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Title: A question for all round earthers
Post by: jonnytimber on January 14, 2016, 10:49:09 PM
I have a question for all round earthers who are so certain that I must be crazy.  If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.  Forget them and the media channels just while you're reading this.  Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?  I don't think so.  Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away. 

Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?  Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible?  Honestly?  And remember, you need to try and forget NASA and school books for this one.

When it comes down to it, all that anyone knows is what they are taught.  Unless we take 10 minutes to lie down and actually question what we're told.  I remember all my teachers taking an instant dislike to being questioned, and my sons teachers now seem to be the same.  I don't pretend to KNOW anything, but I know what I believe, I have a strong grasp on my perceptions and I trust my own senses over anything the ITV News can show me.

I know its hard to admit that you may have been fooled, but I think we have.  I was a round earther up to a few months ago.  I would have laughed at the suggestion of a flat earth.  But after looking at the arguments and 'evidence' from both sides, I can honestly say that I believe I was told one huge stinking lie about our world.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: asdfghjkl on January 15, 2016, 01:01:58 AM
I have a question for all round earthers who are so certain that I must be crazy.  If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.  Forget them and the media channels just while you're reading this.  Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?  I don't think so.  Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away. 

Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?  Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible?  Honestly?  And remember, you need to try and forget NASA and school books for this one.

When it comes down to it, all that anyone knows is what they are taught.  Unless we take 10 minutes to lie down and actually question what we're told.  I remember all my teachers taking an instant dislike to being questioned, and my sons teachers now seem to be the same.  I don't pretend to KNOW anything, but I know what I believe, I have a strong grasp on my perceptions and I trust my own senses over anything the ITV News can show me.

I know its hard to admit that you may have been fooled, but I think we have.  I was a round earther up to a few months ago.  I would have laughed at the suggestion of a flat earth.  But after looking at the arguments and 'evidence' from both sides, I can honestly say that I believe I was told one huge stinking lie about our world.
You forget that believing FET requires a belief in a essentially global conspiracy, including everyone who has ever been into space lying, everyone who claims to have circumvented the globe in the sense we believe to have lied, and basically just dismiss everyone that has taught us anything as lying or lied to.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: UnionsOfSolarSystemPlanet on January 15, 2016, 03:52:18 AM
It depends on my new personality, but i first believe the Earth is round by the Sun and Moon.
The shadow on the Moon have curve, hence it's spherical and it couldn't hurt to think the Sun was round too,
and if the Sun and Moon were round, why wouldn't the Earth be?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Roundy on January 15, 2016, 04:30:38 AM
You forget that believing FET requires a belief in a essentially global conspiracy, including everyone who has ever been into space lying
Just wrong.

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everyone who claims to have circumvented the globe in the sense we believe to have lied,

Also wrong.  In fact if you understand the concept of cirumnavigation you see that we believe it is possible in exactly the same sense you do.

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and basically just dismiss everyone that has taught us anything as lying or lied to.

A hat trick of wrongness.  Most of us don't assume most of the people who taught you that the Earth is round are lying, rather they are misguided and incorrect.

It depends on my new personality, but i first believe the Earth is round by the Sun and Moon.
The shadow on the Moon have curve, hence it's spherical and it couldn't hurt to think the Sun was round too,
and if the Sun and Moon were round, why wouldn't the Earth be?

I am a living thing that can talk.  I guess it couldn't hurt to think that my cat can talk too, and if I can talk and my cat can talk, why can't my dog too?

*sigh*  I guess it's just a mistake anymore to expect that I might find someone who believes in a RE to attempt to refute our theory with anything but empty rhetoric, blatant misrepresentation, and/or a lack of overall comprehension.

Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: jkotlowski on January 15, 2016, 05:25:32 AM
I joined because I have a question for the sheer sake of curiosity. I'm curious what FET has to say in the face of astronomy.

I'm an amateur astronomer. I have a fairly decent sized telescope and I've used it often for viewing stars, planets, and our own sun. I have personally documented specific stars, I've noticed how they remain mostly constant in the sky from night to night, only offset by a small margin. If I can actually observe that stars stay in the same spot in the sky, then how does FET explain why they move across the sky through the night? The logical explanation, of course, being that the Earth rotates on it's axis, causing the stars to appear to move. It explains everything perfectly. If the Earth were flat and didn't rotate on it's axis, would the stars not sit in the same direction through the entire night? The Earth, being flat, would merely be spinning and the stars overhead wouldn't move. What causes them to move? And if their movement is explained by the Earth's movement through space, why are they in the same position at the same time the next night?

