• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    36 months ago

    No, it started out when the telescope was invented but people couldn’t go to space so they could only speculate.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      66 months ago

      I’m aware that in the past people believed the earth was flat. I’m saying that recently…like within the last 5 years or so it made a comeback for whatever reason.

    • R0cket_M00se
      link
      fedilink
      English
      36 months ago

      Interesting, considering observations with a telescope and the development of calculus is what allowed us to understand that the solar system works out like it does via physics and the mathematics that it’s based on.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        15 months ago

        Exactly. Before that it was kinda understandable to think the earth is flat. After, not so much