RE: Flat Earth in music, a new song to me (Jonathan Coulton, "Dissolve" from the album "Artificial Heart")
Cool music video - I like the silent era look! I'm a skeptic myself about a lot of things but searching for facts on planetary astronomy in the lyrics of pop songs will lead you down a rabbit hole. It's fun to look for secret clues in art but remember the Beatles record that, when played backwards, said, "Paul is a dead man..." well he's currently one of only two Beatles still alive! With Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic you may soon be able to see it with your own eyes... as far as the eye can see...flatland!! Ha ha. Where I come from they called us flatlanders not because of earth theories but because of the local topography, no hills and no mountains. I'm not relying on NASA but I'm sticking with Aristotle, the earth is a sphere. There is a solar eclipse tomorrow where the moon will pass in between us and the sun so that's not proof but if you have ever seen a lunar eclipse you can see the shadow of the earth slowly cover the full moon and our shape is definitely spherical. I've seen it with my own eyes!
I believe it's Billy Shears who is still alive, not Paul, but I haven't investigated that rabbit hole in depth. :)
Are you from MA? Because that's what the Mainers call us. :)
Eclipses can be described via both models, so they're not proof of a globe. Saying "the planets are spheres, therefore what we're standing on should be also" demonstrates ignorance of the fact that "planet" means "wandering star", and we're not standing on a star.
Alternately, saying what we're standing on should be round because what we see up above us is, would be like professing that pool table are globular because the balls are.
You're right about "secret clues in art" -- but, my initial exposure was Mark Sargent's "Flat Earth Clues" video (2 hours total on YouTube), and the book "Zetetic Astronomy" which describes hundreds of experiments that either show flatness or fail to demonstrate roundness. It's available for free online: http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za00.htm
Anyway, this is "the truth as I currently know it" and it is of course subject to change as I learn more. And some things are subject to change regardless, like "Berenstein Bears" is now "Berenstain"... (that's the Mandela Effect).
Oh! I meant also to say in my reply -- the "silent era look" you mentioned, this text appears in the video's Description at YouTube: "The footage used is from the 1928 silent film "Fall of the House of Usher" based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe and directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber."
I've never seen it, and just added it to my list.