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While many of us have been conditioned into believing that the earth is round, the Flat Earth Society is a group of researchers who believe that the earth is flat rather than an “oblate spheroid”. These firm proponents of the ‘Earth is flat’ school of thought are now in news because of their response to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk. Right after marvelling over how the Mars sky is the opposite of that of the Earth, given how it turned blue during sunrise and sunset and red during the day, he tweeted (probably as an after thought), “Why is there no Flat Mars Society!?” While our best guess is that his reference was to how the home planet had one, the Flat Earth Society Twitter handle decided to help Musk out by promptly responding to him.
Check out their Twitter exchange here.
While this ‘matter of fact’ kind of answer would tickle your funny bone anyway (and we mean no disrespect to the members of the Flat Earth Society or their ideology), Musk’s question did prod others to come up with their own ‘reasonings’ as answers. Check out some of them here.
https://twitter.com/crayonparlour/status/935991080893468672
https://twitter.com/Con_Shaunnery/status/935853198371409920
Oh well, whether any of these answers convince you or not, at least they tried and got you laughing!
