The world is flat!!

I have a theory that you've been eating shrooms and watching Horton Hears A Who. :P

This is the most dumbest thing I've read

Round and flat are just words. They give us a way to describe something from our perspective. It's how we communicate our reality to someone else.

Haha... trolls on drugs...

I have seen pictures fro m space, it looks round to me. Let's go ask Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Giraffes are the shortest animals in the world. Plankton is big enough to swallow you whole. Pam Anderson's tits are real. And ron Jeremy is hot

So how do you explain the fact that if you set off in one direction in a plane and continued in that same direction then you would arrived back at where you started?

You are insane. Subscribe to dish tv and watch the NASA channel. They have real time pictures from satellites

Yet another retarded creationist.

So where does the Foucault Pendulum fit in then eh?

Youre not wrong for thinking this, but the Earth really is round, It just looks flat from a distance, just like the paper stuff you talked about. As posted earlier, weve been in outer space, the Earth is round. End of story.

What Era are you from? We already covered this! Do you not know anything about the Galaxy? Also molecules are not flat. They looks flat when we smash them so we can view it under a microscope.

I do hope that you dont beleve in what the flat Earth sociaty thinks, if you do I'm afraid that you're going to have to study elementary school geography all over again...

errrrr......... I think I understand what you're on about, first of all the earth is sphear but with a slight bulge aroud the equator. Pythagoras, Magellano, Earth's satellites, and any astronaut can confirm that for you.
it is true that the more we zoom-out our prespective changes,
but that can be said more for the universe it self, not the earth: scientists where saing that the universe has a fibourus structure but now that they can see even further out they say it's more like a sponge.
I have heard, that the Earth even with all it's mountains,valleis and ocean treches; if scaled down is still more smooth that the most perfect sphere ever created by man.

if your brains ware made of explosives, you would not have enough to blow out a candle

We knew the earth was round before going into space, but going into space confirmed it. Highly stupid question.

TROLL HARDER!!

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Coming from someone who travels a lot, trust me, the earth really is a spherical shape.

Also, GPS is a technology belonging to the United States government, yet I can use it in Africa. Surely if the earth was flat, they'd have the satellites sit over US airspace rather than orbiting the globe.

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If you refuse to believe all the evidence, you could always join The Flat Earth Society

My god, you're right! The earth is flat. Oh lord, I have seen the truth. This makes sense, and I dun think that that there thing that there is make sense to me.

every respondent is showing thier complete inability to understand that WE are not the be all and end all as far as what's acceptable as flat. As I've said, we ourselves without a second thought call things 'flat' which in reality are NOT flat in the least. So who is to say that there's no larger scale, or larger being, who sees us as yet another one of their acceptably 'flat' items, as we see so may 'flat things' that we now on molecular levels are NOT flat, but it's all in the perspective of the observer and/or the scale. Do people argue as to the flatness of a piece of paper?? NO!! Of course not. paper is accepted as flat. So why is it so hard to believe that larger scale universe and beyond don't see us as 'paper'. I figured you'd be so self absorbed as humans who think they and their observations are the most correct, while not realizing we live in a galaxy, universe and beyond that we have NO comprehension of what lies further.

lets just fly you around the earth constantly passing the same things again and again until you realise it's a freaking ball and thus round

but its round when its huge and its round when its tiny when does this marble look flat?

Dude, can I haz some of the stuff you're smoking? You're like nicolaus copernicus.. but, unlike copernicus..demented.

please share more ground breaking discoveries from your lab!

It's only the US that thinks the world is round? Pretty sure Christopher Columbus wasn't from here but whatev.

I hear what you're saying, but being the fact that the earth is a sphere and we've seen images from outerspace we know for a fact that the earth is round. It is true that we are only a speck in a huge Universe, that we cannot argue with, but the earth is round. We are a round speck, otherwise, the earth probably wouldn't even orbit the same. Maybe Africa would be the only one getting sunlight in that case.

I'm hoping you mean that Earth is smooth and not flat. I have heard that if you made a snooker ball that was the same size as our planet it would have taller peaks than our mountains. (Do not quote me on this as I cannot remember where i heard it or whether this is true.) But essentially the earth's crust is comparatively smooth (and would be smoother than a snooker ball if shrunk down). However if you think the earth is flat you are an ignorant fool!

Also I don't think that not appreciating this reflects badly upon a person as you suggest. It is a pretty useless thing to be thinking about and that there are much more interesting things in the universe to be concerning yourself with!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Turtle

There's a comic series called Disc World, but it's purely fiction.

You could go on Google Earth and it will show the shape of the earth.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/earths-true-shape-revealed-for-1st-time.html

^^^ This is the true shape of the earth. It's kinda disturbing to know that our planet is shaped like this, but nevertheless it proves that the world isn't flat.

I completely agree, sadly not many people think this way anymore.

This is a joke but there are actually people who don't trust NASA and the other agencies forwarding pictures of space. Most of us will never know what the earth looks like from space. It comes down to whether we can trust information that is generally considered trustable.

If you ever get the chance to fly 50,000ft up, your flat earth theory will crumble.

Of course it is! And it's turtles all the way down.

I see what you are trying to get at with the "scale" argument. But even if we changed the scale, by any factor, it does not affect the shape of anything, just the perception of size. Looking at the earth at a millionth, billionth, or even a trillionth scale, it is still an "Oblate Spheroid". The same as a spec of dust, even though it is almost imperceptibly tiny, we do not see it as flat.

If our planet, or even our solar system is just a spec of dust in the perception of some other massive being, it will still retain the same shape, just on a radically different scale.

This is hilarious.

I wouldn't walk around telling people you believe this crap.

The three-dimensional shape of the Earth is an Oblate Spheroid, meaning that it is kind-of spherical, like a basketball, but it is not a perfect sphere. The Earth bulges along the 'middle' or what is generally called the Equator. This bulge is due to the Earths rotation and forces of gravity.

This is the funniest thing I've read today.