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What If Earth Was Shaped Like a Donut?

What If | October 8, 2025



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On our hypothetical journey, we’ve already tested out living on a flat Earth, a cubical Earth, even a hollow Earth. What do you say we try to survive on an Earth with a giant hole in the middle? Would a planet like this even have a chance of being habitable?

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Technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS3bBO05fpU&list=PLZdXRHYAVxTIeRY3JtgXgoGqSEB7kDdKO
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  3. @calebvangelder1101

    October 8, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    I convince my friends that i believe the earth is a donut and it rotates inward on itself so that at night the stars are actually all of the city lights you see across the donut hole

  9. @markwilliam9143

    October 8, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    A Conceptual View of the Flat Earth and the Dome
    Throughout history, humanity has debated the true shape of our world — spherical, oval, geoid, or otherwise. While modern science promotes the spherical Earth model, I hold a strong belief that the Earth could, in fact, be flat. This is not based on complex rocket science, extensive research, or laboratory experiments, but rather on imagination, common sense, and observation.

    In this concept, there is no such thing as the “North Pole” and “South Pole” as traditionally described. Instead, the center of the Earth is the point to which all compasses naturally point. The so-called “South Pole” is not a single point at the bottom of a sphere, but rather the edge surrounding the entire known world.

    Light travels in straight lines; it does not curve. A compass needle similarly follows a direct path toward its magnetic center. If we think about the Earth as a flat plane, we can visualize it like a coin — which, of course, has two sides. The surface we live on is one face of the coin, while the opposite side could potentially host another world entirely.

    Over our side of the Earth lies the firmament — a vast dome that forms a perfect semi-sphere enclosing our world. This dome extends beyond the edges, continuing beneath and around to form a complete sphere enclosing both sides of the “coin.” Here lies the origin of the confusion: from outside this enclosed system, the full dome would appear as a sphere, leading observers to mistakenly conclude that the Earth itself is spherical.

    As for what lies beneath or on the other side of this coin-shaped Earth, one can only imagine. Perhaps it is a mirrored world… or perhaps, it could be the realm from which our so-called “alien visitors” originate…As in above, so below!

    While this model challenges conventional thinking, it is simply an imaginative exploration — a “what if” perspective that dares to consider possibilities beyond what we are told. Oh, about the sun and moon, it's ok they're outside the dome.
    Anyways am just flat-earthering around don't bother.

  16. @aquarpioleonine3995

    October 8, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    On a donut/torus earth, it would be stationary with the sun and moon would be orbiting in and out of the hole and around the donut over and over. You could just look up and see the other side of the world or travel to it by going up in a straight line, or build a bridge to it.

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