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People knew the world was round long before anyone attempted to prove it by sailing around it instead of just illustrating it with math. Knowing isn’t the same as proving it in the real world. Also, the knowledge the world is round doesn’t establish that there’s a continuous body of water encircling the entire globe. We had to get out there and see what was beyond the known.
I can’t even imagine how exciting that must have been, to see parts of the world that no human had ever seen before. I was just thinking last night that I miss not knowing things about the world. We have all the information about the entire earth at our fingertips now. When I was a kid there was still a lot of mystery left, but the information age destroyed that.
Actually, Columbus was 100% certain the earth was round. What he believed is that the earth was significantly smaller than the mathematicians said, and that he’d be able to sail straight to India from Portugal. He was greedy and wanted to establish new trade routes. Most of the governments of Europe said "No, you fucking idiot, the earth is as big as the mathematicians say it is, and you’re going to starve to death on your way to India. They would have been right had he not bumped into America by accident. Anyway, that’s why native Americans are Indians and why there’s such a thing as the west indes.
I’m honestly surprised to still be seeing this flat earth nonsense. I figured it would’ve fizzled out by now.
In 99% of cases it’s not literally believed, but argued for the sport of debate
There’s something interesting about trying to come up with fake science to support the bullshit, and that’s all it’s ever been except for fringe cases
The problem with the existence of the Internet is nothing can fizzle out now. Used to be your village idiot who thought the world was flat and the Bible was literal would be isolated by stigma within the limited society where they existed, and isolated by distance from any other village idiots.
Now you can find a community of idiots immediately. It’s just a web search away. The community reinforces itself, meaning no bad idea ever has to die as long as someone on earth still thinks it’s true.
Calm down, joke police. It’s just a misdemeanor. Let OP off with a warning.
“There’s a high probability this trip is going to kill you either way.”
