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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Is antarctic a continent unto itself or the actual ice wall?

« on: January 03, 2016, 08:05:28 AM »

I'm sorry, I should have started my argument in a better way.  Poorly worded.  I am suggesting that antarctica has to be an actual continent which can be circumnavigated, a giant island, so to speak.  It is of course obvious that there are glaciers at the edge of this continent, everyone who has gone there has seen it. I am suggesting that the ice wall that you say borders the edge of the world is well know to have weather stations scattered all over the continent, and one can travel from one to the other to reach the far side of where ever one travels from, using a compass.  This means that antarctica simply cannot represent the beginning of the edge of the world. All of the coastal stations are too close to one another to be scattered all around the edge of the world (assuming that this edge totally surrounds the world). If this were so, it would add thousands of miles between stations that actually are hundreds of miles apart. I wish that I could draw this picture so that my point could be made more clearly.
 
So, if antarctica is a land entirely surrounded by water as all of the other continents are, then the real edge of the world have to be somewhere else.  I am asking that if this somewhere else ice wall is surrounding the whole disc world, why has it not yet been found by ships, etc?  The antarctic ice shelf has little breaks here and there that allow people to dock ships etc, to gain access to the research stations.

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Flat Earth Theory / Re: Outer space satellites-not addressed in FAQ page

« on: January 03, 2016, 07:37:33 AM »

Would you please answer my question? What is your view of satellites?  Do you believe that they exist? My comment about my wife's cousin was made because he never worked for NASW.  he has nothing to hide. He is not a newbie either, but rather a long-time scientist who is responsible for launches, and orbitalconditions

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Flat Earth Theory / Is antarctic a continent unto itself or the actual ice wall?

« on: January 02, 2016, 07:56:25 AM »

I see two perspectives on the website about where Antarctica is.  If Antarctica is its own continent, why has no one ever reported the existence of an ice wall at the edge of the southern most latitudes?  Would not ships or submarines have found it by this time with all of our sophisticated means of travel? If antarctica is the ice rim of the world how do FE proponents explain the deep forays into the continent to the south polar weather stations which have up to 4000 inhabitants on the continent in the summer and 1000 in the winter.  These are all clearly arranged on a map and navigable to each other scattered all over the continent.  There are just too many people traveling between stations with a map showing that these stations are on a continent and not an ice ring around the world. This brings me back to the first point. Since Antarctica is clearly a continent all it's own, where is the ice ring at the edge of the southern ocean.  When ships travel due south, they end up at the recognizable continent of Antarctica with all of its weather stations and now thousands of inhabitants. 

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Flat Earth Theory / Outer space satellites-not addressed in FAQ page

« on: January 02, 2016, 06:34:13 AM »

How do flat earth proponents explain the presence of space satellites visible with telescopes by amateurs.  My wife's first cousin is a Ph.D. astrophysicist and consults for companies that send rockets with satellites attached with them into space.  He has seen this himself as he is responsible for calculating payloads and trajectories, in order to achieve stable orbits in space. Do FE proponents claim that satellites travel in a circular path "above" the earth much like it is claimed that the sun does?  If so, wouldn't somebody get the idea to strap a camera on them, which would show the actual configuration of the continents?  If the earth were a flat disc, wouldn't someone from a private company--not controlled by a government agency--be excited to share the reality of a flat earth to the world? Wouldn't that spark a huge public outcry that we have been lied to for generations.  Wouldn't every effort then be made to confirm this truth by the public? If satellites orbit in circular path above the earth, instrument panels would be able to measure that this is happening and that the satellite was not traveling in an orbit around a globe shaped earth.

The alternative to  this is that everyone who has ever worked for satellite companies and studied in their fields for years are ALL devious liars and conspirators-and for what purpose?  How would they make money and provide for their families--and they often do make a lot of money--if they are actually doing nothing by lying to everyone? They would not show the kind of infectious excitement about their work, which I have seen first hand in my wife's cousin, if they were simply lying and part of a huge conspiracy.  Wouldn't someone eventually spill the beans that  NASA, etc, is all a hoax?  It is my understanding of human nature that conspiracies of this size are impossible to keep under wraps because when you assemble a large group of people someone always gossips.