Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for March 05, 2023

digging a hole to China on the flat Earth… that seems new to hear (good luck, boys)

So, the Earth might be flat like a pancake, and China is on the other side. I think that would be really cool ride on an airplane as you go over the edge. :-)

You can call someone in a different time zone, is how you know its round without being good at math.

The Earth is flat. China fell off the underside months ago.

I can’t believe some people think it’s flat. It’s mind boggling

If you can’t see the curvature of the earth, you’re not looking.

There’s an easy way to prove the earth is round, and you kids can do it too! First, locate the general direction of your friend’s house who lived a town over from you. Then, climb the tallest tree you can find near your house. Can you see your friend’s house from the top of your tree?

The reason why you can’t is because the surface of the earth is gentle rolling slope. If the earth is flat, you can see your friend’s house from the top of that tree. Hell, you could probably even see as far as Hawaii from that tree if the earth is flat!

The Earth is round. It rotates on an axis.

All the other planets are round, the moon is round…but the Earth, for some explicable reason, is flat…riiiiiiiiight.

René Descartes decided he would abandon everything he’d been told was true, to try and see if any truth existed. He gave up anything he could not empirically verify and reduced knowledge to one indisputable fact, Cogito, ergo sum. Of course he couldn’t think without a body, and of course his body needed a place to live, and food to grow, and logically everything his priests had ever told him must be God’s truth from that one simple statement.

Kevin learns about the concept of epistemology.

If you just repeat it enough on social media then its true. If you repeat I dont belive it enough then its not true. Laws of the universe. Controls all fact

Of course, our world is flat. It being held up on the backs of four massive elephants who are standing atop a great space turtle swimming through space. Why is that so hard to believe?

If the world was flat the edge would be the most developed tourist spot anywhere.

The question is a good thought experiment

If the Earth were really flat, cats would have knocked everything off the edge by now.

Why would anyone want to go to China ?

On a clear day, look at a loooong, flat field. You can’t always even see the end of it because THE EARTH IS CURVED! NOT that difficult to disprove morons.;)

A Navy fire control tactic is called “Range over the Horizon”

Neat, the way the point of this strip doesn’t become clear until the last panel. What Kevin says is true, though, to a point. The ancients had deduced that the Earth was a sphere long before Columbus, mainly it was the simplest hypothesis to account for a variety of seemingly unrelated observations.

A Kyrie Irving acolyte

But do you know?

Informal poll: who here has ever tried to dig a hole to china, or some place, or simply to see what could be discovered, and how deep was the hole?

Fun Fact: There is no place in North America that digging a hole straight through the Earth that doesn’t come out somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. If you want to dig hole to China, you will need to start digging in Argentina. Here’s a fun map to help you plan your next hole: https://engaging-data.com/antipodes-map/

Kev is a Southpaw for sure!

Looks like a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip,, except it’s Crabgrass