

It’s smaller than the number of Discworld fans worldwide but the mythology is compelling. There's a society called International Flat Earth Research Society (IFERS, the highly credible-sounding acronym), which was set up in 1956, that's still active today.Ī YouGov survey of more than 8,000 American adults suggested last year that as many as one in six Americans are not entirely certain the world is round, while a 2019 Datafolha Institute survey of more than 2,000 Brazilian adults indicated that 7% of people in that country reject that concept I of course think its absurd and incorrect, about as true as the Marvel movie science, but I can’t deny that it is a guilty pleasure. That the disc accelerates upwards creating the impression of gravity.


That the effect of seeing the horizon isn't actually true. That the entire world, led by NASA, is in on a conspiracy to create doctored images of a globe. The theory that we live on a large disc that flies through space, instead of a globe.
