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They are breaking international law by claiming rights over part of the Atlantic Ocean, just there alone! Stop being so naive. They break any law they want to, or NEED to, and get away with it, every time! The whole thing is disgusting.
Passengers get superb view of ULA Atlas V rocket launch from plane
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The launch happened Tuesday at 1:37 p.m. at NASA. It was a United Launch Alliance (ULA) launch with the Atlas V rocket carrying a missile-detection satellite for the United States Space Force.
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originally posted by: turbonium1
I'd like to see that rocket fly for more than the first 3-4 minutes, from a couple hundred miles off the coast, but they tell us it's far too 'dangerous' to go there, only THEY can go there, it's safe for them, not anyone else!
That's the missing part of this whole ruse, it HAS to be off limits to everyone, it always crashed into the ocean at that point, and shred their whole fairy tale to pieces, if we ever saw THAT happen!
They are breaking international law by claiming rights over part of the Atlantic Ocean, just there alone! Stop being so naive. They break any law they want to, or NEED to, and get away with it, every time! The whole thing is disgusting.
Simply let people see a rocket fly over them, from the ocean, a couple hundred miles, have them all sign a waiver that they are fully responsible for anything that happens to them, that if they are killed by falling debris, they are wholly at fault for it, and no legal action can be taken against the US for it, afterwards.
I'd sign a waiver for that, many people would jump at the chance to see rockets from the ocean, nobody ever HAS seen one from there before!
Do you know what the word 'transparency' means?
Sure, it means that someone is completely open, honest, and shows everything to others, no secrets, no hidden things, and having no excuses about having to keep things from being seen by others.
NASA has never been transparent about anything, especially seeing a rocket from anywhere on Earth, other than around the launch site! If they have nothing to hide, why are they always hiding their rockets from being seen off the coast?
They spew out the most ridiculous excuse ever, that it is 'too dangerous' for anyone to go there, while telling everyone to see it at the most dangerous area of ALL, the frickin' launch area, where most rockets have always crashed!
How stupid an excuse is that? Tell us more BS, you'll gladly eat it all up!
Any moron knows it's more dangerous to cross a busy street every day going to work, which has killed many people. Someone could be killed just watching planes land and take off at airports, they don't make it 'off limits' to go there!
Anything can be called 'dangerous', if you want to. Eating pizzas with extra cheese is 'dangerous', driving a car is putting your life in peril, and telling us it's 'too dangerous' to go out there, because some debris 10 miles up might hit you, is complete BS! What a joke!
How incredibly dumb can one be, to actually BELIEVE this crap, truly boggles the mind!
originally posted by: OneBigMonkeyToo
a reply to: turbonium1
~yawn~
Is there no topic you won't regurgutate your nonsense on?
Stars do change position over time. A long time. You know this. You've been shown this. It was demonstrated long before NASA ever existed.
Saturn does not change shape and wobble at high speed. You know this, you've been shown this. No-one lies about it and you have never been able to provide any evidence anywhere that you are right. You have shown no interest in making the slightest effort in proving it to yourself or anyone else. No-one is ever going to take seriously the rabid mouth-frothings of someone who has never looked through a telescope making false claims about those who have.
I wish I could be there with a camera the day you finally realise how wrong you've been and what a dick you've been making of yourself all these years.
All the stars have stayed in the same position since day one, and ever since then, and forever will be.
How could ancient sailors navigate by the same stars we can today, if they change positions over time? We'd never be able to navigate by stars if they changed positions over time, it wouldn't be possible, but it does work, because stars do NOT change positions over time, they remain in the SAME positions, always have, always will.
You believe all the stars we see above Earth are trillions of miles away,
which is nonsense, proven by seeing details of them though magnification, which shows distinctly unique details, movements, patterns, and colors, for each and every star, unique from all other stars. They are ALL different. This isn't an 'effect' of atmosphere, or whatever, it's the stars themselves which are unique.
As for Saturn, I told you that they've never once mentioned how it always appears to move, which makes them liars. Even YOU have said it always appears to move - it's an absolute fact.
We've only argued about the CAUSE of it's constant movement, as you claim it's due to atmospheric effect,
and I say it's Saturn itself moving.
