Flat Earth Theory

Strange Matters Podcast

Campfire Audio Productions

Science, History, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 987 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Strange Matters tackles one of the most controversial and bizarre conspiracy theories still spreading to this day – The Flat Earth Theory. Though it might come as a surprise to many, the shape of our home planet is still up to debate according to those who don’t buy into the “Round Earth” conspiracy. To those holding the notion that our planet is in fact a flat plane, they believe that the world leaders, scientists, and most of all NASA are all involved in a widespread cover up to continue to fool the mass population into thinking we are living on a globe.
To a Flat Earther, you should only believe what you can see and perceive with your senses. Since you can not see the Earth’s curvature on the horizon, it must mean that the land is flat all around the world. In this theory, the sun and moon are relatively small spheres that travel in circles only a few thousand miles above the plane of our planet. Surrounding Earth is a thick, impassable wall of ice that holds in Earth’s oceans, and perhaps even a massive dome above us that is illuminated by holograms giving the illusion of a starry sky, when in reality something much difference than space lies beyond our planet.
Listen to this episode and hear all about the strange and bizarre ideas and conspiracies involved in the Flat Earth Theory!
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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Strange Matters Podcast.
0:17.0	Here are Strange Matters who discuss anything and everything that is just outside the norm.
0:22.0	I am Sean and I will be the host for this
0:24.5	discussion. In this episode I will be discussing one of the craziest
0:28.8	controversial and one of the more popular modern conspiracies out there today.
0:34.0	Now for our most recent episodes we have been dealing with a lot of pretty serious and at times disturbing subjects.
0:41.0	This includes topics like horrible human experimentations, a group of hikers freezing
0:46.8	a death unexplainedably, the abduction and murder of an innocent woman, and even an ex-Nazi who built himself his own pedophiles paradise.
0:56.4	So I thought we should just keep ride ahead and roll on with this recent trend of serious
1:00.5	and heavy-hitting episodes. And for this this discussion talk about one of the most
1:04.4	important subjects yet and that topic is the correct shape of our home
1:09.4	planet. So if you haven't guessed it by now, I am talking, of course, about the infamous flat-Earth theory.
1:16.0	For some people, this may be a confusing subject, as many may be completely unaware that the shape of our planet is still up to debate.
1:25.0	Well, it is.
1:27.0	Now if you were to take an average preschool and put a number of simple shapes in front of them
1:31.0	and tell them to pick out which one our planet looks like,
1:34.6	I bet nearly any of them would instantly choose a sphere.
1:38.5	And while the majority of adults would agree, there are some thousands of very vocal individuals around the world that would
1:45.1	and said Vee him and Lee say that that child is dead wrong. So while the common person who
1:50.5	listens to this episode will probably find this whole idea pretty ridiculous
1:54.8	even before hearing all the theories and suggestions about why some believe the earth is flat.
2:00.0	At the same time there are plenty of conspiracy theorists out there who legitimately believe in this radical suggestion.
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