Comments by "MrSirhcsellor" (@MrSirhcsellor) on "Derek Van Schaik" channel.

  1. "What about the NASA employee admitting HE photoshopped the 'Green Marble' view of Earth from space? " Ya, so what? Do you know what a composite image is? It is essentially a bunch of smaller chunks of photos of a larger image, stitched together to form a complete image. In the case with our Earth, many of the satellites in orbit are not far enough away to snap a complete image of Earth, so instead they take several images of Earth and form a composite image out of these many photos...you require a photo editing software like photoshop to do this. This is what that guy was referring too when he said "it is photoshopped, but it has to be". He wasn't talking about every single photo of Earth, he was only talking about the low Earth orbit composite images. So Flat Earth took his words out of context and blew them out of proportion. There are plenty of full images of Earth that are not composites, here is a video with 200 full images of Earth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz5DTCQlGwE These are non composite images, taken long before the days of CGI and digital photo editing software. So it's important to know the difference between composite images and full images of Earth. Flat Earth tends to only show you composites...and hides the details, taking that same quote out of context to help sell their point...which is basically a lie. So knowing this information now, can the people who make these Flat Earth conspiracy videos really be trusted, if they're going to straight up lie and deceive people like that? No...they aren't, and it's not the only example of them taking things out of context to sell their narrative to people. In my experience, these people are con artists...so don't just listen to them blindly and without question.
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  2.  @delery2524  You are very welcome, glad I could help. Yes, if Flat Earth is good at one thing, it's twisting information to fit their narrative. They can sound convincing on the surface, but if you do take the time to dig a little deeper you can always find where they twisted the facts....it's just that sometimes it's not easy and most people do not have the time. If you'd like a couple really good channels that have taken the time to dissect the Flat Earth arguments a lot more in depth, check out a channel called Cool Hard Logic and Voysofreason. They both have created a series of videos that goes through pretty much every argument and brings the actual facts to light. And they present their information in a more entertaining way...which, I find helps, just cause it can be really boring sifting through information sometimes, so they're a lot more interesting to watch. If you want some good channels that conduct a lot of their own observations and experiments, Sly Sparkane and Wolfie6020 are the best that I have come across so far. There isn't much they haven't covered on the subject so far, with their own experiments and observations. Sly does some really great renderings in 3D which really helps visualize the geometry better, and Wolfie is a commercial air pilot and amateur astronomer who is really knowledgeable on anything that has to do with aviation, navigation and astronomy. Soundly is another great content creator you can find on YouTube and he has some of the best observations of curvature, much of which you can find here on YouTube and at this blog. http://walter.bislins.ch/bloge/index.asp?page=Flat-Earth%3A+Finding+the+curvature+of+the+Earth&demo=Soundly#App
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