Is the world Round?

remus

Not according to some: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7540427.stm

I thought such people were just joking, but apparently not.

interesting side note: i actually checked my calendar to make sure it wasnt april 1st.

Rodentpete

The world isn't round
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it's an oblate spheroid.

remus

That better?

and do you know what it means?

juju

@rodentpete said:

oblate spheroid

Gesundheit!

RayOchoa

they should take one of those people out into space to see the earth

Jon

Flat? Please!?

Everyone knows the earth is Triangular.

guite

@jon said:

Flat? Please!?
Everyone knows the earth is Triangular.

Until it was push pulled and FFD applied.

jim smith

I always like to give the benefit of the doubt to folks, and see how much rope they reel out before they hang themselves.

It could be they just misinterpreted or misunderstood the concept of "discworld" as being more than a figment of Terry Pratchett's imagination.
Follow this link.

http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

If you have never read his stuff, try one. Witches, Wizzards, Very bizarre, very fun. (Sorry to hear, as reported in his web page, that he has early stages of Altzheimers).

TIG

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

The earth's an 'orange'... (or a fat 'onion' ?)

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ehaflett

As a professional geographer do you think I could lose my job for holding such 'beliefs'? (not that I do, mind you!)

Assuming it is flat, what does this mean about heaven and hell in the traditional sense (God above, Devil below)? I'd be curious to see how many flat-earthers are religious.

bellwells

Do you suppose any of these nitwits have ever been in an airplane at 35,000 feet?

andyc

@ehaflett said:

As a professional geographer do you think I could lose my job for holding such 'beliefs'? (not that I do, mind you!)

Assuming it is flat, what does this mean about heaven and hell in the traditional sense (God above, Devil below)? I'd be curious to see how many flat-earthers are religious.

It's no more ridiculous to believe in a flat earth than in a supreme supernatural being, surely? Both ancient beliefs, unsupported by any evidence?

juju

@andyc said:

...unsupported by any evidence?

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

andyc

Nope. But absence of evidence IS absence of evidence

Gaieus

To my best knowlede the Earth is banana shaped

andyc

@gaieus said:

To my best knowlede the Earth is banana shaped

And orbitted by a very small kettle... http://ezinearticles.com/?Logic---The-Burden-of-Disproving-Something-and-the-50/50-Chance-Fallacy&id=474699

cornel

In Latin Vulgate Bible, Proverbia 8:31, the shape of The Earth is described as an oblate spheroid:
“…ludens in orbe terrarumet deliciae meae esse cum filiis hominum.”
In English, Proverbs 8:31 wasn’t translated properly…!

Cornel

david_h

the planet I seem to be living in . . .

Yet across an immense ethereal gulf, minds that to our minds as ours are to the beasts in the jungle, intellects vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their plans against us . .. orson welles, 1938

Marian

I don't know about the earth but the planet i live on, Zeta Reticuli, is pare shaped

oh..uhmmmm and the TRUTH is out there.....in my backyard.

cornel

Marian,

I didn’t realize (till now) that Romania is part of Reticulum Constellation…!
(39 light years away from Earth)

Cornel