I’ve been trapped by Facebook… It has worked out that I find the idea of flearthers angering, and that I will be fascinated to read their ‘proofs’ and feel irate/amused that anyone could not see the problems in their arguments. It’s similar to how GB News and the Telegraph has my dad incredibly angry about the imaginary hoards of tofu-munching wokerati lead by the BBC forcing our children to watch gay porn, or some such.

Anyway, the one thing I don’t see, from the brave people trying to debunk the flearthers’ non-sense, is the reason why I think everyone should believe the world is round (well an oblique spheroid, whatever that is). Which is that it is easier that way. We observe lots of strange behaviour in the sky, such as the movement of the planets, stars, sun and moon; each category taking their own unique path across the sky. Incredibly, all of this can be explained by 2 simple facts, we are spinning, and there is a force of attraction between the local celestial objects. If you want to have a flat earth you have to come up with individual rules to predict the movement of all these objects. Worse than that, if do manage to do this you will find that the rules will somehow be equivalent to the two simple rules above.

The earth is round because it is easier that way. I suspect that there are not many mathematicians in the flearther community!