[C. Columbus]

Hi Flat Earthers,

Please forgive my ignorance but I recently saw a tweet from Elon Musk asking why there was no "Flat Mars Society" and the response was that Mars had been proven to be round, is this fake news?  What other worlds have been proven to be round?

Thanks,
Chris

[Kermit Fan]

I also saw the tweet, and the explanation seems to be that because Mars and the other local planets rotate and present different faces to the Earth at different times (while still remaining circular in shape), the logical conclusion would be that they are round.

The Flat Earther who responded might not represent the whole society, though. There's a bit of contradiction among Flat Earthers in different areas.

[C. Columbus]

So is earth's moon flat since it always presents the same face to the earth?  if the other planets are round, wouldn't that suggest round is the norm in planetary evolution and therefore the earth would be round too?

Thanks,
Chris

[Dr David Thork]

So is earth's moon flat since it always presents the same face to the earth?  if the other planets are round, wouldn't that suggest round is the norm in planetary evolution and therefore the earth would be round too?

Thanks,
Chris

The earth isn't a planet. Planet is Greek for 'wandering star'. The earth is the only thing in the heavens, not wandering. It is fixed, flat and supports life. Truly unique.

[Boodysaspie]

"The Sun and all eight planets of the solar system are round. Why? The gravitational force of a planet’s mass pulls all of its material toward the center, smoothing out any jarring non-roundness. Many of the smaller bodies of the solar system are not round because their gravity is not enough to smooth out their shape.

"We can see this from the escape velocity of various bodies. To escape Earth’s gravity, you need to travel at about 11 km/second, or about 40,000 km/hour. Such speeds require the largest rockets. Earth has a mass of 6 x 10^24 kg and is quite round. To escape the gravity of Comet 67P, which the European Rosetta and Philae probes visited, you need to travel at about 1 meter/second. You could jump faster than that. Comet 67P is not round at all; it has a mass of 10^13 kg, nearly one trillion times lighter than Earth, and is shaped like a rubber duck.

"Once a body becomes more than a few hundred kilometers across, it becomes more round than not. In our example, Earth’s diameter is about 12,700 km across; Comet 67P is about 4 km across.

"Despite its improbability, some scientists have wondered about what a cubical planet would be like. Assuming that the rocky part of the planet would somehow maintain its cubeness, the air and water would not have any such magical property and would pool in the center of each cube side. Life would be confined to the shores of the central lakes, with the cube edges and corners being giant impassable mountains."

- https://www.britannica.com/demystified/why-are-planets-round

Cubic Earth Theory, anyone?

[Zanz]

All planets in the night sky have an obvious roundness to it. The shadows of a planet you see via telescope make it at least look like its a sphere. I can only see 'Flat Martians' popping up in the far future, when the first men on Mars where seen as a myth and multiple generation lived there, wich i higly doubt will ever happend.

Nobody is dumb enough to start a Flat Mars Society when they can look at Mars and see its roundness with a telescope.

This part of the Flat Earth Model confuses me the most, if the Earth is Flat and there is a big dome around it, then what are the planets? You can see them with your own eyes, they are obviously not holograms put up by NASA, because people looked at them waaayy before NASA even existed, and some, if not most of them, spin, and change environment that you can detect yourself, the same way a round Earth should. They are at least more than just stickers on the dome or really bright stars. They move around and change.

[FlyingGolden]

So is earth's moon flat since it always presents the same face to the earth?  if the other planets are round, wouldn't that suggest round is the norm in planetary evolution and therefore the earth would be round too?

Thanks,
Chris

The earth isn't a planet. Planet is Greek for 'wandering star'. The earth is the only thing in the heavens, not wandering. It is fixed, flat and supports life. Truly unique.

Did you just say that the Earth is not a planet?

[Tom Haws]

Did you just say that the Earth is not a planet?

Yes. That is what they say.

[devils advocate]

One of the flat earthers here posted that he was confident he would know if the planet he lived on was violin shaped such was his empirical mastery.

Quite how that would be possible I don't know, especially as one of main reasons for believing \ knowing earth is flat is cause it "looks it".

Whether they call it a planet or plane or mongoose becomes immaterial!