Flat Earth..

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1. (1) The picture shows a mammoth circle, which a lot of people take as the earth. On the flat surface, there are the colours of blue, white, green and brown. I think they represent the oceans, ice glaciers and lands. In the center of the picture, there is a small white circle which comes to me as the north pole. The white circle surrounding the earth in the picture looks very mysterious and it seems to be the edge of the earth. Water takes up most of the earth in this picture, which is actually the same as now. Affected by the facts I've learned in school, I think the earth in this picture is incomplete. It looks as if there are several continents missing in the picture.

(2) In the picture, we can see the background of some houses. It appears to me as the castles in the olden times. There are a lot of clouds flowing in the sky. I learn that the weather is very nice because the sky is very blue. Behind the castles, there are lots of trees and a river. The scenery makes the picture look very peaceful. What points out it's a flat earth is the boat falling on the edge of the earth. I think it's a waterfall that the boat is dropping from. It tilts at the edge which indicates that it's an end of the earth. The sky looks very near to the earth, maybe just covering it.

2. If I still believed that the earth is flat, I would definitely have a very strong believe because nowadays, few people still hold that old thought. If the earth is round like a ball, how can we stand on it and not fall? Scientists say that there is gravity, but then how can balloons fly into the sky? The earth I see everyday is also flat. When cars drive on the road, they travel in a straight line, and not in a curved shape. Another reason is that even if there is gravity, how can people live upside down on the other end of the earth? Wouldn't they die? In the olden times, people were hard to convince and not much people would believe scientists, but the theory of flat earth succeeded in persuading everyone. This shows that it has its logic. Our ancestors have always believed that the earth is flat, so they absolutely had their reason, which is an important reason why I still choose to believe the old opinion.

3. Technology is becoming more and more developed. Today, we learn a lot about our universe and the earth and most of it seems to make sense. I think we still have false concepts of the world because there are still a lot of things that science can not explain today. Technology has never stopped improving, so the truth is always upgrading and changing. For example, scientists kicked Pluto out of the list of planets. This means that it's no longer an acknowledged planet. From there, we see that science doesn't always stay the same, so we never stop correcting our misunderstandings of the universe. Therefore, people would always keep on having wrong concepts of the earth. However, scientists are there to correct them.