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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Where is the sun in daytime?
« on: February 27, 2021, 09:18:36 PM »
With some more investigation you'll find that on 20th March this year, the spring equinox, the sun can be seen setting due west over the Indian Ocean from Padang, the capital of West Sumatra, Indonesia. At the exact same time the sun is to be seen from Quito, capital of Ecuador, rising due east. Each of these places is within 60 miles north or south of the equator.

If you plot these directions on any of the speculative FE maps – there's a selection in the wiki – you'll struggle to explain how the sun is also simultaneously seen almost directly overhead in Libreville, capital of Gabon, also within 60 miles of the equator. However, these are speculative maps and you should also consider the Bi-Polar model, also in the wiki, and its suggested route of the sun on the equinox. This may help explain why you're not getting an FE answer to your map questions generally.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 23, 2021, 09:57:46 AM »
On the "Ball Experiment" -
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Next I moved my position to below the ball and the top of the post, to get the ball to point upwards via a close range perspective effect. I could have done a better job at getting the phase to match, by moving the camera around. But it was easy to move the camera downwards to get the illuminated portion to point upwards:

Marvellous, you’ve actually done something! Or tried to give that appearance: you didn’t really try to get the ball to line up with the Moon, did you? Probably because that’s what clowns do, in your own words.

Why all the emphasis on pointing the camera up to photograph the ball being a problem? Haven’t you noticed the Moon is also up in the sky and you need to point the camera up to photograph it too?

This is enormously entertaining, reading your efforts to discount what your own work nearly shows, but is just sufficiently clumsy to avoid. Next thing you’ll be filming ships sailing for Hawaii and disappearing slowly over the horizon.  ;D

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Flat Earth Community / Re: A working map of the Flat Earth
« on: February 22, 2021, 05:46:30 PM »

Also, the shape and size of Australia is different among all of the Flat Earth maps.

Since the size and shape of Australia does not change, this means that all but one of the models is wrong.

You’re missing another possibility: it’s impossible for all of them to be correct but they could quite easily be all wrong.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 21, 2021, 09:16:51 PM »
There are diagrams on how the Moon Tilt works with EA on the Wiki Moon Tilt Illusion page. It's right there in the second section:

https://wiki.tfes.org/Moon_Tilt_Illusion#Flat_Earth_Moon_Tilt

And this is precisely the problem. If someone discovers the Moon's shadow alignment is replicated at ground level with a common ping pong ball held between eye and Moon, then what need is there to explain this with Electromagnetic Acceleration? Tom created and has expanded and worked on the Moon Tilt Illusion page in the wiki since 2019 and it would make all his effort rather pointless when it turns out that the illusion is just that, an optical illusion.

It has nothing to do with FE, it neither explains nor is explained by special light-bending ideas like EA – they're simply not needed. Rather like imagining a complex distribution system to get presents from the North Pole to every kid's home in the whole world in a single night and then that snotty kid next door tells you it's just your Mom and Dad: rather galling, but true.

Grow up.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 21, 2021, 08:19:06 PM »
This is clearly a close range perspective effect that caused this to happen, no different than the previous examples in this thread

I do enjoy it when you talk balls; could you explain how a close range perspective effect works on a ball’s shadow and at what range a true representation would be seen?

It's a close range perspective effect because bodies at close range will appear to tilt and change orientation easier with smaller movement than bodies in the background. This effect is part of standard Euclidean Geometry.
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I can move the camera around the closer object and create greater shifts in orientation than a background object.

Indeed you can, but can you explain how the closer the ball (not Rubix Cube, cone or other) is to being in direct line between eye and Moon, the more closely the ball's shadow line matches that of the Moon? If you troubled yourself long enough to try it yourself, you'd find this is the case, but you just don't do experiments, do you?

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Flat Earth 100% ultimate proofs
« on: February 21, 2021, 08:09:10 PM »

They don’t: the stars rise from the east and set towards the west just like north of the equator. They do however pivot around the south celestial pole.

These time-lapse sequences show the difference between the two hemispheres...

Magnificent footage, I was especially taken with that of the two Magellanic Clouds. Thanks!

