Goodwood wrote...
Samara is, near as I can tell, around 800-900. The wiki claims she's 1000, but I'm not buying it. In any case, the round earth thing was still being debated in the 15th and 16th Centuries, which would have been about seven hundred years prior to Mass Effect 1 and 2.
In Aristotle's writing he refers to the earth as being round as "common knowledge among the learned", that was very close to 2500 years ago. The Persians, Chinese, Romans and Greeks, all accepted the earth as round at that time or earlier, much much much earlier for the Chinese. To say it was in "debate" then, well it still is, there is still a flat earth society and religious cults the reject a universe that doesn't revolve around the earth. For all intents and purposes 2500 years ago human beings knew the earth was round. Hell in 200BC Eratosthenes had a somewhat accurate (though by no means perfect) guess at the diameter of the earth
And 100 years with a hard-bodied granny wouldn't be so bad if she was rich. But she's not, so she's just an old blue woman with no scratch to freeload.