What If the Earth Was Actually Flat? (Extended)

if the earth had an edge i hope it would look like this the edge of a flat earth i know i know we've talked about it before but there's something mesmerizing about it a flat earth solar eclipse diagonally growing trees the great wall of ice guarded by nasa of course the flat earthers sure have a great imagination but what if they were right how would the earth hold up in space would it revolve around the sun or would the sun rotate around it and why would you never walk to the earth's edge this is what if and here's what would happen if the earth was flat in case you missed the news on the flat earth channel here's a quick recap for thousands of years the general public thought that the earth was flat and everything revolved around it then nicolaus copernicus came around with his spanking new theory the theory said that the earth wasn't flat and definitely not the center of anything his observations led him to believe that our planet is orbiting the sun [Music] but here we are 500 years later and some people around the globe are convinced that the earth is flat well how would this even work do you know why the planets form in a spherical shape one word gravity gravity is what's pulling matter together equally from every side and as a result matter forms into a sphere of course this wouldn't be the case for a flat earth anti-round earthers think that there's no such thing as gravity we only feel like there is because some mysterious force is accelerating the pancake-shaped earth upwards i don't need to tell you that you can't increase the speed forever at some point you'd be going too fast does anybody feel like a burnt pancake no if you want some real science then yes there would be gravity on a flat earth and it would be weird the center of gravity on a flat earth would be right here in the middle everything on earth and around would be pulled to this point and the further you got away from the center the stronger this pull would be at some point it would begin to pull you downward so you would have to start climbing this would be the reason why you couldn't walk to the edge of a flat earth gravity would be so strong around there that it would be impossible for you to make it you might never see the gorgeous 45 meter tall wall of ice called antarctica guard railing the earth's edge and you'd never learn what's on the flip side but at least you wouldn't fall off of it there would be other side effects of this funny gravity objects closer to the edge of the earth would fall sideways instead of down gravity would also make trees grow diagonally on most of the pancake-like earth because they'd be reaching against the pull of gravity all the rain snow and hail would fall toward the arctic at the center of the earth the precipitation would converge and start to build up the oceans would get sucked to the center of the disk too and form one big ocean in the middle a big concern would be the air pressure on a flat earth gravity would draw too much air toward the earth's center leaving the areas around the edge with no air pressure at all that would be bad because people living in a flat earth australia wouldn't have enough oxygen to breathe and if you lived closer to the middle where the arctic would be you'd be crushed by the weight of the atmosphere but not for long a flat earth wouldn't have a geomagnetic field around it this field is generated by the movements of the earth's core and well a flat earth just wouldn't have one nothing would be holding our atmosphere in place and eventually it would spill into space we'd be exposed to solar radiation that would cause cancer and damage our dna and we'd have no breathable air anywhere on the planet so i hope you're able to find a life support system lying around now let's get to those questions we've all been waiting for what would orbit what in this arrangement would there be a day and night cycle or time zones every flat earther knows that the sun goes in circles around a pancake-shaped earth and so does the moon they're both around 50 kilometers in diameter and act like huge spotlights but let's bring good old science to the equation if the sun worked as a spotlight you'd see it from everywhere on earth even if it didn't shine directly on you it would look like those alien abduction scenes i wonder where they got that idea from in this system there would be no day and night cycle that would be pretty strange oh how am i supposed to get my beauty sleep okay i know how to fix this yeah that's better for a flat earth to have days alternating with nights the sun would have to orbit the planet this way when the sun was up the entire planet of earth would experience daylight and when the sun went down the earth would fall into nighttime there would be no time zones and no seasons either but you could still mess up your schedule by staying up late and watching what if videos you'd be lucky if the sun was so much smaller than the earth sort of [Music] think of this if the sun retained its gigantic form as it was orbiting a flat earth it would burn down the entire planet that's because of how close it would get to us [Applause] on the other hand if the sun were much smaller than it really is we'd freeze to death that's because the flat earth would have nearly two and a half times the surface area of our round earth we'd be getting only one third of a regular-sized sun's energy that's not enough for life on a flat earth to exist and we haven't even talked about this yet the lunar eclipse flat earth disciples believe in some kind of anti-moon that's responsible for these on our round earth lunar eclipses happen when the earth lines up between the sun and the moon if that was the case for a flat earth this is how those eclipses might look and even that would require some very special alignment so if the flat earth conspiracy turned out to be true that our globe was indeed photoshopped and gps devices were rigged for some financial gain well that would open up a conversation to other conspiracy theories unfortunately many people including the flat earthers are living in a state of cognitive dissonance that's when their thoughts and beliefs aren't quite consistent and don't always represent reality i mean we are constantly exposed to pseudo-evidence that can support any theory at all even if it falls flat with a bit of logical thinking if copernicus had spent 10 hours on youtube watching flat earth conspiracy videos even he might have admitted he was wrong and have you seen an earth shaped like a donut well that's a story for another what if i might have overused the word round in this one

Channel: What If

Views: 1,116,227

Rating: 4.896584 out of 5

Keywords: what if, what happens if, scifi, science documentary, what if scenario, mysteries, flat earth, flat earth theory, flat earthers, flat earther, flat earth proof, flat earth debunked, flat earthers vs scientists, flat earth documentary, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, earth, science, big think, earth is flat, flat earth vs scientist, education, flatearth, documentaries, documentary, physics, flat earth clues, conspiracy theories, hypothetical scenario, facts, lifelong learning

Id: ae4OigBcEiU

Length: 9min 16sec (556 seconds)

Published: Mon Dec 21 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/IamtheREDACTED]

Well, I just spent an hour watching this channel. Personally, I think the donut earth is my favourite.

[u/clearwall]

Well the biggest counterargument that I can see that isnt addressed in this video is that Flerfers dont believe gravity or space exists. This video IS really interesting if you are sane and realize that gravity IS a thing, but they could easily dismiss all of this because their explanation for the force that pulls everything down is just "density."

[u/clearwall]

A "what if" youtube channel? Is this something by Randall Munroe?