Flat earth- what’s your opinion??

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Just catching up on This Mornings interview with a flat earther-can’t get my head around his debate but at the same time he makes some points that sound very realistic and he seems knowledgable . But I do believe our earth is round and not flat but very open to other people’s views , so just wondered what you think Mumsnetters?? Sorry if there’s been a thread like this before....
YANBU=our earth is round
YABU= it is flat

I have to say I am fairly dsiappointed in the MN sense of humour here, I would have expected a 50-50 voting split at least. Come on people!

@MoonlightMistletoe

The NASA image number is AS17-148-22727 - generally on search you'll find the one flipped 'upright'.

Here's one of its original orientation:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_17_Blue_Marble_original_orientation_(AS17-148-22727).jpg

Argh it's so creepy seeing the earth there in the darkness isn't it!!!

LET ME OFF... only there's nowhere to go. Aaaaaaaaagh...

Joan Rivers was killed because she was about to out Michelle Obama who is actually a man called Michael

What a DAY this is turning out to be

It's lovely I think!

BUT..... counting down to 'and where are the stars?' in 3, 2, 1....

Argh it's so creepy seeing the earth there in the darkness isn't it!!! [] LET ME OFF... only there's nowhere to go. Aaaaaaaaagh...

The rise of environmental issues in the public consciousness has been attributed to the amazing Apollo 8 photo of earthrise appearing on the cover of TIME.

Carl Sagans "pale blue dot" image is also starkly beautiful and humbling.

Although we all know by now that Apollo 8 only got as far as Texas, and Carl Sagan was just a janitor at Nassua County High School, who took the wrong bus one day due to a vocalisation accident.

Just seen the photograph and it looks fake ;)

@MoonlightMistletoe

Hard to tell if you're joking or not.

It was taken on a Hasselblad 70mm camera, you know, an actual film camera. The original is not digital in any way; it's a physical, printable thing and was published widely, in print media, long before the idea of digital images even existed.

Serious question - people keep mentioning a poll - I can't see it.

What is going on?

@Mordred I was joking.
Where are all the satellites though? And there arnt any stars? I mean if they say it's real then it must be, also why are people saying it's oblate if there it looks like circular? So many questions!

If it's flat, why has no-one fallen off the edge like in Discworld?

@Hingeandbracket I think you can only see that on the website and not on the app, I'm on the app and can't see a poll.

@MoonlightMistletoe

No stars because the image is exposed to capture the earth in detail. A longer exposure to capture stars would render the whole image a blue-tinged blur.

Satellites? V small compared to the earth. You're not going to see any from that distance.

It IS oblate, but the difference in diameter measured around the equator compared to that around the poles is around 43km . Not noticeable at all to the eye and wouldn't even be a whole pixel on the photo.

Phil maybe they have. You'd never know, would you? More to the point, why hasn't all the sea run out (TP never explained this satisfactorily imo).

@MoonlightMistletoe Thank - I am using the website but not seeing the poll. I also tried using the mobile site on my phone.

No stars because the image is exposed to capture the earth in detail. A longer exposure to capture stars would render the whole image a blue-tinged blur.

This also explains the lack of stars in photos taken on the Moon. A simple fact which seems to confuse the Moon Hoax brigade no end.

"This also explains the lack of stars in photos taken on the Moon. A simple fact which seems to confuse the Moon Hoax brigade no end."

Oh yes. I had loads of arguments with Moon Landing deniers on YouTube about this, back when I could be arsed. They have no idea what 1/250th at F8 means, for a start.

@Mordred Thankyou that makes complete sense. Looking at the image again, what is that on the right side at the bottom, if you zoom in it has a glow around it?

That black "dot"

Of course a dedicated Flat Earther could always become an astronaut

www.facebook.com/AdminJimBridenstine/videos/191539352210436/

It's likely the jettisoned S-IVB - ie the third stage of the Saturn V rocket.

That's the stage that fires during the translunar injection burn to put the Apollo craft on course for the moon - it actually follows all the way to the moon itself as it's on the same trajectory. It crashed on the lunar surface in the end.

It's likely the jettisoned S-IVB - ie the third stage of the Saturn V rocket.

It can't be, since we never went to the moon ...

"Hingeandbracket

"@MoonlightMistletoe Thank - I am using the website but not seeing the poll. I also tried using the mobile site on my phone."

@NASA we've found our man. Repeat, we've found our man. Over. Initiate the transponder to @Hingeandbracket and beam to Holodeck. Repeat, @Hingeandbracket, beam to Holodeck. Do you copy. Over.

Well yes obviously the disc is flat, it rests atop four elephants who stand on Great A'Tuin the world turtle.