Earth Is Not Flat, But Someone Just Spotted a Perpendicular Planet

Despite what some people on this planet would have you believe, Earth is not flat. In a general sense, it's a sphere that moves through space, orbiting the star that's at the center of our solar system on the same plane as all other seven planets, which more or less coincides with the Sun's equator. This gives our little corner of space an orderly appearance, and we know for a fact that most other solar systems are the same. But not all of them. (continue reading...)