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We are soon going to have worldwide news coverage of the upcoming total solar eclipse in August.
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There is absolutely no way that anyone who pushes flat-earthism can explain how their concept is useful for predicting solar eclipses.
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The fact that for many years in advance, these eclipses can be predicted with great accuracy is proof positive that the calculations that go into defining their scope and range and timing is sound and true. We are told with great confidence the precise path of the moon's shadow, so that people who want to be there to witness it can know in advance where to go and when to get there.
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No amount of heckling, sneering, ridiculing and harassment from the foot-stomping, foaming-at-the-mouth flat-earthers will make a whit of difference, because the sun will rise, the moon's shadow will traverse the United States, and the sun will set that day all the while the flat-earthers will be crying in their milk shakes. Unless they're opposed to animal products. Then they'll cry in their Teavana shaken iced tea, I suppose.
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Check out the hotel reservations. Hotels are booking up all across the country, and the few still available are getting really pricey. People are renting out spaces in their yards for motor homes. Farmers are staking out parking lots on fallow farmland. American industrial ingenuity is hard at work, all because lots of people who understand that the earth is spherical and the moon casts its extended elliptical shadow over a curved surface know just where to be at the right moment. The one thing they'll have to gamble on is for a clear sky at the critical moments.
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They have to make plans to be away from home weeks in advance. Tens of thousands of Americans are planning their summer vacations around this astronomical event.
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Maybe they should all stop and think, "If the earth is flat, there won't be any eclipse because then the moon's shadow would never look like this."
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Points? What "points" did happenby make, pray tell? That I have not provided any empirical science?
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Do you know what empirical science is?
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See reply#693. Perhaps you missed it....though you did quote it. You didn't address it at all. 

See reply#693. Perhaps you missed it....though you did quote it. You didn't address it at all.

Are you talking about this?
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Quote from: happenby on June 05, 2017, 07:58:54 AM

This is all a bunch of garbage.  No one cares what pagans measure because their stick is crooked. Eratosthenes was a liar in the manner of Hom and his progeny Pythagoras.  He and Copernicus, Keplar, Newton and Galileo were occult dabbling pagan philosophers and full on liars.  With a stack of saints against this rabble, along with the teachings of scripture and Catholic writings, not to mention empirical science, the heliocentric model continues to crash to hell.  So many words from the pagans, so little content.  

Quote from: happenby on June 05, 2017, 08:08:42 AM

Ha ha, using this example, with the 93,000,000 miles distance to the heliocentric sun, the angles for said triangle (specifically the smallest angle near the sun, would not even produce a triangle, but a straight line, nearly parallel to the next side of the "triangle" for several million miles, if not the entire distances to earth. To even suggest this graphic might work means the sun has to be a lot less than 100,000 miles from earth for the outer angle near the sun to even present itself as measurable. Oops.  Back to your debunking Catholic teaching drawing board. 

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Would you like me to break it down into a list of questions for you?
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1. This is all a bunch of garbage.
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What should I say about that? I have been very diligent in providing details and it is all thrown back in my face calling my work "garbage." What would you do?
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2. No one cares what pagans measure because their stick is crooked. 
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Now my measurements are pagan and my stick is crooked? I didn't use a stick. And I am not pagan. 
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Sorry, I fail to see what "points" it is to which you refer. Please make a list of intelligent questions and then we can talk.
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