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SwampAintDrained ago

flat earth??? wtf.

acme2011 ago

This is digressing from this dom. Believe it or not. But do research it. Now that you know for a fact that you cannot trust any government agencies. Including all the space ones. For those choosing the knee jerk attack route on Flat earth dismissing them as shills, here is my response:

Rather than distracting ad-hominem attacks, I prefer going the debunking route. So far I'm falling short. Now let's clear up the main claim of serious flat earthers: The earth is not a spinning ball. That's it.

There is no claim that there is a dome, or that they understand how moon phases work, or that there is an edge, or that they understand why things that go up fall down. They just choose to go ahead with Archimedes' explanation. After all gravity as we know it in Newtonian mechanics applied to phenomena on earth is just a proportionality constant that is equally explained by relative density/buoyancy.

Now, just go and see UN map logo. It is the standard Gleason flat map. You dont need the earth to be a globe to circumnavigate. Just follow the compass that always keeps pointing to the magnetic center of the flat earth map (which is the north pole) and 'you will go around in circles'. You dont fall of the edge because the claim is that Antarctica is an ice wall surrounding the earth.

Let's look at some main observations that seriously need to be answered by people choosing to attack Flat earth:

1) The earth is a globe: This statement implies that curvature should be detected by people on earth. How do you explain the multiple observations of people seeing skylines and islands greater than 40 miles away using zoom lenses when earth curvature dictates that it should have disappeared below the horizon? What about high altitude balloon footage without fish eye lenses that show an absolute flat horizon? Or how about this guy who shone a laser past on a frozen lake and detected zero deviation in height of the laser point 7 miles away? https://youtu.be/bwCRej0BoA4 Or the fact that you get perfectly symmetric star reflections on the Bolivia salt plains which is impossible by a convex mirror that has radius of curvature of the earth - https://www.flickr.com/photos/57801101@N06/14230111243/

2) The earth is spinning: Aircrafts use directional gyros to determine their heading. In short, mechanical gyros tend to hold their orientation in space independent of earth position, gravity etc. Therefore if the base of the gyro mount is rotated, the reading should indicate how much rotation has occured. In this video, the person used a commercial directional gyro used by aircrafts and placed it on flat table in a location in the northern hemisphere (53 deg latitude) and waited for a sufficient period of time to see if the earth rotation was registered. He basically did not observe anything. This means that the base of the gyro does not rotate. Which logically implies that the table did not rotate along with the earth. How is that possible? Video:https://youtu.be/nUFMZkxochs?t=1h29m11s If you allude to Foucault's pendulum experiment to prove earth's rotation, please note: In the 1850s repetitions of foucault's experiment were made noting the various inconsistencies with the experiment: https://maths.ucd.ie/~plynch/Publications/PRIAC.pdf

So any flat earth debunking article must adequately explain these anamolies. Rather than the usual Bill Nye or Neil DeGrasse Tyson videos. It goes without question that flat earthers do not trust any space agency. So prove them wrong using terrestrial experiments. Stop linking to 'science' accessible by only a few people.

FuckReddit69 ago

Bingo. Nailed it. And that's just the tip of the ice berg.

1) NASA is the space propaganda arm for the military industrial complex, created mostly to militarize "space", scam the American taxpayer out of billions and wage war on your mind using Scientism and pseudoscience.

2) How can a positive pressure system (Earth's atmosphere) exist adjacent to a negative pressure system (space) without a physical barrier? It can't, in physics when opposite pressure systems converge and homogenize, we call this process equilibrium. In real testable, repeatable experiments this is impossible without a physical barrier to contain/separate opposing pressure systems. Think air duster.

3) In the thousands of years of recorded celestial navigation, why hasn't a single star changed positions (minus planets aka wandering stars) if we are traveling at incredible speeds in multiple contradictory directions? Not even the ones closest to us deviated at all. Ancient star navigation and the use of the most accurate ancient navigational tool known as the astrolabe would have been impossible if we are traveling though space.

