Post by 1dave on Sept 29, 2021 13:35:12 GMT -5
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In 2003, researchers did the measurements and found that Kansas is in fact literally flatter than a pancake.
Of course, the Earth is not flat, the Earth is round.Otherwise travelers would be falling off the edge all the time. Right? Wrong? Is Earth actually flat?
If the Earth was not ball shaped, but was instead a flat disk, like a plate, well with the weight, density and thickness, living in the middle could feel pretty normal.
But as you move toward the edge, gravity on a disk Earth would slightly skew, pushing at a greater and greater angle back toward the center.
Just read carefully this great example of a person running on the flat earth.
As the person ran closer to edge of flat earth, increasing diagonal gravity would work. Although this is a flat disk, it would feel to a runner headed toward the edge, like they were fighting to climb up a steeper and steeper hill. The building foundations behind the runner reflect how you would have to build structures, closer and closer to the edge, so that people living in them always felt like down was at right angles to the floor – the way we feel it on our big, round Earth. As you approach the edge, things would get scary. Remember, this is a flat Earth, but it would feel like a sheer drop off.
Whats really cool is that contrary to the”don’t fall off the edge” fear, on a flat world because of gravity, the scary risk would actually be falling away from the edge and rolling all the way back to the center. Once you stepped over the edge, instead of falling off into space, you'd be able to relax. It would be a nice level place.
This model, of course, neglects the fact that such a planet shape would be impossible.Anything as massive as the Earth, shaped like a flat disc would, under its own gravity, naturally collapse back into a ball. This is why in outer space everything more than few hundred miles in diameter is round.Or so we’ve been told.
What if the Earth is, in fact, flat and science has been wrong all along? What if gravity isn’t real?
Its a misconception that Christopher Columbus discovered that the Earth is round.Virtually every scholar and major religion in the West accepted Earths rotundity, since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, who, for instance, had noticed that boats disappear bottom first when sailing away. And, as you walk north and south, stars popin and out of the view.
The misconception that only a few hundred years ago lots and lots of people believed the Earth was flat likely began in the modern era, as a sort of insult. Well, your people recently thought the Earth was flat, so why should we believe you now? The smear was repeated and published so often it became accepted as historical fact.
“Flat-Earther” became synonymous with “Anti-science”. It might seem flat over short distances, but over longer ones, well the Earth is pretty darn curvy.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn, had to be designed with Earths roundness in mind.Its 2 towers, separated by 1300 meters, and perfectly vertical, are nonetheless 41 millimeters further apart at the top than at the bottom because of Earths curvature.
Verrazano Narrow bridge
In the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes measured the differences between shadows cast by poles in Syene and Alexandria to calculate, more than 2000 years before rockets and space travel,the circumference of the entire globular Earth, with, for the time, impressive accuracy.
Word got around that the Earth was a round shape after that. But in 1906, Wilbur Glenn Voliva became head of a slightly bizarre religious sect that pretty much ran the city of Zion, Illinois. Voliva believed that the Earth was actually flat and he enforced flat Earths teachings in schools in Zion. He also enforced that belief on really anyone who entered the city. Voliva believed not only that the Earth was flat, but that the sun was only few thousand miles away from Earth.
Not as we know as the 150.88 million km .He also believed that the sun was only 51.499 km across, not 1.3927 million km. He sounds crazy, or does he?
You see, the same phenomenon Eratosthenes measured could be explained by a flat Earth, if the sun were only few thousand miles away and 32 miles across – the math would work out the same.
Today, with the power of the Internet, modern day flat Earthers have picked up where Voliva left off. They have quite good explanations for any evidence you throw at them that the Earth is round. Circumnavigation is really just a flat circle path.The round shadow Earth casts on the Moon during a lunar eclipse could also be made by a flat disc. Time zones are caused by spotlight sun, and remember how gravity would be totally different on a disc-shaped planet?
Well, they argue that gravity, as we know it, simply doesn’t exist. The flat disc of Earth is merely accelerating up at 9.8 meters per second. As for all of the photos and video evidence we now have that the Earth is round, thanks to space exploration, well all of that material is completely fabricated. A hoax, perpetrated by Big Globe. Space agencies, airlines, globe manufacturers.
They are reaping the rewards of our ignorant belief that the Earth is actually round. They know, of course, that its flat. And they are hiding that truth from us.
Is it merely a coincidence that the logo used by the Flat Earth Society is a projection of Earth, centered on the North Pole, and also happens to be the projection used by the United Nations? Are these people for real? Probably not most of them. But this is the crocks of Poe’s Law. An adage that states that at their extremes, parody of extremism and sincere extreme is more difficult to distinguish. Although clever, flat Earth theories are predominantly ad hoc explanations – excuses made up on the spot that only address one issue and don’t fit all the evidence.
Science, of course, rejects a theory if a better one fits more of our observations, but why the egoistical obsession with OUR observations? A cosmic ray particle could use the very same scientific method we use and conclude that the Earth was, in fact, flat.
