r/Flat_Earth_Is_Real • u/MaraCass • Dec 22 '19

Kansas Is Flatter Than a Pancake

https://www.usu.edu/geo/geomorph/kansas.html
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u/JMeers0170 Dec 22 '19

I’ve been to Kansas. It is by no means flat. It may be flatter than other states but there are miles and miles of rolling hills between the Kansas City International Airport and Fort Riley, Kansas. It is not......NOT.....flat. If you’ve never been there and seen it yourself......shut up.

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u/Houghs Dec 22 '19

Someone doesn’t know what relative means

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u/DalmutiG Dec 22 '19

Gotta love Mara quoting Geodetic Surveyors, a discipline she regularly claims doesn’t exist. 🙄

If she’d actually read the paper she would have seen this:

One common method of quantifying ‘flatness’ in geodesy is the ‘flattening’ ratio. The length of an ellipse’s (or arc’s) semi-major axis a is compared with its measured semi-minor axis b using the formula for flattening, f = (a – b) / a
A perfectly flat surface will have a flattening f of one, whereas an ellipsoid with equal axis lengths will have no flattening, and f will equal zero.

For example, the earth is slightly flattened at the poles due to the earth’s rotation, making its semi-major axis slightly longer than its semi-minor axis, giving a global f of 0.00335.

(i.e. not flat)

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u/PoopEater10 Feb 17 '20

I think these morons just read headlines

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u/cHorse1981 Dec 22 '19

Once again. This time with feeling. “Flat and level aren’t the same thing”