Okay, another question. (This isn't that question, but how did CathInfo morph from an "all Nishant Xavier, all the time" forum, to a flat earth/heliocentrism-vs-geocentrism forum? This seems to have taken on a life of its own!)
Anyway, here's the question.
Scientists and astronomers, using the tools of orthodox, commonly received science, are able to predict all sorts of phenomena with great precision, in the case of the 2017 solar eclipse, right down almost to the second, exactly where it was projected to have totality, and they were able to do that years prior to the event. If the cosmos were something different than what they say it is, then using those same tools, and making those same assumptions, how do they get it right? Is it not a little far-fetched to think that all the scientists say "all right, guys, sssshhh!, make sure nobody hears this, we'll use one set of tools and calculations to fake everyone out, and another real set of tools and calculations --- predicated upon a flat earth and/or geocentrism --- to predict with pinpoint accuracy when eclipses, and so on, will take place"?
And as for the airline routes between places in the Southern Hemisphere, yes, making huge dog-legs up to North America, Europe, and the Middle East seems counter-intuitive, but train routes --- which are of necessity fixed --- very often take circuitous routes to serve the maximum possible number of passengers. The Amtrak Cardinal route comes immediately to mind, though that is largely driven by Senator Robert Byrd's efforts to get train service for remote and lightly populated parts of West Virginia. (Pretty ride if you ever get a chance, BTW.) And many of these south-to-south flights have huge layovers in the hubs, which seem like they might be just two flights cobbled together, rather than one intentional flight from, e.g., BSAS to Johannesburg, or Santiago to Sydney.
I'm neither trying to debunk FE/geocentrism or heliocentrism (or "no-centrism"), these are just random questions that come to mind.