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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A debate

« on: February 20, 2018, 09:36:26 PM »

1. As I said, I know the arguments, but understanding of them is limited. I suggest looking around the forums some. It's been discussed a number of times.

2. https://wiki.tfes.org/High_Altitude_Photographs I'm not sure how best to describe it. That's their page on it, hopefully that helps. Think of it like, the 'curve' we're seeing is actually the curved edge of the sun's spotlight? I hope that makes sense.

3. Ah, yes. The last time this was brought forth it was simply declared fake/a hoax. The thread is relatively recent, and I had posted in it. I can see about digging it up for you if you like. I don't recall it really getting anywhere though.

4. From the page Layout of the Continents in the wiki, we have the Bipolar model:


In this the sky/stars would be comprised of two 'celestial gears' with one focus above the North Pole, and the other above the South Pole. The 'grind against one another' at the Equator. The rotation of them explains the Coriolis effect, as well as the stars rotating in opposite directions. As an aside it also cleans up Antarctica into it's own continent, and according to at least one member of the society it's actually technically their 'official' suggestion for the layout of the FE.

1) Alright, I'll surf around.

2) Sorry if I sound very stupid, it still sounds very peculiar to me.

3) Yeah, but simply claiming it's fake is not an argument but an assertion.

4) Looks spherical, but it's probably convex. Even so, this means we don't live on an infinite paper or a pancake.

Sounds like flat earth isn't very easy to beat.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A debate

« on: February 20, 2018, 07:05:27 PM »

"1. This is where the 'waves' bit comes in. 'Can you not hide an elephant behind a dime?' Is an oft used phrase in this regard.

2. The sun shines in a spotlight. The apparent curve at the edge in the photographs is simply the edge of the round spotlight of the sun creating to the illusion of a curve.

3. Don't really understand your original point here if I'm honest. Could you clarify?

4. My personal favorite is the bipolar model (the 'official' one of the FES) which allows for two poles, the stars rotating above each in opposite directions.

Extra. Perspective.

I would note I'm no FE believer either, but have been in both forms for some months. While I don't agree with ( or even always understand) their arguments, I do know most of them."

1 ) You could hide the elephant but the horizon is only 3 miles away on the ground (assuming you are 6 feet, well I am.) I don't think the waves could cover a big ship. And you can't see the waves, the water generally looks stable.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ship+crossing+horizon&client=ms-android-tmobile-gb&prmd=visn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSv6CflbXZAhUJL8AKHcXpBj8Q_AUIEigC&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=BtSgejgSJlm55M:

2) The sunlight can make the Earth look curved?

3) If you look at Lake Pontchartrain's transmission towers, they are crossing the horizon and curving down. Upon zooming in with a Nikon P900, the curvature became much more visible (not the other way round.)


4) Sounds unusual, clarify please?

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: A debate

« on: February 20, 2018, 03:35:06 PM »

I see, my username on debate.org is "Youngastronomer" (no numbers)

Let's respond to the points they make
1) That is not how the atmosphere works unfortunately. Even if you zoom in, it still gets blocked.

2) Not sure what you mean, unless you mean fisheye lens.

3) That doesn't appear to make sense really and is hard to interpret.

4) But it's very difficult for them to find a reason why they don't rotate the same direction.

5) No no, it just disproves the "Water is always flat" argument. If water gets pulled by an adhesive force, it will easily curve and stick, even if the ball spins.

Extra: Why can't we see the same stars as England/Australia?
https://www.dailygrail.com/2017/11/infiltrating-the-flat-earth-international-conference/
This model implies that all of us should see the same stars easily.

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Flat Earth Theory / A debate

« on: February 19, 2018, 11:39:38 PM »

I would like to debate any flat earther, I have debated 2 flat people on debate.org and made them run, but it wasn't enough. So please, any other flatman want to try?

Arguments:
1) Ships going down bottom first
2) Curve seen several times
3) Transmission lines curving
4) Stars rotating clockwise in Australia and anti-clockwise in UK (Rotation proven)
5) Water can curve around a ball.
https://flatearthinsanity.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/flat-earth-follies-water-curving-around.html?m=1
6) Lunar eclipses show a sphere.

Pick any you want to go through or whatever you want to go through, I just kindly request for a debate.

It's easier on debate.org but we can do it here too.