How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the World Is Round

Illustration: Rhett Allain You can see that we have a right triangle with the hypotenuse equal to the distance from the observer’s eyes to the center of the Earth (R + h), with the other two sides being just R and the distance to the horizon (s). Using the Pythagorean theorem, we can solve for … Read more

Georgia GOP Chair Pushes Flat-Earth Conspiracy, Says Globes Brainwash Us

Kandiss Taylor, a GOP district chair in Georgia, claimed the Earth is flat on her podcast, Jesus, Weapons, & Infants, alongside fellow flat-Earther David ‘Flat Earth Dave’ Weiss and Matt Lengthy. She turns into the most recent GOP member to leap on the flat Earth bandwagon, tacking this ideology onto her earlier conspiracy idea exclamations … Read more