncertain.
After several years of inactivity, the Flat Earth Society was resurrected in 2004 and remains active today at theflatearthsociety.org. The Society officially reopened to new members on 30th October 2009.
In general, we at the Flat Earth Society do not lend much credibility to photographic evidence.
I like how they explain why we are pulled down on earth by saying it is a constantly accelerating plane.
What the fuck
That website is actually a parody making fun of people who believe in the literal interpretation of the bible.
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If you haven't had your coffee yet today, or aren't prepared for rampant lunacy, you should tread very carefully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
You seem to have failed to notice that the website in the first post is run by the people this wiki article is about. The page is even linked there. It's not a parody.
Haha I did fail to notice that...I just assumed it was a parody of the real flat earth society...my bad.
Let that be a lesson to you. You shouldn't ASSume.
It actually IS a triangle, the spatial distortion around it just makes it act like a globe.
Spatial distortion can change a 2D object into a 3D object
Guys I don't get why you aren't taking this seriously my brother fell off the earth last week.
RIP in peace Jason.
Your concept of dimensions is interesting and helpful, but wrong. There is only 1 spatial dimension. Even if you think you go "upwards" or "sideways", you really only go forward at a different offset in the single dimension than if you actually went "forward" in your 3d world.
This sounds like intellectual panic.
This sounds like the lazy response of an individual unwilling to use its brain.
Well, let's see. Your R dimensions are: arbitrarily large and arbitrarily granular. I agree that it's not possible to map several such dimensions to a single one without reduction of accuracy. However, what if nature is actually not arbitrarily granular and arbitrarily large (hint: it isn't).
No it can't, because it can still extend arbitrarily wide in 3 dimensions. If it can.
Anyway, for practical matters, neither granularity nor size of a dimension can be arbitrarily large, which means that those two problems don't exist. Just choose a lower granularity limit and a max size and you can remap it all to one dimension.
The sun's diameter, stated differently by various sources and usually rounded to the nearest 100, is about 864,900 miles
There are 86,400 seconds in a day
What does it mean!?