Is the world flat, then?

Scientists, it is said, never take any assumption for granted. A panel of amateur scientists on the American TV program “The View” debated two such assumptions. Click on the image to see and hear video. Here is a transcript covering one of the two questions (the video clip covers both questions):

WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Is the world flat?

SHERRI SHEPHERD: Is the world flat? (laughter)

GOLDBERG: Yes.

SHEPHERD: ?I Don?t know.

GOLDBERG: What do you think?

SHEPHERD: I? I never thought about it, Whoopi. Is the world flat? I never thought about it.

BARBARA WALTERS: You?ve never thought about whether the world was round or flat?

SHEPHERD: I tell you what I?ve thought about. How I?m going to feed my child?

WALTERS: Well you can do both.

SHEPERD: ?how I?m going to take care of my family. The world, is the world flat has never entered into, like that has not been an important thing to me.

ELIZABETH HASSELBECK: You?ll teach your son, Jeffery, right?

SHEPHERD: If my son, Jeffery, asks me ?is the world flat,? I guess I would go?

JOY BEHAR: You know, didn?t some person already work this question out? I mean, why are we doing this again? (laughter, applause)

(Thanks to The Daily Background for bringing this to our attention.)