No, the earth is not flat.

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Moses_Young

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It's not "my" claim, it's the claim of all Concorde crew, passengers, and Blackbird and U-2 crews, astronauts, and now even space tourists can see the curvature too, surely they can't all be mistaken?..:)

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All concorde crew, passengers, Blackbird and U-2 crews, astronauts, and now even space tourists? Or just some guy call James FitzGerald, who no-one can even verify as real or not?

The best is, we both let us shoot to the moon. Then we can land there. And we also can see the earth is flat or not. 😀
You'd like to think that, wouldn't you? ;)
 
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Anyway, if the earth really is flat, why don't astronauts etc simply say so?..:)
 

Moses_Young

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Anyway, if the earth really is flat, why don't astronauts etc simply say so?..:)
You mean the ones that survive, or the ones that mysteriously die in accidents? Funny that you should mention it, as the ones that mysteriously die in accidents tend to (or at least, imply that NASA is a fraud). Hard for them to know Earth is flat, as the answer is always "you've got to go higher to see the curvature".

However, science requires that observation (flat Earth) be the default position, unless ball-Earth can be proved. And ball-Earth cannot be proved.
 

Moses_Young

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Also...

1) Former Polish cosmonaut Miroslaw Hermaszewski stated the following at the end of an interview at a conference where he was the honored guest:

Interviewer: “You’ve been there! Is earth Really a sphere hanging in outer space?”
Hermaszewski: “Earth is flat … as some expect … I didn’t expect this question … I assure you: It’s flat.”

2) Buzz Aldrin was interviewed at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2015, by an 8-year old girl named Zoey. In response to a question from Zoey, Aldrin admitted that the reason nobody has returned to the moon since the Apollo missions is that NASA did not go there in the first place. Aldrin, who has a history of alcohol abuse, sounded intoxicated during the interview. In that state of inebriation, Aldrin inadvertently let the cat out of the bag.

Zoey: “Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?”

Buzz Aldrin: “That’s not an 8-year old’s question. That’s my question. I want to know. But I think I know. Because we didn’t go there. And that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen, it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen. So in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past that we wanted to keep it going.”
 

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When I went down the flatearth rabbit hole a few years ago, one of the questions I found fascinating was, what is the sound of thunder echoing off of if not the firmament above us.

In flat earth, the firmament is God's 2nd heaven that the sun, moon and planets move in and the stars are attached to the top of it. It's like a cat's eye turned sideways. The top is a sphere and the bottom is the shape of a cat's narrowed pupil. God opened the 'pupil' to separate the waters above from those below and we live in the pupil.

So the theory is, the sound of thunder echoing is the sound bouncing off the inside of the pupil which is our ceiling.

'Things terrestrial are terrestrial and things heavenly are heavenly'. Paraphrase from the Bible.

The moon and sun are made of what ever is the firmament which has different laws of physics than our world in the open expanse.
 

Billyd

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Just to keep the truth in play.

The fact that the horizon exists, alone proves that the earth is a sphere. If the earth were flat, there can be no horizon.
 

GaryA

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The fact that we see a horizon has less to do with the shape of the earth and more to do with how our eyes work and the state-and-condition of the 'atmosphere'.

In general - the more clear and dry the 'atmosphere' is, the longer will be the distance you can see - and, the more dust, moisture, etc. there is in the 'atmosphere', the shorter will be the distance you can see.

If you have ever been driving and entered a fog - so that you could not see very far in front of you - you have seen the evidence of this simple concept.
 

Cameron143

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The fact that we see a horizon has less to do with the shape of the earth and more to do with how our eyes work and the state-and-condition of the 'atmosphere'.

In general - the more clear and dry the 'atmosphere' is, the longer will be the distance you can see - and, the more dust, moisture, etc. there is in the 'atmosphere', the shorter will be the distance you can see.

If you have ever been driving and entered a fog - so that you could not see very far in front of you - you have seen the evidence of this simple concept.
I think I got it. In fog, the earth is flat. In the desert, the earth is spherical.
 
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...Zoey: “Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?”
Buzz Aldrin: “That’s not an 8-year old’s question. That’s my question. I want to know. But I think I know. Because we didn’t go there. And that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen, it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen. So in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past that we wanted to keep it going.”
I saw that clip on youtube but I don't think we should read too much into it, as the phrase "we didn't go there" was just Aldrin trying to find words to answer her question. Perhaps he should have said- "America didn't go there after the final Apollo mission because..."
 

