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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Flat Earth Model and it's relationship to the Day Night Cycle

« on: January 17, 2019, 10:34:09 AM »

Yes that is a solid point and why I am struggling with this topic, it is clear to me that on a flat earth model the sun indead does have to travel a greater distance in a shorter time which with the formula s=d/t where d increases, s must increase to maintain the same t, or if we want s to stay the same then t has to decrease

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Flat Earth Model and it's relationship to the Day Night Cycle

« on: January 17, 2019, 10:20:44 AM »

Yes I agree that assuming both take the same amount of time the grasshoppers would bother appear above my head how ever the grasshopper 100feet away would (assuming it takes a perfect circular motion based on your calculation being Pi*r since its a semi circle) also appear 100feet over head while the other one would be 10 feet above my head?

The last point I don't understand, a point in space to which you didn't know how far away it was I presume means you are discussing the globe model, if that's the case then I will just skip over it as I am not interested in that topic, I wish to understand the FE model not discuss the Globe Earth.

Now if the last point was about FE then I am more confused as the Wiki suggests that the Sun is 3000 miles away so it's a known distance, even if its an approximate.

If you could elaborate what you meant by your final point that would be super helpful thankyou

Sorry adding an edit as apparently I didn't see your last sentence (still getting used to this site), I may be new at this but my calculations determined there would be around a 250% difference in speed between 2 locations New York Summer and Melbourne Summer, I would elaborate but I just made the whole video on it, I feel a 250% speed difference would be extreme enough to notice?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Flat Earth Model and it's relationship to the Day Night Cycle

« on: January 17, 2019, 09:25:34 AM »

Thankyou for your response, I understand that the sun still makes one rotation per day or 15 degrees per an hour, but I apologise if maybe I just don't understand well enough but wouldn't it be observable that speed difference.l I didn't touch on the calculations in the video but if I am further out from the rotation point then my 15 degrees per hour covers more distance than a point closer to the center of rotation? Would that not be noticeable or? I am just trying to have a better understanding of the topic so I appreciate the replies

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Flat Earth Theory / Flat Earth Model and it's relationship to the Day Night Cycle

« on: January 17, 2019, 07:34:18 AM »

Hello,
Assuming I have managed to put the link in correctly there will be a video that I just created for ease of explanation that discusses the topic that the title is based. I am posting this here as I previously made a post on the forums here searching for some discussion but I feel my post was too vague and uninteresting to discuss so hopefully this discussion is a more interesting topic.



TLDR; in case you couldn't be bothered watching the video, I basically calculated the speed that the sun would travel at 2 locations, 1 northern Hemisphere and 1 southern Hemisphere and compared the 2 noticing a large variation in those speeds which doesn't fit with what's observed in reality and as such wished to discuss what could cause this discrepancy.

Thankyou for your time.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A new Flat Earther

« on: January 16, 2019, 01:53:38 PM »

Living life on the edge I see (Only a bit of a pun intended) and okay will do, I'll just leave this open, hopefully the influx of replies on the post might draw some attention to it, thankyou for the assistance.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A new Flat Earther

« on: January 16, 2019, 01:48:40 PM »

Do I just wait for them to turn up here or message them? I am new to this board and I am aware that a place like this would be frequent for trolls so I just wanted to keep a low profile so I didn't cause any sort of commotion.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A new Flat Earther

« on: January 16, 2019, 01:41:14 PM »

Agreed, at best I have only been able to line up a few of these concepts on any possible variant of a Flat Earth at once, never all of them. I haven't spent as long as other researching the topic of the Flat Earth Theory and I truly want to gain as much knowledge as I can on this topic, so if I could even get a little insight into this topic from someone who sides strongly to the Flat Earth Model, I will be able to make a better conclusion. Thankyou for your time in responding and reaffirming some of the points needed for my conclusion to be drawn.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A new Flat Earther

« on: January 16, 2019, 01:34:04 PM »

I genuinely appreciate your response to the topic and I concur that on a globe model a lot of those answers (if not all) are answered, and I also agree that without any clearly defined Flat Earth model map I am unable to answer my questions adequately, that is why I have made this post to seek out those answers so I can greatly improve my understanding of the Flat Earth Model and the theories related to it.

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Flat Earth Theory / A new Flat Earther

« on: January 16, 2019, 05:11:24 AM »

Hello,

I have recently been looking into and learning about the Flat Earth movement and all the relevant theories on the topic and have become intrigued by the information I have been finding. I found myself leaning more and more to the Flat Earth side, how ever one speed bump occurred to which I am hoping you will all be able to help me with. You see, I am an Australian how ever there are small sections within the Flat Earth community who have concluded that the country I have been born and raised in doesn't exist. Reading through the forums I have read that this is mostly like a small group of "Trolls" or "fringe" Flat Earthers just trying to cause some controversy how ever my question still remains. Australia is definitely an anomaly on the Flat Earth Model when I look at this such as Seasonal variances, distances to other locations and even the length of our days and nights.

I have found a lot of general information on the Flat Earth topic but be it that I am still new to the whole theory I am unable to connect these dots to what I am observing here in my country of Australia, so if anyone here could help me in my understanding of what I observe in relation to the Flat Earth theory pertaining to the aforementioned topics that would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
A hopeful new Flat Earther