The lights which are exhibited in lighthouses are seen by navigators at distances at which, according to the scale of the supposed “curvature” given by astronomers, they ought to be many hundreds of feet, in some cases, down below the line of sight! For instance: the light at Cape Hatteras is seen at such a distance (40 miles) that, according to theory, it ought to be nine-hundred feet higher above the level of the sea than it absolutely is, in order to be visible! This is a conclusive proof that there is no “curvature,” on the surface of the sea—“the level of the sea,”—ridiculous though it is to be under the necessity of proving it at all: but it is, nevertheless, a conclusive proof that the Earth is not a globe.
Is The Earth Flat Or Round?
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I served in the 101st Airborne Division too in the early 80's. Traditionally, an elite warrior class for sure.
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If we stand on the sands of the sea-shore and watch a ship approach us, we shall find that she will apparently “rise”—to the extent of her own height, nothing more. If we stand upon an eminence, the same law operates still; and it is but the law of perspective, which causes objects, as they approach us, to appear to increase in size until we see them, close to us, the size they are in fact. That there is no other “rise” than the one spoken of is plain from the fact that, no matter how high we ascend above the level of the sea, the horizon rises on and still on as we rise, so that it is always on a level with the eye, though it be two-hundred miles away, as seen by Mr. J. Glaisher, of England, from Mr. Coxwell’s balloon. So that a ship five miles away may be imagined to be “coming up” the imaginary downward curve of the Earth’s surface, but if we merely ascend a hill such as Federal Hill, Baltimore, we may see twenty-five miles away, on a level with the eye—that is, twenty miles level distance beyond the ship that we vainly imagined to be “rounding the curve,” and “coming up!” This is a plain proof that the Earth is not a globe.
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If we take a trip down the Chesapeake Bay, in the day-time, we may see for ourselves the utter fallacy of the idea that when a vessel appears “hull down,” as it is called, it is because the hull is “behind the water:” for, vessels have been seen, and may often be seen again, presenting the appearance spoken of, and away—far away—beyond those vessels, and, at the same moment, the level shore line, with its accompanying complement of tall trees, towering up, in perspective, over the heads of the “hull-down” ships! Since, then, the idea will not stand its ground when the facts rise up against it, and it is a piece of the popular theory, the theory is a contemptible piece of business, and we may easily wring from it a proof that Earth is not a globe.
What are they called the Harlem GLOBEtrotters and not the Harlem Flat Earth Trotters,. hmm?
GLOBEtrotters Records for long shots taking into account the Coriolis Effect
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GLOBEtrotters Records for long shots taking into account the Coriolis Effect
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This surface has always been found to be level. 
‘level’ doesn't always has the same meaning as ‘flat.’
In scientific context, the two words have different meanings. Insisting that both words to have the same meaning is the
fallacy of appeal to definition.
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As mariners take to sea with them charts constructed as though the sea were a level surface, however these charts may err as to the true form of this level surface taken as a whole, it is clear, as they find them answer their purpose tolerably well—and only tolerably well, for many ships are wrecked owing to the error of which we [8]speak—that the surface of the sea is as it is taken to be, whether the captain of the ship “supposes” the Earth to be a globe or anything else. Thus, then, we draw, from the common system of “plane sailing,” a practical proof that Earth is not a globe.
That the mariners’ compass points north and south at the same time is a fact as indisputable as that two and two makes four; but that this would be impossible if the thing were placed on a globe with “north” and “south” at the centre of opposite hemispheres is a fact that does not figure in the school-books, though very easily seen: and it requires no lengthy train of reasoning to bring out of it a pointed proof that the Earth is not a globe.
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Flat and level are not true synonyms.
For example, the east and west portions of the roof on my house are sloped
out of level so that rain can run off them. However, though both are sloped
out of level, they are both as flat as a chalk board rather than humped,
dipped, rippled, or some such.
The sides of my house are flat too, though all are as perpendicular as can
be.
* I suspect that some of the flatters are on the spectrum. The reason I
believe so is because autistic folks don't do well with ambiguity. They much
prefer words to have only one specific meaning rather than a range of possible
applications.
For example: a billiard table is probably one of the flattest surfaces that
many of us will ever encounter; yet in autistic thinking: unless the table is
level, then it isn't flat.
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Flat and level are not true synonyms.
For example, the east and west portions of the roof on my house are sloped
out of level so that rain can run off them. However, though both are sloped
out of level, they are both as flat as a chalk board rather than humped,
dipped, rippled, or some such.
The sides of my house are flat too, though all are as perpendicular as can
be.
* I suspect that some of the flatters are on the spectrum. The reason I
believe so is because autistic folks don't do well with ambiguity. They much
prefer words to have only one specific meaning rather than a range of possible
applications.
For example: a billiard table is probably one of the flattest surfaces that
many of us will ever encounter; yet in autistic thinking: unless the table is
level, then it isn't flat.
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