Of course, the Earth is not flat, the Earth is round.Otherwise travelers would be falling off the edge all the time. Right? Wrong? Is Earth actually flat?
If the Earth was not ball shaped, but was instead a flat disk, like a plate, well with the weight, density and thickness, living in the middle could feel pretty normal.
But as you move toward the edge, gravity on a disk Earth would slightly skew, pushing at a greater and greater angle back toward the center.
Just read carefully this great example of a person running on the flat earth.
As the person ran closer to edge of flat earth, increasing diagonal gravity would work. Although this is a flat disk, it would feel to a runner headed toward the edge, like they were fighting to climb up a steeper and steeper hill. The building foundations behind the runner reflect how you would have to build structures, closer and closer to the edge, so that people living in them always felt like down was at right angles to the floor – the way we feel it on our big, round Earth. As you approach the edge, things would get scary. Remember, this is a flat Earth, but it would feel like a sheer drop off.
Whats really cool is that contrary to the”don’t fall off the edge” fear, on a flat world because of gravity, the scary risk would actually be falling away from the edge and rolling all the way back to the center. Once you stepped over the edge, instead of falling off into space, you'd be able to relax. It would be a nice level place.
This model, of course, neglects the fact that such a planet shape would be impossible.Anything as massive as the Earth, shaped like a flat disc would, under its own gravity, naturally collapse back into a ball. This is why in outer space everything more than few hundred miles in diameter is round.Or so we’ve been told.
What if the Earth is, in fact, flat and science has been wrong all along? What if gravity isn’t real?
Its a misconception that Christopher Columbus discovered that the Earth is round.Virtually every scholar and major religion in the West accepted Earths rotundity, since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks, who, for instance, had noticed that boats disappear bottom first when sailing away. And, as you walk north and south, stars popin and out of the view.
The misconception that only a few hundred years ago lots and lots of people believed the Earth was flat likely began in the modern era, as a sort of insult. Well, your people recently thought the Earth was flat, so why should we believe you now? The smear was repeated and published so often it became accepted as historical fact.
“Flat-Earther” became synonymous with “Anti-science”. It might seem flat over short distances, but over longer ones, well the Earth is pretty darn curvy.
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn, had to be designed with Earths roundness in mind.Its 2 towers, separated by 1300 meters, and perfectly vertical, are nonetheless 41 millimeters further apart at the top than at the bottom because of Earths curvature.
Verrazano Narrow bridge
In the 3rd century BC, Eratosthenes measured the differences between shadows cast by poles in Syene and Alexandria to calculate, more than 2000 years before rockets and space travel,the circumference of the entire globular Earth, with, for the time, impressive accuracy.
Word got around that the Earth was a round shape after that. But in 1906, Wilbur Glenn Voliva became head of a slightly bizarre religious sect that pretty much ran the city of Zion, Illinois. Voliva believed that the Earth was actually flat and he enforced flat Earths teachings in schools in Zion. He also enforced that belief on really anyone who entered the city. Voliva believed not only that the Earth was flat, but that the sun was only few thousand miles away from Earth.
Not as we know as the 150.88 million km .He also believed that the sun was only 51.499 km across, not 1.3927 million km. He sounds crazy, or does he?
You see, the same phenomenon Eratosthenes measured could be explained by a flat Earth, if the sun were only few thousand miles away and 32 miles across – the math would work out the same.
Today, with the power of the Internet, modern day flat Earthers have picked up where Voliva left off. They have quite good explanations for any evidence you throw at them that the Earth is round. Circumnavigation is really just a flat circle path.The round shadow Earth casts on the Moon during a lunar eclipse could also be made by a flat disc. Time zones are caused by spotlight sun, and remember how gravity would be totally different on a disc-shaped planet?
Well, they argue that gravity, as we know it, simply doesn’t exist. The flat disc of Earth is merely accelerating up at 9.8 meters per second. As for all of the photos and video evidence we now have that the Earth is round, thanks to space exploration, well all of that material is completely fabricated. A hoax, perpetrated by Big Globe. Space agencies, airlines, globe manufacturers.
They are reaping the rewards of our ignorant belief that the Earth is actually round. They know, of course, that its flat. And they are hiding that truth from us.
Is it merely a coincidence that the logo used by the Flat Earth Society is a projection of Earth, centered on the North Pole, and also happens to be the projection used by the United Nations? Are these people for real? Probably not most of them. But this is the crocks of Poe’s Law. An adage that states that at their extremes, parody of extremism and sincere extreme is more difficult to distinguish. Although clever, flat Earth theories are predominantly ad hoc explanations – excuses made up on the spot that only address one issue and don’t fit all the evidence.
Science, of course, rejects a theory if a better one fits more of our observations, but why the egoistical obsession with OUR observations? A cosmic ray particle could use the very same scientific method we use and conclude that the Earth was, in fact, flat.