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  193. I would say that you fail to comprehend the sheer amount of information & evidence available and lack the understanding & expertise required to perform such experiments. The chances of an amateur finding something that many professionals have all failed to notice plus that something requiring the rewriting of our understanding of the subject is remote to sat the least. Conversely an amateur looking for alternative theories being selective in their observation & interpretation to support their claim is routine (confirmation bias). There does seem to be a fallacy that discoveries are made by one or a few people and everybody else accepts that unquestioningly, which I suspect arises from school textbooks noting who gets the credit for being first. In actuality everything is checked and rechecked by countless people and verified by multiple means before it is accepted while finding an inherent error with something that has been accepted is seen as advancement, not heresy. 1. Knowledge increases with time, it's not static. There will be good reason for drawing particular conclusions but since knowledge continues to increases new information may become available that questions or changes those conclusions. Faster than light travel seems impossible but it doesn't preclude a future Zephraim Cochrane managing to devise a warp drive. There have been and still are multiple means for measuring distances; accuracy improves with time but the stars are still going to be light years away and +/- 1% error is not going to put them inside the solar system. Since the moon is close the distance is easier to measure, essentially using radar, and the change in the distance of its orbit over time is measurable. Do note that a claim of "I can see it therefore it must be close" is not a valid argument since it ignores the size of the observed object. 2. Trackable signal to, on and from the moon, detectable material left there and verifiable material brought back. The latter had to be selected by hand to be worthwhile, not picked up at random by a robot that wouldn't exist for decades. Gut feelings are not evidence. The best place to start is asking questions of people who are knowledgeable about the subject material. Do bear in mind that due to your lack of expertise (and sheer time) they will have to simply facts for you and that you not understanding something is not profound insight that it's all gobbledy-gook.
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  431. More that FE'ers can't agree on any details other than "it's just gotta be flat". "they are not FE proves at all" Until one of you provides this definitive list of proofs that you all claim to possess we are obliged to work with what each of you do produce. "there are so many evidences FEer have pointed out to denounce globe earth model" Well, none really but the point of this video was discussing FE'ers reasoning powers or lack thereof, not any of the FE models per se. Many FE'ers do think water levels itself and not in response to any force acting upon it. We are still waiting on the FE explanation for how water can form a level surface; "just does" doesn't cut it. "why laser or telephoto cameras can see across the long distance of earth" Because how far you can see is dependent on a combination of curvature, elevation & atmospheric refraction, not on curvature alone. Still waiting on the FE'er explanation for how viewing distance increases with elevation. "yet can not detect the claimed horizon drop" The drop is only a few degrees and that is not something that would leap out at the naked eye. When drop is actually measured it is evidently present. That FE'ers accept only eyeballing is your limitation. "8in/mi square for estimate the approximate drop of earth" There's novel - a FE'er who is aware it is an approximation. "free earth curvature calculator to get accurate earth drop by distance" Some calculate only geometric drop, others take into account elevation & refraction to calculate hidden drop & refracted hidden drop, which is what you actually see. "the distant object across the lakes or seas that completely defy the globe with the accurate ball earth surface drop numbers" They fit what is calculated when curvature, elevation & atmospheric refraction are accounted for. You choose to use only the ones that calculate just geometric drop because you are either dumb or ingenuous. "You are intentional to fight against the FE facts" We're still waiting on these FE facts. You just keep coming out with the above. "people who understand how you were manipulating the facts" Such as? And "just gotta be" is not a valid explanation. "Why not you explain the powered momemtum gyro on gimbal even spins for hours will not register the earth daily 360degree rotation?" It does if the gyroscope has minimal friction and has sufficient momentum to adequately counter what friction does exist; most don't. Laser gyroscopes are frictionless; they always demonstrate 15 degrees per hour rotation. Still waiting on the FE'er explanation for why that occurs. All you've done is come out with various canards. If you wish us to work with the Real Evidence, Real Model, Real Physics etc then you need to produce them.
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  551. 1a: Explain why you think 1970 technology, materials, computers etc are compatible with those of 2020. 1b: Explain why you think the Mars Rovers would require human life support. 2a. Because the stars are distant, generally in the 10-1000 light years away, and moving in the same direction as the sun. 2b. Explain why you think 10,000 years worth of change would be apparent from day to day. 3. Explain why parallel train tracks shouldn't appear to diverge as they approach you. 4a. For the stated purpose of avoiding military competition in an inhospitable climate. 4b. It's readily downloadable. Specify which clause supposedly forbids travel to Antarctica. 5a. By dividing circumference by time as anybody can do. 5b. Explain where you think arithmetic should change with time. 6. It isn't and they don't. 7a. Explain how you think a prominent white grid on said screen would not interfere with it being a blue screen. 7b. If you it wouldn't, then explain why studios all use blue-only screens. 8a. Blue Marble (1972) and Earthrise were taken in single frame shots on an analogue camera. 8b. Himawari-8, Elektro-L and EPIC collectively produce multiple full hemisphere shots per hour. Explain why you think they would need to use a wide angle shots from their orbital distances. 9. How much curvature would you expect to see from a globe on the inside camera at that altitude and why? 10. The atmosphere alters the light as it enters it; it's how we get a blue sky during the day time. 11a. Provide an example of such editing. 11b. Explain why you you think video compression errors wouldn't occur. 12. Free-fall, lasting about 30 sec. Explain how you think it is possible to shoot a 30min video in 30 sec. 13a. The rocket slowed and stopped when the engines shut off as programmed. 13b. Explain why you think a camera impacting a dome at a few hundred miles an hour wouldn't even be jarred. 14a. It's the International Space Station, not National. That is why it is referred to as the ISS, not the NSS. 14b. Explain where you saw a can of tuna on the ISS. These are the obvious questions that FE'es are never able to answer. Prove me wrong.
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  586.  @Harpazoed  There are two propossd FE explanations for the sun. One camp has it orbiting vertically, above & below the FE but they never explain why there isn’t a universal rise & set rather than tome zones. The currently favoured suggestion is a horizontal motion where the FE sun stays up for no reason at a height that is immeasurable for no reason, moves for no reason, moves in & out for no reason, changes speed for no reason, illuminates a limited area for no reason, produces long southern hemisphere days somehow, rises & sets without coming within 20 degrees of the horizon, grows & shrinks in apparent while maintaining a constant apparent size and somehow maintains a constant angular velocity for every observer in total disregard for the perspective they talk about so much. A solar system has every planet moving in regular and predictable orbit with no occasional backwards movement for no apparent reason. Using that maths we have been able to accurately send probes through the solar system. The distance to the sun is measurable and measured through several approaches. The stars ate extremely distant and moving in the same general direction of the sun as the galaxy rotates. Change in position would require 10,000s year to be apparent to the unaided eye (the FE favoured method) as altered constellations but the small changes from year to year are measurable & measured. Star charts need to be updated every 10 years or so. A parallax effect is observable with the nearest stars, indicating that the Earth is in motion, in an orbit around the sun. FEers prefer a disc shape or an infinite plane, generally ignoring the concept of four corners. None have done anything to check Antarctica, ice wall or dome.
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  713. ​ @StephenJelinek  "refraction bends the subject image around the curve into our view" It bends the light coming form the object. Refraction occurs with atmospheric density decreasing with altitude. Mirages arise when there are abrupt change in density between different layers, ie., the weather a cold wet layer in. How a mirage appears depends on the exact layering at that moment; since there is movement of air in the atmosphere (winds) the image wobbles. "5 x 5 =25 x .6667 = 16.6667' of curvature" It really passed you by, didn't it? Quote: How far you can see is determined by curvature, elevation & refraction. All factors have to be accounted for in calculations. You can't ignore factors and expect to be using the right equation. You can't ignore elevation & refraction and expect to get an accurate prediction of where the horizon is. "I'm only interested in curvature" is not going to magically nullify the effects of elevation & refraction. Making a prediction requires that you use all relevant factors. Devising an experiment means you need to take into account all factors. You can't make testable predictions by ignoring key factors. If you want to test how gar you cases then you need to make accurate calculations for your predictions. Elevation & refraction have to be included - is that clear? Do I need to say it again and in how many different ways? "Go ahead trust NASA and all the CGI they feed us" NASA is not the only space agency. Blue Marble (1972) was shot on a single frame of film, long before CGI; just how difficult is it for you to check that? None of you seem to understand what CGI actually is and none of you have been able to say what your technique is for identifying. Why don't you try? "If the earth spins at 1000 mph?" Measurably so. "Orbits the sun at 66,000 mph?" Measurably so. "speeds that are beyond our comprehension" Certainly yours.... "we do not experience a single one of these motions" Because the body is sensitive to acceleration, not motion. We deduce motion from what we observe around us, not directly sense it. "You think we could hang a plumb bob over a mark on the floor, put a 24/7 camera on it and measure some kind of motion." Foucult's pendulum. Not surprisingly, you underestimate that factors need to be taken into account. You are not a Great Witness. Your thoughts & observations are not the definitive factors determining reality, just your self-centredness. Why would an omnipotent Dei require a Servus exactly?
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  1020.  @homelesszaya6711  Do you understand what percentage means? If you're looking at a picture of an object 7,900 miles across then a 10 mile oblation at the pole would be less than 1 pixel difference. Just because you think 10 miles is a long way does not mean it remains prominent regardless of the scale of the object being considered. Did you learn about ratios and scale in school? WGS84 (World Geodetic System) is the measured shape of Earth down to about a cubic metre. The GPS system uses WGS84 for calculating the co-ordinates & distance it sends you. Land surveyors made the earlier model from the the 19th century onwards. Since space flight was developed, satellite geodesy has become the norm, relying on radio communications and radar to measure distances. "if a walls out if plum u can see it" Only when the distortion reaches the point where your eye can distinguish it and your eyes are not very sensitive when it comes to gauging distances. Not being able to readily observe something with your eyes does not mean it doesn't exist. It's why we rely on instruments for accurate measurements, not eyeballing. Ian was essentially asking if you understood the concept of shape. Regardless of what something is made of, a sphere is a sphere. It doesn't matter whether the sphere is Earth, basketball, golf ball or pool ball, it's a sphere. That you can't see the distortion of a basketball sitting on the ground does not mean there is no distortion; the distortion is not automatically gross enough for you to perceive. That is true for all spheres. Tyson referred to pear-shaped while talking about the slight bulge of the southern hemisphere. The distortion is even less than the polar oblation. He did not literally mean it resembles a pear, just used the term to convey where the distortion was. "I'm skeptical of all I learned as a child in school . Its all just regurgitating what u have been taught" Scepticism is wanting to know the basis for an assertion, not blowing it off as "regurgitation". The science you learn in school is the very basics; it's so long established that it can be taught as simple facts with demonstrations for your benefit. Only when you reach university level does it become important to know the exact basis for something. "I see far to many indescrepincies in the "science" " You not knowing or understanding something means precisely that; it is not a profound revelation that nobody knows or understands something or that there has been a colossal screw-up that nobody has noticed. "it's all just insult and banter" Everybody has pointed out the scale of the oblation relative to the Earth's radius. That you miss the point does not mean people are failing to answer your question, just that you aren't understanding what is said. Do remember that you are telling us that 10 is a large proportion of 3900. If you have questions then ask (politely) but be prepared to listen to the answers. If you don't understand something then say just that and ask for clarification; don't start telling other people that they don't know what they are talking about.
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  1112. ​ @Boss_Feed  Most research in academia is supported through government funding agencies. We write grant applications describing what it is we wish to do (aim), the basis for the research (reasoning, hypotheses), how we intend to go about it (methodology) and what the expected results might be. The grants are submitted to the appropriate agencies (they are usually multiple dedicated to particular areas) where the applications are peer-reviewed (committees made up of fellow academics). Those considered most promising receive a grant. If & when you receive a grant then you are legally obliged to spend it on the project specified in the application. There is no obligation to arrive at particular results or draw particular conclusions; we don't receive instructions prior to writing a grant that tell us what we should be doing. We usually run into obstacles; if we knew what was going to happen it wouldn't be research. Even with the most promising projects dead ends will be encountered. While the awarding body will want updates so they know how it's going, the results are continually used to write research papers that are published in research journals. They lay out aim, methodology, results & conclusion. They too are peer-reviewed (by academics) and can be rejected. Over time, the multiple inputs from different pieces of research draw an increasingly complete picture of a subject. What makes it into school or university textbooks (usually written by academics) is the culmination of decades of work. They're not instructions or indoctrinations from on high; it's the long term result of the work we've been doing.
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  1295. "Van Allan radiation belts" With adequate shielding and passing through the weak periphery at speed; the astronauts radiation exposure was the equivalent to a couple of X-rays. "the immensely low pressures of space" "How did the space craft not get ripped apart due to the low pressure of space" The difference between 1 atm pressure and vacuum is 1 atm pressure, a paltry amount; planes handle about 20% that and gas cylinders contain about 100 atm pressure. Not a problem . "How did they land on the moon without causing a massive crater" The bulk of the deceleration was done at high altitude, the landing modules ran at about 1/4 power until prior to landing and shut off immediately prior to touchdown. You're assuming the reverse of a Saturn V take-off that starts from stationary and has to produce the power to accelerate a huge mass upwards against Earth's gravity. The landing modules were already moving slowly, had very little mass compared to a Saturn V and were in lunar gravity. "what battery technology did they have to run their life support systems" Hydrogen fuel cells for most things, silver oxide-zinc batteries for the Landing Module. "How did they cause the camera film not to be destroyed by radiation." Lead-lined containers. "earths curvature can not be measured, observed or detected" And yet is routinely measured, observed and detected. That FE'ers turn a blind eye to how this is done does not magically make it impossible. "no mathematical equations are conducted to facilitate for earth’s curvature" A 25,000 mile circumference means 360/25000 = 0.0144 degrees/mile. Each individual section is set for level at that locality; the angle difference between sections is less than the corrections needed for the terrain. "The 8 miles ^2 by the distance is totally disregarded" Given that it is not for calculating curvature one would hope it is ignored. "Please look into this further. " Why don't you? None of the above answers are secret or rely on arcane mystical knowledge so why don't you know them? "one always observes the same Stella Constellation throughout the year" No, one does not. That is how the zodiac system comes to have 12 constellations that indicate how their presence changes. "want is occurring is due to electromagnetism, pressure and buoyancy." A Faraday cage has no effect so it isn't EM, buoyancy is dependent on gravity so it isn't that and air pressure is due to gravity, i.e., no gravity, no pressure difference. "second law of thermodynamics explains a pressurised system cannot be next to a vacuum without a Barrier" No, it does not. A pressure gradient can be maintained by a force countering the expansion due to pressure, e.g., gravity. FE'ers have yet to explain why there is decreasing pressure with increasing altitude when they're claiming equal pressure throughout their dome (of which they have no evidence itself). Why don't you try learning something instead of ignorantly parroting stuff?
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  1404. ​ @stuartmcmurray8925  The visible stars are distant, typically 10's to 1000's of lightyears from Earth, and moving in the same general direction as the sun as the galaxy rotates. The more distant an object the less the apparent change in position relative to your movement. Star trails are due to the Earth's rotation. I think you are viewing the sky as a cylinder and expecting to see only east to west motion. Gravitational attraction is towards the centre of the Earth, not some plane beyond the south pole; wherever you are on the globe, the attraction is towards the centre so no continents are going to be at an angle. Gravity affects everything in direct proportion to their mass; the action is gravity on mass is what causes weight. Being a a constant force does not mean it is an irresistible force; the force generated by birds & insects wings are sufficient to (temporarily) overcome gravity, enabling them to fly. The sea does not possess wings or any other means to enable it to take flight. Centrifugal force at the equator is about 0.3% the strength of gravity; you aren't going to get flung off. Density is not a force and is not to going to magically act as one; no force, no motion. Weight is the action of gravity on mass; no gravity, no weight. The ancient Greeks demonstrated the Earth was a globe and we've accurate global maps for long distance navigation for centuries. NASA had bugger all to do with either. "multiple videos of them being caught faking it" None yet, just a lot of people who don't understand what they're watching and can't be bothered to think. The body is sensitive to acceleration but not to motion; you infer that from visual input. One rotation per day is not going to make you dizzy. "star in a jar on youtube" That you can generate light by one particular means does not mean that all light is generated that way. The ISS is not within the atmosphere as you understand it. Air pressure declines with increasing altitude and has essentially reached zero well below the ISS orbit; a few molecules per cubic metre is essentially a vacuum. The Van Allen belts are not impassable and NASA is not the only space agency (not even the first). Stuart, you're simply repeating the same ignorant BS as FE'ers; that you don't know or understand something is not magical insight on how it all really works.
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  1459. ​ @yestervue4697  "Then I was shown transcontinental flight maps/routes, all these curves in odd directions seeming to avoid the ocean" You're prepared to believe in a millenia-long, extremely expensive and totally pointless conspiracy but it didn't cross your mind that someone could cherry-pick flights for their demonstration? Direct flights between the southern continents cross Pacific & Atlantic oceans (and, no, the existence of indirect routes does not preclude the existence of direct routes not does the current limitations due to Covid mean the direct flights never existed). Also, what would be a straight line on a globe appears as a curve when projected onto a flat surface. "They are straight on there!" Somebody draws a straight line between two points, tells you that's where the plane goes and you believe because you are gullible. Doesn't occur to you that they cherry-pick the locations and flights? You don't ask what about the flights in the southern hemisphere that would be beyond the flight range of aircraft on a FE map? "I investigated MUCH deeper for a year and found no proof for globe earth" Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris, two celestial poles: you can check all for yourself. Try actually doing it rather than listening to FE ignorance & incredulity. The curvature is measurable with a land surveyor's theodolite though I imagine you will claim they are rigged by the <insert bogeymen>. I know you will deny photographs, preferring to believe single-frame shots taken with an analogue must have been done with CGI several decades before CGI existed, and will ignore the ISS passing over head, preferring to believe it a balloon that has somehow remained aloft for 20 years while unaffected by ambient weather. So, be novel and try explaining how the FE fits to observations: how does the sun a constant angular diameter and angular velocity when the FE predicts they vary; how does the sun rise & set; why is there a horizon when the FE predicts several hundred miles vision that disappears in a haze; how are there two celestials poles when FE says there is only one; why are different constellations visible in the southern hemisphere; why does the angle to Polaris disagree with that predicted by the FE; why can't any of you produce accurate maps when you now accurate distance? The moon does not have to outrun the Earth's rotation for a solar eclipse to work. You're thinking the of the change in angle when the key is the speed with which the moon moves out of alignment. Do you really think that only FE'ers think about these things? "the model failures in action" That is the inability of the author to get his head around diagrams. Given the relative sizes sun, moon & Earth and the distances separating them it isn't practical to produce a to scale model: distance to the sun 93 million miles, umbra 166 miles.
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  1592.  @calvinzundel5725  "mysteriously all the data from that trip disappeared" No, eventually telemetry tapes became technologically outdated and were replaced. In the days of CDs, DVDs, flash drives, hard drives, SSD and the cloud the concept of data being transferable is apparently beyond the grasp of some people who transfer data when they read their text & email. Some tapes still exist with one piece of equipment in the world capable of reading them; the set of tapes that contained the recording of the EVA was found to have been erased or mislabelled. Two different facts. "all pics of earth from space are cgi" We're still waiting for someone to provide an explanation of how they are identifying CGI. "I'm sure there is something beyond the wall" What wall? Still no evidence to indicate such a wall exists. "why else would every country in the world sign an agreement to not allow private exploration of antiartica?" No such treaty exists. There is a treaty agreeing to no territorial claims or development in Antarctica, but nothing that prevents private exploration. Two people finished solo expeditions across Antarctica just a few months ago. "I don't know how high the firmament is" We're still waiting on someone to provide evidence of such a firmament. All we ever get are assertions that all tests with nuclear weapons that weren't at ground-level just gotta have been trying to crack the dome regardless of the height varying from 2000 ft to 200 miles. Try asking yourself why you can't rebut the video.
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  1803. ​ @imjustanant  Key points of any science experiment is falsifiability and reproducibility. You make a prediction according to your hypothesis then perform tests that would not work if your hypothesis is incorrect. Your prediction is that Chicago would be visible from a certain location only if your hypothesis of a FE is correct. A shot from a mile down the coast would demonstrate nothing; if can be accounted for by the existing model then you haven't demonstrated that your model is more accurate. The conditions during repeated tests need to be as close as possible to identical. How far you should be able to see is dependent on curvature, elevation and atmospheric refraction; all three have to be accounted for, not just one (the usual FE screw-up) and correctly accounted for (the other usual FE screw-up; 8"/mile^2 is not the correct formula). (If you want to test a battery-powered torch (flashlight) then you need a battery that is charged, inserted and correctly oriented; all three criteria have to be met for you to be testing the torch and a 9V is not interchangeable with a D). If you want to shoot from the top of a 6ft dune with a 4ft tripod that extra 10ft has to be included in the calculations (plus however far up the beach the dune is). The atmospheric fraction has to be as close as possible to constant; the simplest would be to go with an approximate average for Xft above water. In terms of distance you need a location that will test your hypothesis. With all criteria accounted for it needs to be impossible (for real) on a globe but possible with a FE. In terms of reproducibility, conditions have to be near identical on multiple occasions. The pictures need to be taken with the same camera, using the same lens and same tripod height from exactly the same location (top of a specific dune) in near as identical weather/atmospheric conditions. A mirage is not a typical condition and would render that test useless unless your hypothesis is specifically about what is visible during a mirage. Taking several shots in the course of 1hr tests nothing; if there is something unusual occurring at the time (known or unknown, e.g., mirage) then that could explain your results rather than any veracity of your hypothesis. The least you need to do is being there every day at a similar time for a week in similar weather conditions. In making any reports you need to specify what the conditions were and what you did to meet all the necessary criteria. The results you obtain will be evidence, not proof. If you find evidence of a FE then, even correctly done, there is a still an element of the unknown involved. It needs to be reproduced by other people, not simply there but in other places to account for anything unusual that may exist at Lake Michigan at that time (e.g., deviation from a perfect sphere, unusually high humidity). If, and only if, the same can be readily reproduced in all or nearly all locations do you have a case. If you can't find evidence of a FE then it won't disprove the hypothesis but will indicate you're barking up the wrong tree. There's nothing fussy about this; it's just basic science.
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  1858. ​ @Poweruser75  Your thoughts are seriously limited; you seem to be hooked on different = right. All you have come up with is the usual ignorance & incredulity and inability to consider numbers. 1. Zooming into a ship before it reaches the horizon says sweet FA about what happens when it reaches the horizon. I have no idea why FE'ers find that so is difficult to comprehend. We are still waiting on the FE evidence of zooming a partially obscured ship back in to full view or, even better, bringing the fully set sun back into view. If you want to claim it is all perspective then fine, but back it with the explanation for how perspective would make anything disappear from the bottom in contradiction to perspective. 2. Your argument for lunar eclipses is "it just gotta be something else"? The argument against photographic evidence is "it just gotta be CGI"? Why the FE'er conviction that "just gotta be" is an ironclad argument? 3. One of you needs to explain how you determine whether a photograph is CGI, how CGI was achieved before CGI was invented. Simple enough questions but none of you can explain - do you want to try? You all have a similar obsession with NASA as if it was the only or even the first space agency; what make you think it is the one & only source of photographs? 4. You need to use a telescope not a camera and you need to focus it. The "electricity flowing all over it in bright colors of yellow, blue, green ect" is the faint light activating different receptors within each pixel of your camera, not a true rendition of what is there. Galileo built his own telescopes centuries before NASA & television existed; you need to explain how the "bad guys" are affecting his telescope. 5a. Video compression error. 5b. You can see the ISS passing overhead on schedule. Still waiting on FE'ers to come up with a plausible explanation. 5c. That amount of magnification & resolution required for that is possible which is why you keep demanding it. Why can none of you figure that out if you are so enlightened? Just frightened of numbers? 5d. When down is towards the centre of the globe, there is no flying upside down. 5e. Low orbit spy cameras don't have the magnification & resolution necessary to photograph individuals, much less read a sign they're holding. 6. You haven't refuted what she said, just denied it. 7a. Same as 3. 7b. Photograph a 3D object from different angles and different distances using cameras with different wavelength sensitivities and the pictures will look different. Simple spatial and deductive reasoning, not a mystery. 8. If you wish a debate then it would be nice of you to come up with correct information and logical thought rather than ignorance & incredulity. 9. Then why are you so eager to perpetuate FE lies? 10. FE reasoning & logical having gaping holes & errors like ignoring numbers and confounding factors. Why not try fixing your own errors before spitting at other people?
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  1920.  @1FeistyKitty  1a. You're assuming any change must be quick & huge; stars measurably change position and you can check the change in the nearest for yourself with a good telescope. 1b. Smart people comprehend that 500k mph is trivial in the scale of intergalactic distances. 2. And I bet you haven't questioned those videos or even thought to try measuring it for yourself, ie., put a solar filter in a camera and track the sun. 3a. That you can't comprehend time & distances beyond what you personally drive is dumb, not insightful. 3b. So you have no comprehension of the angle of light changing the further you move away from the equator. Again, that is dumb, not insightful. 4. You haven't bothered checking how pendulous vanes work, have you? 5. Selenelion eclipses. 6a. Still waiting on FE'ers to explain how the FE sun is supposed to work. 6b. The moon goes through 1/28th of the phase cycle per day; again, you are expecting change to be huge & quick rather than considering what would be seen. 7. Dubay quotes Rowbotham who made it up on the knowledge that people he was preaching to mid-19th century were highly unlikely to travel outside the country, never mind make it to the southern hemisphere. This is the 21st century with worldwide communication and travel readily available and about 800 million people permanently living in the southern hemisphere. Which do you considering is more likely and why: A: nobody has noticed the star charts are radically wrong B: your guru is telling porkies 8. Telescopes aren't self-focussing. Explain why you think not focussing will give you a clearer picture. 9. FE'ers are crap at experiments. None of you think controls are necessary or that you need to take confounding factors into account. 10a. What defines up & down on a FE? 10b. How does density act as a force and why in a consistent direction? 10c. What don't you understand about attraction being proportional to the mass? How the heck could you NOT understand such a simple concept? 10d. You're assuming nothing has changed in the solar system because you are again assuming any change must be huge and quick. 10e. Tangential velocity, not centripetal force. 10f. Most moons are tidally locked; it's not novel to our moon.
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  1935. "claims of authority should be rejected" If the airline tells you that the plane is safe would you insist on checking it personally? We can't do anything & everything personally so many things we do have to be accepted from someone or something perceived to have the authority to do the checking. Errors will occur because nothing & nobody is perfect but that doesn't automatically mean somebody is deceiving you or that there is a massive fundamental understanding of something. "The medical industry is notorious in pushing out new studies, that fail to be reproduced" One of their responsibilities is expanding knowledge of medicine and you don't do that without studying the subject. No study is going to be comprehensive; you can't look at everybody in the world simultaneously. The smaller the group used the more likely there will be a statistical weakness that leads to inapparent errors. There were accusations about only some studies on any specific subject being released so only the favourable ones were seen; more recently (depends on the country) all such trials have to be registered beforehand and specify the methods & analysis to be used. "some toxic chemical widely used, that is later banned, or at least get labeled as unhealthy, only to be later declared as a health food again" Knowledge increases. Somethings are not initially recognised to be toxic (insufficient dosage or exposure) and it later becomes apparent they are. Occasionally the risk is found to be overblown or specific to a certain subset of people. Since anybody & everybody can flog "health foods" I'd be careful who you point a finger at. "getting FDA granted immunity for liabilities" Vaccines specifically. They pay a premium to the FDA that goes into a compensation scheme for anybody suffering serious side-effects. It was set up by the US government in response to most companies pulling out of manufacturing polio vaccine in the early days; the risk to the public was greatly outweighed by the public benefit but companies didn't want that risk. "There are lots of examples of "scentific community" holding on some ungrounded dogmas, that are overturned only after the old professors eventually retire" Not exactly. There are ideas postulated with minimal supporting evidence. That accumulates with time, by which time the older people have retired.
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  2052. ​ @EdgeOfEntropy17  Scientific theory: a comprehensive explanation of a natural phenomenon that is well-substantiated by extensive experimentation & observation. It is not a guess or hunch; that is the vernacular meaning of theory. Scientific method is an iterative procedure: make initial observations, formulate a hypothesis for the mechanism, use the hypothesis to make a prediction, test the prediction through more observation or experimentation, reject the hypothesis or build upon it. The whole cycle keeps going with data and successful hypotheses accumulating with time, eventually giving rise to theories (scientific, not vernacular) that are accurately descriptive, consistently predictive and have no valid alternatives. Each will be accepted indefinitely until somebody comes up with data that isn't explained or predicted by the theory (and, no, "I don;'t see how..." is not data). Something is not lightly accepted as a scientific theory; the evidence in favour needs to be overwhelming. "you can test and retest electromagnetism and get the same results" Because the theory is accurately predictive. I brought up televisions because you were saying scientific research in 1859, 1909 and 2022 were contemporary; you had no grasp of what changes in science with time. Televisions are mundane to you; you have seen the improvements in them in the course of your life time and would not (I hope) perceive a 425 line, black & white, 8" CRT screen as identical to a modern television. Scientific theory is not something totally divorced from your world, just not obviously apparent; every appliance around you is dependent on scientific theory for their for their design & function, theories that have been built up for centuries by scientific research. That you don't know and don't need to know how combustion theory works for your car to run does not mean it doesn't involve combustion theory. "at the end of the day, it is all guesswork" Like hell it is. Ignorance is not knowledge; that you don't know how something works does not mean that you know it doesn't work. A subject being largely a mystery to you does not imbue you with wondrous insight. You thought carbon dating was the only form of radiometric dating and it don't occur to ask why a technique was being used for determining millions of years if it was limited to thousands. Televisions are mundane for you; radiometric dating is mundane for others. The same is true for other branches of sciences. Bear that in mind. "we can never EVER watch as an ape...." That's your limited thinking; you are not limited to what you personally can see. You haven't seen the Creator or seen the Creator do anything or able to produce any evidence of the Creator's existence other than assumption but you are quite happy with your lack of reasoning. That is double standards, not profound insight. There is abundant evidence for evolution; that you are unaware of it and wish to remain unaware of it does not undermine it. "I can show you how humans share DNA with snails and bananas" Numbers confuse you? Why doesn't that surprise me. When all life comes for the same primordial cells then of course you would expect some similar sequences between different kingdoms. That does not magically preclude observation on what proportion similarity there is between different species or tracking how additions, deletions & substitutions have accumulated with evolution. Camelid species (camels & llamas) are possess an extra antibody, the result of a partial duplication of the IgG gene in their (single) ancestral species. You can determine the order in which the intermediate species formed and branched off (with time estimates) from looking at the accumulated changes in that gene. That somewhere in the genome some sequence has resemblance to that found in a banana does not change that. "You take the words of men you perceive to be much smarter than you and I" Smarter than you; I am one of the men you're criticising. If you wish to criticise science then take the trouble to learn it first; don't just wave a Bible and complain we're upsetting your worldview.
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  2224. ​ @clintonhart2652  I know where it comes from and what it can be used for; I'm curious if you know or you are just assuming that it will accurately calculate curvature and how far you can see. Evidently you are just quoting it as another FE canard. Lake Baikal is crescent shaped and surrounded by sheer mountains; nobody can see the length of it. (You did say "do the research", remember?) Salt Flats lack variation in elevation, not in curvature. Conflating elevation & curvature is another FE canard, essentially because your minds can't think beyond a flat baseline as a starting point. That you can see the ground that is close to you at the Salt Flats and can see the mountains at the edge of the Flats does not mean you can see all the Flats between you & the mountains. We are discussing a 25,000 mile circumference, not the 25-250 miles that you are envisaging; you will be able to see ground for far further than you think on a 25,000 mile circumference sphere. Motion of the sun, horizons, two celestial poles, angle to Polaris matching latitude (below the horizon when in the southern hemisphere), constellations changing with latitude; all indicative of a globe, all testable by any Tom, Dick or Harry, all incompatible with a FE. Still waiting on any FE'er to explain how they could be compatible with a FE (you refused to answer, remember?). If I take a picture of a basketball, does the basketball appearing round mean I must be using a fisheye lens? Does the existence of NASA preclude the existence of other space agencies? Does the ability to fake a photo mean all photos are fake? What's your technique for identifying fake photos?
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  2278. 1a. How is anybody restricted from measuring distances over sea? Every sextant came with a government agent attached? 1b. Cook's journey started from Britain and meandered around the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans; it was not sailing around Antarctica. 1c. How many people need to cross the poles to satisfy you people can cross the poles? 1d. Planes the size of commercial jets have an altitude limit because they need the air pressure to get the lift; all planes have an operational ceiling. 2a. Umpteen people have made videos of 24th Antarctic sun and when given the link to such a video no FE'er has ever told where they saw editting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQlr366eels 2b . How many people need to go to Antarctica to satisfy you people can go to Antarctica? Have you ever tried?> Do you know anybody who has tried? 2c. Where does the Antarctic Treaty ban people from going? 2d. Where has scientific research in Antarctica been banned? 3. The calendars made predictions based on periodicity. Being aware of periodicity does not magically make you aware of the cause of the periodicity. 4. As we have to repeatedly point, when calculating hw far you should be able to see it is necessary to include all the appropriate factors like elevation & atmospheric refraction. Nobody has seen "too far" yet when predictions are correctly calculated. Having to explain basic maths gets tedious. 5a. I realise your brain will fuse trying to handle the complexity but it is possible for a given effect to have more than one cause. A boat can be too far away to be seen with the naked eye long before it reaches the horizon; no amoutn of zooming brings one back into view once it has gone over. 5b. Be the first - produce a video of someone zooming the sun back into view once it has set.
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  2383. ​ @JonALewis  "you could never, with any degree of accuracy, predict a location" Like most FE'ers you have little concept of scale. The stars are so distant their positions are not going to change sufficiently enough to confuse a sextant. You do need date & time of the reading to cater for rotation & orbit. "you need only look at modern newspaper" Prove it. "foucalt pendulums require motorization" They don't. Some of the display ones use a ring electromagnet to keep them swinging but a ring confers no direction. "If the Earth were rotating then Airy's failure would have been a success" Airy used the Earth's rotation to look for evidence of luminiferous aether. Difficult as it is for some people to grasp, failing to find evidence of aether does not prove its existence. Sea-level is a measure of elevation and level does not mean flat. Water rests at gravitational equipotential which on a globe means a layer with even distance from the Earth's centre of gravity. "How come Navy ships can Target a hundred+ miles away with missiles and radar" Planes and satellites. That ships are equipped with cameras & radar does not magically preclude anything else from possessing them. "How can ships captain's see lighthouses from dozens of miles at sea?" Lighthouses are towers or built at higher elevation to ensure they can be seen from that distance. For the same reason, ship's bridges are elevated and the old sailing ships had a crow's nest. "Why do we see so far if we are actually on a globe?" Because how far you can see is determined by curvature, elevation and atmospheric refraction, not by curvature alone. "If the Earth is 70% water" Once again, it is 70% covered by water, not 70% water.
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  2470. I've already explained to you how it was done using that procedure. What do you think is wrong with it other than you personally can't do it? Try a heliometer and some travel, measure the angle to the sun at noon on a set date each year from distant locations and calculate the distance to it. It's too crude to calculate an exact distance but it will be obvious it isn't a few hundred or thousand miles away, which is what you are actually asking for. "There are zero tests that the common lay person can perform" There is no requirement for each & every person on Earth to make an observation before any one observation can be accepted as valid. If you think there is then explain why. "We can all take a zoom lens camera and discover the absence of the curve" How far you can see is determined by curvature, elevation & refraction. All factors have to be accounted for in calculations. You can't ignore factors and expect to be using the right equation. You can't ignore elevation & refraction and expect to get an accurate prediction of where the horizon is. "I'm only interested in curvature" is not going to magically nullify the effects of elevation & refraction. Making a prediction requires that you use all relevant factors. Devising an experiment means you need to take into account all factors. You can't make testable predictions by ignoring key factors. If you want to test how gar you cases then you need to make accurate calculations for your predictions. Elevation & refraction have to be included - is that clear? Do I need to say it again and in how many different ways?
