is the world flat? ...seriously is it?

[ZeTurd]

LOL @ you "round earthers".

Like it's very probable that the earth is a round rock floating around space on its own volition. Pray tell, what exactly is the earth using for propulsion? Is there some kind of magic rocket-engine hidden in the planet's core that makes it maintain its constant speed in rotation around the sun? And how is it able to steer around the sun in a perfect elliptical orbit, year after year after year? You'd think that it'd [censored] up once in a million years or so and land us in a neighboring solar system.

And seriously. Have any of you ever tried to place some grains of sand on a bathing ball? What happens to the grains on the outer periphery of the top? That's right, they fall to the ground! And now, what happens when you push the ball? The few grains of sand left on the top will ALSO fall off! So tell me this: How is it possible that there are any movable objects left on earth if it's round and rotating? That's right, it's IMPOSSIBLE.

You guys crack me up.

[[Phill]]

Little known fact, but since ancient times men of learning knew the earth was a sphere (or at least not flat) - in fact the ancient greeks not only knew it, they actually measured the earth pretty accurately using mathematical extrapolation.

[ZeTurd]

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The ancient greeks were also a bunch of queers. Surely they can't be trusted!

[VickreyAuction]

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[BigSoonerFan]

Maybe she's related to Miss South Carolina?

(or maybe she ate Miss SC?)

[rine]

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Unreal. Anyone tell them to watch an ocean?

[LuckOfTheDraw]

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Did I just get leveled by an entire forum.

[djj6835]

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Wow. Lol @ the end, "We have internets and babies being born with sperm!"

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Yeah we just recently started producing babies this way.

[GMontag]

From "A Study in Scarlet":

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His (Sherlock Holmes) ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared
to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle,
he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had
done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found
incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory
and of the composition of the Solar System. That any
civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not
be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to
be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly
realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my
expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my
best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain
originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to
stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in
all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that
the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out,
or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that
he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the
skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes
into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools
which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has
a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic
walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes
a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something
that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore,
not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently;
"you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it
would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

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[Prodigy54321]

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From "A Study in Scarlet":

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His (Sherlock Holmes) ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared
to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle,
he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had
done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found
incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory
and of the composition of the Solar System. That any
civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not
be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to
be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly
realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my
expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my
best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain
originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to
stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in
all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that
the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out,
or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that
he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the
skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes
into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools
which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has
a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic
walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes
a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something
that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore,
not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently;
"you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it
would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."

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nh, how apro pos