Can you prove that? Somebody would have found a theory that may prove that the earth is flat.
Do you say that the reason that people can't just walk off the earth and fall into space is because it's surrounded by a large mountain-chain covered with ice. It would take many guards to protect the whole chain. And who of you would voluntary have the job protecting the mountain chain?
I also heared that the flat earth theory is secret because the US-government earns huge amounts of money on it to financing space projects, etc.
2007-12-26 08:35:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I thought the earth isn't a globe because scientific facts as human made global warming are being denied, too.
2007-12-26 09:05:34 · update #1
There are many ways to tell that the earth is
not flat. One is by watching a ship sail out
to sea. The tip of it's mast will disappear from
view last.
2007-12-26 08:42:06 · answer #1 · answered by I ain't nothing but a hound dog. 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is beyond belief that anyone could in this day and age believe the Earth is flat, unless you are some mountain man from the backwoods, inbred a hundred times.
Jeez, we are on the internet, aren't we. We are global. My summer falls in your winter. My midnight falls at midday in London. I look in the sky and see the moon upside down to how I saw it when I lived in UK (only possible if I live on the relative underside of the globe). The sun passes across my Northern sky, while it passes across the southern from the Northern Hemisphere. Fly around the world and you come back to the same place without seeing a break of any kind (only happens on a sphere). The horizon is curved when viewed from an aircraft at altitude. You can see further over the horizon the higher you go (can only happen on curved Earth). The horizon keeps same distance from you as you sail across the sea, or walk across a flat plain. You cannot see the base of distant mountains seen across a plain or from the ocean, but the lower parts come into view as you approach the mountains.
How much more very obvious points do you need? This list does not include views from space, because obviously flat Earth bozos would argue they are fraudulent. But all the above points are ones that any sane person can appreciate.
But I don't think you are sane, are you?
2007-12-26 19:28:30 · answer #2 · answered by nick s 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There are a small minority of persons who do believe that the Earth is flat. I am not one of them.
The planet is round. This has been proven by ships, trans-global airplane flights, space flights, and space probes.
There are no edges surrounded by mountains and ice. There are no guards protecting people from going off of the edge. There is no secret government conspiracy involved. This has nothing whatsoever to do with global warming.
If you WANT to believe in a flat Earth, nobody is preventing you. You may want to conduct proper research first. And you may want to think twice before getting more information from the same source that gave you the information to form your question.
2007-12-26 18:11:36 · answer #3 · answered by Troasa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not sure what a "beleave" is - something that happens to the leaves on trees, maybe.
As for the rest of your "question", the answer is no to all of it.
If you read any scientific literature from the last 100 years you would have your answers.
And if you read your question again, you would see the inconsistencies in your logic.
2007-12-26 17:12:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No the earth is not flat. You can't earn money on somthing nobody knows about. Take a look a google earth.
2007-12-26 16:44:38 · answer #5 · answered by Nancy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sure, the Earth is flat. Also the moon is a NASA hoax, and Elvis is alive and working in a donut shop in Cleveland that the Easter Bunny owns.
2007-12-26 16:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This question is now out of date, with resounding evidence to the negative.
A more modern variant would be to ask "Do you believe the universe being flat?"
2007-12-26 18:25:54 · answer #7 · answered by Quadrillian 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
NO!!!
THE EARTH IS NOT FLAT BY ANY ANGLE!!
I was in the same doubt as you but.... have u gone on a ship?? Do you just fall of the edge of it or do you continue travelling??
Your asnwers to these questions give the answer t your yahoo question : )
2007-12-26 17:00:57 · answer #8 · answered by chanchal 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought the Easter Bunny worked in the donut shop in Pittsburgh?
2007-12-26 16:59:44 · answer #9 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. And no scientist in the last 2,200 years or so has believed it either, ever since Eratosthenes proved that the Earth was round and measured its diameter.
Please take yor nonsense somewhere else!
2007-12-26 16:46:46 · answer #10 · answered by GeoffG 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure that you are not that John D. Slayer? Starting to sound like him,,
2007-12-26 17:46:56 · answer #11 · answered by SPACEGUY 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