“I knew that it wouldn’t become real to a lot of people until it moved off of online into buildings,” he said. The events are about bringing flat earth into real, physical space.
In 2017, he organized a flat earth conference in North Carolina, which he said was the first of its kind. Something happened in 2015, he says, the year when many people on the internet became flat earth adherents. Towering over it all is organizer Robbie Davidson, a 46-year-old from Edmonton who fell into flat earth three years ago. The two-day conference has all the trappings of a professional gathering - name tags, media lists, merchandise bags. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Among other things, he said that NASA was started by “Nazis, free masons and magicians.” Edmonton How do you talk to people who are so fact averse?įlat earth conference presenter Matt Long speaks in the Fantasyland Hotel ballroom on the first day of Flat Earth International Conference Canada. They registered on a lark to see how long they could stand the conference.īut Ryan Schultz also had altruistic motives: he wanted to better understand flat earth adherents. Both have degrees in physics - Jason an undergrad, Ryan a masters. To be clear, neither think the Earth is flat. I went with two actual scientists, brothers Jason Schultz and Ryan Schultz. About 250 people registered to attend, the majority of them dedicated to the false proposition that the Earth is flat. This is how Day 1 of Canada’s first flat earth conference begins. Other sciences would have to be retooled from the ground up. “The first one is academic - literally in every university in every country, astrophysics and astronomy would have to be shut down overnight. “If some scientist revealed it tomorrow on CNN, or whatever, and it was broadcast that the Earth is not (round) - there’s potential for some real shock waves, some real upheaval,” he continues.
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