Out fricking standing. Thanks for sharing Legit Question. Hope more people here on letsrun.com start doing some research into flat earth and finally realize how badly they have been duped. Again, globers, find us a REAL picture of Earth or of Satellites. Look on Google Images and see if you don't come up with 100% computer generated pictures ONLY
As the Letsrun OG of flat earth, it's amazing to see so many people waking up to the truth.
Had this poll been conducted 6 or 7 years ago, the results would have been 99% in the globers' favor.
Once you go flat, you will never go back.
Research flat earth.
Grate stuff Legit. What really bothers me is why no-one has climbed the ice shelf at the perimeter of the disc world and returned to tell the tale? It's really bugging me tf out.
I know you are just stirring the pot for its own sake.
These "theories" were never debunked, but only refined with better measurements. The thing is that you can repeat the same experiments and observations they did thousands of years ago, and confirm for yourself. If the earth were truly flat, one mountain top measurement from a rather modest height of the horizon dip-angle would confirm which is the right model.
BW seems to be making an argument of the form "Eratosthenes* was wrong because Ptolemy** was wrong" which is a silly thing to do in a post ostensibly calling out logical fallacy.
NO. Quit with the rampant red herrings.
I'm saying the Greeks thought they could "confirm" stuff intellectually. That's what led to their dead-wrong astronomical beliefs. Whether their beliefs about the shape of Earth were right or wrong, they used the same faulty reasoning. Under the same circumstances today it would be considered hypothetical. Someone would be funding a "round the world" voyage to find proof.
At no point did I say they were "wrong" about round Earth. That's your faulty reasoning - shifting burden, and blatant.
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BW seems to be making an argument of the form "Eratosthenes* was wrong because Ptolemy** was wrong" which is a silly thing to do in a post ostensibly calling out logical fallacy.
NO. Quit with the rampant red herrings.
I'm saying the Greeks thought they could "confirm" stuff intellectually. That's what led to their dead-wrong astronomical beliefs. Whether their beliefs about the shape of Earth were right or wrong, they used the same faulty reasoning. Under the same circumstances today it would be considered hypothetical. Someone would be funding a "round the world" voyage to find proof.
At no point did I say they were "wrong" about round Earth. That's your faulty reasoning - shifting burden, and blatant.
I have a 40 foot sail boat ready for a crew of 4. Do you wanna be the navigator?
By my reckoning, we would reach the ice shelf about 2600 nautical miles west of Frisco bay. Are you interested?
All kinds of sassiness going on in this thread now. Look at the Google Images of Earth...do you globe believers (remember we, flat Earthers, believed the lie of living on a large marble too) think folks in Australia are living upside down or other people of different parts of the world are living sideways? When have you EVER been on an airPLANE and felt the plane continually going down to factor in "curvature"?
BW seems to be making an argument of the form "Eratosthenes* was wrong because Ptolemy** was wrong" which is a silly thing to do in a post ostensibly calling out logical fallacy.
NO. Quit with the rampant red herrings.
I'm saying the Greeks thought they could "confirm" stuff intellectually. That's what led to their dead-wrong astronomical beliefs. Whether their beliefs about the shape of Earth were right or wrong, they used the same faulty reasoning. Under the same circumstances today it would be considered hypothetical. Someone would be funding a "round the world" voyage to find proof.
At no point did I say they were "wrong" about round Earth. That's your faulty reasoning - shifting burden, and blatant.
Our data point is that Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth from empirical measurements in the 3rd century BC. The general process is documented and has been repeated innumerable times. Do with that what you will.
..there is not 1 legitimate picture of one. Go to google, search "satellites". First person here who can find me a legitimate picture (not computer generated) gets a bag of skittles, a 6-pack of coca cola and a years worth of now-in-later candies.
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All kinds of sassiness going on in this thread now. Look at the Google Images of Earth...do you globe believers (remember we, flat Earthers, believed the lie of living on a large marble too) think folks in Australia are living upside down or other people of different parts of the world are living sideways? When have you EVER been on an airPLANE and felt the plane continually going down to factor in "curvature"?
This post confirms that you are officially an idiot. Is that salty enough for you?
Al Biruni showed that the horizon does not rise to eye-level, but that there is a measurable dip-angle. This is how he calculated the radius of the globe in his mountain top experiment. Any flat-earther can repeat the mountain-top experiment.
Globers believe that down is towards the center of earth, according to Newton's laws.
Speaking of Australia, how are you doing finding a flat-earth map that doesn't distort Australia?
Flat-earthers believe that anyone who could pass high school science who would "research flat-earth", would side with a flat-earth view, rather than find a group of people who misunderstand basic science, and don't even know what "research" means, or how to do it.
