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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Father Pfeiffer slaming Flat Earth, our response
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2017, 09:27:15 PM »
Quote from: obscurus on July 12, 2017, 04:12:45 PM
I could be wrong but I almost get the impression that Flat Earthers are in reality sophisticated trollers. If they are not then I must ask how does any of this relate to the Faith? Why are you so strident in your beliefs?
Trollers, surely, but sophisticated? Give me a break!
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Father Pfeiffer slaming Flat Earth, our response
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2017, 09:39:08 PM »
Quote from: TomGubbinsKimmage on July 14, 2017, 03:51:13 AM
The reason we are strident is because it is so obviously flat. There is no visible curvature and we can see objects now over the "horizon" with modern cameras, which we should not see. You just have to do the maths.
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Do the maths?
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So this means you are willing to measure the angle tomorrow between the moon and the sun until noon on the west coast (or respectively earlier from points west, such as Alaska, Hawaii, Tahiti or Australia)?
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Or do you just say things like "do the maths" when you don't really mean what you say?
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Tomorrow the moon sets at 12:04 pm and the Last Quarter moon occurs at 12:27 pm, UTC-7.
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Offline Neil Obstat

Re: Father Pfeiffer slaming Flat Earth, our response
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2017, 09:57:28 PM »
Where is the link to the video or audio of Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer talking about this earth topic?
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The only links I can find are those of responses (ridicule videos) to Fr. Pfeiffer.
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Offline JohnAnthonyMarie

Re: Father Pfeiffer slaming Flat Earth, our response
« Reply #23 on: July 16, 2017, 08:18:11 AM »
I am a sailor, and used to race sailboats.  I have two questions:
1. Myself and another were often the fastest boats in a local racing fleet (typically two to three times faster than the others).  As we would sail away from the rest of the fleet, their boats would slowly disappear below the horizon, first the hull of the boat, then the sails, and finally the masthead.  How is this explained by a flat earth model?
2. There is a race around the world wherein the course followed is commonly understood to be shorter closer to the attic circle.  In the flat earth model, the distance around the edge of the flat earth appears to be significantly greater than following a course closer to the capes.  How is it possible that boats sailing a greater distance closer to the edge of the flat earth are faster that boats sailing a shorter course further away from the edge of the flat earth model?
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Offline deutschcath

Re: Father Pfeiffer slaming Flat Earth, our response
« Reply #24 on: July 16, 2017, 12:42:07 PM »
Mr John Anthony Marie,

Boats disappear hull first. This is true, but they remain a the same level. The mast should descend, but does not.

Here is a video illustrating this...




The answer why they do this is simply because objects get smaller and descend as they go further away, and there must be a point where they "merge" with the sky.

This video gives some good illustrations explaining how this common sense principle works.
No need to watch it all, if you don't want to. Skipping to the pictures will give you an idea of how it works.

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