Is Earth Actually Flat?

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Flat Earth gravity simulation by Yeti Dynamics: https://www.youtube.com/user/yetipc1

Kansas flatness study: (the pancakes used in the study were from IHOP): http://www.improb.com/airchive....s/paperair/volume9/v

the flatness of other states: http://www.theatlantic.com/tec....hnology/archive/2014

"The Meaning Of It All" by Richard Feynman: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Me....aning-All-Richard-Fe

“The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten”: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pi....g-That-Wants-Eaten/d

related Vsauce video, “Is Anything Real?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45Q1_psDqk

Minutphysics “TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_W280R_Jt8

Good satirical series about how the Earth IS flat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83aYfmZpoSs

What if Earth was a cube?

https://possiblywrong.wordpres....s.com/2011/09/09/if-
http://www.askamathematician.c....om/2011/05/q-what-wo
http://gizmodo.com/how-gravity....-would-be-different-
http://curious.astro.cornell.e....du/question.php?numb

MYTH of the round Earth:

http://scienceblogs.com/starts....withabang/2011/09/21
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....yth_of_the_Flat_Eart

Earth is round:

http://datagenetics.com/blog/june32012/index.html
http://www.wired.com/2011/06/h....ow-to-estimate-the-r
https://web.archive.org/web/20....100331205903/http://

Varrazano bridge: http://www.ljhammond.com/phlit/2012-06c.htm

Varrazano spelling controversy: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....roseanne-colletti/ve

Flat Earth Society:

http://theflatearthsociety.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M....odern_flat_Earth_soc

Wilbur Glen Voliva:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com..../5000-for-proving-th
http://stevelyons.ca/projects/....flat-earth-manifesto
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Glenn_Voliva

http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=61797.0#.VH-UhWSsXYH

Flat earth map (one theory): http://www.earthnotaglobe.com/....library/Flat_Earth_S

Poe’s Law:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
http://literallyunbelievable.org

Science is always provisional and theories are never conclusively proven:

http://www.psychologytoday.com..../blog/the-scientific
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_method
http://blogs.discovermagazine.....com/badastronomy/201

Asimov on being “more wrong”: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersi....nscience/relativityo

Occam’s Razor: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/

Newton’s flaming laser sword: https://philosophynow.org/issu....es/46/Newtons_Flamin

Other razors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R....azor_%28philosophy%2

relativistic length contractions:

I really liked this one: http://faraday.physics.utoront....o.ca/PVB/Harrison/Sp
http://www.physicsclassroom.co....m/mmedia/specrel/lc.
http://www.askamathematician.c....om/2011/01/q-why-doe

Earth and cosmic ray perspective:

http://www.reddit.com/comments..../97gak/in_the_refere
http://i.imgur.com/nfDHQ.jpg

wolfram contraction simulator: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RelativisticCar/

Susan Haack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundherentism

1996 election NYT crossword:

http://www.crosswordunclued.co....m/2009/01/nyt-electi
http://cdn0.dailydot.com/uploa....ded/images/original/