No, the earth is not flat

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Dino246

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It is truly amazing that you would say such after having pre-determined what I would do (judging my heart's motivations).

You wrote: "you would likely soon be tossing people out who were not being unkind, but whose posts you misinterpreted"

Seriously.
Seriously.

You just demonstrated that you can't read other's hearts. You completely misread what I wrote. I did not judge your heart motivations at all. I simply stated what is likely and why.
 

2ndTimothyGroup

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Seriously.

You just demonstrated that you can't read other's hearts. You completely misread what I wrote. I did not judge your heart motivations at all. I simply stated what is likely and why.
Sorry, but I'm not going to be a source of entertainment for you and your imagination. Please stop your silly game.
 

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I can make my own case well enough. But it's frustrating to me to have to redo what others have already explained much better than I can explain. I put in THOUSANDS of hours researching flat earth. Is this seriously the constraint that you will put upon me? That I have to REPRODUCE those thousands of hours of material in my own words before you will listen to them? And why would you listen to my version when someone else has done it better?

A waste of my time, but an easy ask on your part because you are sitting on your heinie doing no work whatsoever. I WORKED for the understand of the world that I have. I cannot simply impart the contents of my mind into yours if you are not willing to look into this in detail for yourself.

Anyways, the hallway illustration is a good starting point, but imperfect. Now fill the long hallway with smoke and stacks of boxes and I think you'll see that the example works really well. The line of lights will disappear when the smoke impedes the light from reaching the observer's eye, even when there are still lights remaining that are within direct line of sight, technically, but obscured by the smoke in the atmosphere. And then, if there are any stacks of boxes higher than the observer, for example if the observer is seated with a stack of boxes in front of them, this forms a physical horizon that will physically obscure some of the lights. This is the equivalent of being on a plain with a mountain in front of you, and the sun disappearing behind that.


but look, nothing obscuring the horizon.

the FE model suggests the sun is a constant 3,000mi above the surface of the ocean this whole time.
Rowbatham says what we are seeing in this image is the sun getting smaller and smaller as it gets further away.
that equally, the proportional visible 'gap' between the ocean and the sun is getting smaller and smaller.

FE clearly does not match reality

FE says this is what sunset looks like:

 

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I can appreciate questioning the powers that be and all, but the earth is not flat. Two indisputable observations prove it:

1. You cannot see all stars from all points, and that's due to curve of the earth. From our perspective in the northern hemisphere, we cannot see the Southern Cross. And they cannot see northern hemisphere stars from the south. I have never seen a flat earther explain how this can possibly comport with their dome model. If you've ever visited a dome (like the Capitol Rotunda) you can see everything in it from any point under it. Look at any of the countless models of the so-called flat earth online. Pick a point - any point. Then ask yourself why you cannot see all the stars from that point. It simply does not make sense.
2. The apparent rotation of the stars is another easy objection to the flat earth model. When you observe the stars and trace them over the course of an evening, they appear to rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern. Known as diurnal motion, this fits exactly with what you would expect from a sphere. It's not even worth exploring how different constellations of stars could appear to rotate in complete opposite directions under a dome.

Again, these are observations anyone can make with their own eyes. There is no room for CGI, fish eye lenses, NASA conspiracies, or the other usual litany of conspiracies flat earthers use to dismiss "globe earthers" out of hand. Sorry. Earth isn't flat.
What does it matter if the earth is flat or round. Christ created all things as I read in the scriptures.

Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Do you know that Christ died for our sins ? And have you believed it as the gospel ? That is far more important than debating about the shape of the earth.

Here is the gospel you need to believe to be saved;

1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
 
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What does it matter if the earth is flat or round. Christ created all things as I read in the scriptures.

Col 1:16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

Do you know that Christ died for our sins ? And have you believed it as the gospel ? That is far more important than debating about the shape of the earth.

Here is the gospel you need to believe to be saved;

1Co 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
1Co 15:4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
It matters because claiming the earth is flat, when it isn't, brings ridicule to Christianity. We are not to cause others to stumble.
 

