Do you think the Earth is Round or flat?

[BigBlueHen53]

I guess? I don't think the earth is flat. I was just explaining how it would be a flat sphere

"Flat sphere" is an oxymoron. Do you mean a flat DISK? Like a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record?

 

[Bonwell]

Hi, wondering what you guys think.

Do you think the earth is round? Flat? Neither? What do you think?

I think it could potentially be a trapezoid nah jk I think it's round.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

"Flat sphere" is an oxymoron. Do you mean a flat DISK? Like a 33 1/3 rpm vinyl record?

Someone wanted to know how a sphere would be made into a flat earth. I pointed out it would probably be like the maps we have that take a sphere and make it flat

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Someone wanted to know how a sphere would be made into a flat earth. I pointed out it would probably be like the maps we have that take a sphere and make it flat

Ah, I see.

 

[HollyBerrie]

I would be interested to see these so-called "studies."

Now, if you want to theorize that the very first forms of life to evolve, such as blue-green algae, originated from space or were "alien" to earth, that deserves some discussion.

I have a few books about aliens, that end up creating more questions than answers.

Travel time and fuel to get to one inhabited planet to the other, is an issue with our current level of technology, so these aliens would have to be very, very technically advanced to get here, or from another dimension!

 

[HollyBerrie]

Where did he alien DNA come from to compare.

Probably lizards.

 

[HollyBerrie]

I started an alien thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/do-you-believe-in-aliens.1506117/

 

[oldhen2345]

I watched this reality show yrs back (The Truman Show) where a guy sailed the ocean in a storm. When he reached the end of the ocean there was a wall. So that's why no one falls off the edge, there isn't one, we're boxed in. So it's a box, but we are on the inside.

Could it be like a snow globe, round but flat with a transparent covering? Maybe we are the experiment in a child’s science project?? Maybe a covered petri dish.

 

[musikfan]

I used to think it was round, just because that was what I was always taught. But if you look around you, all you see is flat. The idea that there are people at the bottom of the globe upside down being held by gravity while spinning a thousand miles per hour is ridiculous. The thing that rocked my paradigm was the idea of the spinning ball. I just dont know how anyone can physically prove it. You have to remember that all of this is based on "theory". Theory is an idea but not a fact. Scientists have use different elements to try and prove a theory but they are not 100 percent proved. Gravity is a theory, too. I think it has more to do with weight than gravity. The earth is spinning and they tell us that gravity is what keeps us all from flying off of it. But how is it that when you are on a merry-go-round, the faster it spins, if you don't hold on, you'll fly off?? Where's the gravity that's supposed to be holding you down??? It just isn't consistent. I also don't believe anymore that astronauts went to the moon. NASA says that they "lost the technology". That's absolute garbage! You can't tell me that with the amazing technology we have today that they actually LOST/FORGOT how to get to the moon??? NASA admits that they are still trying to figure out how to do it "safely" because of having to go through the Van Allen Belts. And how can anyone physically prove that the sun and moon and stars are THAT far away from us - millions of miles??? It's all theory. I think it's all right up there not very far away from us.

 

[NatJ]

I used to think it was round, just because that was what I was always taught. But...

Do you have an explanation for why a globe seems to represent it better than a flat map?
I'm referring to the distances it actually takes to go from one place to another, the shapes of the land and water as seen from an airplane, the way airplanes can fly from one place to another to another in a way that makes sense if you model it as a globe but not as a flat map.

Do you have an explanation for ships and airplanes going all the way around the earth? If it's flat like a plate, with the north pole at the center, I agree that they could go all the way around (like around the edge of the plate). But that would make Antarctica really long, stretched all around the outer edge, and the explorers and scientists who have actually gone there do NOT find that to be the case. Also, the distances between the tips of South America and Africa, and the distances to Australia, would be very badly wrong if the north pole was the middle of a plate-shaped earth.

And if the earth is flat like a plate, but the north pole is not the center, then some other place is the center-- and the same kind of distance problems occur, just with a different set of points being the wrong distance apart.

The earth is spinning and they tell us that gravity is what keeps us all from flying off of it. But how is it that when you are on a merry-go-round, the faster it spins, if you don't hold on, you'll fly off?? Where's the gravity that's supposed to be holding you down??? It just isn't consistent.

If gravity pulls you toward any LARGE object, and centrifugal force trys to throw you away from any spinning object, it all works out. The merry-go-round is not large enough to pull you toward it by gravity, but it does throw you outward because it is spinning. But gravity is pulling you toward the earth all the time: that is why you don't float upward from the merry-go-round, and if you do fly off you land on the ground instead of continuing to fly outward until you hit a tree or building. Because the earth is really big, the gravity pulls on us enough that we don't notice the outward pull from centrifugal force (from the spinning of the earth).