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Yeah, raindrops are actually closer to...yes, discs. They flatten out due to air resistance.
My point about raindrops and bubbles is that they
form as spheres and not flat discs. The Earth also was formed spherically. There is no great force smashing the Earth into a disc shape. Besides raindrops compress into dome shapes as they fall, not discs.
My other points were more important like the fact that the weather would not behave the way it does with a flat Earth. Weather forecast models would never have the slightest chance of working if the Earth were flat. They are all based on a spherical rotating Earth.
Also the Earth's magnetic field is generated by the friction in the Spherical iron core of the spherical Earth against its mantle which rotates at a different speed. Without this magnetic field, solar wind would destroy all life on the Earth. A very easy-to-see example of solar wind is the Aurora Borealis and degraded radio/satellite communcation during such an event.
I see no one has brought up the fact that as the night progresses, anyone can see that stars pass behind the moon. This disproves the meteor cloud theory since all explanations of a meteor cloud are that it is between us and the sun/moon.
I know people that have lived in New Zeland where the seasons are backwards from the U.S. If there is no southern hemisphere, then where did they live for those many years?
A flat Earth is just as plausible as the one in this picture.
http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/~turk/texture_transfer/earth_knot.jpg