After prolonged debate, it has long been known that Earth is given the ball. With photographs taken from spacecraft, such as the International Space Station (ISS).
But, even until the year 2016, there are still some parties or groups who believe the earth is flat.
Quoted from Oddee.com on Monday (20/06/2016), here are 8 parties who believe Earth flat earth:
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- A man who gets angry when arguing about a flat earth
A 56-year-old father from Brockville, Ontario province, was charged with unpleasant acts for objects, including a gas tube, into a campfire.
At that time, he was at war on what the earth is flat or round. Firefighters must be called.
Police said the man was at the venue with his son and his son's boyfriend.
The girlfriend expressed a flat earth opinion. The father targets the woman wrong and gets angry in a fight, then wakes things up in the fire.
While accusing the man, police said they agreed.
- Pastors who offer $ 5 thousand to anyone who can prove the earth round
Father Wilbur Glenn Voliva Catholic Catholic Apostolic Church in Sion, Illinois in the early 1900s and is known for his persistence. He even offered US $ 5 thousand to anyone who could break his theory.
Voliva even predicted the end of the world in 1923, 1927, 1930, 1934, and 1935.
Voliva received a deadly cancer diagnosis in 1942. It was time he made a tearful confession to the members of the congregation he had misused church money for personal use. After he died, the congregation broke up.
- The social media star and the grumpy flat earth supporter on Twitter
In January 2016 social media star as well as supporting conspiracy theorists. Tila Tequila suddenly became serious on Twitter when crowded alasa understand earth flat earth. For example in some chirps:
It's already 2016 and no one has been able to prove to me this earth. Where is the curve on the horizon? #FlatEart prove me wrong!
- Tila Tequila (@AngelTilaLove), January 7, 2016
Why are all the buildings in NYC standing upright? If the earth is round, some buildings will be slightly angled #FlathEarth
- Tila Tequila (@AngelTilaLove), January 7, 2016
If earth is a spinning ball then why can an airplane land without harm? Because. Not round
- Tila Tequila (@AngelTilaLove), January 7, 2016
If the earth is a spinning sphere and the sun is called a distance of 150 million light-years away, then why do sunlight strike straight? #FlatEarth
- Tila Tequila (@AngelTilaLove), January 7, 2016
- Video recording on video sharing sites
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A new video on YouTube video uploaded by flat Earth theorist with RussianVids account attracted over a million views and tinkered with a theory that we think has long been completed.
Vids captured the recent recordings of the SpaceX rocket landings and excessively reviewed each second, then later mentioned that the tape was fake.
Referring to the "big lie" by thousands of politicians, scientists, pilots, and sailors (whom he calls the "Earth Ball conspiracy"), he concludes that the rocket landing and its recording afterwards are nothing more than smoke and mirrors.
"I understand that people want to believe that the Earth's sphere is real," RussianVids said in his video, "... but that's not the case."
- Captain of a marine vessel that destabilizes to the core of flat earth supporters
In 1900, Paul Kruger, a proponent of flat earth theory as well as president of the Transvaal Republic, traveled on a Dutch warship after being exiled. He was invited by the ship's captain to observe the navigation process.
As a member of the fundamentalist Reformed Dutch Church, he fully believed in terms of the pillars and corners of the earth. His faith wavered when he learned that ship navigation was based on the earth's roundness.
- International Flat Earth Research Society
A British citizen named Samuel Shenton founded the International Flat Earth Research Society, shortened by the Flat Earth Society, in 1956.
Shenton's primary goal is reaching out to children before they believe about the roundness of the earth. He got a lot of publicity, but the space race eroded support for him. After dying in 1971, he was replaced by Charles K. Johnson, a flat earth supporter from California.
Johnson continues to increase membership of the organization to about 3,000 people and spends many years studying flat and round earth theory.
"If it is a sphere, the surface of the water body should be curved, Johnson has examined the surface of Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea without being able to detect any arch."
The group shrank in the 1990s after a fire at its headquarters and Johnson's death in 2001.
Since then, there has been an attempt to rebuild the organization in 2004 by Daniel Shanton (not a relative of Samuel) who believes that no one ever presented evidence that the earth is round.
- Rapping singers and flat earth supporters who challenge astrophysicists in a song
In awa 2016, renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and rap singer B.o.B quarreled through Twitter on a round earth theory. B. B, once known through the song "Airplanes," "Nothin 'On You" and "Strange Clouds," started it thus:
The towns in the background are about 26 km away ... where is the arch? Please explain this picture pic.twitter.com/YCJVBdOWX7
He then went on with more than 50 more chirpings, for example, saying, "I will fight the great braggers in history ... you have been outraged to be lied to"
Tyson then responds thus:
"The curvature of the earth indeed blocks up to 46 m (not 52 m) in Manhattan, but most buildings in the city center are much higher than that."
"Polaris moved 1.5 degrees to the south.You have never been south of the equator, or if you go there, you never look up into the sky."
"The flat earth becomes a problem when the people involved think so, there is no rule that prevents people from engaging in it."
B.o.B then poured the song "Flatline" which moved from his theory. He then calls Tyson and carries the name of David Irving, a famous Holocaust denier.
Not to be outdone, Tyson held her own song titled "Flat to Fact" written and raped by her nephew, Stephen Tyson.
- Extreme terrorist groups that target school teachers who contradict their views of flat earth
The esktrem group Boko Haram is targeting geography teachers in their campaign against Western education in Nigeria.
Why so? Teaching teachers contradicts their view that the earth is flat and that rain is due to the will of God, not by evaporation.
The teachers are included in the list of targets along with senior security officials and senior Nigerian politicians. Boko Haram has killed 600 school teachers since 2009 and about 19 thousand people have left their jobs due to threats and attacks.