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RE: "The earth is a shitpost"

in #funny7 years ago

except that the Earth is round and this was determined around 250BC by the ancient Greeks with a stick and the observed difference in the length of a shadow in two different locations. They determined a spheroid from the approximate angle of curvature derived from the difference in the two measurements. case closed..

Flat Earth was a bad joke designed to show how people will believe anything,. it was a cynical and deliberately invoked the ghosts of the luddites, who in medieval times believed... that the Earth was flat.

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The earth is a shitpost.

you already said that