to be perfectly honest, the only 'proofs' are based on the fact that the earth looks like it is flat.
from the bedford level test, to the time-honoured test of looking out the window.
but because no (normal) person feels the need to test that the earth is round, the only tests have been done by people with a vested interest in FET or the desire to stir the pot. that is like asking Hitler about the holocaust. (not quite)
all i'm saying is that it would be financially beneficial for Samuel Rothbowham to claim that he had proved that the Earth was flat. No university or research body of any repute has ever tested this, because there is nothing to test.
Any evidence for a round earth is promptly dismissed as a conspiracy.
this website is a debauchery of the scientific method in every sense of the word.
I agree with you completely. There is sadly no science here at all, not that I expected much. I had hoped that the fabricated flat Earth thought experiment would of had more substance, but I guess it is difficult to create believable deceptions without having any evidence to back it.
I highly expect that most of those who claim to believe in a flat Earth are simply having fun at everyone's expense. There are not many who are truly deceived by the notion. I do not truly have any evidence for this belief, but the way they dodge questions, answer with obviously faulty data and logic and simply deny anything they can't explain leads me to this conclusion.
We do know that gravity exists, so this post was a little pointless. And we have a lot more experimental data than simply observation of falling objects from a single perspective - the equivalence principle is a cute misdirection, but ultimately a useless way to try and counter the fact, theory or laws of gravity (whichever they were trying to counter).
Ultimately, gravity is the flat Earth thought experiment's achille's heel. There is actually no way to explain all the aspects of gravity (from the force that keeps us on the surface of the Earth to the tidal forces from the gravitations of the Sun and Moon) in a way that makes a flat Earth make sense (as can be seen by pretty much any thread on this site).
I guess my new question (can make it on a new thread if you like) is: what is the point of trying to convince people the world is flat?