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. On the contrary, he said that he made the map from a globe, which explains how a north-pole centered azimuthal equidistant map is designed.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. 497,917 by Alexander Gleasonįrom the registered patent, he never mentioned that the Earth is flat. “The extorsion of the map from that of a globe consists, mainly in the straightening out of the meridian lines allowing each to retain their original value from Greenwich, the equator to the two poles.” -US Patent No. Gleason might have claimed that the map is the “flat-Earth map” but his explanation written in his patent for the map is contradictory: The author was a flat-Earther who claimed the map as the “flat Earth map.” In reality, the map is just a normal azimuthal equidistant map centered on the North Pole.įrom the map’s patent, we know the author was aware and in full knowledge that the map was just a projection of the spherical Earth, contradictory to the claims in his book. The so-called “Gleason Map” is an old map published in the 19th century.
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