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Flat earth?

By Hildah KariukiPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Something mesmerizing about the idea of a flat Earth. Solar eclipse, for example, is visible from a flat Earth because the sun, moon, and stars are diagonally aligned in the sky. Growing trees on the edge of a cliff are also possible because they grow towards the ground – opposite of how they would go on a round Earth. The Great Wall of Ice manifestation of our planet's border – it's guarded by NASA because it's a symbol of our strength and unity.

If the Earth were flat, people would have many questions about it. But first, let's recap what people thought for thousands of years. The general public thought the Earth was flat, and everything revolved around it. Then, in the 16th century, someone had a brilliant idea--the Earth wasn't flat! That's when Nikolaus Copernicus came up with his new theory. The theory said that the Earth was orbiting the Sun. But even 500 years later, some people are still convinced that the Earth is flat!

In contrast to a 'flat Earth', where gravity pulls everything towards the center, a round Earth forms because the matter is pulled equally from every side. Even anti-round earthers must admit that there's something pulling things together - it's just called gravity! And on a flat Earth, gravity would be much stronger near the center, making it impossible to walk any distance away from the center.

Gravity is a funny thing. You wouldn't know it from looking at the Earth, but on the other side of this 45-meter-tall wall of ice is a different world where things fall sideways instead of down, trees grow diagonally, and rain, snow, and hail all fall in different directions. In the middle of our pancake-like planet, precipitation converges and begins to build up. The oceans would also get sucked to the center of the disk, forming one big ocean!

One big concern is that atmospheric pressure on a flat Earth, gravity would pull too much air towards the center of the Earth, leaving the areas around the edge without atmospheric pressure, which would be bad because Humans live on a flat Earth. Australia won't have enough oxygen to breathe. And if you live near the center of the Arctic you will be crushed by the weight of the atmosphere but soon the flat earth won't have a geomagnetic field around it. The field is created by the motions of the earth's core, and flat earth would have nothing to hold our atmosphere in place and would eventually spill out into space, and we would be exposed to radiation. Solar radiation will cause cancer and damage our DNA, and we won't have air to breathe anywhere on this planet, so hopefully you can find a life support system around us.

Now let's answer these questions we are all waiting for. What will be in orbit? What in this arrangement would have a day-night cycle or a time zone? Every flat earth person knows that the sun revolves around a pancake-shaped earth like the moon, both are about 50 kilometers in diameter and active like giant floodlights, but let's put old science into the equation.

On the off chance that the sun worked as a highlight, you’d see it all over on soil. In fact, on the chance that it didn't shimmer clearly on you, it would seem like those pariah-seizing scenes. Where they got that thought from in this, system would be no day and night cycle that would be wonderful and unordinary.

How am I assembled to encourage my greatness rest; certify I know how to settle this no question that's better for a level soil to have days turning with nights than the sun would have to circle the planet. This way, when the sun was up, the Soil included daylight, and when the sun went down, the Soil would drop into nighttime. There would be no time zones and no seasons.

Within the occasion that the sun was so much smaller, the soil sort of thinks of this as the occasion that the sun held its tremendous outline since it was circling a Level Soil, it would burn down the total planet, that's how close it would get to us. On the other hand, on the off chance that the sun was much humbler than it is, we'd cement to passing that since the Level Soil would have around two and a half times the surface extent of our circular soil we'd be getting because it was one-third of a standard measured sun's essentialness. That's not adequate for life on a level Soil to exist, and we haven't talked about this in any case, of lunar darkening Level Soil devotees acknowledge in some kind of anti-moon that's mindful of these on our circular soil lunar shrouds happen when the soil lines up between the Sun and the Moon.

On the off chance that was the case, for a Level Soil how those shrouds might see, and indeed that would require a few exceptionally uncommon arrangements. So, on the off chance that the Level Soil trick turned out to be genuine that our globe was without a doubt photoshopped, and GPS gadgets were fixed for a few budgetary picks up well, that would open up a discussion.

To other trick speculations, shockingly numerous individuals counting the level earthers are living in a state of cognitive disharmony. That's when their contemplations and convictions aren't very steady and do not continuously speak to reality. I cruel we are always uncovered pseudo-evidence that can bolster any hypothesis at all indeed if it falls level with the bit of coherent considering on the off chance that Copernicus had gone through 10 hours on YouTube observing Level Soil scheme Recordings indeed he might have conceded he was off-base and have you seen a soil formed like a doughnut well that's a story for another day.

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