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I kind of feel like flat earth thing started out with people trolling, but a number of morons believed it to be true and now it's just trolls leading the idiots.
No, it started out when the telescope was invented but people couldn't go to space so they could only speculate.
Interesting, considering observations with a telescope and the development of calculus is what allowed us to understand that the solar system works out like it does via physics and the mathematics that it's based on.
Exactly. Before that it was kinda understandable to think the earth is flat. After, not so much