Second, I have visually observed that the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are spheres. I have taken long nights observing them and have seen them visibly rotating, watching as features move across their surfaces and disappear at the edge. (especially with sunspots on the sun) I have seen that they are round and that cannot be disputed. So, if the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn are all round and I can safely assume that Mercury, Venus, Neptune, and Uranus are also all round... Then why is he Earth flat? Why is our planet the only exception in our solar system? What was so radically different with the Earth's creation that our planet became flat instead of spherical like the other planets I've directly observed?

Third, I've used an H-Alpha filter with my telescope, and I've observed the sun throwing energy off it it's sides. This, in relation to watch sunspots disappear over the edge of the sun, proves that it is, indeed, round. Now, as I've observed filaments blasting off the side of the sun, I can say without a doubt that it radiates it's energy (and heat and light) across it's entire surface, both the visible surface we see and the back of the sun we do not see. This means that, with a flat Earth, the entire planet would have to be bathed in sunlight at the same time. As I can clearly see the sun doesn't act like a "spotlight" and that it radiates light everywhere at the same time. Since I've removed the "spotlight idea" from the equation, who can explain why we have timezones since it's certain that a flat Earth would be lit all at once?

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Oh lawdy. I just read over some of the stuff in your wiki in regards to the universe at large.

http://wiki.tfes.org/The_Cosmos

You guys actually believe the sun is 3000 miles away and that stars and planets are small? And that the Earth isn't a planet? That's kind of insane.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 15, 2016, 07:01:04 AM
*cracks my brain knuckles*

Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you. If you don't take my challenge, go home. Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat. Quantum portal bordering the edges of the earth? A magic force, looping you to the other side? This is legit, I'm not flaming you guys, just challenging you. If you can explain this to me and back it up scientifically, I'll become a flat Earther.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Roundy on January 15, 2016, 07:50:05 AM
*cracks my brain knuckles*

Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you. If you don't take my challenge, go home. Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat. Quantum portal bordering the edges of the earth? A magic force, looping you to the other side? This is legit, I'm not flaming you guys, just challenging you. If you can explain this to me and back it up scientifically, I'll become a flat Earther.

In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 15, 2016, 08:34:25 AM
In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
I don't think I asked about circumnavigating a round earth. :O I asked you to tell me whether moving east on a flat earth will bring you to the other side, or the edge. Gee, are we circumnavigating the challenge I proposed?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: andruszkow on January 15, 2016, 11:32:39 AM
*cracks my brain knuckles*

Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you. If you don't take my challenge, go home. Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat. Quantum portal bordering the edges of the earth? A magic force, looping you to the other side? This is legit, I'm not flaming you guys, just challenging you. If you can explain this to me and back it up scientifically, I'll become a flat Earther.

In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
It's pretty difficult to travel east standing at the north pole, even 30 feet from it.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Roundy on January 15, 2016, 04:12:49 PM
In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
I don't think I asked about circumnavigating a round earth. :O I asked you to tell me whether moving east on a flat earth will bring you to the other side, or the edge. Gee, are we circumnavigating the challenge I proposed?

I'm sorry, I assumed that since you asked a question about our model, you were familiar with our map.  In the conventional model, the north pole is in the center and the south is around the edge.  So going due east, you are traveling in a circle, which is exactly what you are doing on a round Earth.  Again, it's not a difficult concept to grasp, but it does require making at least a miniscule effort to understand the model.  Please read our FAQ and check out our wiki, and if you have any questions that aren't answered there, feel free to ask.

It's pretty difficult to travel east standing at the north pole, even 30 feet from it.

Why?  Obviously you can't travel east at the north pole, but it's certainly possible to travel east from any point outside of it.  Even if it's just thirty feet.  You can trace a circle going east from the north pole with a radius of 6 inches.  Again, not a difficult concept to grasp.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Christer Fuglesang on January 15, 2016, 05:41:05 PM
In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
I don't think I asked about circumnavigating a round earth. :O I asked you to tell me whether moving east on a flat earth will bring you to the other side, or the edge. Gee, are we circumnavigating the challenge I proposed?

