Flat Earth Society facts for kids
The Flat Earth Society (or the International Flat Earth Research Society) is an organization claiming that the Earth is flat (most of us think it is round; a sphere). It was started by Samuel Shenton in 1956. Charles K. Johnson was the leader and made his home the organization's base. The Flat Earth Society is thought to have disbanded (stopped existing) after Johnson's death in 2001, but some websites still use the organization's name.
Some people say NASA proved that the Earth is not flat by taking pictures of the planet from space. Others say the round Earth was proven long before NASA existed. The Society says the pictures are fake, and that NASA is a part of a conspiracy.
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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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