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In response to "based on Earth's current scientific knowledge. remember, at one time, everyone thought our planet was flet :) -- nm" by peglegpete

not to get all egghead, but this isn't true. -- nm

Posted by Reagen (aka Reagen) Feb 17 '10, 13:41

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Well, I bet they did at ONE time. Just not at Galileo or Christopher Columbus time. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 17, 13:43 13
- Just those Glen Beckius followers. But they'd believe anything. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 17, 13:46
- I bet most people just didn't know, or have an opinion -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 13:45 11
  - It think it would have an underlying assumption, not consciously thought about, if you go back far enough. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 13:50 9
    - I'm not sure. People who used boats to sail over the horizon would probably have assumed the world was round, for example - Roger More Feb 17, 13:59 8
      - If you go back far enough people didn't sail over the horizon. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:02 7
        
        Then the IM comes into play. -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:07
        
        Exactly. I wonder if people are so caught up in debunking the medieval flat earth myth that they're not taking a long enough view. -- nm - mara Feb 17, 14:07 5
        
        I'm not sure you can ever say "if you go back far enough, everyone had the same perspective". Humans have had different languages for as long as - Roger More Feb 17, 14:17 3
        
        You go back far enough and there was only one human. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:21 2
        
        When human language was first developed, its speakers wouldn't have been considered human. Monkeys have language -- nm - Roger More Feb 17, 14:30 1
        
        That doesn't matter. At one point there had to be only one human, and tautologically all humans must have believed the same thing. -- nm - Ender Feb 17, 14:37
        
        Yeah, we also totally need to debunk that whole galileo/earth-orbits-the-sun thing, too -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 14:10
  - "You 'eer what 'ee said, Basil? 'Ee says the world is round 'ee does!" *dies of cholera* -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:47
ok. some of the people thought earth was flat :) -- nm - peglegpete Feb 17, 13:42 3
- The rest thought it was held on Hercules' back. *NM* - Ender Feb 17, 13:43 1
  - Atlas. Hercules only held it for a little while. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 17, 13:44
- very few. -- nm - Reagen Feb 17, 13:42

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