Comments by "" (@dirkardostevergreen4827) on "Sabine Hossenfelder" channel.

  1. It’s no less ridiculous so what does it matter?
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  2. Why are you bringing up nonsense flattard arguments as if they haven’t already been answered thousands of times?
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  3.  @footprints2324  well, a) level (in the case of water) just means equally distant from the centre of earth’s mass. It doesn’t mean that water is flat. They are two different meanings. B) a plane and the atmosphere through which it travels are rotating with the earth. It’s the same principal when you jump in a moving train, the train doesn’t move under your feet because you are travelling with the train’s momentum And b) a ship can only see as far as earth’s curvature will allow.
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  4.  @footprints2324  "How can the Water in an Ocean curve along with the Curvature of earth. Water always stay in level and hence WATER LEVEL." That's fairly simple to answer - gravity. This can be observed quite easily by looking at planets like Jupiter through a decent telescope - even though that's a gas giant, it's the same principal. Gravity causes the gas to coalesce into a spherical shape. It's really not that difficult to see the effects of Earth's curvature. I was in the south east of Tasmania this week which is an area that has very high sea cliffs. I took a boat out to sea to witness the migration of the short-tailed shearwater and as we ventured further out you could literally see the coast line sinking below the horizon. "If atmospheres rotating with the Earth, then how do you expect the atmosphere to stay with the planet unless there is an outer covering. And how can plane catch up with 66600 miles per hour moving object and land with an accuracy. And also the spin which is around 11000." Basically friction between the air and Earth's surface causes the atmosphere to move with the Earth. There is no need for an outer covering nor has one ever been detected or observed. The "firmament" as flat earthers like to call it is just a fantasy. " A ship can be still seen with a powerful camera such as Nikon P1000, for miles and miles" A zoom lens, no matter how good it is, won't be able to resolve an object below Earth's horizon. It honestly baffles me that some people actually think this is possible. A zoom lens can resolve an object too small to be seen with the naked eye if it's close enough to not be below the horizon but if you zoom in on a ship for example that let's say has sunk half below the horizon, it will still be half sunk when you zoom on it, just bigger - it won't magically reemerge in full view. Flat earthers say that this happens but it doesn't, they are either knowingly lying about it or they are just repeating a falsehood out of gullibility.
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  5.  @footprints2324  I’m not seeing any videos but if it’s Eric Dubay I’m completely uninterested.
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  6.  @footprints2324  Well what you want to believe is up to you but I think you'll find that all the things you mention here have a valid scientific explanation if you look into it honestly. There are simple proofs that tell us beyond any reasonable doubt that Earth is a sphere - the southern celestial pole for example, or something as simple as intercontinental navigation which is calculated using great circle routes (ie. spherical geometry). It doesn't take a whole lot to figure out that flat earth is complete nonsense! It has no foundation in reality, it basically amounts to people saying "I don't believe that's possible so it must be fake". You'll notice that flat earthers devote all their energy into trying to tear down mainstream science rather than explaining how their model is correct - because if you ask them to explain the numerous ways in which their model fails to match observable reality they have no answers. I don't know how sincere you are but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. It only takes one verifiable observation to conclude that a hypothesis is wrong and can therefore be dismissed. In this case, take the fact that anyone in the southern hemisphere who looks south at night will see the same constellations rotating around the southern celestial pole. Look at any flat earth model and you'll see straight away that they should all be looking in different directions. So therefore it's wrong. No further investigation required - it's just wrong, end of story. Ask any flat earther to explain this and without fail they will make some excuse why they don't need to answer this question and change the subject. Every. Single. Time!
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  7.  @footprints2324  simple, verifiable astronomical observations tell us quite plainly that Earth is a sphere so whatever inferences are made to the contrary by looking at air travel or anything else must be based on faulty reasoning and is therefore not worth investigating. So no, I’m not really interested thanks.
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  8.  @footprints2324  a plane tilts 1 degree every 111km, hardly something a pilot is going to be consciously aware of. Simple astronomical observations include Polaris going below the horizon south of the equator, the fact that we have two celestial poles, the fact that anyone in the Southern Hemisphere who looks south at night will see the same stars rotating around the southern celestial pole, just to name a few. If flat earthers can’t provide a model that explains this logically when the existing model explains them perfectly, then it’s obvious nonsense.
