'The only things I know for certain are that I'm going to die someday and that the Earth is flat,' says flat earther, restaurant-owner Ricardo. In Brazil, 11 million people believe the earth is flat.
File: The Flat-Earthers are brimming with counter-factual questions: If the Earth is rotating at 1,700 kilometres per hour at the equator, why doesn't the movement make everything fly off? If it's a sphere, why can't we see the curve from an aeroplane?
"The only things I know for certain are that I'm going to die someday and that the Earth is flat," he says. One of Bolsonaro's most prominent ideologues, the writer and former astrologer Olavo de Carvalho, has said he"cannot refute" Flat-Earth theory. It is an argument they advance with varying interpretations of physics, optics and the Bible, dismissing all evidence to the contrary as a conspiracy.Brazilians who believe the Earth is flat are mostly men, often Catholics or evangelical Christians, and with relatively low levels of education, according to Datafolha."Flat-Earthers are the smartest.
The Flat-Earthers are brimming with counter-factual questions: If the Earth is rotating at 1,700 kilometres per hour at the equator, why doesn't the movement make everything fly off? If it's a sphere, why can't we see the curve from an aeroplane? "To scientists, this seems more like a topic for psychologists or sociologists to study. The Earth's shape isn't a scientific problem to astronomers."One of the most prominent of Brazil's Flat-Earthers is Afonso de Vasconcelos, a geophysicist with a PhD from the University of Sao Paulo.
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