This might be a little long but I have no one to talk to about this. I’ve recently come to the realization of flat earth but I admit there are a few things that hold me back. To me FE just makes more sense. I’ve always (as a kid) thought it odd that we are spinning and that people in the south are upside down but just figured that really smart people just figured it out and my mind is just too simple. When I read comments of globe proponents on different threads they pretty much do use that thinking in their arguments that “flerfs” just don’t understand physics and that we need to go back to school. I fully admit I don’t understand physics so is it possible that is why I don’t understand the globe? Are all these people in the comments section that much more enlightened on physics than me and that is why it makes sense to them? In my mind I’ve always thought that anything under high pressure needs a container so that’s why a firmament makes sense for me, but then I read people in the comments saying “have you ever heard of pressure gradient ?” And that “Denver would disagree”. It is true our atmosphere gets thinner and thinner as we go up, is that enough reason to not need a physical barrier? Why does it get thinner as we go up? There are days when I’m so sure the earth is not a spinning globe especially because of the fact that we can see too far, but then there are days when I think how can so many very smart people be fooled? I know I’m not smarter than them so how I can I figure it out and not them? I’m not going to lie, it bothers me I haven’t been able to find any astronomers or astrophysicists that believe in flat earth. What are they seeing that I’m not? Why do they think the stars are that far away? These are things that conflict me.
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THE FLAT EARTH
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Regarding gravity holding the atmosphere in place: NASA says that we lose several hundred tons of atmosphere to outer space each day. So apparently, not even the Great and Powerful Gravity can trap everything here on Earth: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/144386/toward-mapping-the-atmospheres-escape-from-earth