RE: 4 responses for flat-earthers; Facts over Fiction
You seem to be struggling now. You once again ignored every point except the suez because I happened to skip that one because I never looked into it. So let's look into it.
It turns out, you claim it's straight but have you actually shown that to be true? Cause it isn't. Check a map of the Suez canal
So now we know the numbers you started with are a lie, here's a telephoto shot of boats on the canal anyway, in the longest straight strip, showing them beneath thee horizon. Or was this a fake picture distributed across social media by the evil government, too?
Maybe you should save up a couple of hundred bucks for a plane ticket for a friend and do Eratosthenes stick experiment. It's cheap. You can probably find your answers for under $100.
Get back to me when your homework is done!
here is a Truth. you could be skinny as fuck. but if you had mentally internalized the idea that you where fat, you could end up dying like Karen Carpenter
be careful how much you have invested in any idea. if I truly saw a round earth, I'd change in an instant. i am not attached to it. I love the truth more than my comfort (because it would be false comfort.)
100 miles as the crow flies. it is actually longer than that. the actual length is unimportant to calculating the curve, so I had to find the true distance, the straight line distance, to make any sort of accurate prediction of the curvature.
nope, they are not
your picture shows clearly the 'mirror line' .. what is it? a mirage, it is what makes it appear the boat is 'sinking below the horizon' among other things.
in the picture below, the red line is the mirror line. the green is the actual horizon. (roughly)
here is a great video looking into this mirror line... the ship isn't going below anything, it is getting covered up with a mirage. mirror line stuff starts at 3:04
maybe you could stop jumping to conclusions and realize that in science, if I can prove even one part of the theory wrong, there is a problem. the lack of proof of curvature of the earth is pretty freaking huge on the scale of problems with a theory.
If you don't get that, than stop calling what you are talking about science.
@klevn I'm wondering how to account for stars 'travelling' the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere on a flat earth? Also, they do a ton of astronomy these days and it all works because of the math involved in the globe model. How to explain thousands and thousands of people who rely on the statistical presumption of a globe spinning in space during the course of their daily observations?
Circumnavigation in the southern hemisphere is either 12,000 miles or its 60,000 miles (rough comparison) but it can't be both. People have sailed it and flown it - all we need to do is reference their journals and reports - many are public domain and therefore free.
I'll admit there are some mysteries and gaps in our collective knowledge, but I don't think this is one of them. I'm interested to hear how a serious 'flat earther' would answer my questions