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edhopper

(33,616 posts)
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 11:55 AM Jun 2021

If the Earth is flat, why are there no photos of the edge?

Last edited Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:51 PM - Edit history (1)

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.

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If the Earth is flat, why are there no photos of the edge? (Original Post) edhopper Jun 2021 OP
Because there be monsters Bayard Jun 2021 #1
I'll call Louie Gohmert and ask. Chipper Chat Jun 2021 #2
We could easily take such photos from orbit... lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #8
So...you're part of the Conspiracy, then! Dial H For Hero Jun 2021 #12
SSSsssshhhhhh...the pay is great, don't blow it. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #15
I saw a tweet the other day that said the best argument (besides science) against Earth being flat WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2021 #3
That is because the earth is like a Pac Man board sarisataka Jun 2021 #4
A space-warping force field creates the illusion... Girard442 Jun 2021 #21
He might be right....this helps explain it Lochloosa Jun 2021 #25
And all that white space is called "absolute elsewhere." thucythucy Jun 2021 #30
Physics is the bomb.... Lochloosa Jun 2021 #31
Why do people ask stupid questions like this? brooklynite Jun 2021 #5
Ice Wall? edhopper Jun 2021 #17
The lack of photographs of the edge of the Earth is proof-positive that the conspiracy Aristus Jun 2021 #6
Here you go. Sneederbunk Jun 2021 #7
OK, that took me a full minute to get. lagomorph777 Jun 2021 #9
You won the internet today. luvs2sing Jun 2021 #10
I suspect it has something to do with FDR!!! RKP5637 Jun 2021 #11
Because the government. Iggo Jun 2021 #13
Suggestion... RegularJam Jun 2021 #14
Every expedition that has been sent fell off the edge. Buns_of_Fire Jun 2021 #16
Da fuck ya talkin? Right there you can see it. Flat-round. 3Hotdogs Jun 2021 #18
Simple answer... MiHale Jun 2021 #19
If the Earth was flat... IL Dem Jun 2021 #20
what is underneath? AllaN01Bear Jun 2021 #22
It's elephants all the way down. n/t kedrys Jun 2021 #23
I thought edhopper Jun 2021 #27
Well, the elephants stand on the first turtle csziggy Jun 2021 #29
I sit corrected. kedrys Jun 2021 #32
George Soros and Hillary Clinton! njhoneybadger Jun 2021 #24
I thought it was Bill Gates. TheBlackAdder Jun 2021 #26
He was but now he's busy chipping up the Covid Vaccines. njhoneybadger Jun 2021 #28
I've wondered the same Mad_Machine76 Jun 2021 #33
Ask the Great A'Tuin.... Hekate Jun 2021 #34
I just learned that person I know is a flat-earther. And that question occurred to me. niyad Jun 2021 #35

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
8. We could easily take such photos from orbit...
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:08 PM
Jun 2021

...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).

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
15. SSSsssshhhhhh...the pay is great, don't blow it.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:14 PM
Jun 2021

Soros pays extra for social media postings supporting the Round Earth Theory.

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,438 posts)
3. I saw a tweet the other day that said the best argument (besides science) against Earth being flat
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 11:59 AM
Jun 2021

was the fact that the edges aren't commercialized all to hell. Best believe capitalism would find a way.

sarisataka

(18,774 posts)
4. That is because the earth is like a Pac Man board
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:04 PM
Jun 2021

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)
21. A space-warping force field creates the illusion...
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:29 PM
Jun 2021

...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.&quot

thucythucy

(8,086 posts)
30. And all that white space is called "absolute elsewhere."
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 02:47 PM
Jun 2021

I've always loved that phrase. Ah, the poetry of physics.

brooklynite

(94,737 posts)
5. Why do people ask stupid questions like this?
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:06 PM
Jun 2021

The answer is obviously that THEY won't let ordinary people down on Antarctica to photograph the ice wall.

Aristus

(66,462 posts)
6. The lack of photographs of the edge of the Earth is proof-positive that the conspiracy
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:07 PM
Jun 2021

runs deeper than any of us can begin to imagine!...

Buns_of_Fire

(17,197 posts)
16. Every expedition that has been sent fell off the edge.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 12:17 PM
Jun 2021

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.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)
29. Well, the elephants stand on the first turtle
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 01:33 PM
Jun 2021

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

Hekate

(90,827 posts)
34. Ask the Great A'Tuin....
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 08:40 PM
Jun 2021

There’s 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)
35. I just learned that person I know is a flat-earther. And that question occurred to me.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 11:56 PM
Jun 2021

of course, as posted upthread we have proof positive that the earth is not flat. Cats,!!!

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