Dwain Northey (Gen X)

Here is a little science lesson for you flat earthers… Today is the Summer Solstice. It’s the longest day and shortest night in the Northern Hemisphere. It’s also the first official day of summer.

I know that’s news to all of you that thought Memorial Day weekend was the being of Summer. Sorry to disappoint.

So, what actually is the Solstice? A solstice is an event that occurs when the Sun appears to reach its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 21 and December 21. In many countries, the seasons of the year are determined by the solstices and the equinoxes.

Crazy right… now if the Earth wasn’t a sphere and didn’t circle our nearest star (THE SUN) with an elliptical orbit we wouldn’t have a summer or winter solstice. In fact we wouldn’t have seasons at all.

The flat earth theory is that the earth isn’t a globe or a sphere in it a plate, that right a round plate. Many flat-Earthers agree that the sun perfectly circles the ring of the equator on the equinox; however, to account for the equal hours of daytime and nighttime, the models make a few tweaks to how the sun itself looks and behaves.

While you might envision the sun as an enormous ball of exploding gas located 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, a flat-Earther would see it as a teeny, tiny spotlight hovering just over the Earth. How teeny and how close is it? According to the early flat-Earth thinker Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who published the influential treatise “Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe” in 1881, the sun is only about 32 miles (52 km) in diameter and hovers anywhere from 400 to 700 miles (640 to 1,130 km) above the Earth, depending on the month.

“The sun moves in circles around the North Pole. When it is over your head, it’s day. When it’s not, it’s night. The light of the sun is confined to a limited area, and its light acts like a spotlight upon the Earth.”

The diameter of these sun-circles governs the seasons. According to one popular theory, the sun circles closest to the North Pole in June, then spends the next six months spiraling slowly outward toward the ice wall at the edge of the world. In December, the sun reverses course, and spirals back inward again. During the spring and autumn equinoxes, the sun circles in a perfect loop around the equator, casting light on half of the disc world at any given time.

Holy shit that makes perfect sense…

Still doesn’t explain how if you fly west from LA and travel 24,900 miles without changing course you will return to LA. That’s some next level mind screw shit there. Why if the earth is flat why did Columbus think that he could reach Inda from Spain by sailing West? For those of you that don’t know India is geographically South-East of Spain.

If you can look at pictures from space, justify why satellite’s function, or how lunar eclipses are a thing and still believe we live on a round flat plate, well I can’t help you. Good luck with you future endeavors and try not to fall off the edge.