Riddle Me This (Universe Related)

Naturally

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1) And yeah, how come planets and most celestial bodies are round ? ... not square or something else

Or are planets and celestial bodies flat like earth maybe.
I mean, have you ever seen any other face of the moon ... our moon?
NO ... because the moon is flat ;)

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3) Asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites aren't round and been hanging out there as long as planets ... maybe
So how come they aren't round like planets ?
 

Naturally said:
1) And yeah, how come planets and most celestial bodies are round ? ... not square or something else

Or are planets and celestial bodies flat like earth maybe.
I mean, have you ever seen any other face of the moon ... our moon?
NO ... because the moon is flat ;)

Bonus Question:

3) Asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites aren't round and been hanging out there as long as planets ... maybe
So how come they aren't round like planets ?
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Well, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are gas planets, so they can't be square. Comets are by and large gaseous, same theory. Meteors are fragments torn apart from larger bodies, so they can't be square.

I saw an interesting program on PBS about Jupiter where they said the gravitational pull actually shaped the Solar system. Constant gravitational pull of planets cause each one to smooth out an odd shaped rock to start with, acting like sandpaper.


Edit, forgot Neptune, another gas/ ice giant planet.
 
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Well, Mr. Naturally, I hope you posted this in jest. If not, perhaps you should read some of the thousands of articles offered by a google search on "why are planets round?"

As I recall, we learned in fifth grade that anything which has sufficient mass will be spherical because of its own gravity. The teacher probably said something like "anything big enough," since we had not yet learned the difference between mass and weight, and we certainly didn't know enough math to hold a rigorous discussion. But we were old enough to understand a demonstration - - he squashed a bunch of paper from every direction in his hands and it ending up approximately spherical, just like planets.
 
ElCastor said:
And NO the Moon is not flat!
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ElCastor said:
The nature of the Earth can be credited to happenstance. Plenty of water, good distance from an accomodating sun, etc. Life, through the process of evolution, has evolved to thrive on an accommodating Earth.
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You might be missing the point. It took me 5 or 6 posts to catch on. The winner of this thread is the one with the most stupid question. ;)
 
(1.) How come people want to believe stuff can be flat?
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You know how hard it is to make something purr-fectly flat?
You drive down a road is it purr-fectly flat.

You fly in a plane and does it fly a straight flat course.
If you want to go to Mars can you go in a straight line.
Is there a straight line Warp Tunnel across galaxy’s / Interstellar Space.
 
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It's also worth noting that there are a lot of conspiracy theories and misinformation out there about the shape of the Earth, which can contribute to people's beliefs. Ultimately, it's important to approach these kinds of claims with skepticism and to rely on scientific evidence to guide our understanding of the world. :)
 
horseless carriage said:
Actually I do have some empathy with the flat earth theory.
I mean gravity is a myth. The earth sucks!
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The depressed step off the ledge and say wow gravity is great.
Gravity is Mass attraction to Mass. Light is a Wave with strong Particle appearance when it hits something. Acting like a Photon hitting and becoming an electron. 300 acre Solar instal proves that.
 
Paco Dennis said:
It's also worth noting that there are a lot of conspiracy theories and misinformation out there about the shape of the Earth, which can contribute to people's beliefs. Ultimately, it's important to approach these kinds of claims with skepticism and to rely on scientific evidence to guide our understanding of the world. :)
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I believe the earth is a fat in the middle ball. due to Water and Tides etc.
 
JustDave said:
How is it that the Earth is fine tuned to support human life?
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I wouldn't call it "fine tuned"--earthquakes, hurricanes 😥 , tornadoes, lightning, sharks, bears, rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, etc. As Neil deGrasse Tyson put it, "I could never worship the earth since there are just as many things about this planet that try to kill us as there are that supposedly love us."
 
DebraMae said:
If the earth were flat cats would have knocked everything off of the edges by now.
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The first man to sail around the world single-handedly, was Retired Sea Captain Joshua Slocum. This was somewhere during the late 19th Century, I think. Famous explorers had done it many times before him on expeditions, so the fact that the world was a globe was well understood by then.

Slocum was not in a hurry, and he would make ports of call to look up old acquaintances, give talks about his adventures to groups, and meet with various dignitaries. In South Africa, with three fourths of the trip behind him, he met with the head of state, whatever that position was called at the time, who could not be convinced the Earth was NOT flat, even though Slocum had sailed to the west and was now east of Boston, Massachusetts where his voyage began.

But you have to admit, the world seems flat, well kinda flat for the most part, and when I was a little kid playing in my back yard of our mid western flat-land home, it never occurred to me that it could be anything else, until a teacher explained it to the class.

joshua slocum - Google Search
Joshua Slocum was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey, Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. Wikipedia
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