2007-02-27 09:58:14 · 8 answers · asked by dod 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Stupid question, stupid answer:
From starting point, walk and/or swim due west (or east), eventually you will end up where you started. Thus the world is round!
Hope that helped. Also pictures from space pretty much affirm the earth is round.
2007-02-27 10:03:34 · answer #1 · answered by Rick P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It started from an explorer who was sailing and realized that the farther away he got from a bouey in the ocean he realized that the water seemed to rise on the bouey the farther he got from it. Then he concluded that the world was round because he was going "under" the bouey. If the world was flat, he would have seen the whole bouey no matter how far he got away. Hope it helps.
2007-02-27 18:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by Zach H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a explorer went to outer space and saw that the world was round and that is how we know that the world is round.
2007-02-27 18:38:01 · answer #3 · answered by faitha95 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fact that there is a horizon suggests that it is round. If the earth was flat, unless you were in a valley, you would see an infinite distance forward.
2007-02-27 18:07:59 · answer #4 · answered by ch_ris_l 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Norsemen and Columbus didn't fall off the edge. And it's not perfectly round, it's more egg-shaped than globular. Seafarers and people at high altitudes probably noticed a curvature of the far horizon.
2007-02-27 20:05:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Becuase astronauts have taken photograhs of it while they were out in space looking down on the Earth.
2007-02-27 18:39:24 · answer #6 · answered by beckini 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
um sattelite pictures
2007-02-27 18:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by Paul M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
weve seen it from space
2007-02-27 20:59:01 · answer #8 · answered by A-Tone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