• Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Flat! I tell you it is!
  • Yohan
    679
    An ocean planet
  • Seeker
    214
    Insignificant in the vastness of space.
  • Pantagruel
    3.2k
    To our best current knowledge, unique.
  • Nils Loc
    1.3k
    The Earth is sometimes locally flat, yes.

    But it is never perfectly flat! Is it? How do we measure flatness empirically?

    Oh gawd! Maybe no thing is flat.
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    The sun is round, the moon is round, the planets are round. Why should the Earth be flat? :chin:

    Shhh! It is though!
  • jgill
    3.5k
    A non-differentiable manifold. Live with it. :brow:
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Some asteroids aren't round!
  • 180 Proof
    13.9k
    Arda is flat. :sparkle:

    Middle Earth is round (after "The Downfall of Númenor" in the 2nd Age).

    "Earth" (today) is actually the 6th Age / 7th Age of Middle Earth.

    NB: I prefer Earthsea. :nerd:
  • Sir2u
    3.2k
    The only bloody place we have to live on.

    Let's try not to fuck it up too badly.
  • Yohan
    679
    The sun is round, the moon is round, the planets are round. Why should the Earth be flat?Agent Smith
    The FErs I know about online believe the earth is a disc. So circular circumference and flat surface. At least disc earthers and globe earthers share a belief in round circumference, eh?
    Maybe they think the same about the planets?
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Locked in? Synced? Not impossible. Therein lies the rub, si señor/señorita?

    Arda is flat. :sparkle:

    Middle Earth is round (after "The Downfall of Númenor" in the 2nd Age).

    "Earth" (today) is actually the 6th Age / 7th Age of Middle Earth.

    NB: I prefer Earthsea. :nerd:
    180 Proof

    Like you said, in another thread, we have to demonstrate that it's impossible (for the earth to be flat).
  • Yohan
    679

    I might be wrong about the disc earth idea. Apparently, flat earthers see that as a straw man.

    Haven't figured out what they think yet.
    They bring up some interesting issues at least. Like, why going south or north beyond a certain distance is restricted. They think its because there is more land. While hollow earth believers think there are entrances into the earth at the poles. Something is apparently being hidden, whatever it is.
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Now we're on the same page mon ami!
  • Changeling
    1.4k
    we're on the same pageAgent Smith

    Are you suggesting the Earth is a page i.e. flat?
  • Agent Smith
    9.5k
    Are you suggesting the Earth is a page i.e. flat?Changeling

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