#round earth

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Friday May 19.

The Big Question.

It really is the question of our times. It has occupied the greatest minds over the generations and proven an intellectual wrestling match unlike any other. The Earth is our collective home, that much we can agree on, but the nature of this home is the subject of fierce debate. A mass debate, if you will. It has torn families apart, turned friends into enemies, turned the scientific community into a pack of savages in lab coats, and created a schism as fierce and vast as any political, religious, or ideological question.

Now, one brilliant mind has stepped to the fore and asserted their truth; neigh, what very may well be the truth. Some say the world is flat. Most say that it's round. Could it even be something else entirely? Well, it seems that @gierosajie-art might be the one to resolve this question once and for all. And we can only salute them for it.

flat? round? something else? you decide*

*though we live in hope it is a death star with fancy decoration x

[zibanii]

I am so sick and tired of the falsely politicized science denialism that I see day in and day out.

If you disagree with any of the following statements, your opinion has no correlation to reality. The following are not opinions. They're statements of fact. Politics are irrelevant. If you disagree with any of them, you are objectively, measurably, factually wrong and you can go fuck yourself.

•Climate change is real and it is being caused by the fossil fuel industry.

•Vaccines don't cause autism. They save lives. (Also screw you if you think the autism is worse than smallpox or measles.)

•Covid is not a hoax. It is not overexaggerated. It is a deadly disease that has resulted in more deaths than the entirety of the Napoleonic wars, and would have resulted in more if not for the vaccine developers that science deniers insist on ignoring

•Trans women are women and trans men are men. And just so were crystal clear, that means that sometimes women have a y chromosome, and sometimes men only have X chromosomes. Science is not transphobic.

•Homosexuality has been found in 1500 different species. It is extremely natural.

•Humanity came about as a result of evolution.

•Bonus round: the Earth is not flat. Humanity figured this out over 2,000 years ago. Catch up. If you've ever worked for the government, you know that it couldn't keep a secret like this for longer than a week

[thegoodmorningman]

They want you to believe they only faked the Moon *landing*, but some people would say they faked the very Moon itself. Do your own research.

[ema0rsully]

Dumbledore finds Harry and Frodo arguing

Dumbledore: Harry, Harry, what seems to be the trouble now? This seems very unlikely of you.

Harry breathes in deeply and dramatically with his fingers pressed against his forehead.

Harry: Frodo thinks the earth is flat.

Frodo: Of course it is! How else would we balance on it if the earth was round?

Harry: Have you ever heard of gravity?!?

Frodo: I struggle to see how this is relevant to the earth being round.

Harry mentally screams/cries/stutters.

Harry: THiS hAS EveRYThINg tO DO WitH GRavItY!!!!

Gandalf approaches Dumbledore.

Gandalf: What's the commotion about?

Dumbledore: The young boy thinks the earth is flat.

Gandalf: Ah! I see now.

Gandalf strokes his beard and approaches Frodo, Dumbledore following behind him.

Gandalf places a hand each on the shoulders of Frodo and Harry.

Gandalf: I see that there is confusion amongst you and I am here to clear things up.

Dumbledore listens behind Gandalf, nodding his head along

Gandalf: The earth is not flat,

Dumbledore nods

Gandalf: or is it sphere,

Dumbledore paused

Gandalf: it is but a mere cube.

Dumbledore stares at Gandalf which makes Gandalf turn to him.

Gandalf: What?

Dumbledore sighs

Harry and Frodo looked as confused as ever on the side.

[renegade-hierophant]

And when this God, which one is yet unknown, had carved asunder that discordant mass, had thus reduced it to its elements, that every part should equally combine, when time began He rounded out the earth and moulded it to form a mighty globe.

Metamorphoses by Ovid, 8 CE, translated by Brookes More, 1922

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

https://www.metabunk.org/threads/soundly-proving-the-curvature-of-the-earth-at-lake-pontchartrain.8939/

A classic experiment to demonstrate the curvature of a body of water is to place markers (like flags) a fixed distance above the water in a straight line, and then view them along that line in a telescope. If the water surface is flat, then the markers will appear also in a straight line. If the surface of the water is curved (as it is here on Earth) then the markers in the middle will appear higher than the markers at the ends. Here's a highly exaggerated diagram of the effect by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1870:

This is a difficult experiment to do as you need a few miles for the curvature to be apparent. You also need the markers to be quite high above the surface of the water, as temperature differences between the water and the air tend to create significant refraction effects close to the water.

However, YouTuber Soundly has found a spot where there's a very long line of markers permanently fixed at constant heights above the water line, clearly demonstrating the curve. It's a line of power transmission towers at Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans, Louisiana.

The line of power lines is straight, and they are all the same size, and the same height above the water. They are also very tall and form a straight line nearly 16 miles long. Far better than any experiment one could set up on a canal or a lake. You just need to get into a position where you can see along the line of towers, and then use a powerful zoom lens to look along the line to make any curve apparent.

One can see quite clearly in the video and photos that there's a curve. Soundly has gone to great lengths to provide multiple videos and photos of the curve from multiple perspectives. They all show the same thing: a curve.

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Flerfers also do this thing where they wave left to right, or even 360 degrees all the way around and say, "wHeRe'S tHe cUrVe?" Right in front of you.

You're standing on a ball. Looking around laterally is seeing the points of a cross-section.

The curve is away from you, not around you.

[constant-diablerie]

Kaz Brekker is not a round earther. Kaz Brekker is also not a flat earther. to Jesper’s horror, Kaz couldn’t care less and every time Jesper asks, he snaps back more and more convoluted shapes just to shut him up.

[garthnadermemestash]

Flerfs be like,

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alright, alright. let's settle this—once and for all

[thehiddenworld]

Is the Earth Round Or Flat?

 Is the earth really round or flat or was this something that they told us to divide us? This makes no sense. 

They could be showing us videos and photos that they are showing us because they do not want us to know but we will never know.

 Everyone has their own opinions and ideas on things especially the things we were taught and told.

If  you actually look at the things around you it is flat besides a couple of hills so it is completely understandable why everyone has different opinions about the earth. 

In my opinion, I think it is neither round or flat while some are even saying were in a dome. I think it is just a simulation of thinking, something else to fight and argue and divide people more and more. 

In school they use to say the earth it moving, that the cars are moving by friction by the earth but in actuality, I don't believe that either. I say this because if it was moving wouldn't you feel the movement or even see it? 

They are saying the earth is moving backwards in which you can tell with all the conflict and the wars and the laws and the government things you are seeing along with the control they are trying to do and are doing.

[wren-kitchens]

im sorry what

[obsessivefangirl]

If the earth is flat we know someone would've bought the ends of the earth and sold tickets for a fortune