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  9.  @footprints2324  Earth’s circumference is 40075km. Divide that by 360 you get roughly 111.3km (69 miles). Another way this can be tested is that as you travel north or south each pole star (depending on which hemisphere you’re in) will drop by 1 degree every 111km that you travel. This is mathematical proof that Earth is a sphere. This wouldn’t happen if we were standing on a flat plane. By the way, that last video you linked - you know that’s a joke channel right?
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  10.  @footprints2324  he’s making fun of flat earthers. It’s not meant to be facts and data!
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  11.  @footprints2324  I’ll refer back to what I said before, there are simple, irrefutable proofs (some of which I’ve already listed) that Earth is a sphere so any claims to the contrary are going to be based on faulty logic. A guy sitting in front of flat earth map (which itself can be overwhelmingly demonstrated to be wrong) talking about planes is 100% guaranteed to be nonsense.
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  12.  @footprints2324  yeah but nah ...
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  13.  @footprints2324  Are you a trained engineer? If not, wouldn't you think someone who has studied engineering and physics concepts would be an ideal place to start with your learning?
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  14.  @footprints2324  It is gravity. If you know if a better theory than the existing one, let me know.
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  15. Wow!
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  16. It is. It’s also pretty east to debunk so probably not worth spending a lot of time being open minded on.
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  17.  @raypeery6317  The existence of the Southern Celestial Pole, seen by every person in the Southern Hemisphere if they take the time to look, remains unexplained by flat earthers - because it shouldn't be possible if Earth is flat. There - debunked. See how easy that was?
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  18. The fact that earth is a sphere is self evident to anyone with a basic comprehension of science. No one needs to “prove” Earth is a globe.
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  19. Yeah ... pretty sure it’s both of those things.
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  20. Zooming in on a ship that’s below the horizon won’t bring it back into view. That’s just a load of flat earth horse shit that no one with a brain believes.
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  21.  @dustinjames7490  if a ship has gone below the horizon, no amount of zooming in on it is magically going to make it reappear. Exactly how stupid do you need to be to think that’s true?
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  22.  @dustinjames7490  is that right? So why has no one ever filmed this then? Should be fairly easy to prove if it were true. But it’s not - which is why no such footage exists. You’re just repeating flattard lies.
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  23.  @dustinjames7490  oh right, so “they” are suppressing the truth. Of course they are! Not that you’re just making things up or anything ...
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  24.  @dustinjames7490  I’m not saying governments don’t suppress truth but using that to prop up the complete lack of evidence regarding your lies about zooming in on ships is laughably pathetic. So much so that I can’t take you seriously. The simple fact is if there were any truth to it it could be very easily demonstrated by anyone, even flattards with their almighty Nikon P900s! But despite this ludicrous claim being repeated as nauseam by flat earth f$&ktards, there remains to this day zero evidence that this actually happens. And why is that? Because it’s a load of horse shit - and I think you know this full well.
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  25.  @dustinjames7490  the total absence of evidence speaks volumes. Like all flattard claims it’s just repetition of complete nonsense and excuses being made when asked to provide evidence. Nothing new to see here, just the same old shit.
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  26.  @iamthenrone  moron
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  27.  @iamthenrone  I could elaborate on the ways that you’re a moron but I was economising. You’re welcome.
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  28.  @nicholashpitts  yes, you are trolling and not doing a good job of it. To be good at it you need to be less obvious.
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  29.  @nicholashpitts  nope. Not interested.
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  30. There are already satellites taking pictures of earth from space. Let’s be honest, if they did put a camera on the moon conspiracy theorists would invent some reason why it was faked - so why would anyone bother going to all that trouble and expense just to prove to a bunch of morons that Earth is a sphere?
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  31. Her not replying probably has a lot to do with you being a nonsense-spouting child.
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  32.  Hell N Degenerates  yes the earth is known to be a sphere, that one was settled 2000 years ago. It’s not our problem if a few knuckle draggers think that’s something up for debate.
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  33. Ha ha when I used to waste my time debating these clowns, I always used to say why doesn't one them put their money where their mouth is and go to Antarctica to see the midnight sun (which anyone with half a brain cell rattling around in their head would clearly see irrevocably disproves the theory). I'm glad to hear some one actually did it with predicable results.
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  34.  @demetriusroy  I’m going to take a stab and say you don’t know the first thing about the laws of thermodynamics, you’ve just heard some peabrain on a YouTube video making stupid claims and you’ve taken it as gospel - am I right?
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  35. No one cares. Eric is a nobody.
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  36. All flat earth arguments are nonsense, no matter what spin you put on them. Any one of moderate intelligence and critical thinking skills will find it trivially easy to debunk.
