the earth is flat, it's just your predictable and limited human fallibility that makes you think otherwise
take the orbit of the moon, a curved ellipse I hear you say? Wrong. Einstein showed that objects with mass curve spacetime, the very reality that they move through, so the moon is following a straight path, the shortest distance between two points, but the spacetime it moves through is curved by the planet. Likewise what you see as the curvature of the earth is merely a function of your tiny human brains not being able to conceive that they are in a falling inertial frame of reference of a curved spacetime paradigm, moping about the surface of your watery rock, what we label gravity. Ah, but I see a ship sinking below the horizon I hear you say. How do you explain that? And again, your petit bourgeois anthropocentrical egotism makes me want to vomit. Does a man in a river running on a spinning barrel follow a curved path? No, he stays on the same flat tangent. It is just the view of the ship relative to the observer that makes it seem to follow a curved path, and as Einstein said, "observers don't mean shit in relativity, homes". The ship is on the flat, the world moves beneath it relative to the ship. all motion is relative. The earth is flat. QED.
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speaking of nonsense theories, in geology there were still a couple of academic holdouts in the 90s that subscribed to the expanding earth theory
that the earth was getting bigger (less dense) and this was driving continental drift and other things. Despite it having almost nothing to commend it, it wasn't until around a decade ago where geodetic measurements were accurate enough to falsify it completely.
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