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’m not sure but if the sun is indeed 3,000 miles above the Earth, and is 32 miles across, as flat earth “science” believes, I’m fascinated to know exactly what the sun is meant to be and the source of its power. The Flat Earth “physics” behind it must be fundamentally different to the real physics of the sun. I’m sure a flat earther has attempted an answer to this, but haven’t found one (or actually had the time to look properly).

Sorry, the above post was responding to @Justaboy

Meanwhile, people with a brain are welcome to enjoy this:

www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/14/pale_blue_dot/

Thirty years ago, the Voyager Project celebrated 14 February not with a card, but with a family portrait of the Solar System, which would give rise to the celebrated "Pale Blue Dot" concept.

(contd)

One thing about NASA, is that they seem to encourage a lot of women scientists, (and I really hope that isn't as patronising as it sounds to me )

*I was just looking on the WHO website regarding the Coronavirus and noticed the logo. How ironic indeed.
(Before anyone says it's just because they chose the flat projection etc I know I just still think it's odd to not choose the correct earth form!) *

What is the correct "earth form" for showing the surface of a globe on a circle?

The sandman - why not use the globe if that's what it is ?

Because a globe is a 3D object.

That logo is 2D.

It would make it really difficult (and expensive) to stick a specially printed ball onto every piece of paper the WHO produces.

Sandman - it would indeed! I've just read that it's because the logo represents United Nations and obviously if they used a globe half of the countries wouldn't be included. The logo they used does look the best by far!

Maybe the WHO are flat-earthers...

"What is the correct "earth form" for showing the surface of a globe on a circle?"

I always thought a 2d version of this might be cool:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Globe_-_Pacific_Ocean_space_view.png

Then we could drop this 'Earth' nonsense and call our planet 'Ocean' instead :-)

Mordred -

@MoonlightMistletoe

Still a globe, though - as we've known for over 2000 years x

The "current bun" as they say in east Lunnon is a vast nuclear ractor where hydrogen atoms are converted into helium ones.

The Sun fuses 620 million metric tons of hydrogen and makes 606 million metric tons of helium each second. Its 864,000 miles in diameter and some 93,000,000 miles away.

Light from ye olde sun takes 8 minuites to get here traveling at 186,000 miles a second..

One day it'll run out of Hydogen fuel and expand and engulf the poor old earth and then it'll shrink into a white drawf, and take a very long time to cool down, all over and dun with then!.

Subliminal messages ?

What Unshriven said. It used to be a challenge for debate. Find arguments to defend an untenable position, one that everyone knows is 100% wrong.
Kind of like saying male people can be female. But ppl will believe anything.

Oh, and it's not a matter of OPINION. That's the whole point. There are things one can have opinions about, like politics or favourite music or Veganism. And then there are material facts that were true billions of years ago and will remain true when humanity has gone extinct.