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  37.  @luckyhaskins69  except if has been done - but naturally flat earthers reject every bit of evidence as fake even though not one of them can explain what their process is for arriving at that conclusion beyond “I don’t want to believe that so it’s fake”.
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  38.  @eJuniorA2  I think the difference is that astrology seems relatively harmless and few people take it seriously and also there isn’t a huge online debate around it (if you really call flat earth a “debate”) so it’s influence is relatively small. And also, flat earthers are typically quite arrogant and vocal (the worst kind of stupid), I haven’t seen astrologers loudly proclaiming that everything you believe is a lie and science is the devil!
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  39.  @thewolfman751  "so why can we make observations further than what we should be able to" That's a questionable claim. I've seen many videos supposedly showing this and what you will almost always find is that they've used a simplified curvature calculator, they haven't taken atmospheric refraction into account and the measurements for distance and viewing height are vague or just not mentioned. All these things come into play if you're going to make a genuinely scientific evaluation of an observation. A better question would be, if the Earth is flat, why can't we see entire mountains 100's of kilometers away at sea level? Why do we see large objects dip below the horizon as they get further away? "The 'flat earth' model was misrepresented in the video, you can at least agree that her opening argument was a strawman" I would agree that most flat earthers don't believe Earth is accelerating upwards but her video was more about why the philosophy of zetetic astronomy is flawed so I wouldn't call it a straw man argument. If the video was purely about flat earthers' explanation for gravity then yes, it would fall under the definition of a straw man argument. As it stands, the upwards acceleration of Earth as claimed by the flat earth society is a very minor side note in the overall presentation.
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  40.  @thewolfman751  flat earth isn’t gaining popularity. It exists largely as a subject of ridicule on debunking channels. The only reason it’s still being talked about is because people are fascinated by how idiotic some people can be.
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  41.  @UntamableFreeman  " Take a photo of the sky above your head. 6 months later take a photo of the exact same area above your head. If we are going around the Sun once a year like you claim, 6 months later you should see different stars" Yes and this is exactly what happens - with equatorial stars, circumpolar stars remain fixed - exactly what the heliocentric model predicts ... so your point is? "The Michelson-Morley experiment set out to prove the movement of the earth" No it didn't "but in fact proved the opposite" No it didn't. Ok, so in short you know nothing about astronomy and everything you know about classic scientific experiments is what you've learned from flat earth videos. I have better things to do than try to drum sense into a mental leprechaun. I think we're done here.
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  42.  @UntamableFreeman  it’s an acceptable response because you are talking shit. The Michelson Morley experiment was not trying to prove the earth was spinning, nor did it ever prove otherwise. If you had the first idea what you were talking about then you would already know this but it’s quite obvious that you don’t know anything beyond what an idiot flat earther has told you on some moronic YouTube video.
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  43.  @UntamableFreeman  you took a quote out of context and you were called out for it. If you had a shred of integrity you would admit that. What’s worse is you’ve just repeated something you’ve heard from another flat earther because you’re incapable of forming any original thoughts of your own. And the saddest thing is, despite the fact that you’ve been completely owned in this thread, you will disregard it and continue to go on repeating the same drivel to other people. If you were actually interested in genuine knowledge you would show some humility and accept that you were wrong.
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  44. Chad Judd yes I’m sure you tick every box ...
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  45.  @ronoli9447  There are multiple satellites taking images of Earth from a variety of distances. The Blue Marble image was composed of strips of near earth orbit images stitched together but there are geostationary satellites further out capturing entire disk images. What would be the advantage of putting a camera on the moon? Just to prove a point to a bunch of science-illiterate twat droppings that are going to call it fake anyway? What's the point of that exactly? Unless there was a considerable scientific benefit to doing this (and there isn't) then it's just a waste of time and resources. The only one waffling here is you. Why are you so dumb? Answer that.
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  46. Yeah .. I don't know about that. They don't show a great deal of respect for other scientists or anyone who agrees with scientific consensus. I don't have an issue with anyone who is genuinely curious and wants to think outside the box, but flat earthers don't fit that category. My personal take on it is they are just contrarians looking for something to argue about and make themselves feel better about their educational failures.
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  47. That’s true but the shape of our planet isn’t one of them.
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  48. Nice attempt to make up your own version of history there.
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  49.  @yingyang1008  it’s common knowledge that you have to be completely gullible to believe that nonsense
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  50.  @theflatouttruth6499  it is both wrong and extremely stupid. Any thoughts to the contrary is an indication of extreme delusional thinking.
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