The Flat Earth.

So, we all know while Christopher Colombus was sailing, many people of the West Indies thought that he would never return back to land because they believed that the Earth was completley flat. That's not true, obviously, we know that now.

The idea of the "Flat Earth" came from Christianity. Christians in the West Indies believed that the Earth was flat; those were the people that thought Christopher Columbes would not trail back home on his ship. They thought he would 'fall off' of the earth and never return.

WRONG.

The earth is circular ! Horray.

Anyway, the smart stuff now. Regardless of whether the Earth is flat or not, the surface of the Earth can be approximated as flat over small distances. So, when you're in the car and looking at a plain field and see a flat surface, well duh, that's what you're going to see. It's a small distance of land and it appears to be flat because you're on a circular planet.


See, we all learned something today :D.