What about gravity? When did you realize that it actually wasn't electromagnetism?
I remember seeing a map that had Canada and Mexico all of a sudden. I disappointedly looked at my mom asking why she would keep such information from me. I had only seen a map of the lower 48 up to that point, so I had no idea there was more and that we were on a round planet. I don't recall what I thought when I was exposed to the rest of the world. When presented with everything about the shape of the world, I didn't doubt it.
don't remember always seen movies and shows with globes or space men looking at the world.
Great question but I have no idea. We had a set of Encyclopedia Britanica and if I asked a question like that I was often told to look it up. Since I learned to read at an early age I was able to learn a lot from it. It also had fun articles especially for children which helped.
My mother and grandparents probably told me at an early age that the earth was round if I mentioned it being flat. Since they were my authorities on everything I would have taken their word for it. They did not lie to me.
Besides I was a Superman fan and he flew around the earth so of course it was round.
We had a globe it never came up.
As much flat-earthers can be both funny and frustrating, it is a reminder of a larger, dangerous phenomenon, the my opinions as good as yours school of thought. Expertise matters, and embracing ignorance is not cool. I think of it thusly:
Yes, you are entitled to your opinion. However, your opinion is not entitled to be shared, when based on ignorance or intolerance and it is not equivalent to opinion from an expert.
If you don't think it matters, 62M people voted for Trump.
I never thought the earth was flat. My dad was a high school biology/chemistry/anatomy teacher so I was taught the scientific explanations for everything growing up.
One of my parents is an immature mental defective of inadequate education who worked as a hairdresser, so all I heard was gibberish and neanderthal speech from her. She is a highly aggressive, talkative, time-consuming, emotional, opinionated, anti-intellectual, loud person who is a master at making people upset through her highly antisocial behavior. Her favorite hobbies are television and chores. She doesn't read, discuss, etc. nothing intellectual and she insists that other people be like her.
My dad is a cool guy, but he gets saucy and tries to micromanage with critiques about my manners.
@DZhukovin wow. That sounds...fun. my parents each have their own distinct flavors of crazy and emotionally troubled, but holy hell. There are few things so dangerous and toxic for a child as a belligerently manipulative anti-intellectual parent. My sympathies that can't have been pleasant.