Heh. I wish. I’m not that well-rounded. Get it? Well-r… never mind.
Well, if the earth was flat, we could not call it “global” climate change, now could we?
:smack:
So, is the flat Earth circular or, as the Chinese once believed, square?
[doctrine-fighting and schism within the Flat Earth Society ensues]
Barely remember a story where someone showed a prominent flat earther a photo of the Earth, obviously a sphere. They guy said something along the lines of “I can see how someone with an untrained eye could think it was a sphere.”
Guess I should have googled first.
It was a guy named Samuel Shenton and the quote was, "“It’s easy to see how a photograph like that could fool the untrained eye.”
Well, sure! The camera is easy to fool, and so is the human eye.
There is a trick of scale, by putting one person in the foreground and another person in the background, which can be used to create the illusion of the first guy being a “giant.” It was used in a 1920’s movie version of Dante’s Inferno (and was reprised on Xena, when we met Prometheus in chains.)
There’s also the trick of taking a photo on a stage that diminishes in size. The old “Time Tunnel” visual effect.