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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 28, 2015, 10:27:54 PM »

10-11km isn't high enough, and of course you'll dismiss evidence from higher altitudes as being manipulated, because it's convenient to do so.

That doesn't explain this video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ih_Qq-WBYY
Or is about 2km enough to make that kind of difference? Either footage could've been manipulated as I did not run the experiment, and yes it is more convenient to just watch a youtube video than build a rocket, I'd bet the only time you've seen outer space is through a video too.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 28, 2015, 10:27:26 AM »

 It can only be viewed as a curve from high altitudes.

I've been on an airplane as well as the top of the empire state building, and haven't witnessed this curve of which you speak... Any footage of higher altitudes such as viewing the planet from space is out of my control and can easily be manipulated in photoshop to support either the FE or RE ideas.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 27, 2015, 10:59:11 PM »

I am not deny the prospect of a horizon. I do not see how that is inrefutable evidence of a round earth. If you look in the distance of the horizon every thing just gets smaller and smaller until it becomes so small it merely looks like a line. If the earth was round, wouldn't that line curve in a round shape and not just be a flat line across the sky like it is?

JFK had nothing to do with age old facts about the globe.

I was unaware that NASA was around for ages.

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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 27, 2015, 08:55:08 PM »

First of all in reality it is just "common knowledge" that the earth is a globe and has been a known and proven fact for centuries. And there is no evidence of a flat earth.
It is  a moot point anyway.

This is not acceptable proof that the earth is round... It has also been "common knowledge" since JFK's presidency that the american government has been lying to its citizens.

All of the following prove curvature of the earth proving the earth is globe

In the Navy.:
Ships and land passing out of view over the horizon
Measurements to the horizon dependent on height of the observer
Range of radar on certain frequencies limited to line of sight and dependent on height of antenna
Crow's nest lookouts limits of sighting limited by height of crows nests
All navy charts and maps are made from projections of the globe of the entire earth
No maps are made from flat earth maps because there are no flat earth maps of the entire earth

The explanation you've given me does not exactly prove the theory of a round earth, you've said that objects pass out of view over the horizon, Clearly you didn't even bother with the video, which was posted by someone who supports a round earth showing that the boat doesn't 'sink' out of view but gradually blurs away.

In the FAA
Design of certain radars whose frequencies operate line of sight and range limit by distance to the horizon, also definite depending on height of radar antenna
Certain radio frequencies operate line of sight and limited by distance to horizon
Certain radio frequencies  used on microwave repeaters also operate line of sight and limited by distance to horizon
Sectional charts and maps are made from projections of the globe of the entire earth
No such thing as flat earth maps as mentioned previously

These are just a few reasons why the earth is a globe.

How does this prove that the earth is round? if they are operating at line of sight limited by the distance to the horizon, this makes the curvature of the horizon a non-factor as there is no line of sight which shows the horizon as curved.
Do you have any hard evidence of a round earth?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 27, 2015, 03:54:58 PM »

I am not sure how working in those fields relinquishes all doubt that the earth is round. Using an instrument that supposedly accounts for the curvature of the earth doesn't necessarily mean that it won't work if the earth was flat. Have you ever witnessed the horizon line form a bend? it is only natural that being higher up would allow for better visibility whether the earth was flat or round. I've been to the top of the empire state building and the horizon was still straight. What evidence is there of the earth being round? The only reason why I ever thought it was round was because that is what I was taught in school, but I have not actually seen true evidence of it. I am seriously leaning to the flat side of things. I've tried looking up a boat disappearing under the horizon on youtube and found this..

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Flat Earth Community / Re: What is the Advantage of a Globe Theory?

« on: September 27, 2015, 11:21:52 AM »

Well after wasting a couple of hours reading through the 4 pages of arguments in this topic to find evidence against the flat earth theory I really haven't.. I am still kind of on the fence about the idea of a flat earth, but I have an open mind and I try the to weigh the evidence... The sunset and the horizon line do not discredit the fe theory, because as the sun heads toward the horizon and sinks beneath it doesn't automatically prove that the earth is round, because as the sun heads further west it would eventually have to fade from view by crossing the horizon line whether the earth is flat or round. Really all the comments of people who say the earth is round use " the earth is round is a fact" and accept it no questions asked and call the people who believe the earth is flat ignorant, close-minded or a conspiracy theorist. None of them actually provide evidence against a flat earth.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Has anyone ever flown a plane across Antarctica?

« on: September 27, 2015, 09:46:19 AM »

I've just learned recently that the idea of a flat earth hasn't been totally disproven, so I started looking up whether anyone has actually crossed Antarctica and ended up here. I've read a few articles on people who have. Though after reading quite a few stories none of them have actually disproved the fe theory. Most of them end up making it to the south pole and due to some circumstance have to turn around, others sort of follow that line that divides Eastern and Western Antarctica. I haven't seen anything on whether someone has gone from say  Fossll Bluff to Casey or from like Byrd to Amundsen Scott to Mirayy. In my opinion that supports the ice wall theory.