The height and substance of that, no one is absolutely sure, but most people think it’s mountains with snow and ice.”īeliefs like Shenton’s generally come up cyclically: a new map is proposed, or a new question is asked, and people wonder if things really are the way science has proven they are-at which point they’re debunked, and at which point it begins all over again. “There is no unified flat-Earth model,” Shenton explained to the Guardian in 2010, “but the most commonly accepted one is that it’s more or less a disc, with a ring of something to hold in the water. Unfortunately, one of the people listening to Flat Earth was Daniel Shenton, who took the lyric to heart and revived the defunct International Flat Earth Society, proclaiming himself president of its thousands of followers, who trade flat-Earth theories in sprawling discussion boards. When Thomas Dolby sang, “The earth can be any shape you want it” on his 1984 new wave album The Flat Earth, he was taking a poetic license. What is it with flat-Earth theory that sticks? Why do people keep coming back to it? The current fascination with the idea of a flat Earth is split between entertainment and pseudoscience-the same kind of goofy conspiracy theory as the one insisting we never landed on the Moon, or that maybe you’re living inside your own version of The Truman Show. in 2017, in the case of people who think Earth is flat.
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