The Flat Earth - Don't worry I'm not one of them

[Danattheopticians]

Just opening this up for discussion.

Has anyone else ever looked into this theory. There premise basically goes like this.

1) We have all been lied too and NASA lie!

2) The UN flag shows a flat earth - Therefore the truth!

3a) The horizon is always flat and at (yes at) eye level! - I know!!

3b) No matter how high you go you can never see curvature! - Many videos on this.

4) Watch a ship disappear over the horizon - Then use a telescope and you can see it again, thus proving that it goes out of view due to perspective and not curvature.

5) The Sun and the moon look the same size - because they are! AND they circle above the flat earth causing day/night, moving in and out during a year to create seasons.

6) Antarctica doesn't exist, no one has ever been there, or crossed it, as what we call Antarctica is actually an ice wall that surrounds the edge of the earth and holds the oceans in.

I'm sure I've missed some points but this covers most of it. Some of it is quite interesting to watch yet most of it laughable. I've had many discussions with my colleague who actually has researched and believes this s t

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FunkyNige said:

Danattheopticians said:

I'm sure I've missed some points but this covers most of it. Some of it is quite interesting to watch yet most of it laughable. I've had many discussions with my colleague who actually has researched and believes this s t

Isn't it just a joke like the Flying Spaghetti Monster? I never assumed people were actually taking it seriously, just arguing for the fun of it.

People take it very seriously - I don't. My colleague does. YouTube is plagued with the crap.

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I see you are a structural engineer, so you use satellites don't you? Something they deny. Also you should be able to explain how long suspension bridges have to take into account the curvature of the earth, right? I find it difficult getting proven facts through to my mate too though.

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DanL said:

Danattheopticians said:

Also you should be able to explain how long suspension bridges have to take into account the curvature of the earth, right?

That must be quite a long suspension bridge you're thinking of there!

The Humber Bridge is one.

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Eric Mc said:

This is the "Science" forum, I thought.

It's a scientific subject. But it's also an open forum that people have made some other points and some of those have pointed towards religion, they can do that if they wish. I thought the scientific people might discuss: Gravity, seasons, the horizon, constellations, other planets, the tropic lines, magnetic poles, speed of earths orbit and rotation, centrifugal and centripetal forces, so if you'd like to make a scientific contribution rather than slate the topic then please go ahead.

Discuss .....

Edited by Danattheopticians on Wednesday 6th July 22:15

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Alpinestars said:

I'm sure I asked for an explanation last time. How does that work? How on Earth (pun intended) do you ever get back to the UK by continuing to fly West if the Earth is a disc?

If the north is magnetic an you flew in a line of equal magnetic pull (Don't know how this would be measured, just 1 hypothesis) but couldn't you theoretically feel you are flying east around a spherical earth but actually be flying in a circle over a flat plain on the flat model?

[Danattheopticians]

The truth is thought, and I don't believe the flat earth, but no genuine pictures of from space as they are composites put together, reason for this are resolution on cameras wouldn't allow it so composites wouldn't allow a full scale detailed picture to be taken. Look online now at images from space of the earth and analyse them they are obviously not genuine. Also in no pictures of the earth from space can you see a single other satellite.
So then to prove spherical earth from on earth and without space travel does actually become much harder. The constellations become the best evidence. Viewing them from Northern and southern hemispheres show: constellations which cannot be viewed from the opposite hemisphere, and the direction in which the stars move in each hemisphere give the most conclusive (On earth) evidence.

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Simpo Two said:

JoeMarano said:

Simpo Two said:

You cold show them the many photos of the Earth taken from space since the 1960s - but I suppose they'd say that was all made up too. Really, these people need to be put in the Army and used as cannon fodder.

Nope. Believe it's called the coriolis effect or something similar.

Ah well now you see the 'coriolis effect' doesn't exist, it's just been made up by scientists.

Touche
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Always fun to dip into the idiot's toolbox.

The coriolis effect is the effect that the rotation of the earth has on weather systems. Is also responsible for some of the compensations snipers make over long distances but don't forget the wind blows the bullet too and has to be compensated more.

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alock said:

Danattheopticians said:

... no genuine pictures of from space as they are composites put together, reason for this are resolution on cameras wouldn't allow it so composites wouldn't allow a full scale detailed picture to be taken. Look online now at images from space of the earth and analyse them they are obviously not genuine.

I believe Tim Peake just used a Nikon D4. No composite images. Have you looked at the thousands of images taken from the ISS?

You cannot just say they are 'obviously not genuinue' without justification.

My bad. Sorry I mean on the Internet there are many images that are not genuine whole images. However many of them are made of composites (real images spliced together) And many others are clearly cgi for graphical purpose or demonstration. There argument is to site that because these images are used, we don't have any real images from space as no one has ever been to space. I expect Tim Peak is in on it too and has also never been into space either