# Anybody know what happened to the EARTH IS FLAT thread?

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**Created:** [December 20, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-what-happened-to-the-earth-is-flat-thread/144099 "2002-12-20T20:27:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-what-happened-to-the-earth-is-flat-thread/144099/1 "2002-12-20T20:27:28Z")

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You remember the one - it went on for a gazillion pages. You know, the thread that made Phaedrus famous. It was sometime around late 1999, I believe.

[Here is an aborted follow-up thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=21954).

The original title was “The Earth is flat - I read it in the paper!” and was launched by some nutjob’s newspaper column.

Anybody remember this and/or know what happened to it? Did it die in one of the board upgrades? Anybody keep a personal copy that can be returned to the SDMB archives? I’ve looked at [the Wayback Machine](http://www.archive.org) but couldn’t get into the message boards for 1999, of course.

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-what-happened-to-the-earth-is-flat-thread/144099/2 "2002-12-20T21:10:13Z")

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Lost. Lost in the conversion from UBB to vB, I believe. We’d put it in the “archive” section of the UBB database, only to have vB ignore that section entirely, except to erase it, that is. There’s a bunch of good stuff that got lost then. Including a great thread called “Why Pray?”

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**Author:** ![douglips](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@douglips](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/douglips)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-know-what-happened-to-the-earth-is-flat-thread/144099/3 "2002-12-20T21:35:46Z")

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For shame - some good stuff there.

Thanks for the info!