That hasn’t been my experience.
That's called ignorance, my friend. Fortunately, ignorance is completely and 100% curable for anyone so afflicted if they should choose. On the other hand stupidity is not curable.
It’s certainly possible I’m just ignorant or stupid. But that possibility alone has never resulted in me changing my mind before.
If you have the means and the will, you can personally measure the distances between different points on Earth (by travelling there yourself, not just looking at a map/globe someone else made). Then use geometry to deduce whether Earth is a sphere or not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveying
I am neither a flat- nor globe-Earther btw, I consider myself to be agnostic on this issue
I don’t think it’s as simple as that.
Everything is ratios. Yes, the current numbers provided can justify a spherical earth. But I could also fill in my own, properly ratioed numbers that could justify another’s belief in a flat earth.
In all honesty, I’m probably more like you. I don’t claim to know what the world looks like because I’ve never been far enough away to see it in comparison. But I used to believe it was spherical. I no longer hold that particular belief.
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