![]() If the planet were indeed a flat surface the way Flat Earthers claim, there would still be a gravitational pull towards the center of said disk, the physicist pointed out - meaning anyone at the purported "edge" would fall sideways. "That is, 'true down' is always toward the center of Earth." "Near Earth - or any other planet or star - 'true up' is always the direction opposite the gravitational force," North Carolina State University physics professor David Brown told the newspaper. ![]() Of course, as USA Today emphasized as it sought to debunk this "wrongheaded" meme and the junk science behind it, there's no true "up" or "down" in space - and furthermore, we don't experience the sensation of being "upside down" because Earth's substantial gravity pulls everything towards the planet's center, creating the sensation of being upright on a flat surface that's actually just a very large sphere. ![]() As the idiotic meme claims, Earth can't really be a globe because that would mean that some parts of the world are upside-down and at risk of falling off. ![]()
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