It’s flat all across the globe
Got 'em
Submitted 1 day ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to science_memes@mander.xyz
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luciferofastora@feddit.org 11 hours ago
Some ancient Greek nerd calculating the earth’s circumference by measuring shadows: Am I a joke to you?
credo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And level! It must be at the center.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, you are at the top. If you were at the center you wouldn’t need a level to tell you.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Great illustration of the issue underlying flat-earthism. 👍
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You actually proved the exact opposite.
That dry, dusty ground proves that water can’t always find the level.
Find the level. Yeah, I’ll show myself out.
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The haversine formula is more accurate than a straight line in measuring distances around the size of cities or zip codes. Geodesics are even more accurate because they take into account the stretching around the equator, both require curved earths to calculate more accurate distances than flat calculations. But obviously math, especially addition, is a conspiracy to cover the truth of the Time Cube™. /s
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 day ago
wAtEr fInDs ItS lEvEl
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 hours ago
If water finds it’s level, why is finding the level? Open your eyes!
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Can it find my level? I lost it 🥺
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I think you’ll find that it’s a bubble on this case. Big bubble is selling the round earth theory to sell you more bubble levels to find flat locations.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
OP found a manifold, and stampeded straight towards the wrong large-scale interpretation.
Like an Earth-measuring version of charly kirk on the gun issue, and look at him now, where that got him.
Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
It’s level, not flat. Measuring flat-ness is a whole different complexity and ball game.
chefdano3@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
You mean a whole different disc game.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 day ago
I also dabble in precision…
LiarAmongAll@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Yep, we use laser trackers at work to define flatness. I’m sure that much isn’t required, but it’s down to .003in, so pretty flat and it’s fast. But that’s a literal laser instrument designed to do such things and costs 250k. I guess you could with a faro arm or romer arm, but again, those are still 10s of thousands of dollars. CMM? Those can get reeeaaallly pricy