But, while many flat Earthers have problems with the idea of orbiting satellites, Shenton navigates the London streets using GPS. Inevitably, Shenton's argument forces him down all kinds of logical blind alleys – the non-existence of gravity, and his argument that most space exploration, and so the moon landings, are faked.
The sun and moon are spherical, but much smaller than mainstream science says, and they rotate around a plane of the Earth, because they appear to do so. The Earth is flat, he argues, because it appears flat.
The height and substance of that, no one is absolutely sure, but most people think it's mountains with snow and ice." "There is no unified flat Earth model," Shenton suggests, "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. The scientific evidence is stacked against Shenton, obviously, just as it is against those who think global warming is a hoax and that the dead stalk the Earth as ghosts – but that doesn't appear to trouble him in the least. If you thought that flat Earthism was gone, think again. Countries, according to him, spread across this flat world as they appear to do on a map, with Antarctica as a ring of mountains strung around the edge. For when Shenton rides his motorbike, he says it is not gravity that pins him to the road, but the rapid upward motion of a disc-shaped planet. He is mainstream on most issues, but not all. He thinks the evidence for man-made global warming is strong, and he dismisses suggestions that his own government was involved with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The 33-year-old American, originally from Virginia but now living and working in London, is happy with the work of Charles Darwin. In fact, Shenton turns out to have resolutely mainstream views on most issues.
0 kommentar(er)
