SMBC’s Alternatives to a Flat Earth

Jonathan Crowe — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 18:32:45 +0000

Zach Weinersmith, “Flat.” Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, 8 August 2019.

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“Flat,” SMBC, 8 Aug 2019.

It’s not like xkcd has a monopoly on comics about maps. Last week, Zach Weinersmith’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal web comic posted a comic about alternative non-spherical Earth theories: everything from a hollow Earth to, well, stranger variations—including a slightly lumpy oblate spheroid Earth, which I frankly find hard to believe in.

flat earth – The Map Room

SMBC’s Alternatives to a Flat Earth