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I mean, in a vacuum, and given enough time (and provided you remove the heavy bucket afterwards and are in no other gravity well), A. And flat-earthers DO believe this because they somehow accept that every OTHER planet is a sphere... For some reason... Just not our special little disk of god-made mud.
The dumb leading the dumb.
But... We have satellites that have imaged the earth. Why is that bad but doing it to mars is ok
They claim those are faked by Big Science or whatever. You can't convince these people.
iT's A FiSh EyE LeNs!1!
Even without that, there's plenty of evidence for a spherical Earth, from the way shadows vary with longitude to the shape of Earth's shadow on the moon always being round.
A lot of Flat Earthers don't believe in space at all. They believe the Earth is covered by a dome called the Firmament, which just has a lot of pretty lights on it. My favorite obscure Flat Earther belief is that all gravity is caused by the Earth continuously accelerating upwards at 9.8 m/s².
That's also my favourite flerf fact as well! ❤️ If the acceleration was true and we just threw out the physics which would stop this from being a thing, we would have already been travelling at the speed of light within about the first year of the Earth's existence. We'd be going over 6000 times the speed of light right about now... Assuming you believe in a young Earth as well.
It's the Biblical conception of Earth. That's why.
what's in the great deep?
Not much, apparently?
Here's the two references to it in the Bible:
Genesis 1:2
Genesis 7:11
So... dead fish? I have no idea.
And some broken fountains, apparently
That would be cool if true. It wouldn't take long for us to reach the speed of light and then all sorts of cool things would happen. None of that makes it likely, and we'd need an empty universe to do that in or we'd be immediately obliterated, but still cool.