To clear up some things..

[robvalue]

Hehe yeah, like that Jenny I used to get vertigo standing on the kerb.

[Jenny A]

Hehe yeah, like that Jenny I used to get vertigo standing on the kerb.

That's Kansas, but eastern Colorado, parts of Nebraska, etc. all look just that. But for really, really, flat Florida's the state.

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If the world really were flat, than gravity would exactly the same on the bottom as on the top. It'd be hard to hike the gravity "hill" to get to the underside, but there would be an underside, perhaps best visited by tunneling through the middle?

[robvalue]

Sounds like fun!

I think old time folk would expect you to drop right off if you got to the underside. Into hell, presumably. Imagine trying to explain that one! No, no it's a mix up, I fell off...

[The Valkyrie]

This is science lying to you again.

The world really looks like this:

[robvalue]

Oh really? Well that's enough evidence for me. I'll go update my globe.

[The Valkyrie]

Oh really? Well that's enough evidence for me. I'll go update my globe.

If I could get a globe of the Discworld it would have pride of place on my desk at home.

[Cyberman]

I don't know about a 'globe' of it (I really want that to make sense) but you can get a mapp of Discworld. Also Ankh Morpork, Lancre and Death's Domain.

[The Valkyrie]

I don't know about a 'globe' of it (I really want that to make sense) but you can get a mapp of Discworld. Also Ankh Morpork, Lancre and Death's Domain.

Yeah, 'globe" was a bad use of words. I think the general meaning is there for all to understand (except for His Travesty, GC and their ilk, who would try to make claims about it . . . )

[Cyberman]

No, globe is perfect in context. It tickles my sense of the absurd.

[thesummerqueen]

I grew up in Norfolk in England, and if anyone would believe the earth is flat, it would be us. It's like living on a giant pancake.

Like this?

I was once given the opportunity to visit a friend out in New Mexico.

He write about a lot of skeptical topics, so I knew it would make him laugh when I emphatically said that the landscape scared the shit out of me...no trees, so flat. Waaaaaay too easy for the aliens to suck you out of your car.

Seriously though, it freaked me out. In the east, at the feet of the Appalachians, there's a continual resonance in the air because of the plant life. In summer in NC, even in the cities it's lush. Take away the cars, you still hear the murmur of the wind through foliage, like waves in the ocean, or a constant shushing.

Out there, even when the wind blew, it was so quiet. Barely anything stirred. There was too much sky.