I understand where your going, but how would you prove it. Our eyes tell us what we see. What ever the true shape of the earth is, does not really matter, just like how any object your looking at means to you.

Interesting though, it would be interesting if you were to find, any material on this.

Did you make that collection of pictures, or was it elsewhere. Have you found anyone else, that have looked at this.

You see the problem is, we grow up believing the image we see. So shifting our imagination to see the earth differently will be hard.

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Have you ever been in an airplane before, or seen video from the spacewalks? You can see the curvature, if only very slightly.

The Earth is very round. How can you get to China from LAX without falling off into space? unless you mean to say that it's like an old videogame where if you run off one side, you appear on the other side magically...

Sorry about that.



Seriously though, you expect me to believe that the Earth is flat? So, when you are in an aeroplane above 35,000, do you not see something that resembles a 'curviture' on the horizon? What are we then, a flat disc with every satelite (including commercial) projecting images of a 'circular' world - is there a point to this opinion / conspiracy?

Just trying to answer this makes me feel like the town fool.

Magician, yes, you'd have to be: Logician - no.

Good thread though.



Huh hum, Brei.

Originally posted by indierockalien
Have you ever been in an airplane before, or seen video from the spacewalks? You can see the curvature, if only very slightly.

The Earth is very round. How can you get to China from LAX without falling off into space? unless you mean to say that it's like an old videogame where if you run off one side, you appear on the other side magically...

No, you would travel on the disc to China. You're being silly. The earth isn't a square. Not I'm not an advocate of this theory, I'm just saying you're not addressing a real concern of Flat Earth Theory.

Oh my! I guess somebody had to say it

It really was all that was left to be said. We have officially gone off the deep end.

The Earth is very round. How can you get to China from LAX without falling off into space?

What we think of as "going around" the world is done so, but merely on a circular disk. Gravity stops us from "falling off into space" so we can't walk off the side.

Did you make that collection of pictures, or was it elsewhere.

Yes, I created it.

It's possible, but how do you know it appears round? You're not going to trust NASA satellite images, are you?

Originally posted by Toy_soldier

What would be on the other side?

Is the moon and the sun and all the other planets in our solar sytem flat too?

I thought that all the heavenly bodies and other natural things like atoms, etc. were spheres because that is the easiest shape for matter to form into.

Noone knows what's on the other side. Noone has been there. The sun and moon are probably discs that orbit the center of the earth map: the north pole. I don't know if other stars are discs or spheres, it's really too hard to say.

Oh....

Well I stopped subscribing to that theory shortly .... it's been so long.... can't remember if it was before or after bloodletting went out of style. So I'm rusty on the specifics.

Thanks for the reminder. It's been a while!

Welcome to ATS, though. In the famous words of Han Solo, "Don't get too cocky!"

Originally posted by scepticsRus


Being able to ORBIT the planet is another nail in the coffin for the flat earth.

just my 2 cents

Orbiting the earth is just moving around the disc at a higher altitude, the perception that it is round comes from the fact that the force of gravity decreases with altitude, so the higher you are, the light in your frame of reference is not being bent to the degree of that nearer the surface. A place flying around the disc is essentially doing the same thing that spacecraft do, but spacecraft do it at a higher altitude.

OR NASA is simply feeding you images it wants you to see. Perhaps they never put a satellite in orbit but have mastered the art of bouncing signals off high altitude blimps.

Now thats really pushing logical thinking _Del_ well done....thats quite a fantasy trip your taking there.

No i have not orbited the planet, but i have been on a plane and i have also seen the curvature o the earth over the horizon.

k, I will stay where i am ... you walk off to the horizon and if i see you disappear from sight then the earth must have a curvature. If you get a reference point in the sky ... say the north star... when you move across the face of the earth it will either be directly over head of it will move closer to the horizon.... if you are on the south pole the north start simply will not be visible ...... basic logic. Some simple math will tell you the angle of curvature from your location and the location of the north star.
Some simply geometry will allow you to mesure the cirfumfrence of the earth as well ....

The earth is not a perfect sphere either, it is flattened at the poles this means that the strength of gravity is affacted at those areas.

.... please proove me wronge.