I know how we can finally resolve the debate whether the Earth is flat or spherical. We all know from high-school geometry that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius on a flat piece of paper is exactly two times Pi right??? Let’s say we draw a circle on the surface of the earth and measure the circumference and radius. If the earth is flat the ratio of the circumference to the radius will be exactly 2 x Pi. However, if the earth is spherical the ratio of the circumference to the radius will not be 2 x Pi. That’s because the curved nature of the sphere’s surface will cause the radial lines of the circle to converge toward each other resulting in a decrease in the circles circumference.
Since the earth is so big, local terrain appears flat. The circle would have to be ten kilometers across and on perfectly flat terrain for the effect of the curved earth to be noticeable. There are easier ways. For example, you can fly high in an airplane and visually look at a curved ocean horizon. You can buy a gyroscope and see the 15 degree per hour rotational drift. You can put a stick in the ground at two different latitudes and see the differing shadow lengths. You can watch ships vanishing below the horizon. You can watch the sun and moon vanishing below the horizon. You can notice how stars spin about the north star in the northern hemisphere, and around the celestial south pole in the southern hemisphere, something not possible in any flat earth model. You can fly across the southern hemisphere and see that distances match the globe model, not the flat earth model. And so on.
Flat earth folks aint buying it. They claim a ship doesn't vanish from curvature. You can see it with a telescope . This is an example of a real tin foil hat conspiracy theory. Because what they believe is not just unlikely but impossible . But real conspiracies exist yet are called conspiracy theories even when it can be likely and possible. Power corrupts and corruption can and have created conspiracies Yet you have people like the flat earthers dont believe conspiracies exist! They dont read our history as humans .
Yes it will. Where you're getting any of this I have no idea, but the radii of a sphere converge at its center, which is also the center of every great circle on the sphere, and they don't result in a decrease in anything.
What's amazing to me is that those in the ME figured out the circumference of Earth a couple hundred years BC. Yet, there are still people in America who think the Earth is flat?? What happened to these people? How did they get left behind not by a few years or a few generations, but by a few centuries?
I crossed the country I didn't notice a curve and if its a sphere all the water would fall off and people save at the very top..
I noticed that all the water flows downhill into the sea except for a few isolated lakes that keep it. I noticed that the legs are really worked hard around granite, not so much around limestone. I noticed the earth has a curvature on blue water.
They are so open minded that their brains rolled out like a marble. I guess that is where that old .saw orinated. "He lost his marbles." So if around particular ideogues watch your step ! For I once skated on several marbles that rolled out his ears and busted my old arse. So be careful out there!
The flat earth theory, as I understand it, is that the earth is actually mound-shaped, with the north pole at the center and 'highest' point of the 'mound,' and Antarctica surrounding all other continents. If a plane were to be documented to fly from one edge of antarctica over the south pole in a straight line to the opposite edge, it would disprove flat earth.
They say you viewed an illusion for if the earth was curved you would have to be higher than 40 thousand feet to see it.e Also the shape of the windows curved that creates the illusion of the curve. Same with cameras for all pics taken from really high used that wide angle lens. And the space station is a hoax. And we didnt go to the moon. This conspiracy is one of the oldest and wide spread All scientists are in on the hoax. Not sure how this was pulled off but there ya go.
No way. They are just giant flat plates. Since we are the center of the universe, they are all facing us.
Or flat-Earth believers can simply walk, drive or cruise to the edge to see for themselves...if anyone does make this trip please let us know what is on the back side?
The flat earth theory suffers the same problem as many anti-science theories. Like man made climate change denial theories, they all disagree with each other. There is no one flat-earth theory, there is only 'they are lying to you' theory, just like climate change denial.
Which begs the question as to why NO ONE has ever found the EDGE of the Earth since it is all around us in every direction? Imagine how famous an explorer would be if they had found the edge of the earth? Why have no flat earthers ever tried to become that famous person themselves?
it's as flat as the motherboard it was created on... there is no earth, we're all living in virtual reality... the flatearthers are the first to be woke to that concept, baby steps, they'll figure it out someday...
It would also require a dam along all water borders to hold the ocean back...or if no dams then ocean water just pours out to la-la-land. In 2020 it seems pretty silly to be talking about a flat-earth...
I'm pretty sure that your proposed experiment wouldn't convince anybody. I just don't think that any of the flat earthers believe that the earth is flat. I think that they're just having fun.