Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?

[Here2njoy]

to whom it may concern,

Don't pay it any mind.  Let those who question...question.  They will figure their TRUTH in time.  When I see reflections refuse to form a straight line to the standing subject over 5 miles of standing water, when I see a 24/7 continuous picture of a spinning ball from a geosynchronous satellite, when I see a frozen lake have a bulge in the middle many miles long, when I see a complete overhaull of the space station because of temperature extremes, when I see tiny meteorites that come in during certain periods of the year effect even one of the many thousands of satellites in space, when I see a 93 million mile triangliation of the sun to earth that makes sense, then I might start thinking back to the ball earth that I used to  believe in since kindergarten.  Until then its 51 to 49% in favor of...... 
This video sums it up in most areas for me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuBVCmC0ACM

[Farmhand]

Yes Pirate, it is a bit difficult to understand how anyone could buy into a flat Earth. It seems a portion of the population will latch onto anything that is related to "conspiracy" no matter how far fetched it is. While I do see a lot of modern "science" to be wasteful and pointless/unnecessary, there is also a lot that is very useful.

I think some people must either forego common sense or had none to begin with.

A couple of reasoning questions one should ask oneself when considering the Flat Earth.

1. If the Earth is flat, then what is on the other side ? Are both sides populated or is the "underside" just craggy rocks or something ?
2. How thick is the supposed disk/cookie ?
3. How are volcano's explained ?
There are many more.

Basically it comes down to the fact that people can believe anything they want, they can say what they want if there is no moderation.

Personally I think that some people are so confused by all the deceptions in our world that they want everything to be "different". And I can't say I blame them for that.

I really believe that way too much public expense is wasted on "space programs" and "high science" when we cannot even manage the land properly here on Earth. Basic life sustaining skills are being lost and the solution seems to be to kill a whole bunch of people by wars and chaos.

I cannot be angry at Flat Earthers when our elected servants act like dictators and continuously steal from us while interfering in others peoples countries affairs and so forth.

Constant stress and worry breeds insanity.

Possibly a yearning for a simpler time brings the desire to go back to when everybody believed the Earth was flat.

The serious issues modern science is causing for the future are many.

In most countries on this planet the ability/opportunity for people to live a simple life is being removed and unless folks want to live on the streets in the cities or like an animal in the bush then we must involve ourselves with "evils" of the modern world. In most countries the land is all owned, mostly by the rich, huge tracts of land. And individuals must pay others for the right to live some place. Even if you own a "house" in the city or elsewhere we must go onto others properties routinely. Which is not the way for people to live.

Maybe if the Earth was flat we could get to the other side and live in peace. haha.

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[MileHigh]

This thread is so insane.  There is a cult of "flat Earthers" on YouTube that must number in the thousands that post and are visible, and tens of thousands that don't post and are invisible.  And as someone already mentioned, there is a pulp "crap and junk" industry feeding off of them and fattening up their bank accounts.

How about this one:  A digital watch, a car, an odometer, and a sextant.

Take some sightings of some stars and record the information.  Drive due south for 150 km.  Then take more sightings of the same stars.  Repeat as many times as you want.

You will get sextant measurements that are consistent with the world being a sphere.  With a small amount of extra brainpower you can crunch your measurements and determine the circumference of the Earth.

Anybody watch Carl Sagan's "Cosmos?"  He tells the story of how Eratosthenes did this very thing in the third century B.C.

And here we are in the 21st century and there are people that are 2400 years behind the times.  The mind boggles.

[SeaMonkey]

This thread is so insane.  There is a cult of "flat Earthers" on YouTube that must number in the thousands that post and are visible, and tens of thousands that don't post and are invisible.  And as someone already mentioned, there is a pulp "crap and junk" industry feeding off of them and fattening up their bank accounts.

Convincing evidence that it is a well organized and
financed Psychological Operation.  The tactics used
by the so-called disciples of the Flat Earth Religion
indicate that the present PSYOP was activated in unison
essentially world-wide with a cleverly concocted script.

It is but a preview of what is to come as the War on Truth
heats up.

The Love of Money is always one aspect of these exercises.
But there is more.  Much more to come.

[tagor]

No, It didn't work as expected in the 1851 Paris observatory 'rotation' experiment.
Gravock

no you are very wrong
we are in 2016 !! not 1851
you can see it every day in paris ( i looked at  it more than 1000 h )
this penduleum is working perfectly
you are in a very insane secte