Author Topic: 50 Plus Reasons The Earth Is Not Flat (Read 340495 times)

happenby · « **Reply #305 on:** March 10, 2017, 12:35:14 AM »

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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.

Those are all panoramic shots, and by their nature, would not exhibit any curve.

Panoramic shots are designed to work in this way, so these shots in and of themselves do not prove a flat earth, nor do they disprove a globe earth.

If you are going to claim that NASA's photos of the globe earth are fake, then you cannot use photos that have been stitched together by computer software to claim the earth is flat.

That is illogical.

Ok, do show, anything at all, that proves curve commensurate with a 24,000 mile ball. Your own personal tests, someone else's tests, photos, whatever. Please only untouched, non cgi, not photoshopped evidence. But I'll take anything at all.

Just to save you time and effort if you were to try, let me admit to you that no one to date has produced this evidence and I've been doing flat earth for almost 10 years now. Why? Because they know it doesn't exist. NASA provides glorious photoshops of all sorts of things in outer space, yet not one true video of the rotating earth. Seriously? Not one single photo of the ball earth. NOT ONE!!! BY NASA'S OWN ADMISSION! So, please explain to me where is your evidence that earth is a ball?

Let me guess, you think earth is a ball...

1. Because NASA says so.
2. Because somebody says a shadow on the moon is curved.
3. Because teachers said so.
4. Because somebody said that flat earth is stupid.
5. Because everybody else says its true.
6. Because somebody says that the stars and sun and moon wouldn't work on flat earth.
7. Because somebody said ships disappear over the horizon.
8. Because somebody said astronauts saw it.

Wow. 100% of heliocentrism theory held by individuals is unsubstantiated, undocuмented, unphotographed, untenable HEARSAY! I really want to understand why good Catholics maintain heliocentric theory, when the Catholic Church condemned heliocentrism? Scripture only describes a flat immovable earth. Church Fathers condemned heliocentric theory, including sphericity of earth, based on scripture, yet Catholics still have the nerve to hold this blatantly condemned proposition.

Maybe you could explain that to me. I really don't get it. What are people holding on to?

Your post is full of assumptions. I never said I support heliocentrism. I never mentioned it. Your list of reasons for recognizing the possibility of the globe earth are not mine, nor have I ever implied these things.

Your assumptions of my reasons and my motivations are incorrect. Instead of assuming, you should ask first before shooting...

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If you aren't scriptural geocentric, you are heliocentric. Any in between theories are presumed by the uninformed and demonstrably belong to heliocentric theory.

It's flat earth or heliocentrism, so I haven't assumed anything...unless you changed your mind about flat earth.

FlatEarthInquisitor · « **Reply #306 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:04:20 AM »

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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.

The latter model does not seem to make sense because you haven't read about the law of perspective.

As objects move further away, they have the appearance of moving down.

Check out the images in the video at this link to grasp it http://flatearthtrads.forumga.net/t87-loi-du-perspective-explique

Its not very complicated and is common sense. Check out also the star trails video I posted earlier.

I wouldn't pivot your decision on the flat earth based on that though. To accept the law of perspective you really have to accept the flat earth (not absolutely - just for most people there are too many barriers). Which means you have to have studied the more compelling proofs such as objects that we can see, which we shouldn't, etc. etc.

Usually I find people put blocks up to accepting the flat earth, because they don't want to accept it, and that's really what it boils down to. They don't want to make the effort, or are afraid of coming across as crazy. But I can say it is the most liberating acceptance, once it is done.

FlatEarthInquisitor · « **Reply #307 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:10:41 AM »

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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.

I made a very long post somewhere in one of the 30 threads on this topic about conclusions that can and can't be drawn from horizon pictures like these. The long and the short of it is that to actual get measurable curvature*, you have to be at around 30,000 feet, have at least 60 degrees field of view, and have be careful to minimize lens distortion**. Those pictures prove nothing, and parroting statements while reposting them over and over isn't an argument that will convince a rational human being.

tl;dr - photographs of the "flat" horizon are rarely, if ever, useful in these arguments. Also pictures are easy to manipulate, so there's that to worry about as well.

* based on a earth with 4k mile radius, as per the "globe model".

** Lens distortion is a real issue, because lenses are round, so you can actually take a photograph of a flat line and have it be curved up, curved down, or flat, depending on how careful you are. Likewise, you can take a picture of a curved surface and distort that curvature so it isn't noticeable.

There's no reason why you should have to ascend to 30000 feet and have at least 60 degrees of view to see curvature. When you actually see the rates of curvature written out, you realise you should be able to see it, even from a mountain.

If you can produce a reason for this imaginary necessity, I would be interested to hear it.

FlatEarthInquisitor · « **Reply #308 on:** March 10, 2017, 03:16:16 AM »

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The sun does not sink below the horizon.

False.

It is plainly visible from a private airplane, when flying westward at sunset, to see the sun dip below the horizon, all one needs to do is to gain elevation a few hundred feet to see the sun re-appear where it went down, and then by descending one can see the sun set again over the horizon.

On a clear day, standing in a valley with mountains to the east, anyone with eyes to see can follow the shadow of the setting sun cast on the mountainside as it moves up the hillside. You can actually watch it move -- but it moves slowly. On an open field, such as Death Valley, you cannot run fast enough to keep up with the shadow it moves so fast.

Of course, some people (generally Modernists) cannot believe what they see with their own eyes.

Seeing the sun when you ascend in a plane has nothing to do with the earth being round. This is explained by the law of perspective, I just referred to.

cassini · « **Reply #309 on:** March 10, 2017, 04:32:24 AM »

Once again FlatEarthInquisitor, how can a flat earth have day and night rotating every 24 hours? Now remember we are here dealing with a mathematical and geometrical question, so absolute proofs are possible. We know the distance the sun is from the earth and therefore the distances its light spreads across space. It seem to me impossible for a small flat earth to accommodate this rotation of day and night in the manner that a global earth does.

Remind me of your theory.