(02-10-2018, 08:05 PM)Tawakened53 Wrote:(02-10-2018, 07:33 AM)Steve Wrote: If the earth is flat, what happens when you sail or fly to the edge or come to a corner, assuming it is flat and square shaped?
https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-p...und#page-7
The theory of the earth being flat is based on it being a circle, effectively like a snow globe, with the land being on the bottom. The theory of the edges, is that we are surrounded by a large ice wall that goes around the outside of the "snow globe".
It is quite difficult to take in, I agree but the video link from the OP does explain it quite well.
It explains a lot about the strange flight patterns that happen in the southern hemisphere on long haul flights which seem to make no sense on a globe but make more sense on a flat earth.
I am not sure where I sit with this view, at the moment I am on the fence, but there Is something very odd about the whole NASA earth images from space and the ISS pictures.
The only images of the curved earth are through fish eye lenses which naturally curve the horizon and I have often wondered when you stand on a beach and look out to the sea and see the horizon, you cannot see even a slight curvature.
Interesting! I assumed some think it to be square due to the ancient expression of ‘to all corners (four?) of the earth’.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/142625.html