i am a college student, i heard the earth is round , is it true?

Answer 1

Oh....dear god...I remember stumbling upon these guys once before, and having never been so impressed by the stone age beliefs of some people in my entire life...


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"Nobody knows anything about the true shape of the world"



Maybe you should ask that Chinese guy that just got back from orbit, I'm sure he'll tell you.


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"Reasonable, intelligent people have always recognized that the earth is flat."



That being....you and your friends? I think you'll find a vast a majority of the educated, rational people on this planet accept that the earth is a globe...or perhaps you're missing something when you were reading your ten thousand year old book of 'facts'...I suggest the revised edition.


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If it is a sphere, the surface of a large body of water must be curved



Morons who have absolutely no concept of exactly how large the earth is...of course it's not curved! Is a single millimetre of a one mile in diametre ball curved!?


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Moses was a flat-earther



Everyone was a flat earther then you dink...what exactly is that supposed to prove? That your thoery steps straight out of ignorant and superstisious times in our history?


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"Columbus had to put them in irons and beat them until he convinced them they weren't going over any curve, and they could return. He finally calmed them down."



Ignoring the fact, of course, that he ended up PROVING the world was round during his journey...but hey, not like people like this to actually take into account such minor details

It's kinda sad that there are people out there who still believe the earth is flat...they almost make you wonder if scientific advancement is actually worth anything, when some people are still forcing themselves to live in the stone age.

Answer 2

Well - there is much to be said on the subject - and though I would like to believe that the earth is flat - methinks I have to give in to the peculiar and strange chain of thought that says that it is Round!! Of course it is also now said that The storyteller Washington Irving almost singlehandedly invented the rumor, in 1828, that Christopher Columbus was an American hero who woke the church and people of the Middle Ages to the reality of a spherical globe. Though this falsehood has often been repeated in modern children's books, Western opinion has not supported flat earth ideas since at least Ptolemy, and mainstream Christian groups have never espoused this, even in the Middle Ages. This misperception persists and no doubt the straw man arguments are related to the comedically obscure Society that espouses flat earth theories recently.

So though it may be spherical in a way with a bulging equator and flattened poles and may have a geographical north and south pole different from another peculiar thing called magnetic poles with another axis and though observation from space may say that except two land bodies - all the others are counterbalanced by bodies of water diagramatically opposite them on the other side of the spehrical globe called the Earth - it is evident that you are a person who sees things as they are visible to you and you have asked a very nice question and congratulations to you for asking it - always do by what the eye sees and the heart feels and let the others live and let live - and here is a smile for you to share with your round earth friends - watch them walk on a flat screen and when they invent a round spherical screen - smile when you see them going in circles to see the whole image Ha Ha

Answer 3

Earth (often referred to as "the Earth") is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. It is also the largest of its planetary system's terrestrial planets, making it the largest solid body in the solar system, and it is the only place in the universe known to support life. The Earth was formed around 4.57 billion years ago[1] and its largest natural satellite, the Moon, was orbiting it shortly thereafter, around 4.533 billion years ago.

Since it formed, the Earth has changed through geological and biological processes that have hidden traces of the original conditions. The outer surface is divided into several tectonic plates that gradually migrate across the surface over geologic time spans. The interior of the planet remains active, with a thick layer of convecting yet solid Earth mantle and an iron core that generates a magnetic field. The atmospheric conditions have been significantly altered by the presence of life forms, which create an ecological balance that modifies the surface conditions. About 71% of the surface is covered in salt water oceans, and the remainder consists of continents and islands.

There is significant interaction between the Earth and its space environment. The relatively large moon provides ocean tides and has gradually modified the length of the planet's rotation period. A cometary bombardment during the early history of the planet is believed to have played a role in the formation of the oceans. Later, asteroid impacts are understood to have caused significant changes to the surface environment. Changes in the orbit of the planet may also be responsible for the ice ages that have covered significant portions of the surface in glacial sheets.

The Earth's only natural orbiting body is the Moon, although the asteroid Cruithne has been erroneously described as such. Cruithne was discovered in 1986 and follows an elliptical orbit around the Sun at about the same average orbital radius as the Earth. However, from the point of view of the moving Earth, Cruithne follows a horseshoe orbit around the Sun that avoids close proximity with the Earth.

Answer 4

Well, it seems to be round. You can take a plane and start in one direction and keep going around the circle and end up back where you started form originally You see earth below you all of the time with no edges. Guess it must be round.

Answer 5

Not perfectly round, but close enough. The spin of the Earth makes the Earth flatter.

Answer 6

I cannot anwer that but I can support the theory that the earth is round.

Because

Neither you nor I had ever heard of anyone falling of the edge of the earth, except figuratively.

If it was flat, wont the germans just push the jews, catholics and handicapped over the edge?

Answer 7

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Answer 8

You know that line you see way out in the background? The horizon? Well it sort of looks like that's the edge and you could drop off the face of the earth there.. at least that's what rumor was hundreds of years ago. Why don't you go there and see!!! If you fall off, then at least it'll answer your question!

good luck ;)

Answer 9

it's all relative. Mostly it depends where on the earth you are standing. In the southern hemisphere it is slightly flatter than in the northern half. However the western hemisphere is a little flatter than the eastern hemisphere. Explains why there are more earthquakes in Cali.

Answer 10

It's shaped somewhat like a fat egg. A longitude line around the earth is longer than around the equator.