The Flat Earth Society (officially named the International Flat Earth Research Society) was founded in the year 1800 in Great Britain and the United States. Charles Johnson, once president of the Flat Earth Society, qualified its founding date with the statement that "The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1492 B.C., when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt and gave them the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai." His reasoning? "Moses was a flat-earther." How he came to that conclusion, I don't know.

In the 1940's, flat-earther and friend of the Flat Earth Society Wilbur Glenn Voliva explained that the earth is shaped like a pancake, with the North Pole at the center and the South Pole distributed around the circumference. Asked why ships don't just sail off the edge of the earth, Voliva explained that an unscalable wall of ice surrounds the outside of our world. He also posited that the sun is a mere 32 miles in diameter and is positioned not more than 3,000 miles from Earth.