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  2556. ​ @robertfish4734  You're making the claims; the onus is on you to produce evidence, not me. " there is no need in our actual flat stationary world" The curvature is fully mapped; still waiting on the FE'er stop deliver the evidence that it is flat. The rotation detectable; still waiting on the FE'er explanation. Stellar "IF THERE IS NO SURROUNDING VACUUM there is an atmosphere like liquid the pressure at the top is less than the bottom. Try this in an aquarium and a pressure gauge. " You were quoting Boyles Law to say the pressure would be equal throughout the container. Why would the pressure be less at the top? Are you trying to say it's the weight of the gas? Weight depends on the existence of gravity which you deny so what is your explanation for mass having weight? If you are going to argue that mass=weight then explain how a constant mass can have a variable weight. If you are going to argue it is the container pushing it down then explain how. If you're going to argue it's electrostatic attraction pulling it down they you need to explain how that works regardless of the charge. If you want to argue it density makes it then you need to explain how density can act as a force. "If there IS A SURROUNDING VACUUM, there is no atmosphere to stack" Unless of course there is a force than can counter the expansion of the gas, e.g., gravity. "t naturally falls because it is more dense than the air. ' How does a difference in density make something move and why in a consistent direction? You all profess to understand so surely you can explain? Inverting the bucket is not going to impart the necessary kinetic energy and me filling the bucket only creates potential energy of there is a force pulling downwards to begin with. "the scale the heliocentric model uses It is unimaginable' What's unimaginable about it? "Stellar parallax estimates are foolish with all the stuff that must line up" Too many details for you to comprehend? "If we are traveling at the incredible speeds" All argument from incredulity. Demonstrate why you think objects can't travel that fast or why those distances can't exist. "Polaris has never moved for thousands of years" Unlikely since Thuban was the pole star 1000 years ago. You do realise the shift in star positions requires regular updates of the star maps? That with a good telescope you can measure the motion of some of the stars for yourself? "all the constellations also remain the same over thousands of years" Hw much should you think the stars should move around given the distances to them and the fact that the galaxy's rotation mans they are moving in the same general direction as the sun? You've presumably done the calculations and can show us. "The 66.6 degree earth slant" 23.4 degrees. "60 degree solar system slant should also play in the weeble wobble awareness of Polaris" Why the angle of the solar system to the galactic plane determine the wobble on the Earth's axis? "The fact that there is no change " There is measurable change hence the updated star charts. Polaris is measurably drifting away from the pole position. You do realise that eyeballing is not an accurate form of of measurement? "are freaking fixed" Yet measurably change.... "Visual propagation of light following the inverse square law also makes it impossible to see stars because they would exceed any possible detection if they are more than a couple of light months" Let's see your calculations. "physics departments don't bother because it is mostly impossible to replicate" Replicating it isn't a problem but it is time-consuming and there are more productive experiments than demonstrating the existence of gravity for the zillionth time. "That is why I made the comment about adult conversation" I'm not getting any answers from you beyond "just does" assertions. You just keeping waffling about electrostatic attraction with no explanation why objects would be charged or why the force would always be attractive or why the attraction remains constant regardless of the charge intensity. You can set up an experiment in a vacuum chamber with a ball suspended over a platform (both of which could be charged negatively, positively or neutral) and observe the ball falling at the same acceleration regardless of the different charges and their intensity. You need to explain how it works, not just keep saying it does. ."the tables are ignoring gravity which was my main point" Why would gravity be included on the periodic table when it does not define any of the properties of the elements? Its absence fron the periodic table is not significant. "with 5.5 density" You need to use units. ""Atoms with a lower atomic mass have a greater density than the atom with the higher atomic weight because the atoms are tightly packed together." A nice rule of thumb but not consistent. The atoms would be capable of packing closer together; it does not mean at a set temperature they would be denser than heavier elements and the atomic mass defines an elements density. "I mentioned anti-gravity using electricity like" If there is no gravity then there is no anti-gravity; you mean levitation. "A demonstration of Earnshaw’s theorem" Great; you just need to explain why everything falls in a vacuum chamber regardless of charge. "Electricity is the weak force that gravity was amped up to describe" Why do objects fall inside a Faraday cage?
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  2567. ​ @robertfish4734  Explain how you conclude that the length of your air passage is the same distance as the that from ground to space (not a minor point). I just pointed out to you that gravity has to counter the drop in pressure over a set distance, that your air passage is short and that your inhalation produces a steeper drop in pressure over distance than the slow decline in pressure from ground to space. "'Boyle's law always works and never fails, ever, every time these conditions occur." Unless the factors change, e.g., a force present and there is not container. The reason we have a higher pressure at sea level and a low pressure at higher levels happens exactly because we have an atmosphere" You mean the Law of Just Does? That nothing actually causes it, that's just how it is? You are also saying that Boyles Law would cause an even distribution of pressure so why the exception for atmosphere (not a minor point)? "Water weighs .578 ounces per square inch" How do you think water (mass) has weight when you claim there is no gravity to give it weight (not a minor point)? Where does this weight come from? We need to as certain this before we continue. "if you can prove Boyle's law to be in anyway inconsistent," Boyles Law is specific to the behaviour of an ideal gas in an ideal container. An atmosphere has neither container nor ideal conditions; you still haven't provided any evidence of your dome (not a minor point) nor explained what forces are acting on the gas and how (not a minor point). If you thikn there isn't another factor involved then you need to explain how Boyles Law leads to a pressure gradient in your container (not a minor point), an explanation that is more convincing that the Law of Just Does. You're the one making the claims; you need to provide the evidence. Just gotta be and just does are not evidence. Produce your evidence of the dome, of electrostatic attraction of uncharged matter, that density acts as a force, how you get a pressure gradient in a container in contradiction of Boyle's Law etc You provide the evidence of a 250mph network of crosswinds (not a minor point) and then I'll continue watching the videos. "They just gotta exist" is not evidence.
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  2855.  @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "reducing would prevent the light from reaching the observer " Only if the object was below the horizon (geometric hidden drop); that you can see the lights tells you it isn't reduced to zero. "It doesn't need to be eliminated, reduction is enough" Not in science; all factors have to be accounted for, not arbitrarily dismissed because they are inconvenient. "Lensing is from the water vapor." Which would lead to dispersion, not lensing. Try again. "Planarity tests can't be done over land, because land can have contour and gradual slope" You're still confusing curvature with elevation. You can't start with an arbitrary horizontal line to test a model when such a line does not exist in the model. Is that clear? You need to find either an area of land in which there is no variation in elevation, then look for curvature, or use elevated targets that have equal elevation. "say refraction is enough to allow us to see lights? " I said that if all the lights are visible then that would indicate there is sufficient refraction & elevation for them to be seen over the curvature. You're the one claiming the refraction is zero; you need to demonstrate that, not arbitrarily dismiss it. "their refraction & their elevation" But not for 1ft above water, where it becomes far greater, and the figure you quoted was for geometric drop, showing you ignored refraction & elevation in your calculations. "Observer height is about 7 inches" You said 12" earlier. "The lights are each 12 inches" Not a believable figure for what you are claiming, which is why the onus is on you to produce the evidence, not simply say you did it. "we can calculate that one light at 2 miles alone would be enough to hide the light" I'm getting tired of saying this but you still need to factor in elevation & refraction whether you like it or not. Quoting geometric drop is not a magic number when it is not the only factor involved. "Why do boats disappearing over curve happen at 3 miles get trotted out as proof of the globes curve" It isn't; FE'ers keep claiming that because it is because you think you can get away with ignoring refraction & elevation. "but we see a shorter light, from further away, looking flat" Because of elevation & refraction. "those boats can be brought back to view," Only the ones that have yet to reach the horizon. We are still waiting on FE'ers to produce videos of a "half-sunk" ship being brought back fully into view(as opposed to ones that have simply past beyond the range of your visual acuity) or, better, still, zooming the set sun back into view. "bottom up disappearance has been demonstrated on a flat surface Only where the surface is cambered, there is a drop between camera & object or the camera has been set below the surface. Unlike you we stop and think when watching such videos.
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  2872.  @incorrect2968  "100% of that velocity is turned into the structural damage of my toe" Velocity is simply a measure of metres per second; it isn't going to damage anything. The structural damage requires force. Force arises from the deceleration of the block as it makes contact with your toe. That is basic physics. "I got this quote: "It depends on the drag coefficient of the body." And the meaning and significance of drag coefficient passed you by. Again, this is basic physics. "Answer: Not sure that's the case" It takes force to pulverise the block. Force arises from the deceleration of the block as it hits the ground. With a high enough velocity there will be enough force. "My intuition could be wrong" Intuition is unreliable; that is why you need to actually calculate the forces, not intuit them. "Answer: My friend, this line of argument should alarm you of your own biase." It's basic physics. "Explosives where used in all three or none depending on the view) started pulverizing almost emediatly" The generation of dust does not mean everything has been pulverised or powderised; that is your erroneous assumption. "Explosives where used in all three" Mysteriously working silently. "There are several videos displaying a significant earthquake shortly before the collapse" Which mysteriously were not picked up by any seismic monitors. The picture shows a sheared beam. That simply requires sufficient force, not sabotage. The buildings weren't constructed like a bird cage. "the buildings where designed to withstand fires" etc You're assuming that because the structure was designed to handle excess force or a fire that it would be able to handle anything. As I have said a number of times, you need actually deal with the numbers, not make intuitive generalisations.
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  2926. ​ @scoutwithoutclout  Blue Marble 2002 is a composite of low orbit shots; that is the origin of the claim that all photos are composites. At the time all the digital cameras in orbit were low orbit and thus could only photograph a limited are at a time; the only way to obtain a full digital shot would be through stitching the images together. Since then we have placed cameras in high orbit, capable of snapping whole or near whole hemisphere shots. Himarari-8 & Elektro-L are in geostationary orbit, EPIC is in L1 position and they collectively take several shots per hour, all immediately downloadable. They are composites only in the sense that black & white cameras are used (single detector per pixel means a higher resolution is possible) and take a series of shots through multiple wavelength filters; the three or four visible spectrum shots are overlaid to give a full-colour image. They are not composites in the sense that Blue Marble 2002 is. "there are some interesting questions that I found to be understandable grounds for skepticism" You need to specify which and why you think so. It gets irritating with FE'ers because the answers has been given repeatedly, they have been given the evidence repeatedly, they have their misconceptions explained repeatedly. The tone in this video is aimed at the hard knocks who choose to ignore what they don't want to hear and insist they can explain everything but never do. This is not about differing opinions on a matter; this is verifiable fact that they are choosing to deny. Don't confuse or conflate the two. "they provided video evidence of modern high-def high-zoom cameras that bring the ship back into perspective (when technically it should have been out of our field of vision)." Their assumption is that there is only one reason why you wouldn't be able to see something when in actuality it can be either the limit of visual acuity, physical blocking of the line of sight or both; you aren't limited to only one potential cause. By miscalculating the distance to the horizon (they typically use a simplified equation that ignores the effect of observer elevation increasing the distance to the horizon) they can zoom in on a vessel that has yet to reach the horizon, find it is the limit of visual acuity that has put that vessel out of sight at that moment and claim they have disproved the horizon that in actuality is still some distance off. None of them have successfully zoomed a "half-sunk" ship back into view or brought back the set sun; those would be a test of whether the horizon was real or not since the object has definitely encountered the horizon. On one recent thread it was explained to him 4 or 5 times that he was using the wrong maths and why it was the wrong maths but he continued to insist it was the right maths; that is why some get treated condescendingly.
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  3255. ​ @OnlyLivingOnPurpose  The Earth rotates on its axis once per day. The Earth orbits the sun once per year. The Earth's orbit is elliptical rather than a perfect circle but the deviation is from a perfect circle is minimal; the deviation is so small it isn't important for this discussion. Distance from the sun to Earth is approximately 8 light minutes. Distance from Earth to Polaris is approximately 430 light years or approximately 22.6 million light minutes. Simple trigonometry enables you to calculate the difference in viewing angle for Polaris between Earth & sun: tan(Angle) = 8^2 / 22,600,000^2 = 0.125*10^-12 Angle = atan(0.125*10^-12) = 7*10^-12 degrees. The angle across the orbit is twice that so essentially 14 trillionths of a degree. 14 trilllionths of a degree is too small to be observable. The Earth orbits the sun once per year. The sun orbits the centre of the galaxy every 250 million years. All stars in the galaxy orbit the centre, essentially meaning the galaxy rotates, with all stars moving in the same direction at similar speeds. The Earth moves with the sun. The galaxies move but given the size of the universe and the speed at which the galaxies move they are essentially motionless in this context. That there is a vacuum between celestial objects does not preclude the existence of solid objects between them, eg, comets. The same physical laws apply equally everywhere. The strength of gravity depends on the size & proximity of mass, but the law of gravity does not alter. You need to grasp the scale of space and the speeds at which different objects travel.
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  3367.  @bmanmcfly  Nobody ever produces this evidence of Nasa fakery, just keeps saying that it exists and quoting what is readily explainable. It's akin to the Real Evidence that FEers never produce but want debunked. The Eratosthenes experiment would work on a FE with multiple points if the sun was in multiple locations simultaneously. Same incidentally for the angle to Polaris on a FE. Newton noted the proportionality of mass & distance in the attraction and described the equation of F proportional to m1.m2/d^2. An approach to a unified theory inserted G later (gravitational constant, not gravity in case you're confusing the two) but the equation remained essentially the same from Newton's time. The maths was used to predict Neptune's existence. That magnetism also has an inverse square law does not imply that it & gravity are the same thing; the two have a different mechanism and magnetism has a selective effect and exhibits repulsion. Magnetic repulsion is weaker at very short distances, apparently due to the disruption in the molecular alignment caused by the repulsion. Beyond a very short distance attraction=repulsion. I did say that relativity doesn't work at the quantum level. I did say that relativity deviates at the galactic level. Relativity works just fine in the intervening period, a period that covers almost all of what we observe. (Newtonian physics is still routinely used for most calculations because that covers practically everything we observe in every day life.) That something doesn't work at extremes does not mean that it doesn't work in between. Dark matter & dark energy are hypotheses, not fixes. Science works by forming hypotheses and testing them. Hypotheses are not evidence that science doesn't work; they are part of the process. Revision of relativity is an active are of research. Answers aren't instant (it would be nice if they were). As Jim says, FEers (and science deniers generally) raise these points repeatedly as if they were revelatory, it gets explained to them every bloody time and somebody else still pops making the same "revelatory" claims. There's nothing novel or unthought of in your comments.
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  3615. "NASA has said in an article from 1988 about aerospace and aircrafts mentioning twice the earth is flat and stationary." Have you considered reading the whole sentence in those documents? They are quite explicit in stating that keeping maths to the basic aerodynamics and ignoring ignoring complicatory factors like flexibility in an airframe, a planes weight changing as it uses fuel, no weather and no compensation for curvature. "water proves a flat earth" Only if you insist level and flat are synonymous. Open a good dictionary and look at the multiple meanings of the word level. "airplanes prove the flat Earth" By flying routes that would be impossible on a F,E e.g., direct flights from Sydney to Santiago? "it was being taught in the USA school system in early 1900's" No, it was not. "We are Geocentric and we are the center" Evidence? "Just about every ancient culture also thought the earth was flat" They also thought lightning were gods hurling thunderbolts, trepanning was miracle cure, blood sacrifices were productive and metal couldn't float. How far do you want to take this? "The sphere is complete nonsense" WGS84. "we arent flying through space" Stellar parallax indicates otherwise. "Using logic and reasoning will show you the truth" Ignoring evidence you don't want to hear is not logical and relying on "just gotta be" arguments is not reasonable. "The technology of infrared lens and so on have outgrew their lies" The results support a globe. Garbled FE'er interpretations that ignore key factors and utilise incorrect maths don't change that. "the more I looked into it the more I realized we've been lied too folks" I just pointed out a long string of lies that FE'ers feed you.
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  3656. ​ @opxchaos5757  Fg is proportional to the product of the two masses e.g. Earth and object. Birds & oceans do not have similar masses; the gravitational force between them and Earth is proportional to their masses. If it was a constant value then everything would have the same weight, a point that Dubay skips over. Earth's gravity is near constant on the surface and is a persistent force. Neither persistent nor constant mean irresistible, another point that Dubay skips over. More than one force can act simultaneously, yet another point that Dubay skips over. Birds use their wings to generate life and, no, gravity does not switch off when they fly; the lift from the wings exceeds the gravitational attraction between Earth & bird. Since the bird is not attempting to lift an ocean, the oceans mass has bugger all to do with the bird's flight. Oceans do not possess wings; they can't generate lift to counter gravity which is why they can't fly. When you jump, the muscles in your legs provide momentary thrust upwards. If it's greater than the gravitational attraction then you rise off the ground. Gravity does not stop pulling you down which is why there is a rapid reversal of direction amd you land again. If there was no gravity then your momentum would not be countered by anything and you would keep rising. Have you never wondered how people determined that the Earth was a glove long before such technology became available? Was NASA beaming back in time to vast network of temporal agents? Motion of the sun, angle to Polaris, horizons and two celestial poles all tell you that the Earth is a globe. The FE'er gurus skip key factors and employ the wrong maths; as long as they don't say they are doing that then plenty of gullible people are prepared to think it is being done correctly. You presumably are among those who believe that visual acuity and horizon are the same simply because your the guru told you so; an object can pass beyond your visual acuity long before it reaches the correctly predicted horizon and zooming an object back into view before it reaches the horizon tells you sweet FA about the horizon. I keep asking FE'ers for a video os somebody zooming a set sun back into view; none of you seem to think it relevant that nobody has managed it.
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  3782. ​ @brentwebster3751  I asked questions; I didn't present any arguments to rebut. Try replying without including Youtube links or similar. "How they fooled everyone using deceptive calculations" No hits. "math can be made to say anything you want it to" It can't if you know what you are doing. When you throw a ball, it continues moving when it breaks contact with your hand; that is conservation of momentum. Explain what you think keeps the ball moving if conservation of momentum doesn't exist. "Your first 2 can be dismissed simply using the red bull jump" You dismiss conservation of momentum and gravity by giving an example of both? "people right up till and into the 20th century believed and were taught that the earth was flat" Evidence? FE'ers keep claiming that so what is your evidence? The Ptolemaic system (c. 100AD) was based on a central spherical Earth and was the accepted model until the shift to the heliocentric model. "The proof for a flat earth is in the emergence landings with more than 20 in the past few years proving it." They demonstrate that FE'er can't comprehend what a straight route on a globe looks like when projected onto a flat surface, that such projection causes distortion. Tesla was referring specifically to theoretical physics, not science generally, and was speaking as engineer who looked for practical applications of physics. He did not believe in a FE incidentally. "Einsteins theory of relativity has been debunked over and over" A claim that would have some weight if any of you could actually back it. "there are records of teachers being persecuted for teaching the heliocentric model in the 1920s" Evidence? "Flat Earth Sun Moon and Zodiac Clock App" Still waiting on any explanation from a FE'er for how the sun maintains a constant angular diameter & velocity and rises & sets when the FE predicts they vary through the course of the day and the sun doesn't come within 20 degrees of the horizon.
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  3786. ​ @brentwebster3751  Concerning the Litmus Test Firstly, the geocentric system is based on a spherical Earth, not a flat one. The transition from geocentric to heliocentric model was not a transition from flat to sphere. The assumption of the Earth being flat was displaced by the observation based deductions by the ancient Greeks around 500BC and the Ptolemaic model (c. 100AD) was the accepted model of the universe until the shift to heliocentric system. Geocentric & FE are not synonymous. He provides no explanation for how the sun observably retains a constant angular diameter & velocity through the course of the day; no explanation how it could approach the horizon while not approaching within 20 degrees of it (wholly inadequate distance for perspective to have that apparent effect); no explanation how the sun would only illuminate a select misshapen area of a FE; no explanation for how the moon can be a light source or how it can exhibit shadows on its features; no explanation for a monopolar magnetic field; he provides nothing to back the claim that the Antarctic Treaty forbids travel to Antarctica; no explanation for why gravity is unnecessary (a statement that there is a universal up & down is not an explanation); no explanation for how stars are believed to be close. Stating that FE'ers believe something to be true is not an explanation for how it could work, much less evidence that it is so. Why do you think that I should be convinced by explanations that he can't and indeed none of you can produce? Would you like me to continue pointing out his shortfalls?
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  3791. ​ @brentwebster3751  Serah Lewin's article on Space website: "those precise eclipse shapes only made sense if he scaled up the sun's radius by a few hundred kilometers" Daisy Dunne's article in Daily Mail (largely copied from the above): "only if he scaled by the sun's radius by a few hundred kilometres" Neither articles says anything of 250 times larger or further away, just a modest increase in measurement of the radius. "how far the atmosphere goes" The minute traces of hydrogen & helium as distant as the moon were found to be a few particles higher per volume; there's no breathable atmosphere out there. "how rockets work in space" The same way they have always worked: Third Law of Motion. Only ignormi have ever claimed that you need at atmosphere to push off. "the shape of the earth from ball to oblate spheriod" That you hadn't heard of the <0.1% oblation does not make it new or immense. "pear shaped" A deviation even smaller than the oblation. How high you need to be to see a curved horizon depends on how wide an angle of view you have. An airplane cockpit can have nearly 180 degrees, a camera <50 degrees. Kaku's actual quote: "In cosmology, the cosmological constant problem or vacuum catastrophe is the disagreement between the observed values of vacuum energy density (the small value of the cosmological constant) and theoretical large value of zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory. Depending on the Planck energy cutoff and other factors, the discrepancy is as high as 120 orders of magnitude, a state of affairs described by physicists as "the largest discrepancy between theory and experiment in all of science" and "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics." "Michio Kaku "i don't know anyone who even uses the scientific method."" An incomplete and out of context quote that changes the meaning of what he said. He was referring specifically to string theory, which is his field, that is totally mathematically based. "Which they can't even measure [lightyears] correctly" Example? With regards to Eratosthenes, since the Earth was already known to be spherical he only used two locations to estimate the size of Earth. Take in isolation, two locations would not distinguish between sphere and flat earth; at least three locations are required, something which has been done repeatedly with the same results - the Earth is a sphere. You realise that there is no obligation to post videos on Youtube? Since Google bought YT you need a YT account to pass comments and that account comes with a channel whether you wish to use it or not.
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  3793. ​ @brentwebster3751  "nothing i have posted has been a lie" That you believe it does not make it true nor mean the person who told you wasn't lying. The P900 does not have infinite powers. Trying to film a planet is beyond its operating range in terms of required magnification & light intensity. Your camera's limitations are why the images look different to those from telescope-mounted cameras. You realise that anybody can use a telescope? That people have been looking at the surface feature son Mars for centuries? The parachute was deployed after Perseverance had been slowed, not before. "A star on orions belt stays on the equator all 365 days of the year" None of them do. Einstein was specifically referring to relativity and the effect on light hence his explicit use of "optical" in his statement. He was not saying it was impossble to demonstrate motion. The Michaelson-Morley experiment was using the known motion of the Earth to look for evidence of the entirely hypothetical luminiferous aether. They found no evidence of aether. Difficult as it is for some people to comprehend, no evidence does not equal proof. Only if aether existed would the absence of motion through it be evidence that Earth was stationary. They had calendars back then. 1 year is long enough to travel 500 stadia. It is also quite possible for there to be more than observer but I know FE'ers cant comprehend the notion. As the sun moves the length of the shadow would change; it would be shortest at noon when the sun would be highest so a series of measurements arond that time would determine the shortest length. The moonlight you're reading by is reflected from the full facing surface of the moon, not just the tiny area the Apollo craft landed on. The visors in the spacesuits were heavily shaded. Nobody taking correct measurements and using the correct maths has found any sign of missing curvature. "All amature Ballon footage of 100,000 feet or more shows a flat eart" Anything that actually reaches that altitude would see a curve though you would need to apply a ruler to the image for it to be apparent to the eye. People need to provide evidence the balloon was indeed that high and that the shot was taken at that altitude; a shot with the altimeter reading 60,000ft is not a shot taken at 100,000ft even if the balloon subsequently reached there. The Red Bull jump was from 120,000ft and neither camera was suitable for determining curvature of the horizon. Scale, a really difficult concept for FE'ers. The stars are very, very distant and moving in the same general direction of the sun; it would take 10,000's of years for changes in position to be readily apparent to the eye, not a few days. As it is star charts still need adjusting periodically for the tiny changes that are measurable. What a mystery. Just why would a pioneer in space exploration have a quote about stars on his grave? What possible connection could there be? And yet the tide prediction is infallibly accurate.... Multiple forces can act simultaneously, another concept FE'ers have great difficulty grasping. Everything you've posted is wrong and reliant on personal ignorance & incredulity. Do you not think to actually check anything before regurgitating it?
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  3794.  @brentwebster3751  By approaching the Mars atmosphere at an oblique angle; even an atmosphere like Mars would produce drag and slow the craft. That you don’t understand that is not some revelation that physics is wrong, just ignorance on your part. I realise FE’ers have a serious problem acknowledging the existence of telescopes except when looking at ships but if you want accurate pictures of planets you require that level of magnification. The P900 can zoom a long way but it is insufficient to take accurate pictures of planets. People have been using telescopes to look at planets for centuries and later using mounted cameras to capture pictures decades before NASA came into existence. Some pillocks waving an inadequate camera and wailing “this is what it really looks like” is not going to change what any Tom, Dick or Harry can see for themselves through a telescope. Your comment on Tyson displays the usual FE incapability to understand scale. Nowhere on the globe is there 1atm pressure adjacent to a vacuum. I realise FE’ers also have serious problems comprehending the concept of measurement but it is straight forward for any Tom, Dick or Harry to measure the drop in pressure while climbing a decent size mountain. Pressure decreases with increasing altitude, something you can demonstrate for yourself if you can tear yourself from ignorance-promoting websites. Once again, the astronauts stood on a very very very limited area of the moon; they would not be illuminated by a full lunar hemisphere reflection any more than you are being fried by a full hemisphere sunlight illuminating only you. You’re waving a P900 around but have no concept of exposure time? Do any of you have a brain to employ?
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  3811.  @EdenCultures  As I understand it there are just two vaccines that make use of fetal cells in generating antigens. Neither is the HepB vaccine. Your argument is that the serial purification processes fails to filter out all the DNA from ruptured cells, that the DNA is injected into the bloodstream, manages to make it out of the bloodstream, manages to disperse through the body, reaching the stem cells that give rise to ova & sperm, manages to penetrate the cell, manages embed itself in the genome without initiating self-destruct, coincidentally be able express a viable mRNA (that would create a human protein that you already possess) and this somehow produces a point mutation in a gene that would then be heritable by offspring who would possess it in all their cells. Or have I misunderstood and you're arguing that contaminating DNA manages to transfect stem cells throughout your body and inducing a common point mutation in all? I'm sorry to hear that you are hypersensitive to vaccinations. However, simply because you are is not a case for vaccines not being used on anybody; few people have such hypersensitivity. Assuming there was fetal DNA contamination in the vaccine shot you received, it would not lead to you or your kids having a point mutation in one or all body cells. "they are free of chronic illness, have fully functioning immune systems" One would hope they would be healthy since that applies to the great majority of people. How does that tie into not having been vaccinated?
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  3816. ​ @natemontgomery5740  Nate, you need to actually check what conpiricay videos tell you before repeating them. The pictures taken do not indicate the Earth is the centre of reality; people noted some similarities that resembled a regular structure. If it supposed to be a proof of the divine then God has very wobbly handiwork. Einstein said that you can't measure the motion of the Earth using light, not that there was no motion. He was referring to the distortion caused by relativity, not making a statement about the Earth's motion. Aether was never more than a hypothetical idea; for a while it was assumed that light needed a medium to travel through, something akin to sound waves needing matter. The known movement of the Earth was used in several experiments to try to detect the entirely hypothetical aether. Failing to find any evidence of aether did not prove aether's existence. The people who think crepuscular rays prove a local sun have no concpet of scale or trignometry. The very people who keep prattling about train tracks & perspective are convinced the same effect means the light rays do meet up. Assuming that they did meet up then trignometry indicates the FE sun to be at multiple heights simultaneously, an absurdity that totally the innumerate FE'ers. The ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a sphere from horizons, the motion of the sun, lunar eclipses and the angle to Polaris changing with latitude (still waiting on the FE explanations). Some 200 years later Eratosthenes measured the curvature. It seems impossible for innumerate FE'ers to comprehend but you can actually recreate his experiment with more than two sticks, a technique that invalidates FE'e claims that his experiment wouldn't work. The distance to Venus was measured with a radio signal (essentially radar) not by assuming the size of Venus. The gravitational attraction of Earth & Venus can also be calculated; they are of similar size. "Pure Nonsense and pseudoscience" Because you are repeating the garbled versions, not what was actually said & done.
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  3921.  @vanlookenroel7211  "you see all continents!" Then produce one such picture. "A weather satellite makes close ups from an area" Himawari-8 takes shots every 10 min, each covering about 90% of a hemisphere, containing only Asia & Australasia. "do you think every country has his own geostationary satelite" There's currently 402 satellites in geostationary orbit. "with the same orbit time as the earths rotation" Why do you think satellites in geostationary orbits wouldn't have an orbital time equal to the sidereal day? "That' s why you see them passing by sometimes!" Why do you think you would be able to see a 2 metre long object 36,000 km away? Why do FE'ers who prattle on about perspective think a far away object would appear large? "you are not capable to answer mine because you can't read! " You didn't ask any questions. "i.On a Fe where stars are ... why isn't it?" Try writing that in coherent English. "Why would the stars change size....distant. distance doesn't matter the movement makes the change!" If something moves away or towards you then there is an apparent change in size - that is perspective. When the object is distant there is less apparent change - that is perspective. When the object is moving in the same general direction as you then the distance doesn't vary significantly and there is little or no apparent change in size - that is perspective. You're claiming (with no evidence) that the stars are static & near and asking why you don't see change. "Is this a new and official trheory from the scientists are did you made that up by yourself?" It's the bloody obvious and something that has been apparent to man since he first looked up. Why are the people who think observation is everything so incapable of actually observing? All you have to do is spend the night outside.
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  3988. ​ @GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz  "are you a climate activist or a climatologist?" The vast majority of people don't bang a drum either way. "I only used a couple of parameters like CO2 because it seldom does any good to be detailed with people who have already drank the cool-aid" You were misrepresenting the complexity of the system to try to convince people; that is presenting a straw man argument. "And as I said, I mistakenly said Tony was a meteorologist" Which I noted. I was taking issue you with claiming a BSc and some past experience makes one person a geologist while a PhD and decades of ongoing experience didn't. I would like to know what you think qualifies someone as a geologist. Debate is like chess; it depends on the prowess of the player, not the pieces held. It is not a way of proving anything. Debating Societies have debating contests; it's a sport. Reuters put together a list of the top 1000 climatologists; neither Kutney nor Gore appear on that list. You're confusing activists with climatologists. "it makes most rational people [ ] realize just how phony the claim is, . . .even if it isn't. " ? "Climate change activists skew the data to match their models" And I don't give damn what the activists say; what do the climatologists say? "Statistical analysis is the only method chronological theories can be solved, and we do not have that data!" Statistical analysis is a fundamental part of science; that statistics is used in a subject is meaningless as a criticism. You said the data could only be gathered by geologists and the geologists among the climatologist are collecting the data; how do you now claim there is no data? "only observation, controlled testing, and repeatability can confirm a phenomenon scientifically" The notion that science is limited to direct experimentation is a fallacy commonly touted by people who want to get out of explaining the evidence obtained through observation. Several branches of science are necessarily limited to observation. The topic of Hossenfelder's video is a flat earth; FE'ers are always claiming that observing the sun & stars isn't scientific and thus can be dismissed rather than explaining how they contradict what FE'ers are claiming. With enough observations you can make predictions; Neptune's existence was predicted from observing Uranus's motion.
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  4101. ​ @kashifmccracken1526  "I'm asserting that asking what are globe earther events is not sticking to the topic" You raised the notion. "Low orbit is 6213.712 miles" Maximum for LEO is seen as 1000km. Probes are routinely sent into HEO or to other bodies. Manned flights are currently limited to LEO. "Nasa admits we cannot get out of low orbit" The Apollo craft were all single use and have been used. Being single-use means they can't be used twice; the Saturn V launchers are largely burned up in the atmosphere or at the bottom of oceans, the Landing Modules are setting on the moon, the Ascent Modules smashed on the moon and what remains of the Command Modules are sitting in museums. None of it can be re-used. Since 1973 technology has advanced. Computers, materials, manufacturing practices have all advanced; building another Saturn V & Apollo craft would require serious regression in technology. The people who designed and largely hand-assembled the Apollo craft are retired & dead; their notes exists as do the blueprints but all refer to pre-1973 technology. If modern manned spacecraft need to leave LEO then they need to do so with modern, compatible technology, particularly with features that enable modern computer chips (far more sensitive circuitry than the crude microchips of pre-1973) to survive the radiation and the means to sustain a larger crew on longer missions than the 3 man, two week missions of the Apollo programme. Manned missions not being able to leave currently does not magically mean it has always been impossible.
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  4109. I wish people wouldn't refer to Semmelweis; he was laughed at because he couldn't explain why his idea worked. By a process of elimination he saw a correlation between pleurisy on the ward and student doctors having visited the necropsy lab. By further experimentation he found that medical staff washing their hands thoroughly in a particular solution correlated with a reduction in cases. Only with the advent of germ theory did it make sense. The video is aimed at a lay audience. "Settled science" in that context means subjects in which there is no longer an ongoing debate; alternatives have been eliminated, one explanation is holding true and predictive, consensus has been reached. The theory is accepted as a working fact. There is no need for further debate unless something new can be brought to the table. Tachyons are hypothetical; unless evidence can be found of their existence there is no useful debate beyond the academic. In this specific context the shape of the Earth is settled. It has a physical shape that is fully measured and observed from every angle. No amount of considering "alternative ideas" is going to change its shape. "If a scientist with a PhD or even Master degree can't teach, they should be stripped of that credential until they can" There is more to our profession than teaching; passing on the accumulated knowledge is the not the only aim. Restricting it to that is what happened during the Dark Ages. Do bear in mind that you are talking in front of people who equate debate on what constitutes proof in a theory with absence of evidence for that theory.
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  4157.  @kruse8888  Natural philosophy was the school of thought that the laws of nature could be determined purely from observation and thought. It became apparent in the 18th century that testing ideas would be necessary and science as we know it developed from that. " Christian universities are all over the world" And in the minority. "scientists used to seek refuge in churches for questioning the “consensus” in the science community" If science & the church were synonymous then if you were running from a howling mob of scientists, a church would be the last place you would run to. Do you have some examples of scientists seeking refuge in a church? "that fragmentation is what created modern science" Divergence rather than fragmentation. There is no "narrative" being handed down from on high. Consensus is reached through the accumulating evidence, not because it is being dictated. It's easier for some people to claim there is a conspiracy rather than actually explain the evidence. Nobody is going to be fired, be stripped of funding or shunted if they disagree with the consensus; they are expected to make a case for an alternative idea (and, no, "it's different therefore it's just gotta be right" is not a valid argument) and explain why already exists. They are unlikely to get funding specifically to pursue their idea; money is limited, not handed out like confetti and you need to be able to argue why the risk is justifiable. I have no idea what video you are referring to; there are a lot of meteorological societies and many people have been directors of each.
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  4186. ​ @servusdei3923  "we DO see the same sky every night" A. They change over the course of the year; that is were the signs of the zodiac are derived from. B. The comment was "If the Earth were flat everyone on Earth would see the same night sky"; that you see similar stars each night from your location does not demonstrate the folks in the southern hemisphere see the same stars as you. "Tho we CAN see polaris from past the equator." You can't. The exception is a mountain close to the equator that provides sufficient elevation for an observer to see Polaris on the horizon. "THATS where ya sextant is used to CONFIRM earth IS flat. " On a globe the angle to Polaris matches latitude. For that to be possible on a FE, it would require Polaris to be at infinite number of altitudes above & below the FE simultaneously and visible through the FE. If the FE were correct and Polaris was in one location then the angle to Polaris would not match latitude as is observed (simple geometry). "any one gonna answer me on how a circle of equal altitude DOESN'T work on a flat earth when using a sextant ?!' If you think it works on a FE then you need to demonstrate how for the models you peddle around. Don't forget to explain how Polaris can be in an infinite number of locations simultaneously. "Al Biruni used a flat baseline for his 90 degrees" At any given point on a sphere the surface is perpendicular to the radius. It does not mean a sphere is flat. "you would create funnels all the time with ya globe match" Which us how you can use a sextant at sea to deduce your latitude from the angle to Polaris. For such to exist on a FE requires Polaris to be at an infinite number of positions simultaneously, something that you need to explain. You do realise that in a world of nearly 8bn people that there is more than one observer? "no one has given me a straight answer" That you can't understand the answer does not mean the answer isn't informative. The astronomical bodies would be in different locations in the FE sky from what is observed; try using a sextant with FE predictions and you would be lost. FE'er usually claim the sun is only visible at night but it is clearly visible during the day half the time as predicted by the globe and in a predictable place. The FE sun has a variable angular velocity relative to the observer rather than the constant angular velocity observed. The FE sun never comes within 10-20 degrees of the horizon but is observed to rise & set; the compass direction of the transition & time of year are used for navigation on a globe. Straightest answer - the predicted positions of astronomical bodies on a FE don't match the observable reality required of sextant observations. The sextant is not goin to work on your FE. How straight & simple do you need the answer to be.
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  4526. ​ @takeoffyourblinkers  You misunderstand me. Inject insulin into someone and you will observe a drop in blood sugar; that is correlation. That correlation was used to control diabetics' blood sugar well before insulin was demonstrated to cause the drop; causation was assumed. Only when the full chain of events had been determined could we say insulin is the cause. You keep saying "poor epidemiological data" but you seem to be assuming all epidemiology is poor data. Data is not going to be poor simply because it is epidemiology, or the conclusions drawn from that data. I have explained to you the limitations of data gathering in the different branches of science. With a large enough group of people, be it one or collated groups, you will be able to extract meaningful results. Nutritional research is not limited to epidemiology; it also relies on human physiology. Using mice in place of humans is scientific. As mammals, we have common physiology; what works in a mouse will have a similar basis in a human. Once some aspect of physiology is determined in a mouse, then the knowledge can be applied to humans, determining what differences do exist between them. Working solely on humans is impractical & unethical. Decades ago it was assumed (based on contemporary knowledge of physiology) that most sugar intake would be rapidly metabolised while lipid intake would be either "stored" or metabolised and that obesity (what existed) arose from diet changes that had led to increased fat intake. That turned out to be wrong; higher sugar intake led to increased lipid synthesis and low fat diet actually increased obesity. I assume that is what you are referring to. A simply explanation for the conclusions drawn would be that the folks in the 1950's did not have access to 2020 knowledge. "why the hell can't the academics?" Designing experiments and gathering & analysing data is routine for us. We are familiar with the strengths & weaknesses of different approaches. Our knowledge is not limited to magazine articles, Youtube videos and conspiracy theories. You think you know what we are doing; we know what we're doing.
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  4542.  @forbiddenscience1970  A P900 is unsuitable for faint light objects; it's not a miracle device. You need to provide evidence that water can't curve over distance. "all plumb bobs..." Conservation of momentum. What exactly do you expect to a plumb bob to show on a globe and why? Depends on the quality of the gyroscope. You need one with zero friction (eg, laser gyroscope) or one with high angular momentum & low friction. Dinky ones won't work. Conservation of momentum and the atmosphere rotating with the Earth. What do you expect to see exactly and why? At no point is there gas pressure next to a vacuum; atmospheric pressure declines with increasing altitude, meaning there is a pressure gradient, not a dramatic drop at any point. "experiments on motion through the aether" They used the known motion of the Earth to look for evidence of the totally hypothetical luminiferous aether and found no evidence that the totally hypothetical luminiferous aether. Explain why you think no evidence of luminiferous aether proves the existence of luminiferous aether. High altitude balloons don't usually go high enough to see curvature or carry cameras with a wide enough angle to take a picture of the curvature; that those balloons don't observe a curved horizon means sweet FA. Those that do go high enough with suitable cameras do observe it. Do you want to say what you consider a sufficient altitude to be? Explain why you think the horizon could maintain 0 degree drop regardless of altitude. Explain how large you think the degree drop on a globe would be. Explain how you determined zero drop without actually measuring it. What evidence do you have the space footage is faked? Please try something more novel than video compression errors, invisible wires, the slow horizontal motion of "air bubbles", drowning astronauts and the existence of training pools; it gets tedious otherwise. None of the people you quoted provide those answers.
