If the earth really is a spinning ball why do we not experience centrifugal force? Why is gravity strong enough to keep water held down through all that spinning force but weak enough to allow insects, birds, and planes to fly? Why is there no difference in gravity in certain areas if the earth is “pear shaped”? Why do plane routes make more sense on an AE map than a globe? Flat earth inquiring minds want to know.
Please tell me that you aren’t this stupid, and this is a joke.
Literally all those answers can be found in science books for kindergartners. A lot of them are “Actually it does”, “Actually we do” and “Actually they don’t”.
It’s no joke. And the first time I encountered it over a year ago I thought it was troll, or just ignorance.
All the flat earthers are asking is for you to look around and be curious. Use your senses.
The most reliable method I think is getting a pilot licence and fly around the world yourself, though I don’t know if they give you a licence unless you understand it’s round.
Or learn trigonometry and measure the shadows on different latitudes, Aristophanes style. You can even calculate the size of the Earth and the distance to the sun with math you can develop yourself. It’s very important that you understand you can independently create the math that proves the Earth is round, even if you’re too lazy to do it.
Measure the distance between any three places on whatever flat Earth-map you have, as far apart as you can afford to travel, then measure the distance between them on a real globe using the equation to find the shortest line between two points of the surface of a sphere that travel and transport businesses use to save fuel, then travel between them, and then see which measurement better predicted the reality.
Study the Earth in Google maps as closely as you can. Go from South Africa to north Norway to east China to the Bering strait to New York to Florida to Equador to Tierra del Fuego and see how it all fits together in a way that actually only makes sense if it’s a sphere. Get as close as you have to. Seeing the full picture should take years.
Watch a boat disappear behind the horizon as it goes away from you, then climb to a higher elevation where you can see it again. Send up a drone or a helium balloon with a sturdy camera to see Earth from above. Just travel a little bit. I first saw that the Earth is round on the Sweden-Finland ferry when I was eight, and I can only assume any flat Earthers have never been on as much as a four hour boat ride.
Maybe they all live on the Pole of Inaccessibility, by the north tip of China. Hey, here’s a fun question: This point is exactly equidistant from three coasts in different directions – the furthest from the sea you can get anywhere on the Planet. How far is that?
Yes, be curious. but do not sit in a little hole in the ground and think you’ve got the shape of the world all figured out because you’re special and clever and everyone else is wrong if you’re not willing to do any work whatsoever TO figure things out. If you’re going to claim to earnestly believe the Earth is flat, that does indeed take a special, dedicated kind of ignorance. Being completely unaware of how physics work to the point that you can concieve of an Earth that can’t be round because the Corolis effect is unnoticeable for airplanes and then declaring to the public you know better than everyone who’s sailed around the world isn’t “challenging the establishment” or “looking at the world around you”, it’s just embarassing.
Just the enormous amount of things you have to fail to know to disbelieve the shape of the Earth is, well, it would fill a library of natural science, and you should find the closest library and start reading so you can stop offending people who actually do the work of science that you’re relying on to be able to post your shit aross the world through sattelites and fiberoptics and plastic and computer technology that would have never been imagined of by a people who hadn’t put people on the Moon.