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Flat Earth Community / Re: What Flat Earth has done for me.
« on: October 19, 2016, 04:37:12 PM »Discovering these FES websites hasn't changed my life. But it has been sort of s teaching tool . Examples of how map projections are made and how the distances from the earth to various objects such as the moon have been interesting . I have either brushed up on things I already knew or been enlightend on things I didn't know.Yes, I absolutely agree. The research, both historical and current has firmed up my reasons for quite firmly accepting that the Earth is a Globe orbiting the sun.
I have also had the opportunity to visit an astronomical observatory,
On the other hand it is really very difficult to understand any reason why some persons would profess to believe that the earth was some flat disc.
And there are some who consider these FES websites as just two more of many "spoof websites" on the Internet.
There are others who just visit these websites just for the entertainment of the weird ideas from suppposed flat earthers. On the other hand it is really pathetic if flat earthers really profess to believe all of this flat earth nonsense.
I really do believe if you worked in some technical , engineering or scientific line of work you would know - not just believe - that the earth was a globe. If you had not had the benefit of even an elementary education, or your work and experience had been in some other field , I think I can understand why you might not be certain of the shape of the earth or even if it was flat and had no interest in learning whether it was "flat" or "round".
I have learned a few surprising things. One of these was that Tycho Brahe's Geocentric model actually matched astronomical observations[1] better than the Heliocentric model of Copernicus. Copernicus had circular orbits for all five known planets, so his model did not fit observations very well, though still better than the Ptolemaic model.
[1] They were largely his own observations, but I have absolutely no doubt that he was a perfectly honest meticulous astronomer.
Your reasoning might be indicative of round earth but it is not conclusive of anything. I do not believe stuff just because it is wrote down in a textbook. Alluding to expert sources doesn't prove anything. Long Live Flat Earth! It hasn't hurt anybody, unlike modern science.