Flat Earth Society facts for kids
The Flat Earth Society is a group of people who believe the Earth is flat. Most people today believe our planet Earth is a round ball, or a sphere. This society thinks it looks more like a flat disc.
Samuel Shenton started the group in 1956. Later, Charles K. Johnson became the leader. He even made his home the main office for the group. The Flat Earth Society was thought to have stopped existing after Johnson passed away in 2001. However, some websites still use the group's name today.
Flat Earth Beliefs
Many people believe the Earth is round. They point to pictures taken by NASA from space. These pictures clearly show the Earth as a sphere. Scientists also had proof the Earth was round long before NASA even existed.
However, the Flat Earth Society believes these pictures are not real. They say that NASA is part of a conspiracy. A conspiracy is a secret plan made by a group of people to do something harmful or illegal. In this case, the society believes there's a big secret plan to make everyone think the Earth is round when it's actually flat.
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Images for kids
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Projections of the sphere like the azimuthal equidistant projection have been co-opted as images of the flat Earth model depicting Antarctica as an ice wall surrounding a disk-shaped Earth.
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Twenty-two images of the Earth taken from space. The observable, contemporary scientific view of the Earth as a rotating spherical globe, which flat Earth believers contest.
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Rowbotham's flat Earth map
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The Moon tidally locked to Earth (left) and how it would be without tidal lock (right)
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Diagram showing how the interior angles of triangles add up to about 180° when plotted on a small, nearly flat area of Earth, but add up to more than 180° (in this case 230°) when plotted on a large area with significant curvature
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