{"id":44806,"date":"2017-07-11T06:54:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T12:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=44806"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:32:04","slug":"turtles-all-the-way-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=44806","title":{"rendered":"Turtles All the Way Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Midsommar \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Most Heat Moon<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-44807\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-map_edit-420x289.jpg\" alt=\"flat-earth-map_edit\" width=\"420\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-map_edit-420x289.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-map_edit-744x512.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-map_edit-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-map_edit-1200x826.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful morning. Blue sky with high wispy clouds over Black Mountain, lots of sunshine. Solar panels soaking up energy direct from the source. Temperatures have cooled a bit.<\/p>\n<p>The sun, risen again after our mountains spun away from it last evening, shines. But, upon what does it shine? Read this surprising conclusion:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many (flat earthers) subscribe to the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.tfes.org\/The_Ice_Wall\">ice wall theory<\/a>,\u201d or the belief that the world is circumscribed by giant ice barriers, like the walls of a bowl, that then extend infinitely along a flat plane. Sargent envisions Earth as \u201ca giant circular disc covered by a dome.\u201d He likens the planet to a snow globe, similar to the one depicted in \u201cThe Truman Show,\u201d a fictitious 1998 existential drama about an insurance salesman unknowingly living in an artificially constructed dome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-44808\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-420x420.jpg\" alt=\"flat earth\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-744x744.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/flat-earth.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/>Turns out that among other distinctions Colorado has a central spot in the Flat Earth movement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Centennial State has been the cradle of the American flat earth renaissance since birth. The first\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fe2017.com\/\">Flat Earth International Conference<\/a>, which will be in Raleigh, N.C., in November, features a number of Colorado-based Flat Earthers, including Sargent, Knodel and Matthew Procella, or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/MrDoseman\/featured\">ODD Reality<\/a>, a Denver-based rapper and YouTuber with 75,000 subscribers and nearly 7 million video views.&#8221; \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/07\/07\/colorado-earth-flat-gravity-hoax\/\">These Coloradans Say The Earth Is Flat.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re under the continuing delusion that the earth is a globe, here are Youtube channels that will correct your misguided\u00a0perspective, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCS_FY5mR4g22L_E9t1D_ExQ\">Jeranism<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCXIovaBdnA4UHdd-TZ-MqRg\">Globebusters<\/a>. (Get it?)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midsommar \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Most Heat Moon It&#8217;s a wonderful morning. Blue sky with high wispy clouds over Black Mountain, lots of sunshine. Solar panels &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=44806\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turtles All the Way Down<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1980,40,4302],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-on-the-news","category-news-of-the-strange","category-science-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44811,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44806\/revisions\/44811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}