Is The Earth Flat Or Round?
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It might help your case if you didn't misrepresent that of so-called "ball earthers".
The ball-Earth model doesn't make any claims; people make claims.
The prevailing view is that the sun is approximately, not "precisely" 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away.
The claim is not that this makes them "falsely" appear exactly the same size; the claim is that they do appear to be about the same size.
The ball model doesn't ask anything. People who believe in the ball Earth believe these things. I, for one, am not asking you to believe anything; I'm telling you the truth. Whether you believe the truth or not is your problem, not mine.
One cannot measure distance with a sextant, so your claim on that matter is simply erroneous. Rather, a sextant is used to measure arc angle, also called angular distance.
It is perfectly consistent with experience and common sense that the sun is larger than the moon, and that it is much farther away. Your eyes must see things differently than mine do.
The ball-Earth model doesn't make any claims; people make claims.
The prevailing view is that the sun is approximately, not "precisely" 400 times larger than the moon and 400 times farther away.
The claim is not that this makes them "falsely" appear exactly the same size; the claim is that they do appear to be about the same size.
The ball model doesn't ask anything. People who believe in the ball Earth believe these things. I, for one, am not asking you to believe anything; I'm telling you the truth. Whether you believe the truth or not is your problem, not mine.
One cannot measure distance with a sextant, so your claim on that matter is simply erroneous. Rather, a sextant is used to measure arc angle, also called angular distance.
It is perfectly consistent with experience and common sense that the sun is larger than the moon, and that it is much farther away. Your eyes must see things differently than mine do.
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• Job 9:6 . . He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
The Hebrew word for "pillars" is somewhat ambiguous and doesn't
necessarily pertain to mechanical support; for example Ex 13:21 where
pillars of smoke and fire were sent ahead of Moses' people as guides during
their journey.
Job's pillars likely pertain to the Earth's tallest mountains, (Job 26:11
As for the Earth's mechanical support, Job said there isn't any. (Job 26:7)
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• Job 9:6 . . He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble.
The Hebrew word for "pillars" is somewhat ambiguous and doesn't
necessarily pertain to mechanical support; for example Ex 13:21 where
pillars of smoke and fire were sent ahead of Moses' people as guides during
their journey.
Job's pillars likely pertain to the Earth's tallest mountains, (Job 26:11
As for the Earth's mechanical support, Job said there isn't any. (Job 26:7)
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If Earth were a spinning ball revolving around the Sun it would actually be impossible for star-trail photos to show perfect circles even at the North Pole! Since the Earth is also allegedly moving 67,000mph around the Sun, the Sun moving 500,000mph around the Milky Way, and the entire galaxy going 670,000,000mph, these four contradictory motions would make star-trail time-lapses all show irregular curved lines.
In 2003, three University Geography professors collaborated in an experiment to prove that the state of Kansas is indeed actually flatter than a pancake! Using topigraphical geodetic surveys covering over 80,000 square miles it was determined that Kansas has a flatness ratio of 0.9997 over the entire state while the average pancake, precisely measured using a confocal laser microscope comes in at 0.957, making Kansas thereby literally flatter than a pancake.
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Quoting Reverend Thomas Milner’s “Atlas of Physical Geography,” we find that, “Vast areas exhibit a perfectly dead level, scarcely a rise existing through 1,500 miles from the Carpathians to the Urals. South of the Baltic the country is so flat that a prevailing north wind will drive the waters of the Stattiner Haf into the mouth of the Oder, and give the river a backward flow 30 or 40 miles. The plains of Venezuela and New Granada, in South America chiefly on the left of the Orinoco, are termed Ilanos, or level fields. Often in the space of 270 square miles the surface does not vary a single foot. The Amazon only falls 12 feet in the last 700 miles of its course; the La Plata has only a descent of one thirty-third of an inch a mile.”
The Felix Baumgartner Red Bull dive outside camera shows the same amount of “curvature of Earth” from surface-level to jump-height proving it to be a deceiving fish-eyed wide-angle lens, while the inside regular camera shows a perfectly flat horizon, eye level at 128,000 feet, which is only consistent with a flat plane.
Some people claim to have seen the curvature of the Earth out their airplane windows. The glass used in all commercial airplanes, however, is curved to remain flush with the fuselage. This creates a slight effect mixed with confirmation bias people mistake for being the alleged curvature of the Earth. In actuality, the fact that you can see the horizon at eye-level at 35,000 feet out both port/starboard windows proves the Earth is flat. If the Earth were a ball, no matter how big, the horizon would stay exactly where it was and you would have to look DOWN further and further to see the horizon at all. Looking straight out the window at 35,000 feet you should see nothing but "outer-space" from the port and starboard windows, as the Earth/horizon are supposed to be BELOW you. If they are visible at eye level outside both side windows, it’s because the Earth is flat!
