Earth...flat or round?

[Jersey mike]

Hey all, crazy topic right? Before yesterday I would have thought the same thing except for when my kids were little and just learning about the planets. I thought this went out the window after Columbus made it to the new world and back to Spain proving he didn't fall off the edge of the world.

Well yesterday I was listening to the morning show on the radio I usually do and the guys had a guest on the show by phone discussing the reasons why Earth is flat and for the last 500 years we have been lied to about earth being round. 

Now I know the world is a place where people are always in perpetual disagreement over politics, religion and a host of other topics, but I would never in my life ever expected to hear people putting out an argument promoting Earth being flat.

Today I made the mistake of checking YouTube on the subject of "Flat Earth" and it's incredible what I found, not to mention the number of hits on Google.

I really don't recommend looking up this stuff unless you're looking for aggravation and madness because there's some real wackos out there.

[BF]

Why did you do that?     Now my brain hurts. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKc6X8TXNE

[Gavin_Sons]

I have read and watched a bunch of stuff about this very subject. Seems both sides have compelling theories. You are right, this will make one go mad thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that I don't really care.

[DirtyDan]

And I'm the one just back from Colorado

Dan

[Jersey mike]

And I'm the one just back from Colorado

Dan

Now that's funny. 

[DirtyDan]

Thank you mike

One jersey guy to another

Dan

[Jersey mike]

Why did you do that?     Now my brain hurts. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDKc6X8TXNE

LOL. I tried to warn you, there's some real frootloops out there  

[Jersey mike]

I have read and watched a bunch of stuff about this very subject. Seems both sides have compelling theories. You are right, this will make one go mad thinking about it. I came to the conclusion that I don't really care.

It just dawned on me that now maybe there's another theory for the Bermuda Triangle.

[John Schmidt]

Fruitloops!

[Chrisj CMA]

When I jumped out of a C-130 at 25 thousand feet I could definitely see the curvature of the earth.

All those videos twist facts out of context and form fake results.

Kind of like if I was standing ten feet from you it would be impossible to walk to you because:

If you divide the 10 feet in half you have 5, divide the 5 you have 2.5 and you can divide forever so obviously there is an infinite amount of space between us so it would be impossible to cross

[Robert]

What I find interesting is not the flat earth thing but that the world maps are wrong in the size depiction of countries. Some are much larger than we think and the phenomenon is explained below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3894600/The-map-shows-world-REALLY-looks-like-Japanese-design-flattens-Earth-big-landmasses-oceans-really-are.html


We have had many leaders visit Antarctica and no one really seems to know why.
Why Are World Leaders Visiting Antarctica

[Serk]

We have had many leaders visit Antarctica and no one really seems to know why.
Why Are World Leaders Visiting Antarctica

They're probably checking out what was discovered in the 1930/31 Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition.

[MarkT]

And I'm the one just back from Colorado

Dan

We are on the back side of the flat earth.  The edge is just E of Kanorado, KS. Look it up.

[Patrick]

Its seems I remember certain members here telling other members that they had to belong the Flat Earth Society. So they must know something about it.

[98valk]

What I find interesting is not the flat earth thing but that the world maps are wrong in the size depiction of countries. Some are much larger than we think and the phenomenon is explained below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3894600/The-map-shows-world-REALLY-looks-like-Japanese-design-flattens-Earth-big-landmasses-oceans-really-are.html


We have had many leaders visit Antarctica and no one really seems to know why.
Why Are World Leaders Visiting Antarctica

pyramids....

[Tailgate Tommy]

“The Earth is round but, for most purposes, it's sensible to treat it as flat.” Theodore Levitt

[Chrisj CMA]

For anyone stupid enough to believe the Earth is flat, I would love to hear their explaination for how we get night and day.  Also solar and lunar eclipse (s) or even sunrise and sunset. I guess they have a whole alternate explaination for how the entire universe works. Lol

[msb]

After several days riding across the Canadian Prairies or across Middle America, it's easy for one to start thinking the world might be flat...but no, it's not...

[czuch]

I too, have left the safeish confines of a C-130 at 25,000feet. Opened at 5K.
The curvature of the earth was also plainly visible when we "Rubbed the roof" in the F-4.
But, its flat. It only looks round. I think the earth wants to be flat, and identifies as flat.
That's why we have Kansas and the Steppes.