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  4735. ​ @jenarcana  Density is mass per volume; weight is the action of gravity on mass. In a constant gravitational field all objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum. When there is an atmosphere there is resistance directly related to the area interacting with the atmosphere; the resistance is buoyant force, the strength of that force being directly related to gravity. While the interacting area is dependent on the object's shape & orientation, the object's density also affects how much surface area is interacting with the atmosphere. A polystyrene ball can have the same mass as ball bearing but will meet more resistance as it passes through the atmosphere. You and a mouse have similar densities but the mouse has a greater ratio of surface area to volume than you; if both of you jumped down a mine shaft the mouse would be sufficiently slowed to be able to walk away at the bottom. Most objects have sufficiently high density that the difference is negligible. However if an object is less dense than the medium it is passing through then the buoyant force will be greater than gravity and it will rise, since the medium is also being pulled downwards. Weight is the action of gravity on mass and the two are directly proportional. You have considerably more mass than a gnat and and hence weigh considerably more. The gnat only has to lift its own weight, not yours. The assertion you are repeating assumes that a constant gravitational field means everything has the same weight, something that is obviously not true. Gravity was demonstrated to exist by the Cavendish experiment, reproduced countless times with similar results, that measured the horizontal attraction between masses. The subsequent Schiehallion experiment used a similar approach. Gravitational waves are changes in the distortion of space-time brought about by the motion & interaction of two very large masses (exactly how is beyond my knowledge of the subject); they were demonstrated to exist 5 years ago. That density exists is obvious; it is the ratio of mass to volume. There is no evidence that it act as a force. According to Dubay's principle, a phone lying flat in your hand is pressed against your hand by the difference in density of hand & air. This predicts that when you turn your hand over the phone will continue to be pressed against your hand but instead it falls down at 9.8m/s^2. It predicts that placing it flat against a wall leads to the phone being held there but instead it falls down at 9.8m/s^2. It predicts that if you let go of your phone in mid-air then the equal density of the air surrounding it means your phone will just float but instead it falls down at 9.8m/s^2. Predictions are important in science; whether an idea makes correct predictions is indicative of its accuracy. Dubay's density does not work which is why he never talks about such experiments. NASA was established in 1958 AD; the ancient Greeks determined the Earth was a sphere around 500BC using reasoning and the methods I described earlier. Still waiting on any explanation for how NASA managed to influence them. No explanation has ever been provided as to how governments manage to control all information, apparently controlling all correspondence & speech and manipulating shadows & stars, nor has any explanation been forthcoming as to how & why nearly 200 different countries have collaborated so faultlessly and completely for over 2 millenia, even through two world wars. As I said, they are invoked as bogeymen by people who are trying to dodge providing explanations. The education you have received may only have been while is school; that does not mean school is the be all and end all of information. Most people have not been taught beyond school nor had any hand in increasing the information humans have; FE'ers rely on that to persuade you that schools are the only source of information (except, for reasons always unexplained, Youtube). While governments set the syllabus for state schools (and only schools), they do not determine who can know what generally. Many of us work in advancing knowledge which means hands on experimentation & verification, not sitting in classrooms.
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  4736. ​ @jenarcana  The stars have two celestial poles which is not explained in FE models; they insist there is only one. The stars visible each night change over the course of the year; unexplained by FE'ers. They do not explain the midnight sun in the Antarctic Circle; they simply deny it occurs but can't even explain why the days don't get shorter in the southern summer. If Earth was flat then Polaris would be visible from all the Earth but it isn't from below the equator. The angle to Polaris would enable us to triangulate it's altitude above a FE but it can be done; it would range from infinitely above to infinitely below, not a set position. In actuality the angle to Polaris matches the latitude of the observer as would be expected from a sphere. The sun rises & sets and maintains a constant angular diameter & angular velocity. According to FE models it shouldn't come within 15-20 degrees of the horizon and the angular velocity & diameter change through the day with the sun shrinking away to at most about a quarter of its size. No explanation has been forthcoming as to how it appears to rise & set or any explanation why time & position are so predictable when it is a illusion. A spotlight sun would also change in shape throug hthe course of the day, being oval most of the time. No explanation has been provided for why the sun would illuminate such a warped area of the FE and certainly no explanation why the warped area would just happen to match that expected for a sphere. No explanation is ever provided for how the FE sun remains floating, move in circles, how the that course changes through the year or how it is powered. I'm needed elsewhere so the rest will have to wait.
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  4755. ​ @kylemc0254  I read through your posts and all you are doing is repeating the same baseless claims. Nobody has provided evidence of zooming boats into view from hundreds of miles away; a video zooming a set sun back into view would be simpler and should be easy to do on a FE but nobody has done it. There's detectable equipment on the moon and verifiable material brought back, all ignored by those who don't want them to exist. Nobody has provided a working model for a FE, just kept claiming one exists. Nobody has provided a working map despite claiming they have one, i.e., one with a consistent scale across the entire surface, something that should be easy with known distances and mapping a 2D surface to a 2D surface. Gravity has been proven to exist; not knowing of the Cavendish experiment does not mean it was never done or reproduced or invalidate the results. Nobody has ever explained how density could act as a force and why it would do so in a consistent direction. Flight paths make sense on a globe; they don't appear to make sense when projected onto a flat surface because of the distortion that occurs in the transition from 3D to 2D. Still waiting on an explanation on how there can be direct flights between the southern hemisphere continents when they would be out of flight range in a FE. Nobody has provided an explanation as to how a globe sun can act as a a spotlight or why a 2D sun would appear round from all angles or how it would illuminate the correct zones on a FE at any given time, particularly 24hrs daylight in Antarctica. No explanation as to how the sun can stay in the air, remain in motion or change its course much less any explanation as to how it produces light. Openmindedness is the willingness to listen to and consider new ideas. It does not mean espousing ideas that differ from accepted wisdom; the logical thinking is required. When somebody can't put forwards any evidence to back their claims and simply wants you dismiss all contradictory evidence you need to be sceptical. What is proposed without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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  4756.  @kylemc0254  "there isnt 1 picture unedited" So FE'ers keep claiming though they never explain how they identify alterations other "it doesn't look flat" or "I don't know what to expect but it isn't that". The ISS ran a live video stream for years as did DishTV and that didn't satisfy FE'ers for "reasons". The US, Russia & Japan all have websites with real-time full hemisphere pictures of Earth and that doesn't satisfy FE'ers for "reasons". Tesla had live cameras onboard its car and that didn't satisfy FE'ers for "reasons". SpaceX has live cameras onboard its launches and (unsurprisingly) that doesn't satisfy FE'ers for "reasons". "i think science is a language designed by freemasons" Science isn't a language and there is no requirement to be a freemason to be a scientist. That you don't understand something does not mean it is not understandable to others. I said flight paths make sense on a globe (a 3D shape) but not when projected onto a 2D surface. You have to think beyond 2D projections. "there straight lines on a flat gleesons map" They aren't. Pick a few select ones in the upper northern latitudes and they seem to be which is what you have been shown. The further south you go then the greater the distortion of the actual dimensions and the dumbness of the claim becomes readily apparent. Try tracking the flight path between Melbourne, Australia and Santiago, Chile and consider how that would make sense on a Gleason map. Then look at it on a globe (in actual 3D, not a projection) and you will see a direct line. "there crazy stop points on a globe" Direct flights don't have stop points except for the final destination; that is why they are called direct flights. Indirect flights make use of the more heavily used routes to provide a series of economically conservative flights which is why some indirect flights are cheaper than the direct flights. Example, there's considerably more travel between North America & Europe and Europe & Far East than there is from North America to the Far East directly so it is more economical to run two separate flights for most passengers. A direct flight from Atlanta to Bombay is a mixture of American & Indian passengers; Atlanta to Amsterdam is mostly American & Dutch passengers with Amsterdam to Bombay a combination of Indian & Asian passengers. "do you think the apollo missions between 1969 and 1972 were all legit" Traceable signals to, on & from the moon, detectable equipment left there, verifiable material brought back and the landing sites recently confirmed by satellite pictures. "But, but, but they've just gotta be fake" and "I don't see how..." do not explain any of that, nor does the absence of lead in the Apollo capsules, fictitious claims the Van Allen belts are impassable and a posthumous interview with Stanley Kubrick. No, the data was not lost; the tapes the data was originally stored on went the same way as floppies.
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  4824. ​ @heruthecoppercoloredgod7311  If you are going to run with deduction it really helps if you understand what you are talking about. To launch anything in to space requires power; the greater the mass and the higher you want to send something then the more power you need. How high you need to send something depends on the purpose of the object. A communications satellite works fine in low orbit; there is no need to send it to a higher orbit. If you are not sending anything beyond low orbit then it is not necessary to keep developing the technology required to do otherwise; with no manned missions being planned there was no need to keep developing the Saturn V. With no Saturn development in the last 40+ years and with technology continuously marching on then the materials, computers and manufacturing processes required for the Saturn in the 60's & 70's are incompatible with today's technology & work practices. Even if you could readily build a Saturn V it has the power to launch sufficient mass for a three man, two week moon mission with minimal equipment and nothing more; if you want a longer mission with more people and more equipment (as intended) then the Saturn V is not what you need. It is more economical to redevelop heavy launchers for the modern intended purposes. The blueprints for the Saturn V & Apollo craft still exist; they are also hopelessly outdated compared to today's technology. You're assuming I am American; there is a whole world outside the US. We (the entire world) have been sending satellites into high orbit for the last 10+ years and into deep space for the last 40 years; we have not lost the means to send something beyond low orbit. Until the Orion craft is ready we don't have a viable means to send manned missions beyond LEO. Explain how NASA was manufacturing globes in the 18th century. Explain who you think NASA would have such total control of information and minds worldwide that nobody has noticed a globe appearing out of nowhere.
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  4830.  @rebeccachambers4701  Immuno-compromised people are not given vaccines; mandates do include exceptions. Babies are not immuno-compromised. Their immune systems are naive but (usually) quite robust. Vaccines are 90-95% effective in inducing immunity. Surgery is done aseptically to minimise infection; it can’t be achieved with sterile conditions. Patients are treated individually. A politician on the TV can’t reel off individual instructions for each person in the country; by necessity they refer to generalities. They are not over-riding doctors’ decisions about individuals. Earth is measurable. The measurements are consistent only with a sphere. No medication is perfect; pull one string in the body and a hundred things move with every individual being a little different. That something does not work effectively on a small proportion or caused significant side-effects in a small proportion does not render a medication useless. “Bodies in the street” or doesn’t exist is a binary fallacy. Spread can’t bd prevented; it can be controlled to some degree. Total control or no control is another binary fallacy. I never said vaccines would work for everyone or that everyone should be given a vaccine. Social distancing & masks: another binary fallacy. Usually people complain about that level of control on food etc and being given advice. There is a surfeit of people in biological research; I’m paid markedly less than my equivalent in physical sciences. There are a high proportion of foreigners in academia (basic research) because we are lower paid than our R&D equivalents in industry.
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  4955. ​ @MrRobertGaston  The plane's trim is set to maintain level flight, i.e., to stay with a constant air pressure where the lift achieved balances the effect of gravity. Since the atmosphere curves with the Earth the plane follows the curve. 8" per mile squared is a rule of thumb that was used by land surveyors; it assumes no atmospheric refraction and no change in elevation between observer & object and thus is good only for a few miles. It isn't going to accurately calculate drop or how far you can see. If you want accurate calculations then you need to use the correct maths and account for all factors. The record for long distance photography is about 200 miles and is a picture taken from a mountain top of another mountain top (and only the top) poking above the horizon. FE predicts a view of the whole mountain from several hundred miles away. When taking into account curvature, elevation and atmospheric refraction (the key factors in determining how far you can see) the picture is in agreement with the globe. "I still have zero proof of a globe" The ancient Greeks figured it from the motion of the sun, the existence of horizons and lunar eclipses. They measured it with sticks & shadows, something that you can do for yourself with travel; using more than two sticks you can confirm curvature. With some travel you can also observe that the angle to Polaris matches latitude, that there are two celestial poles and that constellations change with latitude. All are consistent with a globe, all inconsistent with a FE, all verifiable by anybody & everybody. The travel of course will require accurate maps, something that the globe provides and the FE doesn't. "you can't have fire in a vacuum (sun)." The sun works on fusion, not combustion. Yes, it is possible to have more than one way of generating heat & light. "luminaries of equal proportions" In the same ball park, not equal. "in an ever expanding universe?" Scale. The sun & earth are approximately 8.5 light minutes apart. Average distances between galaxies is 1,000,000 light years. The effect is measurable on the intergalactic scale and would not be apparent in something as small as a solar system.
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  5164. ​ @glennholmes724  Which is why the concept of measurement is important as in the ability & willingness to consider more than one cause for a particular effect. In this case someone needs to understand that both visual acuity and a horizon can both prevent them from seeing an object, not stop thinking at the first possible cause. They also need to calculate the predicted distance to the horizon and measure how far away the ship actually is. An object can pass beyond the visual acuity well before it reaches the horizon; zooming it back into view does not disprove the horizon it has yet to reach. Actually waiting until it reaches the horizon an can be clearly seen to be partially obscured by the horizon before testing the effect of zooming is crucial yet FE'ers never test. The setting sun & moon are undoubtedly falling below the horizon; they can be seen to be obscured while retaining the same angular diameter. I've been asking for the last few years for a FE'er to provide evidence of zooming a set sun or moon into view; none of you can do it. "Are you claiming that those short clips are evidence that earth is a globe? " The boat is partially and increasingly obscured by the horizon; that is not an effect of visual acuity. "Like it is not possible to manipulate such footage?" You can view it for yourself. Is the view through a telescope being manipulated? How do you think these manipulations have been managed since telescopes were invented? "there is no verifiable or unfalsifiable evidence for how the globe model explains eclipses" They are accurately predictable by the heliocentric globe model down to the second and the size of the umbra & penumbra. FE'er have yet to predict eclipses or provide any plausible explanation for how lunar eclipses occur. "mesopotamian astronomers predicted eclipses using the Saros cycle since atleast 700 BC" They noticed the cyclical nature of ecl[pises and used that to calculate to within a few days the probability of an eclipse, not a certainty. Throughout your post you are maintaining two wholly different standards for unfalsifiable evidence. You believe visual acuity as proof the horizon doesn't exist despite the fact it is readily testable, disprovable & disproved while arguing any evidence to the contrary can be dismissed because somehow it could all be manipulated by people & means unknown.
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  5166. ​ @glennholmes724  I've done the research. You think I should ignore the errors, omissions & assumptions that are also pointed out in the debunking videos? What's your reasoning for that? "You are also presupposing that I have a double standard" Your previous two sentences disagree with that. I gave you evidence and you're dismissing it because it doesn't meet absolute proof while telling me I should accept the results of shoddy work as proof. "There is plenty of empirically measured evidence against curvature" Really? Then why I am endlessly pointing out the missed key factors and bad assumptions made? A guy looks out of a plane window and declares the peak he can see to be 3000 miles away with no evidence to back why he thinks it is that one or not one of the multiple peaks in the intervening landscape and you want me to accept it without question? There are umpteen videos of "we can see too far" that ignore elevation, refraction, equipment limits and it most cases the fundamental concept of measurement. Why do you think I should accept them without questions? Why do you think such shoddy work is not simply acceptable but definitive? When your main argument about what you see through a telescope is that it could all be an implausible and impossible conspiracy why do you think such shoddy work constitutes proof? "If you provide the footage from dishtv" Seriously? Why would I record anything from that channel? To show to FE'ers who will dismiss it out of hand as fake for no reasoning they can state? "trying to debunk flat earth" Nobody can produce a usable FE map, a plane can fly directly from airports in different continents and you can't see anything that makes you doubt a FE? The sun rises & sets, maintaining a constant angular velocity and angular diameter as it crosses the sky when the FE says it doesn't come within 15 degrees and has variable diameter & velocity but you don't find anything inaccurate about the FE statement?
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  5168. ​ @glennholmes724  "As far as measuring ships, that is not what FE researchers do" Rather the point. When you're comparing two different distances it greatly helps if they can be arsed to measure them. "They measure landmarks over water" "the amount of missing curvature is just way too much" They consistently fail to take into account the effect of refraction, which is enhanced over water, frequently don't compensate for elevation or calibrate the equipment and have been known to rely on the wrong distances. Now you said there are ones who do the experiments properly: I ask you again, who are they? You would not be the first FE'er to claim these people exist but none of you are willing who they are. "It is because they are of the same force. Electromagnetism." Gravity has no polarity, is unaffected by the material being tested or by any charge it carries and is not blocked by a Faraday cage. If you believe have evidence to the contrary then be novel and come up with it. "Michelson-Morley experiment disproved the theory of relativity," It did not nothing to test relativity (it was carried out 40 years before special relativity was proposed); they were looking for evidence of luminiferous aether and failed to find it. Special relativity was proposed later since no evidence could be found of aether. MGP noted the Sagnac effect, which could be explained by both special relativity and lumiferous aether. "Both theories are continuosly disproven by the existence of the Aether and the knowledge and technologies derived from it." The problem being that nobody can provide evidence for the existence of luminiferous aether. "the knowledge and technologies derived from [luminiferous aether]" Such as what?
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  5169. ​ @glennholmes724  "I already guided you towards Ben and linked his channel Taboo Conspiracy" A. There's no link in your posts, no mention of him before now and it's taken me four requests before you acknowledged I asked. B. He's the epitome of the crap work. Nice word salad that boils down to "they just gotta be the same thing". This is hardly metaphysics. You've made it clear that there is no evidence that you would accept, which is not the same as saying there is no evidence. There is abundant evidence but you have grossly dual standards, being prepared to act crap as proof while dismissing evidence on the grounds you prefer a millenia conspiracy actively involving millions of people that somehow is recognised by the people generating crap. "My guess is you believe in quantum mechanics without even realizing it doesn't mesh with Einsteins theories" I had no idea the conflict was supposed to be secret; you really do like seeing conspiracies everywhere, don't you? They do not disprove each other as you infer, but they apply on different scales though I realise scale is a difficult concept for FE'ers to grasp. As with Newtonian physics being a subset of general relativity, both relativity & quantum mechanics will be subsets of something larger. "it was to test for the aether which they did find" No, they didn't. The Sagnac effect can be explained by both luminiferous aether and relativity while MGP indicated aether didn't exist (and did demonstrate the Earth rotated); neither disproved relativity, special or general. Given both the Sagnac and MGP experiments were conducted after special relativity was proposed it can not be said special relativity was a consequence. It would be true in 1920 to say there was no evidence of relativity, special or general, but this is 2020; catch up. Scientific consensus requires abundant evidence; refusing to acknowledge it because you prefer conspiracy theories does not invalidite the evidence. Consensus means that something is accepted as working fact until demonstrated otherwise. And, no, incredulity on your part does not change the matter. "There are plenty of technologies proving the aether, and by its exsistence general relativity is proven wrong" Name some. Provide evidence that the Earth's electrical field is due to the existence of aether, bearing in mind that (unlike 1920) we have satellites and space travel. "they all knew the aether to exsist" They believed aether to exist. You seem to show great confusion between belief and fact.
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  5180. ​ @TheLilragu  School experiments were putting different salts in a bunsen flame and checking the flame's changing colour; it didn't require any in depth analysis of the flame heat, what purity salts, how much was added for how long, which wavelengths exactly, what intensity etc just eyeballing the colour. You were given experiments like that to learn some basic principles; it doesn't reflect the depth of detail required in a research lab. The main problems are undetermined variables, statistics (small test groups), competition and the complexity of what is being looked at. The purity of the salt does not affect a school lab flame test. We use far purer reagents but nothing is absolutely pure and even the best will have some variation between lot numbers; those trace elements can have a significant effect. I know of two labs who had different results from a co-developed protocol; the difference was narrowed down to the exact force of two low-speed stirrers. Another lab was getting different results after moving institutes despite sticking to the same protocol; it came down to the rats' bedding. That also creates the additional problem for the methodology described in research papers; when you are not yet aware of a particular variable affecting the results then you can't include it in a publication. When you are on the cutting edge of research you are looking at many alternatives and trying to identify which is most likely to be fruitful; sample groups are small so a minimal amount of time & grant money is used with each alternative tried. Unlike school we are working in the dark. It means the probability of false positives or exaggerated effects is increased, something that only becomes apparent when larger test groups are employed; it's known as the funnel effect. In terms of competition there is the additional need to publish quickly; whoever publishes first takes the credit so taking time to double check & triple check can cost you. Science has progressed from the basic, general knowledge into fine details of complex systems. In cell biology there are so many variables that you can't say for certainty that everything is accounted for; changing manufacturers of a standardised media formulation can have an effect. Exactly which breed of rat or mouse the cells were taken from can have an effect (and I don't mean profoundly different breeds); CD1 mice have rigorous breeding program used worldwide to maintain breed purity but there are still slight differences between the American & European CD1s. I'm not sure what you are expecting to see done. Mass beheadings of people who don't get identical results is not going to change anything. Rigorous cataloguing systems for animal breeds and primer design help, which is what has been implemented. The existence of sites like arXiv have changed physical sciences such that it is possible to stake a claim on a discovery before completing the research & publishing. That you aren't aware of what is being done does not mean nothing is being done or that it's being ignored.
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  5288. ​ @robertfish4734  The current flow consists of ions; the vast majority of gas molecules are not charged. You need to explain why electrostatic attraction would pull them down. You need to explain why there is no attraction inside a Faraday cage. I have researched Fishbowl. Answer my questions: A: If bombs explode at altitudes varying from 2000 ft to 2000 miles above the same location what altitude is the dome at that location if they are being detonated next to it? B: Why are the clouds spherical? Why are they not distorted if they are impacting a hard surface? C: Why do you think such details are inconsequential? "They just posted that they can't trust the number." And I've told you twice what the terminology means. With a set of measurements you will obtain a mean value and a standard error and you can say with confidence that the true value falls within a certain range either side of the mean value. It is not uncertainty that the measured object exists. Did you do maths in school? You seem to have problems handling numbers. "I can find things after digging, you just aren't worth it," I'm doing the research; I'm asking the person who think is he has it all figured. I'm getting very few answers. If you can't answer basic questions then quit saying you have it figured. ""sonoluminescence". It is how the stars work" "Just gotta be" is not science or brilliant insight. You need to provide a plausible mechanism by which stars could be sonoluminescence, e.g., plausible source of the acoustics, a plausible source for energy required, a plausible explanation for the very different scale.
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  5300. ​ @robertfish4734  Still waiting on the FE evidence for a military presence in the Antarctic. "Just gotta be" is not evidence. It says the Buenos Aires to Darwin flights (which is an indirect flight - the direct route between Australia & South America is Sydney to San Diego, currently limited due to Covid) make use of a network of 250mph winds (max hurricane strength 150mph) but supplies no evidence of their existence (just gotta be is not evidence) or explanation why they have no effect on weather or why the pilots fail to notice them or why nobody notices they are flying over land rather than sea or why they are flying in the wrong direction realtive to the sun. Not minor points. Do you need me to work through them all and tell you what the logical fallacies and inaccuracies are or you prepared to think for yourself instead of gullibly swallowing conspiracies? Shortest routes between the southern continents is the great circle route. On a projection they appear as southward curves, none of which come near Antarctica. It's already been explained to you that gravity is a strong enough force to counter the gas expansion across that the distance that the pressure decline takes. At no point is there an abrupt 1 atm to 0 atm drop to counter. All you have done is stamp your foot and declare gravity doesn't exist. You claim it is due to electrostatic attraction but can't explain why it would affect uncharged objects (not a minor point) or be strong enough to counter the decline in pressure (not a minor point); you've tried density but can't explain how density would act as a force (not a minor point) and also claimed the weight of the air with no explanation of how weight would occur in the absence of gravity (not a minor point). Your final claim was that being in a container would generate a pressure decline in direct contradiction of your initial claim that the gas laws would mean there would be even distribution in said container. You still haven't explained why a container is necessary when a force is generating the gradient (not a minor point). Yet centuries of navigation found that the lines of longitude do converge in the southern hemisphere. You need to explain how all the navigators could be so abysmally wrong (not a minor point) and still reach their destinations as plotted (not a minor point). You still haven't produce a working FE map (not a minor point). The pressure difference of you inhaling while lying on your face (that is what your example calls for) would occur across a small distance; the steepness of the decline would exceed the strength of gravity and the not motion would be into your lungs. No mystery. The distance over which the drop occurs is a factor whether you like it or not. The shallower the gradient the less pressure difference there is between any two points. I've already run you through experiments that could be carried out in a vacuum chamber to check your ideas; you haven't replied to them.
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  5304. ​ @robertfish4734  For the third time, the decline in gas pressure per unit distance "there isn't anything else" Which brings us down to Boyle's Law; how do you explain air pressure declining with increasing altitude if you think Boyle's law is the only factor in play? "how much mutual attraction is there?" A planet has substantially more mass than the average gas molecule and gravitational attraction is proportional to the product of both masses. "Why is gravity so selective and not liquefy the air with the same force that it uses to keep the water curved on your rapidly spinning globe?" Earth is a planet, not a black hole. In the absence of an irresistible force it is temperature that defines which state a molecular occupies; the greater the temperature, the more kinetic energy individual molecules possess; if the temperature is high enough the kinetic energy of individual atoms/molecules exceeds the attraction from van der Waals forces and the substances achieves a gas state. "You can not prove that the earth spins" Rotation is measurable with Foucault pendulums and laser gyroscopes. "I don't feel dizzy" is not a measurement. "you can't prove that the horizon is curved" The setting sun disappears from the bottom up while maintaining a constant angular diameter. Still waiting the FE explanation for that. If you mean curvature from left to right then the Earth is substantially larger than you are envisaging; you need to be ip above 100,000ft before it start becoming apparent. "PROVING Boyle with every breath." Third time, the force required to counter the pressure drop depends in the unit distance over which the pressure drops. Your air passage is around 20 inches, not 20,000ft. Like all FE'er you have real problems grasping multiple factors, scale and measurement. MrSirhcsellor ran you through most of this in detail a few days ago.
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  5576.  @riandcaz ​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​​⁠​⁠The video is about the FEers errors in reasoning, not the proof for a globe. The FEer long distance photos fail to take into one or both of elevation & atmospheric refraction. They have yet to produce any photos greater than the maximum calculable on a globe. Misidentified mountain tops are not valid. The photos are in the Apollo Archive website. (Look it up; YT kills comments with links in them.) Any correction needed by an aeroplane for atmospheric curvature is trivial compared to that required for the localised air movement. Pendulous gyroscopes correct for angle change (their purpose is to indicate the change that is happening in the moment) while laser gyroscopes compensate for location. The basic analogue tech didn’t possess and wasn’t dependent on the microcircuitry that is a fundamental part of vehicles today. The phone call was achieved through a radio link. The heliocentric model is long gone; the sun is not the centre if the universe. The geocentric model that preceded it was based on a spherical Earth. The sun “fading out at the horizon” videos are achieved by having clouds on the horizon that reduce the glare. We are still waiting on a FEer to produce the supposedly easy-peasy video of zooming a fully set sun back into view. Image is a generic term that applies to all forms of pictures, photographs included. The colour varies on cameras (analogue & digital) because of the variation in dyes & wavelengths used in each; it varies with all photographed objects.
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  5911. ​ @mtgtinfoilthaumaturge1102  Why would particles stop moving just to form the Earth? What exactly does stationary mean when relativity has no absolute reference frame to be stationary to? "Then boom it forms and is immediately moving some number of miles per hour." Formation of the Earth was the gradual coalescence of debris over millions of years, not something instantaneous. "earth has been in perpetual motion" Continual motion. "to some degree it started at 0 mph" 0 mph with reference to what? "we are in a perpetual state of acceleration" There is no reason to start from stationary and no acceleration is detectable relative to other bodies. "when understanding that at one point it wasn’t moving" Assuming that in your mind for no apparent reason is not proof. "going from a state of non existence to existence doesn’t require time to pass, it requires movement" You're referring to the description of time is an abstract means to measure the progression of motion. It doesn't mean everything happened at once nor does it mean that motion is the cause of everything. "Observer bias will always be present in anyone who doesn’t understand time isn’t even a real thing" There is no absolute time and relativity is not observer bias. Time is not tangible, not non-existent and such things as increasing entropy that there is a progression of events. Spacetime undoubtedly exists. There is much debate about the nature of time but the notion of it not existing at all is philosophical and irrelevant to this discussion. "I pity you people" Not a wise attitude to be taking when addressing a bunch of complete strangers. "time is the numeration of continuous movement" Which is one perception of time and the basis for pseudoscientific assertions that time doesn't exist. "Until any of you “scientists” can grasp that fact" Again, not a wise attitude to take when addressing a bunch of strangers.
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  5993.  @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  Which means you need zero or it has factored into your calculations. Conducting this kind of experiment close to water greatly increases refraction. Conducting it on a cold day is not a magic panacea; stop talking as if it is. Then produce the experiments where it was accounted for instead of continually referring to this one. The light is bent according to the change of density of the medium through which the light is travelling. Noting that mirages occur when air of different temperatures (and hence densities) is present in distinct layers does not disprove atmospheric refraction. The concept of lensing assumes a beam of light hits each micro-droplet at just the right point so the whole cloud acts like a unified lens. In actuality the light beam can hit a microdroplet at any point on the 180 degrees facing towards the light source; between refraction & surface reflection the outgoing beam of light can be in any direction, not the specific one required for lensing. The results is haziness through light dispersion, not magnification. There is no horizontal line in the globe model. You are drawing one in it. In doing so you are altering the model. You are then complaining your altered model does not work. Level =\= flat. Open a good dictionary. In this context it refers to no variation in elevation, not no curvature. As I said, you need to find an area of land where there is little or no variation in elevation and conduct the experiment at sufficient height that any variation in elevation would nit blick the line of sight. You would nit conduct it over water and certainly nit close over water because refraction is increased enough to scree up it all up. You seem to be having difficulty understanding that point. When you haven’t done anything to measure the refraction how the hell would you know it is insufficient to interfere? Declaring refraction to be essentially zero with making any effort to determine its value is ignoring it. The rest can wait.
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  5994. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  As with refraction, reducing the elevation does not eliminate it unless the elevation is 0". Assuming that <12" won't have a significant effect is an assumption. With lights at 12" and the observer at 6" and assuming only geometric drop (no refraction), the difference between lights at 1 mile (63360 inches) and 8 miles (506880 inches) is approximately 0.0009 degrees. The limit of visual acuity in humans is approximately 0.002 degrees. Put four lights in a row and they would be difficult to distinguish as separate lights even before you consider the dispersion increasing their apparent size (glare effect). "I am not quoting geometric drop" You quoted 512" drop at 8 miles which is the figure calculated from geometric drop. You may not have used the term explicitly but that is what you are referring to. "Refraction can't explain up and down bent light reaching the same observer height" You're the one claiming light is bent both up & down so you need to demonstrate that such occurs on the globe, not assume it and ask me to explain it. "It's claimed to by physical curve by globe proponents, yet we can zoom in and return a boat to our field of view" FE'ers insist on using the 8"/mile squared rule of thumb and ignoring elevation & refraction, a calculation that places the horizon much closer than in actuality. That leaves you with a significant distance between your inaccurate estimate and the actual horizon. Zooming a boat back into view while it is in that zone tells you sweet FA about what happens when it reaches the horizon. That is why we insist you try zooming a "half-sunk" ship back into view or better still zooming the set sun back into view. Still waiting on either, just video after video of boats in the error zone. "We are taught when a boat disappears from our eyes physical visual capability, at about 3 miles out, that is the boat disappearing behind physical curve" No, you are told that an average human standing in an area of equal elevation would see the horizon at 3 miles (a combination of elevation, curvature & refraction). Once you start factoring in extra elevation (even just standing up the beach puts you several more feet above sea-level) and extra refraction (higher humidity above water) the horizon gets further and further away. You can't arbitrarily declare the horizon to be 3 miles away under all circumstances. "The zoom shows it's not physical curve" The zoom highlights the error of your assumptions & miscalculations. Have you considered the plausibility of every land surveying measurement taken with ranging instruments (since about 1800) being wrong with nobody noticing? How willing are you to consider that you just might be making significant errors? Clue: I've pointed out the fundamental errors to you repeatedly and you're still insisting you're right. "The boat disappearing bottom up has been demonstrated on a flat surface" As I said earlier, that is done using a cambered surface, a drop between camera & object or the camera being placed slightly below the surface. It never works when those errors are avoided. "There is more water you look through, meaning the magnification intensifies the more you zoom" You have yet to demonstrate such magnification exists or provide a workable hypothesis for how it could happen. All you have referred to are micro-droplets mystically behaving as if they were one solid object. How the light is reflected or refracted by each micro-droplet is dependent on where on the micro-droplet surface each individual photon strikes. If you think the light will only a certain way for each micro-droplet and in such a fashion that act as a unified lens for the benefit of specifically located observer then you need to explain how that could happen. "magnification intensifies the more you zoom, cutting off bottom up, be it boat or building" How would magnification do that exactly? "The bottom up disappearance was shown with a camera set on the ground" There's two I think I can think of. In the first the camera is placed on one side of a cambered surface with the guy walking over the camber. The second films a guy walking over a surface that includes a shallow step. If you wish to demonstrate something on a flat surface then you need to use a surface that is flat and continuous.
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  5995.  @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "His model of the globe places the moon in the northern hemisphere in the northern sky," The moon's orbit is inclined 5 degrees relative to the sun's orbital plane and the Earth's axis by 23.4 degrees. The moon is not orbiting the Earth's equator. Your assumption is that it is. Experiment design depends on accounting for all confounding factors. You need a design that explicitly does that. Reviewing any experiment includes critiquing the methodology which needs to include details on the principal components used. Any underlying assumptions need to be stated with reasoning. "Falsifying an idea, by inability to recreate an experiment with given instruction, discards a hypothesis" Only for your own results. When reproducing other people's it indicates a need to contact the paper's authors to discuss the minor differences in how labs conduct the same experiment, e.g., what equipment is being used for each step, the sources of reagents, exact breed of animal, how many people are involved (process efficiency) etc. There are a myriad of minor details any of which can be the confounding factor that changes the end results, e.g., the exact speed of a slow setting on two different stirrers was a seemingly trivial factor that turned out to be significant. "Repeating a hypothesis affirms it, and can move a hypothesis to a theory or a law" Nothing so simple. Reproducing results indicates there may be validity to the hypothesis; you are failing to disprove it, not demonstrating it is correct. It needs to be tested in other ways and if it still hasn't been disproved then you're on a slightly surer footing and is worth building on. A myriad of hypotheses by different people get tested in multiple labs and those with some validity gradually become incorporated in to wider & wider hypotheses in an iterative cycle. You end up with hypothetical models for a particular system that continue to be tested, modified and corrected until ultimately you are left with one comprehensive hypothesis, which undergoes more experimentation and, if continues to stand with no further modification made may eventually by accepted as a theory. A law is entirely different; that is just a description of a phenomenon, essentially describing the mathematical relationship between key factors (e.g. F = ma) and says nothing of why it should be so.
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  5997. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "idk if we could remove refraction entirely" You can't; I've said that repeatedly in our conversation. That leaves you with the necessity of factoring it in, not treating it as if it was zero. Again, atmospheric refraction is due to the decreasing air pressure with increasing altitude. The more distant & oblique the angle of the light the more the light travels through decreasing density and becomes more downward angled. Heat can alter the density of air (different layer temperatures is how mirages occur) but that is not what we are discussing. It is not immediately relevant to your experiment. FE'ers seem to have a problem comprehending how atmospheric refraction alters the direction the light travels. Atmospheric refraction (mirages aside) will only bend the light downwards. Because the source of a distant light is at a different angle to the observer, the light will already be angled "upwards" RELATIVE TO THE OBSERVER. I capitalise that to make it clear we are not talking about a light pointing into the sky AT THE LIGHT"S LOCATION, but a light that starts horizontal at the light's location and would (without refraction) be travelling over the observer's head. Atmospheric refraction does not bend the light up and then down again; up is due to the difference in angle of curvature between two locations, down is due to atmospheric refraction. It is very much necessary to bear in mind the difference in relative orientation between pertinent locations on a sphere, not visualise curvature as a hill on a horizontal plane with observer & object on the plane. This is what I mean earlier when I talked about not inserting arbitrary horizontal lines into a model that doesn't have them. "it's really lensing" I've already told you twice what the fundamental misconceptions of lensing are. I'm not going to explain a third time. What you are going to do is explain the following: A. How does do disordered micro-droplets form and maintain order? B. Why would they form this order for the benefit of a remote observer? C. How would this order alter the effect of parallel photon's striking different parts of a sphere? "there is certainly a perspective horizon. Sky and ground collide" On a FE there would be no horizon; everything would just disappear into a gradual haze as dust & vapour gradually increase the light dispersion to the point where you can't distinguish the original object. The distance would vary according to the atmospheric conditions between observer & object but potentially you would still be able to distinguish a large object at 600-700 miles. (World record photo is only 250 miles and shows a mountain tip peeking above a horizon; don't try quoting as evidence of what I just told you since it blatantly differs from what I described.) "The globe even says your horizon when at a body of water is about 3 miles" Again, no, it does not. Please pay attention to what I write since we will progress much faster without the need for me to keep repeating myself. The three miles assumes a 6ft observer looking across a sphere with equal elevation and no refraction; the example exists to make visualisation of the scale easier. The FE model predicts you should be able to see the same distance regardless of altitude, other than the view being blocked by higher elevated ground. "You cant do tests over land because land can warp" Third time - you need to find an area of land with minimal variation in elevation and conduct the line of sight at sufficient to overcome what variation there is. FE'er are forever quoting Kansas and Salt Flats as part of your evidence so why the difficulty recalling their existence when you need ground with minimal variation in elevation? "Refraction over a lake is actually I think more difficult to measure than you might think" No, it isn't more difficult than I think. Your chemistry professor told you why. You can obtain an approximate average through measuring the exact physical dimensions you are working with, predicting what we observed over long distance without refraction and comparing that what is actually observed. Try your physics professor if you don't believe me.
