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tomhagen

(3,604 posts) Sat Apr 7, 2018, 06:10 PM Apr 2018

Neil Tyson explains why the Earth is round

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Neil Tyson explains why the Earth is round (Original Post) tomhagen Apr 2018 OP

Oh yeah? Well if the earth is round then from any point, every direction is down hill. Binkie The Clown Apr 2018 #1

Yeah, and if the earth is round, why doesn't all the water go to Ferrets are Cool Apr 2018 #2

he is endlessly cool Skittles Apr 2018 #3

I'm too lazy to research: If the earth is flat - how deep is it? 10km, 500km, ? erronis Apr 2018 #4

Flat Earth Daily apkhgp Apr 2018 #5

If the earth were flat, central scrutinizer Apr 2018 #6

If the Earth were flat.... SergeStorms Apr 2018 #7

K&R! Puzzler Apr 2018 #8

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)

1. Oh yeah? Well if the earth is round then from any point, every direction is down hill.

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat Apr 7, 2018, 06:23 PM

Apr 2018

I set a bowling ball down in my back yard and it didn't roll away, so the earth is flat. Q.E.D.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)

2. Yeah, and if the earth is round, why doesn't all the water go to

Reply to Binkie The Clown (Reply #1)

Sat Apr 7, 2018, 07:33 PM

Apr 2018

the bottom?

Skittles

(153,150 posts)

3. he is endlessly cool

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat Apr 7, 2018, 07:59 PM

Apr 2018

yes indeed

erronis

(15,241 posts)

4. I'm too lazy to research: If the earth is flat - how deep is it? 10km, 500km, ?

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat Apr 7, 2018, 09:23 PM

Apr 2018

It'd be really strange to live on the "top" surface of a cylinder of unmentionable length. Is there another "bottom" surface - perhaps 1,000,000,000 km away?

I do object to the fact that the flat earth hypotheses was prevalent. There were plenty of much earlier astronomers and philosophers from "eastern" and "western" training that believe that we lived on spheres. It was only the christian/religious dark ages that tried to make the peasants not dream for the stars.

apkhgp

(1,068 posts)

5. Flat Earth Daily

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sat Apr 7, 2018, 10:34 PM

Apr 2018

BREAKING NEWS
The Earth is round...The Earth is round
Repeat
The Earth is round

central scrutinizer

(11,648 posts)

6. If the earth were flat,

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 12:01 AM

Apr 2018

Cats would have knocked everything over the edge.

SergeStorms

(19,193 posts)

7. If the Earth were flat....

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 02:52 AM

Apr 2018

most of the Earth's water would run over the edge into space. However, I'm sure the flat-earthers have come up with some brilliant explanation for why that doesn't happen as well. I guess there's a bone-headed answer for everything.

Puzzler

(2,505 posts)

8. K&R!

Reply to tomhagen (Original post)

Sun Apr 8, 2018, 04:32 AM

Apr 2018

-Puzzler

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