Neil Tyson explains why the Earth is round

[tomhagen]

[Binkie The Clown]

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

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]

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

the bottom?

[Skittles]

3. he is endlessly cool

yes indeed

[erronis]

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

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]

5. Flat Earth Daily

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

[central scrutinizer]

6. If the earth were flat,

Cats would have knocked everything over the edge.

[SergeStorms]

7. If the Earth were flat....

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]

8. K&R!

-Puzzler