Comments by "Flook D" (@flookd5516) on "Johnny Harris" channel.

  1. Columbus believed the Earth was markedly smaller than actuality and thus westwards from Europe to India (assuming no Americas in the way) was within the sailing range of contemporary ships. He was wrong but fortunately encountered the West Indies and believed he had reached India (hence the name).
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  2. TR Labs What gives it weight to be heavier, what actually makes it move and why does it move in a consistent direction (down).
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  3. I Don.t “they tried to prove ball Earth and failed” You need to understand what you are testing if you wish to demonstrate something. Starting with erroneous assumptions and ignoring key factors does not make a successful test. What’s your technique for identifying CGI? If you wish to identify a photo as being CGI then surely you have one. What is it? https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/
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  4. Most of them are dummies who believe “thinking different” magically makes them correct.
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  5.  @briananderson1246  Sea-level is the point of gravitational equipotential, not flatness.
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  6. Your eyes tell you they are similar size; actually measuring them shod you otherwise. Do you know what the marks on a ruler are for?
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  7. Khalifa Gabriello All direct lines from A to B and all distances within the maximum flight distances of the planes. We’re still waiting on why FE’ers think they take circuitous routes and how they think the planes manage to fly beyond their max range.
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  8. Nick Palumbo How does water observe its environment, make decisions and move itself? Try to grasp the concepts of scale, refraction and dispersion before talking about laser tests. Measuring curvature fir yourself is easy to do: https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/
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  9. Columbus was trying to travel to India westwards from Europe. He had no idea America was there to get in the way.
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  10. Nick Palumbo Himawari-8, EPIC and Elektro-L collectively take several photos per hour, all immediately downloadable.
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  11. Crimson King https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/
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  12. happy muttonchop It’s the invisible moon tagging along a few miles behind.
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  13. Scientific theory, not the vernacular meaning. Learn the difference.
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  14. Nick Palumbo We’re talking about a sphere with a 25,000 mile circumference which means 0.0144 degrees curvature per mile. An argument that runs “not seeing the curvature of a 25 mile circumference proves the Earth isn’t 25,000 mile around” is farcical.
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  15. Mark Yeakel Nasa in Hebrew means raise or lift. The misquoted acronym is used by those who can’t get their heads around the technology.
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  16. Nikolai Agafonov https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/ Can none of you do arithmetic?
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  17. Nikolai Agafonov https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/ Can none of you do arithmetic?
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  18. https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/ Try collecting some yourself.
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  19. The Ptolemaic model from 100AD was the accepted model until Copernicus and it was based on a spherical Earth. All Copernicus did was suggest a heliocentric system rather than a geocentric system; he didn’t propose changing the shape of the Earth. Laser are light; they can be refracted like any other light. The lasers used by troops are onboard aircraft, not the ground.
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  20. First globes appeared in late 18th century once enough of the world had been mapped to make it practical. That the Earth was a sphere was determined about 500BC. Explain how you think people made money from events over 2000 years later.
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  21. Andrei Caritativo Unfortunately there are people who claim that for real.
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  22. Gyppie Try it yourself. https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/
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  23. He thought the Earth was substantially smaller, which would put India within westwards sailing range.
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  24. Conservation of momentum means the plane continue moving with the Earth after it takes off. If you’re on a plane, jumping does not smash you into the rear bulkhead.
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  25. You need a permit the same way you need a visa for most countries. There is nothing actually preventing you going except for the sheer expense and expertise with the environment.
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  26. Because it is there. If you mean that it always lies between us and the sun, then that isn’t true; it’s orbit lies between ours and the sun and the relative position of each planet on their orbit means Mercury can be up to 10 degrees away from the sun from our viewpoint.
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  27. Since the moon is distant from the Earth, people on opposite sides of the globe will be able to view it simultaneously; that they see the same face of the moon demonstrates it is distant. If the Earth was flat everybody across the world be able to see it simultaneously and its appearance would vary according to the viewing angle.
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  28. How far you can see is dependent on curvature, your elevation and atmospheric refraction. 8”/mile^2 is a parabola and used as a rule of thumb for short distances to estimate the geometric drop, not how far can be seen.
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  29. Reproducible empirical findings to be exact. Refraction is an atmospheric effect as light passes through different layers and their water content; curving with earth means is why the light is refracted upwards. The closer you are to water the greater the vapor content and the greater the effect. That is why Rowbotham measured a few inches above the water in the Bedford Canal and Wallace several feet above; Wallace demonstrated curvature will Rowbotham claimed there was none.
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  30. What powers the balloons? Why aren’t they affected by the weather?
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  31. If he hadn’t run into the West Indies he wouldn’t have come bothering people again.
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  32. https://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round/
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  33. leonard bramhill How big would you expect the Earth to look like from Mars? What would you expect it to look like and why?