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 21, 2021, 05:10:00 PM »
This is clearly a close range perspective effect that caused this to happen, no different than the previous examples in this thread

I do enjoy it when you talk balls; could you explain how a close range perspective effect works on a ball’s shadow and at what range a true representation would be seen?

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Flat Earth 100% ultimate proofs
« on: February 21, 2021, 03:29:37 PM »
Why do the stars rotate in the opposite direction if you are south of the Equator?

They don’t: the stars rise from the east and set towards the west just like north of the equator. They do however pivot around the south celestial pole.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 20, 2021, 08:22:06 AM »
This is all tremendously entertaining, Tom, I do hope this goes on a few more pages. What sort of experiment can the OP do with the Moon Tilt Illusion? And have you done as I have, have you actually tried the ping pong ball experiment yourself? Do let us know!

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Simple Experiments
« on: February 19, 2021, 10:13:21 PM »
The Moon Tilt Illusion is a good one to look at in depth, and is easily accessible - https://wiki.tfes.org/Moon_Tilt_Illusion

Yes, the Moon Tilt Illusion is really easy to work with and all you need is a ping pong ball - cheap, simple, inexpensive. You also need a view of the Sun and the waxing or waning gibbous Moon in the sky at the same time, which is quite easy this weekend not long before sunset - it's a good time to demonstrate the illusion of the Moon's shadow line (called the terminator line - the transition from lit area to unlit area) appearing to be out of line with the direction to the Sun. The references quoted in the wiki article Tom mentions explain the appearance quite well.

So which way should the line show to the Sun? First of all, do a little investigation nearer home: stand with the Sun at right angles to where you're facing. Let's say the Sun is off to your left and you then hold the ping pong ball, between finger and thumb, in front of you at eye level: you will see the ball half lit and half in shadow and a right angle from the shadow line across the lit area will point back to the Sun at your left.



Next try facing the Sun and hold the ball between your knees so you're looking straight down at it: you will again see the ball half lit, half in shadow and a right angle from the shadow line across the lit area will point back to the Sun in front of you. Stand with your back to the Sun and hold the ball directly above your head: again the half-lit, half-shadowed appearance and you now know which way the shadow line indicates towards the Sun behind you.

Now the fun starts: stand with the Sun behind one shoulder and look at the shadow line on the ball at eye level: the ball now appears more lit than unlit but the shadow line still shows the correct direction back towards the Sun. Note that it's only your viewpoint that has changed, which is why you see more of the lit area than the unlit. Now move the ball down to about waist height and you'll see the shadow line seems to show the Sun is now lower in the sky, perhaps even showing the Sun is below ground level! Has the light suddenly changed direction? No...

With the Sun still behind your shoulder, hold the ball above eye level and the shadow line now indicates the Sun is higher in the sky than before. So has the light again changed direction? No: move the ball back to eye level and turn to face at right angles to the Sun and the shadow line will again show the correct direction!

So at what position will the shadow line on the ball match the shadow line on the Moon? Move the ball around and compare: up, down, left and right until the two match: move the ball closer and further away from your eye too to see if that makes any difference. spoiler: the ball's shadow line and the Moon's shadow line will match when the ball is in line between your eye and the Moon.




So is the Moon's shadow tilted away from where it 'should' be? Do we need an esoteric light-bending explanation for this? No, we don't. Feel free to draw your own conclusions about Electromagnetic Acceleration (EA) after you've done the experiment

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Flat Earth Community / Re: New Universe Model ("Many Worlds" Theory)
« on: February 19, 2021, 12:48:18 PM »
Crop circles used to be quite a thing in the UK, and were beginning to be taken quite seriously by some academics. One man in particular had complex metereological models of how they were formed, the aerodynamic phenomena involved and was quite insistent they couldn’t be man-made. Until a tv documentary asked him to say whether a circle they had taken him to examine was the real deal and to describe how it might have formed. He confidently explained the typical characteristics, the prominent features and no, it couldn’t be other than genuine, dear me no, no possibility. They then showed him their film of the crop circlers making it the previous night and you couldn’t miss his embarrassment, him wishing the ground would swallow him there and then.

That was the beginning of the end of that craze: I haven’t seen one in more than a decade; the books and media attention also dried up.

