Tag: Curvature

It’s not easy for an ordinary man to travel into space and directly see the curvature of Earth. But is this really evidence that the Earth is flat? The ancient scholars didn’t learn about the Earth’s shape by just making things up. They actually were observing the reality around them. And it’s not enough to…

It might feel very tempting to win arguments and destroy opponents without actually having any knowledge, but actually this is not a smart thing to do. Because what if the opponents are not as stupid and uneducated like you? Then they will SEE your foolishness. Maybe it’s not tempting to learn any math or geometry…

When we look at the horizon from the surface of the Earth, it looks perfectly flat, therefore we can certainly deduce that the Earth is not a small ball. But does this prove that the Earth is completely flat on the big scale? If you look at a small circle, you will see a sharp…

Earth has a radius more than 6000 km, so if we wanna see the whole Earth as a small circle, it would be a good idea to get away from it thousands of kilometers and more. Unfortunately, Mount Everest, even though it’s our highest mountain, is less than 10 km tall, so it’s like nothing…