Likely Guy, on 01 November 2012 - 03:28 AM, said:
My grandmother believed that the earth was flat. No, I'm serious.
She was born in 1911, a Mennonite (which is an anabaptist... okay, think 'Amish') in Saskatchewan (it's in the middle of Canada... think large and 'really really flat').
I'm surprised she couldn't see the curve of the earth being out in the Prairies over 100 years ago....
pallidin, on 31 October 2012 - 04:23 PM, said:
I wonder if some of those people look up at the moon, see that it doesn't rotate about it's axis, and let that help confirm their bizzare theory without knowing, or wanting to know, how astronomy works.
Umm...the moon does rotate on its axis....