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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...
« on: April 11, 2024, 03:48:38 PM »
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It mentions it just after 3 minutes in.

No, it doesn't explain it. This is what it says at the 3 minute mark, that straight lines will look like curves at another angle:

Angle 1:


Angle 2:


This does not answer why the lines move North-South. It answers a different question of why they might appear curved.

Quote from: AATW on April 11, 2024, 03:00:18 PM
To understand this just put Google Earth in Globe mode, define some straight lines across the globe and then go back in to map projection mode. Voila:



Basically, it's a 2D line - the shadow path - mapped on to a 3D object - the globe - which is also spinning. And the rate of that spin varies with latitude.

It's a bit complicated, but if you look at the example at just after 3 minutes in to that video you can have a go yourself to help you understand it. A lot of your FE belief seems to stem from you not understanding the RE model and thus declaring it impossible.

That's not an explanation for why it travels North-South. This is an explanation for why a line might appear straight on a globe and make those curves on a map projection. You drew the North-South line there, not explained how that could occur in RE with a Moon which moves East to West.

Also, the below are not map projections. The lines do not appear straight or consistently curved here:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html


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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...
« on: April 11, 2024, 11:28:26 AM »
Quote from: AATW on April 10, 2024, 09:03:35 AM
Quote from: Tom Bishop on April 10, 2024, 01:55:43 AM
The Solar Eclipse eclipse paths on a Flat Earth make more sense to me than the Solar Eclipse paths on the Round Earth.

I think I've identified the issue.
This is a bit complicated but this video does a reasonable job of explaining it:



The headline is that straight lines when mapped on to a globe aren't straight when shown on a 2d map projection.
And the earth is rotating at different speeds at different latitudes, which complicates things.
Also note that the width of the eclipse path changes with latitude. The size of the shadow isn't different, it's just that the angle of the earth's surface with respect to that shadow is different which means it can be seen over a wider area.

That video is titled "Why Do Eclipses Travel WEST to EAST?" and does not attempt to even explain the North-South movements. I am not asking why the eclipses travel West to East. I am asking why they make North-South movements, and make shapes like this:



Not only is there North-South movement, there many of them there is also a point of inflection, with one concave and one convex arch and where the eclipse changes direction.

The shapes are quite radical on a Round Earth, and there appears to be a lack of a coherent explanation for what is occurring here:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html


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Flat Earth Theory / Re: gravity in different places and universal acceleration
« on: April 10, 2024, 11:59:22 PM »
The surface of the earth is most certainly accelerating upwards. See the page on Universal Acceleration and the sub pages in the end section which goes through the evidence. There is so much evidence for this that even in the official Round Earth Theory, the surface of the earth is accelerating upwards through the hidden dimension of curved spacetime to explain the multitude of physical and experimental evidence. The fact that mainstream physicists need this sort of meta-physics with hidden realities to conjure together an explanation is itself a proof, and one of my favorite proofs.

In regards to the gravitational changes by location, there have been some internal FE hypotheses over the years that the earth is accelerating upwards as the primary effect and there may be a small amount of gravitation as an addition. However, the latest research on gravitational variations seems to show that there is conflicting evidence on this subject and there likely are  no gravity changes. Universal Acceleration reigns supreme. See this page on that topic: https://wiki.tfes.org/Variations_in_Gravity

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: April 10, 2024, 11:46:26 PM »
"The former president owns a majority stake in the company and his stake was valued at about $2.9 billion on Monday, down from a peak of over $6 billion after its debut on its trading debut."

It sounds like Trump's stake is still worth billions. This still appears to be his most profitable venture, and appears to be a doing lot better than most business ventures.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...
« on: April 10, 2024, 01:55:43 AM »
The Solar Eclipse eclipse paths on a Flat Earth make more sense to me than the Solar Eclipse paths on the Round Earth. Consider the map paths on a Round Earth. On the eclipse path maps the Moon's shadow is making quite sharp North-South movements over the course of a few hours. However, the Moon does not orbit the earth in a sharp South-West to North-East angle.

In RE Moon's orbit deviates by only 5 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic, the Sun-Earth plane. It is also only moving slightly slower in the Sun in the sky, setting 50 minutes later each day

https://web.archive.org/web/20190211123505/http://ircamera.as.arizona.edu/Astr2016/lectures/skyappearance.htm



Consider how the above, with a Moon that moves slowly across the sky in comparison to the Sun, can make all of these wild shapes:

http://eclipse-maps.com/Eclipse-Maps/Welcome.html



Curiously, on a Northern Azimuthal FE map, the paths of the Solar Eclipse make symmetrical arcs:

From A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34834/34834-h/34834-h.htm



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Fig. 36.—Central eclipses for the first two decades of the twentieth century. Oppolzer.

