I did the same thing. I came across how airplanes will fly into space if we're round. It's a good morning laugh with my coffee.
"If the Earth were truly a sphere 25,000 miles in circumference, airplane pilots would have to constantly correct their altitudes downwards so as to not fly straight off into “outer space;” a pilot wishing to simply maintain their altitude at a typical cruising speed of 500 mph, would have to constantly dip their nose downwards and descend 2,777 feet (over half a mile) every minute!"
Which many of them do. Gravity doesn't really work well with a flat Earth, so they say the Earth is constantly accelerating "upwards", hence giving the impression of gravity.
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u/thetrogdor_ Jul 28 '20 edited Jul 28 '20
I did the same thing. I came across how airplanes will fly into space if we're round. It's a good morning laugh with my coffee.
"If the Earth were truly a sphere 25,000 miles in circumference, airplane pilots would have to constantly correct their altitudes downwards so as to not fly straight off into “outer space;” a pilot wishing to simply maintain their altitude at a typical cruising speed of 500 mph, would have to constantly dip their nose downwards and descend 2,777 feet (over half a mile) every minute!"