Author Topic: 50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat (Read 341255 times)

mw2016 · « **Reply #275 on:** March 09, 2017, 10:05:07 AM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat

Especially noteworthy is minute 5:15 when Mr. Buckley says for the purposes of celestial navigation the earth is presumed motionless with the sun continually moving around it. His model shown at that point speaks for itself. It would make no sense whatsoever if the earth were "flat."

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"...for the purposes of navigation.." ???

No, it is assumed motionless with the sun moving above because that is REALITY.

Tell me how you arrive at the conclusion "it would make no sense if the earth were flat."

It makes PERFECT sense.

mw2016 · « **Reply #276 on:** March 09, 2017, 10:07:49 AM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat

But if the earth were flat, the angle between the north star, Polaris, and the horizon, would always be the same, regardless of latitude.

Not at all.

Why did you make this ASSumption?

noOneImportant · « **Reply #277 on:** March 09, 2017, 01:05:41 PM »

Quote from: mw2016

Quote from: Neil Obstat

But if the earth were flat, the angle between the north star, Polaris, and the horizon, would always be the same, regardless of latitude.

Not at all.

mw is correct. Why is everyone in this thread so bad at geometry? It is trivial to show the curvature of the earth with basic geometry. The greeks did it over 2000 years ago.

Truth is Eternal · « **Reply #278 on:** March 09, 2017, 02:07:30 PM »

Quote from: noOneImportant

Quote from: mw2016
Quote from: Neil Obstat

But if the earth were flat, the angle between the north star, Polaris, and the horizon, would always be the same, regardless of latitude.

Not at all.

mw is correct. Why is everyone in this thread so bad at geometry? It is trivial to show the curvature of the earth with basic geometry. The greeks did it over 2000 years ago.

There is no curvature to the earth.

Matto · « **Reply #279 on:** March 09, 2017, 02:17:33 PM »

As much as I think about the flat earth I focus on one point that I cannot understand. The sun's movement in the sky. I cannot reconcile how the sun moves in the sky with the flat earth models I have seen. If in the flat earth model the sun rose from the east and set in the west and at night went below the flat earth it would make sense and the sun would move the same way as it is observed but then you would have to say there is a vast conspiracy about time zones, but the model where the sun is moving around in a big circle over the flat earth and never sets just does not seem to fit the way the sun moves in the sky. So I do not believe it.