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MARCH 2021
BEFORE THE EARTH WAS FLAT
By Duncan Bennett, Member #4171
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rior to March 2020 we took the globe for granted. After building a cash stockpile, away we could go, landing on any part of the surface of the globe that took our eye for motorcycling adventure. Our only limitation was the height of the cash stockpile. But after March 2020, the archaic theory that the earth is flat became reality. No matter which direction we head these days, we seem to run into an edge. The ancients believed the earth was a disc floating in water, which is now completely right for modern Tasmanians, however for most of us our earth is now edges butting up against randomly opening and closing borders, with water on the other edges.
The best flat earth border crossing we can hope for these days Fortunately, we have both memories which make everything seem better as time goes by, and smartphones which are pretty good cameras. So we can sit back and watch our laptop screen saver scroll through images of the times when the earth was a sphere. Facebook also provides daily updates of the good old days of going around; “Ooh look darling, four years ago today we went to sort out the broken leg at that orthopaedic hospital in Addis Ababa that was up that track that made the Duck Creek Road seem smooth! Good times!”
A spherical earth border crossing into Argentina With the BMWMCQ photo competition for 2021 kicking off this month and facing the prospect of co-judging rather than sweeping all before me, I decided my favourite photos of places on the spherical earth should not be held back from a wildly disinterested public. “Please don’t….” said certain co-editors, so safely assuming there was a distracted omission of “… deny the masses of your photographic genius!”, I decided to share some of my favourites from beyond the edges of our flat earth.
This one was in southern Ethiopia, where the termites go for length rather than girth. This was a selfie as I was by myself a long way from the camp but the reason why I am “pulling out” in the photo was because I suddenly became self-conscious about touching it.
