How to prove that the Earth is flat, and not a sphere...

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GaryA

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You have not answered the point about radar operations.
Why this matters because every airport in the world, air traffic control, pilots
use this reality to fly every day round the world.

If as you propose one radar in one location could see all the planes in the air
they would, but this is simply not the case.
"I didn't propose that..." :confused:

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GaryA

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You have not answered...
No one seems to want to answer my questions in posts #632 and #638...

Try answering my question in post #638.

GPS can be "faked" ( i.e. - it actually operates without satellites ); there is no way possible that [ the issue of my question ] in post #638 can be anything but what it appears to be. It speaks true to reality. No one can escape it.

If you would like to convince me that the Earth is a spinning ball:

"Answer that..."
 
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Single unedited snapshot photographs of the whole earth? Where are they? Let's see 'em...

A 'composite' picture is not worth anything, where 'proof' is concerned. Show me a single, complete, unedited, actual 'snapshot' photogragh of the whole earth -- "and then we can talk"...
Just to get a insight into the earth as it is, as photographed from apollo 17



Look at the antartic ice sheet from space

 

posthuman

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The sun both "rises" and "sets" every day in Flat Earth model, too!

( Albeit, not like most people think. )

So does the moon.

And, the moon gives its own light, not a reflection...


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We've been over that in a lot of detail.

The sun does not set if the earth is flat. That's been established, so it's no longer a matter of ignorance: you're lying.
 
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And, the moon gives its own light, not a reflection...


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Now sorry, this is plain stupid. The phases of the moon only work because it is
a sphere reflecting sun light with an observation point changing through the moon
cycle on the earth giving the cresent effect.

If the moon was the source of light it would only ever appear as a sphere.
And it is obviously solid and spherical without an atmosphere observable from
earth with telescopes. What a joke!!!!
 

maxwel

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I think the earth is shaped more like a donut...

and if you get to close to the hole, you'll fall through into the deep fryer.
 
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renewed_hope

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I think the earth is shaped more like a donut...

and if you get to close to the hole, you'll fall through into the deep fryer.
I knew it.....Donuts are bad :(
 
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When I was younger, I could imagine the world is a massive conspiracy, with me
at the centre?

Now I know it is just lots of humans similar to myself living lives similar to myself,
not quite knowing the why, but facing the how every moment of every day.

And most organisations have problems coping, which is why only in the last
100 years have we begun to actually shape the world, and conquer our whole
environment, and potentially unlock even mortality ( the science of aging ).
 
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Someone is gonna have to explain to my cousin that works for NASA on the satellite navigation system that there are no satellites. I think he will be very surprised to find that out.
 

breno785au

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Someone is gonna have to explain to my cousin that works for NASA on the satellite navigation system that there are no satellites. I think he will be very surprised to find that out.
People like this probably never expect to run into someone who actually works on satellite systems.
 
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Someone is gonna have to explain to my cousin that works for NASA on the satellite navigation system that there are no satellites. I think he will be very surprised to find that out.
I have flown to Australia 5 times and back.....40 plus thousand feet.....I cannot get over the curvature of the earth......and these satellites that I watch go over every night.......and even the international space station.....!
 
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GaryA

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The sun both "rises" and "sets" every day in Flat Earth model, too!

( Albeit, not like most people think. )
I said this to make the point that Flat Earth was not impossible just because the explanation was different about why and how the sun 'appears' ( 'rises' ) and 'disappears' ( 'sets' ) every day.


We've been over that in a lot of detail.
Yes --- and, enough so - that you should have known that what I said was not meant from a purely scientific point-of-view...

( The ", too!" should have been an easy tip-off... :rolleyes: )


The sun does not set if the earth is flat.
In the [ general non-scientific ] sense that I meant it -- YES IT DOES!

In the context of a discussion about Flat Earth versus Ball Earth, the words 'rise' and 'set' ( with regard to the sun ) have broad-enough definitions - mostly because we have all been using the words 'rise' and 'set' all of our lives when talking about the "coming" and "going" of the sun - to enable people to use the words constructively without creating / having 'semantics' issues.

You are just "playing with words" in order to try to give them 'narrow' definitions that you hope will only make sense in a Ball Earth context.

You are deliberately causing totally unnecessary confusion.

You are being a TROLL!


That's been established, so it's no longer a matter of ignorance: you're lying.
What has been established is that you are being a jerk. My respect for you is dropping by-the-post...

You will help your reputation if you will stop making the insults, insinuations, accusations, etc. -- and start answering the 'tough' questions...

Try answering this one...

Interestingly, you do not get the same "effects" at both 'poles'. If the Earth were as modern 'science' suggests -- within the 1 year cycle of the orbit of the Earth around the sun - every place on Earth would receive the same light and heat from the sun as the corresponding place on the other side of the globe, at the same distance from the equator. For example, 75 degrees north of the equator would be like 75 degrees south of the equator. However, that is not the reality. While plenty of plant and animal life flourishes in the far northern regions, such hardly exists at all in the comparable south regions - both being the same distance from the equator - at 75 degrees, both north and south, for example.

The north 'pole' is so incredibly and vastly different than the south 'pole'. Why is that, if the Earth is a spinning ball?

The far-more-frigid cold in the south does not match what is found in the north at the same distance from the equator.

These things do not fit the Ball Earth model at all - it makes no sense; however, they fit the Flat Earth model perfectly.

I find the north-vs-south comparison to be one of the most compelling evidences that the Earth is not a spinning ball.
Now --- would you like to discuss the topic like a mature adult physicist? Are you willing to keep your attitude in check? Are you willing to "stick to the facts" without 'mudslinging' your way through the discussion?

It sure would help make for a better discussion of the topic if you did... ;)
 
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GaryA

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Now sorry, this is plain stupid. The phases of the moon only work because it is
a sphere reflecting sun light with an observation point changing through the moon
cycle on the earth giving the cresent effect.

If the moon was the source of light it would only ever appear as a sphere.
And it is obviously solid and spherical without an atmosphere observable from
earth with telescopes. What a joke!!!!
This is a much better way of addressing an idea put forth -- without trying to belittle the one who has put it forth.

posthuman -- "take a lesson" from PeterJens...

He is saying that the idea is stupid ( or, that it is not making any sense to him ); he did not call me stupid.

He did not call me a liar; he knows that I am simply expressing my point-of-view.

He expressed his point of view without actually attacking anyone...

He is discussing the topic - presenting the 'facts' as he sees them.

Are you getting the proper picture yet?
 
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GaryA

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You don't have to agree with someone to be able to have a productive discussion with them... ;)

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GaryA

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Someone is gonna have to explain to my cousin that works for NASA on the satellite navigation system that there are no satellites. I think he will be very surprised to find that out.
He will be even more surprised to find out that NASA has gone to great lengths to deceive even [ most of ] the people in its own organization - who believe that their work is real ( in the sense of "primary goal accomplishment"; i.e. - putting the rover on mars, for example ).

Does your cousin have [ personal ] incontrovertible proof of the existance of any satellites in space -- or, is it even remotely possible that what his work "sees" as "proof" can actually be 'faked' for his 'benefit'...?

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Imagine that some people define life by their feeling of paranoia.

They back fill with whatever seems to fit.

Now nothing will change the feeling so nothing is true that opposes
the argument, because there is always an impossible next layer which will
show everything is delusion, if we can find it, because it is there. lol



This is where mental illness becomes real, and these guys can go to the funny farm.
 
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If the earth is flat then why is the earths shadow on the moon rounded?