Comment by jonnycomputer
3 months ago
The criticism being directed at this comment because in fact most pre-Copernican scholarship believed the world spherical is missing the point.
3 months ago
The criticism being directed at this comment because in fact most pre-Copernican scholarship believed the world spherical is missing the point.
This. If we (without AI, even) extrapolate from the trajectory of a baseball, we would say that it would continue towards roughly the center of the earth but it doesn't.