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JakobA the unAmerican.

If the earth is round as some people say, why dont the oceans run down and drop off ?

Just try pouring water on a basketball and see what happens. Yet the oceans are thousands of meters deep, obviously the oceans would run off a round earth.

Enoch (in the bible) had it right. In the morning the sun comes out of a door in the east, then it travels over the Earth, and in the evening it leaves through another door in the west

Posted - April 2, 2018
Tags : Round Flat Hollow square (4 corners)

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  • 52953


      A basketball neither has its own gravitational field nor a moon effecting its tides. 
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      April 2, 2018 6:19 AM MDT
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  • 7280
    Well all objects have a gravitational field, but relative to the earths, the basketball is not great enough to affect the earth's gravity.

    Edit:  For the purposes of measuring gravity, when you do the math, spheres act as if their total mass were located at the center of the sphere.  The earth "attracts" everything along a line of force directed from your point on the surface (including the basketball you are holding as you pour the water over it) toward the center of the earth. This post was edited by tom jackson at April 2, 2018 3:36 PM MDT
      April 2, 2018 3:29 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    If you travel on the 405 (QEW) highway northbound from St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, you can watch the city of Toronto rise slowly out of Lake Ontario as you move closer. The waters of Lake Ontario must be curved for this to happen.
      April 2, 2018 7:15 AM MDT
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  • 5354
    Surely you have heard of mirages, places where different air temperatures makes light bend so things we see are not where we see them.
      April 2, 2018 3:00 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    Yes. But the city of Toronto is not a mirage!
      April 2, 2018 3:09 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Oh Yeah ?
    https://localwiki.org/buffalo/The_Toronto_Mirage
      April 2, 2018 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 952
      April 2, 2018 12:53 PM MDT
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  • 32700
    Gravity....
      April 2, 2018 1:05 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Gets my vote.
      April 2, 2018 4:00 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    Now don't get smart with me. It's turtles ALL THE WAY DOWN!
      April 2, 2018 2:39 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    At the lower depths of the ocean pressure makes salt water very dense and sticky like molasses so the ocean waters do not flow away; the oceans are stuck to the bottom. 
      April 2, 2018 2:43 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    That makes sense
      April 2, 2018 2:49 PM MDT
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  • 404
    just one of the great mysteries in life.....maybe if we figure that out...we can figure out how guam manages to stay afloat.
      April 2, 2018 3:01 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    What is guam .... .?
      April 2, 2018 6:36 PM MDT
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  • 404
    an island this guy thinks is going to tip over.
      April 2, 2018 6:49 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Why would he think that...does he smoke wacky backy ? 
      April 2, 2018 6:55 PM MDT
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  • 404
    I have no idea...youd think that a democratic representative would have more common sense than that....but I guess not.
      April 2, 2018 6:59 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    There are certainly some funny people in the world.....so many wrongers in positions of power though....:( 
      April 2, 2018 7:17 PM MDT
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  • 404
    it was worse.
      April 2, 2018 7:21 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    How does Walter run if it ain't got no legs.....I would think it would be quite a feet to even manage a foot ......when mostly all it can do is run down a hole when it drains away :( This post was edited by Nice Jugs at April 2, 2018 6:38 PM MDT
      April 2, 2018 3:23 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    What Bible do you have?
    Maybe you should get a better Bible.
      April 2, 2018 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    I think Darwin's bible would make more sense and far better reading....:)
      April 2, 2018 6:42 PM MDT
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  • 2657
    Uneducated opinion since you haven't read the Bible.
      April 2, 2018 6:48 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    So unlikely I ever will .There are far to many brilliant minds out there nowadays to follow....:) 
      April 2, 2018 6:57 PM MDT
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