What If the Earth Was Actually Flat?

if the Earth had an edge I hope it would

look like this

the edge of a flat Earth

I know I know we've talked about it

before but there's something mesmerizing

about it

a flat Earth solar eclipse

diagonally growing trees

the Great Wall of ice guarded by NASA of

course

the flat earthers sure have a great

imagination but what if they were right

how would the Earth hold up in space

would it revolve around the Sun or would

the Sun rotate around it

and why would you never walk to the

Earth's Edge

this is what if and here's what would

happen if the Earth was flat

in case you missed the news on the Flat

Earth Channel here's a quick recap

for thousands of years the general

public thought that the Earth was flat

and everything revolved around it

then Nikolaus Copernicus came around

with his spanking new Theory

the theory said that the Earth wasn't

flat and definitely not the center of

anything

is observations led him to believe that

our planet is orbiting the Sun

but here we are 500 years later and some

people around the globe are convinced

that the Earth is flat

well how would this even work

do you know why the planets form in a

spherical shape one word gravity

gravity is what's pulling matter

together equally from every side and as

a result matter forms into a sphere

of course this wouldn't be the case for

a flat Earth

anti-round earthers think that there's

no such thing as gravity we only feel

like there is because some mysterious

force is accelerating the pancake-shaped

Earth upwards I don't need to tell you

that you can't increase the speed

Forever at some point you'd be going too

fast

uh does anybody feel like a burnt

pancake no

if you want some real science then yes

there would be gravity on a flat Earth

and it would be weird

the center of gravity on a flat Earth

would be right here in the middle

everything on Earth and around would be

pulled to this point and the further you

got away from the center the stronger

this pull would be

at some point it would begin to pull you

downward so you would have to start

climbing

this would be the reason why you

couldn't walk to the edge of a flat

Earth

gravity would be so strong around there

that it would be impossible for you to

make it

you might never see the gorgeous 45

meter tall wall of ice called Antarctica

Guard railing the Earth's Edge

and you'd never learn what's on the flip

side

but at least you wouldn't fall off of it

there would be other side effects of

this funny gravity

objects closer to the edge of the Earth

would fall sideways instead of down

gravity would also make trees grow

diagonally on most of the pancake like

Earth because they'd be reaching against

the pull of gravity

all the rain snow and hail would fall

toward the Arctic at the center of the

Earth

the precipitation would converge and

start to build up

the oceans would get sucked to the

center of the disk too and form one big

ocean in the middle

a big concern would be the air pressure

on a flat Earth

gravity would draw too much air toward

the Earth's center leaving the areas

around the edge with no air pressure at

all

that would be bad because people living

in a flat Earth Australia wouldn't have

enough oxygen to breathe

and if you lived closer to the Middle

where the Arctic would be you'd be

crushed by the weight of the atmosphere

but not for long

a flat Earth wouldn't have a geomagnetic

field around it this field is generated

by the movements of the Earth's core and

well a flat Earth just wouldn't have one

nothing would be holding our atmosphere

in place and eventually it would spill

into space

we'd be exposed to solar radiation that

would cause cancer and damage our DNA

and we'd have no breathable air anywhere

on the planet

so I hope you're able to find a life

support system lying around

now let's get to those questions we've

all been waiting for

what would orbit what in this

arrangement

would there be a day and night cycle or

time zones

every flat earther knows that the Sun

goes in circles around a pancake-shaped

earth and so does the moon

they're both around 50 kilometers in

diameter and act like huge spotlights

but let's bring good old science to the

equation

if the sun worked as a spotlight you'd

see it from everywhere on Earth

even if it didn't shine directly on you

it would look like those alien abduction

scenes

wonder where they got that idea from

in this system there would be no day and

night cycle

that would be pretty strange how am I

supposed to get my beauty sleep

okay I know how to fix this

yeah that's better

for a flat Earth to have days

alternating with nights the sun would

have to orbit the planet this way

when the sun was up the entire planet of

Earth would experience daylight and when

the sun went down the Earth would fall

into nighttime

there would be no time zones and no

Seasons either but you could still mess

up your schedule by staying up late and

watching what-if videos

you'd be lucky if the sun was so much

smaller than the Earth

sort of

think of this if the sun retained its

gigantic form as it was orbiting a flat

Earth it would burn down the entire

planet that's because of how close it

would get to us

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on the other hand if the sun were much

smaller than it really is

we'd freeze to death

that's because the Flat Earth would have

nearly two and a half times the surface

area of our round earth

we'd be getting only one third of a

regular sized sun's energy

that's not enough for life on a flat

Earth to exist

and we haven't even talked about this

yet

the lunar eclipse

Flat Earth disciples believe in some

kind of anti-moon that's responsible for

these on our round earth lunar eclipses

happen when the earth lines up between

the Sun and the Moon

if that was the case for a flat Earth

this is how those eclipses might look

and even that would require some very

special alignment

so if the Flat Earth conspiracy turned

out to be true

that our globe was indeed photoshopped

and GPS devices were rigged for some

financial gain

well that would open up a conversation

to other conspiracy theories

unfortunately many people including the

flat earthers are living in a state of

cognitive dissonance

that's when their thoughts and beliefs

aren't quite consistent and don't always

represent reality

I mean we are constantly exposed to

pseudo-evidence that can support any

Theory at all even if it falls flat with

the bit of logical thinking

if Copernicus had spent 10 hours on

YouTube watching Flat Earth conspiracy

videos

even he might have admitted he was wrong

and have you seen an earth shaped like a

donut

well that's a story

for another what if

I might have overused the word round in

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