I think this is a very simple and relevant question for the Flat Earthers. What would happen if, using a gyroscope, you travel in one straight direction?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 15, 2016, 08:39:37 PM
I'm sorry, I assumed that since you asked a question about our model, you were familiar with our map.  In the conventional model, the north pole is in the center and the south is around the edge.  So going due east, you are traveling in a circle, which is exactly what you are doing on a round Earth.  Again, it's not a difficult concept to grasp, but it does require making at least a miniscule effort to understand the model.  Please read our FAQ and check out our wiki, and if you have any questions that aren't answered there, feel free to ask.
I didn't ask to be directed to your wiki. I believe I asked for your first hand proof~ I mean, if you're too scared to go to the edge of the earth in the name of science, I won't waste my time or yours asking anymore questions. ;3
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: juner on January 15, 2016, 08:50:38 PM
I believe I asked for your first hand proof~
You actually did not ask that.


I mean, if you're too scared to go to the edge of the earth in the name of science, I won't waste my time or yours asking anymore questions. ;3
What does this even mean? "Too scared" to do some unrealistic task suggested by some random Internet person who lacks a grasp of very simple concepts? Are you five years old?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Roundy on January 15, 2016, 09:11:08 PM
I'm sorry, I assumed that since you asked a question about our model, you were familiar with our map.  In the conventional model, the north pole is in the center and the south is around the edge.  So going due east, you are traveling in a circle, which is exactly what you are doing on a round Earth.  Again, it's not a difficult concept to grasp, but it does require making at least a miniscule effort to understand the model.  Please read our FAQ and check out our wiki, and if you have any questions that aren't answered there, feel free to ask.
I didn't ask to be directed to your wiki. I believe I asked for your first hand proof~ I mean, if you're too scared to go to the edge of the earth in the name of science, I won't waste my time or yours asking anymore questions. ;3

I answered your question. I can't help it if you can't understand it.  I really don't care what you think about it either because you're obviously not too bright.  If you're truly interested in answers to basic questions like the one you asked I have told you where to go. Have a nice day.  :)
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 15, 2016, 10:49:53 PM
I answered your question. I can't help it if you can't understand it.  I really don't care what you think about it either because you're obviously not too bright.  If you're truly interested in answers to basic questions like the one you asked I have told you where to go. Have a nice day.  :)
So you're going to say I'm not too bright just because I prodded you for proof? Golly, maybe you don't actually believe in flat earth because you don't intend to back it up. You're just avoiding me and dancing around the argument because you really are afraid to be wrong. I'm not afraid to be wrong. I'm just here to see if you'll do anything to support your beliefs, but I see you won't. You rely on your wiki, which is just an attempt to divert anyone who disagrees with you so you won't have to face them head on. If you won't face me head on, how can you expect to convince anyone else? If I believed the earth was flat, I would put my money where my keyboard is. I would make myself a pioneer, be glad to prove it to others by finding that edge and claiming it in my name. I would be as rich as Bill Gates because I made that discovery. But I don't believe in a flat earth, because there is photographic evidence proving otherwise. So if you expect anyone to believe you, pack your bags, make that flag pole with your name on it, and get ready to set sail partner.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 15, 2016, 10:59:46 PM
I believe I asked for your first hand proof~
You actually did not ask that.
Actually, I did~ I proposed a challenge.

I mean, if you're too scared to go to the edge of the earth in the name of science, I won't waste my time or yours asking anymore questions. ;3
What does this even mean? "Too scared" to do some unrealistic task suggested by some random Internet person who lacks a grasp of very simple concepts? Are you five years old?
Unrealistic? If the earth is flat, there should be an edge. It wouldn't be unrealistic at all. Hard maybe, but not unrealistic. You mad?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: garygreen on January 16, 2016, 03:19:56 AM
too many users without avatars

I have a question for all round earthers who are so certain that I must be crazy.

fwiw i don't think it's crazy, only incorrect. 

