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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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Just as a map of the world is a projection of the spherical Earth on a flat sheet of paper, the astrolabe plate is a projection of the celestial sphere on an imaginary piece of paper placed through the flat plane of the equator.
If they are then told that it is round like a sphere, they interpret the new information about a spherical earth within their flat-earth view by picturing a pancake-like flat surface inside or on top of a sphere, with humans standing on top of the pancake.
It is impossible to represent the spherical earth on a flat map without distorting the relative sizes and/or the shapes of the features of our planet.
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Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer
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Endless plains of salt flats like the steppes of Central Russia (music by Borodin here); mounds of salts where the new breed of prospector was sieving for rare earths; towers of venomous vapors on the eastern horizon where the pumping stations were sucking up more of the Atlantic and extracting deuterium for energy transfer.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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15pm Saturday: Flat Earth's Julian Baker and John Eacott who will be presenting the Morpheus CD - a compilation of work by various artists made using Supercollider software.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Here is a collection of essays about Middle-Earth by a fan who enjoys the sense that Tolkien created an entire world rather than a set of stage flats for telling the story.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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We reached a flat section a third of the way down the Dustbin where everyone had stopped to watch Laroche session a ramp that crested at five feet of height and returned to earth via a steep roller.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Note that in making this calculation we are assuming that the universe, like the Earth, is spherical, which could hardly be correct if the Earth is flat and is of infinite lateral extent.
They were, of course, not very accurate because the ability to measure distances at sea had not yet developed, nor was there an accurate method to portray the spherical surface of the earth on a flat piece of material.
If it was written according to fact, then their would have been NO debate whether the earth was round or flat, we would have known that the earth WAS NOT the center of the universe, and it would have said that the stars are actually suns to other universes.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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There was no moral ill in believing the earth was flat like a trencher, any more than there was moral virtue in believing it was round like a globe; neither was there any moral ill in believing that the Creator made no other world than this, any more than there was moral virtue in believing that he made millions, and that the infinity of space is filled with worlds.
Some of us once believed that the earth was flat and that burning dissenting priests at the stake was permissible.
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