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Old 23-08-2022, 09:02   #46
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Ok, so here is another view....a round earth, but still looks " flatish"...showing Africa....not sure where the America's are ???

The photo was taken by heaven and sent to earth via a thing called internet...

It can get confusing for the uninitiated, but I'm giving it my best shot..
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Ok, so here is another view....a round earth, but still looks " flatish"...showing Africa....not sure where the America's are ???

The photo was taken by heaven and sent to earth via a thing called internet...

It can get confusing for the uninitiated, but I'm giving it my best shot..
The Americas are on the reverse side.. Ya gotta go round the curved edges to see them..

Don't you wonder about pictures like this and compare them to descriptions like this..
Earth is not a perfect sphere. Its shape is an oblate spheroid. This just means that it flattens at the poles and widens out at the equator. Earth bulges at the equator because of the centrifugal force during rotation. Like spinning a pizza, the mass pushes outwards and flattens...
Where's de pizza bulge..
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Old 23-08-2022, 09:16   #48
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so putting it all together, what we have here is a round earth, that looks flatish, but is in reality a cube...ok, I think I got it now
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What happens to the ocean at the edge of a flat earth ??

Does it just roll off like a waterfall??? and if so, how is the ocean water replenished...rain ?? Where does the new salt come from to make the new rain/ocean salty ?

What happens to a sailor if you get to close to the edge ?? How close to the edge can you realistically get ??

What about fish ? How close can they get ?

How deep is the ocean at the edge ?? very deep ? shallow" what ? are there beaches ??

Is there land at the edge ? If so, what is it called and who lives there ?



Has anyone ever been to the "other side" of the flat earth ?? What does it look like ? Could you fly there ??



I can't be the only one with so many questions. I demand to know !!!! Give me answers !!!


The edge is all mountains so no waterfall sorry
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What you bubble headed globalists call Antarctica is of course a ring of ice that surrounds us and keeps the water contained and stops the cats pushing everything of the edge.

Of course you can head in one direction and end up where you started.
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Ok, so let me get this straight.....planet earth is a giant frisbee, twiddling about in space with lotsa other frisbee's ?

So I got this one question for flat earthers....if it is daytime in the US, why is it nighttime in Australia?

How does the flat earth spin ? About it's N-S axis, or E-W axis ? or does it just wobble around?
The sun orbits in a fixed ellipse, period one day, in a plane at right angles to the Disc. The Disc revolves beneath it, with a period of 365 days.
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I find using my Mobius charts of flat earth to be very useful, haven't gotten lost yet; but I have not completed a circumnavigation to get back to my starting point.

Albeit similar to what Daniel Boone once said: "I was once bewildered for three days."

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I spent a lot of time in Africa in my youth.

When the transistor radio first came about many years ago, and was introduced to the local inhabitants, they were flummoxed as to how it was managed to shrink a person down and have him/her live in that little box to speak or sing thru' a mega-phone.

Such is the case with the flat earth debate....I'm flummoxed as to how to understand how this theory continuous to survive ??? Are the cats somehow involved ? Who can figure out a cat anyway ??
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What a bunch of crap! If the Earth was flat, my cats would have pushed everything off the edge long ago.

By the way, the Moon is really made of cheese. I heard that from Buzz Aldrin. True story. Not the whole story, but true as far as it goes.
meh Buzz Aldrin.

The Americans think they were the first to put a man on the moon.

No lads, they were the first to put a man on the moon and bring him back.

But Morgan, he never came back.

I got a post card though. Said "'tis cheese" and in parenthesis "Caerphilly"
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All hail Sir Terry, but please don’t forget the novel “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions”.
Larry Niven's Ringworld is a nice compromise.
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Cats ? We don't need no stinking cats, we got turtles.
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Flat earth theory is pushed by the CIA to make all the conspiracy theorists appear stupid.
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meh Buzz Aldrin.

The Americans think they were the first to put a man on the moon.

No lads, they were the first to put a man on the moon and bring him back.

But Morgan, he never came back.

I got a post card though. Said "'tis cheese" and in parenthesis "Caerphilly"
Morgan couldn’t return because there is no coal on the moon.

Wallace said it was Wensleydale Cheese.

Aldrin said it was American cheese.

So we have three experts who disagree about what kind of cheese the moon is made of.
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