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erronis

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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, 08:23 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.

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