The globe has been clearly understood for thousands of years. Portions of this article appeared previously in Daniel Loxton’s detailed history of the Flat Earth movement in Junior Skeptic #53, bound within Skeptic magazine 19.4 (2014). However, we do not need to rely on evidence from modern space agencies to confirm the roundness of the Earth for ourselves. It is unreasonable to dismiss all of the evidence from the entire history of space exploration, especially when there is zero evidence for a decades-long “globularist” conspiracy. Flat Earthers claim that all images of the globe are fraudulent inventions, and all testimony from astronauts is false.

3 Most obviously, there are many thousands of images and videos of the Earth from space, including a continually changing live stream view of the globe from the International Space Station-not to mention all the astronauts who have personally seen the Earth from orbit. The evidence for a spherical Earth is overwhelming. According to believers, government forces promote a completely fictitious model of the cosmos in order to conceal the true nature of the Earth.

Recent news stories, 1 celebrity endorsements, and Google search trends 2 have highlighted an apparently growing conspiracy theory belief that the Earth is not a globe, but instead a flat disc.

Is earth is round or flat