Moses_Young

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I saw that clip on youtube but I don't think we should read too much into it, as the phrase "we didn't go there" was just Aldrin trying to find words to answer her question. Perhaps he should have said- "America didn't go there after the final Apollo mission because..."
You know they get killed for saying things like this? For whatever reason on that day, he was probably feeling guilty, and the little girl probably got the most honesty out of him we're ever going to hear.

I think I got it. In fog, the earth is flat. In the desert, the earth is spherical.
Think of the desert as an lighter fog. Still flat at the end of the day, but you can see much further.
 

Gideon300

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Lol. I don't need to - it's flat already. :)

Meh. We've been through this before. The governments of the world work together. If covid didn't show you that, I don't think you'll be able to progress to even slightly more complicated subjects.
FYI Richard Branson is not the government. The civilians he took into space are not employed by NASA either. It's about time you woke up to the fact that you've been deceived, not those who know that the earth is a sphere.
 

Gideon300

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Also...

1) Former Polish cosmonaut Miroslaw Hermaszewski stated the following at the end of an interview at a conference where he was the honored guest:

Interviewer: “You’ve been there! Is earth Really a sphere hanging in outer space?”
Hermaszewski: “Earth is flat … as some expect … I didn’t expect this question … I assure you: It’s flat.”

2) Buzz Aldrin was interviewed at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC, on September 5, 2015, by an 8-year old girl named Zoey. In response to a question from Zoey, Aldrin admitted that the reason nobody has returned to the moon since the Apollo missions is that NASA did not go there in the first place. Aldrin, who has a history of alcohol abuse, sounded intoxicated during the interview. In that state of inebriation, Aldrin inadvertently let the cat out of the bag.

Zoey: “Why has nobody been to the moon in such a long time?”

Buzz Aldrin: “That’s not an 8-year old’s question. That’s my question. I want to know. But I think I know. Because we didn’t go there. And that’s the way it happened. And if it didn’t happen, it’s nice to know why it didn’t happen. So in the future, if we want to keep doing something, we need to know why something stopped in the past that we wanted to keep it going.”
A complete distortion of Aldrin's answer. He was replying to the question, why 8 years. They didn't go because they didn't go for that 8 year period. Aldrin punched a jounalist who doubted his moon mission. And his wish has come true. NASA is planning another lunar mission.
 

Moses_Young

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FYI Richard Branson is not the government. The civilians he took into space are not employed by NASA either. It's about time you woke up to the fact that you've been deceived, not those who know that the earth is a sphere.
Science is about testing and repeating experiments to prove what is true. Not trusting that Richard Branson or his millionaire/billionaire mates and employees didn't lie (and are not Freemasons, unlike the NASA clowns). If curvature can be seen by a few people up there, it can be measured by everyone down there. That it can't be measured shows the few people who claim to have been up there are lying.

I've given you various mathematical proofs that Earth can't be a globe, but you have rejected these.
 

Moses_Young

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A complete distortion of Aldrin's answer. He was replying to the question, why 8 years. They didn't go because they didn't go for that 8 year period. Aldrin punched a jounalist who doubted his moon mission. And his wish has come true. NASA is planning another lunar mission.
There's a video online. It is not a distortion. Aldrin confessed as stated. If you think he meant something other than he said, that's your opinion. But he said what he said, and I consider it to be a confession.
 

Dino246

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I've given you various mathematical proofs that Earth can't be a globe, but you have rejected these.
Please note the threads and post numbers (or at least page numbers) where you have posted these alleged proofs. I would like to examine them.
 

GaryA

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In the desert, the earth is spherical.
What about those deserts where it is - hot - dry - clear - flat - that you can see far further than the 'spherical' math says you should be able to...???
 

GaryA

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I saw that clip on youtube but I don't think we should read too much into it, as the phrase "we didn't go there" was just Aldrin trying to find words to answer her question. Perhaps he should have said- "America didn't go there after the final Apollo mission because..."
A complete distortion of Aldrin's answer. He was replying to the question, why 8 years. They didn't go because they didn't go for that 8 year period. Aldrin punched a jounalist who doubted his moon mission. And his wish has come true. NASA is planning another lunar mission.
SMH

two words - 'cognitive dissonance'
 

GaryA

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Cameron143

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What about those deserts where it is - hot - dry - clear - flat - that you can see far further than the 'spherical' math says you should be able to...???
Then like any good denier, I deny.