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  5998.  @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "I am not saying refraction is eliminated" You are starting on the assumption of zero refraction and were telling me it was done in the cold to remove refraction. "It can't bend up in cold and in heat" As I pointed out, you are incorrectly envisaging curvature as a hill on a flat plane. The light does not need to bend up. See my explanation in the other comment. "You would notice a light disappearing behind something it's physically shorter than. We are seeing out from the surface to a point that is dropping away" And you are looking only within a distance where refraction can be sufficient to keep it in sight. If you wish to falsify something then you need to include conditions that would distinguish between the two explanations. You can't ignore refraction; it has to be taken into account. "light does bend up or down. In lab the refractive index changes depending on temperature. " The heat generally increases an object's size but not its mass; the density decreases with increasing heat. Refraction occurs when light passes between different densities; it is not refracted within a constant density. Atmospheric refraction is due to the change in density with increasing altitude, mostly due to decreasing air pressure but, as in your experiment, also the difference in water vapour at different altitude. Again, your experiment was carried out just above the water surface to maximise the drop with increasing altitude. "Heat and cold affect light oppositely, yet both need to bend light up to an observer" As I explained in my other comment, there is no need for light to be bent upwards. That is your misconception because you are trying to visualise curvature as a hill on a flat plane, not a continuous curved surface. See my other comment for the explanation. "temperature difference over flat surface can "hide bottom up" objects" Example? "If a boat has its bottom hidden by temperature inversion" That's a very big if because you need to explain how this temperature inversion occurs everywhere regardless of the actual conditions required for temperature inversion. "If the temp stabilized, the boats bottom would return to full view" It is usually is stable and objects still disappear over the horizon. Essentially you are trying to use the unusual as the explanation for the general. "3 miles horizon over water is what we are told a 6ft person sees for distance" The example is a 6ft person on a sphere with even elevation and no refraction. Waves aside, the water would have equal elevation but the person would need to be standing with their feet in the surf and (magically) with no refraction occurring. The example is for you to visualise the scale. "Surveying is done in land and in small increments. " Overlapping increments. "A very gradual slope of land would prevent planar detection" Not when the increments are collated. They will only come together accurately when the according to the underlying shape. "The bottom up disappearing is shown while above surface, not below it at 0 inch observer height" Third time - the effect occurs when the surface is cambered, when there is a drop in elevation or the camera placed below the syrface level. I specified THREE possible conditions, not one. Stop quoting me as giving only one condition. "magnification does exist, it's admitted by both models" Not on the globe model. "It was used to help globe explain the Chicago skyline from Michigan" Which was due to a mirage not magnification. Yes, mirages do occur. FE'ers usually claim the skyline is always visible (weather aside). "Magnification cuts things off... Other things need to exit FoV for this object to increase " Quite: it's not the magnification that cuts things off; it's the limited viewing angle of the instrument you're using. Point the telescope, camera, whatever down slightly and the bottom will be in view as long as there is nothing physically blocking the line of sight, e.g., curvature. "I have video of bottom up disappearing shown on a flat surface from above the ground." What was done to verify the surface was flat. Note conditions 1 & 2 of the three conditions that I described.
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  6000. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  Your friend declared it to be minimised and treated the value as zero thereafter; that is ignoring it. I have said this multiple times but you seem to have great difficulty understanding it. As I said, this is getting very repetitive. You're only interested in hearing what supports your religious beliefs and screw reality. Complete condensation would require absolute zero; that's not a condition you are going to find occurring naturally on Earth. There will always be evaporation & condensation occurring, producing high humidity above the liquid surface. That is why your fried set the lights & camera so low; to maximise the refraction. The light will only get bent down; by how much it gets bent down varies according to density. You're making the usual error of presuming a flat surface when discussing a curve; you're so hooked on flat your mind can't even handle a simple diagram. "'The experiment was done in a condition which removes as much water as naturally possible" He placed the lights & camera where the humidity would be the highest. That is not removing refraction; it is lying about it. " do view curve as a continuous surface, not a hill on a plane when discussing the globe" I'm sure that you think you are but it's evident that you're not. "I have a video on my channel showing a object disappearing with temperature variation alone" Let me guess - you've heated the surface? You're making the usual error of assuming an effect would have only a single cause. "It is the globe side that originally said the boats disappear over curve at 3 miles roughly, refraction and all included" Yet again dingus, the three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. 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The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. Am I saying it enough times? "Id still like to see a demonstration of a curved surface that can refract light to exactly straight for 4 lights making them all in line, planar, flat and parallel with the horizon" The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. The experiment that you are describing. Am I saying it enough times? "Show this can happen if it's our world's true reality" I've explained how refraction works repeatedly. Repeatedly. "Water is measured flat is a completely logical interpretation otherwise" Again, you haven't tried it for greater than 8 miles; refraction was sufficient to compensate for that amount of curvature. If you want to distinguish between curved & flat then you need to conduct an experiment that can actually distinguish between the two, not run one where both would give a positive result. It's a simple principle of science but one that evades FE'ers. "refraction bending to flat sounds more magical than no refraction" That's your interpretation of refraction, not what I described, so of course it sounds magical to you. "over water though this is where both models claim true level" And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. And over water you will get the refraction. Am I saying it enough times? "Even Kansas is not entirely flat." Much of Kansas lacks variation in elevation; it is not flat. The two are not synonymous. Yet again, dingus, a video making objects disappear from the bottom rely on ONE of THREE conditions: 1. Cambered surface 2. An in apparent drop in elevation 3. The camera being set below the set level You seem to be having problems grasping the principle of more than one cause, something which is typical of FE'ers. "Yes the globe model says magnification" No it doesn't. The sun measurably maintains a constant angular diameter through the course of the day. FE'ers just can't be arsed to actually measure something, just rely on eyeballing and ignoring complicating factors like perception. "Looking at something in the distance with a zoom apparatus will not only be cut off by physical curve, it can be cut off by magnification" Yet again, dingus, tilt the camera down. "Legal codes in construction ensure a flat floor?" In a building. Why is it so difficult for FE'er to divide 360 degrees by 25,000 miles? Why do you always assume there just gotta be humungous amounts of curvature across 100ft? Are you not aware of maths & arithmetic or doe s it just never occur to you to make use of them? I'm tired of repeating myself. Other than the last item, you have said all that before and I have answered it all before, multiple times with the same answers. You ignore the answers is not going to change that. I don't care how religious you wish to be but reality is not going to change to suit you. Unless you are prepared to move on from an obsession with FE'er, this is goin to go nowhere but around in circles. 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  6001. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "And yes the entropy is increasing, which is violated by claiming galaxy formations" There's a NET increase in entropy. The word NET always passes the deniers by. That you can start life as an single undifferentiated cells and grow into an organism with 100 trillion cells acting in unison should be a clue that it is not impossible for complexity to increase but, heck no, you just assume nobody has noticed the apparent contradiction and you don't bother querying it. "as abiogenesis is impossible" Entropy does not make it impossible; it merely requires a balancing act between order & disorder. A cell develops at the cost of increasing disorder in its environment. "Not maximize refraction, minimize it," If somebody wishes to minimise refraction then they would not place the cameras where the position maximises refraction. Like or or not, your friend was deceiving you. That he is one of your FE buddies does not alter that. No amount of protestation on your part is going to alter the refraction. "0.12° of curve converted to inches, feet, etc is more feasible," And nonsensical. Curvature is measured in degrees as a change in orientation. You're making the usual FE'er mistake of assuming curvature & geometric drop to be the same thing. "I want to see a recreation of a scaled down curved surface being bent to flat planar and parallel to a flattened horizon" You mean you haven't thought through the practicalities of replicating a planet in a lab. For the requisite replication of the atmosphere you need a planetary mass and somehow to switch off the existing gravity of Earth. You come up with the means by which those could be achieved and we might have something to work with. Meanwhile we can carry out experiments such as the one you are advocating and observer how four light line up despite the underlying curvature. "Hot and cold are different conditions and do alter refractive index in lab" Again, by altering the density of the medium. Temperature itself does not cause refraction; it is the change in density of the media through which the light travels. Heat makes an object swell. Same mass in a larger volume means lower density. "light that would t bend down far enough with refraction" What do you expect to see the sunlight do when the sun is well up in the sky and why? What refraction do you expect to occur? A. I asked you how disordered micro-droplets would form an ordered structure. Telling me what an ordered structure is does not answer the question. Yet again, the picture of the upper part of the Chicago skyline (and I stress upper part - the lower half is clearly missing) was an unusual event arising from a mirage. It is not a mundane view as you claim. Nobody is usually seeing Chicago across Lake Michigan, something that can be confirmed for yourself by actually looking. Wanting it to be mundane is not going to alter the fact it isn't mundane. Reality does not dance to your tune. "Globe curve should hide it' It does; that's why it isn't a mundane sight. "to zoom in on the atmos effects" And you have still to answer my question: why would disordered micro-droplets form an ordered structure? B. Yet again, atmospheric refraction bends the light downwards, not upwards. You're persisting on visualising the lights as standing perpendicular to a horizontal line when they are set perpendicular to the ground at that point on the curve; that places them at different angles relative to each other. "We never get lights appearing to be above our horizon or anything" You mean mirages? "that's not at all what I am saying" It is what you are saying; you just haven't thought it through. And you still haven't answered my question. And you still haven't answered my third question either. "Sun light isn't parallel" There's about 0.5 degrees divergence from completely parallel due to the angular diameter of the sun. "we can see crepuscular sun rays show angle" In the same way railway lines diverge as they approach you and merge after they pass you. "Horizon distance of 3 miles is the globe claim." The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. The three mile example assumes no elevation other than the observer's height and no refraction. Have I said it enough times? "Sun moves it's circle above earth" Which predicts a variable angular diameter & velocity and not coming within 20 degrees of the horizon; we observe a constant angular diameter & velocity and it rises & sets. You need to explain that. "Polaris is the pole Star" Currently. Thuban was the northern pole star at the time the ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a globe. The Southern Cross is a little off-centre but is the essentially the pole constellation below the equator. You need to explain all that. "Where you are on the ground determine the sky above you on both models." FE predicts everybody sees the same constellations regardless of their location but we see constellations changing with latitude, the angle to Polaris matching latitude (which puts it below the horizon when south of the equator) and two celestial poles, not one. You need to explain all that . "Two star poles could be a star tunnel." What is a star tunnel supposed to be? "Lunar eclipse the moon is its own light source." It's not a perpetually full moon so you need to explain how phases occur and how everybody on a FE sees the same phase regardless of the angle they are observing the moon from. You're another who professes to know the answers - surely one of you can divulge them? It would be far more convincing if you did. "All maps are flat" Globes aren't flat. You mean globe projections into a flat surface. "When you use GPS, you're zoomed in and on a flat surface" Because your screen is flat. Do you expect the screen to bow in & out depending on how wide an area you are looking at? "The Gleason also claims to be accurate," FE'ers claim the Gleason projection to be an accurate FE map but none of you are willing to explain why the distances aren't correct. For the rest of us, we are well aware of the distortion from the azimuthal projection. The shape of Australia on teh Gleason projection demonstrates the distortion quite nicely. "Flat earth does not claim you can only ever see so far, no matter what elevation" And yet FE'ers are constantly telling me that the eye can only see a certain distance. Would you care to explain how the eye can simultaneously have a limited but potentially infinite viewing distance? Does the distance magically change depending on what point you are arguing? "This is refuted by laying with your head turned to the side on the floor, closing your top eye only, then opening the top eye and closing the bottom, and you can see farther" You can see the same distance in both. You mean you can see more of the floor. "A) objects near you shrink because you're moving away from them, this allows more ground visual to enter the eye." You mean how much of field of view is blocked by an object decreases as it recedes. A receding object does not change your eye's ability to see. "perspective suits observe because it's how our eye works" That's not how the eye works. An object's apparent size decreases with increasing distance from the observer; perspective is not going to cut the bottom off anything, it is not going to work differently depending on direction and it is not going to produce a horizon. "the observers at different elevations will have that levels elevation of compression along the ground, the higher up, the more compression" The apparent size is proportional to the distance from the observer; it has nothing to do with the observer's elevation. "we see water is level flat after experiment, not level curved" And as I have pointed out multiple times, your experiment was limited to 8 miles, a very limited distance that would not distinguish between the two. Meanwhile we are still waiting on the FE'er explanation for why lighthouses have such a limited range when you claim they should be visible hundreds of miles away. Do you want to try or will you just ignore it like all other FE'ers?
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  6002. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "Refraction minimized is what I claim" And I have explained to you repeatedly how he as acted to INCREASE it. Of you're not interested in answers then don't ask the questions. I have explained multiple times that refraction is dependent on density, not temperature. I have explained multiple times the role temperature plays in altering density. I have explained multiple times why the proximity of water increases refraction. I have explained multiple times that people "see too far" because of the errors in their predictions. I have explained multiple times what the those errors are. "I am not considering a flat earth when speculating a globe." I said that you were using a horizontal line as a baseline where none exists. In this particular case you have the lights standing perpendicular to that horizontal line, not perpendicular to their location on the curve, hence your talk about refraction having to bend light upwards & downwards. "He didn't place where there would be high humidity" I have explained multiple times why he did. "They used humidity from heat to give them the best conditions." I doubt it since the refractive index is accounted for in the calculations. "A single cause can give the desired affect" And it does not follow that an effect will have a single desired cause. You can't assume it will have a single desired cause. "Any other variables would alter it more or less if at all." Which is why you CAN'T ignore them. "Please, No need to name-call" You think? I'm endlessly repeating myself to someone who can't shift from his fundamental misconceptions and keeps asking the same questions even though he has been answered multiple times already. You're incapable of perceiving my answers provided either because you are dumb or have Morton's demon. "I agree the globe claims the 3 miles to horizon is someone standing at the coast line, looking out, so only observer height, no elevation, and I think the refraction is accounted for as well" I've told you multiple times that refraction is NOT accounted for in that estimate. The coastline rapidly elevates; the observe needs to be at the water's edge. Every foot of elevation makes considerable difference. "3 miles a boat goes over the curve, which we see disappear bottom up" I have explained multiple times that the 3 miles is to give you some conception as to the size of the globe. I have explained multiple time it is not a predictor of where the horizon is. What is taught is the effect of something passing over the horizon; we are still waiting for FE'ers to zoom a "half-sunk" ship or the set sun back into full view. "they didn't consider other variable, like temperature inversion." I have explained multiple times that mirages are uncommon, not mundane. They don't have to be accounted for in mundane observations. "The flat surface can show bottom up disappearing, as has been demonstrated many times," I have explained multiple times how that effect is fallaciously achieved. I have explained multiple times that there are multiple fallacious ways to achieve it. "There is no evading scientific principles. He did an 8 mile test because that was the body of water he had" I have explained to you multiple times what he did wrong. I have explained to you multiple times that 8 miles is an insufficient distance for his experiment. I've told you multiple times what he should have done. "Lacking change in elevation would be flat if we live on a flat surface, and would be equal distance from the center of the earth if a globe, but you don't just get to presume one or the other" Context is important and it's never stopped FE'ers presuming one from the other. I've already pointed out that flat and level are not synonymous. "I'm not ignoring anything about your 3 conditions. I've shown you a video where none of those things are happening" No weblink appeared in your comment. "The globe doesn't claim magnification?? Have you never seen a sunset where the sun is appearing massive in the sky? How about a moonrise? " Which is down to how your brain processes what your eye perceives, not magnification in the atmosphere. When either is up in the sky without a reference point they seem smaller; at the horizon you have some surface feature to compare them to and they ten dot appear larger. It's why measurement is important not eyeballing. Incidentally, FE'er usually claim that they appear smaller close to the horizon because you consider them to be further away from the observer. "It's not downward tilt to camera" I said that you NEED to tilt the camera down. You can't see the bottom of the object because of the telescope's limited field of view, not because magnification squashes the bottom. "Flat earthers do tests over miles of distance," While ignoring key factors such elevation & refraction, just as your friend did. Lasers over water is popular with FE'ers because you get to ignore elevation, refraction, levelling error and beam dispersion. "I am answering your questions too and explaining. You don't answer back, you go to your explanation" When your questions are based on fundamental misconceptions then explanations of those errors is answering your questions. I have said multiple times that reality does not dance to your tune. Questions built on misconceptions have no validity. Any direct answers I provide have to be based on reality, not what you would like reality to be. As Mark says, all you are doing is repeating the same scientific illiteracy.
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  6003. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "you're assuming galaxy can spawn in a system where things are getting more random, scattered, and should be homogenized" The key word in net entropy is the word net. Look up the meaning. "You can assume a cell develops at the cost of increasing disorder, but it's just an idea" That's how entropy works. Nothing stops order appearing but it does so at the cost of increased disorder within the system as a whole. "Say we both drop all bias" It would be very helpful if you would appreciate you don't understand science anywhere as well as you think. "Evolution, that nonlife created life" Evolution is how lifeforms change over time. The original appearance of life is abiogenesis. "I am skeptical this is possible, as it defies 100% of every observation we have ever made in the natural world" I requires time (100 million years) and multiple possibilities in parallel; it's not something that happened overnight. "Can you show me your observation goes against the only thing we have ever seen" I can't put the weblink in - it's seen as spam and the comment deleted - but look up abiogenesis on the biological research database. I'll try putting the link in a separate comment. "Refraction is minimized in cold, max in hot, or max in cold, min in hot" It's reduced when the change in refractive index between media is minimised. Temperature is just one factor; lowering the temperature alters the density but does not dictate the refraction that occurs. I have explain that to you multiple times. You can't look at one factor to the exception of others. You're also visualising what you learned and/are shown in school, i.e., light passing between two distinct media resulting in the the light being bent at the interface, e.g., a straw inserted into water. We are talking about a curved atmosphere with density decreasing with increasing altitude. The result is curvature of the light not a single abrupt change. "We aren't looking at a whole earth, but what is within our eyes field of vision" Refraction will only enable to you see so a limited distance beyond the geometric horizon, not all the way around the Earth. "Oh so we can't recreate a curved surface being bent up exactly to appear flat then? " To be exact, you can't recreate the atmosphere with density declining with increasing altitude; you need the gravity of planetary mass and sufficient distance. To replicate it on the bench top would require sufficient gravity to crush the lab. "Flat surface has no issue showing bottom up disappearance using lensing" None of you have yet demonstrated lensing occurs; you can't point at something and say "that just gotta be lensing". "Heat changes the number of particles the light passes through" By reducing the density of the medium; increased humidity increases the density of the medium. You need to think beyond temperature. " it is what is reflecting the sunlight" The lights are light sources; that is why they are called lights, not reflectors. A. I'm asking you HOW disordered particles would form an ordered structure. Just declaring there is an ordered structure does not explain HOW it would form from disorder. B1. I said that you are automatically drawing in a horizontal line when considering the curve. You appear to have the lights standing perpendicular to that horizontal line, not the curved surface at each location, which is why you keep referring to the necessity of refraction to bend the light upwards. B2. By recreating your friend's experiment over a level surface in places like Kansas. B3. They appear to diverge as they approach and converge after they have passed you, just like railway tracks. You do realise that none of you have calculated the elevation of the FE sun? B4. The higher the elevation of the FE sun, the further it is above the horizon at its lowest point. No rising & setting. B5. "sun keeps a 15° per hour cover while making bigger and smaller circles" which would only give 15 deg/hr if you were standing at the rotational axis. B6. It would never get far enough away from you on a FE to appear to rise & set. "2,000 years ago it was Polaris. It would change by now if it changed" And it is changing; you're just assuming any change has to be humonguous and thus readily apparent to the unaided eye over a short time period. The Earth's wobble has a 20,000 year cycle, sufficient for measurable change year to year and for Thuban to be the pole star 2000 years ago. "FE doesn't predict we all see the same stars." You usually describe the stars as being on a hemispherical "star dome" above a FE; in what way do you think different people would see different stars? "Star tunnel would be like if you stand in the middle of a tunnel" A cylindrical star dome. Explain how that would lead to people below the equator on a FE seeing different stars to those above it? Ho wis this cylinder inclined exactly? "The moon charges and discharges" Charges & discharges what exactly and what has been done to ascertain this? "We see the same moon because the moon is up high, meaning reduced apparent size and shape change" Only oif you are standing on the rotational axis; it size, velocity and observable face would vary across the FE. Explain how it works. As with the FE sun, the higher it is then the further the distance from the horizon at its lowest point. "Maps we use are flat maps" The globe is not a flat map. Projections onto a flat surface are useful because they conveniently roll & fold and you dont have to worry about the right amount of curvature according to whatever scale you are working to. The price of the convenience is distortion. The Gleason azimuthal projection was intended for time zones; the longitudinal distance are accurate, the latitudinal are not and it does clearly state that on the projection. "The eye can't see forever because perspective" Your eyes are passive receptors; they detect whatever light reaches them regardless of the distance it has travelled. Why do FE'ers never factor in the size of the observed object when talking about perspective? "Yes we see more floor with the top eye, while laying on the floor" Nothing gets compressed. You mean the viewing angle of each eye differs. "receding object doesn't affect sight, but is effected by sight, and subject to it" As I said, your eyes are passive receptors. They are not goin to block the bottom of something merely because it is receding from you. If you think they do then explain the mechanism. "The experiment is limited because it is done on a lake with that much distance" Quite. It was carried out at an insufficient distance to distinguish the difference between curved & flat. "Lighthouses are limited by refraction over the water surfaces they cover." When the light is moving horizontally through a constant density then there is no refraction. There has to be a change in density for refraction to occur. On a FE the light ought to be seen for hundreds of miles.
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  6007.  @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  FE predicts the sun has a variable angular velocity & diameter yet we observe both to be constant. You haven’t explained how that is possible other than by reference to lensing with no explanation to back that. (Just gotta be statements are not explanations.) Perspective is not going to create a horizon; that you see it in diagrams about perspective is because it is already there. You haven’t explained how perspective would make anything disappear from the bottom up (other than it just does) or why the FE sun & moon aren’t affected by it. On the FE Polaris would be visible wherever you are, not disappearing below the horizon at the equator, and the declination would not decrease in a simple ratio to distance. Try gradually stretching a right angle triangle on paper. There is no reason for the stars to change on FE. Just do is not an explanation. You haven’t explained how these star tunnels are supposed work. You’re proposing 8 billion personal star tunnels with each person both inside & outside one. A handwaving “they just exist” does not explain anything You haven’t explained what you think the moon’s light source is, why thete would observable shadows on the surface, how phases occur ir why everybody sees the sane face regardless of where they are. A handwaving claim of it being a light explains nothing. You haven’t explained how atmospheric lenses could form at all, much less how they would always be just the right power & orientation. They just gotta exist and they just do are not explanations for any of that. Your final suggestion is that God is fiddling it all to fool people?
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  6010. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "the constant we are observing is the 15° per hour" On a FE it would only appear constant if the sun was always equidistant to the observer, ie., the observer was standing at the north pole. It's unlikely that anybody is standing at the NP and it certainly isn't possible that 8 billion people are. Anywhere else in the FE world the FE sun will be at a varying distance to the observer through the course of the day. Moving a constant speed and varying distance means the angular velocity will vary. You need to explain how everybody on FE observes the sun maintaining a constant angular diameter. No explanation for the constant angular diameter? "your eyes create a level line across the center" Your eyes are passive receptors; they are not going to add information to what you see or draw in extra lines. "The higher up you go the further out you see" Why? You've said that before but you haven't explained why. Without an explanation it's only a "just can" statement. You're describing the vanishing point as a distance, ie., a set distance that you can discern everything before it and nothing after it. You need to explain why you can't see a grain of rice across a room if it within this vanishing point. " if you go up to the top of a tall building after just standing at the bottom and watching a sunset, you will get to watch another sunset" Why would that be so on a FE? "You won't always see Polaris because every degree you go out from Polaris, it drops a degree in the sky accordingly" You're repeating yourself, not explaining. "the observer is creating an angle to the corner creating a hypotenuse to Polaris" I thought so obvious that it went without saying. If Polaris is directly above the north pole then the right angle is formed from its axis being perpendicular to the FE. If Polaris is a a fixed height "h" above the FE then the observer's viewing angle "x" from a given distance "d" from the North Pole is calculated from tan(x) = h/d. Where h = 1 & d = 1, atan(1) = 45 degrees. Where h = 1 & d = 2, atan(1) = 26.5 degrees. Where h = 1 & d = 3, atan(1) = 18.4 degrees. Where h = 1 & d = 4, atan(1) = 14.0 degrees. Where h = 1 & d = 5, atan(1) = 11.3 degrees. The angle would not have a linear decline on a FE; you need to explain why it would. You need to explain why it isn't visible from south of the equator. "They change depending where you are because your vision looking up is a cone" Your view of the sky is not a cone; it is panoramic. People can move their eyes & turn their heads; we aren't limited to a narrow field of view in only one direction. You need to explain (realistically) how people wouldn't see the panoramic view of stars from every location on a FE. "If you stand in the center of a long tunnel" That's a big if; you ned to explain how these tunnels would exist, and why everybody would have a personal one and how the tunnels can arch over someone's head while they are in it. You're also describing people as being able to see both celestial poles regardless of where they are. That is only possible at the equator; all other locations are limited to directly viewing one celestial pole. "Moon is its own light" A statement that does not explain what the moon's light source is. Light bulbs heat up a filament or diodes, the sun is plasma - how does the moon generate light? Wy can we see shadows on the surface if it is a light? "The lens maybe etc" You can't presume the existence of atmospheric lensing; you need to explain HOW the lens would form (not make a statement of WHAT you think they are) and HOW & WHY there would be lenses of just the right size. A description of a glass lens does not answers those questions. "Just do" is not an explanation. "God isn't fiddling" You were describing divine intervention as the reason the world appears to be a globe; now you're saying it isn't. Which is it?
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  6012. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  "as long as the 15° heading is kept, that is observed" I stated that the observer needed to be standing at the north pole to observe and why that was so (equidistance). Simply repeating that it would work is a just does argument, not an explanation. When you are driving towards it a distant object hardly appears to move until it is close, apparently shoots past you at high speed and apparently slows down again afterwards; all the same speed but varying distance to the observer. That is how an observer anywhere but the north pole would observe the FE sun moving. You need to explain why we don't see that. "Low on the horizon it can look massive" But measures exactly the same size. Eyeballing is not an accurate form of measurement; your brain is too easily fooled. "There is also video of the sun shrinking a little bit," The clouds on the horizon reduce the amount of glare; you would need to use a solar filter to determine if the sun had actually changed in apparent size. The FE sun would shrink far more than a little bit and FE'ers usually claim that it shrinks away to nothing. You need to reconcile all those claims. "the eye doesn't add information, the change in elevation does." Explain how you think a change in elevation would add a horizontal line to what you view. Don't make such statements unless you can back them; doing so is a just does argument. "I've give the laying on the floor example which anyone can do which shows increase in ground you can see opening the top eye" You haven't demonstrated that either can see more than the other. The difference in angle means that each eye can see just as much of the surface and it would occupy a wider angle in the upper eye. You need to explain why that isn't the case and why you would be able to see more of a flat surface from a few inches more elevation, not just state that it is so (a just does argument). "You cant see the rice because..." Explain how you think the elevation of the object would alter its apparent size. Simply stating that it has such an effect is a just does argument. "Polaris drops 1° in the sky for each degree of ground you move out from under it" I gave you the maths showing you why that wouldn't happen. You can't just ignore it; that is being close-minded. If you think the maths is wrong then you need to explain how. "90° is max height of it's above you," Degrees measure angles, not heights. "so you can only go 90° away, which is the equator" On a globe. You're claiming the Earth is flat in which case there is nothing blocking your view. Use the maths I gave you or refute it. "Though I think some have seen Polaris from a little south" With sufficient elevation if still close enough to the equator. It is visible from the top of Mount Kilimanjaro (3 degrees south of the equator and an elevation of 19,000ft). At sea level you can't see it from anywhere south of the equator. "The cone was a visual representation" And as I said, people can turn their heads. Short of having their head in a vice nobody is restricted to a narrow field of view. The stars are a panorama; you need to explain why everybody on Earth can't see the same stars when there is nothing blocking the view. "Idk the exact working of the sky, it's a frontier and we don't quite know yet" Says who? "Nothing wrong with not knowing, so long as we can predict with it, like Neil says about gravity" You don't need to know how gravity works to use the maths; it does not mean that you can make up the maths or handwave gravity away. If you don't know how something works then you should not be running around telling people you know it doesn't work. "the sky has no bearing on the flat measured water on the ground" The "don't look up" argument. Angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles - three of the observations from which the ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a globe. No explanations yet from FE'ers how they are supposed to work on a FE. You're denying the maths for the first, ignoring the second and postulating inexplicable star tunnels for the third. The easier task is dividing 360 degrees by 25,000 miles, something most FE'ers can't think of, to consider how much curvature you are looking for. You were looking for observable curvature over 8 miles that would have a curvature of 0.12 degrees. "Idk how the moon does, it just is said to be its own light" Rather the point - none of you know, none of you can say but you're all quite sure it is a fact because it just gotta be. If someone makes claims then they have to be able back it. One of the questions I asked you is how everybody on FE sees the same face when looking at it from different angles; try answering that one (and "they just do" is not an explanation). "We can't get into the firmament to physically test it." You can see the ISS passing overhead on schedule. Still waiting on plausible FE'er explanations for what you are seeing. So far the favourite seems to be a balloon that has somehow remained aloft for 20+ years, somehow moves of its own accord and is somehow totally unaffected by weather. Do you want to try explaining? "Lensing is admitted and shown on a globe too" Referring to refraction due to curvature of the atmosphere (an effect that you deny), not chaotic micro-droplets forming ordered structures with just the right properties & orientation. You have not yet explained how any of that is possible; you just keep stating they exist, ie., a just does argument. "It makes the moon larger on the horizon" Where it has measurably the same size as when it is at its zenith. As with the size of the sun, eyeballing is not an accurate form of measurement. "its not divine intervention it's intelligent design. Our Designer is marvelous" All you need to do is demonstrate the existence of a Designer, demonstrate that it is the Designer you are claiming it is and demonstrate that the universe is designed. Just gotta be and "I don't see how..." are not valid arguments. I am once again repeating myself on some of these points. You haven't actually refuted what I said, just ignored it or made just does statements. You need to back your claims. We resumed this conversation because you said you could do that.
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  6045.  @jonelliott4985  Punctuation is there for clarity, not ornamentation. FE'ers accept there is 24hr sunshine in the Arctic Circle because they can think they can explain it on a FE. They deny it occurs in the Antarctic Circle because they can't explain it (or even longer days in summer) and claim Antarctica is sealed off to prevent people finding out there isn't 24hr summer sun there. You can go to the southern tip of South America (Ushaia) and observe a 19hr day. The radius of the globe is 3,900 miles. Mt Everest is 5.5 miles high. That is about 0.14% of the Earth's radius. Mountains don't contribute significantly to the shape of the Earth. The deviation from a perfect sphere, e.g., polar oblation, is similarly minute on a planetary scale. The Antarctica Treaty prevents military bases and requires visitors to adhere strict regulations for avoiding contamination of the environment there. It does not prevent anybody actually going to Antarctica. There is a booming tourist trade and various people have traipsed across it. The tallest Antarctic mountains are about 16,000ft (about 3 miles) high. The atmosphere is free-floating gases; there's no part of the atmosphere that doesn't have free-floating gases. No gas, no atmosphere. Gravitational attraction is proportional to the squared distance from the object's centre of mass. Earth's radius is 3,900 miles; the gravity on Mt Everest's summit is about 99.7% that at sea-level. Gases move according to whichever forces are acting upon them. They don't go looking for higher temperatures. There is no flat part of a sphere; the Earth is a sphere and orbits the sun. It rotates on its axis every 24 hours while doing so. The axial wobble has a period of 24,000 years. There is no substantial orbital decay at present. A vacuum is devoid of all matter including gases; it does not cause gases to liquify or freeze. Low temperatures do cause liquification which is probably what you're thinking of. No, you do not need to personally go into space to determine that the Earth is a sphere. The ancient Greeks deduced it from the motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses having a circular shadow. There is nothing banning you from travelling around the world. Observe the moon for long enough and you will see about 60% of it over time; while tidal locking keeps the same face pointed at it the interaction of sun, Earth & moon means there is a slight jiggle. With a high enough resolution you can also observe the shadow of lunar mountains and how they change with lunar orbit. It's clearly not a disk. Light does not decay.
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  6098. ​ @hershelpogue1745  "Not my concern." It is when you're underlying presumptions (whether you acknowledge them or not) affect your conclusions. A shadow is caused by the occlusion of light. A shadow is always directly away from the light source that is being occluded. The end of the shadow and the top of the object are always in line with the sun. If you have evidence otherwise then produce it. "the shadow from said object to shift opposite of placement of your pole" What is that supposed to mean? "By all accounts our sun shouldn't be over our head, according to the solar system charts in existence." Unless you are between the tropics of Cancer & Capricorn, the sun never is over your head. This what I mean about you presuming a shape to the Earth; you are assuming longitude to be perpendicular to the direction of the sun. "according to the solar system charts in existence. None show an above view of our sun," You referring to 2D representations of a 3D layout. You need to acknowledge the existence of 3D representations showing Earth's inclined axis and the declined orbit of the moon. "All angles times and positions speed changes" What speed changes? Both the sun & moon have constant angular velocities. "Their range an distance varies. " How would you calculate that from one observation point? "The sun the moon within each other earth proximity " Only in your imagination; eyeballing is not an accurate form of measurement. "uniquely different arrangements happening at the same time" Again, only in your imagination. "Where our earth hosting two celestial objects in the day sky, and the moon remains at night." The sun & moon can be up to 180 degrees apart in teh day time sky; why the hell would you think they would set together? "Moving extremely slow" The Earth rotates once per day; how fast do you think it should be going? " and can be seen 90 miles away." The moon is 239,000 miles way (measurable & measured) and hte sun is 93,000,000 miles away (measurable & measured). "Of course the angles depending on altitude." Latitude and that is what you expect from Earth being a sphere with an inclined axis, the moon orbiting the Earth in a declined orbit and the Earth orbiting the sun, ie., the current model works just fine for predicting their motion. "No one yet has ever explain anything that I consider conclusive. " What would you consider conclusive when you can't get your head around the existing model? "Even if it's full of flaws." Such as what because you have yet to describe any?
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  6158. You're confusing the vernacular meaning of theory with the philosophical; you need to use a comprehensive dictionary that lists the multiple meanings of each word. A scientific theory is a comprehensive explanation for a natural phenomenon that is well-substantiated by extensive experimentation & observation. It is not a guess or hunch; that is the vernacular meaning of the word. You do not need at atmosphere to push against or another object to push you. The Third Law of Motion is universal: to every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The hot gases from the combustion chamber goes one way, the rocket the other way with equal force. A item in a vacuum chamber remains where it is when the chamber is emptied. It is not become weightless or move on its own. When a force is applied it moves. If suspended and released the object will fall to the floor because gravity is acting on it. Visual acuity and horizon are two quite different things. When an object occupies less than 0.01 degrees a human is unlikely to be able to see it. Depending on the size of the object this usually occurs well before it reaches the horizon. (Yes, there can be more than one reason why can't something; it is not magically limited to one and only cause.) If it within the horizon then zooming can bring it back into view; once it passes the horizon no amount of zooming will bring it back. This is why FE'ers like to zoom in on ships but never try doing it with the setting sun that has unmistakably moved past the horizon. Your grasp of basic science is abominable. Don't try lecturing others.
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  6272. "Chicago is visible from 50 miles with zoom lenses." When there is a mirage but not routinely. "Water seeks ifs own level in oceans" Gravitational pull makes the water flow to the point gravitational equipotential across the surface. "Gravity is not a force" And yet has all the properties of a force. Density is the ratio of mass to volume; you need to explain how you think a ratio can act as a force and why it would act in a consistent direction. "Rain falls. Clouds float" Clouds are made up of microdroplets of water where the ratio of surface area to volume is sufficient for the movement of air exceed the gravitational pull. When the microdroplets condense into large droplets the ratio of surface area to volume falls and gravity becomes the stronger influence; it rains. "So how does air not get sucked away into the vacuum?" A vacuum doesn't suck; there is nothing there to do the sucking. Air pressure declines with increasing altitude, the decline eventually reaching zero (vacuum). The decline is gradual enough that the gravitational pull on the air is sufficient to balance the movement of air from higher to lower pressure. "How does air work over a surface which rotates 1000 mph" Firstly, 1000mph is a linear velocity and nothing rotates in a straight line. Earth makes one rotation per day and on the surface there will be a tangential velocity related to the latitude. Earth is not a smooth sphere; it possesses surface topology likes hills and mountains. When you stir your tea or coffee with a spoon the liquid begins rotating with the spoon's movement; it takes a lot longer to get air moving but the hill & mountains have had billions of years to achieve that motion. "orbits the sun at 66,600 mph?" Why would the atmosphere not move the same way as any other object orbitting the sun? "How come flatearthers aren't allowed to rebut these ridiculous 3 stooges liars?" Nobody is stopping you but rebutting requires that you actually state what you think is wrong and why with evidence to back that, not keep repeating "I don't see how...".
