Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #20 on: April 18, 2016, 04:15:38 PM »
Why not open a thread to demolish them one by one yourself?  It could be fun!

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That the mariners' compass points north and south at the same time is a fact as indisputable as that two and two makes four; but that this would be impossible if the thing, were placed on a globe with "north" and "south' at the centre of opposite hemispheres is a fact that does not figure in the school-books, though very easily seen: and it requires no lengthy train of reasoning to bring out of it a pointed proof that the Earth is not a globe.

The sheer idiocy of some of them IS mildly entertaining...

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Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #21 on: April 18, 2016, 05:36:33 PM »
Why not open a thread to demolish them one by one yourself?  It could be fun!

Number 10:

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That the mariners' compass points north and south at the same time is a fact as indisputable as that two and two makes four; but that this would be impossible if the thing, were placed on a globe with "north" and "south' at the centre of opposite hemispheres is a fact that does not figure in the school-books, though very easily seen: and it requires no lengthy train of reasoning to bring out of it a pointed proof that the Earth is not a globe.

The sheer idiocy of some of them IS mildly entertaining...

Look up the flat earth definition of the horizon for one. LOL.
And look up the first line of my signature line. LOL
 
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Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2016, 03:05:23 AM »
... But, I see the sun and moon appear to rise from behind the horizon and set behind the horizon...
This cannot occur on a flat earth. To lose visibility of the Sun on a FE model it must become obscured by either
1) Sinking below the flat plane
2) Switching off
Either of these would result in the entire earth becoming shrouded in darkness simultaneously.

It could be obscured by that or either aether.
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Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2016, 05:27:20 AM »
Hills are, by definition, aberrations in terrain.

Really?  The Dictionary app on my phone defines a hill as "a natural elevation of the warth's surface", not as an aberration.  And in my experience, hills are more common than flat terrain.  Maybe flatness is the aberration?
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Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #24 on: April 19, 2016, 01:49:52 PM »
The Dictionary app on my phone defines a hill as "a natural elevation of the warth's surface", not as an aberration.
Well, that's just embarrassing. Perhaps you should consider using an actual dictionary and not "The Dictionary app on your phone"?
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Re: Is the Earth really flat?
« Reply #25 on: April 19, 2016, 02:47:07 PM »
The Dictionary app on my phone defines a hill as "a natural elevation of the warth's surface", not as an aberration.
Well, that's just embarrassing. Perhaps you should consider using an actual dictionary and not "The Dictionary app on your phone"?

He confirms Oscar's point anyway by showing that hills are elevations of the Earth's surface so who cares how stupid his source is?
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