Talk:Modern flat Earth beliefs

One tiny fly in the ointment

Inasmuch as this article is cross-referenced by an article on 'Denialism', it is problematic.

Because, unfortunately, in every-day experience, and for very nearly all practical purposes ... the world is indeed 'flat'. Uh-oh.

Do architects pre-occupy themselves with the reality that the rectangular footprint of the building they design will not, in fact, sit on a perfectly 'flat' area of the Earth (ignoring site levelling, for argument's sake)? I think not. For all practical purposes they can, and do, allow themselves the convenience that follows from treating the area of Earth of interest as essentially flat. Similarly airlines can operate as though the world is flat.

Perhaps a distinction is needed between 'flat' and 'round'. The imprecision of the English language being the only real problem. The Earth is at once both flat, and round. They are not mutually exclusive ideas. Only very particular interpretations of the two words are.

122.151.210.84 (talk) 23:37, 12 March 2022 (UTC)

You haven't backed up any of your statements with evidence. The burden of proof is on you. Cite credible sources. Also please read WP:FORUM. Sadke4 (talk) 12:09, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

Not necessary. Special Contributor is engaging in sophistry, viz, arguing from concept 1 (random plot of land) to concept 2 (Planet Tellus) both covered by the term "earth", i.e. ambiguity. Furthermore it is argued that any random plot of land is flat, which would create great dismay among rock climbers and slalom skiers, having their hobbies based on delusions of heightness; i.e. a falsehood, or untrue premiss. T 46.212.185.190 (talk) 02:23, 24 April 2022 (UTC)

yes architects take the curve of the Earth into account when building bridges. Go measure a large bridge and you will be able to find the tips of the towers are farther apart than the base because of the distortion inherent to a globe. It's not need for regular buildings with small footprints though cause the difference is too small and is often just adjusted for in construction methods. IRMacGuyver (talk) 07:25, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

Flat Earth Bias

As a respectable Hollow Earth Scientist I find this article a bit two-dimensional and with a heavy pro-flatearth bias. I know that there is another article about Hollow Earth but could I still edit it and fill this article with some real science to confront this flat earth nonsense from a solid, hollow earth positions? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.173.248.38 (talk) 18:29, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

Bonjour. A set of empiric evidence for Earth's sphere-likeness has been added (or, tbh, moved). 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:45, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

One more empiric evidence

Trivia: There are big forest parks in Moscow with 16+story hi-rises near them.

What happens: an inhabitant of a room with south-east view on floor 12 or higher can experience sunlight spots every morning minutes before seeing even tiniest slice of the Sun. The effect is most prominent in the winter.

How it looks: it is possible to see a sunlit ceiling near east or south-east windows on higher floors in a hi-rise near a large forest park in the city of Moscow. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 10:55, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

There are many Flat Earth Societies all around the globe

This statement deserves to be in the article.

"There are many Flat Earth Societies all around the globe"

It was removed for no reason.

RamotHacker (talk) 06:44, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

I removed it because it is an old joke, not very funny, but most of all because it did not support the mission to build a serious and respected encyclopedia, see WP:NOTEVERYTHING. It is not the first time this has been added to (and removed from) Flat Earth articles, so this removal followed Wikipedia consensus. Sjö (talk) 06:55, 10 June 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 September 2022

In these five bits:

idea that the earth was flat and immovable
ridiculous claims about flat earth and therefore discredit the flat earth movement
Flat earth believers in the documentary
the flat earth conspiracy argues that a shadowy
group and promotes flat earth ideologies

Please change "earth" to "Earth". There are 280 appearances of this word before the references, and except for a few spots where another author is quoted, all of the other 274 use "Earth". 175.39.61.121 (talk) 07:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

 Done. Aidan9382 _(talk) 16:25, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Orion is not a Southern Hemisphere constellation

Orion is about half in the Northern Hemisphere and half in the Southern. For example, Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis) is at Declination +7° 24′ 26″. Correcting this requires too much rewriting so I am leaving that to others; just pointing it out. 67.167.254.120 (talk) 08:19, 28 October 2022 (UTC)Larry Siegel

That was simple. I deleted Orion, keeping Crux and Centaurus.

Also, new stuff goes to the bottom of the Talk page. --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:47, 28 October 2022 (UTC)