If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.  Forget them and the media channels just while you're reading this.  Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?

i wouldn't be likely to believe it if only the person who nursed me back to heath told me so, but i take the spirit of your question to be more along the lines of "what if everyone told you the earth was flat?"  i'm sure i would be inclined to believe the popular narrative that the earth was flat in that case.  i doubt it would enter my mind to question it (at least in the short term).

Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away.  Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?  Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible?  Honestly?  And remember, you need to try and forget NASA and school books for this one.

even presuming that, after my coma, i never reacquired my interest in/very paltry knowledge of science, the numbers you mention genuinely wouldn't dissuade me.  my interest in science is already pretty heavily fueled by "woooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh."  not to say that i wouldn't resist the globe earth theory in this hypothetical, but it wouldn't be for the those reasons.

if in that state i came across the Round Earth Society Forum (lolololololol what a bunch of dummies get a job losers), then i'm sure i would be as skeptical of them as i was of fet when i first discovered it.  however, i genuinely believe that, if presented with all of the same evidence (except nasa, as per your rule), hypothetical-coma gary would come to the same conclusions as perfectly-healthy-irl gary.  but, of course, i can't substantiate that.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: CableDawg on January 16, 2016, 08:12:42 AM
Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?

Why pretend?

If you want that kind of blind indoctrination go live in North Korea.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: sceptimatic on January 17, 2016, 12:32:16 AM
I have a question for all round earthers who are so certain that I must be crazy.  If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.  Forget them and the media channels just while you're reading this.  Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?  I don't think so.  Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away. 

Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?  Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible?  Honestly?  And remember, you need to try and forget NASA and school books for this one.

When it comes down to it, all that anyone knows is what they are taught.  Unless we take 10 minutes to lie down and actually question what we're told.  I remember all my teachers taking an instant dislike to being questioned, and my sons teachers now seem to be the same.  I don't pretend to KNOW anything, but I know what I believe, I have a strong grasp on my perceptions and I trust my own senses over anything the ITV News can show me.

I know its hard to admit that you may have been fooled, but I think we have.  I was a round earther up to a few months ago.  I would have laughed at the suggestion of a flat earth.  But after looking at the arguments and 'evidence' from both sides, I can honestly say that I believe I was told one huge stinking lie about our world.
This is a very good post and turns the whole global indoctrination on its head.
In the scenario you put, there's no way in hell a person would believe in a globe that was spinning in space and people walking about all over it.
It just goes to show how strong mainstream indoctrination really is and how peer pressure and ridicule stops people daring to think for themselves.
Those who do, soon come to the conclusion that the reality is far different, just by using the basic senses.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: sceptimatic on January 17, 2016, 12:39:17 AM
I have a question for all round earthers who are so certain that I must be crazy.  If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.  Forget them and the media channels just while you're reading this.  Lets pretend that you've just woken up from a coma and have absolutely no idea where you are or what's happening.  You wake from a coma and are gradually nursed back to health by someone who happens to believe in flat earth.  So while you relearn most things about the world and life and what you do and do not have to do, the one thing you are taught differently is that the earth is flat and stationary.  Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?  I don't think so.  Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away. 

Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?  Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible?  Honestly?  And remember, you need to try and forget NASA and school books for this one.

When it comes down to it, all that anyone knows is what they are taught.  Unless we take 10 minutes to lie down and actually question what we're told.  I remember all my teachers taking an instant dislike to being questioned, and my sons teachers now seem to be the same.  I don't pretend to KNOW anything, but I know what I believe, I have a strong grasp on my perceptions and I trust my own senses over anything the ITV News can show me.

I know its hard to admit that you may have been fooled, but I think we have.  I was a round earther up to a few months ago.  I would have laughed at the suggestion of a flat earth.  But after looking at the arguments and 'evidence' from both sides, I can honestly say that I believe I was told one huge stinking lie about our world.
You forget that believing FET requires a belief in a essentially global conspiracy, including everyone who has ever been into space lying, everyone who claims to have circumvented the globe in the sense we believe to have lied, and basically just dismiss everyone that has taught us anything as lying or lied to.
Compartmentalising is the key to why most people do not have to be in on anything. They simply do what they are paid to do and not to ask questions.
Basically do as you're told and do not question authority.
Think of the armed forces. millions of soldiers in different regiments and all are assigned different tasks but one task they all adhere to in the extreme main is not giving out any more info than is required by their superiors.

