THE EARTH IS ROUND!!!

[chadachada123]

I did watch the video which is why it seems you are trolling.

It's nice that you're agreeing with me and all.

But it's irrelevant as you were claiming there was once a common consensus the world was flat, and that is not the case. It seems that everyone had their own theory on the shape of the world, before the consensus became a round one.

*Sigh*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD) and China until the 17th century. It was also typically held in the aboriginal cultures of the Americas, and a flat Earth domed by the firmament in the shape of an inverted bowl is common in pre-scientific societies.

Clearly you didn't watch the video, because the video says, and I quote, "Once, people believed the Earth was flat, and they were wrong ... [the curvature of the Earth being] the kind of measurements the ancients weren't capable of ... After some rather brilliant observation by great scientists such as Aristotle, the basic idea of a spherical Earth was advanced, and measured a century later by the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes."

In short, I've been saying the same thing the whole time, you accused me of being fallacious, so I posted more to show that I wasn't (and also to prove you wrong about the Greeks), and then you try to claim that I'm now agreeing with YOU.

You're either trolling or having a hard time comprehending this 'logic' and 'debate' stuff.

 

[Smeatza]

I did watch the video which is why it seems you are trolling.

It's nice that you're agreeing with me and all.

But it's irrelevant as you were claiming there was once a common consensus the world was flat, and that is not the case. It seems that everyone had their own theory on the shape of the world, before the consensus became a round one.

*Sigh*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_earth

Most ancient cultures have had conceptions of a flat Earth, including Greece until the classical period, the Bronze Age and Iron Age civilizations of the Near East until the Hellenistic period, India until the Gupta period (early centuries AD) and China until the 17th century. It was also typically held in the aboriginal cultures of the Americas, and a flat Earth domed by the firmament in the shape of an inverted bowl is common in pre-scientific societies.

Clearly you didn't watch the video, because the video says, and I quote, "Once, people believed the Earth was flat, and they were wrong ... [the curvature of the Earth being] the kind of measurements the ancients weren't capable of ... After some rather brilliant observation by great scientists such as Aristotle, the basic idea of a spherical Earth was advanced, and measured a century later by the Greek philosopher Eratosthenes."

In short, I've been saying the same thing the whole time, you accused me of being fallacious, so I posted more to show that I wasn't (and also to prove you wrong about the Greeks), and then you try to claim that I'm now agreeing with YOU.

You're either trolling or having a hard time comprehending this 'logic' and 'debate' stuff.

Conceptions are not the same as a common consensus, especially a common scientific consensus. You yourself said that previous conceptions were philosophy based.
Modern scientific method wasn't properly established till about a thousand years ago, so if we're really going to get nitpicky we can say there weren't any legitimate scientific consensus' till then.

To be honest I don't really care, I was just intending to go off on an interesting side-bar and you had to go and get all belligerent and condescending on me.

I'm dissapointed in both of us for turning this thread, of all threads, into an argument.