One must remember that the earth once looked flat to us, but as we got more evidence, people began to see the earth as round. Do not forget the study done in the 15th century. The one we all learned about in the 2nd grade.
"We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so cock-sure about our world? Just because of our telescopes, our microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? Nope!
"Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy! What do we know of the Beyond? Do we know what's behind the Beyond?
"I'm afraid some of us hardly know what is beyond the Behind.
"Creatures of twilight and delusion, we drift toward our unknown ends. And that is why I feel the best thing is not to be born.
"But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one out of millions and millions of people!" -- Theodore Gottlieb AKA Brother Theodore
If I were only 100 times bigger I don't think it would. Seeing as the sun is 1,000,000 times bigger than the earth and the solar system is a hell of a lot bigger than that. Maybe if I were 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the Trillionth power it might then... still look fucking round due to my strange ability to to see in 3D. The only way it would look kind flat is if I were very far away, like the way stars look a little flat from here. If anything being bigger (very much so like I said before) would make me closer to those stars and I could see those curves better too.
You are right about that I misread as "100 times bigger, then this rinky..." My bad. But I still think it is about distance and not size. If you were that big and that close, let's say holding the solar system in your hand, if you move your head you are still going to see the curves.
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It looks round to you but if you were a hundred times bigger than this rinky-dink solar system, it would look flat.
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If you looked at it from that scale it would still not look flat, more like just a tiny spec of dust.
One must remember that the earth once looked flat to us, but as we got more evidence, people began to see the earth as round. Do not forget the study done in the 15th century. The one we all learned about in the 2nd grade.
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"We measure things by what we are. To the maggots in the cheese, the cheese is the universe. To the worms in the corpse, the corpse is the cosmos. How then can we be so cock-sure about our world? Just because of our telescopes, our microscopes, and the splitting of the atom? Nope!
"Science is but an organized system of ignorance. There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy! What do we know of the Beyond? Do we know what's behind the Beyond?
"I'm afraid some of us hardly know what is beyond the Behind.
"Creatures of twilight and delusion, we drift toward our unknown ends. And that is why I feel the best thing is not to be born.
"But who is as lucky as that? To whom does it happen? Not to one out of millions and millions of people!" -- Theodore Gottlieb AKA Brother Theodore
If I were only 100 times bigger I don't think it would. Seeing as the sun is 1,000,000 times bigger than the earth and the solar system is a hell of a lot bigger than that. Maybe if I were 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the Trillionth power it might then... still look fucking round due to my strange ability to to see in 3D. The only way it would look kind flat is if I were very far away, like the way stars look a little flat from here. If anything being bigger (very much so like I said before) would make me closer to those stars and I could see those curves better too.
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I said 100 times bigger than our solar system.
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You are right about that I misread as "100 times bigger, then this rinky..." My bad. But I still think it is about distance and not size. If you were that big and that close, let's say holding the solar system in your hand, if you move your head you are still going to see the curves.