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  6332.  @amandaboser2.051  You're conflating fact, theory and hypothesis. The shape of Earth is a fact; the means by which the pyramids were built are hypotheses and scientific explanations for how something works are theories. There is only one shape that would explain what the ancient Greeks observed. The Earth's surface is fully mapped; there is only one shape the measurements are compatible with. Every photo of Earth shows a circular cross-section; that is true of only one shape. It's a fact that it is a sphere. There is no means to test how the pyramids were built; with sufficient funding the different hypotheses could be tried (ignoring H&S requirements) but even if only one was successful it would not demonstrate that was how they were built. Again, do note that this is an engineering problem, not a scientific one. A scientific theory is a comprehensive explanation for a natural phenomenon that is well-substantiated by extensive experimentation & observation. Since nothing can be tested absolutely (i.e., there's always a next time and that could be the time it fails) it is possible for an established theory to be wrong but it is highly unlikely. Scientific hypotheses (which is what you are referring to) span from an initial untested explanation for an observation through to approaching acceptance as a theory. Each offers an explanation what is currently known but there are still too many unknowns for it to be anything other than a working basis for something. "just look at covid" Actuality or the criticism from the legions of armchair experts?
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  6780.  @nonsensicaltimes780  "The distance we can still see a image without it distorting" Why would it distort? Do you mean disappear below the horizon? "you can see images that should be many meters below the curve" Hidden drop is determined by curvature, elevation and atmospheric refraction, not by curvature alone. When all factors are taken into account nothing can be seen that shouldn't be. It's why FE'ers are keen to use only curvature (and the wrong equation for it). "We can't hover in place and have the earth rotate below while we are stationary." Conservation of momentum and frame of reference. Both Earth & atmosphere rotates eastwards, once per day. A plane on the tarmac has eastwards momentum; it retains that momentum when it takes off in the same way that a thrown ball continue moving when it leaves your hand. The plane's engines modify the momentum. A hovering helicopter is stationary only relative to the Earth; it, Earth & atmosphere continue to move eastwards. There is no absolute frame of reference. "Those are interesting anomalies that the flat earth brings up." No, just ignorance. "'the institutions giving the information" We're talking about science and the combined labour of scientists worldwide producing comprehensive evidence. The information is not handed out by some shadowy institution, much less one that has existed for millennia. That you don't know the basis for conclusions does not mean nobody knows. "we are given all of what is know when it's comment knowledge" It'c common knowledge because it has been demonstrated to be true repeatedly by multiple parties. "Later to be seen as breakthrough" They vast majority are crap and always will be. Very occasionally there is an idea that turns out to be correct. It doesn't follow that something differing from the "official narratives" is correct or even insightful.
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  6784.  @nonsensicaltimes780  The Earth & atmosphere both rotate eastwards at the same speed. A hovering helicopter is the atmosphere moving eastwards at the same speed as the Earth under it. A helicopter on the ground is moving eastwards with the Earth and at the same speed as the Earth. Momentum is the product of mass & velocity; conservation of momentum means it continue moving eastwards with Earth & atmosphere when it take off in the same way a a thrown ball continue moving when it breaks contact with your hand. The helicopter does not magically lose momentum on take off any more than the ball stops moving when you throw it. A plane on the ground has eastwards momentum in the same way as the helicopter. When it takes off the engines modify the momentum so it moves eastwards a little faster or slower than the Earth. It does not magically lose momentum any more than a ball stop is moving when you throw it. The problem I think you are having is with frame of reference; you are trying to visualise it in both a relative frame and an absolute frame simultaneously. Earth, atmosphere & helicopter are all moving eastwards. In an absolute frame they are moving in the same direction at similar speed. In a relative frame of reference you treat something as if it was stationary (e.g. the Earth) and consider all motion relative to that reference object. A hovering helicopter has absolute motion eastwards but has no relative motion compared to the Earth. Whether a plane is travelling westwards or westwards its speed relative to the Earth will be the same.
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  6787. Density supposedly making things move displaced the FE moving or accelerating upwards. Still waiting on any explanation for how density can act as a force or why in a consistent direction. Do you have one? The stars are very distant (10-1000 light years away not 10-1000 miles) and moving in the same general direction as the sun as the galaxy rotates. Why is the people that prattle on about perspective can't grasp the effect of distance? They stars can be observed to rotate 360 degrees every 23hrs 56min and the Earth's progress on its orbit means there is a relative change in position through the course of the year, including which constellations are visible. "the fact that you can predict Barnards star shows there is not random movement of stars" Nobody is saying the stars move randomly. "science needs to be prove-able through repeatable experimentation" You mean like the Cavendish repeatedly demonstrating gravity? Laser gyroscopes repeatedly demonstrating rotation? Theodolites repeatedly measuring curvature? "for every 1 mile there should be an 8inch drop squared" That was a rule of thumb used by land surveyors in pre-sliderule days; it assumes constant elevation and not atmospheric refraction and thus is good for a few miles. I relasie it is incredibly difficult for you to grasp that there can be more than one variable in an equation but that is 8"/mile^2 is not how viewing distance is calculated. "Go out to a a lake or flat land and put someone on either side and tell if me if there is a drop..." You mean like repeatedly measuring the drop along the Bedford Canal? Still waiting on FE'er explanations for the motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, two celestial poles and constellations changing with latitude. What's the hold up with the FE'ers professing profound understanding of how everything really works?
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  6856. ​ @FrenchFryKayak  "whats the longest distance photo taken? " About 200 miles. With clear weather on a FE you should be able to see several hundred with the view disappearing in to a gradual haze. No weher woudl there be a horizon. "how did you give me means to find curvature?" Motion of the sun (observable & measurable), horizons (directly observable), angle to Polaris changing with altitude (observable & measurable), two celestial poles (directly observable) and constellations changing with latitude (directly observable). On a FE the motion of the sun would be variable, on a sphere a constant 15 degrees per hour. The angle to Polaris would triangulate to multiple points on a FE, one location on a sphere; Polaris is out of sight below the equator, which contradicts the FE star dome. When travelling towards a mountain the tip can be observed to appear from below the horizon, the remainder of the mountain gradually appearing from the top down; consistent with curvature while FE predict the mountain would always be completely visible, gradually appearing from the haze at a far greater observational distance. The stars can be observed to rotate anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern hemisphere (directly east to west around the equator), consistent with a sphere, contradictory to the one celestial pole claimed by FE. Which constellations are visible at night changes with latitude as would be expected on a sphere, contradictory to FE. "I also know that curvature isnt a factor," Your assumption is that Earth is a tiny sphere or it is flat. You haven't considered what you would see on a large sphere, just assumed that all sphere must be about the same size for...reasons.... If something is not directly observable then not seeing it tells you nothing of whether it exists. It is to be noticed that FE'ers have no problem using radio waves on TV's and phone or being X-rayed or using IR scanners while loudly proclaiming that what you can't see doesn't exist. Perspective does not magically preclude your view being directly blocked.
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  6975. Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles: all verifiable by any Tom, Dick or Harry, all indicative of the Earth being a globe, all disprove a FE and we are still waiting on for FE'ers explanations for how they could work on a FE. How difficult is it for the people who claim to have it all figured to actually say what they have figured out? "a great deal of CGI and very little photographic evidence" Still waiting on any FE'er to explain their technique for identifying CGI or fake photos, their explanation for how Photoshop & CGI were used before Photoshop & CGI existed, how real-time CGI is possible. Still waiting on the evidence for a see-through moon. What exactly would be gained from going back to the moon? Manned expeditions are highly expensive compared to unmanned ones and putting two men on the moon for a few hours is not going to get a moonbase built. Why continue running moon landings every year? "solar system and Big Bang relativity model is both scientifically and historically questionable" Still waiting on rational arguments for that. "I say belief belief is the dangerous bit" You personally can deduce the shape of the Earth easily. You can measure the curvature with as little as sticks & shadows. It has been fully mapped, fully measured and (whether you like it or not) extensively photographed. It's an object; all objects have a physical, measurable shape. Its shape is a fact, not a belief. FE'er failing to produce any evidence to back their claims does not make a FE a fact. "a little bit more open minded" Open minded means the willingness to listen to and consider alternatives; consideration means you can be told exactly why your FE beliefs are crap.
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  7025. ​ @ALightOn  FE'ers favour "I don't see how", "just gotta be" & "just does", feel that maths, measurements, scale, multiple factors, 3D etc are there to confuse people and that it is not necessary for explanations of observable reality to be in agreement with observable reality. The ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a sphere around 500BC from the existence of horizons, the motion of the sun (constant angular velocity, rising & setting), lunar eclipses always having a circular shadow (only one shape has a circular cross-section from every angle), lunar phases, the stars changing with altitude. With some travel you can observe that we have two celestial poles, that the stars change as you move southwards and that the angle Polaris declines with altitude, becoming below the horizon south of the equator. Using a telescope equipped with a solar filter you can ascertain that he sun maintains a constant angular diameter through the course of the day, passes below the horizon and can't be zoomed back into view. With some phone calls you ascertain that everybody around the world sees the same lunar phase. With some travel or collaboration you can measure the angle to the sun at different locations with sticks & shadows and measure the curvature over the area covered. You can watch the ISS passing overhead on schedule unaffected (clouds aside) by the weather. You can get on a plane on one continent and fly direct to an airport on another continent, something achievable only with accurate maps.
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  7109. ​ @thomasspeed3390  Both Matuse & I score 4 on this subject; most FE'ers fall into 2 while professing 4. "Your naked eye CANNOT see the earth's arc" You can see the effect of the arc, e.g., the sun rising & setting. According to FE predictions it won't come within 10-20 degrees of the horizon, would show highly variable size through the course of the day and would always be visible. A globe predicts a constant angular diameter & velocity and rising & setting which is what we observe. FE'ers claim clouds reducing glare is the sun shrinking though they can't explain why it only happens when the sun passes behind clouds. They claim perspective mysteriously squashes objects at the horizon and only at the horizon though they can't explain how this would be or how the FE sun would get near the horizon. The FE sun would never be far enough away to be not seen and there is no evidence that light spontaneously stops at any distance, never mind the highly variable one claimed by FE'ers. FE'ers keep claiming they have the knowledge to explain it all but none are willing to divulge it (not even their gurus) despite apparently wanting everybody to be persuaded by it. This is what we mean about their ignorance & stupidity. "the bend is not significant but it is there" It gets increasingly significant with distance, the sunlight having to travel through an increasing amount of curvature in the atmosphere between the source (emitted or reflected) & observer. It has to be taken into account when calculating where the observer's horizon will be. It would not give the illusion of the Earth being flat. "Your steadfast approach to given knowledge..." As I pointed out earlier, it isn't possible for someone to test everything personally. When similar data is collected by multiple sources it is unlikely I would get something different if I did try; I can accept the conclusions made by others as accurate. In this instance, a massive and totally pointless conspiracy running undiscovered for 2500 years is not a plausible alternative. Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, two celestial poles & constellations changing with latitude indicate the Earth is a globe; that they can be observed disproves a FE. The curvature can be measured with as little as sticks & shadows. The ISS passes overhead on a rigid schedule; with a good telescope its outline is clearly visible. You can get on a plane on one continent and fly to directly to an airport on another; that isn't possible without accurate maps. We all see the same face of the moon, not the different angles predicted by FE. You're making a philosophical argument that the limit of current knowledge leaves alternative open. However that only means you can't prove something absolutely; it doesn't prevent something from being disproven. When FE claims don't match observable reality then they are not and never will be a valid explanation for that observable reality.
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  7148. ​ @cleeeeeeeeve  "there are really many things don’t work with the round earth" And it would really make a change if any FE'er could come up with a fault to back that claim. "How can we all see pollaris" Polaris lies on the Earth's rotational axis; consequently the stars in the northern hemisphere appear to revolve around it. It is about 450 light years away and, since the movement is galaxy wide, moves in the same general direction as the sun. At that distance you aren't going to see any appreciable change in its position over 1000's of years, never mind day to today. "using physics only land should be at the equator not water!" Usually the claim is that the water should all be at the equator due to centrifugal force. However even at the equator the centrifugal force (where it is strongest) is about 0.5% that of gravity so the bulging is minimal. "scientists don’t all agree on how the earth looks" In what way? Different cameras producing different colours? The photos' differing altitudes enabling different areas to be visible? "the round earth map (which scientists still don’t agree on)" Everybody but FE'ers are agreed upon the map; that there are intercontinental flights should be a clue we have accurate maps. "you can put the both content of Africa and content of South America inside Russia?" You're referring to the Mercator projection of the globe, not the globe map. Try to map a 3D surface (globe) on a 2D medium (paper) and you will get distortion; that is apparent in the Mercator projection. Mapping a 2D surface (Flat Earth) to a 2D medium (paper) should be a cinch but we are still waiting on even the crudest FE map. "What about satellites? Are they spinning with earth at the same speed? Or they are still?" Do you mean spinning or orbiting? The speed at which they orbit is dependent on the height of the orbit as the inertial force has to equal gravity to remain in a stable orbit; the closer they are to Earth the faster they have to orbit. Space is frictionless so they do not need to be continually powered to move at a constant velocity. Similarly there is no friction to stop them rotating to match the orbital time to keep dishes pointed at the Earth. No, it is not impossible for orbiting & rotating to occur simultaneously. "If they are inside the atmosphere" They aren't. The confusion seems to lie with space containing a few molecules per cubic centimetre, FE'ers have a serious problem comprehending the difference numbers ans assume it must be the same as the atmosphere. " it is about common sense" More like ignorance and incredulity.
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  7177.  @bmanmcfly  You replies are almost all FE talking points that have been explained copious times. Are you just being rhetorical for the sake of debate? 1. It would appear to be stationary & immovable to someone standing on it, ie., no relative motion. Their feeling it to be so would actually make it so. 2a. I should have been more specific; the 19th century saw the increase in precision and comprehensiveness of world mapping that would enable to the shape to be derived from the mapping rather than simply mapping onto a sphere. It was the forerunner of modern geodesy. 2b. South of the equator the lines of latitude would increase in length on a FE and decrease in length on a globe. While you can indeed circle the north pole by walking in a tiny circle around the south pole that is not going to stretch the south pole from a single point to a long circle. To be accurate, both pole lie on the rotational axis and by circling the axis anywhere you would be circling the poles. 3a. What does the Antarctic Treaty have to do with it? Why do you think the only link between space agencies and the rest of the world is through "visuals for public consumption"? 3b. You mean video compression errors? Astronaut suits include an internal bottle & straw for drinking; one leaked, the water coalesced on the nearest surface which was the astronaut's face, blocking nose & mouth. I'm still waiting on anybody to explain to me how training pools would preclude space flight. I've seen compilations; I have yet to see a compilation that didn't rely on audience ignorance & gullibility and actually showed purported evidence. 3c. Religious debate perhaps but not scientific debate. By philosophical I assume you are referring to debate about subjective & objective perceptions? Do note that in science the emphasis is on disproving hypotheses to get closer to objective truth, not trying to justify predetermined conclusions. And the objective relevance of "an inconsequential speck of dust in an uncaring universe" is? 4. The Eratosthenes experiment has been frequently reproduced. Atmospheric refraction is not going to be great enough to account for the difference and there is no evidence of a huge lens hanging over a FE. Using three or more points distinguishes between globe & plane; it's an example of FEers refusing to think beyond two. The Einstein quote is not the usual misquote but I can't find any indication that he said what you referred to. If it does exist then I would note that the key word is earthly. I'm quite aware science requires reproducibility; FEers do seem unaware that everything is tested and experiments & observations reproduced over and over, endlessly asserting that nobody has reproduced key results. Please explain how the spiritual & immaterial would affect the material universe.
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  7178.  @bmanmcfly  1. It would need something far better than vague Something Else Forces and, most importantly, would have to be consistent with all the measurements that have been made. 2. The oblation is polar (reduces the radius by about 10 miles) and there is an even smaller deviation just south of the equator. That the Earth is not a perfect sphere does not support the notion of a FE; as is frequently pointed out, the Earth is closer to a perfect sphere than a pool ball. Time zones are artificial constructs; they are irrelevant to this subject. 3. Satellites are not typically designed & built by space agencies, just launched by them. The ISS is visible from the Earth's surface. Signals from space are detectable by anybody with an aerial. Telescopes are freely owned. What makes you think the space agencies only contact with the public is through pictures that they release? Still waiting on somebody to produce this fakery. Umpteen claims of "just gotta be fake" concerning something that isn't understood is not evidence of fakery. Musk's comment of "genuine because it looks fake" refers to people's accusations of such as the Apollo craft looking fake because they didn't resemble a sci-fi craft. 4. Equivalent if only two points are used. There's nothing to stop more than two points being used and more than two points are typically used. It was more to replace vague explanations of "the gods" or "just does". You said you were an electrical engineer; do your systems work by continuous divine intervention or is there order to their construction & operation? You appear to be appealing divine intervention to anything we don't yet know, e.g., dark matter hypothesis. I'll check the Physics Girl video for what you refer to. Can you give me a pointer as to which video it was?
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  7307. ​ @rowenmartinez2461  "thats what i meant by censored" "Our Community Guidelines are designed to ensure that our community stays protected. They set out what's allowed and not allowed on YouTube" That is censorship. "no flat earth researchers are using 8in per squared mile in their calculations" So why do they keep quoting it? "do you mean the law of perspective" FE'ers continually refer to "the law of perspective" but none of you can ever say what this law actually is. Do you want to try? "The horizon is just a line of convergence like looking at a long hallway." The sun remains the same size rising & setting as it does throughout the entire day. "The farthest zoomed in distance is 275 miles" The nearest star is 4 light years away; most of what appear in a night sky picture are hundreds of lightyears away. There's no magic distance your camera can't see beyond; like your eyes they are passive receptors, detecting whatever light reaches them regardless of how far it has travelled. Do you wan tto try explaining why you think eyes & cameras are active receptors and how they would operate? "120,000 ft up and you still can’t see any curvature" A curved horizon becomes apparent to the eye at that altitude, hence all the FE'er bleating about "fisheye lenses". Are you referring to curvature of the horizon or seeing the land curving away from you? "Why haven’t we been to the moon in 50 years?" We have, repeatedly. The Chinese landed a rover there last year. The LRO is in orbit taking photos of the surface. Do you mean manned missions? Explain what you think the benefit would be? For a fraction of the coast of putting two men on the moon for a few hours your can have a rover running for potentially years. "Why was all the telemetry data destroyed including the technology that took us to the moon?" It wasn't. I realise these are really difficult concepts for FE'ers to grasp but magnetic tapes went the same way as floppies while data is transferable between different media, singe-use craft can only be used once and all technology becomes dated and incompatible with what develops. "all the bs things that nasa has to say and tweak" What does NASA have to do with it? The ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a sphere c. 500BC and a spherical Earth was the centrepoint of the Ptolemaic model from 100AD onwards. Reasonably accurate world-wide maps began appearing in the 18th century AD and have become increasingly precise with time. Sputnik was launched in 1957 AD by the Soviet Union. NASA was founded in 1958 AD. Explain how you think NASA was managing all that before it was founded? "Water always remains leveled this is repeatable observable and measurable" 0.0144 degrees curvature per mile. What size container are you measuring? "How then could it curve around the earth and be leveled" By the surface being at equal gravitational equipotential. Look up the multiple meanings of level in a comprehensive dictionary and read beyond the first entry.
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  7397. The ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a sphere from the motion of the sun, horizons, angles to Polaris, two celestial poles and the constellations changing with latitude. Since then we have developed navigation & cartography and have the world fully mapped; the data fits only a sphere. We have put satellites & spacecraft into orbit and observed a sphere; we use satellites for GPS & TV and can observe the ISS passing overhead unfailingly on schedule. We currently have several satellites collectively taking several full hemisphere shots every hour, instantly viewable due to satellite transmissions & the web. FE'er can't explain the sun's motion, can't explain why they can't see several hundred miles in the absence of horizons, can't explain why Polaris is only visible in the northern hemisphere, can't explain two celestial poles, can't explain constellations changing with latitude, can't produce even a crude map, can't explanation how navigation would work, can't explain plane flights in the southern hemisphere, can't explain the ISS's visibility, GPS being available across oceans, can't produce the Real Model they all claim to possess, can't produce the Real Map they all claim to possess, can't produce the Real Evidence they all claim to possess, can't engage their supposed knowledge, insights & profound understanding of reality to explain anything and are totally unable to comprehend concepts such as maths, measurements, more than one variable or that their senses are very limited. Such is their depth of reasoning, Kangen here believes it is possible to use a P900 to zoom into one person from 22,000 miles away. What evidence do you think FE'ers can bring to a discussion?
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  7637. ​ @bathin813  There was a traceable signal to, on and from the moon, detectable equipment left on the moon and verifiable material brought back. The reflectors are regularly used, the materials have been distributed worldwide. An arm-waving "nobody's analysing it" and "no clear evidence" is BS. The Apollo missions were 50 years ago; technology has moved on in that time. Materials, fuels, computers, manufacturing practices have all changed in that time. The people with the hands-on experience of designing & building the craft are retired & dead. The blueprints still exist but many changes were made during construction; the people's notes still exist but you would need to piece it all together and you would still be using 50 year old technology. Much of the stuff was made by outside contractors who subsequently repurposed the workshops, the people with the hands-on experience ultimately retired & died and paper records were eventually trashed. Assuming it could all be reconstructed you would have a craft built with 50 year old technology incompatible with today's and a design that is incompatible with current needs. One set of tapes went astray. One set. The footage was for PR purposes, not scientific. "They have been landing things on mars and moon for along time." Things, not people. Manned missions require taking people, supplies and life support all of which takes mass that has to be launched, equipment that has to be purposely designed & built and which strictly limits the mission time. Unmanned missions are far more economical. There was no point in wasting money sending a few people to the moon to do a few hours work in the surface every year just to to satisfy some people that it is possible to. "They even admitted that they photo shopped the blue marble" Blue Marble was shot on film in 1973 as Apollo 17 returned to Earth. Blue Marble 2 (aka Blue Marble 2012) was a composite made from LEO satellite shots in 2012. Two different pictures obtained in two different ways. Since then we have put cameras into high orbit; Himawari-8, EPIC and Elektro-L are collectively taking several shots per hour, all immediately downloadable. "All cgi or photoshop stuff" The funny thing is, the people who can apparently identify CGI at a glance can never explain what tells them it is CGI. They just assume it. Most of them don't even know what CGI is. "when it comes to a bit further nothing real" Space X has external cameras on every launch.
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  7858. ​ @flawlesscarlo  "Still working with one answer solves all?" You then go on to talk about two different means to deal with two separate problems. Try to engage your brain before typing. "The problem is they don't go up that high any more" The atmosphere begins at ground level and the ISS isn't within the atmosphere. How do you conclude Soyuz & Dragon don't need to deal with reentry? "No matter how hard the 17,500 mph rocket (duck) tries, it will NEVER catch the 500,000 mph moon (bullet)" The moon's orbital speed is about 2300mph, the Apollo craft had a maximum speed of 2500mph. If you mean the motion of moon & Apollo through the galaxy then they would be moving at near identical speeds. If you think not then you need to explain why you think the Apollo craft would have lost momentum on take-off. The computer used for the navigational calculations was Earth based; they were not done on the Apollo computers as you are envisaging. That you don;t understand the calculations does not mean that nobody else does or that they are incalculable. "you believe Israel went to the moon meanwhile NASA is still working on getting past the V.A.B" The computers on unmanned probes can simply shut down briefly while passing through. They don't have that option on a manned craft where the computers are running the necessary life support. "NASA hasn't been in 50 years and admitted they can't get past L.E.O.?????" Nobody has the technology to take a manned vessel through the VAB right now; unmanned probes from every space agency have been passing through for the last 60 years. Do you understand the difference between a manned vessel and an unmanned probe? THe ISS is not an aircraft. The Karman line is about 100km (62 miles) and the ISS orbits at 220 miles. Do you understand that 220 > 62?
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  7987.  @andrewaitken3684  Difficult as it for FE'ers to comprehend with your limited spacial reasoning, space is not a fixed height and thus cameras can be at very different distances from the Earth. The further away from the globe they are, the greater the angle the camera can see and the smaller the proportion of a set size area in the resulting picture. If you don't believe then point a camera to wards your feet and ask yourself why you can't see half the world in the frame. "started by nazi scientists" Started by President Eisenhower, formally General Eisenhower, who led the Allied Forces in Europe against the Nazis. "glitches in there live feed" Video compression error from interference between transmitter & receiver. "visible harnesses" How does an arrow pointing into thin air make a harness visible? How can astronauts make a continuous video of a tour of the ISS modules? "air bubbles during ‘spacewalks’" Still waiting on the FE'er explanation for why these "bubbles" would drift slowly sideways rather than rapidly upwards. What's the betting you won't explain either? "couldn’t set the lander down here without assistance" The landing modules were still sitting on the moon. The ascent modules were smashed on the moon. They returned in the command modules. How exactly do you think they could have used the landing modules they left behind? How exactly do you think a landing module designed for lunar gravity and no atmosphere would function identically on Earth? You think you've got it all thought out so what are the answers?
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  8101.  @EdenCultures  The excipient list covers all possible content in a vaccine, not just routine ingredients. They do clearly state "Others are residual trace amounts of materials that were used during the manufacturing process and removed"; this covers all the cell culture materials that may have made it through purification, e.g., cells, protein, DNA. I want to see evidence of Deisher's claims of a whole genome found, DNA outweighing antigen content and antigen being absent. Lack of liability exists in the US; the US is not the only country manufacturing vaccines. I commented on which stem cells would be affected because it wasn't clear how you thought all your cells became mutated. Either you think DNA has penetrated every stem cell in your body and had exactly the same affect or you think one of your parent had mutated sperm or ova. There is a huge difference between a mutagen and DNA contamination. The former can penetrate the cell without getting digested by the cell; it would be small enough to penetrate the nucleus and can either inflict damage on the DNA or affect the repair mechanisms; the damage would be limited to small changes in the coding. You're suggesting fragments of DNA are making it into the cell, through to the nucleus and inserting themselves like a virus DNA into a chromosome. That would produce an insertion mutation, not a point mutation. There would not be the change to a single codon that you have but whole inserted sequence. Stem cell therapy means isolating stem cells, "swapping out" genes and reintroducing them into the body. Viruses inject their DNA/RNA by a specific mechanism, binding to the cell membrane and injecting the DNA/RNA into the cell. The presence of a viral antigen, or even a whole virus, is not going to replicate that effect. Viruses can only be used as a carrier if the target gene sequence has been inserted in their DNA/RNA i.e., we are using a modified virus. If a single cell starts expressing a non-self protein then the immune system destroys it; that happens routinely in the body with no symptoms apparent to the human. Despite the high efficiency of DNA repair nothing is perfect in replication and mutations do occur. They usually result the cell's self-destruction and few are going to be competent long enough to expression a non-self protein. Only if the cells can also expression an "all clear" signal for the immune system will it survive. "The similarity of the genes from the human DNA make it MORE likely to insert into whichever cell." To be accurate it makes sequence swapping easier, not sequence insertion. DNA is DNA; there is no difference between different sources other than the actual coding within it. The source makes no difference on penetrating the cell. The numbers vary due to the way numbers are collated, which vaccines are being looked at and by what criteria a reaction is categorised. Very few people have a severe reaction; more have mild fever & headache. Norm covers the average effects, not a specific genome.
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  8102.  @EdenCultures  Neither Deisher nor the Corvela Institute have produced evidence. The former appears only in law journals, the latter has published two leaflets. "an industry that has little to no oversight?" There is plenty of oversight; there is also the accusation that anybody overseeing must be biased because they are overseeing. "They are now recommending vaccines to pregnant women with NO safety testing on development." Evidence? Thalidomide was unusual. At the time it was developed it wasn't known that a fetus could react differently; that was a consequence of Thalidomide, not an oversight at the time. The ethylmercury was found primarily in the babies' faeces. The research on the monkeys indicated ready clearance of the ethylmercury over the course of 7-10 days whereas the methylmercury tended to be retained. You're assuming they have similar properties. "viruses grown in the blended up remains of aborted babies" Some of the cell lines in which the viruses are grown originated from some fetuses in the 1960's & 1970's. That's it for the involvement of fetuses in vaccines. If you think I am unreasonably sceptical of your claims it is this kind of reasoning that fails to convince me. Wakefield made up some of the data and nobody can reproduce his results; that's why he got into trouble. "Do the research instead of spouting one side of propaganda" Which indicates an assumption on your part that nobody is doing research unless they come up with the answers you want to hear. That is insulting.
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  8185.  @homelesszaya6711  You're arguing that something being in a text book means it has never been done. "I ask questions, so I'm uneducated" You're only asking rhetorical questions. It's reasonable to ask how we know something and what the evidence for it is; it isn't reasonable to summarily dismiss the answers. "I challenge your spewing whaty u learned as ultimate truth" You want the technique for the measuring the speed of light to be demonstrated right here in front of you in a text box? "u rest on your intelligence that was garnered by reading other peoples work" You're arguing that everybody human has to independently reproduce all the scientific work of centuries before you will be satisfied there is evidence for the accepted answers. You do realise how much information we are talking about? Even with decades of working in a research lab I'm only directly carrying out a tiny fraction of all that has been done in my field alone. Recording what has been done so information can be distributed is the only way humans are going to learn. "tell me I'm uneducated" You started off by arguing 10 miles was a large proportion of 3,900 miles. If you wish to hail yourself as a free thinker then there is an obligation to actually think, not just run around telling people how much of a thinker you are. If you think there is something incorrect about a scientific conclusion then you need to state what you think is wrong. "do u believe we have a way to measure the speed of light ? With proof besides the equation relevant to it ? When distance and time between 2 points is the relative speed , correct? But the equation is based off a vacuum correct ? How can u tell me how fast a laser goes a kilometer without a pulse ? U woukd need 2 "clocks" to measure correct based off the stationary clock in theory? (Clock being a time keeping unit not house clock ) 313 thousand kilometers a second is the theory correct? Based on the "round trip" measurement." You seem to have a jumble of ideas in there. The velocity is measured through a round trip (and one clock) and averaged on the assumption that the speed of light will not vary between the two directions. If you think there is sound reason to believe the speed does vary between directions then you need to give it, not airily wave your hand and say you're a free thinker. You wouldn't try one way because of the relativity problem; the clocks would be out of sync. It isn't necessary to stipulate you don't mean house clocks; that falls under the bloody obvious. "how fast a laser goes a kilometer without a pulse ?" doesn't make sense as a question.
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  8382. ​ @GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz  "Tony Heller is a practicing geologist" He has a BSc in geology and subsequently spent an unspecified length of time at the Los Alamos labs. He then obtained an MSc in software engineering. Climatologists will have PhDs in various branches of science (including geology) and most will have spent decades actively involved in research. So, again, what do you have to have done or be doing to qualify as a geologist in your mind? "If you look at the requirements for the field of climatology, they have no geological background or knowledge of the past history of the earth" I have. Climatology relies on multiple branches of science; many people will be geologists, many won't. "They are not meteorologists who seldom believe in climate change because they know how fickle the weather is." Again, you're referring to people who specialise in make short term predictions. 3 days, 3 millenia and 3 million years are all quite different time scales. "we don't have any records of past climate except for geological studies" That geologists are involved in collecting data does not mean that the data is limited to geology. "They also know there have been long periods of weather in the past with far more CO2 in the atmosphere, and a warmer average temperature" So? What make you think something is limited to two variables? "We also don't have the computing power to predict climate, we can only predict weather about 72 hours in advance, the rest is based on statistics." Different time scales and different geographic scales requiring input of different data; the two aren't comparable. All predictions of complex systems (including both climate & weather) are reliant on statistics.
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  8418. ​ @cartoonkidzy3405  When the FE predicts that the sun doesn't rise & set and you can observe it every day what validity do you think the idea as? The ancient Greeks deduced the Earth was a sphere around 500BC from the existence of horizons, the motion of the sun (constant angular velocity, rising & setting), lunar eclipses always having a circular shadow (only one shape has a circular cross-section from every angle), lunar phases, the stars changing with altitude. With some travel you can observe that we have two celestial poles, that the stars change as you move southwards and that the angle Polaris declines with altitude, becoming below the horizon south of the equator. Using a telescope equipped with a solar filter you can ascertain that he sun maintains a constant angular diameter through the course of the day, passes below the horizon and can't be zoomed back into view. With some phone calls you ascertain that everybody around the world sees the same lunar phase. With some travel or collaboration you can measure the angle to the sun at different locations with sticks & shadows and measure the curvature over the area covered. You can watch the ISS passing overhead on schedule unaffected (clouds aside) by the weather. You can get on a plane on one continent and fly direct to an airport on another continent, something achievable only with accurate maps. NASA was formed in 1958AD. No FE'er has explained how they think NASA is influencing the ancient Greeks. Pictures from orbit (Himwari-8, Elektro-L and EPIC are currently downloading several per hour) are the icing on the cake for soemthign that was proven millenia ago.
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  8426.  @coreym162  "You teach by showing ways to replicate the same results accessibly." "Most people work long hours or don't have access to the research, labs to replicate the results in, the money or time to work out the same conclusion presented on face value. That should be the scientist's job." You don't notice the contradiction? If there was a simple or even quicker or cheaper way to arrive at the same results we would already be using it. "Start simply and work your way up" And it takes years, even decades to get to the level of understanding and expertise where you can replicate much of what has gone before. What gets taught in schools is the very basics, is not doubted and there is no evidence suggesting it could be wrong. The chances of any of it being wrong are remote. That the basics can be taught in a school lab does not mean every bit of knowledge can be reduced to that level or is there any likelihood of the fundamental principles changing. You do seem to be advocating what is actually done (work your way up through undergraduate & postgraduate degrees and build a full-time career in science) but want it to apply to everyone who might be tangentially interested. Most people don't have the time; there is no simple way to transfer the knowledge & understanding beyond the relatively superficial without the years of full-time commitment. "They also assume scientific consensus is unified" Near as damn it unified; it wouldn't be regarded as consensus if it wasn't. That there will always be someone who wants to differ is not evidence there is something fundamentally wrong with what is accepted or that everybody is ignoring some vital piece of information (or that there is some shadowy power group telling everybody what to think). "where and how research broke off from basic scientific principal" It doesn't; it just gets more complex. Two forces acting simultaneously is a still simple but there are people asking why the net result differs from the action of a single force; the principles haven't changed but there's people think they have. "That is just lazy and unnecessarily complicates the learning process" I can't impart years of knowledge & understanding in a short conversation. Unless they wish to commit to years of learning then they have to be satisfied with simplified, truncated explanations that require accepting much at face value. Sagan had the talent I referred to; not many people do. Nevertheless, what he wrote was very much introductory, aimed at a lay audience, not simple yet comprehensive explanations for anything and everything done in science.
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  8521. ​ @sleazym9685  How fast the Earth moves has nothing to do with determining gravity. Gravity is determined solely by an object's mass. It is not an irresistible force but one proportional to the object's mass. It does not magically mean no other forces can act at the same time. Sphere do not have a top & bottom. The geographic convention of placing north at the top and south at the bottom is purely convention; it is not a statement that north is top and south is down. Down is towards the centre of the sphere; elevation is variation in the distance in the centre. Curvature is the change in the angle relative to the centre as you cross the surface. Elevation & curvature are two completely different things. That water runs to a lower elevation does not mean water runs north to south. "I believe what I see" Sure. The sun rises & sets, horizons exist, the angle to Polaris matches latitude, constellations change with latitude & season, there are two celestial poles - all observed and steadfastly denied by FEers who "believe what they see". "you prove said theory" We have the shape of the Earth measured to the cubic metre. We have accurate maps that enable you to step on a plane and fly directly to an airport on another continent. The Earth has been photographed from every angle. What more evidence do you need exactly? "bring the facts that we can see" As I've pointed out, you can observe the motion of the sun & stars but you deny it is occurring. What are you capable of seeing exactly?
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  8916. ​ @KangenAlec  Curiously my critique has been removed.... None of you have ever gone to check Antarctica but you think you know better than those who have? There's a boat race that circumnavigates Antarctica; the distance around Antarctica is repeatedly confirmed, corresponds to the globe and definitely disagrees with your far longer, unsupported claim. The Gleason map is a projection of the accurate globe map; the video does say "azimuthal equidistant projection". Being a projection of a 3D surface onto a 2D surface it is inevitably distorted; the only accurate distances on it are those that run exactly north-south, hence the lack of a scale. The further south you go on the Gleason projection, the greater the divergence of distances from reality. "Scientifically & practically accurate' is wishful thinking on Gleason's part, not evidence. USGS uses WGS84, ie., the globe. Nobody uses the Gleason projection as an "official map" except flatearthers. The UN logo is intended to depict the member countries; it's not a secret message. Globes didn't appear until recent centuries for the simple reason it is only in recent centuries that we have fully mapped the globe. Prior to then there would be large areas marked "here there be dragons". When the earliest globe map was in 1492 and the Gleason projection was made in 1892, it is reasonable to conclude that the later was derived from the former, not vice versa with time travel. The edge of the Antarctic glacial shelf is not evidence of a unsurmountable ice-wall, and certainly not evidence of an ice-wall 200 miles inland. "logically assume more land is being hidden" on what basis exactly? Byrd is referring to the then unexplored region of Antarctica, which lay on the far side of the south pole relative to his expedition. He comments on the size of the area, not claims there is another continent. And that is just the FE crap in the first question....
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  9016.  @allthatyoutouch3164  2500 years ago the ancient Greeks deduced the shape of the Earth primarily by observing the sun & stars. Since then the surface has been mapped and conforms only to a globe. It has been photographed from every angle; it's a globe. FE'ers are claiming that it is all wrong; the onus is on you to prove your case, not on others to do the legwork for you. 2500 years on you have yet to explain the sun's path. Each day we see it rise & set, crossing the sky at a constant angular velocity while maintaining a constant angular diameter. You insist it doesn't come within 20 degrees of rising or setting, that the angular velocity varies and that the angular diameter varies, ie., what we see is totally wrong, but you have yet to divulge your explanation for how it could appear as it does. Why can't the people who have "done the research", "figured it out" and "thought it through" divulge their explanation? Why is perpetually producing claims of there being a video somewhere that you've all seen and you all understand with a clarity that surpasses the most profound of profound thinker but which you mysteriously can't say where it is or what exactly this explanation is? Whys is it the same routine for each claim you make? How difficult is it to be specific? "how much research the flat earther has done" When you do give any references, you all refer to videos that repeat the same tired canards over and over. We we look we can't find any sign of this El Dorado that you all know exists and claim to be easily found. Instead we have to explain to The Enlightened such concepts as dividing 360 degrees by 25,000 miles to estimate how many degrees curvature per mile you are looking for. Do you want to try divulging these explanations or just continue saying "ask somebody else"?
