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Old 10-21-2022, 04:36 PM   #6861
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan View Post
It's the ####ing easiest thing to debunk using a few key logical premises based on observation:

1. When the Earth casts a shadow on the moon during an eclipse it consistently produces a circular shadow.

2. The only geometric object that produces a consistently circular shadow is a sphere.

3. Therefore the Earth is a sphere.

My god, people have known this with absolute certainty since the time of Aristotle. The only time it was in question was during the Dark Ages when people had no education and could not read? Are we as dumb as those people?

Yes...yes we are.
Even then, I think the problem in agreed science wasn't that the Earth was flat, but rather that it wasn't the center of the known Universe.
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