The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Theory => Topic started by: BillyBob on January 17, 2014, 06:33:03 PM
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How do you people explain how the sun travels in a straight line and does not arc across the sky?
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How do you people explain how the sun travels in a straight line and does not arc across the sky?
Now you're just being ridiculous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm_Cn8-DCNc
A straight line, never arcing? Are you sure about that?
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You people say that the sun travels in a circle around the earth. It does not look that way to me.
The videos you posted are from within the Arctic circle. The same video could have been made within the Antarctic circle. How do you explain this?
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You people say that the sun travels in a circle around the earth. It does not look that way to me.
The videos you posted are from within the Arctic circle. The same video could have been made within the Antarctic circle. How do you explain this?
No, it travels in a circle above the earth.
Regarding antarctica, I don't disagree that on a spherical earth this would happen, but no one I've spoken to could verify whether it happens on ours. How do you know it's true? Have you been to antarctica and seen this? I haven't.
Moreover, celestial gears would theoretically allow for a midnight sun in antarctica, too... I've simply never seen evidence that it occurs.
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The Sun only follows a 'straight' path, meaning it goes from 90 East to 270 West and passes through one's local zenith, at the Equator during the Equinox. Otherwise, it always follows an arc.
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Why does it not make a circle over my head?
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Why does it not make a circle over my head?
Because you aren't in the centre of that circle. At the north pole in the summer it does just that.
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I don't live anywhere near the north pole. However, the sun does rise and set here. It does not do it in a circle, like flat earth theorists say it does.
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I don't live anywhere near the north pole. However, the sun does rise and set here. It does not do it in a circle, like flat earth theorists say it does.
What shape does it make? Then explain how that works on a globe.
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On a globe, the sun rises and sets from East to West. On a flat earth, it goes in a circle. How do explain this?
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Because on a flat earth it is still travelling from East to West. There is no confliction.
East: The cardinal point on the mariner's compass 90° clockwise from due north and directly opposite west.
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East to west is a circle on a flat earth.
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Yes. East to West is also a circle on a globe. If it was a straight line it would jut out into space.
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East to west is a circle on a flat earth.
Please provide a map to explain.
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East to west is a circle on a flat earth.
Please provide a map to explain.
You don't have to look far, the map is easy to find in our wiki. Here is one representation:
(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/4/43/Map.png)
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East to west is a circle on a flat earth.
Please provide a map to explain.
You don't have to look far, the map is easy to find in our wiki. Here is one representation:
(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/4/43/Map.png)
The distances between Australia and south africa and south america are wrong.
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The distances between Australia and south africa and south america are wrong.
Nope.
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The distances between Australia and south africa and south america are wrong.
Nope.
How many miles between Perth, Australia and Cape Town? So you would pass over the south of India.
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The distances between Australia and south africa and south america are wrong.
Nope.
How many miles between Perth, Australia and Cape Town? So you would pass over the south of India.
Sorry, could I have that in English?
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The distances between Australia and south africa and south america are wrong.
Nope.
How many miles between Perth, Australia and Cape Town? So you would pass over the south of India.
Sorry, could I have that in English?
If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
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If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
Define "the route".
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If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
Define "the route".
Which places are passed over.
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Which places are passed over.
That largely depends on which places you decide to pass over.
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Why is PP trolling in this thread?
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Why is PP trolling in this thread?
I'm not. Inquisitive's question is impossible to answer logically. The path one will take to get from one place to another depends entirely on their decision.
Please refrain from off-topic posting.
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He asked for someone to show the shortest route from Perth to Cape Town. To me, that would be the shortest distance, and the places you pass over are what falls on the line from Perth to Cape Town.
So will someone kindly show the route on this monopolar map which minimizes the distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa, and give the what the distance of that route would be as indicated by the map?
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I could give you an answer, but how would we ever know if I am correct or not?
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He asked for someone to show the shortest route from Perth to Cape Town. To me, that would be the shortest distance, and the places you pass over are what falls on the line from Perth to Cape Town.
No, he didn't. He asked for the shortest distance and a route. I asked him to specify the route, and am currently awaiting for him to do so.
Please stop attempting to derail this thread.
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I could give you an answer, but how would we ever know if I am correct or not?
You could show your work.
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Yes, but that would not prove anything, now would it?
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If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Shortest distance from "A" (Perth, Australia) to "B" (Cape Town, South Africa). On a flat map, the route to achieve this would be a straight line joining these two points.
Stop avoiding the question.
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If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
Define "the route".
How about defining "the route" as "the path taken to travel the shortest distance from Perth, Australia to Cape Town, South Africa" and not being needlessly pedantic?
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wow I didn't know the great Australian bite was that flat where des kangaroo island go and im surprised cape York is that flat I might be hit by cyclone ita
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If the picture above is correct what is the shortest distance between Perth, Australia and Cape Town in miles? Please show the route.
You can take any route you like so long as you stay in the blue bits. Post the ships logs when you're done.
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I am curious to see the ships logs as well. I suspect he just made it all up.
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Nothing like a trolling mod. He never claimed to sail from Perth to Cape Town. Please try and keep this on track. I would feel a great sense of ease.
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Do you people not even understand the Sun rise? What a bunch of morons.