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What shape is the Earth?

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Ancient Egyptians thought the Earth was Flat and the River Nile flowed through the centre

They also thought that if they buried a pharoah with his slaves, the slaves would serve him in the afterlife. Same with food and beer. They also thought that a beetle chased the sun across the sky.

They were on drugs.
 

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Yep. Or skydiving or something like Felix Baumgartner's free fall.

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You've obviously never heard of a fish eye lens.
 
I was walking down the street last night and I looked up at the moon. The strange thing was, knowing the sun was shining on it from below, making it into a crescent, I could see the circular shape of it. Hanging there in the sky, I could see it was an orb.

The other funny thing is that if I can see this, as I have on thousands of occasions, so could people 5000, 10,000, 20,000 years ago. IE, mankind has known the moon is an orb for all of mankind's history. It is right there to see for ourselves. So, why did people ever think the earth was flat, when it's so clear the moon is an orb?
 

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The Ancient Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere, so its been known for a while. I guess if you don't have a concept of much beyond your own little region it's easy to think the world is flat.
 

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