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  34.  @richdevlin4506  8"/mile^2 describes a parabola, not a circle. It will not magically change into a circle. It does make a good rule of thumb for calculating geometric drop for relatively short distances but the error grows and, as a parabola, it would be completely useless once you reached a quarter of the way around the globe. It does not, as some people think, calculate how far you can see.
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  35. Rich Devlin How would bisecting a globe give you a parabolic cross-section? The geometric drop is one factor in determining how far you can see but FE’ers frequently regard it as the only factor, hence my comment.
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  36. Rich Devlin Which doesn’t answer the question I asked. If the ship has yet to reach the horizon then the hull would be fully visible. If someone wishes to demonstrate the horizon can be overcome by magnification then that ship has first passed over the horizon is necessary factor. That you can’t see something with the unaided eye is not the same as it passing over the horizon; you can’t see a coin at 100m but that is nowhere near the horizon.
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  37. Rich Devlin There are limits to your visual acuity; you can’t see a coin at 100m, you can’t see bacteria. That you can’t see the ship does not automatically mean it is over the horizon; if aided sight brings it back into view then nothing is blocking the view, ie, no curve of Earth. Once it goes over the horizon no amount of magnification will bring it back into view. A flat Earth would not have a horizon. It would gradually lose clarity with increasing distance, mostly due to the dust content of the air. You would be able (outside city pollution) to see for hundreds of miles, not be limited to 20-30 miles of a sea-side view. It wouldn’t create any view of only the top half of a skyscraper being visible.
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  38. Rich Devlin Angle being 0.0144 degrees per mile. Assuming you could see a skyscraper 100 miles away it would be leaning away from you at a grandiose 1.44 degrees, which would not be something apparent to the eye. Can none of you calculate that number? It’s just dividing 360 by 25,000. Yes, I’ve seen them. Numerous prats making the same fundamental error as you; confusing beyond unaided acuity with beyond the horizon. Not one of them has demonstrated zooming the sun back into view. Do you want to try it?
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  39. Nick Palumbo Cameras mounted on the outside of the ISS; EPIC, Himawari-8 and Elektro-L taking several photos an hour and one dish company running a TV channel linked to a camera mounted on their satellite.
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  40. Rich Devlin 360/25000 = 0.0144 is arithmetic. What do you think the answer is and why? Dividing two numbers does not give you a triangle.
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  41. Rich Devlin That apex would be at the centre of the Earth. For a perfect sphere (which Earth essentially is) it would that if you want to calculate the angle between any two points then multiply 0.0144 by the separating distance in miles.
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  42. Omegalul Coming up with the same fallacies and misunderstandings time and time again is creative how exactly?
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  43. Rich Devlin You think arithmetic works differently?
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  44. Rich Devlin You think it shouldn’t be applied to anything, just left on paper?
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  45. Rich Devlin It’s like using 22/7 instead of pi; good for back of the envelope calculations, not a different definition of pi. 8”/mile^2 is a parabola, not a circle but is good for the back of envelope calculations for short distances. Parabolic & circular equations have not replaced each other.
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  46. Unfortunately they have no idea how high they need to send a balloon to be able to see a curved horizon.
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  47. Enoch Brent It means raise or lift.
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  48. Ben B Why don’t you read the log books and see where they sailed? Started off from Britain and did tours around the South Atlantic and Pacific. That they passed by Cape Horn & Cape of Good Hope and briefly came close to Antarctica is not “circumnavigating” Antarctica.
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  49. Bill Crowder Why do you think there could be a wall in space?
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  50. Yet straight lines remain straight. How do you telescopes curve only one particular line?
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  51. “We did not evolve. It has been proven all intelligent life came out of Africa” Where did the intelligent life in Africa come from if not by evolution?
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  52. eskillz7 Rap Hiphop n RnB Trying explaining how. Intelligent civilized humans have been killing others on any pretext since we appeared; what do you consider special about blacks as victims? What is zero blood supposed to be?
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  53. That the Earth was round was determined in about 500BC. Columbus’s belief was that the Earth was substantially smaller than measured and so westwards to India was feasible for the limited sailing distance of 15th century vessels.
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  54. Arxiv.org
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  55. Brian Sheridan The maths was dependent on existing observation and made prediction of future motion which could be compared to what was then observed. We are still waiting on FE’ers to achieve this. Do you want to try?
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  56. Traceable signal to, on & from the moon, detectable equipment left there and verifiable material brought back.
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  57. They’re misconceptions that build up with time and limited knowledge. Columbus believed he could sail westwards to India because he thought the globe was much smaller rather than hypothesizing it was a globe but long distance terms are the ones which demonstrate such curvature.
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  58. Y.F. Stunnah The Ptolemaic system was based on a spherical Earth.
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  59. Y.F. Stunnah The Earth was determined to be round 2000 years before the shift to s heliocentric system.
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  60. Y.F. Stunnah I take it you don’t know the difference between 0.3% and 30%?
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