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originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
a reply to: Thunderkiss75
I'm with you on this issue.
Infrared long-range photography at 33,000 feet demonstrates that the Rocky Mountains can be seenv plainly, without obstruction, from 300-500 miles away. No amount of bluster & referrals to NASA-affiliated websites & fact-checkers can counter the plain reality of that FACT.
Furthermore, there is abundant photographic evidence even from ground level that Mountain ranges at some 250+ miles can be seen from a fixed vantage point only very slightly elevated, say from the top of a two storey building.
These facts simply would not be possible if we lived on a spinning globe.
NASA, CIA, DOD, Air Force (USA) & various other institutions all have internal documents which claim a flat, non-rotating Earth as the basis for their calculations & observations.
The Panama Canal is over 100 miles long, sharing the same water level throughout its whole length, connecting two oceans (Mediterranean & Red Sea). 100 miles of non-curving water speaks volumes.
When canals & railway lines are laid out, sometimes over 1000+ miles (Argentina, for example) the surveyors NEVER take account of that useless formula for Earth curvature, because if they did so, they would end up digging a hole rather than cutting a channel/ levelling inclines. They themselves have stated in numerous publications that the formula only exists for usage in school textbooks, and is utterly counter-factual during the actual practice of surveying.
The sources for these claims & the photographic/ documentary evidence is difficult to collate as it is routinely scrubbed from the web & equally censored out of the park on social media. However, give me a little time to collate what I have & later this morning I will edit this post to include all the necessary evidence. For the meantime, here's a link to the long-distance photography which in & of itself proves that Earth curvature simply does not exist:
Beyond Horizons - Home of the farthest picture ever taken on Earth
originally posted by: ToddB
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: ohhchongo
Chongo, you have a few people excited over your humor. Do they know that "flat Earth" is a paid experiment to see how fast such things spread on the internet? Secondarily, it demonstrates the complete ignorance of a swath of society that have so little technical smarts that they will believe anything when provided flawed videos. The usual hook is the bible with selected interpretations of certain scriptures to lure them in, followed by "proofs" that are anything but.
There is nothing that depicts our home's situation quite like this picture:
A glass-smooth lake with a stack of stones at water's edge being ever so indicative of Earth spinning 1000mph, orbiting the Sun at 67,000 mph, and whizzing through the Universe as a solar system at 448,000 mph.
www.space.com...
This is why we had SARS-Cov-19
SCIENCE!!
originally posted by: pteridine
originally posted by: ToddB
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: ohhchongo
Chongo, you have a few people excited over your humor. Do they know that "flat Earth" is a paid experiment to see how fast such things spread on the internet? Secondarily, it demonstrates the complete ignorance of a swath of society that have so little technical smarts that they will believe anything when provided flawed videos. The usual hook is the bible with selected interpretations of certain scriptures to lure them in, followed by "proofs" that are anything but.
There is nothing that depicts our home's situation quite like this picture:
A glass-smooth lake with a stack of stones at water's edge being ever so indicative of Earth spinning 1000mph, orbiting the Sun at 67,000 mph, and whizzing through the Universe as a solar system at 448,000 mph.
www.space.com...
This is why we had SARS-Cov-19
SCIENCE!!
Flat earthers are easily led because they have little understanding of physics. Earth is rotating at one revolution per day, or about 0.0007 RPM. Velocity depends on where you are on the surface of the sphere. On a pole, one would be slowly turning 360 degrees in one day and one's core velocity would be zero. Holding out an arm, say three feet from the core would have a velocity of about 19 feet in 24 hours or about 0.00015 mph. Note that everything is moving, so relative velocities of the stones and lake are zero with respect to anything on the surface, such as an observer. This follows for the other velocities that you quote also.
The Flat Earthers have many more things that they have to hand wave over. "The moon is a plasma" is one I have heard which makes no sense at all. A plasma is an ionized gas that generally emits light so they would have to explain how the earth can cast a shadow on the moon, how sunlight can be blocked by the moon, and how the moon can have phases. Then there is the "sun doesn't set" it just gets further away and somehow disappears. They prove this by putting a camera at the edge of a table and moving a coin along the table until it disappears from view. They don't put the camera ON the table, they place the center of the lens even with the tabletop to make a false horizon. True believers miss this obvious ploy.
When asked why ships appear mast first on the horizon, they claim some sort of optical limitation and dance around the issue. There are more issues that they can't explain, so the technique is to bombard the technically illiterate with the bogus video "proofs."
originally posted by: ToddB
originally posted by: pteridine
originally posted by: ToddB
originally posted by: pteridine
a reply to: ohhchongo
Chongo, you have a few people excited over your humor. Do they know that "flat Earth" is a paid experiment to see how fast such things spread on the internet? Secondarily, it demonstrates the complete ignorance of a swath of society that have so little technical smarts that they will believe anything when provided flawed videos. The usual hook is the bible with selected interpretations of certain scriptures to lure them in, followed by "proofs" that are anything but.
There is nothing that depicts our home's situation quite like this picture:
A glass-smooth lake with a stack of stones at water's edge being ever so indicative of Earth spinning 1000mph, orbiting the Sun at 67,000 mph, and whizzing through the Universe as a solar system at 448,000 mph.
www.space.com...
This is why we had SARS-Cov-19
SCIENCE!!
Flat earthers are easily led because they have little understanding of physics. Earth is rotating at one revolution per day, or about 0.0007 RPM. Velocity depends on where you are on the surface of the sphere. On a pole, one would be slowly turning 360 degrees in one day and one's core velocity would be zero. Holding out an arm, say three feet from the core would have a velocity of about 19 feet in 24 hours or about 0.00015 mph. Note that everything is moving, so relative velocities of the stones and lake are zero with respect to anything on the surface, such as an observer. This follows for the other velocities that you quote also.
The Flat Earthers have many more things that they have to hand wave over. "The moon is a plasma" is one I have heard which makes no sense at all. A plasma is an ionized gas that generally emits light so they would have to explain how the earth can cast a shadow on the moon, how sunlight can be blocked by the moon, and how the moon can have phases. Then there is the "sun doesn't set" it just gets further away and somehow disappears. They prove this by putting a camera at the edge of a table and moving a coin along the table until it disappears from view. They don't put the camera ON the table, they place the center of the lens even with the tabletop to make a false horizon. True believers miss this obvious ploy.
When asked why ships appear mast first on the horizon, they claim some sort of optical limitation and dance around the issue. There are more issues that they can't explain, so the technique is to bombard the technically illiterate with the bogus video "proofs."
Well, there we have it.
Things are just so big that our little minds just can't comprehend.
I'll stop questioning my lying eyes, ears, and every other sense I possess and let the giant brains do the all thinking from now on.