Future eclipses.—An eclipse map of a different kind is shown in Fig. 36, which represents the shadow paths of [pg. 114] all the central eclipses of the sun, visible during the period 1900-1918 A. D., in those parts of the earth north of the south temperate zone. Each continuous black line shows the path of the shadow in a total eclipse, from its beginning, at sunrise, at the western end of the line to its end, sunset, at the eastern end, the little circle near the middle of the line showing the place at which the eclipse was total at noon. The broken lines represent similar data for the annular eclipses. This map is one of a series prepared by the Austrian astronomer, Oppolzer, showing the path of every such eclipse from the year 1200 B. C. [pg. 115] to 2160 A. D., a period of more than three thousand years.

Also see this image:


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Terrible Political Memes
« on: April 05, 2024, 02:58:37 PM »

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 03, 2024, 02:42:13 AM »
Even transgender rights activist Caitlyn Jenner says that Biden is trolling and misusing the day -


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 03, 2024, 02:22:59 AM »
A presidential proclamation that Easter Day is the Trans Day is simply obvious far-left trolling, like with all of the I-am-Satan references Biden made during his campaign that we previously looked at.

Another hint of this trolling is that the White House didn't include the Transgender Day of Visibility on their Spanish feeds, despite them including other days.

https://dailycaller.com/2024/04/01/white-house-joe-biden-transgender-day-visibility-easter-spanish-twitter/


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 03, 2024, 12:47:04 AM »
Joe Biden published it on the 29th. Easter was the 31st.

Is the argument here that he didn't know it was Easter and would have not published that had he known?

Is no one at the White House editing these proclamations?

The White House has a team of people. On the 28th they were planning Easter Egg hunts for Easter, so they clearly knew what day it was.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 02, 2024, 10:17:40 PM »
It looks to me like he had a choice to declare this Easter a trans day and decided to do so. The argument that he didn't do this is clearly false.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 02, 2024, 08:16:10 PM »
Apparently there are LGBT days every week: https://glaad.org/reference/calendar/

It was absolutely Joe Biden's decision to issue a presidential proclamation that Easter Day was transgender day. It just happened to be that day. If it was International Lesbian Day he would have proclaimed that instead. He had a choice not to do this, but he did it anyway.

Joe Biden has not issued presidential proclamations for each of those many LGBT days on that page. There are not weekly presidential proclamations for the gay day of the week. He chose to emphasize this Easter one.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: President Joe Biden
« on: April 02, 2024, 12:32:58 PM »
Wow, I hadn't heard that he did this.


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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: I am wondering why I do not see...
« on: April 01, 2024, 03:25:55 PM »
It's an admission that they don't have a real eclipse prediction method based on modern RE theories and are still using the Saros Cycle, an ancient pattern-based eclipse predicting scheme created by a society of Flat Earthers.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: March 29, 2024, 03:37:43 AM »
Still winning.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wealth-tmtg-dwac-billionaires-stock-court-judgment-rich-list-2024-3


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: March 25, 2024, 08:05:47 PM »
Trump's bond was reduced to $175 Million, and there is still a question whether he will even end up paying anything.

Trump's networth also recently increased to $6.4 Billion making him, for the first time, one of the world's 500 richest people.

Looks like he is winning to me.


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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« on: March 23, 2024, 06:17:09 PM »
Thank you.

Something funny seems to still be going on.

The Southern Hemisphere page from the outside looks fine: https://wiki.tfes.org/index.php?title=Southern_Hemisphere

But when I go to edit the Southern Hemisphere page I see this.

https://wiki.tfes.org/index.php?title=Southern_Hemisphere&action=edit



Cleared cache and tried it in a different browser with same result.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Wiki Spam
« on: March 20, 2024, 12:13:59 AM »
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« on: March 20, 2024, 12:06:34 AM »
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: March 19, 2024, 01:35:20 AM »
This must be a pretty big cult if Trump is even or leading in the polls.

Once New York seizes his assets we're going to have a flood of interviews with real estate developers which go exactly like this:


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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump
« on: March 18, 2024, 11:35:54 PM »
I suspect Trump could get this money if he really wanted to, through multiple lenders, creative financing, etc. Even in the complaints from his lawyers they inadvertently describe some ways he could do it. But that is the wrong play here. If New York actually seizes his assets it will be shocking international news which would have the effect of turning Trump into a martyr.

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