There is only an ice border surrounding the circle-it's what we call Antarctica. Yudi: There's no such thing as the edge of the Earth. VICE: OK, so you say the Earth is a flat disk surrounded by ice, and that all of that ice is Antarctica, right? So then how could so many explorers cross the continent in the past? I reached out to Yudi, an IT professional from Jakarta who runs the Flat Earth Indonesia Facebook page to see if he can convince me the Earth is flat. A typical conversation with one of these guys usually mentions Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo Galilei before moving on to quantum theory and Newtonian gravity. The Indonesian Flat Earthers are obsessed with using science to prove their point. Flat Earth Indonesia dismisses the Flat Earth Society as a bunch of nut cases too obsessed with old NASA conspiracy theories. The whole conspiracy theory, a mess of pseudoscience, claims that shadowy global cabals are tricking us with Photoshop and "fake science," and lots and lots of (misused and misunderstood) science jargon, ticks off so many boxes on the Indonesian conspiracy theory fringe's list of loves, that it almost seems tailor-made for this country.īut Indonesian Flat Earthers aren't the same as their foreign brethren.
So who the hell actually believes this stuff? A lot of people in Indonesia, it seems. Worldwide, the entire notion smacks of a willful ignorance and a boneheaded refusal to accept a mountain of scientific evidence. The president of the Flat Earth Society has been called the world's "most irrational person." Former US President Barack Obama referred to climate change deniers as the Flat Earth Society. Now, this idea has been universally mocked. Who is to say that Antarctica is not a wall of ice arranged in a ring around all the edge of the flat disk? Although, I have to say that this map of Shackleton's Antarctic explorations looks straight enough. In their view, no one has ever traversed the entire width of the continent in a straight line, so therefore there is no proof that it's even a continent at all. This conspiracy theory alleges that the Earth is actually a flat disk surrounded by an impenetrable ring of ice that we call Antarctica.
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