Has anybody heard of the Flat Earth Theory?

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  1. jrr777

    jrr777 Well-Known Member

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    Of course he uses the instruments. That picture you have presented is a CGI. I also wonder, with today's technology, who takes a picture when they can make a video?
     
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    No I am not kidding you and you are stating flat out bald faced lies.

    You have not researched and are strictly falling for flat earth while you willfully ignore evidence.

    The images I referred to on NASA are NOT CGI and NASA makes no such claim or admission as you state. So stop the foolish dishonest claism and look at them.

    It was never a theory it was always and still is fact.

    Eratosthenes discovered for an absolute fact it was round and even measured the circumference to within an accuracy of a couple hundred miles and did so around 240 bc.

    BTW measuring an object as large as Earth to within a couple of hundred miles is more accurate than the average ruler measures twelve inches.

    Yes it is impossible to have a flat earth where night and day exists in different places. The videos are simply idiotic fiction.

    It cannot be accomplished as you claim period and you are willfully ignoring that absolute and irrefutable fact making you a flat earther and flat earthers are total fools
     
  3. AlphaOmega

    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So you cant tell us why you dont know where the edge is but you know its there because...boats sometimes sink?
    Also the earth can be measured down to the inch. You can check this yourself by punching in known coordinates then navigating there all by yourself and see if youbget there. You will. You could also get a weather ballon and put a camera on it and take your own pictures but Im guessing you would never be able to do that because much like flying a plane in a straight line you you would never do anything that would prove the sphere to you because you dont want to know the truth.
     
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    Because if you get close to the edge a sea serpent eats you and you're never heard from again.
     
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    My husband works for NASA, I just showed him your post and he's still laughing.

    By the way, did you recently see the Felix Baumgartner jump? You can clearly see the curvature of the earth.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdFlhzNq8o

    (next you're gonna tell me it was a hoax right?)

    By the way, you are the exact reason that I loathe religion.
     
  6. AlphaOmega

    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That actually explains it!
     
  7. AlphaOmega

    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What keeps the water from spilling over the edge? I gotta here this answer?
     
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    Mah ... even without using satellites, or observations of the Earth from probes around the Solar System ... or relying on what the guys and the gals on the International Space Station tell us ... there is a very easy and intuitive way to prove that the earth is not flat [at least it's well curved!!!!].

    Why [on earth and in the sky] persons in the Northern hemisphere see a certain population of stars in the night sky and persons in the Southern hemisphere see a totally different population of starts in the night sky?

    If the earth was flat this will be impossible ...
     
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    If you look through a telescope, you can pretty clearly see some planetary bodies that are clearly spherical. I'm just curious as to how we're potentially living on the only planet that's flat.

    And by the way, how would that shape work with the gravitational pull of the sun....

    - - - Updated - - -

    Well that's why the flat earth society doesn't believe in doing anything about global climate change.

    We NEED the extra water melting off the poles because we're losing so much water yearly from it spilling off the earth into the sun.
     
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    Eratosthenes :) One stick in Alexandria and the other in some city a few hundred miles away. Around 250 BC.
     
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    Thanks. I was too lazy to look it up.

    The spherical earth has too much evidence to ignore. Heliocentrism is the tough one to find evidence for. I don't know of any experiment which can directly prove the Earth's motion. Foucault's pendulum is pretty good evidence of its rotation. The stellar parallax is the best bet for motion, but I would like a table top experiment.

    Higgledy Piggledy
    Alfred J. Michaelson
    Looked at his instruments
    And he was miffed.

    "Need a more sensitive interferometer,
    This one's not working,
    I can't get the drift."
     
  12. jrr777

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    Looks real to me. This is what I have been looking for. No I am not going to say that it was a hoax, and it is obvious the earth is indeed round. I don't know if you have read my previous posts or not, but I was not in belief that the earth was flat. I was only trying to find something that could prove the modern theory of the earth's shape. I have now found it. And will share this video to put all the flat earthers to rest. The reason why I was in disbelief is because there is nothing out there like this video. At least I cannot find it anyways. And you would think with all the rockets and takeoffs into space they would have all sorts of videos showing the trip. They do not, at least I cannot find them.
     
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    What is wrong with you, did you not read what I said? I do not believe the earth is flat. I am merely looking for proof of the current theory on the earth's shape. I believe I have finally found it. The earth is indeed round or a sphere. So don't sit there telling me what I do or don't believe. I will say Nasa needs to recalculate their math on the curvature of the earth. There are places that can be seen, when they shouldn't be seen, because of the curvature of the earth. Here is the video that showed me the sphere. Looks real to me, we will see after further research.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDdFlhzNq8o
     
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    Ever watched the shape of the shadow of Earth on the Moon during an eclipse?

    Next.
     
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    AlphaOmega Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There is nothing wrong with me, thats your problem.
     
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    Its just madness. Planes fly around the earth and boats sail around the earth for goodness sake's.

    There is not some wall that is hit at the edges (and there would have to be edges if the earth was flat - unless it was of infinite size which it is not)

    Its madness. The moon is round. The Sun is Round, all the other planets are round.

    The EARTH is friggen round !!!

    The lengths of mental mind twisting absurdity some will stoop to in order to live in denial is truly mind boggling.
     
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    They have them..in fact, I have some pictures of them on my office wall.

    But I'm glad the video helped.
     
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    Yes I've heard of it and I don't think there's evidence for a flat earth. Btw for those who don't know already I'm Luke 22:35-38 in www.theflatearthsociety.org and www.tfes.org.
     

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