THE BBC is always at pains to present both sides of an argument. Here news editor Nathan Muir discusses the ongoing ‘round or flat Earth’ debate.
A controversy is currently raging as to whether the Earth is flat, or, as some scientists have speculated, spherical.
Certainly photographic images from the Apollo missions would seem to suggest the latter. Others, however, such as the experts at the Flat Earth Society, say this is nonsense and the Earth cannot be round because we’d all roll off.
Therefore in our latest report on the flat/round Earth debate we decided to ask random people in Lincolnshire, far away from metropolitan bias. They maintained that for them the earth is very flat indeed and therefore the whole planet must be the same.
Naturally both sides have accused us of bias.
Flat earthers believe we are in the pay of scientists, who in turn are bribed by NASA – an allegation we take very seriously. Meanwhile ‘Rounders’ insist the BBC should side with them, often in very strong terms such as “Oh for f*ck’s sake!”.
All of which goes to show – we must be doing something right!
So, taking all points of view into account, which is it? Is the Earth flat or round?
As ever in these matters, the truth lies somewhere in between. In all probability the Earth is both flat and round, like a squashed orange.
