As for the appearnces of the constellations the details of your alleged facts are incorrect, and the way stars work and rotate in a firmament with regard to the perspective of the viewer would take much too long to explain here for someone who's still pushing the "boats disappearing" fallacy, but many videos have been made explaining it.
It would take too long to explain? And you expect me to explain stuff...
Many videos explain lies. There are many videos that explain how protestantism is legit, and Catholicism isn't, does that make the Prots right? Even textbooks often teach wrong things or partial truths expecting you to take their word rather than explain the details. They expect you to accept Bernoulli's principle as to how planes fly, when that's only a small part of it that planes don't even need to fly.
How do you explain when boats sail over the horizon you see the hull disappear then later the mast, and when coming back from sea the mast then the hull. If the earth was flat, then the boat would simply get smaller and smaller until you couldn't see the whole thing? Also, if the earth was flat how do you explain constellations light the Southern Cross and the Big Dipper the former only being able to be seen below 25 degrees South, and the latter higher than 41 degrees North?
It's due in part to perspective. As things get further away, both your viewing angle get shallower, and the size of the object gets smaller. Ocean waves are actually quite large even before they get magnified by shallow areas as they approach a beach. These large waves will appear even larger relative to a distant boat. But that explanation can work on both a globe and flat earth.
Canon balls fired straight up land just feet from where they were fired -- sometimes landing right back inside the cannon barrel! Which would be impossible on a moving earth.
Proof of the canon experiment, please. There are a lot of variables to consider. Was it a rifled barrel? What were the wind conditions?
Keep in mind just how long it takes for 360 degrees of earth rotation to occur: 24 hours.
One of the reasons I'm FIRMLY CONVINCED the earth is flat and motionless is the following:
Either air sticks to the surface of the "globe", even at 30,000 feet where the air is quite thin, or it doesn't.
If the air is NOT "glued" to the ground below it, then you should 100% be able to get into a hot air balloon, gain some altitude, and then wait for your destination to arrive beneath you.
Winds go every which direction on earth: North, West, South, East. How can that be possible when the earth constantly rotates very fast in just ONE direction? Especially on the E-W axis there should be STRONG dominant winds in only one direction.
But if the air IS glued to the surface, it presents a different host of problems. You would have super strong winds, in one direction, as that air has to haul ass to keep up with the ground below it. As you know, the greater the radius, the further out, the faster things would have to spin to keep up with the center of the wheel.
Now imagine flying N-S in such a scenario. The winds would decrease as you went from the equator to the top of the "globe", as the radius decreases. By the time you got to the north pole, there would be no wind. Imagine if your plane had some momentum from the equator, and now you land in a place where the earth is not spinning many feet/second at all, like the north pole.
Think about it, think some more, and maybe throw in some research. You'll be a so-called "flat earther" before long.
I'm not necessarily trying to argue anything, just pointing out some facts.
Did you know that air sticks to flat surfaces? Go ahead and spin up a record or CD with a drill or something, and it will blow some air like a centrifugal fan. The further from the surface, the less the air sticks, or the whole air mass in the room would be spinning.
A big difference between that and the earth is that there is no air far from the earth according to the globe earth model. Gravity attracts it there just like it attracts everything else, and friction is the stickiness in a way. Think of how gum sticks hard to a surface, but is easier to move around when stretched above the surface.
Also think of how if you swing a bucket or water around in a circle, when it is over your head, the high density water remains at the bottom of the bucket, while the low density air is still in the top half of the bucket defying gravity. If you filled the bucket with 10 fluids of different density that do not blend well (like oil and water and air), and swung them around in a circle, the centrifugal force would keep them separated with the densest fluid at the bottom of the bucket, and the least dense at the top, even when the bucket is in the upside down part of the swing. This gravity defying demonstration of density of fluids should help you grasp how gravity can attract air to a globe floating in a vacuum with a range of density from a few stray air molecules bouncing off the rest of the air below at the edge of space, to 14.7psi of air at sea level.
Here's a time lapse of weather patterns over the whole earth just for the fun of it. There's a lot going on. IF the earth is rotating, you'd thing air would get flung toward the equator from the poles. Eventually there would be an equilibrium, but high pressure at the equator. An increase in pressure generates heat, heat causes air to expand, The sun surely causes much heat expansion around the equator. Add in the sun not shining in the same place all the time, and different shapes of land and mountains which interact with the air, and the system really gets complicated.
Think about it, think some more, and maybe throw in some research. You'll be a so-called "globe-earther" before long.
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