Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« on: March 30, 2021, 06:23:54 PM »
So I've found this site which accurately predicts the position of satellites passing overhead. I went outside last night and sure enough it works.

This tool is clearly using a round earth model to predict the positions of the ISS, star link satellites, etc. And it gets everything right, right down to the satellite positions relative to the trees in my front yard.

My question is how can they make predicts like this if they started with an inaccurate globe model?

https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #1 on: March 31, 2021, 03:21:07 AM »
RE is not required to predict celestial motion. The Ancient Babylonians did it and they believed that the earth was flat, and had no geometrical scheme of planetary or lunar motion behind their predictions.

Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2021, 03:41:16 AM »
RE is not required to predict celestial motion. The Ancient Babylonians did it and they believed that the earth was flat, and had no geometrical scheme of planetary or lunar motion behind their predictions.

Sure that's true, but satellites aren't celestial. The Spacex satellites are particularly interesting because they form constellations and are clearly man-made.

If you go outside at the time listed for your location you can see a long strings of many satellites flying through the sky, and unlike airplanes they are completely silent.

How is it possible that 10 objects could be visibly flying through the sky, in a straight line, and make no noise? And not only that some armature's website is able to predict their location with pinpoint accuracy.

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2021, 08:14:27 AM »
RE is not required to predict celestial motion. The Ancient Babylonians did it and they believed that the earth was flat, and had no geometrical scheme of planetary or lunar motion behind their predictions.

Was there any instance of them observing, and predicting the appearance of, a celestial object appearing in the twilight sky, then re-appearing 90 minutes later, showing the same direction and speed of travel?
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« Reply #4 on: March 31, 2021, 08:04:04 PM »
RE is not required to predict celestial motion. The Ancient Babylonians did it and they believed that the earth was flat, and had no geometrical scheme of planetary or lunar motion behind their predictions.
Not relevant.  The operation of satellites is proven by the angles calculated to receive their signals.

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2021, 06:53:50 PM »
If your claims to accuracy are correct, then it is still entirely possible to predict satellite position with a FE model. The satellites can be circling in the firmament and recieving signals in just the same way that they are with a RE model. I don't see the issue.
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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2021, 07:00:59 PM »
If your claims to accuracy are correct, then it is still entirely possible to predict satellite position with a FE model. The satellites can be circling in the firmament and recieving signals in just the same way that they are with a RE model. I don't see the issue.

What’s holding them up there?

Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2021, 12:21:46 AM »
If your claims to accuracy are correct, then it is still entirely possible to predict satellite position with a FE model. The satellites can be circling in the firmament and recieving signals in just the same way that they are with a RE model. I don't see the issue.

If this is true then it is actually a very exciting discovery for flat earth theory. This website is able to both accurately predict the position of the satellites in the sky AND mark the positions of the satellites on a globe. Assuming the speed of each satellite is constant and their movement within the firmament is circular, we should be able use this information to create an accurate map of the flat earth. With several data points we could calculate a linear transformation that transforms the globe map into a flat earth map. Given the accuracy of the satellite position data it may well be the most accurate map of the flat earth ever created.

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2021, 01:14:10 AM »
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Ripped this from a similar thread in FET board "low earth orbits vs sun and moon"

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #9 on: April 28, 2021, 11:33:20 PM »
More interesting, maybe, is the Directv web site giving directions (altitude and azimuth) to point the antennas. The dishes are very directional, giving confirmation that they are pointing at the satellite. The satellites are geosynchronous, meaning they are stationary at a spot over the equator. If you take the directions given for Corpus Christi, Kansas City, and Grand Forks, the vertical component does not match when plotted on FE. On RE, the lines cross at the same point.

There are ham radio guys who regularly talk by bouncing off a satellite, in fact there have been multiple ham satellites launched. Youtube has many videos of hams doing this.

Ham radio operators also aim their antennas to talk with someone far away. You have to know accurately the shape of the earth to know this. Before the internet, hams used to pay money for a flay map with accurate directions everywhere (but not distances, and only from their location) to make it easy to see where to point their antenna.

I would like to see a FE go to a ham radio club meeting and tell them FE.

Youtube has videos of people listening (with very directional antennas) to satellites on home made radio rigs. You can download a program to show the locations of satellites, you can buy (fairly cheap) a usb receiver, make your own antenna, and download gps software from github. You can read the program to see what it really does and examine data from satellites.

If I knew the earth was flat, I would prove it multiple ways very quickly and spread the word. There is a simple explanation for why FE can't do that.
I am really curious about so many FE things, like how at sunset in Denver, people in St Louis see the dome as dark with stars, while people in Salt Lake City see the same dome as light blue. FE scientists don't know or won't tell me.

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Re: Predicting satellite positions with a flat earth model
« Reply #10 on: April 29, 2021, 02:06:24 AM »
More interesting, maybe, is the Directv web site giving directions (altitude and azimuth) to point the antennas. The dishes are very directional, giving confirmation that they are pointing at the satellite. The satellites are geosynchronous, meaning they are stationary at a spot over the equator. If you take the directions given for Corpus Christi, Kansas City, and Grand Forks, the vertical component does not match when plotted on FE. On RE, the lines cross at the same point.

There are ham radio guys who regularly talk by bouncing off a satellite, in fact there have been multiple ham satellites launched. Youtube has many videos of hams doing this.

Ham radio operators also aim their antennas to talk with someone far away. You have to know accurately the shape of the earth to know this. Before the internet, hams used to pay money for a flay map with accurate directions everywhere (but not distances, and only from their location) to make it easy to see where to point their antenna.

I would like to see a FE go to a ham radio club meeting and tell them FE.

Youtube has videos of people listening (with very directional antennas) to satellites on home made radio rigs. You can download a program to show the locations of satellites, you can buy (fairly cheap) a usb receiver, make your own antenna, and download gps software from github. You can read the program to see what it really does and examine data from satellites.

If I knew the earth was flat, I would prove it multiple ways very quickly and spread the word. There is a simple explanation for why FE can't do that.

Interesting. I don't know enough to have an answer for that. Anyone?
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