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.Though Flat Earthers may (incorrectly) proclaim that our planet is entirely flat, their imaginations are anything but.Ī map depicting how some Flat Earthers view our definitely-not-disc-shaped planet began making the rounds this week, showing that, to them at least, the world is but a fantasy novel with an “Abyssal Ocean,” several unreachable continents and something called “The Scorched Wastes,” whatever that means to Aristotle’s remaining skeptics.įlat earth map purports to show what’s “beyond the ice wall.” /80NItDLETO- PatriotTakes July 16, 2023ĭespite eliciting scoffs from fiction writers - “They just took a few Gods’ names and threw them onto distorted and stretched copy-pastes of continents,” CBR contributor joked - others were thoroughly impressed with Flat Earth’s very deep and very scientifically incorrect lore. '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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