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Flat Earth

Wikipedia • Flat Earth is an archaic and scientifically disproven conception of the Earth's shape as a plane or disk. Many ancient cultures subscribed to a flat-Earth cosmography, notably including the cosmology in the ancient Near East. The model has undergone a recent resurgence as a conspiracy theory.

Is Earth Actually Flat?

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Is Earth Actually Flat?
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2014Dec 4
Support Vsauce, your brain, Alzheimer's research, and other YouTube educators by joining THE CURIOSITY BOX: a seasonal delivery of viral science toys made by Vsauce! A portion of all proceeds goes to Alzheimer's research and our Inquisitive Fellowship, a program that gives money and resources directly to growing science channels here on YouTube! https://www.curiositybox.com follow:   / tweetsauce   LOTS OF COOL LINKS BELOW! Flat Earth gravity simulation by Yeti Dynamics:    / yetipc1   Kansas flatness study: (the pancakes used in the study were from IHOP): http://www.improb.com/airchives/paper... the flatness of other states: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology... "The Meaning Of It All" by Richard Feynman: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Meaning-A... “The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pig-That-... related Vsauce video, “Is Anything Real?”    • Is Anything Real?   Minutphysics “TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round”    • TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth ...   Good satirical series about how the Earth IS flat:    • Video   What if Earth was a cube? https://possiblywrong.wordpress.com/2... http://www.askamathematician.com/2011... http://gizmodo.com/how-gravity-would-... http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/ques... MYTH of the round Earth: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithaba... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_... Earth is round: http://datagenetics.com/blog/june3201... http://www.wired.com/2011/06/how-to-e... https://web.archive.org/web/201003312... Varrazano bridge: http://www.ljhammond.com/phlit/2012-0... Varrazano spelling controversy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roseann... Flat Earth Society: http://theflatearthsociety.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_f... Wilbur Glen Voliva: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/5000-f... http://stevelyons.ca/projects/flat-ea... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_G... http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/... Flat earth map (one theory): http://www.earthnotaglobe.com/library... Poe’s Law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law http://literallyunbelievable.org Science is always provisional and theories are never conclusively proven: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/t... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientif... http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bad... Asimov on being “more wrong”: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscienc... Occam’s Razor: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sim... Newton’s flaming laser sword: https://philosophynow.org/issues/46/N... Other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_%2... relativistic length contractions: I really liked this one: http://faraday.physics.utoronto.ca/PV... http://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedi... http://www.askamathematician.com/2011... Earth and cosmic ray perspective:   / in_the_reference_frame_of_a_7035_tev_cosmi...   http://i.imgur.com/nfDHQ.jpg wolfram contraction simulator: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/Rel... Susan Haack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundher... 1996 election NYT crossword: http://www.crosswordunclued.com/2009/... http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploaded/ima...

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