Fryeburg Academy Physics

In case you get bored this weekend, here’s a site I recommend you visit. It will make you laugh (hopefully), and it might make you cry. Will it change the way you think? Probably not. Will there be things that are over your head? Yes probably, but there’s also a lot of things that you will understand.

The website to which you have been directed is the official homepage of The Flat Earth Society. Yes, there are apparently still people out there who don’t believe the earth is round. I also recommend the Wikipedia article about the FES for some further reading.

Are there really people who believe we live on a flat planet and everyone has been deceived by an elaborate conspiracy? Can anyone really be that dumb? Does anyone take this seriously?

I don’t know. But I really, REALLY hope not.

Yes, it matters. I shared this with some classes, and I’m posting the entire recording here so that you may listen to the whole maddening conversation. I’m glad to hear that all of you recognized that changing the word behind a number can change the number a great deal, and I hope you maintain that level of common knowledge and sense in your travels through the world. 

The episode inspired a blog to keep track of everything that was happening, and you can read all the details here.