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Apologies if I misnamed it. Let me try again. FET does explain the effect known as gravity by the fact that the flat earth is accelerating upward. Correct?Partially.
(Note: one sees 'farther', not 'further')Not everyone speaks American English. If you'd like to get educated on the historical interchangeability of the two words, as well as the pointlessness of this American grammaranism, I strongly recommend this Merriam-Webster article.No. The reason the horizon is below eye level is that the person is at a higher altitude. Up is higher than down.If your only response is "NUH UH RET IS FACT", then I implore you to stop posting here. If you cannot make a coherent argument, stay out of the upper fora.
The horizon also dips a bit at high altitudes. There is a section on that on the EA page.
https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration#Horizon_Dip
They don't believe in gravity. They believe in 'gravitation' cause by the earth accelerating 'upward'.Lord, give me patience. If you're going to make statements like these, please try not to state the exact opposite of what's the case.
Once more, for those in the back row:
gravitation - a hypothetical attractive force between bodies with mass, a Round Earther favourite
gravity - the largely undisputed phenomenon of things falling down to Earth
Explained in more detail and in a RE context: https://byjus.com/physics/difference-between-gravitation-and-gravity/
For over 300 years, from the early 1500's to the mid 1800's, cartographers depicted California as an island off the coast of the United States. So I wouldn't be keen to bring up the ancient perfect practice of cartography if I were you.
What makes you think that between the mid 1800's and 1900 everyone in the world decided to stop plagiarizing and actually conduct an accurate exploration of the earth?
From the 1500's to the 1800's California was depicted as an island:
18 Maps From When the World Thought California Was an IslandQuoteGLEN MCLAUGHLIN WANDERED into a London map shop in 1971 and discovered something strange. On a map from 1663 he noticed something he’d never seen before: California was floating like a big green carrot, untethered to the west coast of North America.
He bought the map and hung it in his entryway, where it quickly became a conversation piece. It soon grew into an obsession. McLaughlin began to collect other maps showing California as an island.
“At first we stored them under the bed, but then we were concerned that the cat would pee on them,” he said. Ultimately he bought two cases like the ones architects use to store blueprints, and over the next 40 years filled them up with more than 700 maps, mostly from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2011, he partly sold and partly donated his collection to Stanford University, which has digitized the maps and created an online exhibition.
The old maps represent an epic cartographic blunder, but they also contain a kernel of truth, the writer Rebecca Solnit argued in a recent essay. “An island is anything surrounded by difference,” she wrote. And California has always been different — isolated by high mountains in the east and north, desert in the south, and the ocean to the west, it has a unique climate and ecology. It’s often seemed like a place apart in other ways too, from the Gold Rush, to the hippies, to the tech booms of modern times.
The idea of California as an island existed in myth even before the region had been explored and mapped. “Around the year 1500 California made its appearance as a fictional island, blessed with an abundance of gold and populated by black, Amazon-like women, whose trained griffins dined on surplus males,” Philip Hoehn, then-map librarian at UC Berkley wrote in the foreword to a catalog of the maps that McLaughlin wrote.
Maps in the 1500s depicted California as a peninsula, which is closer to the truth (the Baja peninsula extends roughly a 1,000 miles south from the present-day Golden State). Spanish expeditions in the early 1600s concluded, however, that California was cut off from the mainland. Maps in those days were carefully guarded state secrets, McLaughlin says. “The story is, the Dutch raided a Spanish ship and found a secret Spanish map and brought it back to Amsterdam and circulated it from there,” he said.
In 1622, the British mathematician Henry Briggs published an influential article accompanied by a map that clearly showed California as an island. Briggs’ map was widely copied by European cartographers for more than a century.
The beginning of the end of California’s island phase came when a Jesuit priest, Eusebio Kino, led an overland expedition across the top of the Sea of Cortez. He wrote a report accompanied by a map in 1705 that cast serious doubt on the idea of California as an island. It took more exploration, but by 1747 King Ferdinand VI of Spain was convinced. He issued a decree stating that California was — once and for all — not an island. It took another century for cartographers to completely abandon the notion.
McLaughlin, who’s now 80, spent most of his career as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. He says the maps dominated his home decor for much of the past four decades. But no more. “I do miss them, but it’s time to let them go,” he said. “I’ve had a good long run with them.”
Has anyone explained the purpose of saying the earth is round if it's really flat. What is achieved by perpetuating the lie?
It's all a great conspiracy so governments all over the world can continue to fund all kinds of different endeavors and keep the cash coming in or something like that.
Has anyone explained the purpose of saying the earth is round if it's really flat. What is achieved by perpetuating the lie?
It's all a great conspiracy so governments all over the world can continue to fund all kinds of different endeavors and keep the cash coming in or something like that.
@WTF_seriouslyQuoteSo the limit of our vision is variable depending upon altitude.
Correct!
There are two main reasons for that. One is the angular resolution limits of the human eye, and the other is the "standard"/"normal" density gradient within our air.
So how far can we see at ground level?
@stevecanuck, I think I get what you are saying, and yes, from our perspective as being tiny specs on a huge surface, we literally cannot observe curvature directly with our own two eyes.
...Those same people looked out to sea and saw that the horizon was also flat ...
Hi mate, and welcome! Full transparency, I'm in the round Earth camp, and I would advise you to read the Wiki before asking any more pointed questions like this. Having read it myself now, it answers a lot of how flat Earth theory (FET) addresses some of the observations we see. In this case, anything to do with the Moon and inversion is pretty much accounted for by the following:
https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration
In a nutshell, this "bendy light" due to an as-yet unexplained force accounts for a number of phenomenon, including why the Sun behaves like a spotlight on Earth, and also why the Moon appears inverted in different hemispheres.
