Quote (Skinned @ Aug 19 2016 06:23am)
Is the flat earth a coin? If so, why haven't most of our wars been fought underground rather than traveling over the huge oceans?
If there is no gravity why do things fall at the same speed, the speed of Earth's gravity?
I might be stupid, but if the Earth is a coin, or flat, and there is no gravity pulling people downward, what keeps people from falling off or me from jumping off of the planet? Aristotle's geocentrism justified it through things "going where they belong", earth and water went toward the middle of the Earth, the other two elements (air and fire) belonged in the sky just above the earth but not quite in heaven.
Why hasn't the Edge of the World been photographed and turned into a tourist destination?
Why can I see other planets in our solar system that rotate in predictable elliptical orbits just like Newton, Brahe, Kepler, etc, said I would? They spheres that rotate with no obvious flat surfaces or anything that breaks the spherical shape....I can look at things with a hard edge and see the difference. Rather the question at root here is why are other planets like Mars, Venus, and Saturn, ones I can see plainly through a scope, spherical, and why is Earth different?
Why is the moon locked in gravitational gridlocked facing us with a light side always light and a dark side always dark? Same for the other Moons and satellites of our planets.
And just like that, the can of worms was open.
I will say tho you might want to look at the flar earth model to better critique it, its actually quite interesting. For instance, there is no "edge of the earth" definitively on the model, Antarctica makes up the entire outter edge of the known part of the flat earth model, with the north pole directly in center. So to them what we see as a pole on the southern side of the planet is actually a wall of ice all the way around their model with everything in the middle. That's why circumnavigation is possible on their model, problematic but possible.
overall though if you're asking them to answer things about their model you won't get an "i dont know", they'll quite literally make things up in real time with psuedo science terms to make it sound passable. Example:
if we have no gravity what keeps us all on the flat earth and why do all things fall at equal speeds? Answer:
some sort of electromagnatism that acts on all object, metalic and nonmetalic alike, in the exact same manner no matter whan their metal content. its a yet undiscovered type of magnetism because after scientists "discovered" gravity they never kept looking. Its always some nonsensical untested theory with just enough spiteful skepticism to give it face validity to those who naturally mistrust authority.