Is the world really round???

Question

was looking at the horizon at the beach and it looks preety flat to me, heck i know thats where the water ends too. How can the world be round, just another bogus skeem?

Answer 1

Those ships on the horizon?  They are trying to turn around to keep from sliding off the earth.  Check out this link below.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/

Answer 2

This is a question that has been asked for many years, and there are some very intuitive, and some not-so-intuitive answers.

To start with... there's a horizon, meaning that the surface that one is observing from is not an infinite plane. On the clearest of days, the only restriction to one's range of sight is the horizon. There can be two explanations for this - one, that the Earth at some point just stops, as if you were looking off the edge of a table. The other is that the Earth is round. Hundreds of years ago, before the invention of the compass or sextant, precise navigation for ships was difficult, even with the stars. Ships that ventured past sight of land were often lost, and thus it was generally believed that the world simply *stopped* at the end of the horizon. With the invention of the compass, and improved map-making, people began to dare more, and with the return of Columbus from his trans-Atlantic voyage, the concept of the Earth as flat was shattered.

Further proof of the Earth being round came after the voyage of Columbus. When Newton discovered and measured the force of gravity, that number could then be tested anywhere the theory was known. Since the force of gravity is roughly the same everywhere on the globe, it could be surmised that the Earth must be spherical. If the Earth were not round, whole hemispheres would have different atmospheric pressure and significantly different sea levels. Also, pictures taken of the Earth in the last 50 years have proved absolutely conclusively that the Earth is round. These are just the arguments that don't require much physics knowledge to explain, there are others that are more technical, but I think that the simplest arguments are the best.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Shiph...

Answer 3

No in actual fact the world is not round it is slightly flattened at the poles - naturally ignoring things like mountains.

Answer 4

This isn't a serious question.  It can't be....  Just look at a globe, or a map, or an image from space done on a Google Image search....  Seriously, it's not too hard to find out the world IS round, and it's not just more liberal hippie voodoo magic.

Answer 5

Of course the Earth is round, that is how God made it !!!

Answer 6

Yeah.

It's totally flat.

EDIT: I kid, I kid.

Answer 7

You must be a Creationist.

Answer 8

go rock climbing next time....

Answer 9

no actually its a sphere! um........ya its round  

Answer 10

just look at a globe you'll find out

Answer 11

yeah its round ur an idiot have u ever been to a science class

Answer 12

the earth is so big its hard to tell if its round when you're just standing on the horizon, and when astronauts go into space, it appears to be round.

Answer 13

Yes, the earth is round....what a silly question...lol

Answer 14

No,,,it is spherical..an oblate spheroid to be exact..

Answer 15

You just a pipsqueak when compared to the world, so it looks flat to you. Go out in space and look at round world.

Answer 16

iT IS NOT A PERFECT SPHERE, but for all practical purposes, we consider it to be "sort of roundish".