I don't see any similar independent validation and checks for the claims of astronomy. It appears that you guys don't care about validation or inquiry at all.
How many astronomers, astrophysicists, cosmologists and similar folk do you think there are in the world, Tom?
Certainly far more than the number of Flat Earthers. The number of amateur astronomers boasts in the hundreds of thousands to 1 million+, in fact Yet none appear interested in discussion or validation of the claims of astronomy. Look at the dancing around of the issue that the methods of triangulation in astronomy are invalid in this thread, for example.
Tom,
At some point you have to be able to accept something as true. Jupiter's moons is something that has been discussed, analyzed, photographed, looked at, and calculated for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. I've never been to the pyramids but enough people have been there, enough papers have been written about them, and there is enough photographic and video evidence that I believe they do exist.
Much like I believe that the pyramids do exist I also believe there is a planet in our solar system called Jupiter and Jupiter does have moons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moons_of_JupiterMuch like the Pythagorean theorem. If you could disprove it you would get fame, fortune, and accolades as the greatest mathematician who ever walked the earth. I'm guessing you are able to accept this as true because this theorem has been discussed, analyzed, photographed, looked at, and calculated for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years.
I would imagine there's a fair amount of discussion and validation of the claims of astronomy in any university astronomy and astrophysics classroom. Do you really think they're just a bunch of sheep that will take what's fed to them without any critical thinking?
And how about Jupiter's discoid shape, Tom? Do you agree or disagree with Sandokhan that Jupiter is discoid?
Bad Puppy,
This is a common Tom response. Someone could claim that a mile is 5280 feet in a mile and tom would ask for the worldwide mile study showing that, for all locations and altitudes on earth, a mile was ALWAYS 5280 feet.
Here's an example: Someone claims something like the sun passes over the the equator on the equinox and over the tropic of cancer/Capricorn during the solstice. These events are common knowledge. They have been investigated, calculated for hundreds and hundreds of years. At locations on the equator and on the tropic lines hundreds of thousands of people document the path of the sun, there are photographs, pictures, videos, papers published etc. In spite of all of this:
Just link us to the documents for the world-wide sun observation project which the calculators are (hopefully) based on. What is so flipping difficult about that?
Tom asks for a world wide sun observation project.
Did timeanddate.com send agents to every point on earth to carefully document the activities and actions of the sun throughout the year?
Tom asks for a documentation to every point on earth where the the actions of the sun were documented all throughout the year.