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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible-content">A: This spurious claim that the Earth is too big too verify the curve is sometimes claimed by pseudoscientific entertainers like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-f63VAwZpo Neil deGrasse Tyson] when it suits their narrative. If the actual geometry of the alleged ball shape is analyzed however, an intellectually honest person can mathematically determine that if the Earth were a globe of the dimensions claimed, we would be able to see the effects of curvature with the naked eye, and certainly would be able to see it in an airplane or using high powered optical equipment. To the contrary, numerous long distance observations clearly demonstrate that the curvature predicted by the mainstream model of roughly [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature 8 inches per mile squared] is never seen or measured anywhere on Earth. These myriad counterexamples disprove the WGS-84 globe model. Using the radius of 3959 miles and other dimensions claimed by mainstream pseudoscience, we can easily determine that the claimed size of the Earth is NOT too big to verify curvature, if said curvature actually existed in objective reality. [[Observations | read more...]] </div> | <div class="toccolours mw-collapsible-content">A: This spurious claim that the Earth is too big too verify the curve is sometimes claimed by pseudoscientific entertainers like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-f63VAwZpo Neil deGrasse Tyson] when it suits their narrative. If the actual geometry of the alleged ball shape is analyzed however, an intellectually honest person can mathematically determine that if the Earth were a globe of the dimensions claimed, we would be able to see the effects of curvature with the naked eye, and certainly would be able to see it in an airplane or using high powered optical equipment. To the contrary, numerous long distance observations clearly demonstrate that the curvature predicted by the mainstream model of roughly [https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/earth-curvature 8 inches per mile squared] is never seen or measured anywhere on Earth. These myriad counterexamples disprove the WGS-84 globe model. Using the radius of 3959 miles and other dimensions claimed by mainstream pseudoscience, we can easily determine that the claimed size of the Earth is NOT too big to verify curvature, if said curvature actually existed in objective reality. [[Observations | read more...]] </div> | ||
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When we leave these presuppositions behind, what we actually observe on Earth is that the sun illuminates different parts of the plane at different times. If you take a flashlight and point it at your bedroom floor at night, it only illuminates one part of the carpet at a time, and the rest of the floor is in shadow. In the same way, a close and local sun circling overhead would only illuminate one part of the world before moving on to another part. Here is a possible demonstration of how that might look, based on what we actually observe: Demonstration of Sun's Partial Illumination of a Flat Plane The globe model requires complicated mathematical calculations based on inaccurate numbers and presuppositions. Indeed it is much more difficult to explain the path of the sun when using the hypothetical globe model than it is to explain the reality of what we observe on a flat and stationary Earth.
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Q: If the Earth is not spherical, why do boats disappear over the horizon?
A: [coming soon]
Q: Didn't Eratosthenes use sticks and shadows to prove that the Earth is ball-shaped?
A: [coming soon]
Q: How do you have time zones without the globe model?
A: [coming soon]
Q: If the Earth measures flat, why can't we see forever?
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Q: Does gravity exist?
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Q: Don't eclipses prove the globe?
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Q: Who cares if it's a globe or flat? Why does it matter?
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Q: If the Earth is flat, how do you explain the Coriolis effect?
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Q: What is underneath the Earth?
A: [coming soon]
Q: Why don't you flat earthers...[get on a boat and go south, start a GoFundMe to launch a weather balloon, take this random plane trip, etc.]
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Q: What if you as a flat earther were taken up to "outer space" and shown that the Earth is a globe. Would you accept it then?
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Q: Why would they lie?
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