Beyond the ice walls?

WorldbyStorm

March 2

I'm always intrigued by pseudo-science, though in recent times the fact more than before seem to buy into it makes it a lot less entertaining than it used to be. But was curious to hear a further spin on flat eartherism. Some versions of flat earth 'thinking' suggest that the disc of a flat Earth is surrounded by an ice wall - essentially that of Antarctica. As rationalwiki notes, devotees of this belief differ amongst themselves as to whether it is tundra that stretches on to infinity, or, and this was new to me, more continents surrounded by more ice walls, surrounded by more continents surrounded by ice walls, and so on.

This conspiracy blossomed to include everyone in every government, civilian pilots (post-war) and/or GPS manufacturers (1960s), everyone in every telecommunications industry, everyone in the southern hemisphere (the difference between the currently-accepted globe and flat Earth map are so massive below the equator that they would be difficult to ignore) and anyone using an odometer on a trip between any four landmarks. Also included in the conspiracy are thousands of supersoldiers keeping ordinary citizens from witnessing the Ice Wall, which surrounds the flat Earth (one begins to wonder if Shenton felt that the best way to change a lightbulb was to hold it in place and get 300 other people to spin the building). As for what lies beyond the Ice Wall, the Flat Earth Society has this to say:

Beyond the 150 foot Ice Wall is anyone's guess. How far the ice extends; how it terminates; and what exists beyond it, are questions to which no present human experience can reply. All we at present know is, that snow and hail, howling winds, and indescribable storms and hurricanes prevail; and that in every direction "human ingress is barred by unsealed escarpments of perpetual ice," extending farther than eye or telescope can penetrate, and becoming lost in gloom and darkness. Some hold that the tundra of ice and snow stretches forever eternally."^[88]

For a sense of what this would look like look no further than...er... Etsy? Posters and so on helpfully titled World Beyond the Ice Wall show this configuration.

How it is that aircraft from there or here don't cross the Ice Wall is not explained. Note that many of those who buy into this are fundamentalist creationists.