Re This makes map-girl look a bit brighter anyway | | I just asked #4 if the world is flat. He said it was not. I asked him how he knew that, and he gave me a list of reasons. Not all are right, but I think they're well thought out:
1. We didn't fall off the edge when we went to England.
2. Water hasn't all run off the edge like it does when we spill water onto our counter.
3. We wouldn't have a nice long sunset or sunrise, it would be more like a light turning on and off, because the rotating round Earth is what makes it take a while for the sun to disappear or reappear.
I am almost tempted to send the show's producers an email. When a 10 year old can look aghast and say,"She has a son?? How is he supposed to learn anything from a mom like that?!" there's just something horribly, horribly wrong. |