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Flat Earth Community / Re: FLAT EARTH AND DESERTIFICATION

« on: December 13, 2016, 04:22:56 AM »

I am becoming more convinced we live on a flat plane, but can't resolve the desertification of parts of the earth, i.e. if it were a globe the sun is closer at the equator??

Can anyone enlighten me how it ties in with flat earth?

The relative distance of the various areas of the earth from the sun is quite negligible.
The average distance of the sun from the earth is close to 150 million km and the radius of the earth is about 6,400 km, so the variation is only 0.004%.

On the Globe, the difference in temperatures is not caused by variations in the distance to the sun, but by the change in the elevation angle of the sun.
For example, when the sun is over the equator it is directly overhead, but at 60° latitude north or south the sun is 60° from the vertical, so one square metre of solar radiation is now spread over two square metres of the earth's surface.

A bigger concern for those that think that the earth is flat is that on the "Ice-Wall map" the circumference of the Tropic of Capricorn is about 1.7 times the circumference of the Tropic of Cancer.

This means that the sun would have to travel at 1.7 x the speed in the southern summer compared to its speed in the northern summer and
on top of that the area of the southern hemisphere is 3 x the area of the northern hemisphere.

Somehow the sun has to heat three times the area in the southern summer, but the actual measured solar radiation is about 7% higher in the southern midsummer compared to the northern midsummer.

Problems, problems, problems. Don't worry, Tom Bishop has a solution in the "BiPolar map", with its weird continent shapes and massively bendy sunlight.

Thanks for the information

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Satellites

« on: December 12, 2016, 10:24:49 PM »

If you really want to mess with your head look at the below:



Those lights appearing not to move in the night sky we are told are in geostationary orbits.

They have never been recorded in history despite many civilizations meticulously documenting their observations of the heavens.  Not one mention of them until we are told those satellites were launched.

Then you could google Iridium satellites.  One of the brightest things in the night sky under the right conditions.  Never observed until we are told they were put into orbit.

If anyone is really interested they could take advantage of the doppler effect.  Use it to track satellites and determine altitude and velocity.

The ISS can be observed with binoculars and you will be able to resolve the solar panels.  It will be somewhat blurry, but you will notice it really seems to be a man made object up there.

So is geostationary orbit meaning they are rotating at the same speed as the supposed globe, therefore they look like they are not moving? If so they would only be visible from a limited area of earth?

By the way this is really messing with my head lol

Yes.

I'm curious, how does a satellite "orbit" a flat earth? What are the conditions that needs to be met for something to orbit the earth?

I haven't got the first clue as to how that could be possible. I could imagine it to be something to do with magnetic force?

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Flat Earth Community / FLAT EARTH AND DESERTIFICATION

« on: December 12, 2016, 07:15:35 PM »

I am becoming more convinced we live on a flat plane, but can't resolve the desertification of parts of the earth, i.e. if it were a globe the sun is closer at the equator??

Can anyone enlighten me how it ties in with flat earth?

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Satellites

« on: December 12, 2016, 07:12:42 PM »

If you really want to mess with your head look at the below:



Those lights appearing not to move in the night sky we are told are in geostationary orbits.

They have never been recorded in history despite many civilizations meticulously documenting their observations of the heavens.  Not one mention of them until we are told those satellites were launched.

Then you could google Iridium satellites.  One of the brightest things in the night sky under the right conditions.  Never observed until we are told they were put into orbit.

If anyone is really interested they could take advantage of the doppler effect.  Use it to track satellites and determine altitude and velocity.

The ISS can be observed with binoculars and you will be able to resolve the solar panels.  It will be somewhat blurry, but you will notice it really seems to be a man made object up there.

So is geostationary orbit meaning they are rotating at the same speed as the supposed globe, therefore they look like they are not moving? If so they would only be visible from a limited area of earth?

By the way this is really messing with my head lol

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Satellites

« on: December 12, 2016, 07:07:10 PM »

Did you see those lights orbiting a globe earth?

Well I just saw them streaking across the night sky at a very fast rate. Could they be orbiting in a circular motion above a flat earth?

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Flat Earth Community / Satellites

« on: December 11, 2016, 05:12:16 PM »

I'm new to Flat Earth and have researched a lot via YouTube. Has anybody got an explanation for why we can see things that look like satellites travelling at a high speed in the sky at night?

I've seen them on several occasions in the past when i used to think the earth was a globe.

It's messing with my head