Are We Living On A Flat Earth?

Interesting. I say 'interesting' because of different reasons. First of which is, I only came across this Flat Earth thing a couple of days ago when I saw a video on the first page of my YouTube, and it went from there. And now, coming back here to myLot, I see something about Flat Earth again! I wonder why it was trending? Question to you first, though. Did you believe in Flat Earth before you noticed it was trending? Something in your post tells me you have only just discovered it as well. So... did you do some extensive research after you discovered it? How much research did you do? How many days were you at it? Are you now a believer of Flat Earth? I have always been taught that the Earth is round. Magellan (who discovered my country as well), they say, proved it by circumnavigating the world. (That's how I remember it explained.) I have also always wanted to be an astronaut. My childhood dream. How I wish I had the means and became an astronaut so I could have gone out there and I can answer this question definitively after seeing it with own eyes. Alas, I did not become an astronaut. The dream of going out to space is still just a dream for me. Understandable that I am resistant to this idea of the Earth being flat. But I am fine with discussion. A) On the matter of Magellan circumnavigating the world, I understand how Flat Earth can explain that by saying he didn't actually travel a path around a globe, he just traveled a somewhat circular path on the plane of the Flat Earth. Fine. B) On the ISS pictures you point out... I am not a fan of fish eye lenses. I don't know why people like them or use them. How I wish people will just not use them so we won't have this confusion. For this, I do not have an answer for now. C) One thing I found in the last couple of days looking into this is something called the Antarctica Cup Ocean Race. It's a boat race that circles Antarctica which is the continent at the South Pole in a round Earth. In Flat Earth, Antarctica is supposed to be an ice rim. The race supposedly covers around 14000 nautical miles. In a Flat Earth, the distance that should be covered is closer to around 60000 miles (according to one source I found). (Also see an azimuthal equidistant projection map which is probably closest to what the Flat Earth looks like, though Flat Earthers claim it is not definitive for Flat Earth, and that Flat Earth is not yet mapped.) Flat Earthers will also say that they do not believe in this race. To be completely fair, the race doesn't seem to be an annual thing, and the site that I found hasn't been updated for more than 2 years, it seems. The race has been completed before, though, as I understand. Again, how I wish I could have gone through this race myself so I can tell you once and for all if one can sail around Antarctica in 14000 nautical miles, but I cannot... D) But let's go back to the thing you mentioned - why can you still see objects in the distance? You said, and I quote, "and, the numbers state, if we're living on a sphere, with a circumference of 29,010 miles, we should experience a drop in the visible horizon of 8 inches, for every mile squared in our line of sight." To be very honest, I don't even know how to begin with the math I have to do to be able to confirm this. So I won't try to do any math at this time. I have a vague memory of atmosphere having to do with it, perhaps? Does the atmosphere refract things? Maybe something similar to how a mirage works? But let me go ahead and ask a question back... If the earth is indeed flat, then if I point a powerful telescope (surely there are powerful enough telescopes as we can point some towards the sky and see very, very, very far things...) towards the horizon, then logic dictates that I should be able to see much, much, much farther than even the distances you mentioned, perhaps even as far as the so-called ice rim. How far can you see using a telescope? Is it endless? Or does it eventually drop? Could you see to the very edge of the Flat Earth? E) Lastly, I have another question, and this is something I just thought of while writing this response for you: how does the sun rise in the east and set in the west then, if the Earth is flat? Logic tells me that if the sun follows a circular path in the sky as I understand Flat Earth describes it, then I should just see the sun circling in the sky above, coming nearer during the day and going farther during night. Why then does the sun come up from the horizon during sunrise and go down into the opposite horizon at sunset?

I can't see things that are that far away if they are flat on the ground, only if they are tall enough to compensate for the curvature.

I think you must read some more examples and articles on the subject.

You are ignorant.

Science and math were never my strong suit and it would be foolish for me to argue with someone who is. But I do not see the connection between the topic of discussion and your postscript, "I'm no bible-thumper" Are "flat-earth believers propagating a new religion like those "Young Earth creation" believers who propose that the earth is only 6,000 years old. Or that man co-exist with dinosaurs in the garden of Eden?

All I got is this sketch from Monty Python:

There are so many flat earth sites that the info can seem convincing if you don't think about the facts. Some of the theories about it are absurd - like NASA not having a single picture of anything space related