- which supports and magnifies the significance of all of these 'distance'/'beyond-the-curvature' posts recently added to this thread.
Is The Earth Flat Or Round?
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A lot of the stuff he has been posting has less to do with basic physics than it does with plain-and-simple observation with the eyes. THEN - the mathematics and physics come into play.
If you deny the 'evidence' (observation) - what are the mathematics and physics worth?
Would you vote that the earth Is flat,Round or other In the poll?
I don't like voting... for me, it seems like I'm "definite" about the subject at hand... and the older I get the more I realize that I know so little.
If the Earth is flat where are the photographs of the ice boundaries?
No one needs to leave the planet to photograph the square, flat earth. If there isn't a curve, there isn't a disc.
Someone only has to travel East or West along the equator to find the magic ice-wall that allegedly circles the disc earth.
You are free to indulge yourself in foolishness. I am free to dismiss it.
No one needs to leave the planet to photograph the square, flat earth. If there isn't a curve, there isn't a disc.
Someone only has to travel East or West along the equator to find the magic ice-wall that allegedly circles the disc earth.
You are free to indulge yourself in foolishness. I am free to dismiss it.
I can wiggle a pencil in front of you and you would be convinced that the pencil is bending.
Is the pencil bending?
In 1872 Capt. Gibson and crewmates, sailing the ship “Thomas Wood” from China to London, reported seeing the entirety of St. Helena Island on a clear day from 75 miles away. Factoring in their height during measurement on a ball-Earth 25,000 miles in circumference, it was found the island should have been 3,650 feet below their line of sight.
If we wiggle a pencil in front of you fast enough, you would be convinced the pencil is a globe and that you are write.
From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea-level, the island of Gorgona can often be seen 81 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Gorgona should be hidden beyond 3,332 feet of curvature.
From Genoa, Italy at a height of just 70 feet above sea-level, the island of Corsica can often be seen 99 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Corsica should fall 5,245 feet, almost an entire mile below the horizon.
That doesn't even make any sense.If we wiggle a pencil in front of you fast enough, you would be convinced the pencil is a globe and that you are write.
From Genoa, Italy 70 feet above sea-level, the island of Capraia 102 miles away can often be seen as well. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Capraia should always remain hidden behind 5,605 feet, over a mile of supposed curvature.
Yeah, there is no ice wall. How can flat earth peeps say there is an ice wall when no one has actually seen or photographed it?
Certainly, the bible makes no mention of an ice wall. so how can someone categorically state that there is one.
Seems to me that since there is no mention of this ice wall in the bible than that means that they were probably taught that through a secular source.
Massive amounts of evidence, bogus or genuine, exists to substantiate a round earth but absolutely no evidence exists, bogus or genuine supporting a flat earth.
I'm not saying that flat earth peeps are naive, some actually are intelligent, but they need to stop accepting everything from the Flat Earth Society as the gospel truth. Actually, there is no truth from this organization.
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The wall of ice on a flat Earth isn't located along the equator, rather, at the
world's outermost perimeter, i.e. the flatter's world is sort of like a bicycle
wheel where the tire would its south pole and the hub its north; only on a
flat world, there's no need for a hub because it doesn't spin. In point of fact,
it dare not spin because centrifugal force would complicate things a bit.
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The wall of ice on a flat Earth isn't located along the equator, rather, at the
world's outermost perimeter, i.e. the flatter's world is sort of like a bicycle
wheel where the tire would its south pole and the hub its north; only on a
flat world, there's no need for a hub because it doesn't spin. In point of fact,
it dare not spin because centrifugal force would complicate things a bit.
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Also from Genoa, on bright clear days, the island of Elba can be seen an incredible 125 miles away! If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Elba should be forever invisible behind 8770 feet of curvature.
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Solar eclipses are a bit a challenge for the flat Earth folks.
One of the explanations I've discovered thus far claims there is an invisible
object floating around up there with the Sun that every so often comes
between us and its light.
In other words: normally a solar eclipse is caused by the Moon passing in
front of the Sun whereas a flat Earth solar eclipse is caused by a curious
object whose presence would normally go completely undetected were it
not for passing in front of the Sun from time to time.
Normal solar eclipses are readily predictable, actually years in advance, and
quite accurately too; but to my knowledge, a flat Earth eclipse is nigh unto
impossible to predict primarily because that pesky invisible object can't be
tracked.
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Solar eclipses are a bit a challenge for the flat Earth folks.
One of the explanations I've discovered thus far claims there is an invisible
object floating around up there with the Sun that every so often comes
between us and its light.
In other words: normally a solar eclipse is caused by the Moon passing in
front of the Sun whereas a flat Earth solar eclipse is caused by a curious
object whose presence would normally go completely undetected were it
not for passing in front of the Sun from time to time.
Normal solar eclipses are readily predictable, actually years in advance, and
quite accurately too; but to my knowledge, a flat Earth eclipse is nigh unto
impossible to predict primarily because that pesky invisible object can't be
tracked.
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From Anchorage, Alaska at an elevation of 102 feet, on clear days Mount Foraker can be seen with the naked eye 120 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, Mount Foraker’s 17,400 summit should be leaning back away from the observer covered by 7,719 feet of curved Earth. In reality, however, the entire mountain can be quite easily seen standing straight from base to summit.
