1

Flat Earth Theory / Re: Explain the Circular Equator

« on: December 08, 2016, 09:49:51 AM »

I asked a related question on a separate thread - without response. To those who believe in the flat circle map:

When the sun is over cancer, the day is 24 hours

When it is over Capricorn - which would be significantly longer (70% by my estimates) the day is 24 hours long.

How can this be if the speed of the sun does not change? How does the flat map retain the 24 hour cycle

2

Flat Earth Theory / Re: Things You Can Do Everyday!

« on: December 07, 2016, 11:01:12 AM »

Is there any artist who believes that the earth is flat? I don't think so.

In art class I was taught the horizon line is always at the EYE LEVEL or the artist. It is not determined by being able to see at a fixed distance. The website attached has some useful illustrations.

http://www.joshuanava.biz/perspective/in-other-words-the-observer-simply-points-in-the-same-direction-as-the-lines-in-order-to-find-their-vanishing-point.html

Standing on a cliff even a few meters away from the beach, one will see further than a man with binoculars on the same beach. Why?

3

Flat Earth Theory / Elementary Maths: Unequal Hemispheres and Equal Day Length?

« on: December 05, 2016, 06:49:01 AM »

Hello everyone,

The favorite flat earth map proposes a circular earth. To be real this means that at various points in the year, the sun moves over circles of different perimeters (or lengths or circumference). However at any point on earth the days are always 24 hours long - allowing for shorter or longer daylight hours or nights. The total is always 24 hours - whether at Capricorn or Cancer or the Equator or elsewhere. Agreed?
*Cancer could is (90 - 23.5) or 66.5 degrees from the North Pole (center of the circle)
*Capricorn would be (90 + 23.5) or 113.5 Degrees from the North Pole

Calculating I found that (3.142 X 2 X 113.5) /  (3.142 X 2 X 66.5) = 1.7

Meaning that the Circle at Capricorn would be 1.7 times as long as that at Cancer.

For the length of the day to be constant, 24 hours across the world, it would require the sun moves 70% faster at Capricorn than Cancer.

Interesting ....

Meaning that the sun would move across the sky faster - if you were in South Africa than in Egypt (or Europe). Really? Does it happen?

Also, it would mean that the daylight hours in South Africa must be shorter when the sun is over there than the night hours during the same period - after all, it is the same sun, moving faster, and also covering a wider area on the ground. Does this happen?

Certainly not. In fact evidence is that when the sun is over Capricorn in the South, the daylight hours are longer. How?

4

Flat Earth Theory / Re: Explain the Circular Equator

« on: December 02, 2016, 05:40:17 PM »

To put the question in another way,

If you draw ANY  map with a curved equator - and transpose it over the ground,  will the sun pass overhead in the same way it does over Mt. Kenya and the other equator points such as Maseno? I bet not - it cannot be both ways.

But if I were deluded, so that the points on the equator - as painted on the ground are actually a curved line on the ground, then the maps are wrong - how then do the longitudes and latitudes sill align perfectly to the ground?

5

Flat Earth Theory / Re: Explain the Circular Equator

« on: December 02, 2016, 05:28:17 PM »

Thanks for responding - even if not addressing the question. The equator on the ground as I have seen it is a straight line

But if it were circular, it means the maps have misrepresented it - and that the entire map is full of wrong points

How come then that the maps with the straight line equator, tally with the ground situation

Is that not sufficient proof that they are the real maps?

I hope some analytic mind will read this question and answer it - even if you dont

6

Flat Earth Theory / Explain the Circular Equator

« on: December 02, 2016, 08:05:42 AM »

Hello Everyone,
I do NOT believe that the earth is flat, but would like to hear the other side. I am a Kenyan who has crossed the equator at several marked points. On the ground, the equator is a straight line (ignoring altitude or the curvature of the earth)

But supposing the earth was flat, the only way to explain the trajectory of the sun would be that the equator would have to be a circle on the flat ground.


If that were so, it would mean that there is a great variance between maps (which saw the equator as a straigh line) and the actual location  of the equator (and by extension all points) on the ground.

Why then am I able to use maps that were drawn long before GPS existed, and find that the GPS coordinates tally with those on the ground and with present day digital maps - as well as the old analogue ones?

Why are GPS maps useful for navigation - showing me exactly where I am?

Since GPS devices make errors of only a few meters, how possible is it that the current maps are deffective and we are not able to detect - using them or sextants or aerial surveys.

Thomas, Nairobi, KENYA