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                            <title><![CDATA[ Latest from Live Science in Flat-earth ]]></title>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why does Earth look flat if it's really round? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/why-does-earth-look-flat-if-its-really-round</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ It's all about perspective: The higher you go, the more you can see the curve. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Kelly R. MacGregor ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/bEvHuYNpiNJsVpXLQh5JV4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[This 2014 image of a tropical storm from the International Space Station clearly shows Earth&#039;s curvature.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An image from space showing the curvature of the Earth]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat Earth 'theory': Why do some people think the Earth is flat? ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Flat-earthers believe one of the most curious conspiracy theories on the internet. Here's a look at what they believe and why. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:58:41 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:00:37 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mYgGsgUeqbMMYbZbTK7uP6-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/why-people-believe-conspiracy-theories</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Even when there is substantial evidence to the contrary, the allure of conspiracy theories may be too powerful for some to resist. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Joe Phelan ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/XUrntEQHPDL89s3uwAnh76-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Even when there is substantial evidence to the contrary, the allure of conspiracy theories may be too powerful for some to resist.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Close up of the term &#039;conspiracy theory&#039; highlighted in pink in a dictionary]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Bill Nye to flat Earthers and science deniers: 'It affects all of us' ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "The flat earthers, the anti vaxxers, the anti maskers are not on board with the progress of science. And the thing is, it affects all of us," Bill Nye said. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:16:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:47:49 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KQf9pMYwr8bAKeoYok5ju8-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Bill Nye hosts Why With Nye, a web series about the Juptier-bound Juno spacecraft.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Bill Nye hosts Why With Nye, a web series about the Juptier-bound Juno spacecraft.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Live Science podcast "Life's Little Mysteries" 9: Mysterious Flat-Earthers ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ In this episode of Life's Little Mysteries, we'll explore an idea that originated thousands of years ago, and despite plenty of scientific evidence to the contrary, it mysteriously persists today — the notion that the world is flat. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 10:25:58 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:59:05 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Live Science Staff ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6Y5bDP9Q5pXH6Jq9A23qSR-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Earth rendered as a flat disk floating in space.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Earth rendered as a flat disk floating in space.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'Mad Mike' wasn't trying to prove 'flat Earth' theory on ill-fated rocket launch ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Following the tragic death of 'Mad' Mike Hughes, we revisit the real reasons why he launched himself into the air aboard his homemade steam rocket, knowing how risky the stunt was. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:33:57 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:20:17 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ chelseagohd@gmail.com (Chelsea Gohd) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Chelsea Gohd ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/AVUUH9fEFZwFGStppLE2hn-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Daredevil Mike Hughes tragically passed away during a launch accident this past Saturday (Feb. 22). This image is from August 25, 2019, Amboy, California, USA: After a long month of launch attempts in August in 100 degree heat &#039;&#039;Mad&#039;&#039; MIKE HUGHES and crew dealt with a 5th scrub launch during filming of the Science Channel series &#039;&#039;Homemade Astronauts.&#039;&#039;]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Daredevil Mike Hughes tragically passed away during a launch accident this past Saturday (Feb. 22). This image is from August 25, 2019, Amboy, California, USA: After a long month of launch attempts in August in 100 degree heat &#039;&#039;Mad&#039;&#039; MIKE HUGHES and crew dealt with a 5th scrub launch during filming of the Science Channel series &#039;&#039;Homemade Astronauts.&#039;&#039;]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 'Mad' Mike Hughes dies in rocket crash ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ Mad Mike Huges has died after crash-landing a homemade rocket Saturday. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:22:09 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:50:10 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeanna Bryner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/rcnEYHcRu5Qa37Rk7BkaYB-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A view of &quot;Mad Mike&quot; Hughes&#039; rocket, taken on Aug. 12, 2019.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A view of &quot;Mad Mike&quot; Hughes&#039; rocket, taken on Aug. 12, 2019.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What If the Earth Was Flat? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/what-if-flat-earth.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A flat Earth would inhabit an entirely different physical reality than the one we know. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:55:55 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mYgGsgUeqbMMYbZbTK7uP6-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Gravity? What gravity?]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Earth appears as a flattened disk against the backdrop of space.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earther 'Mad' Mike Hughes Is Being Sponsored by a Dating App to Nearly Get Himself Killed ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ 'Mad' Mike Hughes — a self-taught rocket scientist and avowed flat-Earth conspiracy theorist — is launching himself into the sky again. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:00:26 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 13 Aug 2019 20:21:06 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Brandon Specktor ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wxXpvhG4TAu7jCWTHNd5SG-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[Hughes, 63, wants to see Earth from space even if it kills him.