But both of us agree that Saturn appears to always move, and that's what these liars have NEVER said, they've kept it a secret all along, or treat it as such, while it's no longer a secret anymore. They cannot say it appears to move now, after centuries of keeping it a secret from us, that'd make them look worse.....if that's even possible...
Why wouldn't they ever say Saturn appears to move, when looking at it through a telescope? YOU'VE said that Saturn appears to move, but that it's due to an effect of atmosphere, right?
They've never mentioned it, over centuries, and they still never have mentioned it, to this very day.
That is the very definition of a secret, which is something one knows, but never tells others about, deliberately. They kept it secret from us about Saturn always appearing to move, which is true, and we know it's true, as they have long known is true, but kept it secret from us, all these centuries, caught like rats in a trap of their own making, which is sweet justice indeed!
We've caught them lying about Saturn. The reason they lied, is to support all the other lies they'd made up. The main lie being that Earth is a ball, speeding through an endless universe. Everything else must support that lie, or it doesn't hold up.
Saturn had to be called a planet in our 'solar system', and so forth.
Nobody knew what Saturn looked like up close, at the time, so they lied about it not moving, slowly moving, to fit their fairy tale story. They probably assumed we'd see it's rings eventually, so they told us that part. But they didn't tell us it always moves, excusing it as an effect of atmosphere, which YOU are trying to do, but they're caught, and nothing you make up now, is ever going to change that fact.
originally posted by: OneBigMonkeyToo
They never once mentiopn that because it doesn't. Appearing to move and actually moving are not the same thing. Any time you want to prove this by making simultaneous observations showing identical 'movement' would be fine. Otherwise, carry on making yourself look stupid - it's a skill you excel at.
Prove they lied. Prove Saturn moves the way you say it does. You've been given countless observations by actual astronomers recording how poor the seeing conditions were that affected their observations. That's all there is to it.
Why should they? The only reason I mention it is to counter the ridiculous bulls**t you post every week. You are literally the only person ever to mention it. Can you think why that is?
originally posted by: neutronflux
a reply to: turbonium1
Asked you a question turbo.
Well, look at this..
More sunset photos impossible on a flat earth where the sun is always above the earth.
The clouds are illuminated from the bottom up. The cloud undersides are darker at the top of the picture and become more illuminated as the eye moves down the picture.. Like the sun setting behind a curved spherical earth.
It's clearly consistent with the flat Earth, as all things are.
YouTuber Successfully Completes Flat-Earther’s $100,000 Challenge, Flat-Earther Refuses To Pay
BY DR ALFREDO CARPINETI
07 DEC 2018, 11:26
Australian YouTuber Wolfie6020 uses his channel to explain the multitude of reasons why the concept of a flat Earth is nothing but balderdash. Obviously, providing factual information on the Internet is a sure way to attract people who believe in the weirdest things.
So Wolfie6020 was given a challenge by fellow YouTuber Flat Out Hero. He had to prove you can fly from point A to point B to point C, and then back to point A, with the distance between each point being the same and by taking a 90-degree turn at every point. The bet was worth $100,000.
“It’s impossible, but don’t tell the globetards that! This is the final nail in the ball Earth coffin, and I am happy to be the one to hammer it in!!!” Flat Out Hero stated in his boisterous comment.
Such a shape is impossible to draw on a flat plane because an equilateral triangle, as described by the flat-Earther, would not have angles bigger (or smaller) than 60 degrees. But on the surface of a sphere, the shape is perfectly feasible.
Having nothing to lose and $100,000 to gain, Wolfie6020 took on the challenge and shared his flight plan in a video posted at the end of October, which has now been watched more than 5.7 million times. The flight path goes from the Galapagos to the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, then all the way to the North Pole, and back down to the Galapagos. Each leg is about 10,000 kilometers (6,215 miles) or roughly one-quarter of the length of the equator.
The video showed Woflie6020 first listing the conditions of the bet as put forward by Flat Out Hero and concluded with these words: “Mr Flat Out Hero, your challenge has been answered. The requirements, as you stated them, have been satisfied! It is now your turn to honor your challenge and pay me the $100,000. I plan to give half of that to the Westmead Children's Hospital and use the other half as prize money in future contests on this channel. So let's see if you're a man of your word and will honor your challenge!”
7 Ways Flat Earth Conspiracy Will Make You Look Silly
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Celestial Navigation
It wasn’t until clock-making technology increased enough in roughly the 1700’s that celestial navigation fully matured.
