Quote from: inquisitive on April 08, 2018, 07:05:14 PMQuote from: Parallax on April 08, 2018, 06:44:01 PMDr Rowbotham was accurate in his experiments.How do you know without repeating them?Because they don't need to be repeated, they were correct.
Quote from: Parallax on April 08, 2018, 06:44:01 PMDr Rowbotham was accurate in his experiments.How do you know without repeating them?
Dr Rowbotham was accurate in his experiments.
I'm particularly interested in how there could be two apparent celestial poles.
Quote from: Stagiri on April 18, 2018, 02:23:36 PMI'm particularly interested in how there could be two apparent celestial poles.The Wiki alludes to it, but here is what is happening. People are reading Earth Not a Globe, but none of the studies the society published after that. After the South Pole was discovered in the early 1900's the Flat Earth Society (then called the Universal Zetetic Society) updated the Flat Earth model with this new information, showing an earth with two poles.You can read about this in Zetetic Astronomy by Lady Blount and The Sea Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical Motions
Quote from: Tom Bishop on April 18, 2018, 05:50:09 PMQuote from: Stagiri on April 18, 2018, 02:23:36 PMI'm particularly interested in how there could be two apparent celestial poles.The Wiki alludes to it, but here is what is happening. People are reading Earth Not a Globe, but none of the studies the society published after that. After the South Pole was discovered in the early 1900's the Flat Earth Society (then called the Universal Zetetic Society) updated the Flat Earth model with this new information, showing an earth with two poles.You can read about this in Zetetic Astronomy by Lady Blount and The Sea Earth Globe and its Monstrous Hypothetical MotionsSo, do I understand it correctly that the FE isn't unipolar (but rather bipolar)?
That's an example of a bi-polar map, yes. There may be other bi-polar projections and possibilities.
(...) There may be other bi-polar projections and possibilities.
Quote from: Tom Bishop on April 19, 2018, 07:15:35 PM(...) There may be other bi-polar projections and possibilities.Such as?
Quote from: Stagiri on April 19, 2018, 07:38:42 PMQuote from: Tom Bishop on April 19, 2018, 07:15:35 PM(...) There may be other bi-polar projections and possibilities.Such as?Go to this link and drag the map around. There are a lot of ways to make a bi-polar model:https://web.archive.org/web/20140614024800/http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/azimuthal_equidistant=60.11,21.90,145
Yes, and all of them would be in conflict with observations of distances such as airline jet routes or the path of the sun at the tropics and equator.
Quote from: douglips on April 20, 2018, 03:29:40 AMYes, and all of them would be in conflict with observations of distances such as airline jet routes or the path of the sun at the tropics and equator.That is TBD. Over the years, in the times we have tried, we have had trouble testing out different maps due to a number of reasons, of which I will summarize here.- A major airport does not make connections between all airports on earth. Multiple stops are necessary to get to some locations. - Jets must fly with respect to airspace agreements --they don't fly the quickest route to the destination - It is not really that uncommon for a flight to arrive more than an hour early or an hour late. There are reports on the web about such occurrences. Jets may be delayed in a route; we would need a good resource for historical flight times. - International flights often use jet streams to reach their destination as Standard Operating Procedure - Nonstop in the travel industry doesn't necessarily always mean "nonstop". A stop is only a stop that transfers passengers in travel agency lingo. A bus which makes a stop for fuel at some point along a 29 stop route advertises that route as "29 Stops," not "30 Stops." - The distances reported from airlines are actually calculated based on a spherical coordinate system. Flight times from flight logs would be required to make an estimation.There are more issues as well.