![]() Finally, in a lunar eclipse, the Earth casts a round shadow on the moon-as millions of people witnessed this summer during the solar eclipse. ![]() A second reasoning was that different constellations are visible at different latitudes, which shows that the sky seen from Earth appears as a dome above us. Ships sailing out to sea would disappear hull first, appearing as if they were sinking into the ocean on the horizon. A few hundred years later, Aristotle noted several arguments showing that the Earth was round-including ones that people with doubts could see for themselves. Hughes, along with another notable flat-Earther, rapper B.o.B., are wrong-and there's plenty of evidence why.Īs early as 500 B.C., the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras proposed the concept of a spherical Earth but without much concrete physical evidence, according to the American Physical Society. Humans figured out that the Earth was round thousands of years ago-and without all the fancy space technology we have today to take photos of the Earth from above. The flat-Earth believer "Mad" Mike Hughes postponed his plans to launch himself in a homemade rocket thousands of feet in the air-but there is plenty of evidence that already reveals the Earth is indeed round, not flat. ![]()
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