I_wesley125 393 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Seriously, people think the earth is round? There is little to no evidence that the earth is round, how can people actually think this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evilshy 5,090 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 I must confess, after reading the title, I was expecting you to say Scientology XD 1 Signature now 99% less edgy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadence 25 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 uuhm... *scratches head* what kind of question is this? ♥~Princess Mi Amore Cadenza~♥ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLARE 952 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 quit being a hipster, the earth is round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SrFrog 927 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 O.k, I ain't gonna lie but... you lost me there. "Never give no manipulative bitch the benefit of the doubt" - Compa's grandpa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynic 336 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizz. 1,078 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 I lol'd at the friend, then had a strange urge it were true. It better not be. http://alt="img-3411728-1-kQpW0ME.png"> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flow 1,629 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Go to space OCs: Flow / Love Bloom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Shadrahk 159 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 I agree. Nopony has ever flown under the earth! Did you ever think I get lonely? Did you ever think that I needed love? Did you ever think, stop thinking You're the only one that I'm thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,527 February 19, 2012 Founder Share February 19, 2012 This thread appears to be a forum game, or something spammy of the sort. Thus, it has been sentenced to Cloudsdale Colosseum. This is an automatically generated message, by the way. Avatar credit: robinrain8 Signature credit: Kyoshi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor XFizzle 8,669 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 inb4ChristopherColumbus MLP Forums' resident timelord, sports dilettante, and purveyor of wit and humor~*Traveling Timelord Nonpareil*~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokarief 1 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Well, there's no up and down. Wanna go for a trip round the globe to test your theory? You pay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXVYNIKK 145 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 You silly billies, the world is endless and regenerates every time you go near a new area. Everypony knows that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninja Derpy 343 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Ahem. Scientific explanation incoming. Prepare for boredom. As far as we can tell nobody ever considered the world to be flat. The very earliest writings always describe the world as a dome or an upturned bowl or as a pile of soil or similar descriptions. So we can assume that people never thought the world was flat. That makes sense since anyone who climbed even a small mountain could see quite clearly that the world curves away on all sides. As a result they assumed it was shaped like a dome, with their location near the top. I guess what you meant to ask is when people first started to think the world was spherical. We don't know the answer to that question. We know that by the time we get to Hellenistic Greece it seems to have been universally accepted that the world was a sphere. Given their advanced astronomy it seems almost certain that the Persians had figured out that the Earth was spherical. After all they saw that the moon was spherical. So the person who first discovered that the world was round was probably some Persian or Babylonian astrologer 3, 000 years ago. How was it proven? I guess the person who 'proved' the world was round was Ferdinand Magellan who was the first man to sail around the world. That was the first time it was conclusively proven that the world was round. Note that he never disproved that a belief in flat Earth was wrong. Neither Magellan nor anybody he ever met believed the Earth was flat. All Europeans knew it was round. Other cultures may have thought it was a dome but nobody had ever thought it was flat. Those who have answered “Columbus” are completely wrong. Everybody knew that the world was a sphere by the time Columbus was born, and everybody already knew that you could sail west to get to India. All that Columbus did was underestimate the size of the world. He calculated that it would be faster to sail wets to get to India than to sail East. Of course he was completely wrong. But the point is that he and everybody else had long since accepted that the world was spherical. "I am more silent than night itself..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokin'HotRarity 182 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Have you ever flown in a plane before? S.V.R. Stop. Violent. Recreation, I know it's tuff but let's all try to stop playing violent videogames, violent TV, violent thinking, and just violence in general. Put "SVR" in your signature if you support Stop Violent Recreation! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUINJALE 120 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 If I remember my 8th Grade Earth Science class well (I don't), the actual land mass of the earth is kind of ovalish. All the water makes it look like a sphere. Still round, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuteycindyhoney 13,308 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 (edited) "The world is a sittin' on an elephant's nose" Or on an elephant's back. Four, to be exact, on the shell of a turtle. Edited February 19, 2012 by cuteycindyhoney 2 Thank you Sparklefan1234!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynic 336 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 "The world is a sittin' on an elephant's nose" Or on an elephant's back. Four, to be exact, on the shell of a turtle. Epic picture is epic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuteycindyhoney 13,308 February 19, 2012 Share February 19, 2012 Epic picture is epic. That's a painting somepony did of Terry Pratchett's Discworld. One of my all time favorite book series. Thank you Sparklefan1234!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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