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Title: The 2019 Flat Earth Convention Is Set To Take Place On A Cruise Ship – There’s Just One Awkward Prob
Post by: rangerrebew on January 12, 2019, 04:16:21 pm

The 2019 Flat Earth Convention Is Set To Take Place On A Cruise Ship – There’s Just One Awkward Problem
 
 
 
By Madison Dapcevich
10 Jan 2019, 23:29

Pack your rose-colored glasses and leave behind any notion of logical (and factual) thinking. We're going on a cruise!

The Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC), which is not affiliated with the Flat Earth Society, plans to set sail this November to “uncover and debunk pseudo-scientific ‘facts’”, all while “presenting the true evidence” of our “existence on a flat, stationary plane.” But as The Guardian reports, there’s just one *massive* issue with the FEIC’s “educational endeavor": the navigation systems ships use to set course are based on the fact that the Earth is indeed a spherical shape.

“Ships navigate based on the principle that the Earth is round,” said Henk Keijer, a 23-year veteran cruise ship captain who's sailed all over the globe, told the publication. “Nautical charts are designed with that in mind: that the Earth is round.”

Ouch.

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-2019-flat-earth-convention-is-set-to-take-place-on-a-cruise-ship-theres-just-one-blaring-problem/ (https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-2019-flat-earth-convention-is-set-to-take-place-on-a-cruise-ship-theres-just-one-blaring-problem/)

Title: Re: The 2019 Flat Earth Convention Is Set To Take Place On A Cruise Ship – There’s Just One Awkward
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 12, 2019, 05:30:29 pm

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