Message from @Flat Earth PhD

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2019-11-24 19:12:18 UTC  

11. Gravity
If the Earth were a flat plane, its center of mass would be the center of the plane and the force of gravity will pull anything on the surface in that direction. This means that if you stand near the edge of the plane, gravity will be pulling you sideways toward the middle of the plane.
12. Variations in the Earth’s gravitational field
Earth’s gravity is slightly weaker at the equator than at the poles. There are two reasons for this. First, since a point at the equator spins faster than a point at a pole, the outward centripetal force at latitudes near the equator is greater and counteracts the Earth’s gravity more. The second reason is that the Earth’s equatorial bulge (itself also caused by the centripetal force) causes objects at the equator to be farther away from the Earth’s center than objects at the pole, and the gravitational pull between two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
The variations in Earth’s gravitational attraction can be measured and provide concrete evidence of the Earth’s shape.
13. The Earth’s shadow
During a lunar eclipse, the sun, Earth, and the moon are aligned such that the Earth’s shadow falls onto the moon. The Earth’s shadow has been observed to be curved as the planet is.

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2019-11-24 19:19:46 UTC  

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2019-11-24 20:49:04 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648263844895916072/neils_crater.png

2019-11-24 20:50:31 UTC  

Someone: gives a lot of reasoning
Flat earthers: quake and kick

2019-11-24 20:51:02 UTC  

I laugh

2019-11-24 21:38:27 UTC  

Personally I think the earth is a giant cube

2019-11-24 21:39:06 UTC  

Flat surfaces

2019-11-24 21:39:58 UTC  

yes lad

2019-11-24 22:01:26 UTC  

I think the earth is round what about you?

2019-11-24 22:32:59 UTC  

yes. round but flat

2019-11-24 22:33:09 UTC  

flat-surfaced to be more precise.

2019-11-24 22:33:15 UTC  

thats all we can measure/observe

2019-11-24 22:33:22 UTC  

what is underneath is anyone's guess.

2019-11-24 22:33:43 UTC  

and so I have no problem with "gravity" in the mainstream definition.

2019-11-24 22:33:58 UTC  

one could imagine a mass distribution under the surface that could explain everything we observe

2019-11-24 22:34:03 UTC  

The problem is...

2019-11-24 22:34:07 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648290278737969152/Biblical.png

2019-11-24 22:34:11 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648290297960464415/EnclosedEarth1.jpg

2019-11-24 22:34:23 UTC  

Those are ancient pictures.

2019-11-24 22:34:27 UTC  

and?

2019-11-24 22:34:38 UTC  

Nobody knew (back then) what earth looked like.

2019-11-24 22:34:49 UTC  

no. it's the opposite.

2019-11-24 22:34:53 UTC  

people today don't

2019-11-24 22:35:08 UTC  

because they tell you that you live on a ball.

2019-11-24 22:35:15 UTC  

but when you take a balloon up to 120k feet

2019-11-24 22:35:20 UTC  

Now because of advanced tech (and NASA information) we know the earth is round.

2019-11-24 22:35:20 UTC  

you see this

2019-11-24 22:35:29 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648290625376223234/balloon_flat_earth_sun_hotspot.jpg

2019-11-24 22:35:35 UTC  

Yes.

2019-11-24 22:35:38 UTC  

What about it?

2019-11-24 22:35:39 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648290663946911799/High_Altitude_Balloon_showing_earth_and_sun.gif

2019-11-24 22:35:44 UTC  

wheres the ball?

2019-11-24 22:35:48 UTC  

where's the curve?

2019-11-24 22:35:55 UTC  

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/484516084846952451/648290734482391061/globers_delima.jpg

2019-11-24 22:35:56 UTC  

Its because of how close it is.