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  9146.  @Supaxiro  Asking questions of the people who profess to have the answers is research. "All satellites move according to how they're programmed" If they aren't in freefall then they require a propulsion system and that requires a source of fuel. No amount of programming is going to have any effect without those. What propulsion systems keeps satellites aloft for years? That still doesn't explain their observable trajectories. Why wouldn't a satellite be accessible across the entire FE simultaneously? "My only question begs an answer and I don't expect my answer from you" Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses always having a circular shadow. Rotation is demonstrated with laser gyroscopes to be a constant 15 degrees/hr. Orbit is observable through stellar parallax. The world is accurately mapped enabling long-distance travel & trade. Still waiting on FE'er explanations for all those. "I expect to get it by my own efforts and gathering of facts" Watch the sun & stars. "North and South Pole if I'm ever permitted" Nobody is stopping you. "what's beyond the north and south pole are restricted from explorers" They aren't. "Because they can't and have never proved the world is a globe" Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses always having a circular shadow. Rotation is demonstrated with laser gyroscopes to be a constant 15 degrees/hr. Orbit is observable through stellar parallax. The world is accurately mapped enabling long-distance travel & trade. WGS84 is the measured shape of Earth. "Doing the work of a critical thinker and seeking Truth" Not much evidence of critical thinking if I have to ask the questions that you should have thought of in the first place.
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  9384. ​ @ja4nice  The quality control in science is the reproducibility of the results; even the best work is at risk from statistical error (some things do happen by chance) & human error particularly with the complexity of the work and the sensitivity at which we have to work. The more people reproducing the work then the larger the accumulative sample sizes and the more accurate the result. You aren't going to get a definitive answer from one person's work; the "insolutes" are removed through accumulative work. The experiments people do in school are simplistic and give clear answers that demonstrate the basic principles being taught. They are not representative of what is being done in a research where there are far more complicating factors and the outcome is not already known. Research is published in specialist journals, nor newspapers & magazines (not even science magazines). Each research paper is precise in its content & methodology and individually very limited in scope. Reproduction is based on that information; what occurs by chance or error is gradually weeded out. What is subsequently included in textbooks is years down the line from that research when certainty has been established. What you read in newspaper science sections are reports of isolated research papers which sound exciting to the reporter writing the articles; they are not representative of the accumulating knowledge, just interesting sounding tidbits. You can't come to any meaningful conclusion about scientific research if that is your main source of information. Do note that if you're making comparisons with historic work you've read about then you are reading the final conclusion (not the ongoing work) and they were working at a level of purities and sensitivities that are unbelievably crude by today's standards. They were picking the low hanging fruit; we're working at entirely different level of complexity.
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  9500.  @simonwachon6723  If a factor is present then it has an effect on the object; it has an effect even if it is not the dominant effect, e.g., gravity does not magically cut off when you life an object and the conservation of momentum is not magivally cancelled when a plane turns its engines on. Pressure inside a container would be constant. You aren't going to get a pressure gradient when the only factor is pressure and it is in a sealed space. You need to explain how you think that could happen. It doesn't matter whether gravity is a direct force or the result of space-time curvature by a gravitational field; gravity is a factor and a factor that gets weaker with increasing distance from the planet. A balance of pressure and declining gravity on a planetary scale will produce a pressure gradient. The ISS has been in visible orbit for 20+ years. We are still awaiting a good explanation from conspiracy buffs as to how it can be achieved. So far we've had a plane that doesn't run out of fuel, isn't affected by the ambient weather and piloted by people who are unaware of what they are doing; a balloon that is propelled by nothing, remained aloft for 20 years longer than the usual lifetime of a balloon and is also unaffected by weather; a worldwide network of projectors that nobody can find projecting an image onto something, that have never gone on the blink in 20+ years, that are unaffected by cloud cover and (like the planes) staffed by people who are unaware of what they are doing; a chip with a mini-projector secretly built into every telescope worldwide. Do you want to try coming up with one? "for there to be a ball Earth the horizon needs to be a physical edge" Why does there need to be a physical edge? "Are you going with Newton who didn’t want his name ascribed to Gravity" Then why would he publish and stick his name on the Principia? He expressed disquiet because he couldn't explain what gravity was, only the effect that it had.
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  9518.  @spirit_mechanic  "This is how it is with creation science." "Creation science" is that quoted while trying to justify the Biblical account. "That isn't logical OR scientific." Because they are two different things. Not knowing what initiated the BB does not magically erase the evidence of the expansion following it. You don't need to know whose finger was on the trigger to track the progress of the bullet. How the BB was initiated has bugger all to do with how planets & stars form. "Something came from nothing is exactly what the Big Bang teaches" No, that the universe and everything we can observe originated from a single point. Nobody says that there was nothing at that single point. "There HAS to be a creator" A claim for which you need to provide evidence. Assuming it to be "intricate and purposeful design" is not such evidence; it is assumption. It doesn't require intelligence just the laws of physics & chemistry over a very long period of time. The desire for a short, tidy explanation is not evidence that there is one. "All yo have to do is look back 6000 years and you will find you answers" Which comes down to wavign a copy of the Bible and asserting it to be true & accurate because you believe it to be. You need to provide evidence. "God IS the information" The claim is that all information comes from somewhere else which means there is no stopping point. "If you will accept Jesus as God and have His Spirit living INSIDE of you" Which is a matter of belief, not evidence. "Hugh Ross" Evolution & abiogenesis are not part of astrophysics, which is where his expertise lies.
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  9519.  @spirit_mechanic  "who, or what, caused the outcome " Are you arguing is that there was no outcome unless we know who fired the bullet? We can reasonably assume that the bullet followed the laws of physics like every other observed object, determine a trajectory through tracing what objects it hit or passed through and possibly determine the type of gun and the most likely firing point. You don't need to know who fired it or what their purpose was to determine any of that and the bullet is not required to have a purpose of its own. Similarly we don't need to know what initiated the BB to trace the resulting expansion. "Evolutionists are constantly 'discovering' new things to make their 'theories' sound better and better" You appear to be arguing that we shouldn't be looking at the world around us? Our knowledge of genetics and cell biology continues to increase because we look and what is found agrees with evolutionary theory and gives us increasing insight on the paths taken. Paleontology can't unfind material; should they stop looking? The more we look, the more our knowledge expands; we do not cherry-pick data to support existing conclusions. The facts don't change; they get added to and evolutionary theory becomes more finely honed as facts increase. Conclusions on particular routes can change as facts increase; the most probable paths taken in hominid evolution is an example. I'm sure Hugh Ross can explain it better but his expertise still lies with astrophysics; he is not an authority on evolution & abiogenesis. He wouldn't be the first to speak as if he was, basing his thinking on a limited (and selected) knowledge of the subjects. "God did it" is favoured by some because it is a quick & easy answer that doesn't require evidence & explanation or any deep thinking and the conclusions are firmly fixed to begin with. Unless you wish to get into the philosophical debate on perception, then I prefer relying on evidence. It is not a matter of belief but establishing facts and determining how the facts form a coherent picture. The picture can certainly change as evidence accumulates but such evidence can not be ignored.
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  9548. ​ @cleeeeeeeeve  "There is something called “Perspective Law”" There isn't. It's frequently referred to by FE'ers who can't quote it because it doesn't exist. The "vanishing point" is an artistic concept. Perspective (in this context) refers to how 3D objects are rendered on a 2D medium, e.g., drawings. "Again because I believe this is simply hidden from you guys." No. You can't find it because it doesn't exist. If you think it does then give me a link in your native language and I'll try to work with it. "the last point that your eye sight can see" You're referring to visual acuity which is not a distance limit but the smallest angle your eye can perceive. The smaller the object the shorter the distance; you can't see a coin at 100 metres distance, you can't see a bacteria at all and Mt Everest is visible up to 100 miles away. Three objects with very different sizes visible to very different distances. "It will be at it maximum when you are in center between the sky and the earth" How big an object appears is dependent on its size and its distance from you. There is no magical effect from being near a surface. The sun has a constant angular diameter of 0.5 degrees regardless of where in the sky it is; that is readily demonstrable. "If you go on top of a 200 mtr high mountain or a building that is near the beach, u will see the boat disappearing after 15 Km. Also if you put your head on the ground, the boat will disappear after only 1 Km." That is the result of curvature, the distance to the horizon being dependent on curvature and observer elevation; when you change your elevation, the distance to the horizon changes. You aren't being open-minded; you're refusing to consider what contradicts your ideas.
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  9870.  @rickusmaximus2435  "research heliocentrism vs geocentrism Which one seems like science fiction??" Geocentrism was based on the presumption that humans just had to be at the centre of the universe. Do you have anything to back that presumption? "research heliocentrism vs geocentrism Which one seems like science fiction??" A heliocentric system is consistent with every observation that smaller bodies orbit larger ones. Why would Earth be an exception? "a spinning tilted wobbling orbiting rotating hurling space rock" The Earth rotates (not spins) once per day, a motion that is detectable with Foucault pendulums and laser gyroscopes. What's your explanation for their motion? "a spinning tilted wobbling orbiting rotating hurling space rock" Earth's orbit is measurable through the parallax changes in the nearest stars. Do you have an explanation how the stars would jiggle around and why to give the impression that the Earth wa sin an orbit? "a spinning tilted wobbling orbiting rotating hurling space rock" When a planet's rotational axis is not perpendicular to the orbital plane then it is tilted, something that is observable with every other planet. Why would Earth be the exception? "a spinning tilted wobbling orbiting rotating hurling space rock" There is abundant evidence that the surface of the Earth is rock. What do you think it is? "in a space vacuum" Air pressure decreases with increasing altitude; what reason do you have for thinking the decrease wouldn't reach zero? "moving at 2 million mph forever and ever" We aren't moving at 2,000,000mph. Orbital speed is about 66,000mph, galactic orbital speed about 514,000mph. "moving at 2 million mph forever and ever" What do you think would stop the Earth moving forever and ever? "there would be no consistent star patterns" When stars are distant and moving in the same general direction as the sun (galactic rotation) there is no reason to expect rapid changes in stars patterns; change requires 10,000's of years. Some of the nearest stars do measurably move from year to year. "Flat fixed earth where heavens rotate above us for us never moving" If the stars were fixed then we wouldn't see change in which constellations are visible through the course of the year. If Earth was flat then you would see the same stars regardless of where you were but they observably do change with location. Do you have an explanation for that? "a spinning tilted wobbling orbiting rotating hurling space rock" The axial wobble has a period of about 20,000 years; you wouldn't expect to see a readily observable change overnight or even from year to year. Polaris has been the pole star for only about 1500 years, preceded by Thuban with several centuries of no pole star; that is the result of axial wobble. Do you have an explanation for why pole stars would change if they are fixed? "Flat fixed earth where heavens rotate above us for us never moving" The heliocentric system is based on observation, the geocentric on egotistical presumption; why do you find the latter more plausible? "Flat fixed earth where heavens rotate above us for us never moving" What does heliocentric v. geocentric have to do with whether the Earth is flat?
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  9908. ​ @jenarcana  Yes, I have looked into it: I find nothing but ignorance & incredulity. Dubay says things fall because of density but provides no explanation as to how density could act as a force or why objects fall in a consistent direction at the same speed regardless of the strength & direction of his "density force"; I was automatically kicked off his YT group because I asked that (politely). None of the people professing a good understanding of the subject can answer me. Similarly he quotes 8"/mile^2 as calculating distance to the horizon, ignores how it is actually calculated (curvature, elevation, refraction) and then wants to know why he gets the wrong answer; gullible people take him at his word that he using the right maths. He can't figure out how birds fly and oceans don't (portraying gravity to be an irresistible force) when it doesn't take much thought to realise that birds have wings & muscles; they fly for the same reason you can lift your foot off the floor. I suggest you look at Professor Dave's channel, particularly the "10 Things All Flatearthers Say" and "10 Challenges for Flatearthers"; still waiting on any FE'er to explain where he is wrong or answer any of the challenges. He now has three more videos explaining why a FE doesn't match observable reality and still no explanations from the FE experts how it is supposed to work. Notably, "do the research" is one of the things all FE'ers say; they can never explain for themselves. "The earth is more than the government and the scientists of nasa are saying it is" NASA & governments have nothing to do with the shape of the Earth; they are just invoked as bogeymen by those who want you to think there is no way to verify it for yourself. It will take some travel or long distance contacts but you can do it with sticks & shadows, noting the positions of stars and observing the motion of the sun. All FE'ers can come up with is zooming in on ships because they don't realise that the limits of visual acuity does not disprove a horizon (an object can pass beyond your acuity well before it reaches the horizon; you need to wait until has actually gone over the horizon before zooming it back into view; obvious target is the sun and we are still waiting on any FE'er to demonstrate that they can zoom a set sun back into view), shining lasers across a lake with no thought given to factors & measurements or incredulous claims of "how can see that far" while standing on a mountain. Still waiting on any evidence of a dome, edge or ice-wall, just moaning about a clause in the Antarctic Treaty that all claim to have read but none can give a reference to (the document is downloadable, readable and lacking in such clause). "Gravity is barely hanging on as acceptable science" Gravity is well established, long since proven to exist and totally predictable. The "problems" arise from people who don't understand what they are talking about, e.g., assuming that near constant gravitational attraction equals irresistible attraction or working on the assumption that only one force can act at a time., though they can never explain why. If you have any questions then I would be happy to answer them.
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  9909. ​ @jenarcana  Rotation generates centrifugal force, an apparent force arising from the combination of rotational force & inertia. Centrifugal force at the equator is about 0.5% that of Earth's gravity, requiring the recalibration of balances with changing latitudes. That gravity is not understood by some students does not make gravity doubtful or wrong; that is ignorance and lack of understanding on the students' part. Newtonian physics expresses gravity as a direct force between two objects; relativity expresses as space-time curvature caused by an object's gravitational field that in turn affects the path of a moving object. Unless there are extremely large masses or high speeds involved the latter can be readily visualised as the former; it is an apparent force like centrifugal force. That it exists is not disputed. Globebusters raised $20k to buy a laser gyroscope. Mad Mike raised $8000 to fund his rocketry attempts. Funding for Antarctic trip is not prohibitive. A cheaper alternative would be a plane ticket to Ushaia, Argentina during the southern summer solstice; lying close to the Antarctic Circle it has 23hrs sunlight, 1 hr dusk at the solstice as predicted by the globe and denied by FE. Alternatively a good quality telescope would enable you to triangulate the positions of Polaris & the sun, something we are still waiting for FE'ers to do. You could include a solar filter and further measure the size & movement of the sun (again still waiting from FE'ers) and satisfy yourself that the planets are real and not "wandering luminaries". You could also indulge in a theodolite and actually try measuring curvature; similarly we are still waiting for FE'ers to do it. There is a Antarctic circumnavigational yacht race; the distance around Antarctica is well established by numerous people, not an unknown. You do not need to explore the continent itself to be able to circumnavigate it. The distance is always about 13,5000 miles, not 60,000 miles. It is not difficult to distinguish the difference which is why FE'ers never mention the race. Numerous people have now crossed Antarctica, leaving one side and appearing on the other. Other than the proposed Pacman effect or the assertion they have walked 30,000 miles rather than 900 miles without noticing we are still waiting on a FE'er explanation for this. Oblation is the ratio of major and minor axes on an ellipsoid cross-section. A frisbee's oblation is about 80%. The Earth's oblateness is about 0.3%, not something discernible to the eye. For most intents and purposes the Earth is a near perfect sphere. Numbers are important when describing something which is one reason FE'ers tend to skip them. Jennifer, all you have done is regurgitate inane FE'er assertions that can be readily shot down with a modicum of knowledge and the will to think. Data and methodology are crucial in science; FE'ers dodge proving each, relying on plausible sounding phrasing and the hope the audience doesn't think.
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  9914.  @dxdrifta  I've been dealing with FE'ers for a few years; that they are usually stuck on one factor is an observation. Trying to get across that there can be multiple contributory factors can be difficult; some can handle a second but three or more and you get accusations of muddying the waters. When it comes to "cold light" it is necessary to think what heat sources are around you and what the heat flow is; you can't dismiss everything those simply because you are interested in only one source. The most common mistake is placing a cover over the thermometer without being aware that heat rises from the ground or other surface and will be trapped under the cover; it's not the moon cooling the thermometer, it's the covering effectively warming it up. Placing it in the shade can mean moving closer to a house that is exuding heat or placing it on a different surface with a different heat capacity. Their methodology is too lackadaisical to be worth anything in. Light is energy; contribute energy to something and you will get heat. None of the people talking about "cold light" are able to put forward a hypothesis how the could be negative energy or how the moon and only the moon would be emanating such. There have been astronomers for millenia; that the moon is reflecting sunlight is long established. No FE explanation has ever been forthcoming as to how the moon would be self-powered, have phases or show the same face to everybody. Yes, science can change but it requires evidence and sound reasoning whereas FE'ers rely on just gotta be & just does. Yes, their ideas are usually readily disprovable; in this case it's ignoring heat flow, claiming negative energy and assuming the moon is a light.
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  9936.  @wandersoftheworldorg  6. Still no evidence of atmospheric lensing, no explanation provided for how the sun maintains a constant angular velocity & angular diameter, the path it follows or how it sets at a predictable time & direction without coming within 10-15 degrees of the horizon. Fail. 7a. You're confusing umbra with penumbra, something shown in the diagram you say doesn't provide the explanation. Unless the light source is a single point then you are going to get a penumbra in the shadow. Granted saying "I don't understand how.." is saying something. 7b. Centrifugal force at the equator is <0.5% that of gravity. The atmospheric pressure gradient is matched by gravitational attraction of the atmosphere. Still waiting on an explanation for what you think is wrong with the laws of thermodynamics. None of this is a statement about lunar eclipses. 7c. The sun & moon are on opposite sides of the Earth and refraction makes their apparent position a little higher than their actual position. 8. The video is available on YT last time I looked. I think you are referring to the one where the horizon has been straightened out, an alteration that is obvious due to the curvature that has appeared in the straight lines in the equipment elsewhere in the shot. WHile it goes high in the atompshere it doesn't go anywhere near the sun or moon. Fail. 9. Most of the southern hemisphere intercontinental flights would be beyond the flightrange of the planes on a FE, the map of which you haven't produced. Try producing the flight paths that fit a FE. The emergency diversions in the northern hemisphere are consistent with a globe; you're assuming that a direct flight would appear as a straight line on a projected map. Fail. 10. Did you account for the heat trapped in by the shading? How sensitive is your thermometer? Did you try it with and without the moon? Bluntly, did you understand what you were doing? Pointing out you're supposed to be answering the challenges is not a straw man nor have I used any strawmen.
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  9971. ​ @nickkorkodylas5005  How do you expect me to have a rational discussion with people who believe ignorance is knowledge and incredulity is insight, have no concept of multiple factors and measurement, who demand I consider evidence that none of them ever present and who don't feel it is necessary for their explanations of observable reality to be in agreement with observable reality? That the sun rises & sets should be mutually agreeable evidence since everybody with eyesight can see it happen on schedule every day but they won't accept it. We're talking of people who wave a picture of the upper half (and only the upper half) of Chicago's skyscrapers projecting above the horizon as proof the harbour is visible. You can't satisfy denialists. If SpaceX took them up they would just claim the the windows were CGI screens. The aim of a scientific experiment is to disprove a hypothesis, not obtain evidence to support a worldview. An experiment does have to be well-planned with predefined parameters & analyses to avoid such bias. Reinterpretation of results has its uses but it's used to formulate another hypothesis that needs to be independently tested (its own experiments). Because there is still room for error nothing is taken for granted; something would have to be demonstrated by multiple parties using different approaches, something that can take years. No system is perfect but we do work to avoid such errors. From your earlier comment I suspect you are looking at work in progress. Science is not short and tidy like a high school experiment; it's a very long iterative cycle based on eliminating what is wrong. Dead ends do occur, arising from accumulating evidence being consistent with a particular hypothesis, one which is ultimately disproved as the range & type of experiments expands.
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  9992. Vaiyasaki Das So you have no idea what we do in labs, you just believe you do because you think you know how grants are awarded. In academia the are funding agencies, private & government, who have a block of money they can use for assigning grants. Grant applications, laying out the aims and work anticipated, are written by the scientists and submitted to agencies covering the appropriate fields. Review committees within each agency, usually staffed by other scientists from outside the agency, select the grants they think are likely to be the most productive. The applications selected receive funding, the obligation being that the bulk of the money is spent on the research described in the grant; there is no obligation to arrive at specific results. There is no master plan dictating what can be funded or looked at. It is accepted that a small proportion of most grants will be spent on other lines of research; since applications require preliminary results to back the reasoning, that is accepted by the funding agencies. Companies do it differently, the money being entirely internal. Ultimately they need information that can be used to make marketable products. To be be marketable they need to work, not fulfil someone’s idea of how they would like the universe to work. A fundamental part of an experiment is the control, something which may not have been made clear to you in school. That is the part that will produce a known result based on what is already established to be correct. Your argument is that nobody is noticing the controls are producing the wrong results.
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  9996. ​ @vaiyasakidas8178  While every day, general purpose cameras come with similar lenses professional cameras do not; they are fitted with lenses that are appropriate with the task in hand, which is why you see professional photographers carrying a case with different mountable lenses. The Apollo cameras were fitted with wide-angle lenses to capture the maximum amount of detail within each shot. The wider the angle you have covered by one shot, the less area each object in the shot can occupy. Consequently the Earth looks smaller than you expected. Without a scale being included in shots there is no way to determine the size of the object. Humans surviving the VAB is a cinch; the Apollo astronauts passed at speed through the weak periphery in a craft with an aluminium hulls, carbon fibre insulation and the water tanks placed between inner & outer hulls. The total radiation dosage was the equivalent of a couple of X-rays. The problem today is that everything is controlled by electronics, with chips containing circuitry that is only a few atoms wide; they are far more sensitive to radiation than the astronauts and their failure could be catastrophic. The original magnetic tapes on which the telemetry data was recorded no long exist; tapes went the same way as floppies. Telemetry data is just the flow of information about the second to second functioning of each craft: temperatures, fuel usage, oxygen levels etc. The data was processed and went into reports after each mission; there was no reason to hang onto the original data. If the tapes did still exist then you would need the means (long since gone) to read the tapes, it wouldn't mean anything if you weren't an Apollo engineer and demonstrates nothing about the missions. Why somebody would file a FOI request after it has already been ascertained the tapes were no longer around is beyond me. There is abundant evidence still available, readily downloadable if you wish to read it. Morale of the tale: check facts carefully before believing conspiracy theories. None of the above is secret.
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  10388. ​ @apodipl4596  You do realise that NASA does not have the monopoly on anything? That if they tried faking data it would be rapidly spotted? That you were referring to Washington's motive for funding the Apollo missions, not NASA motive for running them them? You do understand that Mercator projections are not limited to a world map? You do understand that being impractical for nautical use prior to the instruments being developed does not mean they are impractical after the subsequent development? That the existence of the instruments is not required for someone to wonder if such maps are possible? "the map was used for commercial and educational reasons . not for practical reasons" Your quote said "commercial and educational maps". That was due to the practicality I described. "this map was discredited by the cartographers" Your quote said criticised, not discredited; quite different things. As I've said, all projections of the globe onto a 2D surface are going to be distorted; it is unavoidable that a 2D map is not an accurate representation of a 3D surface; it is unavoidable that all projections are criticised for their inherent inaccuracies. "So a not useful map that makes the latin america and africa completely distorted proportionally" And I repeat, for a limited area it can be a far representation of the surface. That is why I ask if you understand that Mercator projections are not limited to the world map. "What you say also does not answer the why we keep having this distorted map" Which projection do you think gives an accurate representation of the 3D surface? You seem to think there is one we should be using and there's conspiracy to cover it up.
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  10457.  @eyestoseefe7618  "If you walk an a moving Surface yes, you must move at the speed of the Surface" You would move at the speed of the surface simply by standing still; an escalator demonstrates that. The bionic man running at 60mph on a treadmill was moving at 60mph relative to the surface, 0 mph relative the mechanism as a whole. "You say relative to the Earth as if that means anything" It's called frame of reference. If you are driving a car and the odometer says 30mph then you are moving at 30mph relative to the ground but also 0mph relative to the car, 20mph relative to the cyclist you overtook and -50mph relative to the sports car that overtook you. You're trying to declare Earth as providing an absolute frame of reference, which it isn't. "why doesn't this exert force on you?" If gravity didn't exert force then I wouldn't remain attached to the surface. The force is towards the centre of the Earth, not in any compass direction; it's not going to move me eastwards, westwards, northwards or southwards, just pull me towards the centre of the Earth. In the absence of any force trying to move me eastwards, westwards, northwards or southwards, inertia means I continue move according to the speed & direction of my momentum; that is conservation of momentum. "it spins 1000mph under your feet" If it was spinning under my feet then I would be moving westwards relative to the Earth, not stationary relative to the Earth. Since me, Earth & the atmosphere are all moving eastwards at the same speed then the Earth does not appear to move under my feet nor does wind blow my head off. "walking East and West miraculously takes the same amount of steps or the same mph to travel the same distance in any direction" When my momentum carries me eastwards at the same speed as Earth & atmosphere, my walking simply modifies that momentum slightly so that I move a little slower or faster than Earth. "The ground acts as if a surface that's Stationary because it is Stationary " It appears stationary because you, me, the atmosphere and everything on the ground is moving eastwards at a similar speed. As I said, you are having a problem understanding frames of reference. There is no absolute frame of reference; tryign to declare the Earth has an absolute frame will not make it so.
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  10607. ​ @StephenJelinek  Which simply brings us back to an earlier question: why do you think every last person on the Earth has to have done a particular experiment for the experiment to have validity? You can do the experiment for yourself if you wish but it is not necessary for you do it for the question to have been answered. It has been done so many times by so many people with consistent results for a globe that there is no good reason to assume results any different if someone else tried it. I'll try to put a link in another post; YT frequently removes link or blocks comments with a link. "In the flat earth model the sun simply fades out of view." Rather the point. When the sun observably retains a constant angular diameter, rises & sets and the decrease in light intensity is consistent with rising & setting, the FE model(s) claiming the angular diameter changes, it doesn't rise & set and the light intensity would never decrease anywhere near zero does not match reality. Someone making a video of the sun setting through clouds on the horizon that reduce the glare is not evidence that the sun is fading away. Put a solar filter on a camera and film the the sun in the last hour of light; check the size & light intensity on the pictures. When it's set try zooming it back in to view. If you're going to argue that the "light gets tired" then you need to come up with an explanation for how that could happen. And no, there is no limit on the distance your eye can see; it's a passive receptor that detects whatever light reaches it. "The Oligarchs who rule the earth have been bending the truth to hide reality" Explain how your Oligarchs manipulate the sun and how shadows are cast.You're not the first to claim it but be brave and be the first to try explaining it. There are no restricted areas in the Antarctica; if you think there are then provide evidence. If you want to wave the Antarctic Treaty then point out exactly which clause you think bans travel (and, no, the Treaty is not restricted document). There is observably 24hr sunshine in December/January and longer days generally in their summer, in direct contradiction to the FE model(s). If you fear you will be blown out of the water if you go too close then take a trip to Ushuaia, Argentina and personally witness a 22hr day down there. "Why would they scrub video of people shooting video of oil platforms 10 miles out to sea?" Actually they are video of cretins who can't grasp elevation & refraction having a role in how far they can see and couldn't explain why the oil rig was visible for only a few hours when they're claiming it's always visible. YT changed its algorithms to downgrade misinformation; they didn't delete the videos. It's the same cretins who can't explain why seeing something would be considered newsworthy.
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  10662.  @ethandarcy5940  "look to for critical survival knowledge" Masks were in limited supply. If there was panic-buying then there would be a shortage where they were immediately needed. Hospitals needed a plentiful supply immediately; the public could wait until after lockdown. The lockdown period gave time to manufacturers to ramp up production to be able to meet both demands when the lockdowns ended. If hospitals didn't have sufficient masks then Covid would rapidly spread most of the staff. They would need time off and many would die. If they were off or dead then they couldn't staff the hospitals to deal with incoming Covid patients. At that point it was unclear how many patients there would be in total from the period prior to lockdown or what proportion would require hospital support. With limited staff, more of the the incoming patients would not survive; they would die. Prioritising staffed hospitals would save more lives. The public like short, simple answers. From your written English you sound intelligent but I've just had to spell out the bloody obvious to you. The short, simple, effective answer to that problem would be "no need to buy masks". Tell people "don't buy them yet" and they would have sold out like the toilet paper where people wanted to be among the first to have them even though they did not yet need them. "information coming from scientists generally" Conclusions are drawn from the accumulated evidence that exists at that point in time. Time does not stand still. We are continually probing wider & deeper. The evidence continues to accumulate. Since conclusions are drawn from the accumulated evidence at that point in time the conclusions can change with time. The conclusions are not set in stone. Where changes in conclusions are necessary then you wouldn't want them to be set in stone but people get shirty if they do change. When some people think the conclusions ought to change because of something they've heard then they get shirty. The main reason people get shirty is because they don't like change or they want inappropriate change. People will get shirty regardless of how well we do our job.
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  10728.  @stewiesaidthat  No, it is evidence that the clocks apparently run slower at high velocities than lower velocities; it does not in itself demonstrate a cause. It is evidence that can support a hypothesis about a cause; you have yet to put forward a hypothesis. You have just made the same unsupported assertion repeatedly. I did ask you how you conclude compression of space in spacetime is possible but not time dilation; you haven't answered. You have the clock's signal being transmitted at a slower rate but also the length upon which it is been transmitted shrinking. Why would the two not cancel out? You do realise in your running track analogy that the starting positions are staggered to ensure the same distance for each runner? The experiment you referred to had four clocks (two eastwards, two westwards, compared to clocks that were stationary relative to Earth), losing time eastwards and gaining time westwards. "the ball being thrown within the train is traveling independent of the motion of the train" The means of propulsion is independent; you are ignoring the first law of motion (conservation of momentum) and the fact they are in one frame of reference. Indeed, since you are claiming that train's motion will compress space (shortening the length of the carriage) and the ball would be unaffected by that motion then it should take less effort for the ball to reach the end of the carriage. "This is all documented by the numerous 'light clock' expirements." Comparing two relative frames of reference. Please would you get frames of reference sorted out in your head before continuing or I'll be repeating myself endlessly.
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  11439.  @earth.is.a.plane.  An orbit is the circular path one object takes around another. An orbit is not a fixed point. A circle and a fixed point are not the same thing. That an object follows an orbit does not put them in a fixed point in space. That the orbits of Venus & Mercury lie within Earth's orbit does not place them in fixed positions are mean they are permanently between the Earth & the sun. If you think a circle and fixed point are the same thing then you need to justify that assertion. https://imgur.com/a/MR9lPAl When Mercury & Venus move in a circle they can be observed at any point on that circle, not just when they transit the sun. From Earth they appear within a specific angle view, namely +/-10 degrees & +/=20 degrees if the sun respectively. See the diagram if that isn't clear. You need to explain why you think two objects with up to 20 degrees angular separation would cross the horizon simultaneously. "Nothing in nature supports you conjecture" There's these things called telescopes that we've had since the 16th century. They are not restricted to use by secret government agents or penguins; you can buy one for yourself very easily. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Camera-Photo-Telescopes/zgbs/photo/281063 "water finds level" Explain how water does the searching , makes decisions and moves itself. "Water's surface does not bend when collected in any basin, small or large" Like a meniscus? Have you tried dividing 360 degrees by 25,000 miles to see how many degrees curvature you would expect to observe over each mile? "Nor is there any proof for the now disproved theory of gravity" https://www.jstor.org/stable/106988 Nobody has disproved, only denied it while providing no valid alternative.
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  11570.  @steelyatron  I can't tell you what you perceive to have changed. A draft paper is submitted to a journal; an editor makes an initial decision on accept, review or reject. Those selected for review are sent to to 2 or 3 external reviewers, usually with authors' names visible (some journals remove them). The criteria vary but essentially reviewers check for sound reasoning, methodology & conclusions. They return written reports to the editors who decide between reject, accept & revise. If revision is requested the reviewers reports (anonymous) are sent to the submitting author; the editors stipulate minor or major corrections be made (or the reviewers' criticisms rebutted). Once accepted the paper is scheduled for publishing. Passing pre-publication peer review is not seen as a quality assurance or stamp of approval; it means the editors/reviewers found nothing seriously amiss. It exists to filter out what is bad and the system is by no means perfect at doing so. Once the paper is published it enters post-publication peer review; everybody can see it and critique it. It's at that point that reproduction occurs; if the paper has something you can use it then you need to check it does indeed work before applying it to your own work. The main weakness is the scientists are human rather than Vulcan (personal opinion of subject & author crops in) and 2-3 reviewers is a limited range of people. I don't know of any point in history when reviewers' reports were published with the paper. That is why I am asking you what you perceive to have changed. "That corruption afflicts it's institutions seems to be undeniable" It would be if anybody provided evidence of rampant corruption rather than simply extrapolating from scandals.
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  11778.  @raybritzel1719  I was referring to energy. "your atheism" Presumptive. Arguing against double standards does not make me atheist. "The proof (proof being a complete set of evidence) for God's existence, is that without God you cannot prove anything" Which is a bald statement, not evidence or proof. Reiterating does not provide any evidence or proof. Believe it if you wish but don't quote it as an absolute truth unless you are willing to back it with evidence. "There is no basic error in the reasoning I have given you" The error is assuming it to be true as your evidence that it is true. With inductive reasoning you will never reach absolute proof, which is why you are demanding it for anything that doesn't fit with your worldview. Science is actually a combination of various forms of reasoning, consensus being where the evidence is regarded as sufficiently extensive to accept something as a working truth, i.e., a scientific theory. Religion is undisprovable and is seen as outside science; in science you need to provide evidence and a potential means to test said evidence, not make repeated statements about how right you must be. The supernatural is outside the natural, not encompassing it. You need to demonstrate its existence, not expect other people to be convinced by unsupported statements. The reliability of evidence is measurable by its quality & reproducibility, not the religious affiliation of the scientist. You do realise that science is a collaborative endeavour? That the great bulk of evidence is due to the combined efforts of people with varying religious affiliations or lack thereof? "At no point have I ever appealed to instinct as the source of thought." You did argue to the effect that brain having evolved would limit you to what is described as instinctive thought. The whole point of my replies is to point out the double standards exhibited by many when it comes to reconciling their opinions (religious or otherwise) with evidence. You arguments largely consist of assertions about how right your worldview is, not providing any evidence to support it. Don't demand evidence & proof from other people when you aren't prepared to meet that standard for your own claims.
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  11779.  @raybritzel1719  Mass being one form of energy, not vice versa. "Both of these quotes would generally be considered as coming from an atheistic position." Complaining about double standard is atheism? Think that through. "Double standards are only offensive in a moral universe which has only one ultimate standard. His name is Jesus Christ" Which is an assumptive belief for which you have yet to provide evidence. " the only possible evidence to support a position is a physical thing which you can see with your eyes" I can't see or directly sense in any other way most of what I work with. It is all quite detectable & measurable and its properties & role deducible. Kindly don;t make assumptions about me. "Whilst assuming the existence of the Creator is a legitimate position for any creature to take" The key word being assuming. "The Christian presuppositional position is one which never fails" The keyword being presuppositional. "Prove something without stealing from the Christian worldview and you will disprove the position." So you keep saying but never provide evidence to back that. I did point out that science is a collaborative endeavour. Should the evidence be judged by it's accuracy and reproducibility or by the religious affiliation of the people collecting it? "The demand is that you provide a basis...for the inductive principle" Scientific research is an iterative procedure than gradually eliminates what is wrong. If what remains is fully explanatory for the evidence and reliably predictive then it is most probably the correct answer. That doesn't suffice for you; you're demanding that no conclusions be drawn until all possible evidence has been accumulated which would be achieving absolute proof. Science displaced natural philosophy. The former assumed everything could be deduced by observation & thought. That was fine for deducing basic principles but not for more in depth knowledge. "any claim that the rationality applied is free from error due to politics, broken minds or imperfect communication, is laughable." Nobody claims that it is which is why something needs to be confirmed through repeated experimentation by different people using different techniques. It is not sensible to use bias as a dismissive argument. "You have now been instructed in how you can disprove the thesis that without God you can't prove anything" Really? All you've done is repeatedly state that you believe that it isn't possible. "What standard do you employ to determine the "quality" of evidence?" Generally recognised as the minimalisation or absence of possible confounding factors. "big bang, inflation, Cambrian explosion, etc" They are conclusions drawn from the evidence, not the evidence itself. Don't set up strawmen. Prediction is formulating a hypothesis and carrying out further experimentation or observation to see if the prediction is true; it doesn't require reproducing the Big Bang, Cambrian explosion etc. There's instinctive thinking & analytic thinking. Both are thought. "You can use the term "instinctive thought" to describe the only possible explanation for what mankind calls thought available to the materialist" I didn't. You said that we would be limited to instinctive thinking if the brain was only a blob of chemicals. "It is easier to simply admit that everything you have been taught about human history destroys free will and thought" You earlier described steam as being controlled directly by God. Why would your brain be any different?
