Is Earth Flat or Round?

[SiCKX]

You know too many people have Internet access when otherwise marginalized low IQ people get together, become groups and start theories defying science.

[Arachno 1D]

Which branch of science are you refering to or is it just your assumption science is always right?

 

 

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Albert Einstein
 

[menifred]

Neil deGrasse Tyson has an answer.

[Arachno 1D]

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

What a silly question. Of course the earth is round.

[Arachno 1D]

Just now, Frank B. said:

What a silly question. Of course the earth is round.

Charles Johnson ~ Flat Earth Society

“When the United States declares the earth is flat,” says Charles Johnson, “and we hope to be instrumental in making it do so, it will be the first nation in all recorded history to be known as a flat-earth nation.

“It’s the Church of England that’s taught that the world is a ball,” he argues. “George Washington, on the other hand, was a flat-earther. He broke with England to get away from those superstitions.”
“Moses was a flat-earther,” he reveals. “The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1492 B.C., when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt and gave them the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.”
Obviously water’s flat, isn’t it?” he said in a Times interview in 1992. “They’re trying to tell you this water’s bent!”
Asked why don’t people fall off if the Earth if flat, Johnson would patiently explain, “There is no edge. As far as we know, it’s endless.”
“Australians,” he once elaborated in the Flat Earth News, “do not hang by their feet underneath the world!”
“Nobody knows anything about the true shape of the world,” he contends.
“The whole point of the Copernican theory is to get rid of Jesus by saying there is no up and no down,” declares Johnson. “The spinning ball thing just makes the whole Bible a big joke.”
“Wherever you find people with a great reservoir of common sense,” he says, “they don’t believe idiotic things such as the earth spinning around the sun. Reasonable, intelligent people have always recognized that the earth is flat.”
Fond of plays on words, he consistently pronounces Nicolaus Koppernigk’s Latinized surname as “co-pernicious.”

“In the old days, people believed the earth was flat, because it’s logical, but they didn’t have a picture of the way it was, as we have today. Our concept of the world is new.

“It’s the Church of England that’s taught that the world is a ball,” he argues. “George Washington, on the other hand, was a flat-earther. He broke with England to get away from those superstitions.”
“Moses was a flat-earther,” he reveals. “The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1492 B.C., when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt and gave them the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.”

“Marjory and I are the avant garde. We’re way ahead of the pack.”

Obviously water’s flat, isn’t it?” he said in a Times interview in 1992. “They’re trying to tell you this water’s bent!”

Asked why don’t people fall off if the Earth if flat, Johnson would patiently explain, “There is no edge. As far as we know, it’s endless.”

“Australians,” he once elaborated in the Flat Earth News, “do not hang by their feet underneath the world!”

When the space shuttle Columbia first landed next door at Edwards in 1981, he scoffed: “This airplane landed, but it’s just a simple, stupid old airplane carried piggyback and dropped over Lancaster. . . . It hasn’t orbited the Earth–that we know.”

“Moses was a flat-Earther,” he said in several interviews. “The Flat Earth Society was founded in 1492 BC (biblical scholars date the Exodus to 1491 BC) when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt and gave them the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai.” Presumably, had the Earth been round, they would have fallen off before reaching the biblical promised land.

Jesus believed in a flat Earth, Johnson said, because he ascended to heaven, and if the Earth were a ball, “there [would be] no up nor down.”

Christopher Columbus was a flat Earth believer too, Johnson told The Times, discussing events of 1492: “He had enough sense to know that if the world was a ball, he would have fallen off.”

“Marjory has always known that the earth is flat, too,” says Charles Johnson. “As far as she knew, everybody in Australia knew it. She was rather shocked when she arrived here and found people speaking of Australia as being ‘down under.’ It really offended her. She would get in quite heated arguments with people who seemed to accuse her of coming from down under the world.” Ultimately, Marjory Johnson swore in an affidavit that she had never hung by her feet in Australia.

If the Shuttle ever does orbit on its own, it’s supposed to return to Edwards Air Force Base. To Johnson, that’s appropriate enough.
“Do you know what they’re doing at Edwards right now?” he asks. “‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ is made right where they claim they’re going to land the Shuttle. Edwards is strictly a science-fiction base now.

“In the old days, people believed the earth was flat, because it’s logical, but they didn’t have a picture of the way it was, as we have today. Our concept of the world is new.

“Marjory and I are the avant garde. We’re way ahead of the pack.”

