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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (14 children)

What I never understood about this theory was: where do you fall down to? And if the moon is a sphere, why not the earth?

[–] lunarul 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

The flat earth is constantly accelerating "upwards", which is what creates the equivalent of sane people gravity. So it's not really falling over the edge as the Earth leaving you behind.

[–] CrayonRosary 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thing is, even though that's the one thing that would work*, they don't believe that.

* Except you'd start seeing relativistic effects in short order.

[–] lunarul 6 points 1 week ago

It's definitely one of the theories I've seen. Checking on The Flat Earth Society website I see it's not their official position (but they acknowledge some groups do believe that). They don't have a different theory though, just that "objects simply fall".

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