
The society members claim that NASA employees guard this ice wall to stop people from climbing over, and in theory, falling off the disc of Earth. They believe that the Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the center and Antarctica, a 150-foot-tall wall of ice, around the rim. There is ample evidence that the Earth is round, but they believe since only what they can see from Earth’s surface is flat that that is the only conclusion. Believing that the Earth is flat is one of the ultimate conspiracy theories. The flat earth society contains people from America and Europe and has been growing since 2009 (Wolchover 2017). While on the planet’s surface, it feels and looks flat, so they believe they dismiss all evidence to the contrary. People who believe in the flat earth theory do not think the Earth is round.