Name rank and number.

Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Jura-Glenlivet on January 17, 2016, 09:55:49 PM

A decent question.

I think for me the answer would lie in the way religion was dealt with, as a child you believe what you are told but over the years incongruence's appear  between what you are told and what you perceive, the fact that no two religions seemed to be able to agree is mirrored in FE with their maps and competing philosophies.
I think in the end it would be direct observation that would lead me to believe they were wrong, like JK... I am an amateur astronomer and watcher of the skies, two things stand out as being demonstrably wrong in the main FE world, sunsets; having watched countless times the sun sinking into the sea whilst being told (in the FE alternative reality) it doesn't, it fades away.
But also the subtle signs of roundness, earth shadow  http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz973.htm  ,eclipses , watching the night sky rotate, not only through a single night but through the seasons and the roundness of everything else we observe.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: smashinbedrock on January 18, 2016, 01:32:42 AM
No kidding. Human senses are the number one tool for exploring the world and interacting with it. it just makes sense that the earth was flat. And we can prove it! They just think our proof is stupid. but it even says in the bible that there will be those who doubt the truth. Love what you're doing to spread the world of the flat earth! amen.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Catnip on January 18, 2016, 11:15:05 AM
No kidding. Human senses are the number one tool for exploring the world and interacting with it. it just makes sense that the earth was flat. And we can prove it! They just think our proof is stupid. but it even says in the bible that there will be those who doubt the truth. Love what you're doing to spread the world of the flat earth! amen.
Prove it then, let's see the earth show it to us. I won't settle for less than pictures
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: juner on January 18, 2016, 04:25:27 PM

No kidding. Human senses are the number one tool for exploring the world and interacting with it. it just makes sense that the earth was flat. And we can prove it! They just think our proof is stupid. but it even says in the bible that there will be those who doubt the truth. Love what you're doing to spread the world of the flat earth! amen.
Prove it then, let's see the earth show it to us. I won't settle for less than pictures

Pictures are not acceptable evidence. You also seem to be stuck in a mindset that someone owes you something. I assure you they do not.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Woody on January 28, 2016, 05:43:00 PM
I will add my personal experience:

I have sailed between Hawaii and California two times.  The map I used was of course a projection of a round Earth.

I have sailed to other locations as well.

From time to time I enjoy using more traditional methods of navigation.  Using a sextant to get noon shots of the sun to get longitude and sighting stars to get my position.  Methods that are based on a round Earth. A method of navigation that has been successfully used for hundreds of years.

Using maps based on a RE I have always made port in the travel times I expected. The speeds, distances, and travel times always added up correctly.

I also witnessed something many times during my travels over the ocean.  I will focus on one experience at night watching a ship near me and several times I approached land at night. Which I find the most compelling argument against a flat or concave Earth I have experienced.  While on deck I saw I light on the horizon.  I got my binoculars and tried to determine what heading the other ship was on.  I will list my visual observations in order.

1. Saw one light.

2. Continued to see the one light which I identified as being on a mast along with now being able to see light from a lower location the Helm.

3. Previous lights still visible and light coming through several port holes that where slightly lower.

4. Navigation lights came into view.

1. Well as for approaching land pretty much the same as above I was able to see light from the taller things first.  Pretty much the same experiences during the day but I usually have to be closer to ships before I notice they are there.  It is just harder to spot them with the naked eye until they are closer.

These experiences do not support a flat or concave Earth.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: juner on January 28, 2016, 05:59:37 PM
You already posted this. There is no need to repeat it in another thread.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: macca on January 29, 2016, 12:29:46 AM
Gday chaps, Im a Re believer and ibam no genius, but I have a question for the RE, if I were in a helicopter and traveled directly upwards for an hour, with the rotational speed being around 1,600kmh, would I be that far away from my original position?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: juner on January 29, 2016, 01:59:12 AM
Gday chaps, Im a Re believer and ibam no genius, but I have a question for the RE, if I were in a helicopter and traveled directly upwards for an hour, with the rotational speed being around 1,600kmh, would I be that far away from my original position?

