Worlds of Their Own, by Robert Schadewald

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Subtitled "A Brief History of Misguided Ideas: Creationism, Flat-Earthism, Energy Scams, and the Velikovsky Affair" the book is a collection of essays and chapters put together by Schadewald's sister after Bob passed away in 2000. There's some duplication due to the way the book was assembled, but it's all good stuff, and a fine encomium of the

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One of the Star Trek Pocket books (Memory Beta says it's The Entropy Effect) has an aside where it's pointed out that the Flat Earth society not only still exists in the 23rd century, but has adherents even on other worlds that humans have colonized. It'd be amusing if it weren't so plausible.

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Personally, I've always been partial to the Hollow Earth theory in which the Earth is spherical, but we live on the inside of it.

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If we ever get a Dyson Sphere built, future generations might scoff at radical claims that humans could live on the outside of a planet, like bugs on an orange.

--- Ajax.

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To bring us back to Trek... For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky