



Baute insisted the winds gusting up to 48 kilometres an hour helped him “to sail.”īaute determined the size of the circumference of the Earth using several equations. The trip was “remarkably fast,” lasting eight hours. Scientists launch expedition to map coral-covered underwater volcanoesįact and fiction collide at flat Earth museum on Fogo Island In fact, the shadows were roughly four centimetres shorter in Stoughton than in Regina.Ĭalifornia man who believes Earth is flat propels himself 600 metres in self-built rocket “If the Earth was flat and the sun is very far away, then those shadows would be the same length.” “Since the sun is very far from the Earth, the light hits us in parallel lines,” he explained.