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Hughes, 63, wants to see Earth from space even if it kills him.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earthers' Cruise Will Sail to Antarctica 'Ice Wall' at the Planet's Edge. Right. ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A flat-Earthers conference promises a cruise to Antarctica. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2019 14:37:52 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:27:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mindy Weisberger ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/6jARjazQJfq2v882YHZGxZ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Seriously, people?]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of what a flat Earth might look like.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How Flat-Earthers Explain Total Lunar Eclipses ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ The blood-red color of the moon during a total lunar eclipse may be difficult to explain without a basic understanding of orbital mechanics, but flat-Earthers have come up with a way to circumvent scientific facts and construct a creative explanation. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2019 23:03:35 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:29:55 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ hweitering@space.com (Hanneke Weitering) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Hanneke Weitering ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Fyhj4EccpGfcQsgoqBcyG7-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Melissa Arrant captured this photo of the total lunar eclipse on Jan. 20-21, 2019 from Lynn Haven, Florida. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Total Lunar Eclipse 2019]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ How do flat-Earthers explain the equinox? We investigated. ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/63648-flat-earth-explanation-for-the-equinox.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Equinoxes would be physically impossible over a flat Earth, but that doesn't stop conspiracy theorists from trying to explain them. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2018 21:29:18 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:50:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Brandon Specktor ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Dt47HfK5qcLSeibXZFJYhb-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Our planet, as seen by a flat Earth conspiracy theorist]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[An illustration of a flat Earth floating in space]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why False Beliefs Are Hard to Shake ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/63554-why-false-beliefs-stick.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Why do some people seriously think the Earth is flat? Turns out, they aren't good at judging how certain they should be. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:20:34 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:37:53 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hr26uz2y8xYzFuNcJ5jPnB-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Flat-Earthers believe that the Earth is a flat disc ringed by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Flat-Earthers believe that the Earth is a flat disc ringed by an ice wall.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ One Conspiracy Theory at a Time: Flat-Earthers Don't Reject Climate Science ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ In a viral exchange, the Flat Earth Society confirmed it's not on board with rejecting anthropogenic climate change. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2018 17:30:56 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:38:22 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rafi Letzter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of a flat Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ I Watched an Entire Flat Earth Convention — Here's What I Learned ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/62506-flat-earth-convention.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ While flat Earthers seem to trust and support scientific methods, they don't trust scientists. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2018 11:04:44 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:20:23 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Harry T Dyer Lecturer in Education ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of a flat Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earthers Explain Why We Don't Fall Off the Edge of Our Planet, and It Involves Pac-Man ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/62454-flat-earthers-explain-pac-man-effect.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Their evidence included an odd Pac-Man effect. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2018 14:35:35 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:48:47 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeanna Bryner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kHGBAaGn2sbVhGnSuFNpQa-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Most believers in a flat Earth think the planet is a flat disk surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Most believers in a flat Earth think the planet is a flat disk surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ A Third of Young Millennials Are Confused About This Incontrovertible Fact ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/62220-millennials-flat-earth-belief.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Younger people seem perplexed about whether Earth is round or flat. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2018 20:56:38 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:44:26 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CDrRHKBWmgd6mVFN8eFq8f-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Flat-Earthers believe that the Earth is a flat disc ringed by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Flat earth]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earther Blasts Himself into the Sky on Homemade Rocket (and He Survives) ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "Mad" Mike Hughes launched himself from the Mojave Desert on a self-made rocket before landing back to Earth, a little dinged up. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2018 18:19:05 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:49:00 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jeanna Bryner ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Vbbeb2Dx5Diswhiez8ir34-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Rocketeer flat-Earther “Mad” Mike Hughes launched his Liberty One rocket on the third attempt Saturday (March 24, 2018) near Amboy, California. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Rocketeer flat-Earther “Mad” Mike Hughes launched his Liberty One rocket on the third attempt Saturday (March 24, 2018) near Amboy, California. ]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Yep, the Earth Is Still Round, Neil deGrasse Tyson Says ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ "Cosmos" host and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson recently shot down the ideas of anyone out there who still thinks the Earth is flat. