Post your arguments here on why the Earth is flat. This is not a serious discussion, so go wild!
- The Earth is flat because pancakes are flat.
- The Earth is flat because everybody who matters says otherwise.
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Because when yorkshire created it we were wearing flat caps and used them as a model
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That resonates with me.
Flatness is a geometrical illusion. In the real world everything is fractal.
What Chesterton says is that we dont live in a Copernican World … we dont feel ourselves flying around the Sun, we dont think that if we travel in one direction we will return to our starting spot … we live in a little closed ‘flat’ spot. … where Euclidean geometry applies, at least locally. So , for us, the Earth is flat.
Over a distance of 1 metre, a curve of radius 6371Km drops away from a straight line by 0.078 mm … almost unmeasurable.
You could build your house with the floor curved at a 6371Km radius , and you would not notice the difference.
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…because I’m still mad about having to clean the gutters on a Saturday morning.
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Look out at the ocean. Anyone can tell the water is not curving. Flat as a pancake.
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Because the Earth is a Flatpack.
Everything is containerised to operate only in the Earth environment.
We might sneak out the occasional space probe, but all it sees is something foreign and unwelcoming.
This material view of our Earth as a globe ( of material) misses the point . The Earth is a container.
Its material shape is irrelevant. The OS supporting the container is beyond our material reach. We can form mental and spiritual concepts, but we cant touch it.
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Fascinating.
It’s additional proof the Earth is flat, but also that I have nothing better to do with my life.
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