“Buck is a much better science program, considerably more authentic. In fact, I recommend that the government get out of the space business and turn the whole thing over to ABC, CBS, and NBC. The tv networks do a far superior job. They could actually pay the government for rights, and it wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a penny.”

If it is a sphere, the surface of a large body of water must be curved. The Johnsons have checked the surfaces of Lake Tahoe and the Salton Sea (a shallow salt lake in southern California near the Mexican border) without detecting any curvature.

If the Shuttle ever does orbit on its own, it’s supposed to return to Edwards Air Force Base. To Johnson, that’s appropriate enough.

“Do you know what they’re doing at Edwards right now?” he asks. “‘Buck Rogers in the 25th Century’ is made right where they claim they’re going to land the Shuttle. Edwards is strictly a science-fiction base now.

“Buck is a much better science program, considerably more authentic. In fact, I recommend that the government get out of the space business and turn the whole thing over to ABC, CBS, and NBC. The tv networks do a far superior job. They could actually pay the government for rights, and it wouldn’t cost the taxpayers a penny.”

[Nick H. Supervisor]

6 minutes ago, Arachno 1D said:

Charles Johnson ~ Flat Earth Society

That hurt my head.

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

4 minutes ago, Nick H. said:

That hurt my head.

@Arachno 1D is trying to troll us.

[Arachno 1D]

Im merely asking someone to prove the argument one way or the other

[FloatingFatMan]

3 hours ago, Nick H. said:

That hurt my head.

I think I have a nosebleed...

[FloatingFatMan]

2 hours ago, Arachno 1D said:

Im merely asking someone to prove the argument one way or the other

Easy. Get on an airplane, fly to 20,000 feet. You will see the curvature of the Earth before you quite clearly. Now, fly in a straight line, without deviation, landing only to refuel and always going in the same direction.  After 24,906 miles look down, you will see your starting point beneath you.

 

Both prove a round Earth.

[nekrosoft13]

your all wrong, earth is a lumpy potato https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20335-earth-is-shaped-like-a-lumpy-potato/

[nekrosoft13]

your all wrong, earth is a lumpy potato https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20335-earth-is-shaped-like-a-lumpy-potato/

[Tuskd]

3 hours ago, Arachno 1D said:

How big is America? Depends on which angle you see it, the elevation, the lens used and sometimes even the clouds (we compare the size of things with another reference object, if the clouds are big enough, you may be tricked to find the land is a little smaller than usual)
What are the colours? Well, the only way to see it the way you want is to go up there, Almost all images from NASA are photoshopped and the camera used also plays a role on what frequencies of light gets captured. Space tourism FTW.
Video of Earth spinning? How do you capture the Earth spinning? You take a fixed point in space, place a camera there and record the rotation of Earth (The revolution of Earth can be neglected). This is impossible. All satellites are moving. Since the frame of reference is in motion, there is no way you can capture the Earth's true rotation. If you stop a satellite at a point, Earth's gravity will pull it towards itself. The only way to escape gravitational effects and be fixed at a point is to place it far, far away from Earth. But that will lead to loss of detail.

All these scientific arguments prove that the Earth is a circle, and hence flat.

[onewarmslime]

round. next question!

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

If The earth is flat then the moon must also be flat.

[Mando]

4 hours ago, Frank B. said:

What a silly question. Of course the earth is round.

no, its spherical  round = 2D object

[Mando]

4 hours ago, Frank B. said:

What a silly question. Of course the earth is round.

no, its spherical  round = 2D object

[Arachno 1D]

Are we flat yet?

 

“It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan

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The shape of Earth approximates an oblate spheroid, a sphere flattened along the axis from pole to pole such that there is a bulge around the equator. This bulge results from the rotation of Earth, and causes the diameter at the equator to be 43 kilometres (27 mi) larger than the pole-to-pole diameter.

 

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

More proof that the earth is a cube.

 

 

[DavidM]

I picked the third option... here in Tucson, it's neither round or flat, it's kinda bumpy with the mountains and all.

 

I can however see from the picture Gary7 has provided, the Earth and Moon are quite clearly cubes! That would explain a lot...

 

Please note this is all a joke, thank you.

[Unobscured Vision]

9 hours ago, Nick H. said:

That hurt my head.

5 hours ago, FloatingFatMan said:

I think I have a nosebleed...

 

[SiCKX]

Human are flat too, like this.

 

[NEVER85]

For the idiots that believe it's flat, go travel to the very edge and report back with your findings. I'll wait.