Hello. There is no need to post the same question twice in different forums.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: macca on January 29, 2016, 02:02:33 AM
I just wanted an awnser, unsure if anyone would have seen it
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: macca on January 29, 2016, 02:06:07 AM
Would harp HARP have the same effect on a FE
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Woody on January 29, 2016, 06:17:25 AM
Gday chaps, Im a Re believer and ibam no genius, but I have a question for the RE, if I were in a helicopter and traveled directly upwards for an hour, with the rotational speed being around 1,600kmh, would I be that far away from my original position?

I assume you have already been told to jump up in a moving vehicle of some sort once it is at a constant speed.  I'll try a different approach.

When the helicopter is sitting on the ground it is traveling the same speed as the Earth.  I think we can agree on that, even if that speed is 0 to somewhere up to 1,600 Km/H.

If it lifts directly upwards with no deviation forwards, backwards, or to any side it will be traveling at the same speed as the Earth for at least for a very short time.  Another thing I think we can agree on.

Now for the stuff you may not agree with.

The atmosphere moves along with the rotation of the Earth the same reason ever thing else on Earth does.  Newton's 1st Law every object in a state of motion, tends to stay in that state unless force is applied to it.

Why does something like the air start moving at the same speed as the Earth?  Friction.  That is why anything traveling fast enough will begin to heat up.  Move your hand through the air then some water.  You will get more resistance in the water.  In this regard the only difference between air and water is how dense it is.  Even if the Earth started from a dead stop the air would eventually begin to move at the same speed.

The answer to your question is Newtons 1st law.


Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: macca on January 29, 2016, 09:50:36 AM
Cheers
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Rounder on January 30, 2016, 06:41:03 PM
You already posted this. There is no need to repeat it in another thread.

Disagree.  We don't all read every post, so wherever he posted this comment before, it won't have been seen by everyone reading this thread.  It is relevant here.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Icaruss on January 30, 2016, 08:31:57 PM
*cracks my brain knuckles*

Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you. If you don't take my challenge, go home. Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat. Quantum portal bordering the edges of the earth? A magic force, looping you to the other side? This is legit, I'm not flaming you guys, just challenging you. If you can explain this to me and back it up scientifically, I'll become a flat Earther.
Both depending on your perspective.
In the conventional model, you are tracing a concentric circle around the north pole.  It's really not a difficult concept to understand.  Let's imagine a round Earth for a moment for illustrative purposes.  You are standing exactly thirty feet from the north pole.  You travel due east until you get back to your starting point.  Did you travel in a straight line, or in a circle?
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: rabinoz on January 31, 2016, 03:08:24 AM
*cracks my brain knuckles*

Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you. If you don't take my challenge, go home. Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat. Quantum portal bordering the edges of the earth? A magic force, looping you to the other side? This is legit, I'm not flaming you guys, just challenging you. If you can explain this to me and back it up scientifically, I'll become a flat Earther.

Oh, that's easy - mind you it is actually a circle you traverse, but then I guess it is on the globe too!
But, try that on the FE map in a North-South direction.
Yes, it HAS been done a couple of times, via both poles.  Haven't got time to chase up reference right now!
More important things on the table, like a light late lunch!
I nearly spelt that "lynch", and if I delay too much that is what it might be!
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Rounder on February 01, 2016, 12:02:58 AM
Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you....Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat.

I'm not a FE, but I can show you why your proposed experiment does not prove either side.  You want to move East, always East, right?  How are you determining your direction?  Several methods appear viable, and all can be shown to be insufficient to prove RE or FE.
1. Magnetic compass?  On the FE model of the earth, the compass always points North to the center of the disk.  If you are far enough away from that spot, your path will LOOK and FEEL like a straight line, but will turn in a very gradual circle, imperceptible to you, that curves you back to your starting point.  For that matter, as pointed out by others, the illustration can be done if you are very close to the pole, in which case the FE and RE models produce the exact same result.
2. The motion of the Sun?  Here again, FE has an answer that your observations will not be able to disprove: their Sun does not behave the way you know it to, but instead follows a circular path in the sky.  Once again, the path you take toward sunrise / away from sunset will appear straight to you, but will not be.
3. GPS?  Here you have several problems, not least of which is that you are no longer making your own determination of direction but instead are counting on someone else.  This opens you up to manipulation by agents of the supposed RE conspiracy to trick you into seeing evidence that they want you to see, confirming your belief in the RE world.

