“It’s certainly not the consensus of the public ...”
Neither was the earth being round at one time. The consensus of the public has given us glowbull whining too.
I wasn’t the one who made the assertion ... :-) ...
Neither was the earth being round at one time. The consensus of the public has given us glowbull whining too.“It’s certainly not the consensus of the public ...”
Ah, the old “flat earth theory” theory. Even Wikipedia will tell you what a fraud that is. A “flat earth” theory can be restated as a theory that the radius of curvature of the earth is infinite. The reason Christopher Columbus had trouble getting backing for his venture is painfully obvious: Columbus’ plan was based on an error. It was based on an error, and the people who wouldn’t back him did so because they recognized the error.The error? Everyone knew that the earth was round - it was just that Columbus claimed it was more round - had a smaller radius - than it actually does. By half. All you have to do to understand this is to look at an actual globe map, and visualize the distance from Europe to India - or anywhere else in Asia. And then figure how long it the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria would have had to have sailed after the crews had all starved to death in the absence of undiscovered, but easily discoverable, land in between. Absent the Americas and a few then-undiscovered islands here and there, you would have to sail pretty much the entire Pacific Ocean with your supplies exhausted.
. . . and you think people were stupid not to want to participate in that venture?