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Flat Earth Theory / Venus Transit Across the sun

« on: June 05, 2017, 07:37:58 PM »

Seeing as I took this photo 5 years ago today.  I found it fitting to ask the Flat Earthers here how Venus got in front of the sun for this photo opportunity? 

https://imgur.com/9Ylfs

I know the Wiki says the planets rotate around the sun while the sun rotates around the earth.  So why can't we see this phenomenon on a more regular basis and why wouldn't we ever see it for Mars, Jupiter, Uranus or Neptune?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Half-sunken ships Restored by simply looking at them through a Telescope

« on: May 09, 2017, 06:08:58 PM »

Has anyone ever observed, experimented on, or proven the existence of curved water, anywhere, ever?

REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

That's fake, did you take that image yourself?  XD

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Flat Earth Theory / Gravitational Lensing

« on: May 09, 2017, 06:00:33 PM »

What produces the effect of gravitational lensing if not gravity?  It is what made Einstein and his theory of general relativity world-famous and confirmed that his calculations were indeed accurate.  Had the star observed during the 1919 eclipse been in any other position it would have invalidated his entire theory. 

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: How do flat earthers explain airline travel in southern hemisphere?

« on: May 09, 2017, 05:52:11 PM »

The answer is main rounder argument: Jetstreams.

Flight time of Johannesburg to sydney is 11 hours 25 minutes. This is okey.

http://tr.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA64/history/20170502/1710Z/FAOR/YSSY

But the opposite path:

Sydney to Johannesburg is 14 hours and 10 minutes.

http://tr.flightaware.com/live/flight/QFA63/history/20170502/0050Z/YSSY/FAOR

This is real flight time. The opposite route is manipulated by jetstreams

This is to be expected.  But we are comparing North Hemisphere to South Hemisphere, not South Hemisphere to South Hemisphere while adjusting for Jet Streams.

As an example: The distance from New York City - London is ~3500 miles.  The distance from Buenos Aires - Sydney is ~ 7300 miles.  But if you look at the flat Earth Map the distance from Buenos Aires - Sydney should be 9.5x the distance, not 2x the distance as NYC - London if the map is accurate.  If you take the most "efficient" flight path on the Flat Earth, it would only be 6x the distance but then you would literally fly over North America which NEVER happens, I've flown to and from Sydney and various South America locations and we never have flown over North America.

Now on to your likely rebuttal.  The Flat Earth map is just a representation of what the flat earth society thinks it should look like.  No actual accurate flat earth map exists because....... Why?  Why has no professional geographer, cartographer or pilot produced a verifiable accurate map?  One MUST exist if flight paths, shipping paths, international borders, date lines and time zones are to be adhered to and yet all we "Round Earth Believers" can do is trust that they aren't being shown to us?  I'm not sure how you can convince anyone, even yourselves that what you are suggesting is even remotely true if you haven't seen what the Earth actually looks like. 

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: How do flat earthers explain airline travel in southern hemisphere?

« on: April 28, 2017, 10:04:43 PM »

This was the first question I had when I was looking at the flat earth map. 

I really like how on the flight path picture it shows that it would be most efficient to fly over North America to get from South America to Australia.  Brilliant!