[Jess from VA]

I flew over Turkey and the Mediterranean and Aegean seas to Greece, Crete and Sicily in C130s, and was very happy to watch the curvature of the earth from the cockpit and listen to the big turbos roar without ever once jumping out of one.  

There's more windows (even down by your feet) and good view from that plane's cockpit than any other transport.









The back door was never left open on my flights.






  

[Firefighter]

I don't know if the world is flat or round, but I do know that I live at the bottom! :-\javascript:void(0);

[Chrisj CMA]

I too, have left the safeish confines of a C-130 at 25,000feet. Opened at 5K.
The curvature of the earth was also plainly visible when we "Rubbed the roof" in the F-4.
But, its flat. It only looks round. I think the earth wants to be flat, and identifies as flat.
That's why we have Kansas and the Steppes.

Czuch, I will never forget that jump. I was an instructor at time, we were allowed to open at 2000feet. That was my longest free fall over 150 seconds. Nice to know there's another one of us that knows this special joy.  We did like five jumps worth of realative work on that jump.

There's nothing that compares to the extended adrenaline rush, excitement during extreme tranquility. For hours after that jump I felt no fatigue, all my aches and pains were gone better than a really good pain pill. And the overwhelming feeling of happiness.  I guess that's why I was addicted to freefall.

I had a shirt that said. "Skydivers have more fun than people"

Don't know what happened to it.

[Patrick]

I love HALO's !  88 at last rememberence.

[Alpha Dog]

Flat Earth Theory.

Well how about the Hollow Earth Theory.  This one actually may have started with one of America's Greatest explorers, that being Naval Admiral Richard  Byrd and the amazing story he put forth long after his flight to the North Pole in Feb. of 1947.  The following is his log of this very very strange trip.  Or is it really strange after all.  It was in the following June of 1947 that Kenneth Arnold ( with over 9000 flight hours ) witnessed a flight of 9 flying saucers that passed by Mt. Rainer.  He was able to judge their speed by distance between peaks at over 1200 mph.  From this the modern UFO era was born.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/esp_tierra_hueca_2d.htm

[..]

After several days riding across the Canadian Prairies or across Middle America, it's easy for one to start thinking the world might be flat...but no, it's not...

Aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh. Kansas Hwy 400

[Gavin_Sons]

For anyone stupid enough to believe the Earth is flat, I would love to hear their explaination for how we get night and day.  Also solar and lunar eclipse (s) or even sunrise and sunset. I guess they have a whole alternate explaination for how the entire universe works. Lol

Simple, the sun is much smaller and closer to earth than they tell us. It is not big enough to light the whole earth at once and it rotates above us not around us.  even an idiot knows this.    I really dont buy the flat earth theory, but it is interesting to read about and watch videos on.

[MP]

Flat Earth Theory.

Well how about the Hollow Earth Theory.  This one actually may have started with one of America's Greatest explorers, that being Naval Admiral Richard  Byrd and the amazing story he put forth long after his flight to the North Pole in Feb. of 1947.  The following is his log of this very very strange trip.  Or is it really strange after all.  It was in the following June of 1947 that Kenneth Arnold ( with over 9000 flight hours ) witnessed a flight of 9 flying saucers that passed by Mt. Rainer.  He was able to judge their speed by distance between peaks at over 1200 mph.  From this the modern UFO era was born.

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tierra_hueca/esp_tierra_hueca_2d.htm

Of course it's hollow. The movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" proved that!

[hubcapsc]

Kenneth Arnold

I love reading these threads, seeing something I don't know anything about,
looking for that and then finding something else I don't know anything about ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229







-Mike

[The emperor has no clothes]

Kenneth Arnold

I love reading these threads, seeing something I don't know anything about,
looking for that and then finding something else I don't know anything about ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Arnold_UFO_sighting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho_229







-Mike

It is pretty cool how we have all this info right at our fingertips. Growing up you had to have a set of encyclopedias and it still didn't come close to all this. As to the UFO's. I worked with a guy that swore he had been abducted by aliens and probed. Got to the point you couldn't mention anything about UFO's or he'd go on for hours about it. He also thought the government gave him his cancer that killed him thru chemtrails in the sky.