Tango01 | 25 Oct 2019 1:03 p.m. PST |
"In fourteen-hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue—and discovered that the Earth, despite the beliefs of the Catholic Church and Spanish royalty—was round. Right? Absolutely. Not. People—ancient and medieval—have known the Earth is spherical since at least the 6th century BCE. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was likely the first to propose the idea, though his argument was based on philosophy and aesthetics rather than mathematics and astronomy. But physical evidence that the earth was round followed, thanks in part to Aristotle and Eratosthenes. The knowledge was not lost with the end of the Western Roman Empire, either. In The Reckoning of Time, Bede (who lived circa CE 673-735) refers to the Earth as an "orb" and says that "it is not merely circular like a shield or spread out like a wheel, but resembles more a ball." This idea was repeated by philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers throughout the Middle Ages…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Thresher01 | 25 Oct 2019 5:54 p.m. PST |
There's no "getting to the bottom", since the Earth is flat, so a level surface. Surely everyone knows that by now, voluminous misinformation notwithstanding……… |
von Schwartz | 25 Oct 2019 6:44 p.m. PST |
Yeah, but what happens when you dig through the earth? |
khanscom | 25 Oct 2019 7:10 p.m. PST |
"Yeah, but what happens when you dig through the earth?" Well, you'll obviously enter the realm of the subterraneans who live on the underside of the flat earth-- and there's obviously a game or a (really bad) movie in that. |
HMS Exeter | 25 Oct 2019 9:48 p.m. PST |
A LOTTTT of really bad movies. I think they retired the genre when Doug McClure retired. |
robert piepenbrink | 26 Oct 2019 5:51 a.m. PST |
Not quite, Exeter. There was T.H.U.D.E.R. Agents revival a while back complete with Subterraneans and Brendan Fraser in Journey to the Center of the Earth as late as 2008--with matching video game. Along with the Lost World, squishy wet Venus and Barsoom, Hollow Earth is one of those ideas just too good to let die whatever the science dictates. |
Roderick Robertson | 26 Oct 2019 8:50 a.m. PST |
Yeah, but what happens when you dig through the earth? You'll discover the elephants. |
Tango01 | 26 Oct 2019 12:19 p.m. PST |
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von Schwartz | 26 Oct 2019 4:02 p.m. PST |
Well, you'll obviously enter the realm of the subterraneans who live on the underside of the flat earth-- and there's obviously a game or a (really bad) movie in that How is that possible, wouldn't they all fall off, or at least they'd be all upside down? (smile) |
JMcCarroll | 26 Oct 2019 4:58 p.m. PST |
MAGMA! I just had to say the word. |
khanscom | 28 Oct 2019 9:24 a.m. PST |
"How is that possible, wouldn't they all fall off, or at least they'd be all upside down? (smile)" They're all on magnetic bases??? |
Tango01 | 28 Oct 2019 11:49 a.m. PST |
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Old Wolfman | 01 Nov 2019 6:48 a.m. PST |
Remember Cyrus Teed,and his "hollow earth" thing? |