So enjoy your night. Your nothing more than a nobody who isn't even worth of being mentioned in the same breath as Dr Samuel Rowbotham. Your a nobody, and deserve to be treated like the arrogant, disrespectful little worm you are.
This is primarily sad. OK, it's idiotic, and rude, and unpleasant, but I'd be very surprised if Tontogary were to lose a moment's sleep over it. It's just noise really.
The sad part is that Parallax is nominally someone with an interest in science, in inquiry, in learning about how the Earth works. He insists that he wants to investigate things for himself, that he has an independent viewpoint.
And here we have someone who spends his time actually navigating around the world. He takes ships thousands of miles, over open sea with no land in sight, and they arrive at the correct destination. He's actually come on here giving of his time to explain how this works - how he actually figures out where on the planet he is.
Now, as someone with an interest in the subject, I recognise how privileged I am to have access to this. It's by far the most interesting thing to be posted on this forum since I first encountered it. It's a source of actual hard data. Isn't that fantastic?
But Parallax, the supposed free-spirited enquirer, has no interest in that kind of thing. He doesn't want to know about actual measurements taken by an actual person he can talk to. He's just as free-spirited and open-minded as any religious fundamentalist. If the holy text is contradicted by someone's first-hand observation, too bad for first-hand observation.
So what would convince someone like Parallax? He's not convinced by testimony from actual people. He has no intention of doing any actual research of his own. He's easily convinced by the nonsensical ramblings of the likes of pbrane, who was on the point of understanding basic optics, but then retreated into confusion and obfuscation about "perspective".
Obviously those of us who are actually independent thinkers instead of saying "I am an independent thinker"* would welcome as much information as possible - especially first-hand information. And we'd welcome information that challenges our assumptions. If a flat Earther comes up with an anomaly which appears to contradict the wealth of information that supports the shape of the globe, we should welcome it. It's not that we expect it to overturn the theory. It's that it will be inherently of interest, and if there are genuine observations that need to be explained, then we'll end up wiser from addressing them.
Of course, everybody posting here will proudly proclaim that they're an independent thinker. One can just the truth of the claim by their willingness to test their beliefs against reality.