In November 2017, the Flat Earth International Conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina. This isn't the first flat-Earth convening. In addition to the Q&A's with the nine speakers at the three-day convention, there was apparently a talk entitled 'Heliocentric v Geocentric experts Debate.' The convention's site doesn't indicate who was debating these two views, one proved ages ago, and the other suggesting Earth is fixed in space with the universe revolving around it. According to the society's website, the group was founded by an English inventor named Samuel Birley Rowbotham in the 1800s. However, the oldest flat-Earth organization, the Flat Earth Society, claims to have 555 registered members as of August 2016. Īs for how many people buy into this clearly mistaken belief, that is unknown. These conspiracy theorists believe NASA and others are trying to keep this secret from the public. Many seem to think the Earth is a disk surrounded by an ice wall and that those who show evidence to the contrary - including NASA, with its many satellite pics beamed down of our blue marble - are fakes. The whole earth consists of 4 concentric rings of land, each ring having its own sun and moon, which would be our wandering stars,' he says on the convention website.įlat-Earthers like Kenny agree that the planet is a flat plane, though they have varied ideas for the disk's particular layout. 'It is my innerstanding that there are other lands, dimensions and civilizations yet to be discovered across and within the plane of our Earth. 'It supports the idea that gravity doesn't exist and the only true force in nature is electromagnetism.'Īnother speaker, Martin Kenny, purports to have broader views of a flat Earth than other believers. (Flat-Earthers believe the moon and sun orbit around Earth's North Pole.) 'My research destroys big bang cosmology,' he said, according to. He studies the speed of the moon across the night sky.

His research focuses on the moon, 'as he believes it is the key to unlocking the globe earth deception,' according to the convention website. Marsh was one of four speakers who are associated with the flat-Earth research group called FEcore. Among the nine speakers were Nesbit, a musician who became interested in flat-Earth beliefs in 2014 Dave Marsh, a manager with England's National Health Service and Gary John, an independent flat-Earther who put on the convention.

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