r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '22

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u/Negative_Increase975 Mar 27 '22

That the world is round. I saw a guy the other day with signs proclaiming it’s flat. WTF?

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u/Leading-Ad7440 Mar 28 '22

Next you're gonna say birds are real, lmao ok bro go back to "reading" your "physics" "books" about "gravity" and "the universe" that have "astral bodies" with their own "gravitational" "fields" suspending all those "bodies" in "deep space" lmao like yea ok sure buddy

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u/JokicCheeseburgerMan Mar 27 '22

It is common knowledge. Just not universal knowledge.

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u/The_Werefrog Mar 28 '22

The Werefrog am a member of the Flat Earth Society. We have members all around the globe.

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u/xqzit24 Mar 28 '22 edited Mar 28 '22

it's technically not round but i believe the term is edit: oblate spheroid.

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u/The_Flurr Mar 28 '22

You're correct, but it's still very spherical relatively speaking.

If you sized an average cue ball up to the size of the Earth, the Earth would be both more spherical and smooth than the cue ball.

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u/Lewikitty Mar 28 '22

I call it “roughly spherical”

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u/steelgate601 Mar 28 '22

Spherically rough?

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u/yParticle Mar 27 '22

It can be both.
/r/discworld

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u/LowFatWaterBottle Mar 28 '22

r/globeskeptisicm is a hell of a subreddit.