I dunno... The moon is a sphere, all of the known planets and their moons (if they have any) in our solar system are sphere shaped too. Even our sun is a sphere shape according to filtered lenses.
So logic clearly dictates that out of all of these planets and moons in our solar system are confirmed as being spherical, leaves but one remaining planet called Earth, so it definitely must be flat.
Unknown: Many YouTube videos claim Earth is actually flat and not round.
How can one be sure?
Do not and I repeat DO NOT believe everything you see on the web. Some say it is if you look at Saskatchewan Canada. In answer I just say no it isn't flat. Take a ride in an airplane and you can see the curve of the earth. Also just llok up the International Space Station and you can see fantastic pictures. If neither of these convince you well just go ahead and enyoy life on your flat earth.
In response to: Many YouTube videos claim Earth is actually flat and not round.
How can one be sure?
Flat Earth beliefs and the numerous Flat Earth societies are as old as the sixth cent. starting with "Cosmos", A Greek monk author of a book called Christian Topography, refuting the "false and heathen idea that the earth is a sphere. His book was proof that it is a rectangle plane arched over by the firmament which separates us from heaven. The first known society believing this dribble latched on to the geocentric cosmology of Ptolemy and was rather popular until the 16th century when Copernicus questioned the whole theory, by proposing the idea that the earth is a planet orbiting the sun. He was not very assertive. His preface to his book emphasized that the heliocentric system was merely a hypothesis and avoided all controversy by dying on the day his book was published. Really bad timing. Copernicus derived his theories from his esoteric studies of Pythagorean traditions; his successor, Galileo, challenged all flat earth believers to scientific experiments. It soon proved pointless to argue the point because far too many believed in a literal translation of the Old Testament; never mind that heliocentricism was accepted by the Inquisition and finally triumphed with the cosmological system of Sir Issac Newton. While the Church found that it could live with the roundish earth idea, many of the lay people could not and would not. The OT said that the four corners of the earth and pillars where its foundations; the Bible cannot be wrong! This image has been an almost British preserve by such figures as the famous / infamous person of the British Israelite belief, a Mr. Hine. Ancient Israel was actually Great Britain and ancient Jerusalem was at the centre of the rectangular plane afloat in the oceans of the cosmos... A Mr. Samuel B. Rowbotham was another and made many experiments proving the earth was flat with a lot of publicity. His life's work was published as Zetenic Astronomy which ran to 430 pages and still remains as the standard authority proving the earth is flat. Another was William Carpenter who was forced to migrate to the US where he continued to agitate for a flat earth theory. He also became a well known figure on the dingy streets of Baltimore, Maryland, loitering outside schools and handing out cheap pamphlets and arguing with people...Then there was the case of Elizabeth Anne Mould Williams, aka, Lady Blount. She put all flat earth cranks to shame and really deserves an entire book on her extremely bizarre belief. Or one may try to Google her.
Kattte: Flat Earth beliefs and the numerous Flat Earth societies are as old as the sixth cent. starting with "Cosmos", A Greek monk author of a book called Christian Topography, refuting the "false and heathen idea that the earth is a sphere. His book was proof that it is a rectangle plane arched over by the firmament which separates us from heaven. The first known society believing this dribble latched on to the geocentric cosmology of Ptolemy and was rather popular until the 16th century when Copernicus questioned the whole theory, by proposing the idea that the earth is a planet orbiting the sun. He was not very assertive. His preface to his book emphasized that the heliocentric system was merely a hypothesis and avoided all controversy by dying on the day his book was published. Really bad timing. Copernicus derived his theories from his esoteric studies of Pythagorean traditions; his successor, Galileo, challenged all flat earth believers to scientific experiments. It soon proved pointless to argue the point because far too many believed in a literal translation of the Old Testament; never mind that heliocentricism was accepted by the Inquisition and finally triumphed with the cosmological system of Sir Issac Newton. While the Church found that it could live with the roundish earth idea, many of the lay people could not and would not. The OT said that the four corners of the earth and pillars where its foundations; the Bible cannot be wrong! This image has been an almost British preserve by such figures as the famous / infamous person of the British Israelite belief, a Mr. Hine. Ancient Israel was actually Great Britain and ancient Jerusalem was at the centre of the rectangular plane afloat in the oceans of the cosmos... A Mr. Samuel B. Rowbotham was another and made many experiments proving the earth was flat with a lot of publicity. His life's work was published as Zetenic Astronomy which ran to 430 pages and still remains as the standard authority proving the earth is flat. Another was William Carpenter who was forced to migrate to the US where he continued to agitate for a flat earth theory. He also became a well known figure on the dingy streets of Baltimore, Maryland, loitering outside schools and handing out cheap pamphlets and arguing with people...Then there was the case of Elizabeth Anne Mould Williams, aka, Lady Blount. She put all flat earth cranks to shame and really deserves an entire book on her extremely bizarre belief. Or one may try to Google her.
damn mate, i was about to propose a Mobius strip possibility and you dismantled my aspirations!!
Ccincy: It must be round cause some people think that it revolves solely around them.
WARNING
Danger
Danger Will Robinson
Does not compute
Does Not Compute
Does NOT Compute Will Robinson
That such a person is or believes themselves to have the universe around them (in a circular orbit ) ... might well support the notion of a flat earth ...
If you think about that seriously ... which I did ( seriously) for about a nano second !
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Thank you Cuddles !!