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It seems that in this day and age, any enterprising group can mount an expedition to anywhere on Earth, on either side of the disk.
So why has no one taken any photos of the edge, or the other side for that matter?
It's not that far from Australia or Argentina.
Bayard
(22,154 posts)If you go beyond the edge.
Chipper Chat
(9,692 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...but of course orbits would be impossible if the earth were flat.
My career would not exist if the earth were flat (I work in the satellite biz).
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Soros pays extra for social media postings supporting the Round Earth Theory.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,438 posts)was the fact that the edges aren't commercialized all to hell. Best believe capitalism would find a way.
sarisataka
(18,774 posts)When you reach the edge you just reappear on the other side. This is why people think they fly or sail around the world and end up where they began.
(I wish I was joking but I this was from a flat-earther who was absolutely serious)
Girard442
(6,085 posts)...that the longitude lines converge. The edge, despite being thousands of miles long, appears to be compressed to a point at the so-called "South Pole."
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)Just in case
thucythucy
(8,086 posts)I've always loved that phrase. Ah, the poetry of physics.
Lochloosa
(16,068 posts)brooklynite
(94,737 posts)The answer is obviously that THEY won't let ordinary people down on Antarctica to photograph the ice wall.
edhopper
(33,616 posts)NOOO!!
Aristus
(66,462 posts)runs deeper than any of us can begin to imagine!...
Sneederbunk
(14,303 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Iggo
(47,568 posts)Duh.
RegularJam
(914 posts)If you are fighting this war you have lost your way. Move along.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)The few photographs that've been published were actually taken on a movie set in Phoenix.
And if you consider how much it must cost to keep that much ice from melting in Phoenix, you have an idea of how serious they are that we not find out.
3Hotdogs
(12,409 posts)MiHale
(9,781 posts)They dont do photos .they do postcards.
IL Dem
(815 posts)Cats would have everything pushed off by now!
AllaN01Bear
(18,423 posts)kedrys
(7,678 posts)edhopper
(33,616 posts)it was turtles?
csziggy
(34,137 posts)After that, it's turtles all the way down. Or maybe tortoises.
My opponent's reasoning reminds me of the heathen, who, being asked on what the world stood, replied, "On a tortoise." But on what does the tortoise stand? "On another tortoise." With Mr. Barker, too, there are tortoises all the way down. (Vehement and vociferous applause.)
?"Second Evening: Remarks of Rev. Dr. Berg"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
kedrys
(7,678 posts)It's turtles. All the way down.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,216 posts).
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njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,438 posts)but instead we get folks blowing themselves up with homemade rockets
Hekate
(90,827 posts)Theres four elephants and one cosmic turtle, swimming through the deeps of space and time.
Just not in this corner of the multiverse.
niyad
(113,576 posts)of course, as posted upthread we have proof positive that the earth is not flat. Cats,!!!