# Is the Earth round or flat? Just 66% of millennials firmly believe that the earth is round **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 6, 2018, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938 "2018-04-06T19:01:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/21 "2018-04-07T01:27:39Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > 100% of them are dumb shits because the earth is ellipsoid. Googling definition:round gets > [@](#): > > 1. shaped like or approximately like a circle or cylinder. > > ``` > 2. shaped like or approximately like a sphere. > "a round glass ball" > > ``` Since an oblate spheroid can be considered approximately a sphere, not dumb at all. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/22 "2018-04-07T02:35:52Z")
Of course a disc-shaped Earth could be both round _and_ flat. _It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth…_ Isaiah 40:22 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/23 "2018-04-07T02:58:00Z")
The first time I ever heard the term “milennials”, it referred to my generation, who are now in our 40s. When did it shift to referring to the current whippersnappers? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/24 "2018-04-07T03:08:18Z")
In your 40s? That makes you an Xer. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/25 "2018-04-07T08:02:25Z")
“This is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped” [Abligtory Monty Python clip](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrD16CBEJRs) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/26 "2018-04-07T15:42:21Z")
Godammit, **Fugazi**! (And no, I’m not getting up at 4:00AM on a Saturday morning to be the first to post something…) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2018, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/27 "2018-04-07T18:54:10Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > 100% of them are dumb shits because the earth is ellipsoid. > [@Xema](#): > > More specifically, an ellipsoid of revolution, aka oblate spheroid. If the Earth were shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, it would be rounder (but not [smoother](https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/)) than a billiard ball. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/28 "2018-04-08T04:01:01Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > I couldnt believe this until the other day my 16 year old son came home and told me about how some kids on his bus were saying the earth was flat. > > And NOW we are supposed to trust them with a $100,000 loan for college? Yeah, ever since the Religious Right forced high school geography classes to give equal time to the flat-earthers, this is happening. Note how those who say the earth is flat in this survey are 2-1/2 times more likely to also be “very religious”. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2018, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938/29 "2018-04-08T04:11:24Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > If the Earth were shrunk to the size of a billiard ball, it would be rounder (but not [smoother](https://ourplnt.com/earth-smooth-billiard-ball/)) than a billiard ball. They also determined that Kansas is literally flatter than a pancake. > [@t-bonham@scc.net](#): > > Yeah, ever since the Religious Right forced high school geography classes to give equal time to the flat-earthers, this is happening. > > Note how those who say the earth is flat in this survey are 2-1/2 times more likely to also be “very religious”. Citation needed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-earth-round-or-flat-just-66-of-millennials-firmly-believe-that-the-earth-is-round/811938.md?page=1)