Be careful what you imagine you’re seeing.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: A working map of the Flat Earth
« on: February 18, 2021, 10:04:32 PM »
So you're telling me of all the hundreds of thousands of FE believers in the world today, none of them is able to draw up a detailed map ?

As Pete has already implied, I am saying nothing about an ability to draw up a detailed map, only (as Pete also says) that there is no consensus on a definitive map.

And thanks for the humour, Pete, it was appreciated.  ;D

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Flat Earth Community / Re: A working map of the Flat Earth
« on: February 18, 2021, 10:51:24 AM »
... Did the Flat Earth community not produce a more detailed version of their agreed-upon map ?

There is the nub, there is no agreed-upon map, no agreement on the size or shape of the earth in FE circles. Make of it what you will, but that’s how it is.  ???

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Question about the stars.
« on: February 17, 2021, 01:05:12 PM »
Stack, I would just like to point out we have gone from talking about viewing Chicago from various places around Lake Michigan to photos of Ontario on Lake Ontario viewed from various places: was that your intention? As for observer height, the photo from Grimsby Beach includes a sailboat and almost all its mast is below the horizon - that should give you an idea how high above water the camera was.

I wonder if the original question about stars will ever be answered?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Question about the stars.
« on: February 16, 2021, 04:31:26 PM »
Make sure when you quote wave heights of 4-8 feet that the height is correctly quoted - does that height measure from water level to wave crest or is it from trough to crest? The second case means the wave height is half that of the first case. AATW’s diagrams don’t illustrate wave behaviour correctly, the troughs don’t all follow the same depth of water unless a shorebreak is being illustrated and the observer is in danger of being swept away.

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Raza, if the helicopter hovered over the earth for 10 hours i bet it would still move east (opposite the earths rotation) even with normal wind conditions because the atmosphere still must trail the earth because it is a gas after all.

Do you think so? If you put a mixing rotor like a food mixer’s paddle in a bowl of water and start it going for 5 hours, does the water still spin slower than the paddle by the end? It does, because the bowl isn’t turning and that drag of the bowl slows the water down.

But with a round earth there’s nothing containing the air, so what apart from the earth drags on the air? What is to slow the air from turning with the earth, at the same turning rate as the earth?

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Hi, the distance is the same.  I dont like to question well documented distance measurements on earth.

That’s probably wise, thank you.

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All the usual talk of flights is all very well, but to bring the discussion down to earth I’d like to ask MetaTron what the distance on this new map is from Moscow to Vladivostock, as taken by the Trans Siberian Railway, overland. The route passes through Kirov, Yekaterinberg, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Svobodny and Khabarovsk to name a few places along the way.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

The actual distance is going to be a little longer than the direct measurement because the train route isn’t perfectly straight, but what sort of distance do you make it on your new map?

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: How does FE explain star trails?
« on: February 05, 2021, 09:43:47 AM »
There is also no accounting for Tom arguing star trails are oval or elliptical, while the wiki article AATW quoted, which Tom created in 2019 and has subsequently edited on several occasions, insists star trails are circles. It’s difficult to take him seriously here.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: How does FE explain star trails?
« on: February 04, 2021, 07:43:52 PM »
I finally got a clear night and managed to capture some star trails.  I couldn't get to a really good location for a full sky view that wasn't blocked in some way, that will have to wait for spring.

I made sure that Polaris was centered in the frame so there would be no barrel distortion.

Tom never said how long the star trails need to be for his procedure, but hopefully these are long enough.

As you can see, these are circular.  They are not oval, they are not massively distorted, they do not look anything like the bridge pictures that were shown.

I made no distortion corrections to this image. It's not warped in any way. I did crop it and removed the horizon.

Overall I'm pretty happy with this, it shows what I wanted and is just in general, pretty to look at. I never took star trails perfectly centered before, I always tried to frame the picture to be interesting. So this was fun.

This experiment proves (if only to myself) that star trails are indeed circular. I know the camera, lens, setting and everything done to this image so there can be no doubt in my mind.  If anyone has questions, feel free to ask.



Yep, nice job. ;D  I make the angle of rotation around 63 degrees, so using Bob Knodel's handy aide-memoire that makes an exposure of around 4 hrs 12 minutes?  That image would illustrate the wiki article quite nicely.

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