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This is probably the best you will ever see between a heliocentric view point and flat earth model. I love when more than one view point is allowed to talk. I think there is room for one more view point, such a concave hollow earth model. It's great being able to see things differently from both NASA and another alternative view point, such as flat earth. I honestly think you can't fit a million earth's inside the sun, but she is suppose to be an Astronomer, so she knows more than anyone right? Negative!

Real NASA Astronomer Reviews Flat Earth Simulator • Professionals Play


If that's the flat earth simulation on Steam, it's terrible. It also - interestingly enough - has a unique disclaimer that Steam created just for it. You can't tell me that flat earth doesn't get suppressed, censored, and disclaimered.

The simulation is terrible, because flat earth science is terrible. You can say, there is a disclaimer, but failed to offer a substitute in which you think is accurate. THIS IS HUGE!

Our we playing keep away? It sure looks like. To be honest, I loved listening to the video of the astronomer tear apart the flat earth model, it gave both sides of the story. It also gave me a chance to sit back and laugh at both sides....for once.

I can't wait until the flat earth rolls out there official model, this will be one of the funnier science fictions events. Space Balls look out!

For your viewing pleasure, the flat earth theory believes that the earth is traveling up to explain gravity, according to Dave the science guy.




After watching the video, it gave me a possible view of what the concave hollow earth model would be like, by seeing the geocentric view. Only difference would be that all the heavenly bodies would be in the earth, rather outside of the earth, like an atom.

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1. Geocentric Model

2. Heliocentric Model

3. Flat earth doesn't really have a model yet. They are still working out how the sun and moon would work.


Those that put the sun in the center of the universe, instead of God are sadly mistaken. You can quote me on that.

We all live in the earth, so we see things from the earth, not from the sun. Our view point will always be from earth, not the sun. How can you have a view point from the sun, when no one has ever been there? It's science fiction to state the sun is the center of the universe, when no one has observed the universe from the sun's perspective.


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The simulation is terrible, because flat earth science is terrible. You can say, there is a disclaimer, but failed to offer a substitute in which you think is accurate. THIS IS HUGE!

Our we playing keep away? It sure looks like. To be honest, I loved listening to the video of the astronomer tear apart the flat earth model, it gave both sides of the story. It also gave me a chance to sit back and laugh at both sides....for once.

I can't wait until the flat earth rolls out there official model, this will be one of the funnier science fictions events. Space Balls look out!

For your viewing pleasure, the flat earth theory believes that the earth is traveling up to explain gravity, according to Dave the science guy.




After watching the video, it gave me a possible view of what the concave hollow earth model would be like, by seeing the geocentric view. Only difference would be that all the heavenly bodies would be in the earth, rather outside of the earth, like an atom.

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1. Geocentric Model

2. Heliocentric Model

3. Flat earth doesn't really have a model yet. They are still working out how the sun and moon would work.


Those that put the sun in the center of the universe, instead of God are sadly mistaken. You can quote me on that.

We all live in the earth, so we see things from the earth, not from the sun. Our view point will always be from earth, not the sun. How can you have a view point from the sun, when no one has ever been there? It's science fiction to state the sun is the center of the universe, when no one has observed the universe from the sun's perspective.


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Nope, you don't understand what serious flat earthers believe. THE EARTH IS FIXED AND DOES NOT MOVE. I established this Scripturally with two full posts full of Bible verses in the "A Biblical Cosmology" thread, which no one bothered to read I guess.

And we don't believe that gravity is the upward acceleration of the Earth cracker in space. WE DON'T BELIEVE IN AN EARTH CRACKER IN SPACE. Try this:

 
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The Bible supports a lot of this depiction. The Earth is fixed and does not move. The face of the deep is frozen. God has established bounds for the seas so they don't surge back and cover the Earth. God stores the deep in heaps. The sun makes his circuit over the Earth. The moon has HER OWN light. The sun and moon move in the firmament (atmosphere) where the birds fly.

