How many of you remember the Flat Earth Society? Not many, I’ll wager. Well, despite decades of space travel and the work of astronauts such as Commander  Chris Hadfield, the organization still exists. They have Instagram and Flickr accounts, too, which strikes me as oddly too modern. Here is a blurb from their website: The modern age of the Flat Earth Society dates back to the early 1800s, when it was founded by Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an English inventor. Samuel Rowbotham’s Flat Earth views were based largely on literal interpretation of Bible passages. His system, called Zetetic Astronomy, held that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its ‘southern’ edge by a wall of ice, with the sun,…

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