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FoodForAllFarm t1_jdl4llb wrote

We aren't, we're just so damn small we can't tell it's a curve

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shakawhenthewalls t1_jdl65w9 wrote

I live on a hill in a hilly town. If this surface is so flat why did my car roll away when I forgot to put the parking brake on?

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smilelaughenjoy t1_jdl6sm1 wrote

If you draw a circle, the smaller you draw it, the more it seems to look like a dot. The larger you draw the circle, the more the curve is so spread out, that when you focus on one part of that huge circle, it begins to look like a long line with a slight curve. Keep making it larger and the curve seems to be less and less noticeable.

You can also see this effect by holding a ball and moving it closer or further away from your eyes while focusing on the curve at the edge.

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Fleaslayer t1_jdl8x1t wrote

Here's a picture of a billiard ball under a microscope. We see it as really smooth, but magnified it actually has mountains and valleys. If the earth was shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, and you could hold it, it would be much smoother than a billiard ball.

So, okay, at the scale we interact with it, it has mountains and valleys and flat spots. Even so, it's pretty easy to see the curvature of the sphere. When you're at a high cruising altitude on a plane and look out at the horizon, it's curved. When you stand on the shore and watch a boat sail away, it starts looking like it's sinking as it goes over the horizon, over the curve.

It's a sphere, it's just (to us) a really big sphere.

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ufhrzdgug t1_jdlak7c wrote

A 1 kilometer long bridge has to "bend" about 78 millimeters to follow the shape of the earth (simplified). A one meter stick 0.0078 millimeters. Do you think you can see such a small difference?

One could ask why the level of the ocean is not going down after removing a glas of water. It went down, but the change it's too small to see.

You can remove a grain of sand from a beach. There is less sand now but would anybody notice?

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LoremIpsum10101010 t1_jdlaurd wrote

How old are you? Do you know how to use Google? Honestly, is there any moderation on this sub at all?

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JackedNStackedd t1_jdlc9pn wrote

u on ball, ball big, u not big, ball so big but u so small so ball look like not ball

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Teleseismic_Eyes t1_jdlar1h wrote

Draw a circle on your computer. Did you do it? Are you sure?? Zoom in 9n the circle. Still look round? Ok...

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the_hornicorn t1_jdlds93 wrote

First you need to ask yourself if you really exist.

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seffej t1_jdl9g2u wrote

Well then why hasn't something grabbed and thrown this spear?

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MBeebeCIII t1_jdldn8v wrote

I really wish "the consensus to leading scientists" would just stop propagating the deception of "earth is a sphere". Even the most rudimentory research reveals that this place in space we occupy is flat.

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