The British were the first to master shipboard clock technology. It gave them a significant advantage in both war and trade, and therefore contributed to the rapid growth of their empire. I’ve been to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, and have seen some of these early shipboard clocks first hand.
The only way the math required for accurate celestial navigation positions works out the way we calculate it is because the earth is spherical. If the earth was flat like some believe, celestial navigation would be based on plane trigonometry instead of spherical trigonometry. And if that were the case, I would be explaining to you that the earth must be flat. But it’s not. It’s a sphere.
Math does not lie.
Therefore, the fact that the spherical trigonometry based math required for celestial navigation produces accurate determinations of one’s position on the earth is definitive proof that the earth is spherical.
Celestial navigation truly makes proponents of the flat earth model look silly
originally posted by: Soylent Green Is People
originally posted by: AncientHeru
a reply to: Phage
I want to see a live film of the entire planet from space.
And no, i don't have billions of dollars of technology at my disposal.
Adding to neutronflux's practical evidence (i.e., no need to see it from space), here is another example:
If the Earth were flat, then how do people in Perth, Australia see the same stars when they look directly south (such as the constellation Southern Cross, AKA Crux) at the same time as the people in Johannesburg, South Africa do when they look directly south.
According to the prevailing flat earth map, this would be impossible; "due south" for Perth is in a very different direction as "due south" for Johannesburg, as in the illustration below:
(By the way, this problem would be just as true if the stars weren't really many lightyears away, but rather on a dome, or the firmament, close to Earth as some flat Earth models say)
However, if Earth is a spheroid, this works very well. People looking south in Perth and Johannesburg at the same time to view the stars in the sky would both be looking the same direction. That is, they would be looking at the same groups of stars when they both look south at the same time:
How the ancient Greeks proved Earth was round over 2,000 years ago
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How an ancient Greek mathematician calculated the Earth's circumference. In the mid-20th century, we began launching satellites into space that would help us determine the exact circumference of the Earth, 40,030 km.
But over 2,000 years earlier in ancient Greece, a man arrived at nearly that exact same figure by putting a stick in the ground. That man was Eratosthenes. A Greek mathematician and the head of the library at Alexandria.
Eratosthenes had heard that in Syene, a city south of Alexandria, no vertical shadows were cast at noon on the summer solstice. The sun was directly overhead. He wondered if this were also true in Alexandria.
So, on June 21 he planted a stick directly in the ground and waited to see if a shadow would be cast at noon. It turns out there was one. And it measured about 7 degrees.
The Sun is far away, not above you,
when the lower part of clouds are lit up, more than the upper part of them - that's what they SHOULD look like!
When Flat Earthers Spent $20,000 Trying To Prove Earth Is Flat And Accidentally Proved It's Round
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One of those Flat Earthers is Bob Knodel, who hosts a YouTube channel entirely dedicated to the theory and who is one of the team relying on a $20,000 laser gyroscope to prove the Earth doesn't actually rotate.
Except... It does.
"What we found is, when we turned on that gyroscope, we found that we were picking up a drift," Knodel explains. "A 15-degree per hour drift.
"Now, obviously we were taken aback by that - 'Wow, that's kind of a problem.'
"We obviously were not willing to accept that, and so we started looking for easy to disprove it was actually registering the motion of the Earth."
You know what they say: If your experiment proves you wrong, just disregard the results!
"We don't want to blow this, you know?" Knodel then says to another Flat Earther. "When you've got $20,000 in this freaking gyro.
"If we dumped what we found right now, it would be bad? It would be bad.
"What I just told you was confidential."
If you're keen to see this scene - and so much more - Behind the Curve is available on Netflix now.
originally posted by: OneBigMonkeyToo
The reason they do not record Saturn moving in the way you think it does is because it doesn't. Its apparent motion is a product of atmospheric conditions, and that is what they record.
originally posted by: neutronflux
False statement. In the flat earth delusion. The sun is always a certain height above the earth no matter the distance its viewed from the surface of the earth.
That means the sun is always above the clouds no matter the distance the sun is viewed from the surface of the earth. The sun’s angle to illuminate the earth is always down. The clouds in the flat earth delusion should always be illuminated from the top down. And they all would be illuminated uniformly.