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The Earth is round, not flat.
No it's not The below is something I wrote on the matter on my linkshells forum.
The world IS flat. How could the world possible be round? Everybody below this "equator" would simply just fall off the world, and those above the "equator" would slide down and then fall off.
And what about this supposed rotation of this spherical planet? If that was true we'd be flung into the far reaches of space.
And don't even get me started on "gravity". This mysterious unexplicable force that holds us down. Hah! I never heard such a retarded idea in my life.
Allow me to explain. If this gravity holds us from both from just merely falling off, and being thrown off (by the rotation) it would have to be a strong force. Correct? Now if the earth suddenly just stopped spinning, the outward force upon us with cease and the stronger effects of gravity would take hold and smash us into naught but pancakes. Correct?
Now the speed that the earth supposedly spins is different depending at which point of the earth you are.
That depends on where on Earth you are standing. At the poles, the Earth hardly spins at all, but as you travel towards the equator, the rotational speed picks up. This makes sense -- as the circumference of a circle increases, a single point along it has to travel faster to complete a revolution in the same amount of time.
The rotational speed of the Earth at the equator is about 1,038 miles per hour. The atmosphere at the equator is also slightly thicker due to rotation, and you weigh slightly less. At mid-latitudes, the speed of the Earth's rotation decreases to 700 to 900 miles per hour.
If the Earth were to stop spinning suddenly, the atmosphere would still be zipping along nicely at around 1,000 miles an hour. As a result, everything not attached to bedrock would pretty much be scoured clean.
Now to my point. The earth spins in what we percieve to be an easterly direction, or is we were to look at it from above the north pole, in a counter-clockwise direction. Now, if you were traveling west at these "mid-latitudes" at 900 mph, you would negate the outward force of a spinning earth, since from space looking down, you wouldn't actually be moving, you would be stationary over a moving landmass. Since the outward forces would be negated, this supposed gravity would become incredibly strong and you would be smashed flat.
Likewise, if you were traveling east at the same speed, the outward forces of the earth would send you hurling into space, since you would have overcome this "gravity".
But since the invention of faster than sound aircraft and even some landbased vehicles (appox 740mph), we know this is not true, for neither have these drivers and pilots been either smashed or hurled into space.
Therefore, I have soundly defeated your outlandish claims that the earth is round. We live on a flat earth, and d**nit people you will like it.
Edited, Mon Jan 23 11:04:08 2006 by Pokiehl