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  11882. ​ @kc29291  "Can't be done over a curved surface." Why can't you have a straight horizon tangential line and straight line of sight from view to horizon when the Earth's surface is curved? What prevents either and how? "the distance to your geometric horizon based on viewer height" Viewer ELEVATION not height. "you have to claim that geometric location is changing" The boat won't start disappearing until it reaches the refracted horizon. And, no, nobody is saying a physical location is refracted. Atmospheric refraction means the light from immediately beyond the geometric horizon is refracted and enables a viewer to see a little beyond the geometric horizon; the viewer apparent horizon is called the refracted horizon. The distance to the refracted horizons varies with atmospheric conditions; the greater the refractive properties from ambient humidity and air layering then the further way the refracted horizon. That has been explained over and over and over and over. "The horizon is seen beyond platform Habitat which is at 9.7 miles" The refracted horizons, not the geometric horizon. "he max limit of the geometric horizon at the viewer's height is 2.7 miles" Only if the viewer's feet are in the surf. The photo in question was taken from a hill top. They key factor is viewer *ELEVATION*. And, as is being repeatedly pointed out to you, refraction enables you to see a little beyond the geometric horizon. "Again, is your horizon a geometric location as you keep claiming suns and boats go behind it? Or is it a refracted, purely optical position?" The viewer apparent horizon is the refracted horizon, the net result of curvature, elevation AND atmospheric refraction. Only in the absence of an atmosphere and with no variation in elevation across the Earth's surface would the horizon be due solely to curvature & viewer height. "It cannot be subject to refraction or else it is not physical" Nobody is claiming that it is. There are just FE'ers who find multiple factors difficult to grasp. It's not a paradox that we can see beyond the geometric horizon; it's taking into account ALL relevant factors, not just the geometric ones. "If the Earth was spinning and the stars were motionless, why would I assume the opposite when using such phenomena to calculate positioning?" Relative motion. You're interested in the motion of the stars relative to you; it doesn't matter whether it is the Earth, stars or both which are moving, only that there is relative motion between them. It is easier to visualise of you assume you (and thus Earth) are stationary but it is not an absolute statement, just a relative one. "If Earth was rotating, that would necessitate drift with an inertial reference frame" Measurably 15 degrees per hour. Denying it does not make it go away.
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  11886.  @kc29291  "Because you claim to be measuring a straight line to an exact, non-refracted point that represents the visual, geometric horizon" It's a line of sight from viewer to refracted horizon; it's not to the geocentric horizon, it's not a measurement. The distance to the refracted horizon can be calculated from elevation, curvature & refraction; it can be confirmed from observation of what is visible. "The fact that it changes based on angular compression and atmospheric effects proves precisely that it isn't a real location" You mean it isn't a fixed location. When you can see objects on the horizon where do you think they are if it isn't real? "It is called the GEOMETRIC HORIZON - NOT REFRACTED" As you seem unable to grasp, the geometric horizon is calculated purely from curvature & elevation while the refracted (apparent) horizon is calculated from curvature, elevation & atmospheric refraction. That you can't understand that refraction can affect how far you can see means nothing. "Too bad we don't observe 15 degrees an hour Earth-based rotation" Relative to what? Are you saying that you would expect to see the Earth rotating while you are standing on it, rotating with it? "When I said height, I was referring to "height" above sea level" And you went on to describe the view of Black Swan from the top of a hill as being 5-6ft elevation. "We only have 1 horizon, and its apparent" Only the refracted horizon is apparent to the eye since the eye detects light. "The photo in the right shows it disappearing bottom up due to simply lowering the camera (30m vs 2m viewing height)" You mean there was a change in elevation and since distance to the horizon is determined in part by the viewer's elevation the distance to the apparent horizon decreased as the elevation decreased. What do you expect to happen? "Yes it is. Again, the geometric horizon is defined as the visual and physical location where the sea meets the sky" No, "horizon" is defined as where sea meets sky; there is no specification that it is the geometric horizon rather than the refracted (apparent) horizon. "You claim to draw a straight line to use to use as your baseline to triangulate, when you ignore the fact that SEA LEVEL IS USED, NOT A TANGENT LINE" Sea-level isn't used in the calculations with a sextant; they sight on the horizon applying a correction to approximate for viewer elevation above sea-level. The drop is below the tangential line at the viewer's location. You seem to have the usual FE'er limitation of being unable to grasp multiple factors simultaneously.
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  11989.  @jasonanderson6491  "You are just REGURGATING information" You've never observed dome, ice-wall or edge but you keep claiming they exist. You are regurgitating what someone has told you. "Telescopes show us the sky. The sky has NOTHING to do with earth" You said there was no evidence of planets; you can see them for yourself if you are willing to look. "I really wish I could show you what I've seen then you'd wake up" You could try describing it. You can use a long exposure on a camera (or take a series of photos) to track the motion of the stars through the night. In the northern hemisphere they move anti-clockwise, in the southern hemisphere clockwise. It's not a transient phenomenon on the equator; there are two separate poles. The constellations do not change shape as you travel north or south; the difference is not "distortion" from a the dome that FE'ers have yet to prove any evidence of. Somebody has told you there is, quoted two locations and you didn't think to ponder on what happens as you travel between said locations. "it's really not that hard to figure out" It's very easy to disprove simply by applying a little thought. I would be sarcastic about why it's a puzzle that a space travel pioneer would have a quote about stars on his tombstone but like the stars it would go over your head. "Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris, two celestial poles; all things you can directly check for yourself. How many times have you tried it?" You still haven't answered my question.
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  12421. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  Firstly, there is no Law of Just Does in science. All effects have a cause, energy is neither created nor destroyed, net entropy always increases. Nothing can be blown off as "it just does"; the person claiming something happens has to explain how and produce the evidence. Secondly, "just gotta be" and variants thereof is not a valid argument. The reasoning for the conclusion has to be supplied and the mechanisms explained or at least hypothesised. Once again, arbitrarily declaring refraction to be zero is not refraction taking into account; it is dismissing it. Dismissing it when you have selected conditions to maximise the refraction is dishonest. "It's not enough to pull all the lines straight" The curvature over 8 miles is approximately 0.12 degrees; it is not a humongous amount and quite feasible by atmospheric refraction. "unless you can recreate a demonstration of a curved surface being pulled to exactly flat and planar using refraction" You mean like the experiment we are talking about? The land area is fully mapped and measured; the curvature exists. The lights are almost totally lined up. "refraction takes place any time light goes through a different medium" Because of the different densities of the two media, the degree of refraction being proportional to the relative difference between the two. "Refraction is happening on a micro level through each water vapor drop" As is reflection, the combination of both resulting in light dispersion as the photons encountering micro-droplets are diverted. "The curvature tests are done with lasers as well as mirrors" Which are light and light reflectors respectively, ie., you're still using light for the measurement and light is always refractable. "These are not the same as light source emission" In what way does light differ from light? "the distant object relative location is not relative to the observation we are making from our observation point" It's very relevant when you are using light to observe the object since light is refractable. "If you are looking at something in the distance reflecting sunlight as well, you are looking at something that has a definite position" Sun light is light and doesn't cease to be light when it is reflected and all light is refractable. "Isn't it something that refraction, despite working the same in different conditions, then bend to look exactly flat?" It doesn't work the same under different conditions; you are just assuming the conditions are different and ignoring that all require light to travel from object to observer. "If the earth was a globe as I used to believe, that would be quite a coincidence" No, just distance. Refraction enable you to see a little beyond the geometric horizon, not indefinitely beyond it. The ever increasing curvature becomes too great for refraction to correct. That's how we have the refracted horizon. A. Which doesn't answer my question: how do the disordered micro-droplets form and maintain order? You're falling back on the Law of Just Does to avoid supplying an explanation. You need to the answer the question. Again, mirages are not lensing. They occur when you get the layering of different temperature air (and thus differing densities) and the refraction is temporarily increased. The upper part of the Chicago skyline is occasionally visible at that distance; that it's newsworthy should be an obvious clue that it is not mundane. We are still waiting on FE'ers to zoom Chicago back into sight with P900 cameras etc. You all reckon it's easy so why don't any of you do it? B. You're arguing that the micro-droplets are in on the globe conspiracy and are deliberately forming multiple personal lens around in each person just to fool us into thinking the Earth is a globe. Does that really sound plausible to you? Are you really that hooked on the idea that the world is flat that you are prepared to believe that inanimate substances are part of the scheming? C. If they have travelled from a distant light source then the photons reaching the micro-droplets will be moving nearly in parallel. The diameter of the micro-droplets compared to the distance to the light source is too small an angle for there to be substantial deviation from parallel. For simplicity sake, rather than consider the tiny fraction of a degree spread consider them parallel and answer the question. "Horizon wouldn't disappear on a flat earth" Since there is nothing to form a horizon then it will absent on a FE. "Perspective is literally taught to artists using a flat earth representation" The key word is artist. Perspective is an artistic concept. "The boat still is claimed to disappear over physical curve at 3 miles though" For the third or fourth time, the distance to the horizon is dependent on curvature, elevation & refraction. The example of 3 miles assumes no elevation (other than the observer's height) and no atmospheric refraction. It is not a magic rule for where the horizon is. Why is that so difficult for you to understand? "That's "globe scientists" again saying so." No, it isn't. It's just FE'ers failing to understand simple examples even when repeatedly explained to you. "It's how they "knew" the earth was a sphere millennia ago" That there is a horizon was one factor in deducing it; they also noted the motion of the sun, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses always having a circular shadow. We are still waiting on FE'ers to explain any of that. You do understand what deduction is? "with refraction, curvature, apparent sizes etc all taken into account apparently" Without the means to make accurate long distance measurements they deduced it from observable phenomenon (see the above list). Only into the 18th century did world mapping become feasible; the measurements are consistent only with a globe. We are still waiting on FE'ers to produce your fabled map. "Both models claim the higher up you go, the more ground you will see further out" The FE model predicts you can always see the same distance, elevation merely enabling you to see over lower elevations that might be blocking your line of sight. Since FE'er also usually like to claim that human eyes a can only a see a limited distance then you increasing elevation would actually reduce the distance you can see on a FE. "it's just that the ground you saw at a lower elevation needs to compress the higher up you go to make room for more ground visuals to fit into the horizon" A. How exactly does ground compress? B. Why would it compress itself to suit a particular observer? C. How does it have more than one compression to suit multiple observers at differing elevations? "You do tests over water because both models claim water is level, yet different levels, on flat level, one equidistant from center level" That sentence doesn't make sense. Try again. "We test over water to determine which level" FE['ers test over water to maximise the refraction; that is what the whole of this discussion has been about and it still hasn't penetrated your head. "Over ground even a slight pitch could result in number, large or small this could then be claimed to be curve, when it's really a slope." You realise that land surveyors don't stop at one measurement? They find the same change in all directions and proportional to distance from an arbitrary point, i.e., they find curvature. As I said earlier, this is very, very, very repetitive. I can say with some certainty that the moon discussion you referred to earlier ended because the guy was tired of repeating himself, not because he was flummoxed by your erudition. I realise you are desperate to validate your religious beliefs but when you ask people questions you have to be prepared to listen to the answers. Reality does not dance to your tune. It doesn't matter how sincere your faith is, reality is not going to mould itself to suit your beliefs.
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  12426. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  ""you see the sun moving 15° per hour no matter where you are standing" We're talking at cross-purposes. You're referring to the angular motion of the FE sun relative to its centre of rotation (hence my references to the north pole). I am referring to the angular velocity relative the observer's position, ie., the change in position in the sky as the FE sun crosses it. Since the distance from observer to FE sun varies on a FE, the constant orbital velocity means the FE sun will have a variable angular velocity relative to the observer. I used the example of your car passing something to illustrate that point; the speed of the car & object never vary but there is a change in the angular velocity of the object relative to the car. FE'ers need to explain how the FE sun crosses the sky at a constant 15 degrees per hour relative to the observer regardless of where the observer is standing. "What do you mean by measuring the sun at horizon?" Using either a camera directly equipped with a scale (superimposing it on photos) or physically measuring the diameter of the sun on a series of photos as to crosses the sky. "You can see that it appears bigger" Your eyes are not made for measuring anything. Your brain makes comparisons with other objects and gives you a relative impression of size; while it is well up in the sky there is nothing to directly compare to the sun so the sun appears small but when it approaches the horizon there is something to compare it with and so it appears larger. The key word is appear; your brain takes a lot of short cuts in processing what your eyes see and what you think you see is not necessarily what is there. That you can buy books filled with optical illusions is indicative of how fallible your eyes are. Do note that the FE predicts that the sun would be unmistakably smaller when lower in the sky, shrinking down to about half its diameter and never approaching within 10-20 degrees of the horizon. You need to reconcile that with what you actually see. "the light is passing through more atmo at that angle" Which, clouds & refraction aside, is not going to make any difference. You have still to demonstrate your lenses exist, remember? "I don't outright claim a shrinking sun,....Mostly it keeps it's consistent shape" Which contradicts the perspective that FE'ers so much love, ie., an object getting smaller with increasing distance. Most of you claim it shrinks away to an infinitesimally small dot. "It is already there and is made at the center of your view from what is above level and what is below level meeting" And I'm asking you to explain how it comes to be there. You keep saying that it is just there but offer no plausible explanation where it would come from. "Just is" is not an explanation. You said you had explanations for all these things. "It's very easy to demonstrate laying on the ground and closing the eye closest to the ground," And as I said, both eyes see the same amount of surface, the upper eye merely seeing the same amount of surface over a wider angle. You have not explained why the upper eye would be able to see more than the lower when there is nothing blocking the view of either eye. "They just do" is not an explanation. "Elevation and far away an object has to cover a lot more distance to move a equal unit of measure towards the horizon than an object closer to the ground and closer to you" Which is why I am asking you how the sun moves at a consistent 15 degrees per hour relative to the observer when the sun is at varying distance to the observer. "The maths you provide aren't accurate with reality. Math doesnt instantly have to corelate with reality" Maths is descriptive; it has to correlate with reality. We are talking about a simple right-angle triangle; the FE is one flat side, the perpendicular line to Polaris is the right angle to that line and your viewing distance to Polaris is the hypotenuse. Sine, cosine & tangent are going to work the same way on every triangle, regardless of whether the triangle is drawn on paper or between objects in the real world. "Polaris dropping 1° per 69 miles is observed" In contradiction to what is predicted for a FE. You have to reconcile that, not handwave the maths as being different in reality. You need to explain why the maths would differ and in what way. Ideally you need to provide working equations to fit your reality. "It's perspective and the way out eyes work" Perspective does not have a linear effect. "Polaris doesn't move at all, for thousands of years" Thuban was the pole star a 5000 years ago; Polaris has been the pole star for about 1500 years. Polaris has a measurable drift away from the celestial pole. No amount of denial is going to change that. "We don't see the same stars because where you move on the earth determines what section of sky is overhead" FE'ers typically portray the stars as being part of a hemispherical dome above a FE, covering all 180 degrees across the sky. Hills & valleys aside, no point on the FE is going to be limited to only a portion of that dome, much less is that portion going to spread itself over 180 degrees. The ground occupies the other 180 degrees; is not going to occupy more than 180 degrees. You need to explain how you think that would work. "Many knock the Fe for inability to predict, but it can just fine" I've been running through the FE predictions that don't work e.g., the angle to Polaris. I haven't gotten any plausible answers. "Actually NASA still uses the saros cycle, made by geocentric planar earth walkers" The ancient civilisations noticed that eclipses appeared to happen in cycles though they could not explain why or why the cycles changed over time, much less give accurate predictions for the day & time and path for an eclipses. Using the globe maths (as NASA does) we can predict the exact time & location for observing eclipses; you can plan to stand in the path of a solar eclipse. Meanwhile FE'ers can't provide an explanation for why eclipses occur, solar or lunar. Do you want to try? "It's logical to say the sky has no relevance to the ground" No, that's the "don't look up" fallacy. I explained to you why it is relevant and you're telling me I shouldn't look up. You're not explaining why you conclude the apparent location & motion of sun, moon & stars aren't relevant to the shape of the Earth. "Polaris setting is explainable as it goes with perspective" Except perspective is not going to give you a linear decline in angle or explain how it passes below the horizon without coming within 10-20 degrees of it. You need to explain how that would work on a FE, not say it just does. "And a tunnel is possible for stars" How can they be possible? Why would there be personal star tunnels? How can an observer be both inside & outside their personal star tunnel simultaneously? You can't make unsupported statements that they would just work. "Everyone sees the same face because we are looking up at a spotlight for the moon' In which case why does the moon not typically appear oval and why does variation enable us to see about 190 degrees of the surface over time? "ISS is military tech. Probably aloft with quantum locking, a levitation" You need to provide evidence, explanation of those terms and how they are supposed to work and you still need to explain how it moves on schedule and where it is relative to the FE. "I have explained how water lenses" No, you just keep saying they exist. You still haven't explained HOW chaotic micro-droplets form ordered structures, HOW they woudl be just the right power & orientation and WHY the relative aridity of the atmosphere doesn't stop them forming. You need to answer questions, not keep asserting that they just exist and just work. "it's literally your "accredited globe scientists" who spoke about atmo lensing" As I said, that is reference to refraction due to atmospheric curvature, which you deny. You can either use the term as we do or deny it is possible but you can't do both. "We see the moon appear much larger on the horizon occasionally" Same as with the sun near the horizon. You need to actually measure it, not just eyeball it. I'm having to repeat answers again. I'm having to repeatedly explain WHY you are not providing explanations, only just does statements. You need to provide evidence & explanations, not make blase statements.
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  12429. ​ @ephesianarmorytchannel6838  Try calculating how high it would need to be and then explain how it would appear to move at all much less rise & set. A few pixels means reduction in glare. FE'ers predict shrinking to half the diameter. Still no explanation from you how lensing would occur; you need to do that before applying the claim to phenomena otherwise it is a "just does" argument. Don't dodge the questions. Yet again, mirages. Just look up the mechanisms for mirages; not difficult. You need to explain why elevation would alter perspective, not make a just does statement that it is. You need to explain how a pupil would add a horizontal line to your vision, not state that it just does. That would take a very large room to be true. Maths correlates with reality. That you don't understand the role if imaginary numbers is your shortcoming, not maths. We were discussing triangles, which make no reference to imaginary numbers. You didn't explain why Polaris would move as it does on a FE; you simply stated that it just would. You're dodging proving explanations. 20 degrees exactly on a globe. I gave you the equation to calculate the angle to Polaris on a FE; try using it. It does not have a linear effect. Polaris is drifting; you're just assuming any drift would be obvious to the unaided eye. NASA does not use the Saros cycle for their calculations. They need exact figures, not approximations. The individual cycles extend for decades; calculations essentially forever. Dubay uses the term. Baseball field - why can't any of you think to divide 360 degrees by 25,000 miles? Then it is unwise of you to talk as if you do understand the workings. If the moon was so high up it wouldn't rise & set. "it oscillates. It's probably a lens floating over a plasma of some sort" If you don't know how it works hen don't speak as if you do. That you wouldn't be able to t explain any of that means you are unqualified to be making such pronouncements. A superconductor within a magnet. Explain how you think that keeps the ISS up and moves it. Third time: in science the term lensing refers refraction in a curved atmosphere. It's very specific in its meaning. it doesn't how many times you say it or how much you want to believe it, that meaning is not going to change. All actually things before opening your mouth or setting fingers to keyboard. It saves a lot of time & effort when conversing with people; nobody has to keep repeating themselves just to get you to type a few words into Google. Goodbye.
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  12468.  @joshuamclean4588  "I didn’t mention the big bang" When somebody makes the statement "I would argue that it’s impossible that everything came from nothing" it is pretty certain that they are referring to the big bang. "They also agree That if something had a beginning, something had to begin it" Nothing can be proven absolutely in science since that would require observation of an infinite number of events. A scientific theory is a comprehensive explanation for a phenomenon that is well-substantiated by extensive evidence and observation. That something can't be proven absolutely does not mean it is probably incorrect or that there is no sounds basis for the theory or that people are wrong in accepting it as true when expanding knowledge. "They also agree That if something had a beginning, something had to begin it" You mean cause and effect; it doesn't require than an omnipotent entity had to be the cause or that the cause being unknown means the effect can't have occurred. "it does not scientifically explain how life came to be" Abiogenesis is a separate, unrelated matter. "what they are saying is that everything was infjnitely dense" The evidence supports a model that runs from an instant after the big bang, indicating expansion from a single point; what caused or preceded it remains hypothetical. "and exploded and after milkions of years of lava flowing down life suddenly formed" For Earth that would be about 10 billions years later, would not a direct effect of the Big Bang and life would have formed over the course of at least millions of years, not spontaneously. "Do you know how likely it is that even a single proton necessary for life could have formed?" Near certainty. "Let alone everything in just the perfect order for there to be life?" Nobody is proposing some short and tidy progression for abiogenesis. It does seem a common misconception that life must have instantly or near instantly formed by unrelated matter spontaneously coalescing into a full functioning organism; it's known as Hoyle's fallacy. "if the evidence points to a creator then why can’t you accept it?" You need to provide such evidence. Concluding there must have been such an entity because you don't see how else it have occurred is not evidence. "I have to bring that up all the time with people trying to tell me everything is random" Chaotic rather than random; it's a complexity of ordered events giving an apparently random effect. Chaos doesn't preclude order occurring. Order can arise spontaneously in a locality at the expense of increased entropy in the system as a whole. "It is not a 100% proven theory that is beyond any form of scrutiny" There is scrutiny and there is ignorance & incredulity. "I don't see how..." is not evidence or a valid argument; someone needs to demonstrate that there is an error. "It has become a religion for atheists, but they don’t want to admit it’s a religion" It's a conclusion drawn from the evidence and is open to change if contrary evidence arises. Accepting an evidence-based conclusion as a valid explanation is not religion; it's sound reasoning. That you don't know the evidence & reasoning is not a valid counter-argument. Religion usually requires a deity and is based on dogma that disregards all evidence to the contrary. "what point can the big bang be traced to?" There is no absolute co-ordinate system, only relative co-ordinates. "because they have been expanding doesnt mean they have expanded from a single jnfinitely dense point over trillions of years" If you think the model is incorrect then you need to demonstrate that. "why does the year keep changing?" Approximately 13.5 billion years ago; on those time scales you can't expect to get an exact date. "Smart people, looking at real facts, but when u leave our God there are always holes" You are assuming the existence of God is a fact. You are using that assumption as an explanation for what you don't know. You aren't providing any evidence for omnipotent entity's existence or involvement, just circular reasoning that the each proves the other. You need to demonstrate the existence of such an entity, not just assume it as a convenient explanation.
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  12505.  @iRecordOS  "Simply put helicopters don’t hover as a spinning globe passes underneath" Conservation of momentum; the parked helicopter is moving eastwards with the Earth's rotation and it retains that eastwards momentum when it takes off in the same way a thrown ball continues moving when it leaves your hand. Why do you think you need physically fastening to Earth as it rotates? Do you think you wouldn't be able to keep up? That the centrifugal forces would sling you off? "The earth would’ve spun over 25,000 times in a single humans 70 year lifespan." Which is why you would see the stars rotate (relatively) over 25,000 times in a single human lifespan. How many times do you need to see the rotation to be satisfied that there is rotation? "Everything in the sky rotates around us in the same fixed positions for millennia." Are you saying that the Earth's rotation ought to change the positions of the stars? That is what you are writing. If you mean why don't they appear change as we move through space then they do; you're just assuming any change just gotta be huge and glaringly obvious to the eye. The stars are very very very distant and moving in the same general direction as the sun as the galaxy as a whole rotates. We observe stellar parallax with the closest stars as the Earth orbits the sun. Stars are measurable changing position with time; professional star charts need updating regularlyIf you don't believe me then there is nothing stopping you from purchasing a high quality telescope and measuring the change for yourself.
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  12516.  @incorrect2968  "That leaves the rest, 0%, to pulverize the building" Drop a concrete block on your toe; you're arguing that the block won't apply any force to your toe to crush it. Does that seem realistic to you? Terminal velocity is the point at which the gravitational acceleration is matched by the resistance provided by the medium through which the object is passing. It's irrelevant in this example; the distances are inadequate to achieve terminal velocity. Free-fall is the simply when an object is moving under solely under the influence of gravitational force; it is not a velocity. Gravitational force increases the kinetic energy in an object. The deceleration arising from the falling object hitting the ground or any object below it translates the kinetic energy into force. A concrete block falling on your toe crushes it and likely breaks the block (depends on height and point of impact); concrete falling from sufficient height will produce enough force to pulverise itself. One face of WTC7 was briefly in free fall; broken vertical beams on a lower floor no longer any vertical support and the initial downwards motion had snapped the horizontal beams that had provided support to that face of the upper floors. All else fell under less than free fall (rapid but less than free fall) since only a small proportion of the kinetic energy was absorbed by collapsing beams. That is the importance of actually measuring time & motion rather than simply eye-balling and why you need to understand & calculate the forces involved.
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  12533.  @tanelkagan  The burden of evidence lies on the person making the assertion, whether they are asserting there is or that there isn't a god. In science conclusive evidence has to meet the criterion of falsifiability, ie., the test has to be able to demonstrate if the assertion is false. (Since the possibility of other unknown causes always exist no test can conclusively prove an effect is due to one particular cause, just indicate that the asserted cause is probably true.) However when you are testing for the existence of an omnipotent entity, that entity can manipulate the test to make it appear negative; you can never meet the criterion of falsifiability. Even that assumes that merely constructing such a test is possible; how would you go about testing for the existence of an apparently undetectable entity? The discussion belongs in philosophy rather than science. "Because they have (or think they have) explanations for everything they can perceive, as well as for many things they cannot, they simply dismiss and say "your evidence isn't evidence at all"." Such explanations are based on verifiable fact and logical deductions; that nothing can be proved absolutely in science does not mean there is lack of sound basis or that the theory is probably wrong, simply that the possibility will always remain that there is an alternative cause. If the suggested alternative cause requires the inclusion of an undetectable omnipotent entity then Occam's Razor advocates sticking with the scientific explanation. I would note that "your evidence isn't evidence at all" is usually an accurate criticism; all the evidence put to me consisted of cherry-picking and selective interpretation requiring a predetermined conclusion, i.e., circular reasoning.
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  12559. ​ @dankennerson2080  Some would dismiss your bridge-building as part of the indoctrination; to them verification means deducing the principles by yourself, not just putting into practice what is in a textbook. Others will insist that your model's design was determined by the teacher so it apparently for what was taught. Anything but acknowledge it has been repeatedly verified. I really do mean that they believe that each one of us should personally verify every last bit of knowledge, not just what we work with. It's partly a failure to understand how much is known, partly a get out clause so they can make dismissive comments rather than support their claims. There are 1000's of papers published on PubMed weekly; I don't have the time to verify everything published, just take it with a pinch of salt and watch how a particular line of research develops. If I can incorporate something into my own work then, yes, I need to verify both that it works and that I can get it to work but I don't try verifying the whole paper. Right now, I have to prepare material to take for LC-MS/MS analysis; I have a limited knowledge of how that works but I can be reasonably sure the people in the facility know what they are doing. It isn't necessary of me to develop the knowledge & technology then design, build & operate my own but that is what some of them demand. I don't have the background to be familiar with, say, cosmology but I can be sure that other people do. I can go to arXiv and locate a stack of papers from people confirming, say, that the CMB exists. Being verified by relative experts I can take it as read that it exists, that it's not the untested postulate of one guy. They won't accept that though they are satisfied by a YT videos of people screwing up measurements on how far they can see. I realise I failed to mention that they think we don't conduct any experiments; they seem to believe we send our time looking at a blackboard and musing. I've asked repeatedly what they think we have labs for; the only answer I have ever received is someone who thought all labs were used for teaching, apaprently based on the fact that a teaching lab was the only one he had set foot in.
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  12601.  @grantcivyt  I replied to the latter part of your comment. As far as I am aware it was individuals who thought large gatherings were OK, not the institutions. I'm quite aware there are long-standing and genuine disputes; that is how science (medicine included) progresses and nobody is ostracised for disagreeing. The exception would be those who deny what is well-established, e.g., the existence of viruses. "Leeway in exploring alternatives" falls under research, not the day to day practice of medicine; you want to be able to see a doctor for an accurate diagnosis and demonstrably effective treatment, not automatic enrollment in personal experiments. In terms of the pandemic, I see about 283,000 articles in the last few years when I search for "Covid"; there has been plenty of work gone into dealing with the epidemiology, viral mechanisms and treatment. If you mean doctors trying to find anything that would improve Covid patients chances then you run into the problem that their tests are not controlled experiments; the evidence is anecdotal at best. They can be acknowledged as a partial justification to conduct controlled experiments using suggested treatments but they are not proof the treatment works. Cloth masks are far less effective than the medical ones but they are not totally ineffective. They are cheap & reusable (thus no shortages) and what efficacy there is adds to what is already obtained from distancing etc. It's not so much a matter of whether the glass is half-full or half-empty but trying to explain that to people who think the glass can only be either full or empty. The CDC makes recommendations; they have no power to declare mandates. The politicians to whom the recommendations are made have that power.
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  12761. ​ @WesD92422  "gas particles colliding with the wall" As I said, hitting a surface. Have you heard of telescopes? The existence of space hasn't been questioned in many centuries. "No, it's not physical." Which is not a clear explanation. What do you think that means exactly? That it isn't mass? That's it's a mental image? "And physical containment is required" And I keep asking for you to explain it and all you ever refer to are the gas laws that DON'T specify that a container is necessary. Why not try answering? How exactly does it violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics? "It's never been demonstrated" The Cavendish experiment, reproduced countless times of the last few centuries. The Schiehallion experiment. Prediction of the existence & orbit of Neptune. How many times in how many ways by how many people does it need to be demonstrated for you to acknowledge it has been demonstrated? "You quoted it as mass attracting mass and that was superseded over a century ago" Curvature of spacetime by a gravitational field. Whether gravity is a force or apparent force (like centrifugal force) makes no difference to what we are discussing; it exists. "I'm asking how the pressure got there in the first place" Mostly through the release of volcanic gases as the planet cooled. That's the first time you've asked incidently. You have repeatedly asked how atmospheric pressure is maintained which has been answered umpteen times. Whining that gravity doesn't exist is not going to make it disappear.
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  12762.  @WesD92422  I said it required a surface. You said (for still unspecified reasons) that it required a container. I was pointing out that "wall of a container" is a wall, ie. a surface. The surface is all that is needed to achieve force/area. Who do you think is faking what you see through a telescope and how? How did they manage to do it with Galileo when he built his own? Gravity makes masses attract each by being mental? Do objects have minds of their own? Telekinesis on somebody's part? "ALL observation proves this" Like all the observations demonstrating that gravity exists? We are observe multiple atmospheres existing without a container; how do those observations prove a container is necessary? We observe objects disappearing behind a horizon. We observe the sun crossing the sky at a constant 15 degrees per hour with no variation in angular diameter. We observer two celestial poles and visible constellations changing with latitude. We observe lunar eclipses. We observe the motion of other planets. We observe the ISS passing overhead following a tight schedule for 20+ years. We observe satellite signals. We don't observe any dome. Do you mean observing a boat through a P1000 with total disregard to size & distance? Why would that cack-handedness negate everything else that we observe? "if all you're gonna do is dodge and deflect" Says the guy who can't explain why a container is necessary for pressure or why an atmosphere without a dome breaks the laws of thermodynamics. Why not try answering? I've answered all your questions. "Evidence in your next post" Evidence for what? The existence of gravity? I gave you a list. Why gases don't need a container? I've pointed out the existence of planetary atmospheres and gas giants. A handwaving "space doesn't exist" is not a valid counter-argument. Why the gas laws don't mean gas requires a container? I've told you why twice. Why you can zoom the boat back into view if the Earth is sphere? I told you at the beginning. You're claiming a dome exists so the onus is on you to prove it and "it just gotta exist" is not proof; it is not on me to disprove it. "You may wanna keep showing your science illiteracy" Understanding the gas laws is scientific illiteracy? Knowing the evidence for gravity is scientific illiteracy? Do you think scientific literacy means?
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  12766.  @WesD92422  "Wrong." Either you didn't read what I wrote or you didn't understand it. "The surrounding air rushes to fill the available space in the vacuum." How do you propose to get the vacuum chamber door open? "I can provide evidence and facts of what I'm claiming in regards to gas pressure" Then why not do so? All you've done so far is make oblique reference to an ideal container, which don't refer to physical containment. I did ask you if you thought water in a sealed container proved that water can only exist in a container; why not answer? "All you can do is divert to the pressure gradient. Which is nothing to do with the question" You like the gas laws & thermodynamics; surely you understand that gas in a sealed container would be evenly distributed? How can we have a pressure gradient when your contained atmosphere is evenly dispersed? Why not try answering? "How is the pressure there in the first place?" Release of volcanic gases in Earth's infancy. When there is gas then there is gas pressure. "The pressure should have rushed to fill the available space" Unless there is something acting upon it to counter that expansion, e.g., gravity. "hence why you people invoke gravity" Which can be observed to exist. We are still waiting on FE'ers to explain how the Cavendish experiment works. You've avoided answering. Why not try doing it? "PROVIDING EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE TO PROVE YOU CAN HAVE GAS PRESSURE WITHOUT A PHYSICAL CONTAINER" Look through a telescope at the neighbouring planets. We've been doing it for centuries. You don't even have to build your own telescope these days. What do you find so difficult? "Gravity doesn't do anything to gas AT THE SURFACE WHERE IT IS STRONGEST" Why are FE'ers obsessed with perceiving gravity as an irresistible force? It's proportional to mass & distance; Earth is not a black hole. Gas molecules have mass; they will be acted upon, the gravity balancing with other forces acting upon it, not magically nullifying them Do you think gas molecules don't have mass? Do you think multiple factors acting simultaneously is impossible? "AND IS NOT PHYSICAL." So what is it then - God's telekinesis? I assume you actually mean non-tangible. You can't hold a magnetic field either, or radio waves. Do you deny they exist? "no amount of facts or logic will change that" Just gotta be, just does, just is, just doesn't, don't look, not important etc are not facts & logic. I'm asking you relevant questions, providing the relevant evidence and relevant explanations and I'm not going much in return. Your entire evidence of a dome is "it just gotta be". Your explanation for requiring a container is "it just does". Your explanation for planets are "just gotta be fake". Your thoughts on telescopes are "don't look". Your explanation for demonstrations of gravitational attraction is <crickets>. Your explanation for a pressure gradient is "just exists". You think gravity doesn't affect a gas because it "just doesn't". What am I supposed to be amazed by?
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  12898.  @andrewreynold1468  Tesla believed that electricity could be delivered through the air in much the same way telecommunications are; his intent was that people could have an aerial to pick up the electricity rather than a direct cable. He said nothing of it being free; incoming electricity would still have been metered simply by attaching a meter to the aerial rather than the cable. It seems a common misconception that his tower was designed to draw electricity from the atmosphere rather than transmit it; his idea of people getting electricity through the air is portrayed as the atmosphere being naturally filled with electricity that could be tapped into. Projects do (hopefully) become self-sufficient but they do that by recouping costs from the consumer. Regardless of how electricity would be delivered it would still have to be paid for. What would be of interest to a banker would be a scheme that didn't require building & maintaining a network of cables; it would be possible to sell cheaper electricity to the consumer while making the same or larger profit. Tesla was a brilliant man but he was not the demi-god portrayed by some. He was a pioneer but he did not design everything or nearly everything that we use. Edison ripped off a lot of people in that sense, his company employing innovators without intellectual or financial credit; he was principally a businessman intent on making money from electricity. Tesla did not have a head for business; JP Morgan pulled out because of runaway costs from Tesla repeatedly changing the project's aims.
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  13035.  Josh Noss  "Evolutionsist theory thinks manatees are elephants that went back into the water." Straw man argument. The genetic & anatomical evidence points to a common ancestor >50 million years ago, not that manatees are descended from elephants. "With 0 evidence in either the fossil record or anywhere akin that there is any midpoint animal in between" Straw man argument. Since one is not descended from the other there is no reason to expect such a fossil to exist. "The bombardier beetle, the tongues of woodpeckers" As I pointed out earlier they are straw man arguments that assume abrupt large changes rather than tiny sequential steps and demand explanations for an assertion only they have made. "If you have a halfway developed organ like a kidney or liver in a animal you have a dead animal.. " If your physiology requires a fully developed kidney or liver you would be dead. If your physiology does not yet require what (to us) is a fully developed organ then there isn't a problem. Again, evolution deals with small gradual changes, not a body abruptly requiring a different organ; trying to present evolution as claiming that is a straw man argument. The appendix plays negligible or no part in digestion in child or adult. That it has developed endocrine cells in what was digestive organ is indicative of evolution. Not distinguishing between two different functions when making your claim is a straw man argument. That you refuse to accept evidence on religious grounds does not invalidate said evidence. Dismissing abundant evidence because it offends your religious sensibilities is not a logical argument.
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  13060. ​ @sammas7440  At no point do we tell people not to ask questions. We do ask that people accept the evidence, particularly if they wish to question the conclusions drawn from it; people who arbitrarily ignore or dismiss it or make baseless presumptions risk being mocked. Espousing a different opinion does not magically make someone right. We don't get orders from on high to arrive at particular conclusions, not to rock the boat, to unquestioningly agree to something or to push a "narrative", whatever the hell that is supposed to mean. That some scientists have a high profile does not give them the control you believe. Recent years have seen the rise of social media where any Tom, Dick or Harry can chip on a subject without detailed knowledge of it and just needing to sound plausible to those who want to hear something "different". That is primarily where "scientists are wrong" comes from. Cliff Clavin was part of the comedy on Cheers; the Clavins of today are hailed as gurus. "FEs are not all stupid people" Hossenfelder pointed out where their reasoning goes off the rails. I have noticed among people today that there is a presumption that ignorance equates to knowledge; not knowing how something can be verified is taken as meaning that they know that that something can't be verified. It would be reasonable for you to be irritated if I started lecturing you on RF electronic engineering; that would be the same reason we get irritated when people start lecturing us on our fields. (Sorry if all that flows disjointedly - I have a cold and my head is swimming.)