4) Stars and planets are nothing more than lights in the sky- can be seen with a household camera pulsating in multiple colors. Planets are not this terra-firma object that can be landed on with a space ship- as they would have you believe.

5) Both Airy's Failure and the Michelson-Morley experiment prove Earth is not moving through space. Later, George Sagnac's experiment further reinforces this notion and throws the Theory of Relativity out the window. Universities don't teach about these experiments in their curriculum. some Physicists in the field whom have worked over 25 years have never even heard about these experiments. That should speak volumes in and of itself.

6) Ancient Mayan, Egyptian and Hebrew cosmogony depict an immovable Flat Earth under a Dome(firmament). Not to mention the Bible, Torah and Quran all contain excerpts that can be interpreted as such. Sumerian, Babylonian, Vedic and Chinese cosmogony depict similar notions.

7) No measurable curvature can be detected no matter how high in altitude you ascend.

8) Gyros prove airPLANES travel over a plane, not a sphere.

9) Common sense tells us we are not hurtling through space at incredible speeds in multiple contradictory directions in a violent chaotic vacuum- All while butterflies birds and bees are immune to such phenomena. Gravity is nothing more than density and buoyancy. Think helium balloons.

Like PG, this redpill is a big one for most to swallow. Give it time.

hamans_revenge ago

Erm. Stars do change positions. If you look at your favorite constellation in the spring and then again in the fall, it will be in a different part of the sky.

You can also see the curvature of the earth from a plane. Next time you take a flight just look at the horizon.

Appeal to tradition isn't really proof of anything. Just because ancient documents said something doesn't mean it can't later be disproven.

FuckReddit69 ago

1) Stars do not change positions in their 24 hour cycles. They "rotate" around the earth in cycles but always return to their original positions- minus planets that do change positions but follow their own unique cycles.

2) You cannot see curvature from any commercial aircraft that cruise at a max altitude of 30K feet. You cannot even see curvature from an altitude of 121K feet (see video below). Whatever curvature you think you see is either through the curved windows (built this way for aerodynamics) or because your mind tells you there's curvature because you "know" there is.

3) My point wasn't to appeal to tradition, rather to show patterns and coincidences that are anything but. Ancients weren't as dumb as you think, these people were highly advanced in their knowledge of astronomy and math. Remember we can't even replicate building the pyramids with today's tech.

Critical thought is lacking in today's society. But this was by design because we always have some "expert" to tell us how and what to think. Convenient isn't it?

Flat Horizon at 121K feet with a normal non-fish eye lens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQITXbcz2hg

hamans_revenge ago

Why would a star's position change dramatically in 24 hrs? You do realize the sun is out in the daytime right?

acme2011 ago

Here's a mnemonic from calendars of the ancients: Sun was used to determine time of the day, moon time of month and stars time of the year. Pyramids of giza line up perfectly with the orion constellation. Coincidence after 3000 years? Given that the solar system is zooming at incredible speeds? Explain why you can observe polaris to be stationary during star time lapse images at latitudes other than the north pole? AFter all, we are told that polaris is on the earth rotation axis. So how can it be that it does not move with respect to points NOT on the earth rotation axis?

Remember, we got to think critically here. We should be questioning EVERYTHING and take NOTHING for granted.

hamans_revenge ago

Orion moves in the sky. The pyramids of Giza are a terrestrial map of the shape of Orion, with the angles and ratios correct. But no, they are not directly under Orion at all times.

I don't really know what you're referencing with polaris.

acme2011 ago

Made this to clarify the Polaris contradiction: http://imgur.com/a/2Hsec

What would your explanation be?

FuckReddit69 ago

I'm done making my point. Go read some stuff.

hamans_revenge ago

Well, gratz, you didn't convince me at all.

FuckReddit69 ago

I could care less about convincing you, my job isnt to sit here all day and convince people of their apathetic ignorance. However, i don't mind planting a seed in some minds if it means waking people up. I did my part, now do yours.