DO YOU BELIEVE THE EARTH IS ROUND?

[janx]

[Kralizec]

1. This is a trick question! ;p

[NYdemocrat089]

11. The Earth isn't round...

...it is an oblate spheroid. :P

Edit: Meant to reply to original post, sorry.

[ozarkvet]

17. Correct; it is not round

It is a sphere (more or less).

Supported by a turtle on the back of an elephant.

[TechBear_Seattle]

28. Oblate spheroids are round, just not spherical

See Merriam-Webster: round, definition 1(b).

So there! :spank:

[NYdemocrat089]

32. I'll have to speak to my Earth Science teacher about that.

:P

[hatrack]

2. Why do you hate freedom?

:toast:

[Walt Starr]

3. I believe in an intelligently flat earth

when you reach one edge, the intelligent designer instaneously teleports you to the edge immediately opposite your current postiion.

[the_spectator]

Ooh! Good one! /nt

[antigone382]

33. Exactly. It only APPEARS round because the designer is testing our faith.

Geez, people, do I have to explain EVERYTHING?

[TechBear_Seattle]

36. Uhhh.... no.

The instantaneous transportation from one edge to the corresponding opposite edge (anyone every seen the old computer simulation, Life?) would give the appearance of a toroidal world (ie shaped like a doughnut.) But then, "intelligent design" theory has never been marred by inconvenient facts :eyes:

Of course, as a confirmed Doughnutist, I believe that the world appears to be a sphere because of a conspiracy of the evil magic of the Ballists.

[asthmaticeog]

4. Other: plentiful empirical data exists in support of a round Earth,

therefore, one needn't believe it. One can conclusively know it.

[stepnw1f]

5. For Some It Is

For some it doesn't matter, because they are speshul!

[Tace]

6. The Earth Is Actually A Rhombus

It's just that nobody's noticed yet.

[underpants]

7. LET ME OUT OF THIS POD!!!!

:yoiks:

[NNN0LHI]

8. I am going with the literal interpretation from the bible on this one

What was that?

Don

[AntiCoup2K4]

38. "The Heavens are God's throne and Earth is His footstool"

I think that was it.

[DemInDistress]

9. round? as compared to what,a square,oval? nt

[Hobarticus]

10. Mock not the dragons over the edge of the earth!

Blasphemer!

[Jacobin]

12. Of course not. If it were, you would fall off

I'm for faith based physics.

[underpants]

23. Only 49% would fall off

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1876487&mesg_id=1876487

[Jacobin]

29. Hmmm

I'm kinda liking that idea.

[sui generis]

13. holographic projection resulting from the interaction of particles

in two Calabi-Yau dimensions. It's just the way our senses resolve those interactions. Ew. I think I must have stepped in some two dimensional male cowshit.

:P

[sui generis]

15. ATTENTION EARTHLINGS

The earth is actually a large collander with negative curvature and finite dimension.

All your flying spaghetti monsters are belong to me!!111!

[Sabriel]

24. As round as a pasta serving bowl

In all its infinite, oily wonder.
Ramen

[LiberalEsto]

31. And Pesto Be! nt

[TechBear_Seattle]

37. Marinara! n/t

[Neil Lisst]

14. No, I believe in E.D.

Eliptical Design

[DanCa]

16. Forget the questions just get me another beer

:beer:

[Dogmudgeon]

18. Remember what Sagan said ...

"Extraordinarily flat Earths require extraordinarily large rolling pins."

--p!

[AntiCoup2K4]

39. Who carez whut Sagin said!

..he was a commie homo athiest devil worshippin librul! :crazy:

[LeighAnn]

19. The world, she is a-round

Columbus had to find out the hard way. I base my vote on this picture I found that was taken from outer space

[underpants]

25. How-a you know from-a where that-a picture was-a taken

hmmmmm?

It could-a be from-a the top

:shrug:

[AntiCoup2K4]

40. It's part of the set they used when they filmed that fake moon landin'....

...in Las Vegas or where ever the lying librul media did it. If God had really meant man to go to the moon, He would have provided us with a freeway to get there!

[William769]

20. Damn I love polls on DU!

:)

[Zynx]

21. It's not perfectly round, so no.

[porphyrian]

22. The Earth is a geoid. So there. - n/t

[name not needed]

26. It's a triangle!

You can try and keep us in the dark, but we're on to you!

[htuttle]

27. Common Sense is what tells you the Earth is flat

...which should tell you something about Common Sense.

[Solon]

30. Actually, common sense for some people lead to the opposite conclusion...

Sailors, for example, for centuries, knew the Earth wasn't perfectly flat, whether it was close to a sphere or not, they probably didn't theorize. But it was a simple observation, a ship in the distance will have its mast appear before the hull, concluding that they were over a hump so to speak from the viewer. By Colombus time most people knew the Earth was a sphere, they just didn't know the size of it. There were two theories on the size, both didn't involve the Americas, as they were generally ignorant of what the Icelanders knew. Colombus believe the Earth was pretty small, therefore by sailing west he would run into East Asia rather easily. The other theory was more accurate, but they had no knowledge of the Americas so imagine a HUGE ocean extending from Spain to Japan, in other words, they thought Colombus would sail to his death, or turn around in failure, for the ocean would have been FAR larger than he could possibly navigate.

In fact, back in the 3rd century BCE the Egyptian Eratosthenes calculated that the Earth's radius is approximately 6,300 kilometers, and its circumference as about 40,000 kilometers. How accurate was he? Let's see, he was 75.16 km off on his calculation. Too bad that info wasn't widespread in Europe at the time of Colombus, maybe he wouldn't have went to his grave thinking he found a route to the East.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. The Earth is flat, and is carried on the back of a giant turtle.

I thought everybody knew that. Isn't it in the Bible?

[muriel_volestrangler]

35. Of course it's round; here's a diagram

courtesy of the United Nations



The North Pole is at the centre; the South Pole does not exist (well, have you been there?)

An ancestor of mine seriously thought this, and wrote a book about it, at the end of the 19th century. This isn't it, but the ideas are roughly the same.

On edit: I've just found out my great-great-grandfather's book has been reissued! It's got an ISBN number, and Amazon say they'll sell it to me! It's amazing what crap you can find on the Internet ...

[AntiCoup2K4]

Why wuld yew beleeve anything the united commie nations said?

Those damn one world goverment commies lie 'bout everything.

[tjwash]

41. It's a sphere that is slightly flattened at the poles.

nt