9 Most Popular Flat Earth Arguments, Debunked

7. Why It’s B*llocks: The Earth Is Big, The Ground Isn't Flat, And It Is Taken Into Account

Generally speaking, the curvature of the Earth isn't taken into account in most engineering projects, because the Earth is so large that the errors caused by it are so miniscule as to be negligible for the most part. Add to this the fact that structures that do cover a massive amount of ground, such as the highways that spread across the United States, don't actually trace a perfectly straight line for miles and miles, but are forced to make adjustments to account for geographical features and topography.

This aside for a second, the most absurd thing about the argument that there are a few cases in which the curvature of the Earth is taken into account.

The hero that brought us all proof of gravitational waves, LIGO, has arms so long that concrete had to be poured to very exact measurements to account for the curve (as complete accuracy here was far more important than the building of a road), and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge was designed with this in mind because the curvature cause the tops of its towers to be 41.275 mm farther apart at the top than the bottom.

Or maybe they just threw those measurements in to throw us off the scent.