Tintagel-Are you aware that the methodology that shows the sun to be 3,000 miles in altitude is completely flawed and in fact shows a variable altitude, depending on the angle you measure from?
Of course I am. It's the reason I started researching the EA. The methodology isn't completely flawed, it becomes more flawed as the angle of light from the sun gets closer to horizontal.
Why would anyone lie or provide incorrect figures?
The potential reasons for lying are many, but I'm not a conspiracy theorist. As for incorrect figures - one would provide incorrect figures, most likely, because they're simply mistaken.
We look forward to your peer reviewed figures and the reasons for lying. Until then we must assume you are wrong.
I'm not certain who this "we" you're referring to is. Let me clarify something for you. Here at the Flat Earth Society, we depend upon directly observed phenomena and empirical evidence. We say the earth is flat because the earth appears flat. I would ask you, ever the inquisitive one, how much of what you call "knowledge" is based upon things you have been taught, or shown, or told "by convention, we say."
When I first came to the Flat Earth Society I was as skeptical as you. Clearly the earth can't be flat, how can all of science be wrong? But my bemusement turned to fascination, and that turned to (ironically enough) inquisitiveness, and I started to question myself - what do I actually *know* to be true?
I answer a lot of questions with "I don't know." Many of us do. Some accuse us of side-stepping issues, but really, in the Zetetic sense, the ability to admit that I don't know only demonstrates our devotion to Zetetic science and empirical evidence. I adore admitting that I don't know the altitudes of satellites, because it reminds me that I'm not basing my picture of the world on meaningless data fed to me from sources who claim to be reputable.
Those who do that, in my opinion, demonstrate a truly tragic lack of curiosity and wonder.
If you come here rapid-firing second-hand information in the guise of actual evidence in every thread coupled with smug quips in reference to our (in your opinion) faulty conclusions, then I will happily respond with an eyeroll and a suggestion that you take stock of your own limited experience, and remind yourself to admit that at the end of the day, you don't know either. Not really.