Absolutlely. All those ridiculous conspiracy theories like "flat earth", or how no one died in Sandy Hook or Pulse Orlando -- that it was all just actors hamming it up for the television cameras -- are intentional disinfo meant to paint anyone who speaks of any conspiracy appear to be mentally unstable and feeble minded.
I am getting tired of seeing people bashing the flat earth without looking into it. Do your own research, give equal chance to both sides and you will notice that NASA has been lying since the begining, we cannot go to space as there is a dome above us. The bible is more accurate than you think.
Devils advocate here. The air is pretty shitty these days. I wonder how far one could actually see though normal atmosphere, if you had a long enough stretch of atmosphere to test in.
Also, we only put telescopes in orbit so we don't have the atmosphere fuzzing up the picture, so the air is definitely a limiting factor at some level.
So diffraction is a real thing, and definitely causes distortion. Air pollution doesn't have large effect really, as air itself is large enough to cause plenty of diffraction (the sky being blue is a good example).
You're not wrong about telescopes being increasingly deployed into orbit, however the reasons are more related to light pollution, the magnetosphere and simply cloud-cover than anything else.
However, none of that is really related to this issue. Your naked eye ought to be able to see mount Everest, since it's the tallest thing on earth, if the earth is flat. Next time you're driving somewhere, take the time to notice how all the radio towers appear top first on the horizon, then you slowly see more as you approach.
But really, the problem isn't these individual little issues. It's not flat earth vs. round earth. It's flat earth vs. ALL SCIENCE.
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0ccidentalist ago
Absolutlely. All those ridiculous conspiracy theories like "flat earth", or how no one died in Sandy Hook or Pulse Orlando -- that it was all just actors hamming it up for the television cameras -- are intentional disinfo meant to paint anyone who speaks of any conspiracy appear to be mentally unstable and feeble minded.
darklouis3 ago
I am getting tired of seeing people bashing the flat earth without looking into it. Do your own research, give equal chance to both sides and you will notice that NASA has been lying since the begining, we cannot go to space as there is a dome above us. The bible is more accurate than you think.
OneTrueCube ago
So... have you never been in a plane before? You can clearly see the curvature of our planet.
MinorLeakage ago
Or simply just looked in any old direction...
OneTrueCube ago
Well, it's hard to see if you are at sea level. High elevation just makes it obvious to the naked eye.
MinorLeakage ago
The horizon itself is literal proof. Otherwise a telescope would fix the problem, yet doesnt. Things disappear from the bottom first.
Sciency ago
Devils advocate here. The air is pretty shitty these days. I wonder how far one could actually see though normal atmosphere, if you had a long enough stretch of atmosphere to test in.
Also, we only put telescopes in orbit so we don't have the atmosphere fuzzing up the picture, so the air is definitely a limiting factor at some level.
MinorLeakage ago
So diffraction is a real thing, and definitely causes distortion. Air pollution doesn't have large effect really, as air itself is large enough to cause plenty of diffraction (the sky being blue is a good example).
You're not wrong about telescopes being increasingly deployed into orbit, however the reasons are more related to light pollution, the magnetosphere and simply cloud-cover than anything else.
However, none of that is really related to this issue. Your naked eye ought to be able to see mount Everest, since it's the tallest thing on earth, if the earth is flat. Next time you're driving somewhere, take the time to notice how all the radio towers appear top first on the horizon, then you slowly see more as you approach.
But really, the problem isn't these individual little issues. It's not flat earth vs. round earth. It's flat earth vs. ALL SCIENCE.