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Originally posted by GoldEagle
Good to see you back Plumbo, back to buisness.
The camera used a wide angle lens, it's the nature of those lenses to make the center of the image larger. This makes the Earth's curve bend downward.
I got that high altitude picture and gave it a fisheye lens, this is the result.
It's the lens used that gives it that convex appearance. If you have a truck with a convex mirror or a spoon you can see this effect.
Originally posted by dbates
I went back and re-read all your points. All very good arguments except for one. If we are indeed held down due to centrifugal-force from the earth spinning, then there would be two points on the earth (the poles) where there would be zero amount of centrifugal-force. In fact this force would dissapate as you neared the poles, and grow stronger as you neared the equator. Since we currently have scientist near the south pole that aren't teathered down we know for sure that this cannot be true.
Therefore there must be some other force that attracts us to what we call the surface of the earth. It can't be air pressure. As mentioned earlier, once you jumped and achieved a space between your feet and the ground, any difference in air pressure between yourself and the air above you would be equalized.
Finally even if the earth is as you say, why does it take ( I know you distrust NASA ) 6 months travelling 28,000 mph to reach mars?
Are you a Christian
Yes.
Are you a follower of Cyrus Reed Teed (aka Koresh)?
Originally posted by Plumbo
Then you're are not believing your bible.
Originally posted by GoldEagle
You used the spherify function to do that. Still which image can we trust?
Also I still don't get why we don't see the Earth curve up from high altitude, not horizontaly but vericaly.
Also I am still puzzled about why we don't see a reflection in the glass. Even if sunlight is passing through it, you should still see some reflection. I'm looking though a window and it's sunny out and I can see my reflection.
I made this picture, why don't we see something like this?
Originally posted by GoldEagle
Do you have to believe in the bible in order to be a true Christian, especially the King James translation of it?
What about the amout of space debris that is too small to puncture a layer of glass. What keeps this glass window "clean".
Originally posted by dbates
You don't have to believe that we live inside the earth to be a Christian. What about those that believed that the earth was flat? Were they doomed to hell because of it? No, most certainly not.
This point is a non issue much like when Paul discussed if we should eat meat that was from animals that had been sacrificed to idols. Or if circumcision was necessary to be a Christian. While they are all interesting discussion points, they have nothing to do with your Salvation. I suspect that the thief on the cross beside Jesus didn't know if the earth was round or square or flat, but that made little difference when he confessed his faith in who Jesus is.
Your argument that we live inside the earth is hard to disprove. The same geometry that we use to calculate the outside of a sphere could be inversed to calculate the inside of the same sphere. I submit to you that it doesn't really matter that much who is correct as either approach has a solution.