If you are unclear on any of this, go see all the Bible verses I posted over in
https://christianchat.com/conspirac.../a-biblical-cosmology-gods-flat-earth.203409/

...which, by the way, were not even all the verses the Bible contains that relate to this subject.

You can also watch my YouTube video "A Biblical Cosmology."
 

kinda

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Nope, you don't understand what serious flat earthers believe. THE EARTH IS FIXED AND DOES NOT MOVE. I established this Scripturally with two full posts full of Bible verses in the "A Biblical Cosmology" thread, which no one bothered to read I guess.

And we don't believe that gravity is the upward acceleration of the Earth cracker in space. WE DON'T BELIEVE IN AN EARTH CRACKER IN SPACE. Try this:




If that's the flat earth simulation on Steam, it's terrible. It also - interestingly enough - has a unique disclaimer that Steam created just for it. You can't tell me that flat earth doesn't get suppressed, censored, and disclaimered.

So, why was the model that the astronaut on the video terrible? It pretty much showed the same thing, except you have a dome over earth, and the ice wall is extremely large. From your model of the flat earth you posted and the model that the astronomer attacked, it would a little incomplete, rather than terrible.

How would you explain the sun rising in the East and setting in the West? Also, how would you explain the East not being able to see the sun, when the sun is in the West say 6p.m. Pacific time, when it's dark at 9p.m. Eastern Time, when looking at American time zones?
 
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So, why was the model that the astronaut on the video terrible? It pretty much showed the same thing, except you have a dome over earth, and the ice wall is extremely large. From your model of the flat earth you posted and the model that the astronomer attacked, it would a little incomplete, rather than terrible.

How would you explain the sun rising in the East and setting in the West? Also, how would you explain the East not being able to see the sun, when the sun is in the West say 6p.m. Pacific time, when it's dark at 9p.m. Eastern Time, when looking at American time zones?
I can clearly see from that video thumbnail that the Earth depicted is a cracker Earth floating in space. Serious flat earthers see the Earth plane as the basement of the universe, possibly expanding in all directions infinitely. It does not move. There's something goofy with the Sun and moon sizes in that video as well.

I haven't watched the video. Maybe I will. But I am familiar with the Flat Earth Simulator on Steam though. It's a cash grab, not a serious representation of what a serious flat earther believes.
 

kinda

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So, why was the model that the astronaut on the video terrible? It pretty much showed the same thing, except you have a dome over earth, and the ice wall is extremely large. From your model of the flat earth you posted and the model that the astronomer attacked, it would a little incomplete, rather than terrible.

How would you explain the sun rising in the East and setting in the West? Also, how would you explain the East not being able to see the sun, when the sun is in the West say 6p.m. Pacific time, when it's dark at 9p.m. Eastern Time, when looking at American time zones?

I made the lettering bold, so it would be hard to miss. The astronomer made a compelling argument. The flat earth model doesn't make sense. There is so much explaining to do, but there isn't science available at this time to possibly cover an explanation. Voodoo Science is coming.........

I'm bracing myself for you answer, because it's gonna a be a Whopper, if it's ever posted. :)




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kinda

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For the record, it took about 5 threads to get a flat earth model and map. This should of been the first thing presented in all threads. The very fact that I have to constantly ask for this, is completely ludicrous. If you look at my concave hollow earth thread, the opening post shows the model. Just wanted to point this out.
 
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So, why was the model that the astronaut on the video terrible? It pretty much showed the same thing, except you have a dome over earth, and the ice wall is extremely large. From your model of the flat earth you posted and the model that the astronomer attacked, it would a little incomplete, rather than terrible.

How would you explain the sun rising in the East and setting in the West? Also, how would you explain the East not being able to see the sun, when the sun is in the West say 6p.m. Pacific time, when it's dark at 9p.m. Eastern Time, when looking at American time zones?

