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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Why are lines of latitude longer south of the equator than north?
« on: February 04, 2021, 01:05:38 PM »Raza the flight distances do check out on this map. Stack asked me this question the first time I introduced this map and I confirmed NY to Alaska is 4000 miles on this map as is generally accepted to be the distance.
Regarding the pole stars, I did follow closely the debates everyone had on how there can be two rotating sets of stars on a flat map. Tom introduced a video showing how a Dome above a flat earth can help part the stars and have them circle in two distinct groups.
Id go further and say that my understanding is that people in the south can observe some stars near them and people in the North can observe a higher set of stars in the sky. The dome helps magnify these effects.
And keep in mind, my map is different then the map you talked about in your other thread. This is a south Antarctic based projection, not a North pole one which is more commonly talked about.
Id go even further and say that the high altitude stars visible in the northern hemisphere are actually located closer to inner earth but the star light actually bends around the dome and gives the illusion of it being behind observers and over the artic circle. The Milky Way bends around the dome if you've seen time lapse photos of it, it's a dramatic effect.
This bending also accounts for why people in the North can see polaris from much of the world in winter. Just like the sun's rays wrap around the dome to give them 24 hour sunlight in summer, so do the stars (or planets) lights in winter. Not all night, as there is no 24 hour darkness in the habitable north (save 1 day maybe) But admittedly, there's not too much data on the far reaches of the north anyway to compare data as easily as you guys did for the southern hemisphere.
How does light bend to give the illusion of a celestial pole? On your map, I’m assuming the center is the South Pole and this has the southern celestial pole but how does the northern celestial pole works?
In the more traditional north centered flat Earth map, in the other thread, Tom tried to explain it away using crepuscular and anti crepuscular rays. That explanation was shaky but even more glaring issue was the ability of people on different continents to look at their own south directions (remember, different places on a flat Earth) and still see the same stars. I remember stack or someone else found a time of year when conditions are dark enough to see stars from Australia, tip of South America, and tip of Africa.
How do you explain that? On the Globe earth, South Pole is a single point. People looking south from all of those three locations are converging at a singular point. Therefore, they can easily see the same set of stars.
This issue was not resolved by the way and Tom has now abandoned that thread presumably because it’s not really recoverable without also bending logic. In a yet another thread about a similar discussion I believe the flat Earth proponents had to change wiki because of this issue.