Message from @Yabai
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Of course! it's pretty expensive though.
Flat earthers are aware of this, though.
I've heard stories of people trying to setup an expedition, and something tragic befalls them before it starts.
Random heart attack, loss of money, etc.
So all we are really left with are age old stories.
From past ages.
Expedition? well, I assume you mean those people who tried to traverse the entire continent on foot...
Those who attempted to raise money and start a big thing.
Can you provide an example?
Trying to dig, it was a long time ago when I read into this.
Well, if you can find it again I'd like to read it. Regardless, correlation is not causation. Many people travel to Antarctica in rather large numbers every year. The problem is, Antarctica is extremely harsh of an environment and it's still dangerous to go there.
But a lot of things don't make sense, you go far enough south and suddenly you're north, you go west, you end up east.
In the winter, it gets cold enough to kill you within seconds.
What?
Can you explain a bit further?
Yeah
One moment
I meant that if you go far enough north, you end up in the south, towards one of the poles, but it's very difficult to do so.
What do you guys think about famous expeditions around the world, such as magellans voyage.
Do you think they went in a ring?
Well, that's how navigation works on a sphere. It's difficult to travel in a straight line...if you're on the ground, that is.
Planes do it all the time, though.
And yes, flat earthers believe that compasses, as the point towards the center of a flat earth will navigate you in a circle around it.
If you stood on the pole, according to a spherical earth, you could circumnavigate the earth in a few seconds.
Your point being?
But it's confusing because if gravity was in the center of spherical planets, why would we not be pulled by massive planets.
Ones that are thousands of times bigger than the sun.
Alright, I see what you're saying
Okay, so first, planets can't get bigger than stars - if they did, they would collapse into one.
Second, planets actually can be influenced by gravity from other stars. Ever heard of rouge stars? These stars often pass through solar systems and swing planets out of orbit from their parent stars.
The thing is, earth is extremely close to the sun, astronomically speaking. The influence that the sun has on us is far too great for earth to be affected by the gravity from distant interstellar objects. However, if one of those objects did pass near the solar system, they would have a very real chance of stealing the earth out of orbit, or swinging it out into interstellar space.
This would be extremely, extremely unlikely though.
True
What are your views on sentient life, or any life for that matter, outside of Earth's bounds?
There are aliens
We became aliens when we landed on mars
I think it's possible for basic life forms to exist elsewhere in the universe. As for intelligent life like us? I'm not too sure about that. I think a question like that has a lot to do with one's theology.
It's a complicated topic. It is possible, but even if we did find life, I doubt the government would tell us.
Unless they had a reason to.
It'd cause public hysteria.
The government doesn't control scientists' observations. Even if they could pay them to stay quiet about it, it would be extremely difficult to cover up such a discovery. Even places with really well kept secrets like Area 51 have had many issues with keeping them in the past.