I made the lettering bold, so it would be hard to miss. The astronomer made a compelling argument. The flat earth model doesn't make sense. There is so much explaining to do, but there isn't science available at this time to possibly cover an explanation. Voodoo Science is coming.........

I'm bracing myself for you answer, because it's gonna a be a Whopper, if it's ever posted. :)




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I've explained this two or three times in various flat earth threads on this site now.

The sun makes a circuit over the flat earth plane, clockwise. In fact, the Earth plane probably inspired the invention of the analog clock. The Sun is the "hour hand" which makes a complete circuit once every 24 hours. So from where you are standing, you see it come in from the east and go out westward.

Why does it disappear if it is always above the earth plane? Because you don't have unlimited range of vision. Let me explain. You and a friend are in a large warehouse, one on either end. You can see him clearly, no problem. Now get a fog machine and fill the entire warehouse with dense fog. You can't see him any longer, even though he is still in direct line of sight.

Water vapor, dust, smog, smoke, and the weight of the atmosphere itself means that the Sun's light has a limited range it can push out past the source. Think of it like a lantern in the foggy woods at midnight.

Why does the sun appear to rise and set? Perspective is the short answer. If you stand in a long hallway with a row of lights down the middle, there's a light above you and it's clearly above your head. But as the line of lights goes away from you, they appear to go "downwards" in your vision due to perspective. But they are all above your head.
 
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For the record, it took about 5 threads to get a flat earth model and map. This should of been the first thing presented in all threads. The very fact that I have to constantly ask for this, is completely ludicrous. If you look at my concave hollow earth thread, the opening post shows the model. Just wanted to point this out.
Sorry, I was not sure what you meant by model exactly. If you had said "map" I've got plenty of images and most serious flat earthers use Gleason's AE map:

 

kinda

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I've explained this two or three times in various flat earth threads on this site now.

The sun makes a circuit over the flat earth plane, clockwise. In fact, the Earth plane probably inspired the invention of the analog clock. The Sun is the "hour hand" which makes a complete circuit once every 24 hours. So from where you are standing, you see it come in from the east and go out westward.

Why does it disappear if it is always above the earth plane? Because you don't have unlimited range of vision. Let me explain. You and a friend are in a large warehouse, one on either end. You can see him clearly, no problem. Now get a fog machine and fill the entire warehouse with dense fog. You can't see him any longer, even though he is still in direct line of sight.

Water vapor, dust, smog, smoke, and the weight of the atmosphere itself means that the Sun's light has a limited range it can push out past the source. Think of it like a lantern in the foggy woods at midnight.

Why does the sun appear to rise and set? Perspective is the short answer. If you stand in a long hallway with a row of lights down the middle, there's a light above you and it's clearly above your head. But as the line of lights goes away from you, they appear to go "downwards" in your vision due to perspective. But they are all above your head.

I understand what your saying, so wouldn't a excellent camera/telescope on a super clear night, be able to see the sun in the West? Or am I missing something?


 
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For the record, it took about 5 threads to get a flat earth model and map. This should of been the first thing presented in all threads. The very fact that I have to constantly ask for this, is completely ludicrous. If you look at my concave hollow earth thread, the opening post shows the model. Just wanted to point this out.
I wanted to focus on the Bible verses in the "A Biblical Cosmology" thread and didn't really post any images there. I can see how it would have helped. I HAVE posted links to my "A Biblical Cosmology" video several times here on CC though, where all of this is laid out visually and explained.

Dave Weiss has an app that supposedly is a great model, with wind, stars, etc. all depicted, but it's for a version of Android I don't have:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatearthsun
 
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I understand what your saying, so wouldn't a excellent camera/telescope on a super clear night, be able to see the sun in the West? Or am I missing something?


A camera or telescope would definitely see the sun longer than the naked eye, I'm pretty sure, even more so if it were placed at a high altitude. But keep in mind that a major limiting factor is how far the light can PUSH OUT FROM THE SOURCE, in other words the Sun itself. There's going to be a point where no sunlight at all reaches the observer and no optics will be able to pull the sun back into view.

