“My mind or gut feeling led me to a one-hour documentary on YouTube. Like many others, she first came across the concept of Flat Earth while casually surfing the internet.
In order to get a better and more personalized idea of how the community works, Innovation & Tech Today sat down with Tila Tequila to discuss Flat Earth theory and the people involved with it. This relaunch would mark the beginning of the contemporary and controversial “Flat Earth movement.” How the Modern Flat Earth Theory has Spread In 2004, the Flat Earth Society was unofficially relaunched as an online forum, and from there would begin gaining the attention of the rest of the connected world, gradually becoming more and more popular among conspiracy theorists and new-age communities.Īt last in 2009, over 50 years after the foundation of the IFERS, the Flat Earth Society was formally reorganized with the opening of a proper informational website, which continues to host the largest collection of Flat Earth-related materials available today. After a few decades of surviving in obscurity, the internet would finally give Flat Earth a platform to spread at a previously unprecedented rate. Inspired by Samuel Rowbotham’s 1849 work Zetetic Astronomy (which is one of the oldest-known post-Columbian works to claim the Earth is flat), Shenton spent most of his life dedicated to the proliferation of the International Flat Earth Research Society, later renamed to the more simple Flat Earth Society or FES.įollowing Shenton’s death in 1971, a small, yet dedicated, sect of Flat Earth Society members kept the organization alive through the distribution of periodic newsletters related to developments in the Flat Earth Theory. To give some background, Flat Earth, at least as it has been proposed in the modern world, took off with the formation of the International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS) in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, an amateur British cosmologist who fervently propelled the theory in the years leading up to the space race.
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Celebrities outside of professional sports have also endorsed the theory, one of the most vocal of which is former reality TV star Tila Tequila.ĭear Elon Musk, We’d Like These by Christmas.
Although it is unknown as to how many authentic Flat Earth believers there are, the increased celebrity attention indicates that the theory has a wide base of support from people of all kinds.
For those out of the loop of popular conspiracy theories, Flat Earth Theory (or just Flat Earth) is exactly what the name implies it to be: a proposition that the Earth is not a three-dimensional sphere as scientific claims have led us to believe, but in fact a flat plane as was thought by the majority of ancient cultures.Įmerging first as a fringe theory in the late 19th century (and later again in the 1950s), Flat Earth has once more gained the attention of the public following the theory’s newfound popularity on the internet. In late 2017, a number of professional athletes, including NFL wide receiver Sammy Watkins and NBA star Kyrie Irving, shook up the sports world by making their support for Flat Earth Theory publicly known.
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