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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Do debates ever convert anyone?
« on: February 18, 2022, 03:04:20 PM »What do funhouses, smartphones or the shape of a screen have to do with using a globe?So, what you were told matches what you can see in the wee corner of your damp hovel.
I use an actual globe, it's sitting next to my desk right now, not a flat map. An actual physical sphere on a stand. When I use that to examine flights around the world I have taken, distances and directions I have driven across countries, it all matches perfectly. I can measure distances between cities anywhere on the globe and they match the known values, which even you admit we know very well.
Personal insults are not helpful.
At times, you seem blessed to have had the good fortune, as described by you, to exit said abode, TRUSTY GLOBE under one arm, pinned tightly against thy body (you dare not lose it after all, your very life could depend on its life saving, directional powers!), meager lunch sack grasped firmly betwixt thumb and three remaining fingertips of the opposite hand, off to work, navigating your way through the various glens and flowered meadows, stopped only by the occasional ogre at a stone bridge, demanding the toll.
Also not helpful.
Again, what does this have to do with the shape of the earth?
Answer - Nothing.
The flight time could be stated as having been x hours.
The true flight speed could be stated as having been y mph.
Resulting in a set outcome, proven by the math!
Therefore, the distance traveled MUST have been such and such!
Yeah, but that doesn't mean the flight took place over a globe.
I have driven thousands of miles and my cars odometer matches what my GPS tells me. I have personally verified the width of entire continents by driving them myself.
I have flown to multiple continents, I have measured the airspeed with both a GPS and landmarks.
So yes, the distance I traveled does indeed match such and such.
The distances match what a globe map and math tells me, so that tells me the Earth is actually a globe. If you try and plot just the places I have personally visited and verified the distances of, they will not fit on a flat earth map.
What travels and observations have you made that contradict known distances on a globe map?