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originally posted by: Ghost147
I'm not very familiar with flat earth arguments.
But I'm wondering how they get around the fact that if you keep going in one direction, eventually you'll end up where you started.
A few years took the long route to Australia, and on the flight back I flew in the same direction as I took to get there. I just don't undertstand how something so simple is dismissed?
Sure, maybe the supporters simply don't are can't understand the technical aspects of science that difinitively prove a spherical earth. This, however, isn't technical.
originally posted by: wildespace
My little contribution to debunking flat earth is a photo I took from Spain (Benalmadena city in the Malaga region) where on a particularly fine morning you can see the coast of North Africa. Except that instead of seeing the coast, you see the tops of the mountains, making it look like you're looking at a chain of islands. Because of the curvature of earth, the actual North African coastline is below the horizon.
Since my computer died, I lost that photo, so I cannot post it here, so you'lll have to take my word on it.
originally posted by: DenyObfuscation
a reply to: captainpudding
I've never understood using this argument. Globe or disc, East or West is perpendicular to North and South. Like a speck of dust on a second hand of a watch, you can travel around the world and reach your point of origin.
Look at their map and you will understand.
East and West as we describe it is a big circle for them on a flat Earth.
So yes if you went West you would hit the edge, but that is never done.
originally posted by: DenyObfuscation
a reply to: OccamsRazor04
Look at their map and you will understand.
I've seen a few which is why I don't get this argument.
East and West as we describe it is a big circle for them on a flat Earth.
Yes. What is a line of latitude on a globe? Works the same.
So yes if you went West you would hit the edge, but that is never done.
Only if you were to view like a Risk game board and see left as west and right as east. If you view it like Pac Man you would leave via the west side and re-enter on the right. But you'd have to be nuts to see it either of those two ways.
E-W is perpendicular to the radial lines of longitude in either 'model'. I hate to say model because there is actually no flat Earth model.
When you go "West" on the flat Earth map you are not going straight, but rather you are going in a curved circle.
Starting from the US and going "West" will never bring you to the edge because Russia is not "west" of the US, so the pilots are flying in a circle.
That is why my argument is simple and destroys their argument. There is no way to make the Earth flat if Palmer and Rothera exist.
originally posted by: DenyObfuscation
No doubt there are many simple arguments that destroy the flat Earth lie. I don't doubt yours, I just have never seen it made. How does it work?