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FrozenFire74 ago

I've watched various videos on people trying to prove the Earth is flat, and none of the arguments hold up. Whats the best piece of evidence you have to refute the claim that the Earth is Round?

FrozenFire74 ago

The distance between the North Star and Earth is 323 light years, which is equivalent to 1,898,796,000,000,000 miles (roughly 2 Quadrillion Miles away). TO be able to travel far enough away to see a noticeable difference in the North star, you would have to move farther than 185.92 million miles in a straight direction. Seeing as how the Earth is only 7 thousand miles across, achieving this task would be impossible while staying on the surface of the planet, especially if the hypothesis that the planet is round is accurate.

Another thing to factor in from that video is the fact that the solar system as a whole as a trajectory as well, which can also explain why the North Star hasn't changed locations. If we are flying in the direction towards the Star, then we would not be able to see a noticeable difference in the star's location in our sky.

This article talks about the time it will take for constellations to begin to warp but the time that they are talking about goes into the 50,000 year to 100,000 year time frame, which would make any record of visible distortion impossible since recorded human history goes back less than 10,000 years ago. This article also explains with sufficiently precise equipment (i.e. a satellite or telescope), we can record the minute changes of stars in the sky.