in defense of the flat earth

Look: you can take all the textbooks, mathematical proofs, the history of development, and all the nerdy scientists who still read them. 

The earth is round by abstract knowledge but, for all practical purposes, 100% flat.

Yes, you could travel East and eventually end up where you started. But even if you did take on circumnavigation, you’d still let someone else pilot the boat or plane. Someone else who can be intensely familiar with the earth and all her roundness.

The rest of us stand on the flat land of our ordinary lives, lives that never take up enough space to have to deal with its actual roundness. 

Thank you. Let’s have a great day.