In an attempt to reject the photographic evidence from Nasa's satellites and the International Space Station, they claim it's a global conspiracy faking space travel, with no evidence at all. In the FAQ on their website, the first thing they have to clarify is that they're not joking. He's wrong on the second point - people have thought the Earth is flat. It's probably the most nonsensical suggestion that a thinking human being could possibly make. The Flat Earth Society has not responded to CNNs request for comment. So when you see those beautiful pictures of storms spinning around and rotating, the reason for that is that we live on a spinning planet. The flat-Earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe.
There are interesting bits of physics that tell you you live on a spinning planet and one of them is called the Coriolis force, which is the force that's responsible for causing storm systems to rotate on the planet. I cannot conceive of a reason why anybody would think the world is flat.
The Greeks measured the radius of the Earth. Nobody in human history, as far as I know, has thought the world was flat. There is absolutely no basis at all for thinking the world is flat. He said to the camera in is textbook gentle tones:
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