if the earth had an edge
i hope it would look like this
the edge of a flat earth
i know i know we've talked about it
before but
there's something mesmerizing about it
a flat earth solar eclipse diagonally
growing
trees the great wall of ice
guarded by nasa of course
the flat earthers sure have a great
imagination but
what if they were right
how would the earth hold up in space
would it revolve around the sun or would
the sun
rotate around it and
why would you never walk to the earth's
edge
this is what if and here's what would
happen
if the earth was flat
in case you missed the news on the flat
earth channel
here's a quick recap for thousands of
years the general public thought that
the
earth was flat and everything revolved
around it
then nicolaus copernicus came around
with his spanking new theory
the theory said that the earth wasn't
flat
and definitely not the center of
anything
his observations led him to believe that
our planet
is orbiting the sun
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but here we are 500 years later and
some people around the globe are
convinced that the earth is flat
well how would this even work
do you know why the planets form in a
spherical shape
one word gravity gravity is what's
pulling matter together
equally from every side and as a result
matter forms into a sphere of course
this wouldn't be the case for a flat
earth
anti-round earthers think that there's
no such thing as gravity
we only feel like there is because some
mysterious force is accelerating the
pancake-shaped earth
upwards i don't need to tell you that
you can't
increase the speed forever at some point
you'd be going
too fast does anybody feel like a burnt
pancake
no if you want some real science then
yes there would be gravity on a flat
earth
and it would be weird
the center of gravity on a flat earth
would be right here
in the middle everything on earth and
around
would be pulled to this point and the
further you got away from the center
the stronger this pull would be
at some point it would begin to pull you
downward so you would have to start
climbing
this would be the reason why you
couldn't walk to the edge of a flat
earth
gravity would be so strong around there
that it would be
impossible for you to make it you
might never see the gorgeous 45 meter
tall wall of ice called
antarctica guard railing the earth's
edge
and you'd never learn what's on the flip
side
but at least you wouldn't fall off of it
there would be other side effects of
this funny gravity
objects closer to the edge of the earth
would fall
sideways instead of down
gravity would also make trees grow
diagonally on most of the pancake-like
earth
because they'd be reaching against the
pull of gravity
all the rain snow and hail would fall
toward the arctic
at the center of the earth the
precipitation would converge and
start to build up the oceans would get
sucked
to the center of the disk too and form
one
big ocean in the middle
a big concern would be the air pressure
on a flat earth
gravity would draw too much air toward
the earth's center
leaving the areas around the edge with
no air pressure at all
that would be bad because people living
in a flat earth
australia wouldn't have enough oxygen to
breathe
and if you lived closer to the middle
where the arctic would be
you'd be crushed by the weight of the
atmosphere
but not for long a flat earth wouldn't
have a geomagnetic field around it
this field is generated by the movements
of the earth's core
and well a flat earth just wouldn't have
one
nothing would be holding our atmosphere
in place and eventually
it would spill into space we'd be
exposed to solar radiation that would
cause cancer and
damage our dna and we'd have no
breathable air
anywhere on the planet so i hope you're
able to find
a life support system lying around
now let's get to those questions we've
all been waiting for
what would orbit what in this
arrangement
would there be a day and night cycle or
time zones every flat earther knows that
the sun goes in circles around a
pancake-shaped earth
and so does the moon they're both around
50 kilometers in diameter and act like
huge spotlights
but let's bring good old science to the
equation
if the sun worked as a spotlight you'd
see it from everywhere on earth
even if it didn't shine directly on you
it would look like those alien abduction
scenes
i wonder where they got that idea from
in this system there would be no day and
night cycle
that would be pretty strange oh how am i
supposed to get my beauty sleep
okay i know how to fix this
yeah that's better for a flat earth
to have days alternating with nights the
sun
would have to orbit the planet this way
when the sun was up the entire planet of
earth would experience daylight and
when the sun went down the earth would
fall into nighttime
there would be no time zones and no
seasons either but
you could still mess up your schedule by
staying up late and watching
what if videos you'd be lucky if the sun
was
so much smaller than the earth sort of
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think of this if the sun retained its
gigantic form
as it was orbiting a flat earth it would
burn down the entire planet
that's because of how close it would get
to us
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on the other hand if the sun were much
smaller than it really is
we'd freeze to death that's because
the flat earth would have nearly two and
a half times the surface area
of our round earth we'd be getting only
one third of a regular-sized sun's
energy that's not enough for life on a
flat earth to exist
and we haven't even talked about this
yet the lunar eclipse
flat earth disciples believe in some
kind of
anti-moon that's responsible for these
on our round earth lunar eclipses happen
when the earth lines up
between the sun and the moon if that was
the case for a flat earth
this is how those eclipses might look
and
even that would require some very
special alignment
so if the flat earth conspiracy turned
out to be true
that our globe was indeed photoshopped
and
gps devices were rigged for some
financial gain
well that would open up a conversation
to other conspiracy theories
unfortunately many people including the
flat earthers
are living in a state of cognitive
dissonance
that's when their thoughts and beliefs
aren't quite consistent and
don't always represent reality
i mean we are constantly exposed to
pseudo-evidence that
can support any theory at all even if it
falls flat with a bit of logical
thinking
if copernicus had spent 10 hours on
youtube
watching flat earth conspiracy videos
even he might have admitted he was wrong
and have you seen an earth shaped like a
donut
well that's a story for another
what if i might have overused the word
round in this one