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914 User ID: 71406112 United States 05/09/2016 04:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: 914 I received the same response when I had a question about gravity. I didn't say that it didn't exist, I was looking for a clarification. People get so angry but it ties in with the flat earth theory. How can gravity be strong enough to hold the oceans in place yet allow a butterfly to flutter about? I am not an idiot for asking this question! I don't know if the earth is round or not. My question is how gravity fit's into either position. Op, ask your questions and continue your search for knowledge. Others may know all of the answers to your questions. Keep asking and keep wondering. its called density, everything has a different mass. if you stood on top of sears tower disregarding air resistance and dropped a 10 lb bowling ball and 10 lb of feathers which would hit the ground first? Thanks, I get it. the greater the surface area the more air resistance to a drop. But I can't get over one thing. Gravity has the ability to HOLD billions of gallons of ocean in place but differences in mass can have an effect on this incredible force. Do you see why I'm struggling with it? You're a braindead flathead, yes we get it. One more time. I don't know if the earth is flat or round. I have questions. You're the lucky one that has everything figured out. I may be a fool for asking questions but you may be a fool for KNOWING everything. DEDEDEDE |
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psyoptics User ID: 72164193 United States 05/09/2016 05:09 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | show me a fucking genuine photo of a globe not a photo of a painting or cgi. still waiting.... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 67062407 Exactly .Same photo of cgi globe for 40yrs so what CGI has been around longer then computers that make CGI???? 2001 was not CGI folks...sorry it just was not.... [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] also playing back video longer then 20 minutes was not easy...1 hour back in the 60's would be a huge achievement with the tech they had...... still waiting for any images of the edge.....just one. why do i see the curve with my eyes up on top a high mountain....or in a plane....everyone sees this with there own eyes....no camera needed. so if it is seen with a naked eye how is it faked? Last Edited by psyoptics on 05/09/2016 05:10 PM a good video editor can make anyone say anything the editor wants. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 71308978 United States 05/09/2016 05:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72166270 You have to be higher to see it - 80,000 feet or so will work. [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Oh aye, no fisheye lens here at all. [link to youtu.be (secure)] I agree. It shows both flat and curvature at the same time. Now you see it now you don't. Its because the camera probably has some lens or software that flattens a horizon to parallel, and when the balloon busted the software couldn't process it. |
914 User ID: 71406112 United States 05/09/2016 05:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72176305 I agree. It shows both flat and curvature at the same time. Now you see it now you don't. Its because the camera probably has some lens or software that flattens a horizon to parallel, and when the balloon busted the software couldn't process it. Same thing here? [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] DEDEDEDE |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1580336 United States 05/09/2016 06:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 64144361 United States 05/09/2016 06:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1580336 Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? Idiot, it's called the law of perspective |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 06:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1580336 Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? Idiot, it's called the law of perspective Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] |
914 User ID: 71406112 United States 05/09/2016 06:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1580336 Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? The horizon is always at your eye level. DEDEDEDE |
Hydra User ID: 72180694 Germany 05/09/2016 06:37 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1580336 Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? Idiot, it's called the law of perspective Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? . :ase26122019: Annular Solar Eclipse - December 26, 2019 - Kannur, Kerala, India |
-GLP-Christian- User ID: 71919887 Sweden 05/09/2016 06:46 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Where's the EDGE. Burden of proof on the Flat Tards. Just show the Edge (not the U2 guitarist). Last Edited by -GLP-Christian- on 05/09/2016 06:51 PM Get saved wretch: [link to biblebelievers.com] Everything you need to know about islam: [link to prophetofdoom.net] The Jihad Triangle: [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] FRANCE IS TEH GHEY! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 06:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | If you lived in Sacramento, the Sierra Nevada mountains rise 14,000 feet to your east. If the the earth was flat then those mountains would rise high into the sky and on a clear day you could see them from Sacramento. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1580336 Whatever the atmospheric conditions, every morning, when the sun rises, it will not rise on the horizon on a flat earth. Because the earth is flat the sun would be eclipsed a few degrees above the horizon. Eclipsed by the 14000 ft mountains. You would see the sun high above the horizon suddenly emerging from behind the mountains. On a round earth the mountains would be under the curve so the sun would always rise on the horizon in Sacramento. Guess what? The sun always rises on the horizon. This proves the earth is round. NEXT? Idiot, it's called the law of perspective Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? . Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 06:49 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Where's the EDGE. Quoting: -GLP-Christian- Burden of proof on the Flat Tards. Just show the Edge (not the US guitarist). Why must there be an edge? Perhaps it's in infinite plane. There's an international treaty that prevents civilians from accessing the waters around Antarctica. Regular people/explorers are turned back by military force. FE'ers don't know if there's an edge.. |
914 User ID: 71406112 United States 05/09/2016 06:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Where's the EDGE. Quoting: -GLP-Christian- Burden of proof on the Flat Tards. Just show the Edge (not the U2 guitarist). Snip: "The earth is in the form of a disk with the North Pole in the center and Antarctica as a wall around the edge. This is the generally accepted model among members of the society. In this model, circumnavigation is performed by moving in a great circle around the North Pole. The earth is surrounded on all sides by an ice wall that holds the oceans back. This ice wall is what explorers have named Antarctica. Beyond the ice wall is a topic of great interest to the Flat Earth Society. To our knowledge, no one has been very far past the ice wall and returned to tell of their journey. What we do know is that it encircles the earth and serves to hold in our oceans and helps protect us from whatever lies beyond." I's starting to think that I am a Tard. DEDEDEDE |
