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[Dr. Duck]

 

[Dr. Duck]

 

[voicecrying]

Sadly, this was posted by a flat-earther Facebook friend who really believes this.

 

[abcaines]

Sadly, this was posted by a flat-earther Facebook friend who really believes this.

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Is your friend selling foil hats?

 

[subllibrm]

Sadly, this was posted by a flat-earther Facebook friend who really believes this.

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What's their argument against a spherical earth? I have been in a plane at 35,000 feet and could see the curve of the horizon. Why should I doubt that the curve continues?

 

[voicecrying]

What's their argument against a spherical earth? I have been in a plane at 35,000 feet and could see the curve of the horizon. Why should I doubt that the curve continues?

That's the dome that continues to the ice walls that keeps us from walking off the edge.

 

[Ransom]

What's their argument against a spherical earth? I have been in a plane at 35,000 feet and could see the curve of the horizon. Why should I doubt that the curve continues?

That was just CGI.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

Sadly, this was posted by a flat-earther Facebook friend who really believes this.

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Saturday afternoon I heard a guy on the radio, didn’t get his name, defending the flat earth idiocy.

 

[Ekklesian]

What's their argument against a spherical earth? I have been in a plane at 35,000 feet and could see the curve of the horizon. Why should I doubt that the curve continues?

You may not doubt it, but you, personally, can't confirm it, unless you ride the plane all the way around.

That's the difference between knowing and presuming.

 

[Ransom]

You may not doubt it, but you, personally, can't confirm it, unless you ride the plane all the way around.

Pfft.

 

[Ekklesian]

Pfft.

It's the difference between Eratosthenes and Columbus.

 

[Ransom]

It's the difference between Eratosthenes and Columbus.

Eratosthenes knew the circumference of the earth, which he calculated with a stick, far more accurately than Columbus did before he set out on his boat.

It's the difference between making observations and relying (poorly) on authority.

 

[Ekklesian]

It's the difference between making observations and relying on authority.

Yup.

But Eratosthenes only calculated the curvature of hump he was living on. He presumed the curvature continued.

 

[Ransom]

Yup.

You may not doubt it, but you, personally, can't confirm it, unless you ride the plane all the way around.

Eratosthenes didn't ride the plane all the way round. He used the geometry we now teach to pre-teens.

 

[Ekklesian]

Eratosthenes didn't ride the plane all the way round. He used high-school math.

I edited the post.

 

[Ransom]

But Eratosthenes only calculated the curvature of hump he was living on. He presumed the curvature continued.

Sort of the way you presume the universe is surrounded by a giant water bubble? I mean, you haven't taken a plane out there, have you?

Eratosthenes didn't presume. He extrapolated.

 

[Ekklesian]

Eratosthenes didn't presume. He extrapolated.

Right. Presuming the earth was spherical.

 

[Ransom]

Right. Presuming the earth was spherical.

As opposed to what, banana-shaped?

It wasn't a presumption. It was an established physical fact agreed to amongst educated people, based on observations by sailors and astronomers. For example, they knew the earth always cast a circular shadow on the moon during lunar eclipses, and the only shape that could do that at all times is a sphere. That's not presumption--it's deduction.

 

[Ekklesian]

Sort of the way you presume the universe is surrounded by a giant water bubble? I mean, you haven't taken a plane out there, have you?

Sort of the way you rely on authority to assert the earth is moving.

 

[Ransom]

Sort of the way you rely on authority to assert the earth is moving.

So that's a no, you've never taken the plane to the big bubble.

Pop! goes your presumption.