So we'll do work, uh, to forward science education. Uh, the whole purpose of our charity is to promote science to challenge pseudoscience. So I'm Michael Marshall and I'm the project director of the good thinking society, which is a charity based in the UK. I’m going to let my guest introduce himself in a moment, because he does a better job than I could.

They ended up in the home of a mythomaniac who claimed to be positive for Covid but luckily he was not,' Zichichi said.ĭejected, they returned to their part of the globe by ferry.This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on March 27, 2020. 'A few days later, they tried to escape again. Since the global pandemic is still on, the couple was placed in quarantine by health officials, but in their determination to find the edge they escaped and sailed away once more, possibly figuring the police's authority ends where the rim meets the vacuum of space. You probably won't be surprised to learn that a couple that sold their car in order to reach the end of the world perhaps hadn't thought things through, however, and they soon found themselves lost, tired, and washed up on the island of Ustica instead. Using a compass (a navigation system that relies on the principle that the Earth is not a pancake), the couple set off in their boat and attempted to navigate their way through the Pelagie Islands to reach Lampedusa, La Republica reports. Firstly, if you're planning on taking a trip to the very edge of the world, this year, when most of the world has been ordered by law to stay at home, perhaps wasn't the best one to choose. The trip, always destined to end in disappointment, hit some snags immediately. 'For them, Lampedusa was the end of the Earth.' 'In Termini Imerese they sold their car and bought a boat.' 'The two left the Veneto during the lockdown for Lampedusa, violating all restrictions,' Salvatore Zichichi of the Maritime Health Office of the Ministry of Health told Italian newspaper La Stampa. Despite Italy's lockdown, a couple from Venice recently set out to prove Earth's flatness once and for all by sailing to the edge of the world, which they believed to be somewhere near Sicily. It's amazing how people who live locally never visit famous tourist attractions, like the leaning tower of Piza or the edge of the Earth where the sea meets the infinite void.

The earth is flat book