Flat earth vs spherical earth.

[popeass1]

It's recently come to my attention that there are a large group of people,  mostly on the intertubes, who believe the world to be flat?! And as people who like to spend time beneath it, I was wondering where the opinion of cavers lies on this subject?

 

[graham]

I refer you to the Bedford Level Experiment, a salutary lesson for A R Wallace in the old adage Don't play with the mad people![/url]

 

[grahams]

Of course it's flat and must be over 2km thick otherwise the explorers of Krubera would have fallen through onto Great A'Tuin's back.

 

[Peter Burgess]

Nobody ever proposes that perhaps the earth is a cylinder. If I roll up my wall map of the world I get a cylinder.

 

[Les W]

I thought it was pretty clear the earth is flat. If I stand on a high sea cliff I can see the edge...  :tease:

 

[robjones]

Flan O'Brien proposed sausage-shaped (large beef).

 

[grahams]

Nobody ever proposes that perhaps the earth is a cylinder. If I roll up my wall map of the world I get a cylinder.

Ringworld by Larry Niven perhaps?

 

[Peter Burgess]

Anyone who thinks we live on the inside of a cylinder is clearly a fool.

 

[Laurie]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Square_World

 

[ttxela]

I refer you to the Bedford Level Experiment, a salutary lesson for A R Wallace in the old adage Don't play with the mad people![/url]

This reminds me of some work I did producing a grid of levels across a field that was going to be built on, bordered on one side by a stream. I produced a lovely plan not only with the level grid but also with the contours marked.

The architect sent it back insisting it must be wrong since 'water finds its own level'  and the level of the steam was higher at one end than the other, I pointed out that it was quite a fast flowing stream and must therefore be heading downhill but he refused to accept this even when I pointed out there was a weir halfway along!

 

[graham]

I refer you to the Bedford Level Experiment, a salutary lesson for A R Wallace in the old adage Don't play with the mad people![/url]

This reminds me of some work I did producing a grid of levels across a field that was going to be built on, bordered on one side by a stream. I produced a lovely plan not only with the level grid but also with the contours marked.

The architect sent it back insisting it must be wrong since 'water finds its own level'  and the level of the steam was higher at one end than the other, I pointed out that it was quite a fast flowing stream and must therefore be heading downhill but he refused to accept this even when I pointed out there was a weir halfway along!

Clearly a gentleman who fails to understand the difference between open and closed systems. I imagine that he takes the young-earth creationist view of the 2nd law of Thermodynamics as well.

 

[wormster]

Anyone who thinks we live on the inside of a cylinder is clearly a fool.

Rendezvous with Rama, springs to mind!

Personally I think that the "World" is a figment of our overactive imagination, or perhaps a complex computer system, in which we're being "harvested" to provide power for the Matrix!

 

[Alex]

Oh dear all the OS grid corrections for the sphere shape of the earth were for naught then. I wonder how orbit works when its flat? I wonder how these flattoides explain the satlights they would be able to see, that keep coming around again. Magic fairy dust? People like that are scary as its from people like these we get ISIS, i.e. extreme thickies.