![]() This article was originally posted on her Smarter Than That blog in 2008 and has been lightly edited for Popular Science. It all supports the idea that this image was created to be a funny meme.Moriel Schottlender is a software engineer at Wikimedia Foundation. This is a decent collection of circumstantial evidence. That was 6 days ago and they have not responded. I sent a message to The Flat Earth facebook page asking if it was real, on 12/30/17. This guy tweeted out the joke in May 2016. This shirt was originally sold in February 2017. This same joke was made prior to May 2017 without attribution to an actual Flat Earth source. The original post was not an image, and therefore would not be found by tineye. It is possible that the post was real and the Facebook post was deleted after it became a widely ridiculed meme. It is very possible that Tineye's first record of it is actually a reposting of an earlier unrecorded image. Unfortunately I do not know how thorough their records are. Their image recognition algorithms allow you to reverse search an image and find out when it first appeared in Tineye's records. When I go to The Flat Earth Society's Facebook page, this post does not appear in the first half of 2017. Tineye's first record of this image appeared on May 9, 2017. I find no evidence of this being real, but I cannot prove a negative.
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