In cases 1 and 2 (and possibly case 3 but who's to say), both the RE and the FE models have you taking a curved path; the two models simply disagree on the direction of that curvature.  RE have you turning down, down, down, going more or less 'upside down' from your starting point when you are halfway home, then more down, down, down until you have returned upright at the start.  FE have you turning left, left, left, all the way around a flat track. 
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: rabinoz on February 01, 2016, 11:08:32 PM
Alrighty, flat Earthers. I have a challenge for you....Start where you're at, and move east. Keep moving east until you arrive at your starting point. Then explain to me why you were able to do that if the earth is flat.

I'm not a FE, but I can show you why your proposed experiment does not prove either side.  You want to move East, always East, right?  How are you determining your direction?  Several methods appear viable, and all can be shown to be insufficient to prove RE or FE.
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In cases 1 and 2 (and possibly case 3 but who's to say), both the RE and the FE models have you taking a curved path; the two models simply disagree on the direction of that curvature.  RE have you turning down, down, down, going more or less 'upside down' from your starting point when you are halfway home, then more down, down, down until you have returned upright at the start.  FE have you turning left, left, left, all the way around a flat track.
Fine, but as I said in the previous post:
But, try that on the FE map in a North-South direction.
Yes, it HAS been done a couple of times, via both poles.
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from: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-circumnavigation-via-both-poles-by-aircraft/ (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-circumnavigation-via-both-poles-by-aircraft/)
Captain Elgen M. Long achieved the first circum-polar flight in a twin-engined Piper PA-31 Navajo from 5 November to 3 December 1971. He covered 62,597 km (38,896 miles) in 215 flying hours.
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from: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/world/charles-burton-59-a-pole-to-pole-explorer.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/world/charles-burton-59-a-pole-to-pole-explorer.html)
Charles Burton, 59, a Pole-to-Pole Explorer
Charles Burton, a British explorer who took part in the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from pole to pole, died on Monday at his family home in the English village of Framfield in Sussex. He was 59 and had suffered a heart attack, said his brother, Richard.
Yes, I know you can't trust the "Guinness World Records", you can't trust the "New York Times" and you can't trust photographs, videos, eye-witness account (you do know that from a series of eye-witnesses you can get a multitude of stories!), you can't trust Scientists, you can't trust Astronomers and in particular you cannot thrust any that do not believe THE TRUTH.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Rounder on February 08, 2016, 11:57:36 AM
And before him, a team took a plane across both poles in November of 1965, including a nonstop leg from Buenos Aires to the south pole, then a turn and on to Christchurch New Zealand, a flight which covered about 7000 miles and took them just over 14 hours.   Going over the pole was the long route between those two cities, a great circle on the globe covers only about 6200 miles.  The distance between those two points on the Gleason map?  Much longer.  Spectacularly longer.  Ignore the "edge of the world" problem, suppose merely that they flew inland over the ice until they could no longer see the ocean, then made their turn for New Zealand.  How many thousands and thousands of miles around the rim would they have to go?  That route from BA to CC is so much longer, in fact, that a Gleason Map route beginning heading north-west-ish over South America and curving across Central America, North America, the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii would be shorter than the substantially westward flight track followed by a great circle route.
 https://books.google.com/books?id=PaLLtQ3tO_gC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=CAPTAIN+ELGEN+M+LONG&source=bl&ots=Jfht48FnrC&sig=C6xo2b783mO8GxegLMZVeOpPalY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTjrboh-jKAhUS32MKHVysDjYQ6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=CAPTAIN%20ELGEN%20M%20LONG&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=PaLLtQ3tO_gC&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=CAPTAIN+ELGEN+M+LONG&source=bl&ots=Jfht48FnrC&sig=C6xo2b783mO8GxegLMZVeOpPalY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTjrboh-jKAhUS32MKHVysDjYQ6AEIOjAF#v=onepage&q=CAPTAIN%20ELGEN%20M%20LONG&f=false)
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Rounder on February 08, 2016, 12:08:48 PM
The point being, regardless of the details of their route, this plane did leave Bueno Aires, and did arrive in Christchurch some 14 hours later.  Witnesses at both ends.  On the Gleason Map, there is no way to plot a route that could be covered by that aircraft (Boeing 707) in that amount of time, nor indeed any route for which the 707 has enough fuel.  The distances are simply too great.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: rabinoz on February 09, 2016, 04:10:16 AM
I know its hard to admit that you may have been fooled, but I think we have.  I was a round earther up to a few months ago.  I would have laughed at the suggestion of a flat earth.  But after looking at the arguments and 'evidence' from both sides, I can honestly say that I believe I was told one huge stinking lie about our world.
This is a very good post and turns the whole global indoctrination on its head.
In the scenario you put, there's no way in hell a person would believe in a globe that was spinning in space and people walking about all over it.
It just goes to show how strong mainstream indoctrination really is and how peer pressure and ridicule stops people daring to think for themselves.
Those who do, soon come to the conclusion that the reality is far different, just by using the basic senses.
You ask: "Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, . . . . . . . ."  My answer is a resounding yes I can "honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible"

