People used to think that the earth was flat.

They've been making flat screen monitors for years.

Okay. These are flat structures that we see here, the muscle.

Between its coastal mountain ranges, North America has vast flat areas.

A few years ago, Gateway came out with flat screen TVs.

Just quickly Aristotle, his thing was, It s not flat, stupid, it s round.

The universal belief in a flat Earth is confirmed by a contemporary Chinese encyclopedia from 1609 illustrating a flat Earth extending over the horizontal diametral plane of a spherical heaven.

He believes that no one has provided proof that the world is not flat.

So, what we're doing is just printing DNA on glass little flat things and these are going to be markers for pathogens.

Numerous flat topped buttes with rich soil stand high above the chaotic scablands.

The roofs were flat, made of earth on top of short branches, resting on transverse arches.

This is an example of a page history on flat earth, and you can see some changes that were made.

The Canadian Shield covers almost 5 million km² of North America and is generally quite flat.

Most of us (except for a lunatic fringe of flat earthers) also believe this to be the case.

As of August 2011, the new Flat Beds were installed on all aircraft except short haul aircraft.

Most of its territory is completely flat and is part of the Pannonian Plain region (called the Grand Plain in the country).

Many IDEs work with a flat set of projects instead of the hierarchy of folders preferred by Maven.

The data showed the configuration of the seafloor where he saw that some undersea mountains had flat tops.

In addition to these comments on the recommendations of the report, on the issue of procurement volume, the comparison appears to be too linear.

And you can see that it looks like a 3D room if you can see kind of like a video game, it sort of looks 3D, but for the most part, the image looks pretty flat, and bound to the surface of the screen.

Early cotton gins The earliest versions of the cotton gin consisted of a single roller made of iron or wood and a flat piece of stone or wood.

Flat metal signs reappeared in the 1980s with the widespread use of surfaces covered with retroflective sheeting materials like Scotchlite.

It takes (a) the awareness that a given canal is flat and (b) expertise in creative use of hand instruments to try to overcome this problem.

Were the Earth flat, light rays that bend down would soon hit the ground and only nearby objects would be affected.

This is what allows squirrels to climb tree trunks that are so large as to be essentially flat, from the perspective of such a small animal.

The most common use in bread is in rolls or buns (sämpylä) or in flat soft bread pieces similar to ruispalat or reissumies rye breads.

Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 500 BC) thought that the Earth was flat, with its upper side touching the air, and the lower side extending without limit.

It is a flat thick noodle made of egg and flour (usually one egg for every 100 g of flour), wider than but similar to the tagliatelle typical of Bologna.

One problem that's happening now is, although the rates of happiness are about as flat as the surface of the moon, depression and anxiety are rising.

A precursor to the dory type was the early French bateau type, a flat bottom boat with straight sides used as early as 1671 on the Saint Lawrence River.

The common coastal boat of the time was the wherry and the merging of the wherry design with the simplified flat bottom of the bateau resulted in the birth of the dory.

A microtitre plate (spelled Microtiter is a registered trade name in the United States) or microplate or microwell plate or multiwell, is a flat plate with multiple wells used as small test tubes.

The society was further affected by a fire at the house of Charles K. Johnson which destroyed all of the records and contacts of members of the Society.

And we developed a pattern together that scales to arbitrarily large size, but that allows any flat ring or disc to fold down into a very neat, compact cylinder.

In about half of the cases, the skin may develop a maculopapular rash, a flat red area covered with small bumps, 5 to 7 days after symptoms begin.

Because the CIE sensitivity curves have equal areas under the curves, light with a flat energy spectrum corresponds to the point ( x , y ) (0.333,0.333).

What rises twice a year, once in Easter and then two weeks before Christmas, has a mini peak every Monday, and then flattens out over the summer?

So, pretty early on in my investigations I realized what I was finding was not what I expected to find, which was, quite frankly, a lot of beer can pyramids and overstuffed couches and flat screen TVs.

Eugenie Scott called them an example of extreme Biblical literalist theology The earth is flat because the Bible says it is flat, regardless of what science tells us .

Steep cliffs form some sections of the coastline in others the mountains are further inland, and the coastal area is flat and bordered by coral reefs.

Their intended destination was Howland Island, a flat sliver of land 6,500 ft (2,000 m) long and 1,600 ft (500 m) wide, 10 ft (3 m) high and 2,556 miles (4,113 km) away.

A guyot , also known as a tablemount, is an isolated underwater volcanic mountain (seamount), with a flat top over 200 metres (660 feet) below the surface of the sea.

We took our chip over to Hewlett Packard and used their atomic force microscope on one of these spots, and this is what you see you can actually see the strands of DNA lying flat on the glass here.

While discussing the importance of acting on climate change, President Barack Obama said there was no time for a meeting of the flat earth society in reference to climate change deniers.

The cape includes a high cliff with a large flat plateau on top where visitors can stand and watch the midnight sun or the views of the Barents Sea to the north.