Hydra User ID: 72180694 Germany 05/09/2016 06:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm . :ase26122019: Annular Solar Eclipse - December 26, 2019 - Kannur, Kerala, India |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 38578300 United States 05/09/2016 07:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | please stop perpetuating this flat earth nonsense the theory originates from cave dwellars attempting to discredit the advances of western science look at your argument your essentially stated that all photos of earth are the creation of cgi, so you have already fallen into the trap |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 07:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm . Not so. The car would exists INSIDE the dome. Cosmological luminaries exist OUTSIDE the dome. If you hold a magnifying glass behind your head, does the object you're looking at get magnified? Since cosmological luminaries appear to be of equal size, if there were a dome, it could be conceivable that it is responsible for magnification as these luminaries recede to its vanishing point. But as I said, I'm speculating within the theory.. It's a fun thought experiment. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 40103770 United States 05/09/2016 07:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | .... Quoting: from aboveThanks, I get it. the greater the surface area the more air resistance to a drop. But I can't get over one thing. Gravity has the ability to HOLD billions of gallons of ocean in place but differences in mass can have an effect on this incredible force. Do you see why I'm struggling with it? " ... Gravity has the ability to HOLD billions of gallons of ocean in place ..." What is do you mean "hold it in place", as if something is trying to pull it away? What do you think is trying to pull the ocean away? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 07:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | .... Quoting: from aboveThanks, I get it. the greater the surface area the more air resistance to a drop. But I can't get over one thing. Gravity has the ability to HOLD billions of gallons of ocean in place but differences in mass can have an effect on this incredible force. Do you see why I'm struggling with it? " ... Gravity has the ability to HOLD billions of gallons of ocean in place ..." What is do you mean "hold it in place", as if something is trying to pull it away? What do you think is trying to pull the ocean away? Evaporation |
Hydra User ID: 72180694 Germany 05/09/2016 07:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Hydra Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm Not so. The car would exists INSIDE the dome. Cosmological luminaries exist OUTSIDE the dome. If you hold a magnifying glass behind your head, does the object you're looking at get magnified? Is this the official Flattie guideline? But as I said, I'm speculating within the theory.. It's a fun thought experiment. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Some food for your fun thought experiment: * How can you explain today's Mercury transit in a flat earth that showed the same path across the sun in the northern and southern hemisphere? * How did Sun and Moon move in the flat earth to draw the path of the January 15, 2010 annular solar eclipse? :fease150110: . Last Edited by Hydra on 05/09/2016 07:29 PM :ase26122019: Annular Solar Eclipse - December 26, 2019 - Kannur, Kerala, India |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68782227 United States 05/09/2016 07:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Specifically known as "Vanishing point". Objects on/at the horizon shrink to the same level as the horizon, thus they vanish. [link to www.math.utah.edu] Your link to the "Vanishing point" also shows that objects get smaller when they approach the "Vanishing point" until the vanish in a little point. Do you observe the sun getting smaller at sun sets until it vanishes in a little dot? Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm . Why would a car be magnified? Do cars travel in space behind the dome? Jesus, troll. You're an idiot |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 07:32 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm Not so. The car would exists INSIDE the dome. Cosmological luminaries exist OUTSIDE the dome. If you hold a magnifying glass behind your head, does the object you're looking at get magnified? Is this the official Flattie guideline? But as I said, I'm speculating within the theory.. It's a fun thought experiment. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Some food for your fun thought experiment: * How can you explain today's Mercury transit in a flat earth that showed the same path across the sun in the northern and southern hemisphere? * How did Sun and Moon move in the flat earth to draw the path of the January 15, 2010 annular solar eclipse? :fease150110: . Two Mercuries, of course. LOL. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 68782227 United States 05/09/2016 07:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Good point.. I'm not an FE'er, but I enjoy the thought exercise so I'm speculating here... If the earth is flat, and there exist a theoretical dome, perhaps the dome is magnifying it rather precisely as the sun travels above it. Then the dome would magnify everything approaching the "Vanishing Point", e.g. a car. Then the "Vanishing Point" would not be a "Vanishing Point" any more. But may be it's magic. /sarcasm Not so. The car would exists INSIDE the dome. Cosmological luminaries exist OUTSIDE the dome. If you hold a magnifying glass behind your head, does the object you're looking at get magnified? Is this the official Flattie guideline? But as I said, I'm speculating within the theory.. It's a fun thought experiment. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27180571 Some food for your fun thought experiment: * How can you explain today's Mercury transit in a flat earth that showed the same path across the sun in the northern and southern hemisphere? * How did Sun and Moon move in the flat earth to draw the path of the January 15, 2010 annular solar eclipse? :fease150110: . Every single picture of that transit are fake. That one was easy. As far as eclipses, we don't know the construct. Also, the sun and moon have both been in the sky during lunar eclipses, that's impossible on a globe. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27180571 United States 05/09/2016 07:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Every single picture of that transit are fake. That one was easy. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 68782227 As far as eclipses, we don't know the construct. Also, the sun and moon have both been in the sky during lunar eclipses, that's impossible on a globe. "On Oct. 8, Interested skywatchers should attempt to see the total eclipse of the moon and the rising sun simultaneously. The little-used name for this effect is called a "selenelion," a phenomenon that celestial geometry says cannot happen. " - See more at: [link to www.space.com] |
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