While those factions fought at conferences, other attendees were actually round-earth accepters who thought it would be fun to mix it up with the flat-earthers.

“But there's more than one way to think it's flat … some people believe that Earth is actually an infinite plane in all directions … and so when I first came across the flat-earth movement in 2013, this was quite a vociferous debate.” “Some do believe it's a disk,” Marshall said. society has taken on the Sisyphean task of “encouraging curious minds and promoting rational inquiry.” And Marshall has become well versed in why on Earth people would believe it's flat.

Although coverage by our friends at quoted him as saying in a 2017 documentary, “I'm going to build my own rocket right here, and I'm going to see it with my own eyes what shape this world we live on.”Įither way, Hughes's demise put flat-earth belief in the news briefly, which got me to dig out an interview I did last year with Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society.

His fatal launch was apparently general daredevilry and not an attempt to gather data for flatearthism. Hughes was a famous flat-earther, one of a growing group who do not accept that Earth is an oblate spheroid (which it is). On February 22 “Mad” Mike Hughes died when his self-built steam rocket crashed shortly after takeoff.

Trolling flat earthers