^^^BOOM!......headshot!.........the kids are still hip with that right. Lol
Flat Earth
- Thread starter Trekker4747
- Start date
Oh my.
In hindsight, I guess that wasn't really appropriate to joke about. My apologies.
Don't worry, I found it a very good joke 
They couldn't claim the curvature of their heads was involved, 'cause those are definitely flat.
Funny though that ol' cartoon is, it's still perpetrating the old falsehood that he was trying to prove the world was round. Pretty much anyone with a decent education (by the standards of that time) knew the world was round. The only thing that wasn't completely settled was "how big around".
Yes, the Greeks were basically right with the world being roughly 27,000 miles in circumference.
Yes, the Greeks were basically right with the world being roughly 27,000 miles in circumference.
A bigger iron core? How do you figure?
Well - Columbus not believing there was a "New World" was not all of it. He HAD to believe the world was smaller as well since there's absolutely NO WAY he could have sailed straight across the Atlantic all the way to the far east in those little ships!
The sailors were already getting very nervous and angry at about 5000 miles. Think how much further they would have to sail if the world was actually ~27,000 miles around AND there was no "New World" in between!
The sailors were already getting very nervous and angry at about 5000 miles. Think how much further they would have to sail if the world was actually ~27,000 miles around AND there was no "New World" in between!
not really. As 1G is per definition Earth's gravity at sea level, any sea-level gravity on this planet would be defined 1G, regardless of it's actual value. The problem is that physicists, too, tend to think anthropocentric.
The meter would be shorter, too, since it's defined as a certain fraction of Earth's circumference (the 10-millionth part of the longitudinal stripe that connects the Equator with the North Pole via Paris).
The meter would be shorter, too, since it's defined as a certain fraction of Earth's circumference (the 10-millionth part of the longitudinal stripe that connects the Equator with the North Pole via Paris).
i think back then they didn‘t use meters.
Also, these days I think a meter is defined as the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 seconds.
indeed. But as a second is based on Eath's rotation and thus connected to the size, it's again what I'd like to call a "biased" measurement.
I wonder whether some currently unsolvable calculations would be solvable if we'd stop using units based on non-decimal systems.
I wonder whether some currently unsolvable calculations would be solvable if we'd stop using units based on non-decimal systems.
About that:
"The second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom."
I got the sudden urge yesterday to write a fantasy novel that takes place in the Flat Earth-verse. Where there actually is a conspiracy to make people think Earth is round. I wonder how you could write that so it's plausible.
Start by getting very, very drunk...
I once wrote a short story, during my angsty teenage years, about a guy discovering that the whole world was a simulation, and all of the knowledge we had about history and the laws of physics were wrong. Kinda took the wrong lessons from "The Matrix" there (being an atheist on a religious school with a lot of creationists on staff might also have played into it). Of course, being the dumb teenager I was, the ending had the guy turning the simulation off by literally switching a lever, only for him to be immediately killed and the simulation being turned on again. So, there.
Would that world be like a pizza: people only on one side? Or would your world be inhabited on both sides? With people on both sides, there could be tunnels that connect both sides. That would make it easier to persuade them that the world is ball-shaped. Or you could have 2 completely different civilisations and play with their respective convictions.
If people live only on one side, you'd have a government vs rebels situation which might offer more action but leaves less room for new structures.
That's interesting. I was thinking more in terms of mining riches on the underside and using that wealth to control the people and finance the conspiracy. But you could do a Counterpart kind of thing with aliens living on the bottom.
Maybe they're mining the resource that powers whatever is holding the world up and have to be stopped before the world plummets into the darkness.
Ooh, and in this world, vaccines are used to inject mind control drugs that make you docile and trusting. But with some children they have...unfortunate side effects.
Similar threads
