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Flat Earth Theory / Re: I'm confused: How have we gotten it wrong for so long?

« on: March 24, 2018, 07:35:23 PM »

I really don't understand why people say that the Earth looks flat when they look out... It looks round. FE requires some weird (and bogus) optical phenomena to explain something that is obvious to someone looking toward the horizon: there is curvature in the Earth.

So at the same time it is too large to see curvature unless you are more than 20km in the air but it also looks round while standing on the ground...

Look at the path of the sun, clearly shows a round earth.

You're showing no appreciation for the "shoulders of giants" that you and scientists stand on to make conclusions about reality. You really think you, and everyone else in this thread, is the next Copernicus or Newton? There's a reason millennia of mathematicians in history thought the earth was flat until just a few hundred years ago. But sure, to you it just "looks round."

A few hundred years ago? The Greeks knew the earth was round in the 6th century BC.

Oh, nevermind. I was talking about individuals who saw things. Yeah, if the entire Greek civilization can manage it, I can too.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: I'm confused: How have we gotten it wrong for so long?

« on: March 24, 2018, 06:41:31 PM »

I really don't understand why people say that the Earth looks flat when they look out... It looks round. FE requires some weird (and bogus) optical phenomena to explain something that is obvious to someone looking toward the horizon: there is curvature in the Earth.

So at the same time it is too large to see curvature unless you are more than 20km in the air but it also looks round while standing on the ground...

Look at the path of the sun, clearly shows a round earth.

You're showing no appreciation for the "shoulders of giants" that you and scientists stand on to make conclusions about reality. You really think you, and everyone else in this thread, is the next Copernicus or Newton? There's a reason millennia of mathematicians in history thought the earth was flat until just a few hundred years ago. But sure, to you it just "looks round."

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Evidence from beacons

« on: March 24, 2018, 06:21:11 PM »

I think that your experiment however would be impossible on an imaginary Round Earth. Because wouldn't the earth block the radio signals?

I think that would depend on the type of radio signal used. Short wave, long wave, microwave, etc. have different properties and directionality characteristics

According to Wikipedia that's right, but longer wavelengths which could travel around earth and terrain better would also be uncertain within the size of the wavelength. There might also be the problem that the process of measuring and calculating distance yourself might not be straightforward and be sort of obscure, and it might become too complicated for everyone to understand and settle it themselves.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Verbal Debate

« on: March 24, 2018, 06:13:31 PM »

I wouldd but I'm unable to right now.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: I'm confused: How have we gotten it wrong for so long?

« on: March 24, 2018, 05:55:17 PM »

I really don't understand why people say that the Earth looks flat when they look out... It looks round. FE requires some weird (and bogus) optical phenomena to explain something that is obvious to someone looking toward the horizon: there is curvature in the Earth.

FE requires unproven and unobserved optical phenomena to explain that your eyes are deceiving you.
RE requires simple geometry...

Keep saying that it looks flat when you look outside. Pretty ignorant. I really don't understand why some apologists even concede this point to FE and then try to explain the valid, but confusing reasoning that our sight is limited in what it can discern. In this case, our sight is perfectly fine. There's a good reason why you can only see in a circle around you.

Lol pls tho cmon. Rusrs

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: flipping moon

« on: March 24, 2018, 05:33:17 PM »

The fact that so many round earthers in this thread decided to abandon all logic because they wanted to be right about FE is entertaining.