FLAT EARTH THEORY OR TRUTH ?

intan (60)in #writing • 7 years ago

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Flat Earth

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Let's just go directly to the topic of our discussion.

The debate over flat earth and round earth re-sticking out.
A group of people who are members of the Flat Earth Society try to sue the established theory that the earth is round.

The arguments between two camps that have different beliefs on the shape of the earth can be summarized simply as follows.

1. Photos of Earth
The Earth Flat group says that the photographs of the spherical earth that have been scattered so far are engineered by Computer Generated Imaginary (CGI). Because of data satellites launched by NASA, the location of satellites in the atmosphere is not far enough from Earth to be able to photograph the earth as a whole.

The analogy is like when someone is photographing a house building, but the person's position is only 1 meter away in front of the house. Can the person take a full picture of the house? Of course not.

Earth (Source)

While the Earth Group Spheric explained that the photographs of the earth that is round is indeed a result of CGI made NASA.

Analogy, the person who was about to take pictures of the house can not back down and can only take pictures from a distance of 1 meter. How to get all the home pictures? Of course by going around take lots of photos and then combine them.

That's exactly what NASA does to photograph the earth through satellites circulating in the atmostfer. CGI results are considered valid because the photos captured by satellites show that the shape of the earth has an arch.

2. Satellite
The Earth Flat group doubts the existence of satellites airborne in the atmosphere. A total of 3,000 satellites that NASA says are orbiting the Earth in space, not believed to exist by them.

They say, satellite images in the sky that circulated so far is also the result of CGI engineering.
Their argument, if there are thousands of telescopes in the world that are able to see and photograph planets, stars, and other celestial bodies, why no one can see and photograph the satellite?

Satelite(Source)

While the Earth-Spheroid Group explains the cause of no telescope on earth that can capture the form of satellites in the sky is because the size of the satellite is very small when compared with planets, stars, and other celestial objects.
Thus, it is natural that planets, stars, and celestial bodies can be observed more clearly by telescopes, because of their large size.

The Round Earth also provides examples of videotapes of very small satellite displays recorded by telescopes, if the Earth Flat group can believe that the video actually captures the actual satellite look.

3. Antarctica
Flat earth group put forward the fact that during this journey around the world only done from east to west, and vice versa. No one can travel the world from north to south, especially through Antarctica or the south pole.

They claim, Antarctica is a wall of ice that surrounds the flat earth.

Illustration of flat earth with south pole at edge.(Source)

The revelation was denied by the Round Earth Group. They say, actually there are already several flights that cross the south pole. For example, it can be seen in the writings that explain the polar route (route through the poles).

However, flights across the south pole can not be done at any time, but depending on weather factors. This is why airlines can not schedule regular flights across the South Pole.
Moreover,the weather in the south pole can be very extreme,with temperatures reaching-40°C which can freeze the jet engine so that endanger the lives of all passengers plane.

4. Eclipse Cycle
Eclipse cycle occurs every 18 years 11 months and 8 hours. The cycle was derived from the Saros Cycle made by the ancient Babylonians thousands of years ago.

The Flat Earth group says that NASA can never properly calculate the eclipse cycle based on the theory of the globular earth and their heliocentric theory, but only picks the numbers from the Saros Cycle that have existed since time immemorial.

Total solar eclipse(Source)

The Earth Round Group denied the notion that they could not calculate the exact eclipse cycle.
The round-earth followers then detailed how to calculate the eclipse cycle through three main elements, the synodistic month, the nodic month or the draconic month, and the anomalistic month.

Synodistic month is the period of circulation of the moon to return to the original phase, which is 29.9 days. The nodis month or draconic month is the time period when the moon goes back beyond the node point, which is 27.2 days. The anomalistic month is the period due to the distance between the earth and the different moon, which is 27.5 days.
Of the three periods of time, then sought the value of the smallest alliance alliance, which is 18 years and 11 1/3 days.

5. Horizon

The Flat Earth group says that the horizon of the earth seen so far is in the form of lines, not curves. So the shape of the earth is flat, not round.
It is visible, for example, visible from the top of the plane that the horizon of the earth still looks at eye level, which means the shape of the earth is flat or flat.

They also show experiments that ships that drift into the oceans turn out to be visible all of its parts, not just the tops as it has been buzzed round earth believers.
Flat earthers prove it by using a powerful 83x optical zoom camera or binoculars. The result: all parts of the ship can still be seen, although it looks small because the perspective of a long distance.

Horizon at sea(Source)

The Round Earth Group denies the argument. They say, the sighting of the horizon (the imaginary line between the earth and the sky), which seems to be the height of the eye just shows that the earth is round.

If the earth is flat, then from the plane one can see the flat edge of the earth with a sophisticated telescope.
But from a distance, at any location including at a location that is considered near the edge of the earth though, a person who boarded an airplane still can not see the expanse of the edge of the earth.

So after seeing the arguments of the two camps above, which one do you believe?

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