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Friday, July 4, 2025
Flat Earth Friday
Can we please stop talking about the flat earth? It´s so 2015. Ye monetized midwits!
Really folks, get over it! Eratosthenes of Cyrene had already figured that out. He lived 275-195 BCE.
"At high noon on the summer solstice in Alexandria, Eratosthenes set up a vertical pole and measured the angle of the sun’s shadow cast by the pole: about 7 degrees. So he divided 7 into 360 (the number of degrees in a circle) and multiplied the result by 500 (the distance in miles between Aswan and Alexandria). Now he had the answer: about 25,700 miles. But because Aswan is slightly east of Alexandria, and because ancient measurements of distance were inexact, Eratosthenes calculated slightly high. The earth’s actual circumference is about 25,000 miles." - J. Harold Ellens from: How to Measure the Earth.
Less flat earth, more hollow earth!.If its gonna be impossible mega conspiracy theories, at least let the beautifull ones, such as hollow earth that dominate.
Well, the Monsterverse franchise is based on Hollow Earth, so there´s that. Otherwise, I get the impression that the YouTube skeptics are attacking flat earth only to make content and get part of the ad revenues. Who knows, maybe the flat earthers are doing the same? Sad! This BS should have ended in 2016 or so.
Really folks, get over it! Eratosthenes of Cyrene had already figured that out. He lived 275-195 BCE.
ReplyDelete"At high noon on the summer solstice in Alexandria, Eratosthenes set up a vertical pole and measured the angle of the sun’s shadow cast by the pole: about 7 degrees. So he divided 7 into 360 (the number of degrees in a circle) and multiplied the result by 500 (the distance in miles between Aswan and Alexandria). Now he had the answer: about 25,700 miles. But because Aswan is slightly east of Alexandria, and because ancient measurements of distance were inexact, Eratosthenes calculated slightly high. The earth’s actual circumference is about 25,000 miles." - J. Harold Ellens from: How to Measure the Earth.
Less flat earth, more hollow earth!.If its gonna be impossible mega conspiracy theories, at least let the beautifull ones, such as hollow earth that dominate.
ReplyDeleteWell, the Monsterverse franchise is based on Hollow Earth, so there´s that. Otherwise, I get the impression that the YouTube skeptics are attacking flat earth only to make content and get part of the ad revenues. Who knows, maybe the flat earthers are doing the same? Sad! This BS should have ended in 2016 or so.
ReplyDeleteThats what i call an unholy alliance.
DeleteYes, it certainly comes across that way! A bunch of guys living off the ad revenues, LOL.
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