Peter Crisp wrote:The flat earth people really are odd.
There's so many easy ways to see the earth is round like going to the beach and looking at the see and seeing the horizon that it takes a special kind effort to decide "Nope, I know better than my own eyes I'm going to decide the earth is flat!".
Also, who actually benefits from a conspiracy to claim the earth is round?
I dunno. The observations that I can make with my own eyes don't reveal the earth to be a sphere (not round, btw). Or certainly not a sphere of the scale that we are lead to believe. The observable curvature is derived from the formula :- 8 inches per mile squared. So, 1 mile is 8" of drop or curve. 10 miles is 10x10x8 = 800" = 66.7ft. etc.
I can go to my nearby beach (Crosby), and observe the Big One in Blackpool Pleasure Beach. The distance (according to google maps) is 19 miles. The Big One is 366ft tall. 19 miles is supposed to produce 19x19x8 = 2888" = 240ft. Yet, I can see the whole thing. I know it's slightly raised off the sea level, maybe 6-8ft? Would that make me see all of it?
There are hundreds of other examples of this that people observe. Just seems strange, makes me question it.