There is certainly some truth in what you say. If you hit someone living around 300 BC with the whole current Heliocentric Global Earth, they too would probably throw up their hands and say "No way, Jose!" (More likely "Den ypárchei trópos Eratosthénis!").
The whole idea was not rammed down their throats, as seems to happen these days in schools (at least in the USA).
But, the Heliocentric Globe Earth idea did not start all once with a scientist deciding that everybody has to swallow this. It was built up gradually "more or less" like this:
Of course, there is a tremendous amount of often quite interesting detail I have omitted.

But, my whole point is that the Heliocentric Globe Earth was not suddenly "rammed down anyone's throat".  The theory was developed gradually by numerous people over around 2,000 years. Of course much detail has been added since.

Yes, I would have to agree that it may be hard to see it all in one go, but the flat earth model has so many inconsistencies that simply get explained away by so many pure guesses, or simply ignored, that there is now way it is feasible for the earth I live on.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: Daguerrohype on February 12, 2016, 11:46:35 AM
To the OP:

Let's reverse your hypothesis and assume I was raised and educated to believe the earth is an oblate spheroid orbiting the sun at a distance of c.93,000,000 miles. Then one day someone tells me that actually the earth is a disc of unknown dimensions, and that the sun is a few thousand miles away. What specifically is so believable about that person's worldview?

FAOD I am aware that the earth looks flat while one is standing upon it. Given the purported dimensions of the spheroidal earth, that alone would not convince me that I had been lied to from birth.
Title: Re: A question for all round earthers
Post by: NSvWxNuqEgz on February 13, 2016, 09:26:19 PM
If, for a minute, we could forget all about NASA and the school teachers we had indoctrinating us from the age of 5.  I mean forget about them for a minute, just try and block out that part of your minds.
Many, many years ago people already found out Earth was a sphere. Obviously, they were not the ignorant part of the population who just saw it from ground level and shout "FLAT!" while ignoring all the rest.

Would you disbelieve it?  I reckon you wouldn't?  Would it be so hard to believe?
If I passed just one day doing some observations with some knowledge... Then probably yes.

Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!
Yea, a similar shock may have happened when they told to "the masses" they are on a spinning globe. As many people believed more in a flat Earth because that's what their eyes were seeing. A surprise indeed.

Now imagine that after 10 or so years, someone tells you the earth is a ball!  Some people are walking around on the 'underside' of it, it's actually spinning at 1,000mph around it's own centre and hurtling through space at 60,000mph!  O, and that sun you see move above your head everyday is actually perfectly still and 93,000,000 miles away.

Come on people, when you look at it like that, what one really sounds like the fairy tale?
It sounds incredible, isn't it? And it is, even for the most knowledgeable of the humans.

But it is a creation of God, that is expected. All the glory to him.

Can you honestly put your hand on your heart, look yourself in the mirror and swear on a bible that the globe earth sounds more feasible? Honestly?
While for us, humans, believing that our Earth is flat is much easier to conceive (at first). It required from us some work for us to realize and understand it actually is not.

At first sight, we all thought it was flat... But after some work, we found out it is much more glorious than that.

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Thank you, God! You creation is amazingly beautiful, surprising, and complex. Only you can do this!