I know what you are thinking. What about the stars that are supposedly hundreds of millions of light years away? We can see them? Yes, well, most flat Earther's don't believe they are like the sun, don't believe that they are that far, and anyways the thickness of the atmosphere between them and the Earth's surface is less than the distance between an observer and the local sun at night time.
 

kinda

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A camera or telescope would definitely see the sun longer than the naked eye, I'm pretty sure, even more so if it were placed at a high altitude. But keep in mind that a major limiting factor is how far the light can PUSH OUT FROM THE SOURCE, in other words the Sun itself. There's going to be a point where no sunlight at all reaches the observer and no optics will be able to pull the sun back into view.

I know what you are thinking. (No, you don't know what I was thinking. :)) What about the stars that are supposedly hundreds of millions of light years away? We can see them? Yes, well, most flat Earther's don't believe they are like the sun, don't believe that they are that far, and anyways the thickness of the atmosphere between them and the Earth's surface is less than the distance between an observer and the local sun at night time.

I was more interested in this text in bold. We are talking 3 hours difference from 6p.m. Pacific Time to 9p.m. Eastern Time. Are you saying, the sun doesn't have enough power to push through 3 hour time difference?

Heliocentric model would say, that the earth is moving away from the sun, the earth isn't translucent, so sunlight can't come to the darkside of earth. While Concavers might say, that the sun is moving from East to West, and the dark space in heaven blocks the light from being transmitted to the dark side of earth.

Would you say the sun in your view point, stays at the same altitude, or does it go up and down, or just in circles at the same relative height?
 
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I was more interested in this text in bold. We are talking 3 hours difference from 6p.m. Pacific Time to 9p.m. Eastern Time. Are you saying, the sun doesn't have enough power to push through 3 hour time difference?

Heliocentric model would say, that the earth is moving away from the sun, the earth isn't translucent, so sunlight can't come to the darkside of earth. While Concavers might say, that the sun is moving from East to West, and the dark space in heaven blocks the light from being transmitted to the dark side of earth.

Would you say the sun in your view point, stays at the same altitude, or does it go up and down, or just in circles at the same relative height?
The Pacific 6PM to Eastern 9PM comparison isn't quite right I don't think. The sun's actual position at this point in time is beyond the Pacific time zone area even farther to the west. The Pacific time zone is nearing sunset, so they are already near the limit of the sun's reach, and then the Eastern time zone is three hours beyond THAT.

The idea of whether the sun and moon move up and down is hotly contested in serious flat earth circles. We simply don't know. We do know the sun spirals inwards and outwards between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, which is where we get the seasons from.
 

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The Pacific 6PM to Eastern 9PM comparison isn't quite right I don't think. The sun's actual position at this point in time is beyond the Pacific time zone area even farther to the west. The Pacific time zone is nearing sunset, so they are already near the limit of the sun's reach, and then the Eastern time zone is three hours beyond THAT.

The idea of whether the sun and moon move up and down is hotly contested in serious flat earth circles. We simply don't know. We do know the sun spirals inwards and outwards between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn, which is where we get the seasons from.
Once again, you are proving there is no model. I was just about ready to pounce, but the game of keep away got me. There needs to be a working model of sunlight on the flat earth, once we have that, than we can get to work on your map.

Flat earthers need to come up with a model, or else this way of thinking isn't ready for the mainstream.

No model there can't be anything to test.

Do you feel like my questions were reasonable and sensible? I hope they were and I still rest on my verdict of the flat earthers failing to provide a working model. The NASA astronomer is correct, it doesn't make a lick of sense. That's why there isn't a model, flat earth doesn't make sense. IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE! ahhh

Well, if you think flat earth is being suppressed, look at the comments I got in the concave hollow earth model. Did anyone mention the movie the Matrix, time travel, king kong, or swimming airplanes? You don't know the definition of suppression. lol