For instance, Australia and Antarctica were too far apart on his creation. But while Fuller did a good job detailing the continents, he wasn't as exact with the oceans, which introduced errors. In 1943, the American architect Richard Buckminster Fuller drew outlines of regular shapes that made up a world map, and he wrote instructions for how his map could be folded into a polyhedral globe. The end result, the pancake map, borrowed ideas from previous research on polyhedra, or many-sided 3D shapes. "We're proposing a radically different kind of map, and we beat Winkel Tripel on each and every one of the six errors." To get around this boundary-splitting problem, the researchers approached mapmaking from a new perspective, with the hopes of designing a "flat map with the least error possible," Gott said. (Image credit: Photitos2016 via Getty Images) Notice how it distorts Antarctica and creates the illusion that Japan is very far away from California. True believers, however, are an extreme minority, and there will always be people who choose to believe in “alternative facts.” Let’s hope they remain a minority.The Winkel Tripel projection world map was first designed in 1921. Should we bother to convince Flat Earthers they’re wrong? Some on the internet could be trolls toying with arguments and theories. “Our system needs to train you not only what to know, but how to think about information, knowledge and evidence,” he said. Or Google has laid cables across the oceans to track you.Īstrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson blames the educational system - not for teaching insufficient science subjects so much as needing to improve critical thinking skills. Or the signals are really from giant towers and the G stands for ground. GPS satellites aren’t in space - there’s a “celestial dome” over the Earth. Anyone who tries is met with an argument that their evidence is faked or faulty.
How do Flat Earthers explain GPS? Is there a way to convince them that they’re wrong? Probably not. So far, he’s raised less than $7,000 of his $1 million target. B.o.B.’s campaign wants to “launch multiple weather balloons and satellites into space” to observe (and try to disprove) what centuries of science and technology have already confirmed. used Twitter to jump on the flat Earth bandwagon, even starting a GoFundMe campaign to find Earth’s curve. Last year, the flat Earth idea became national news when rapper B.o.B. The 1893 Orlando Ferguson map imagines Antarctica as a wall of ice around the world.
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