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What happens when.....
« on: December 07, 2018, 03:42:05 PM »
I am new to the flat earth theory and alot of the information is credible but one question i can not answer for myself,,, what happens when on travels directly south on say Australia or Southern south America or directly norht of Canada?

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2018, 02:47:38 PM »
Anyone gonna answer me or does anyone even have an answer? Is this a massive hole in this theory or what?

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2018, 06:54:26 PM »
Obviously, if you travel north of Canada you run into the frozen wasteland of the northernmost Arctic Ocean and ultimately the geographic North Pole.  Few flat earth proponents are suggesting anything different here.  There are even commercial planes that fly somewhat near there on a regular basis.

If you travel due south of South America and  Australia you run into Antarctica.  Again, obviously.  No one disputes this.  The flat earth proponents suggest Antarctica is a ring around a disc with the north’s pole at the disks center.  In both a globular earth and a flat earth Antarctica is south of everything.   “South” is just opposite of “North”. So every where on the outer edge would be directly “South”. 

This obviously creates enormous issues seeing as there is a south celestial pole above Antarctica just like Polaris is above the North Pole so south towards the southern celestial pole is not just a direction in all directions longitudinally from our geographic North Pole, but a specific location.  The flat earth map does not allow for a southern axis location.

Hope that helps.

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2018, 03:18:51 PM »
Obviously, if you travel north of Canada you run into the frozen wasteland of the northernmost Arctic Ocean and ultimately the geographic North Pole.  Few flat earth proponents are suggesting anything different here.  There are even commercial planes that fly somewhat near there on a regular basis.

If you travel due south of South America and  Australia you run into Antarctica.  Again, obviously.  No one disputes this.  The flat earth proponents suggest Antarctica is a ring around a disc with the north’s pole at the disks center.  In both a globular earth and a flat earth Antarctica is south of everything.   “South” is just opposite of “North”. So every where on the outer edge would be directly “South”. 

This obviously creates enormous issues seeing as there is a south celestial pole above Antarctica just like Polaris is above the North Pole so south towards the southern celestial pole is not just a direction in all directions longitudinally from our geographic North Pole, but a specific location.  The flat earth map does not allow for a southern axis location.

Hope that helps.

But there has been people who have circumnavigated the earth vertically. Do you have any explanations for this or is this just another "fake" thing to you guys.

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2018, 06:08:16 PM »
Vertical and horizontal are the same on FE as well as RE.
What you're asking is, what happens once you reach the far most points of north or south, where do you go from there?
On RE you reverse direction, not changing direct, but once you hit the farthest point north, if you continue in a straight line you end up heading due south and vise versa one you hit the farthest most south point you go north.
On FE this only happens at the north pole, but, supposedly, the south direction (any direction away from the north pole), ends at the ice wall. However before you hit the ice you somehow, magically, turn right or left and spin a circle. I say magically because somehow, with all of our high tech navigational equipment, knowledge of astronomy, , everything remains the same, looks like we're going the same direct.
Yes somehow, after following a southern direct, we turn west or east, apparently without knowing it, go all the way around to the other side of the planet, then turn north and eventually hit the north pole again without realizing we just traveled tens of thousands of miles without knowing it or our equipment detecting it. Some kind of vortex, anomaly, black hole, worm hole, that we can't detect??
What we physically observe is the sun always crossing our path on a journey as aforementioned, but spinning a circle on flat earth you would be following the same path as the sun.

An interesting fact. In a hypothetical scenario if you could leave the north pole on a non stop flight in any direction in a straight line you would end up at the Antarctica, (south pole) on RE, or oe the Antarctic ice wall that encircles FE. The difference is on FE that would be the end of you trip as you could NOT go any farther in a straight line. However, on RE you could continue and eventually end up back at the north pole.     
   

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2018, 06:24:04 PM »
And the scenario you are speaking of in the round earth has been done before. I feel like this is very compelling evidence that the earth is indeed round. There is no denying that people have circumnavigated from the north pole directly south and ended up back in the north pole. It has been done a handful of times. 

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Re: What happens when.....
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2018, 06:36:59 PM »
Jeran talks about North-South circumnavigation here: