- If you are standing at the edge if it was flat you can look down but since the earth is sphere you will just keep walking and end up in the same spot.
- People have sailed in a straight line and ended bac in the same spot if the earth was not sphere then you would end up just walking straight and going no where. Or you would not be able to go further.
- There has been many photographs taken and they show how the earth is sphere.
- We have none for thousands of years that the earth was spherical
- The moon is a sphereical and the lit up part has differnt amount of lit up at a time someone explored the lunar eclipse and the erarths shawdow was on the moon because of the arc on the moon. When you see an eclipse you will have to see this.
- The earth casts a rounded shawdow on the moon during a lunar eclipse.
- The further a boatgoes to the horizen you will think it is sinking but really it is just going down the horizen.
- Ships apper to sink as they pass over the curved surface of the earth
- If a person was standing on the earth and I looked like they were sidewise to us but it is up and down for the there is no up and down in earth but it is up and down in there perspective. Because the earth is round.
- The further you are to the earth the less you way. If it was differnt you would way more in one spot then the other side.
- Any where on the earth you will why the same because the the earth is a sphere and the core is the same amount away from the crust of the earth.
- The pull of gravity is about equal from any point on the Earths surface.
- If the earth was not sphere then as it turns you will end up seeing that it it isnt sphere
- We can now travel to space and take photos and videos of the Earth, directly observing its true shape.
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