![]() ![]() Tens of thousands of people belong to social media accounts dedicated to these theories, and popular videos explaining the theory have hundreds of thousands of views. It’s unclear how many people believe some version of Flat Earth theory. Believers diverge on the specifics, but tend to understand that we all live beneath a dome that floats through space, or perhaps, hovers above primordial waters. 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.Across the globe, millions of people believe the Earth - that whirling blue sphere, spinning through space - is, in fact, a flat plane. "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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