Huh? Get out of your cave and get into school.

Hi Maria, yes you are perfectly right. The common sense tells us The Earth is flat, and it tends to become day by day much more flat, but I am expressing that in a figurative language. This means our world is flat because it strives toward globalization. There is a book “The World Is Flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century by Thomas L. Friedman that is a metaphor for viewing the world in this way. The author defines ten "forces" that are leveling the global playing field. It can be read online. Now I am asking myself : “But what about the forces which could do dust and not flat our planet?

Hi. Funny ,either you are kidding and making fun by your statement or I wonder which anno domini did you pop up from ? ;)

Derrick's right... and seems to quote philosopher Plato's "cave myth" about humans living in a cave and believing it's the whole world: when one of them comes out, he has some problems in adapting to the real world but then he loves it (sunshine, sky, plants...); however he decides to come back into the cave to tell the others, even if returning is difficult again, but they don't believe him and mocke him! Plato used this to explain that we have to come out of common beliefs (called "doxa", that is, "opinion") to reach the real world and the "truth" ("alethèia"). Anyway, I'm not so sure common sense tells us Earth is flat. Try to look around yourself when you're in a wide flat place such as a plain – isn't the horizon round? Or try to observe a wide sea view from a high point, comparing it with something straight lined like a ruler or a stretched wire – isn't it evident now that the line dividing sea and sky is curved? Or just watch the moon at night: if you see a "scythe", then the shadow of Earth (caused by its position between the light from the sun and the moon) is curved... and what but a round thing can make such a shadow? Sea streams, winds, their motion is determined by the spheric shape of Earth (difference of angular speed, commonly named as "Coriolis force"). However ok, we can assume common sense tells us so. But well, we have intelligence too... ø_ø

Hey Mareeya (is this supposed to be spelt this way? sorry for my bad russian though :P ), Are you a member from the Flat Earth Society?