Weiss’ preferred community is those who share his life-altering belief. “It’s just not something I resonate with.” “I have no problem with anybody that wants to believe we live on a ball. Now, Weiss finds it tedious to associate with the majority of people – though he “unfortunately” still has some friends who believe in a round Earth. “It literally whips the rug out from underneath you.” “I absolutely freaked out,” Weiss tells CNN in a phone interview. Ever since he tried and failed to find proof of the Earth’s curve four years ago, he’s believed with an evident passion that our planet is both flat and stationary – and it’s turned his world upside down. “Would you wake up in the morning and want everyone to think you’re an idiot?”īut Weiss is a flat Earther. 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.“I don’t want to be a flat Earther,” David Weiss says, his voice weary as he reflects on his personal awakening. "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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