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The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, will host its first national earthmoving convention this Sunday, November 10, 2019.

 According to the convention website, Flat Con Brasil is organized by journalist Jean Ricardo G. Martins, who has been promoting events and earthmoving since 2015, and aims to discuss this current issue “which is on the media agenda” throughout the world.  world.

 “Treated as a 'conspiracy theory' by many, this science is studied by many professors and scholars who show, through empirical evidence, that we do not live in a globe but in a flat, stationary world,” it reads.

 “It's not fashion, let alone a passing phenomenon.  This world wave kicked off in 2015 and brought people together around one goal: to prove that we don't live on a globe like we were educated at school and that NASA and other agencies lie. ”

 For the conference, there are two types of tickets for sale: the promotional one, which costs 50 reais (11 euros) and gives access to all lectures, and another 110 reais (25 euros) which, in addition to the lectures, included a  official jersey of the event, a personalized pen and Terra Plana Magazine.  Tickets are purchased online.

 Among the speakers, the British newspaper The Guardian lists, are several youtubers, including Professor Terra Plana, who publishes videos titled "25 examples that prove NASA is a scam" or "Gravity doesn't exist."

 The “Professor Terra Plana” channel has about 29,000 subscribers.

 As with the United Kingdom and the United States, Flat Land theory has gained traction in Brazil: 7% of the population (10 million Brazilians) believe in terraplanism, according to Datafolha data, which points out that this belief has been  focus more on the religious population and with fewer studies.

 Recently, Brazilian philosopher and conservative Olavo Carvalho, who is also an astrologer and guru of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, was criticized on Twitter when talking about earthmoving.  “I didn't study the subject of Flatland.  I just saw some experimental procedure videos showing the flatness of aquatic surfaces and so far I couldn't find anything to refute them, ”he wrote.