The hosts even call it "fake news".
I met a flat earther for real
It took 10 seconds to get in a “you’re kidding right?” before I concluded he was a true believer
He’s part of the 38% who think Biden is doing a good job
Ship of idiots
When these guys get around to the end of the WW II channel I hope they present the particulars of the planned Downfall assault on the Japanese home islands.
What! But, but, but the Google map is flat. :)
Most of the intellectual elite knew about Eritosthenes’s calculation of the circumference of the earth by Columbus’s time.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm#:~:text=Values%20between%20500%20and%20about,slightly%20less%20around%20the%20poles.
The gamble Columbus presented was that he thought it was much smaller than that.
He was proceeding from tales of Basque fishermen and others taking tons of codfish off some western lands. The Basque had reason to keep their discovery secret, like a protected secret recipe or doohickey for bizness.
The thing that really freaked them out was when they saw that sailing around the world threw the ship’s calendar off by one day.
They quickly figured out the puzzle and started using chronometers in ships.
Columbus also was one of many who had fallen for the ballyhoo of Marco Polo, who drastically exaggerated the size of Asia to make his adventures there and back seem all the more heroic.
So Columbus believed the earth wasn't as big around as actually it is at about 25° north latitude. And he also believed Asia extended far further to the east than it actually does. Between them, he underestimated the sailing distance to Asia by about 5000 miles.
Which should have been a fatal miscalculation because his ships could only sail about 3500 miles before running out of food and water. So the typical strategy was to sail 1750 miles from land and if they hadn't found anything, turn around and come home. But Columbus sailed about 3100 miles before he made landfall in the Bahamas.
So if he had not been rescued by a completely theretofore unknown continent (or two), he'd would have never been heard from again. Instead, pure blind luck (and some guts) made him immortal.
The old expression about “sailing off the edge of the Earth” originated from the fact that sailors were heavily dependent on the North Star to navigate. When they sailed far south, the North Star approached, and finally disappeared below, the horizon. They had “sailed over the edge”.
It especially bothers me when people say that the Bible was the reason people thought the Earth was flat.
Isa. 40:22 and Job 26:7
The Real Reason ageist Columbus? He brought Catholicism to the western world.