"How can it be solved? Simple: crowdfund a prize to a race"
Why a race and not crowdfund a proper science expedition, or a hundred other ideas before trying this "sailing vs journey to the edge" business
You assume that there even is an edge to be reached, though we have no evidence to corroborate that claim
This is an absurd method if the objective is to determine the shape of the world
How about this, similar to your race idea:
Your sailors are instead pilots, and they must complete their circumnavigation not by sailing but instead by flying North to South; flying directly across the supposed Antarctic island continent and popping out the other side
Every "circumnavigation" whether via boat or plane has been East/West
This fact alone should give pause for the globe believers
You're in for a reality check, glober
I'm actually jealous of you, as you have yet to experience snapping out of the spinning globe indoctrination
I’ve always been spiritual and believed there is something more to be seen beyond the veil of what we can normally perceive with our senses, despite the globe Big Bang indoctrination, and now it only further solidifies that belief for me, if I needed more convincing in the first place
Yeah, that's one aspect of it. What I don't know is what this world actually is and how it came to be. Granted, those were still valid questions in the old model, but at least you were given enough breadcrumbs to partially satiate the curiosity, e.g., "oh, it's the Big Bang", "oh, it expands forever", "oh, we're just a planet", "oh, it's just pure chance", "oh, we're basically monkeys", etc. I don't even know what the word "world" refers to anymore. It's such a peculiar place to find oneself in.
"How can it be solved? Simple: crowdfund a prize to a race"
Why a race and not crowdfund a proper science expedition, or a hundred other ideas before trying this "sailing vs journey to the edge" business
You assume that there even is an edge to be reached, though we have no evidence to corroborate that claim
This is an absurd method if the objective is to determine the shape of the world
How about this, similar to your race idea:
Your sailors are instead pilots, and they must complete their circumnavigation not by sailing but instead by flying North to South; flying directly across the supposed Antarctic island continent and popping out the other side
Every "circumnavigation" whether via boat or plane has been East/West
This fact alone should give pause for the globe believers
You're in for a reality check, glober
I'm actually jealous of you, as you have yet to experience snapping out of the spinning globe indoctrination
See you on the other side, fren
It’s cause for celebration!
I’ve always been spiritual and believed there is something more to be seen beyond the veil of what we can normally perceive with our senses, despite the globe Big Bang indoctrination, and now it only further solidifies that belief for me, if I needed more convincing in the first place
Indeederoo. (Not claiming I know what it fully entails.)
It means that very, very evil people have ruled us for at least like 600 years.
Yeah, that's one aspect of it. What I don't know is what this world actually is and how it came to be. Granted, those were still valid questions in the old model, but at least you were given enough breadcrumbs to partially satiate the curiosity, e.g., "oh, it's the Big Bang", "oh, it expands forever", "oh, we're just a planet", "oh, it's just pure chance", "oh, we're basically monkeys", etc. I don't even know what the word "world" refers to anymore. It's such a peculiar place to find oneself in.