In an interview with LiveScience, Wood said, ‘One thing I’ve found interesting in my own adventures on the flat-Earth side of YouTube is, people are often pretty upfront about their motives. ![]() ‘When they do mention the worldview thing it’s usually kind of an afterthought, or it’s used as justification for the conspiracy element (i.e., the real purpose of the conspiracy is to make us feel like we’re insignificant when we’re really created specially by God).’ Michael Wood, a psychology lecturer at the University of Winchester told .uk, ‘Flat Earth believers list all the usual Flat Earth arguments about fish eye lenses, fake satellites, various measurements, celestial “gears” creating illusions of poles, phantom southern hemisphere flights, and so on. Believers claim that the NASA guards protect those ice walls from people that try to climb over and fall from the disc. ![]() ![]() It’s far less scary to believe that we’re on a snow globe created by God than to believe, as Douglas Adams put it, that, ‘we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal.’ The believers in the Flat Earth Theory think that the Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the center and Antarctica, a 150-foot-tall wall of ice, around the rim.
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