10/15/2023 0 Comments Is earth flat![]() ![]() ![]() Their shapes are scientifically described as “oblate spheroids”, because they all bulge slightly around the middle (like a mandarin or a semi-inflated soccer ball). Some objects in the solar system are too small to be forced into spherical shapes – Mars’ moons, for example, are potato-shaped, and asteroids are mostly irregular.īut not even the planets are perfect. ![]() When the Earth formed 4.6 billion years ago, it was composed of molten material that gravity pulled into a spherical shape, which solidified as the planet cooled. For a planet, everything is pulled towards its centre – that’s why things hit the ground when you drop them, and why you land back to Earth when you jump. Every object in the universe with mass exerts a gravitational pull, which tugs towards the object’s centre of mass. So why are planets spherical? Why don’t we live on a cylindrical or cube-shaped planet? In fact, the vast majority of objects in our solar system are spherical, from the Sun to planets to moons. Kidding! We’ve actually known that the Earth is round for at least 2000 years, thanks to the ancient Greeks. Wait, what? The Earth is actually flat, haven’t you heard? Maybe the people who started it did it as a joke but then actual insane ludicrous slow sheeps joined.Why are the Sun, the planets and their moons all spherical in shape? – Lionel I thought so too, so did my bf, he joined a fb group of flats earthers and added me, they are actually into it, honestly and dogmatically into it and get enraged and abusive towards any ppl who disagrees or try to talk about it, I thought they were still kidding but once I read how predatory they went attacking other users I better left that surreal group, it was funny but rather dissapointing on human kind and stopped being funny once I saw how abusive they were, and believe me I've already got a low bar for most humans, those are study cases to whomever might be working on a thesis or essay on that, they should be examined, they are like a cult, many of them are extreme christians too, so those fixations very likely come from that. Upvotes Follow Unfollow 5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017 ![]()
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