Is earth really spherical???
By Bala
@everloving (439)
Chennai, India
July 14, 2017 2:33pm CST
Its Friday & the partying has already began to go in waves in your mind. Now, I have just got something for you to think about. Today turned out to be a day of great debates between two groups in our team. One prophesied that the mother earth is spherical & the other group had argued that it flat.
We pointed out that seasonal variations , time differences , shadow of earth on moon during lunar eclipse , objects disappearing over the horizon etc attributing to the fact the earth is indeed spherical.
Horizon not a curve but a striaghtline, movement from one place to others in a plane, etc seemed to speculate that earth is not round but flat.
What do you think about this???
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@shikharava (1838)
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14 Jul 17
The shape of the earth is a topic of heated discussion. It's not, as scientists have confirmed, perfect spherical! It's an irregularly shaped ellipsoid, like a pear, confirmed by NASA. But there have been further studies of the measurements of earth. It's a topic of geodesy and only the principles employed within it can actually predict the shape of the earth. Also because earth is constantly revolving, the shape is that of a basketball when revolving at a very high speed. More like an oval. What can we say?
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