In the empirical realm, scientists often choose to respond by presenting their evidence, then get upset and refuse to engage more when their data aren't accepted or their integrity is questioned. In this "post-truth" era-with headlines like " Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds"-it is an open question how to convince people who reject evidence, not just in science, but also on a host of other factual matters. To make matters worse, scientists (and others who care about it) have not really found an effective way of fighting back against science denial.
And, in one of the most incredible developments of my lifetime, the Flat Earth movement is on the rise. Senate-due mainly to partisan politicians who routinely confuse climate and weather-even as scientists tell us that we have only until 2030 to cut worldwide carbon emissions by half, then drop them to zero by 2050. Climate change legislation stalled in the U.S. More than seven hundred cases of measles across 22 states in the U.S., largely due to vaccine deniers. Whether or not the FEIC cruise will rely on GPS or deploy an entirely new flat-Earth-based navigation system for finding the end of the world, remains to be seen.Every day in the media we see once-unthinkable science headlines.
"But it is not enough, because the Earth is round." "Had the Earth been flat, a total of three satellites would have been enough to provide this information to everyone on Earth," Keijer said. GPS relies on a network of dozens of satellites orbiting thousands of miles above Earth signals from the satellites beam down to the receiver inside of a GPS device, and at least three satellites are required to pinpoint a precise position because of Earth's curvature, Keijer explained. There's just one catch: Navigational charts and systems that guide cruise ships and other vessels around Earth's oceans are all based on the principle of a round Earth, Henk Keijer, a former cruise ship captain with 23 years of experience, told The Guardian. But in diagrams shared on the FES website, the planet appears as a pancake-like disk with the North Pole smack in the center and an edge "surrounded on all sides by an ice wall that holds the oceans back." This ice wall - thought by some flat-Earthers to be Antarctica - is the destination of the promised FEIC cruise.
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