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2018 10:50:24 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:48:26 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Elizabeth Howell ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VNvaQVpvta7gZJZSmrGz7o-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wants everyone to know that the world is round.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wants everyone to know that the world is round.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Yup, Flat-Earthers Think the Falcon Heavy Launch Was a Conspiracy ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/61688-flat-earthers-spacex-falcon-heavy-conspiracy.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Surprise: They don't believe it. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2018 20:27:10 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:51:10 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2XEVCLwvsg4VwnCgtyaqc6-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A camera shows SpaceX&#039;s Starman mannequin and Elon Musk&#039;s Tesla Roadster as they fly above a ROUND Earth after launching on the first Falcon Heavy rocket test flight on Feb. 6, 2018.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A camera shows SpaceX&#039;s Starman mannequin and Elon Musk&#039;s Tesla Roadster as they fly above a ROUND Earth after launching on the first Falcon Heavy rocket test flight on Feb. 6, 2018.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat Earth: What Fuels the Internet's Strangest Conspiracy Theory? ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/61655-flat-earth-conspiracy-theory.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Why do people reject more than 2,000 years of scientific understanding? ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:51:26 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:55:17 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kgxquZ9jmqjJEXrYpg3f3m-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[In this woodcut, a medieval missionary recounts that he has found the spot where the sky and the Earth touch. The illustration, by Camille Flammarion (1842-1945), a French astronomer and popular science writer, was used to illustrate the notion that mediaeval man believed the Earth was flat. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A man on Earth peers through the universe to what was believed in the middle ages to lie beyond.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earth Rocketeer Fails to Launch (Again) ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/61653-mad-mike-hughes-launch-fail.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ The flat-Earth rocketeer remains planet-bound. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2018 16:51:46 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:51:41 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rafi Letzter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/NBwd4qBPUkaaFfEeu5U2MB-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Gene Blevins/Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG/Zuma]]></media:credit>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earth Rocketeer Says He Will Launch in Two Weeks ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/61491-flat-earth-rocket-launch-date.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ "Mad" Mike Hughes, a flat-Earth conspiracy theorist, appears to have a new rocket and a new launch date for his mission to prove our oblate spheroid world is actually a disc. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:46:07 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:55:35 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rafi Letzter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CzDa5dRDPp7UvQr8ZuHHhj-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Astronaut photograph AS11-36-5339 was acquired on July 16, 1969, with a Hasselblad camera using a 250 millimeter lens. It is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center.]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A view of Earth on July 16, 1969, the day the Apollo 11 mission launched. The Apollo 11 crew captured this shot, mostly of the Pacific Ocean and some of the west coast of North America. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A view of Earth on July 16, 1969]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 8 Times Flat-Earthers Tried to Challenge Science (and Failed) in 2017 ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ It was a good year for a very bad conspiracy theory. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:56:42 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:56:50 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of a flat Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Even a Kid Can Prove the Earth Is Round: Here's How ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ You don't need to build a rocket, like "Mad" Mike Hughes, to prove the Earth isn't flat – here's the simple science. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:02:33 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:51:12 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Ian Whittaker ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/VwhnxpmJwESn4BZJ7TKxeg-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[This view of Earth&#039;s horizon was taken by an Expedition 7 crewmember onboard the International Space Station on June 13, 2003.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[This view of Earth&#039;s horizon was taken by an Expedition 7 crewmember onboard the International Space Station on June 13, 2003.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ US Government Shuts Down Flat-Earther's Rocket Launch ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/61026-flat-earther-rocket-delay.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ "Mad" Mike is grounded. ]]>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Rafi Letzter ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of a flat Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Flat-Earther to Launch Himself in Homemade Steam Rocket Saturday ]]></title>
