Flat vs. Sphere: Earth's shape
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- One of the natural observations was that sailors would have noticed that before the hulls of the ships became visible, the sails of approaching ships appeared because the surface of the sea is slightly curved,like the surface of an enormous ball.
- Seriously? You know what, let me educate you! There has been a lot of evidence and inference about it, which the great philosophers have carefully thought out.
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- In addition,in his observations of the stars, Aristotle also argued that not only is the earth circular, but it is also a circle of no great size. He pointed out that the stars that are overhead are significantly changed by a very small change of position to south or north, and the stars seen are different, as one moves north or south.
- The great Aristotle had many conclusions as well. He concluded that the Earth is spherical because when it eclipses the moon it always casts a curved shadow.
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- Astronauts also provided a lot of images and videos from space that proves that the Earth is indeed spherical.
- Eratosthenes, a great mathematician, approximated the circumference of our Earth! He used experimental measurements of shadows in two cities and geometry.
- Why do you trust those philosophers, scientists, spaceman, or whatever people? They are just trying to lie and misled us!
- Oh,c’mon! don’t lump your trust issues with facts. Besides, there are lots of evidences provided. You know what, just use your free time researching and fact checking rather than believing fake news on social medias and conspiracies.
- Ahh...
- How dare you?!
- U-uhm.
- Truth hurts, man.
- HMP!
- HMP!
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