What’s Earth’s true shape?

Earth's circumference and diameter differ because its shape is classified as an oblate spheroid or ellipsoid, instead of a true sphere. This means that instead of being of equal circumference in all areas, the poles are squished, resulting in a bulge at the equator, and thus a larger circumference and diameter there.

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Richard D. Boyle

I’m not surprised that there are some “flats”...I tell myself “they can’t be serious...can they?” I have an allergy to that level of ignorance and I’m starting to itch.

Shirley Dutt

Helen Dakin, And what does one have to do with the other?

catclaws

There’s scientific proof that the earth is not flat. If it were, cats would have knocked everything off of it by now.

Lisa Rodrigues

Howard Groopman, nope - prolate spheroid

Howard Groopman

I believe an American football is also an oblate spheroid.

catmom

Richard D. Boyle, lol. That was funny.😂

Robert Oldenburg

Richard D. Boyle, the goofy thing is that the flat earth controversy wasn’t a thing 20 years ago. Only a minute insignificant percentage took it seriously.

John W Shreve

NBA star and iconoclast Kyrie Irving believes the world is flat and he likes to tell others about it because he says it's an "important conversation." Tila Tequila is another, but she's not nearly as interesting as Irving.