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                            <![CDATA[ A flat-Earth enthusiast who claims not to believe in science plans to launch himself 1,800 feet (550 meters) above California's Mojave Desert in a homemade steam rocket on Saturday (Nov. 25), the Associated Press reported. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 14:22:10 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:01:13 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Wall ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ What in the World? Flat-Earthers Gather at First Conference ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/60972-flat-earthers-first-conference.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A conference aimed at disputing the idea that the world is round just wrapped up in North Carolina. Here's what they talked about. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 20:14:39 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:01:34 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/kotQRjJDbBGRMBEeF8vEt3-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Illustration of a flat Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Astronauts to Flat-Earther B.o.B: We've Seen the Curve ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/60561-flat-earth-bob-nasa-astronauts.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Some former astronauts have a message for flat-Earther B.o.B: The curve is real, and we've seen it. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2017 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:03:36 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Mike Wall ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/cnjqYH2DRB5cgH29wiAFQZ-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[NASA astronaut Terry Virts captured this view of the sun over Earth on his last day in space as he prepared to leave the International Space Station on June 11, 2015. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Earth from Space, Seen by Terry Virts]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ 7 Ways to Prove the Earth Is Round (Without Launching a Satellite) ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/60544-ways-to-prove-earth-is-round.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Rapper B.o.B wants to launch a satellite into space to find out, once and for all, whether the Earth is flat or round. Here are seven other ways to prove our planet is spherical. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2017 10:56:25 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:00:33 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wc5pLRh4j5G6gQQSmK8hhm-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    <media:description><![CDATA[University of Leicester students take stunning footage of the curvature of Earth from a high-altitude weather balloon.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[University of Leicester students take stunning footage of the curvature of Earth from a high-altitude weather balloon.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Rapper B.o.B Is Trying to Launch a Satellite to Show the Earth Is Flat ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/60542-rapper-bob-satellite-to-prove-earth-flat.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A Georgia-based rapper wants to launch his own satellite to see if the Earth is round, and he's asking for money to do it. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:23:30 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Tue, 06 Aug 2019 23:06:11 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Stephanie Pappas ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/wqEmvCE6oA9zdN5rQJxuJb-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured its first view of the entire sunlit side of the spherical planet Earth, on July 6, 2015.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite captured its first view of the entire sunlit side of the spherical planet Earth, on July 6, 2015.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Why Shaquille O'Neal's Flat-Earth Ideas Are Out of Bounds ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/58336-why-shaquille-oneal-is-wrong-about-flat-earth.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ Former NBA player Shaquille O'Neal can likely see that a basketball is round, but the newly proclaimed "flat-Earther" can’t seem to say the same for the planet. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:45:39 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:35:48 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                <author><![CDATA[ lgeggel@livescience.com (Laura Geggel) ]]></author>                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Laura Geggel ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/QXLwQSsSTtD5o3RVE735nb-1280-80.jpeg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Shaquille O&#039;Neal jokes around at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Shaquille O&#039;Neal jokes around at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Bad Rap: Why B.o.B Is Wrong About a Flat Earth ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/53500-why-b-o-b-is-wrong-about-flat-earth.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A throwdown between a rapper and an astrophysicist centers on whether the Earth is a sphere, a scientific question that was supposedly settled in the third century B.C. Here's how we know it's a sphere. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:08:57 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:18:58 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Jesse Emspak ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/2uqRwp5LkrwawXxL2E2Vy4-1280-80.jpg">
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                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[In this depiction of what a flat Earth would look like, Antarctica is represented as a layer of ice surrounding a disc-shaped Earth.]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[In this depiction of what a flat Earth would look like, Antarctica is represented as a layer of ice surrounding a disc-shaped Earth.]]></media:text>
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                                                            <title><![CDATA[ Ingenious 'Flat Earth' Theory Revealed In Old Map ]]></title>
                                                                                                                                                                                                <link>https://www.livescience.com/14754-ingenious-flat-earth-theory-revealed-map.html</link>
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                            <![CDATA[ A map drawn in South Dakota in 1893 depicts the Earth as flat—or rather an inverse toroid—displaying a strange mix of science and religion. ]]>
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                                                                        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:17:57 +0000</pubDate>                                                                                                                                <updated>Wed, 01 Jul 2020 21:19:21 +0000</updated>
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                                                                                                                    <dc:creator><![CDATA[ Natalie Wolchover ]]></dc:creator>                                                                                                    <media:content type="image/jpeg" url="https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EmDAibTLo7NXWTw7tMXAJD-1280-80.jpg">
                                                            <media:credit><![CDATA[Don Homuth]]></media:credit>
                                                                                                                                                                        <media:description><![CDATA[Map of the Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. ]]></media:description>                                                            <media:text><![CDATA[Map of the Earth made in 1893 by Orlando Ferguson of Hot Springs, South Dakota. Credit: Don Homuth]]></media:text>
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