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How Old and What Shape is Earth?

How Old and what Shape is Earth?

  • 4.5 Billion

    Votes: 15 78.9%
  • Just over six thousand

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 150,000

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's Flat

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's Hollow

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's a globe

    Votes: 10 52.6%
  • It's a cube

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It's concave

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other

    Votes: 10 52.6%

  • Total voters
    19

Jumi

Well-Known Member
4.5 Billion/Other seems like the best estimate we have at this moment. I wouldn't be surprised if it was even older than that.
 

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
If Earth were flat, things wouldn't disappear over the horizon in the way they do. Aristotle proved Earth is round, but I'd be willing to bet that sailors and communities that lived on coastlines would have known this fact long beforehand.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
It is quite common knowledge that the Moon is receding from the Earth at 38mm per year and is about 384 000 km distant.
Do the math.

That would make the separation between Earth and Moon about 10 billion years ago.
Not 4.5 billion years as is commonly regurgitated by the unthinking parrots of academia.

But then its all about popularity and status and little to do with logic itself, innit?
This presumes that the moon started touching the Earth with a constant rate of recession.
This is a faulty assumption.
Currently, the most common theory on the formation of the Earth & Moon is that a smaller
planet collided with the early Earth in a glancing blow, with the remains of that planetoid
becoming the moon. I don't think you can determine the age of either from the mechanics
of that event, but instead it's the reverse, dating rocks on both has lead to that scenario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theia_(planet)
 
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