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Offline Ladislaus

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Re: "Flat" Earth -- Complete Balderdash
« Reply #110 on: May 13, 2018, 02:12:22 PM »
These pictures get posted on this forum regularly, and they invariably match up with the expected curvature of the round earth when you do the math. I've done so several times if you feel like digging through my post history. Or just post one you think is convincing and I'd be interested to take a look at it.

No they don't.  I've checked that math using a curvature calculator.

I use this to check their math --
https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=20&h0=6&unit=imperial

Re: "Flat" Earth -- Complete Balderdash
« Reply #111 on: May 13, 2018, 02:13:39 PM »
Please post one that you don't think checks out.


Re: "Flat" Earth -- Complete Balderdash
« Reply #112 on: May 13, 2018, 02:43:31 PM »
No they don't.  I've checked that math using a curvature calculator.

I use this to check their math --
https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=20&h0=6&unit=imperial
Please explain how a light source alway at a large height above a flat Earth could cause mountains to cast shadows up into the sky.

Re: "Flat" Earth -- Complete Balderdash
« Reply #113 on: May 13, 2018, 03:12:09 PM »
Even those ancients who MAY have believed in a flat Earth believed that the Sun went under the rim of the world.

The great irony here is that modern flatters continually appeal to the “common sense” evidence of the senses - except when it comes to the Sun rising and setting. THEN they invoke terms like optical illusion and hocus pocus mechanisms.

Just like with the gravitational force. They laugh it off as magic, despite the universal applicability of its equations to both local and celestial mechanics - but then they invoke words like “pressure” and “density” without being able to account for why their “pressure” has a downward vector in the absence of an external force field (the reason something above you exerts a pressure upon you, whether is that it’s being PULLED IN a DIRECTION) or why objects still fall INSIDE VACUUMS (don’t even bother, you will never get an answer). Of course they have to deny the existence of a gravitational central force because it is incompatible with a finite flat
disk, not to mention a cylinder which would pull you toward its center.

In the case of the really dumb ones it’s “because down is down, duh” - yes, clearly it’s gravitati theory that is “absurd” (as if things attracting one another based upon their mass were any weirder than the electromagnetic force - we can have magnetism but we can’t have gravity, no sir, that gravitational stuff is a priori absurd because ... because ... because modern materialists HATE the notion of action-at-a-distance as it interferes with their only conceivable notion of causation, that of Democritan billiard balls bumping into one another)

Offline Ladislaus

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Re: "Flat" Earth -- Complete Balderdash
« Reply #114 on: May 13, 2018, 05:03:41 PM »
Please explain how a light source alway at a large height above a flat Earth could cause mountains to cast shadows up into the sky.

Oh, stop it with this nonsense.  Who knows whether those are shadows of the mountains or something else?  In addition, there's nothing to stop the light source from bouncing off and reflecting from some other surface.  So this doesn't prove anything.

I'd be perfectly fine believing in a globe earth, since it's neither here not there where it comes to my faith.  I'm still waiting for that conclusive proof.