Flat Earth? Fact or Fiction? video includes government documents

[3clicks_Off]

The earth is flat

Flat earthers popping up everywhere

Join us before its too late

 

[InTune]

It must be flat cause I live on the edge

 

[Bear44]

It must be flat cause I live on the edge

 

[sc951]

Despite modern legends about Medieval backwardness, there never was a time when educated people went back to thinking the Earth was flat. Once discovered, the true shape of the globe was too simple and useful a fact to be forgotten. Sailors were reminded of the planet’s roundness every time they climbed a mast to see further over the horizon or looked to the stars to determine their position. By the time of Columbus, his crew and even his critics understood that our world is a globe.7 It had been an established fact for centuries. For example, here’s a passage from the popular astronomy textbook On the Sphere of the World, published over 250 years before Columbus sailed:

That the earth, too, is round is shown thus. The…stars do not rise and set the same for all men everywhere but rise and set sooner for those in the east than for those in the west; and of this there is no other cause than the bulge of the earth.8

 

[palmettomoon]

Teacher's pet!

Can't believe no one said,"What's a blackboard?"

Despite modern legends about Medieval backwardness, there never was a time when educated people went back to thinking the Earth was flat. Once discovered, the true shape of the globe was too simple and useful a fact to be forgotten. Sailors were reminded of the planet’s roundness every time they climbed a mast to see further over the horizon or looked to the stars to determine their position. By the time of Columbus, his crew and even his critics understood that our world is a globe.7 It had been an established fact for centuries. For example, here’s a passage from the popular astronomy textbook On the Sphere of the World, published over 250 years before Columbus sailed:

That the earth, too, is round is shown thus. The…stars do not rise and set the same for all men everywhere but rise and set sooner for those in the east than for those in the west; and of this there is no other cause than the bulge of the earth.8

To be fair though.....the world could be flat and inside of a universe sphere where the stars are lights on the inside of a rotating object. That would explain the people in the East seeing stars before those in the West.

 

[erkinator]

The flat earthers are growing in numbers,they now have members all over the world.

FTFY Flat earthers are growing in numbers and have members all AROUND the world

 

[erkinator]

 

[aFarewellToKings]

The earth is round.
Like a pizza.

 

[hamburglar3]

The earth is round.
Like a pizza.

^^ i thought a chalupa

 

[Grub Master]

The Flat earth Society just announced their annual "Global Conference"?????????