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  13122. ​ @maatssun6713  "You basically admitted you cannot prove the rhetoric" Both I and Mr Sirhcsellor have provided you with evidence; as with all FE'ers, you aren't interested in evidence. You can measure a decline in pressure for yourself by climbing some tall mountains but, hell no, you expect the tops of the mountains brought down to ground level. FE'ers have such problems with scale. You can't fit a 100km column of air inside a 10m high room; if you think it possible then explain how. Be the first FE'er to come up with a feasible explanation on how it can be done. "You've never addressed thermodynamics" 1. Closed system does not mean inside a container; it means in isolation from other factors. 2. Gravity acting on air to form a pressure gradient is not negative entropy. The air forming & maintaining a gradient on its own would be negative entropy. "requiring explanations of a delta of pressure" You're claiming a container can generate a pressure gradient. If you need to explain this feasible mechanism for it to occur, not just wave your hand and proclaim it The Truth. You need to explain why it isn't observable on any other container, just the magic undetectable dome. "I've never seen NASA CGI " Wow! Another one who can identify CGI at a glance! Let me guess - you aren't willing to share your technique? NASA does not and never had a monopoly on taking photographs of planets. People were photographing planets long before NASA existed. That you can't figure out how to correctly focus your telescopes does not make you the insight genius of telescopy. "That means they are not balls of gas maintaining a spherical shape in a vacuum" That you can't focus your telescope does not prove the gas giants aren't balls of gas. I've already asked you what you think the declining air pressure results in; no answer. Do you believe it suddenly shoots back up to 15psi when it comes into contact with your undetectable dome? If so, then how? Do you think it declines and remains constant simultaneously? What evidence do you have to back up whichever answer it is that you're not going to give? "It takes the shape of guess what?' It is shaped according to whatever acts on it, including gravity. If you think gravity doesn't exist then explain the results of the Cavendish experiment. If you accept gravity exists then explain why you think it doesn't act on gases. You reckon that you have the knowledge and insight to totally rewrite physics; if you wish anybody to believe you then try actually producing some of it.
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  13129. ​ @maatssun6713  I already told you that the definition of scientific method that you're using is erroneous and is one deliberately used by people who want to ignore evidence (as you are doing) rather than try refuting it (which you;re avoiding). What you are demonstrating is the horrendous double standards used by science deniers. A FE'er peers through a telescope at a receding ship and it's hailed as Real Science because he is supposedly testing something. Scientists can make predictions and test every possible variable but it will be rejected as pseudoscience because we actually calculate & measure distances and don't manipulate the shape of the planet. You asked for evidence and are wailing pseudoscience because we aren't manipulating the atmosphere for you. You can't even provide an example of a pressure gradient inside a container much less provide a hypothesis for how a container would generate such a gradient. Presumably you think a FE'er climbing a 5000ft peak and being able to breathe disproves declining air pressure and sod the barometer. "I know all your arguments intimately" Hardly, given the errors you're committing. "gas does not take a spherical shape" It does on a planetary scale. Would a decline in air pressure from 100kPa to 0kPa over 10m and 100km have the same gradient by your reckoning? "no gas will ignore a vacuum. It will invade the available volume." Unless acted upon by a force. Gas consists of mass and mass is affected by gravity. Goodness knows why that is difficult for FE'ers to grasp. "2nd law of thermodynamics is a law" If there was no gravity then you would have a point. Ignoring gravity does not disprove its existence. Ignoring gravity (or any factor) doesn't magically negate its effect. Something really difficult for FE'ers to grasp; too many variables for your minds I suppose. "Waiting on a demonstration of" etc arxiv org / abs / 2102.09983
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  13444. ​ @arrogantaries0034  "cgi" Do you have any technique for identifying CGI or are you yet another one who just "knows"? Do you know what CGI is? "u can show absolute proof " Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, two celestial poles, accurate maps; you can check all of these for yourself. The ancient Greeks deduced that the Earth was a sphere from the first three. Put a stick in the ground and the direction of the shadow can be observed to move by a constant 15 degrees/hour. With travel you can use the length of the shadow to triangulate your position relative to the sun and note that the results only fit a sphere. The sun sets below a horizon that makes it disappear from the bottom up, a phenomenon that can be observed around the world. Accurate maps enable you to get on a plane and fly directly to an airport on another continent. It is not necessary to direct view something to determine its shape. The Earth's circumference is 25,000 miles (0.0144 degrees/curvature per mile) and your eyes are 5-6 feet off the ground; you are so small compared to it that what little area you can see will appear essentially flat. Only with high enough elevation can you see far enough for curvature to be obvious. Nowhere are you going to observe the curvature associated with a 25 mile circumference because the Earth's circumference is 1000-fold larger. FE claims there are no horizons and that your sight is limited by everything disappearing into a gradual haze; you would be able to see several hundred miles from ground level (you can't) and that viewing distance would decrease with increasing altitude (it doesn't). The sun exhibits a constant size & speed through the course of the day and rises & sets on the horizon while FE'ers claim they vary and it becomes "too far away to be seen" without coming within 20 degrees of the observable horizon. That air pressure decreases with increasing altitude, something you can verify by climbing tall mountains. If the atmosphere was enclosed within a dome rather than held by gravity then there would be equal air pressure. None of them have ever produced any evidence for this dome, can't explain how meteorites pass through it or even agree whether the FE sun is inside or outside it. You can go on and on with FE'ers failing to provide any material evidence. They can't even put together the crudest of map using known distances between places. Meanwhile you can travel the world with accurate maps verifying the shape for yourself.
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  13542.  @brandynkoogler4500  "set and solidified take the law of gravity for example" The law of gravity is a mathematical expression of the observed relationship of mass & distance with regards to the attractive force between masses. The theory of gravity started as a direct attractive force, was replaced by spacetime curvature while field theory is still an advancing work. "what we do know is unchanging. It can only be added upon" Like the phlogiston, luminiferous aether, miasma etc? "As far as your sex and gender those can be added upon. Not changed or reverted" Your sex can't be altered but gender develops early in life and is thus mutable to some extent. "Once again gender and sex are the same so yes it is swt and stone what you are" You acknowledged earlier there was a difference between the two. "What kind of person you feel like is not determined by what you are." If sex & gender are the same thing then what you feel like would be determined by what you are. "No matter what hormones or medicines you inject in your body you cannot hide what you're born as" You can hide it; you would have to check the chromosomes to determine the sex. "Yes i do believe that men and women are social constructs. Gender and sex are not." Make your mind up. "Across all of time and all nations...." Again, that's based on your assertion that sex & gender are the same but you have also described the difference between the two. Pick one and stick with it. "There isn't a society with 3 genders." Multiple apparently. Kindly look it up before you reply. "Femininity and masculinity, though are more dominate features of one gender or the other they do cross over" etc And do so without the vast majority feeling that they are in the wrong body; the subject under discussion deals with those who do, not the range of personality within a gender. I was making that distinction between the two. Sex change operations used to be far rarer and were usually successful; it wasn't easy to start and the transition took time. Today's problem is that it is being done too readily & too quickly. It's like assisted suicide; there is a good argument to be made for some but without clear criteria you end up on a slippery slope where it wouldn't be appropriate, just convenient for others. There are people who are the "wrong" gender. Denying that it occurs at all is no better than the current assertions of a 100 genders, day to day changes and large proportion of the population feeling that way.
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  13927. ​ @botmushin8878  For you to be able to see anything it requires that light travel between it and your eyes. For you to see the moon light has to travel from it. Once it has left the moon it is no longer at the moon. If the moon is not generating or reflecting light then once the light has gone from the moon there is no light at the moon. The moon is 1.3 light seconds away. If it is not reflecting or emitting light then that is essentially how long it could be visible for. Make your mind whether you consider it 2D or 3D and stick with it. Make your mind up whether the surface, 2D or 3D, is curved or flat. You haven't produced any evidence of the dome existing (none of you ever do). The nearest you've gotten is talking about short wave radio bouncing off the ionisphere but can't explain why everything else passes through unimpeded. All you are doing now is going into the usual conspiracy theory nonsense put around by people who are willfully ignorant. You need to provide direct evidence. "Just gotta be" is not evidence. It is not an empirical fact that the stars, sun etc are "just light". Something needs to be there to emit or reflect light. Spectroscopy demonstrates the presence of matter. It has a visible outline. You need to find an area well away from street-lighting on a clear night. Astronomers have had those conditions practically everywhere until the 20th century. That you can't see it from your back garden does not mean you are disproving what has been known for millenia. You do realise that you are not the one and only witness in the world? "How do you explain the phases of the moon in your heliocentric theory?" As the moon orbits the Earth its position relative to both Earth & sun changes. Half the time it is passing across the sunlit side of Earth, half the time passing across the unlit part. When it is on the sunwards side of Earth we see more of the unlit side of the moon; when it is on the nightwards side of Earth we see more of the sunlit side of the moon. There are videos on YT running you through the cycles visually. "If your model was correct, the moon would run through all of its phases ... within one day." The phases have bugger all to do with the Earth's rotation. Nobody is claiming phases have anything to do with the Earth's rotation. The Earth's rotation does determine when the moon rises & sets but it has nothing to do with lunar phases. "I love how I've answered every single one of your questions (no matter how misinterpreted you tend to read them) and you have not answered this one question" Your level of thinking is so superficial you can't see how you are screwing up and you can't understand the answers I am giving you. Your initial observation & conclusion is "I see a light therefore that's all it can be" and you've tried to weave everything around that mindless thought.
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  13929.  @botmushin8878  Let's see if I'm getting this straight - luminaries are a special kind of light that it isn't generated by anything, doesn't go anywhere, doesn't maintain ordinary dimensions and is visible because it emits "normal" light without any means to do so or using any energy to do so? You know this to be true because simply you "know" this, not because you can provide any evidence or explanation for how such would work? I told you about satellites going up and meteorites coming down without encountering any dome; you simply deny they exist. That is not lack of evidence, that is denial. You are making various pronouncements but producing no evidence to back it yet you don't seem to think that a problem. Typical double standards of FE'ers. "If your model was correct you would see the moon going through all its phases in one day" Again, why would you expect to see the phases change in the course of one day when the Earth's rotation has nothing to do with phases. You think you're good at spatial relations so explain why you think it would. How do you think an 8000 mile difference between two observers have a significant effect on the viewing angle of an object 239,000 miles away? How would the rotation of the Earth move those observers around the moon or change the position of the moon in anyway? "It just would" and "it's obvious" are not answers. "dodged the main question over and over" I've answered the questions repeatedly; that you can't get your head around concepts is your problem. I'm trying to get answers out of you that go beyond "just gotta be" and "just does" that FE'er are so good at using. "propaganda that has been proven to be false/faked time and time again" Still waiting on this evidence & proof. You're now saying that existence of weather balloons precludes space travel; I'm sure that like all other FE'ers you'll decline to explain why you consider that so. Only shortwave bounces off the ionosphere; GPS does not use short wave. Shortwave bouncing off the ionosphere is not evidence that everything bounces off the ionosphere. You need to provide evidence the GPS signal would bounce off the ionosphere. "is the same way they work in mid-ocean (to a certain extent" GPS works exactly as it should mid-ocean, not "to a certain extent". I told you the ISS was visible from the ground does to its size. The ISS serviced by space craft (Soyuz capsules and formerly space shuttles) which can have cameras on board to take photos at close range. As far as I'm aware the Hubble satellite is the only satellite that has ever been approached close enough for photos to be taken. Other satellites are just too small and too far away to be photographed. As I said, FE'ers chunter on about perspective yet are clueless about why it would prevent them photographing satellite.
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  13950.  @1FeistyKitty  "one thing we know for SURE it that they are not doing it in "SPACE"" What makes you sure exactly? "'glitches' when they move module to module" The first step of video compression is determining what changes from frame to frame and selects those pixels; in the absence of a replacement pixel the decoding software uses the same pixel from the previous frame. There will be a spike in transmission when there is a lot of change and thus more likely to get glitches. "act like they are handing things with nothing in their hand" You obviously have no idea how limited the quality is in AR. "while staring up at the screen" You mean looking at the camera "bunch up in below the waist" Why do you expect material to hang down in micro-gravity? "hair acts totally differently when they are actually on the vomit comet" Unless you are Medusa then your hair is passive and acts according to what forces are acting on it. Somebody moving on a vomit comet will have air moving their hair while a stationary astronaut does not. There are also several types of hair so exact response will vary. "always cut every 30 apx. seconds with a flash of light" No. "they always do the same dumb flip with the cables" Still waiting for your evidence that there are invisible cables. "the guilty smiles when they mess up" Humans shouldn't smile? "the astronot by the blue grid" The one with the prominent white grid on it? "their head always tilts toward vertical" They are having a conversation with someone on the screen in front of them; it is normal to have the same orientation. Have you ever seen Law & Order: Criminal Intent? "that's how they do all the floatey stuff" That is your presumption; that isn't evidence.
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  14021.  @wenceslara1672  ​ Sure but with the shape of the Earth we have it fully measured (WGS84), an accurate world map that enables direct travel & trade, yet more photos being taken by multiple satellites every hour, satellite-based GPS being widely used and a space station that can be seen to pass overhead on a rigid schedule. In terms of the sun's motion, a sun moving in a circle above a flat plane would have varying angular diameter & velocity, not the constant values we observe and expect from a spherical planet. There's no room left for doubt. Umpteen of them claim to be able to explain it all but none of them ever do. They have had every opportunity to produce their evidence & reasoning and they are asked repeatedly to provide the working map & model; nothing useful is ever forthcoming. All even just one of them has to do is produce something other than the ignorance & incredulity but none of them ever do. They've had over a century to produce all this but none of them ever have. Debates usually fall back on rhetoric, not evidence & reasoning. It's no coincidence that the most eloquent FE'ers are the conmen milking them. They make it sound plausible, but they never produce any evidence. Open-mindedness is the willingness to listen to & consider new ideas. Great but they need to put up the new ideas, not the same old disproven ones over and over and over. If you think one of them could have something original then you look for it. Good luck. Sorry if I sound impatient, but they aren't being denied opportunity.
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  14031. ​ @robbiehiatt9966  "where the North Pole is the Sun stays low on the horizon" Something that would be true if the axis wasn't tilted and, given the topic was selenelion eclipses, the pole sun rises up to 23 degrees above the horizon, far beyond the point where refraction would be a significant factor. The inference was that you thought the 24hr sun was due to refraction, not the orientation of the axis and Earth's orbit. "so my question is at which point is it refraction and at which point is it actually the sun you're looking at?" As I said, the course of the sun is trackable. Deviation from that course as the sun reaches the horizon relative to the observer indicates that refraction is playing a role. "But I thought refraction only happens sometimes if the condition is right." The refraction is always present to some extent (the sun's light is passing through an increasingly dense atmosphere - the change in density causes the refraction) but the amount of refraction varies according to atmospheric conditions. Mirages occur when airflow leads to more marked changes in density between different layers; they are infrequent, show marked differences and are unpredictable. Eclipses are quite predictable (alignment of three bodies on known paths) and thus the locations that would place sun & moon on opposite horizons relative to an observer are predictable. From those locations an observer can see the effect of the mundane amount of refraction elevating each a fraction of a degree. Elsewhere in the world observers see either the sun or the moon, neither deviating from their regular paths that enable prediction of eclipses.
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  14092.  @herringtonoso4064  The rabbit hole led to Wonderland; Alice at least had the excuse of being in a dream when she was running around there. We have people jumping down the hole proclaiming observable reality to be wrong, how they know the Real Reality but totally unable to reconcile their Reality to what is observable around us. "I'm not sure what an efer is" I wrote FE'er. Since the subject is flat earth I would have thought the abbreviation obvious. "only serves to feed into a multi billion dollar industry" Which industry? "contributed nothing but theory" Scientific theory: a comprehensive explanation for a natural phenomenon that is well-substantiated by extensive experimentation & observation. It is not a guess or hunch; that is the vernacular meaning of theory. The computer you are writing on is dependent on scientific theory and appears to be working fine. "Is the earth flat? Not sure" The ancient Greeks deduced the shape of the Earth from the motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses having a circular shadow. We are still waiting on FE'ers to provide explanations. The world has since been thoroughly mapped; only a globe fits the distances measured. Still waiting on FE'ers to produce their working map. The Earth has since been photographed from every angle by multiple parties; still waiting on FE'ers to explain how CGI was achieved before CGI existed. How much evidence do you need? "I can definitely see way too far" How far do you think you should be able to see on a globe and why? Every time this comes up we have to point out that how far you can see is not determined by curvature alone but by curvature, elevation & atmospheric refraction combined; all three have to be accounted for. "leads me to believe there is much to be discovered" More to do with pointing out the bloody obvious like the sun rising & setting while trying to extract the Real Evidence from FE'ers who are flummoxed by the simplest of questions.
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  14103. ​ @francescobar9052  I meant exactly what I said. Hypotheses and conclusions in science are based on the evidence that is available at that time and will be influenced by the views prevalent in society at that time. In terms of eugenics, our understanding of the complexity genetics was still (very) limited with no evidence then to suggest how complex the genome actually was; the conclusions supporting eugenics were reasonable for the evidence & understanding of the subject and did reflect the prejudices that were then prevalent in society. None of them ignored or misrepresented what we know now; it wasn't known at the time to be ignored or misrepresented. As obvious as that sounds I hear comments that are based on the assumption that the same evidence has been available at all times and accusations that scientists are unreliable (or worse) because we keep changing our minds over the course of decades. What we have at present is a widespread belief that anyone with perceived authority must be lying, claims of conspiracies to back that assumption and the illogical conclusion that any ignoramus must know better. (The assumptions of what is being lied about seems very selective: people still call plumbers & car mechanics and, despite claims that the raison d'etre of government is to mislead you, I hear nothing of people advocating driving on the other side of the road.) The incidence of respiratory disease & lung cancer was anecdotally noted as higher in smokers. Filters were introduced as a result of evidence that tar & nicotine could be the cause of some lung disease; that the disease was occurring throughout the population meant multiple causes and it would be difficult to categorically state that smoking was the cause in any particular patient. Only with decades of research could it be determined statistically that smoking was an apparent cause of such disease. Since statistical analysis will never give an absolute answer there was plenty of opportunity to argue against drawing a firm conclusion. That it is seen as a reasonable conclusion on the accumulated evidence we now possess is not sound grounds for arguing that it should have been known 40-70 years ago, but it doesn't stop some people from doing that. Nicotine was identified as the active chemical and it was hypothesised that that was also the carcinogen. With research it became clear it wasn't and the gradually improving chemistry was able to identify the actual carcinogens in the smoke, a result of the combustion process.
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  14126. ​ @alexanderka1956  "right outright declined that information as legit" Quite rightly so. The documents in questions refer to some experimental aircraft design where, to keep the maths solely focussed on the airflow over the wings, they assumed various factors to be zero, e.g., no flexibility in the airframe, no weight loss as fuel is burned off, no atmospheric turbulence and no curvature. No secret admission that the Earth is really flat, just some people unwilling to read a whole sentence and seizing upon isolated words. Nothing untrustworthy, just some simplified maths. "that doesn't prove they are right, but on the contrary it proves that they are not sure" It means that science is open to new information; while what we currently accept is well-founded, nothing can be proven absolutely. Don;t confuse lack of absolute proof with ignorance. "science is for the most part theory and assumptions which either are or aren't supported by evidence" What do you think we do in labs? "NASA claiming that they somehow don't have the technology anymore" The Apollo craft and Saturn V's were single use and have been used; they can be reused. All the one's built were used; there are none sitting in storage waiting to be used. The technology is 50 years old and is largely incompatible with today's. WHile NASA retains the blueprints & notes of those that assembled them, the manufacturing techniques are 50 years old. Much of the original components were designed & manufactured on contract; those companies have not had reason to hang onto 50 year old records & technology. Even if new Apollo craft & Saturn V were built with retro-engineering they wouldn't meet today's requirements; a moon base ifs not going to be built by two men in a few hours with a very limited cargo load. It is irrelevant that they were the pinnacle of space travel in 1971; this is 2021, the technology is dated and they wouldn't fulfill the functions of the desired missions. Is that clear?
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  14173. ​ @janvukovic8717  A scientific theory is a comprehensive explanation for a natural phenomenon, well-substantiated by extensive experimentation & observation. It is not a hunch or guess; that is the vernacular meaning of theory. Something is accepted as a scientific theory because the evidence is conclusive and there are no plausible alternatives. FE'ers have yet to come with anything more than incredulity and pointless conspiracies. Dave has made the above challenges because they are fundamental to proving a FE but FE'ers never do them; no FE'er commenting here has tried meeting even one of them. None have produced any of these proof that you and others claim exist, just ignorance & incredulity. That you don't know how science does something does no mean nobody knows or even that the knowledge is limited to science. It just means there is something that you don't know; there are limitations to everyone's knowledge. Nobody blessed with a brain that is the repository for all human knowledge. We don't need to know the full mechanism of gravity to determine that gravity exists; that was done centuries ago. We don't need to know what initiated the Big Bang to determine the universe originated from a single point 14.5 billion years ago. "Why is there not a whole picture of a earth from space (not even Antarctic!)" There are abundant full hemisphere shots; EPIC, Himawari-8, Elektro-L take more every hour, all immediately downloadable. "how is it possible that earth is moving faster than 10k km/h" What do you think would stop it? There is no friction is space to limit movement. "How can the planes land on that ground" Usually by decreasing altitude and lowering the undercarriage. If you mean "how can it land if the Earth is moving at 1000mph" then the answer is conservation of momentum. When you throw a ball, it continues moving forwards when it breaks contact with your hand; when a plane takes off it retains the eastwards motion it had on while sitting on the ground; other than what is supplied by the plane's engines there is no difference in velocity between Earth and plane. "how do you scientists know how deep the earth is" When the circumference is measured and the Earth is demonstrated to be a sphere by multiple means then the radius & diameter are readily calculable. "All of you think flat earthers are stupid and idiots, but the truth is: they use their mind" It would be nice if you did use your mind but you're assuming that if you don't know something then nobody does and, mysteriously, that governments & media are the only sources of information.
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  14216. ​ @ranguy1379  "Do I really understand them" as in what they are saying or what they are like as people? From the experience online they profess to be sceptical thinkers or free thinkers but their reasoning is superficial, generally limiting their explanations of a multifactorial phenomenon to one variable, making frequent use of "just does" for a mechanism, apparently have no notion of scale or measurement, insist personal direct observation is the only valid evidence (though they have no problem using radio waves) and ignore the inherent contradictions in what they are saying. They can't answer questions put to them; they frequently can't understand the questions or the relevance of the questions. Though they frequently claim to know or understand something other people don't, they can't seem to grasp that other people can know and understand something they don't. Free thinking is not being limited by a society's norms or accepted knowledge. Sceptical thinking is considering the basis & alternatives for postulates. Espousing unsupported & unsupportable assertions is neither; denying reproducible evidence is neither. Unless you wish to get into the philosophical discussion of what constitutes reality, when somebody's assertion contradicts observable reality it's reasonable to conclude that it doesn't explain observable reality. Open minded is the willingness to listen to & consider alternative opinions. When said alternatives are demonstrably crap it is closed minded to keep espousing them as true just for the sake of being different. Dealing with flat earthers does stretch my patience but I'm rarely impolite or derogatory. Asking questions and pointing out errors is not hostile; it is the purpose of a discussion group. Asking for evidence & rationale when someone makes an assertion is not hostile; that is science. Answering their questions is not hostile. Failing to have my socks blown off by their erudition is not hostile but that is where I am frequently on the receiving end of hostility.
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  14217.  @ranguy1379  You asked me if I really understood them. I do; I told you what was wrong with their reasoning. They are being wilfully stupid when something that is explained to them over and over and over in simple language with easily understandable examples and they refuse to listen because it isn't what they want to hear yet keep asking the same questions. It's not about perspectives or personal priorities; I am referring specifically to their level of reasoning. I don't call them names, I'm not unfriendly; I remain polite and patient. "When you understand them you won't find their thinking "stupid" but "understandable"." I'm arguing with one now. I understand what he saying. He has basic misconceptions, inter alia, about the maths & physics of gravity and air pressure; I've explained carefully it to him, provided him with examples that back what I am saying and explained how his observations are consistent with the established facts. I've had to point out repeatedly that more than one force can act simultaneously (with examples) and that (according to the law of gravity) gravitational attraction is proportional to mass, but he can't progress beyond one force at a time and attraction constant value for every object regardless of mass. He can't explain anything beyond the most superficial details and is clearly unfamiliar and wishes to remain unfamiliar with what he wants to criticise. Kindly don't lecture me on the need to understand what people are saying. That isn't the problem.
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  14341. ​ @maliluha  Most entries on Wikipedia will be reliable; pages usually have several editors who are informed when changes are made to a page and there is active discussion about the contents (see Talk tab). Malicious or misinformative entries are usually quickly rectified. It's a reasonable place to start if you are interested in a subject. The weakness lies with new pages (still only one author) and the more controversial subjects (eg politics) where people are tempted to portray their side as the only correct factual description. Bear in mind what you are reading, check what editing has been done (see View History tab) and apply common sense. The virus set the "narrative". Viruses don't give about damn human opinion and are not going change to suit anybody's notion on what reality should be. The people claiming it to be a hoax were not immune to it. The people waving a Bible at it were not immune. The people who thought quarantine unnecessary caught it and passed it on. President Mbeki choosing a different "narrative" concerning HIV in South Africa is responsible for about 300,000 avoidable deaths. Boko Haram have gone with a different "narrative" eschewing Western medicine and diseases that were under some degree of control are now rife. Polio came close to being eliminated until the the imams in the last region followed a different "narrative" and prevented vaccinations; polio is no spreading through multiple countries again. There are not a few companies controlling all the media. There are parent companies who own a wide range of smaller companies but it doesn't put a small group of parent companies in charge of everything nor does it mean parent companies are instructing the owned companies on what they can or can't say nor is information disseminated solely through TV & radio. I don't see many flags in the pictures of the demo you refer to. A wide variety of flags can be purchased from stores; they don't have to be imported. Nobody is banned from Antarctica. Nowhere in the Antarctic Treaty is there a clause forbidding travel. It is required that you obtain a permit to make a visit in the same way you need a visa for visiting many countries. The purpose is to ensure the environment there remains pristine; are you set up not to leave a trail of debris on your visit and that you are adequately prepared to complete your expedition. You can go on a tourist company's permit; if you want to see a 24hr sun in Antarctica you can. Blue Marble was shot on a single frame on an analogue camera from Apollo 17 en route to the moon. In 1972 digital cameras didn't exist, Photoshop didn't exist, CGI didn't exist. Blue Marble 2012 was a composite from low orbit shots, which individually cover a very restricted area; its origin was openly stated. At that point in time there were no high orbit cameras capable of taking a picture of Earth; there was no requirement for them. There are now several; EPIC (American), Himawari-8 (Japanese) & Elektro-L (Russian) are collectively downloading several photos per hour. Prior for the need for such cameras, the cost of putting a camera in high orbit for just a selfie is needlessly extravagant. Composite means several images stitched together. Many people assume it is synonymous with smaller images being compiled into a larger one. It also applies to single colour shots being overlaid to give a true colour image. To maximise resolution satellite cameras take a series of shots at each at specific wavelengths; the ones in the visible spectrum can be overlaid to give a true colour image that resemble what a human would see. That is the meaning of composite used in some satellite pictures. FE'ers are firmly lodged in personal observation; since GPS is the only method they have used many assume that is the only method that has ever existed. Asking how navigation was achieved prior to GPS doesn't elicit any replies. Some seem aware that sextants exist but seemingly still have no notion of them being successfully used for navigation across oceans. The different in density between air & water is quite significant, hence a significant amount of refraction and the very obvious distortion. The difference between air in different altitude is far less; even at the horizon the refraction is less than half a degree. It's measurable but not a change that would leap out at the eye when looking at constellations. "different atmospheric conditions would constitute to different themes of a sunrise" Used as a means forecasting the day's local weather for millenia.
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  14406. ​ @robertnixon6548  The people with the hands-on experience are retired or dead. Though the blueprints exist there were many ad hoc changes made during the assembly process; you would need to search through accumulated handwritten notes too. While the the assembly was done at NASA facilities the components were made by outside contractors; they have had no reason to preserve the workshops they used and the paperwork will have been trashed over the course of time. Manufacturing processes have become more automated, the materials have changed and (like NASA) the people with the hands-on knowledge are retired or dead. Even if you could manage to resurrect all the manufacturing & assembly required you would be left with an antiquated craft built from (now) substandard materials, possessing no electronic equipment to speak of and the capability limited to transporting only 3 people for only 2 weeks, once and once only. Existing spacecraft are built from modern materials, electronic throughout and reusable; resurrecting Apollo simply because they could leave orbit ignores what is required in today's spacecraft. It's more akin to recreating a Model T Ford than a bow (bows are at least still made). You'd have to start from what records exist, rebuild hand assembly plants, lay your hands on antiquated material and at the end of the day you would have a car that didn't meet basic requirements. It would be far more practical to use the accumulated knowledge (moving assembly lines, physics & engineering behind combustion engines, what details are essential in the design) to build an entirely new car. I don't know what you are referring to by "spacestation x". The ISS is a spacestation and has been in orbit for 20 years. SpaceX is one of the companies building & developing spacecraft; their Dragon craft have been running cargo trips to the ISS and recently carried astronauts too. I can't see any particular military advantage to a lunar colony; missiles launched from there would take a week to get to Earth and could be readily intercepted. While the Enterprise's phasers may be accurate at that range, a moon-based laser would be too diffuse by the time it reached Earth. I don't find space travel & a potential lunar colony a waste; I noted the impracticality of using Apollo craft to build such a colony, essentially spending a billion dollars to put two men on the moon to carry out a few hours work.
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  14528. ​ @vrcristian  "there isnt a "common disappearing" distance that works on all objects, it varies" Then why claims that the horizon is this "vanishing line"? "I never claimed its an example of a precise testing method but it serves the purpose." And I told you why it doesn't serve the purpose. "Disappearing from bottom up doesnt start after a certain distance, again, it varies." What is the variable that determines that distance? "In most of the observations you can see the horizon line behind the assumed water curve which supposedly obstructs the bottom of the object." An uncommon sight in actuality with no question being asked as to what else could be causing the obstruction. Do note that you haven't answered. "Are you claiming perspective doesnt exists?" No, I'm asking you for details on the FE interpretation of perspective. "2 plans intersect in a line. 2 lines in a point" All lines meeting at a single point in the infinite distance. Since nothing is infinitely large all objects appear to merge into a single point at an infinite distance. I'm asking how the vanishing point would give a vanishing line and why objects disappear according to FE perspective when their angular diameter is well within human visual acuity. "It has to have means to make decision to behave in a certain way?" If water is to literally level itself (independently of all else) then it would require means to observe its environment, make decisions and move itself. "Just does" is not a viable explanation. "These forces then that act upon the water what means they have to make decisions?" Acting upon it does not require any decision; the water is not being singled out for attention. "And which are these forces?" For what we are talking about, gravity. Yes, it has been proved to exist and, no, density is not going to move anything. "What means has a tree to grow up straight?' Gravity influencing the flow of water in statocytes. "What means has an orange to be round?' Genetics. "A meniscus in a container is a strawman" It disproves the assertion that the surface of water can't bend. It clearly can, in response to forces acting upon it. "That bending is caused by surface tension" Quite; a force causes the water surface to bend. It is not unbendable. Curvature can't be dismissed solely by declaring that water can't have a curved surface. "'Are you claiming large bodies of water display convexion due to surface tension of the container? " No, I'm pointing out that a force can bend the surface of water; the surface is not unbendable. "What prevents water to display convexion? Doh, the very own nature of water" Which brings us back to water requiring means to observe its environment, make decisions and move itself. If you mean by being a liquid then that is because liquids respond to the forces acting upon them, not an inherent property of liquids to level themselves. "my friend you seem to be lost deeply in this ilusion" Really? So what am I getting wrong exactly? All you've demonstrated from the diatribe is that you didn't understand what I was saying. You haven't actually countered anything I've said, just failed to understand it. "I have entertained you and replied" But not informatively though I suspect you believe you were so. You haven't actually provided an explanation for anything; you've simply stated "do X and Y will happen" with no explanation of how & why Y would happen. "Just does" is not an explanation. You did bring up visual acuity but you haven't explained why in FE perspective the actual size of the object is an irrelevant factor. "it gets exhausting to try reason with someone who wants to believe a fantasy" A fantasy that you should ask pertinent questions and understand a concept rather than unquestioningly believing something?
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  14739. ​ @thomasspeed3390  "My argument is not related to the earth being flat; never was." There are FE'ers who follow your line of argument to claim there is probably undiscovered knowledge that would back up their claim and that they are simply being open-minded to the possibilities. That includes taking the line that we are just accepting what we have been told and that there is a realistic possibility that we are being fooled my a massive conspiracy or at least a huge mistake that nobody has noticed in thousands of year. As I have pointed out twice, nobody can check everything. In science, when something has been verified by multiple parties then there is little reason to doubt the accuracy of the facts. It is not reasonable to construct arguments from only what you personally have done nor replicate everything that you are drawing on; we'd never get anywhere. In the absence of any plausible explanation to the contrary it is not unreasonable or dumb to accept something that has been repeatedly verified by others. I don't treat people as if they are stupid or presume that they are; I draw conclusions of their intelligence from how they are arguing. No, I can't determine from an internet discussion whether someone is generally stupid, merely being stupid in a particular area or simply playing stupid but I can recognise stupid arguments. My initial comments was that FE'ers can't understand a simple diagram consisting of a circle & arrows; that is an observation from experience. Using an equation isn't practical because firstly most can't be expressed in a line of text and secondly FE'er thinking shuts down after one variable. While they could be written in a picture and a link posted, Youtube has been deleting external links for a while now. It doesn't help that some regard maths as existing simply to fool you, is entirely detached from reality or (no joke) is satanic.
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  14781.  @adrianmoore3118  "how do you work that one out" Geometry. "they showed us the curve although it was fake but they say you can see the curve from that height" Think that through, slowly. When you talk abut "seeing the curve" are you referring to the curve of the Earth's surface or curvature of the horizon? I assume the latter. At the height of the Red Bull jump (and the balloon footage) the horizon would be curved but not profoundly so and you would need a wide angle shot for it to be readily apparent. You can see the horizon on the internal cameras over Baumgartner's shoulder as he opens the door; the viewing angle is too limited to perceive curvature in the horizon. "We show evidence of what we say and you see it" And we repeatedly point out your errors and misconceptions in said "evidence" but you won't listen, none of you have refuted the content of my last comment, just keep complaining you can't see curvature associated with a sphere the fraction of the size of Earth. "You think that we rotate at 1.000 mph" Mph is a linear velocity and nothing rotates in a straight line, seemingly a very difficult concept for FE'ers to understand. The Earth revolves once per day, half the speed of a clock's hour hand. Why do you expect that speed to make you dizzy? "going through space at 66.600 mph and we travel at 18 miles per second in the milky way and we feel nothing" 67,000mph; the 666 is FE'er invention. What exactly do you expect to feel and why? The body is sensitive to CHANGES in motion, not motion per se; a constant velocity does not have changes for the body to sense. "I went out to prove them wrong and I couldn't" Motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, two celestial poles, constellations changing with latitude, lunar eclipses, phases of the moon, accurate world map and geodesy. It's not difficult to demonstrate FE idiocy BEFORE making reference to millions of photos. If you think FE'es have solid explanations then be novel and provide them. Why does it never occur to FE'ers that we have checked your ideas? We're telling you how & why those claims are wrong.
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  14836. FEers don't have a model per se and can't agree on anything other than it is flat, e.g., it does/doesn't have an edge, there is/isn't a dome, is/isn't an icewall, there's one/two poles, the sun & moon are inside/outside/embedded in the dome that does/doesn't exist. "Density force" has largely displaced upwards acceleration (which in turn displaced upwards motion) but none of them can explain how density can have a vector nor why there should be a universal down. Some favour magnetism as a cause though they decline to explain why there should be attraction regardless of material or the lack of repulsion. Most favour the sun & moon moving in a horizontal circle above the FE though some still support the above & below approach; none can explain how their ideas could match what we observe. Are they stupid? Most seem to be lacking intelligence and all seem willfully ignorant. They generally have poor spatial reasoning (can't understand the relevance of which stars are visible according to where you are on a globe), insist of using a horizontal baseline (eg, elevation & curvature are the same thing) though seem unaware that they are doing so, are easily confused by large numbers, can't envisage more than two relevant factors (many only one factor), don't see any need for consistency between explanations, can't grasp the necessity of prediction, place greatly prefer intuitive thinking over contemplative and general view maths as a distraction. I really would like to know how they handle money. Some are reasonably intelligent but seem to be quite selective in what they are prepared to actually consider; they have to reach a predetermined conclusion. Granted it's something that everybody can be prone to but generally most don't contradict what is readily observable. Hossenfelder is saying that asking questions and attempting to reason something for yourself is not stupid even though you can be wrong. Unfortunately we're talking about people who start on the premise that the consensus must be wrong are unwilling to ask questions that would challenge that presumption. "either model leads to the same observational results" The ancient Greeks deduced it from the motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris matching latitude, constellations changing with latitude & season, two celestial poles and lunar eclipses having a circular shadow - FE'ers can't produce any explanation for each phenomena. "unless you're appealing to space agencies" FEers see eyeballing as the only form of measurement (or at least in this context - I can't get anybody to say if they know what the markings on a ruler are for); they can't figure out the shape is quite determinable & measurable at ground level. They have an obsession with Nasa and many seem unaware that it is neither the first nor only space agency in the world. Blue Marble 2012 is a composite of LEO shots. The original Blue Marble (1972) was a single-frame shot on film. Currently Himwari-8, Elektro-L & EPIC are collectively taking multiple single-frame shots every hour. Nasa did not destroy anything. The Saturn V & Apollo were single-use and used. Some tapes were re-used once the data had been processed; the data remains in paper/pdf form. Tapes were eventually replaced as they wore out or the equipment itself became outdated; that's the origin of the assertion for Nasa destroying tapes. Much of the work was done by contractors; with the cancellation of the Apollo programme workshops were repurposed for the next contract and eventually decades-old records were slung out. In both Nasa & contractors, people with first-hand experience aged, retired & died while technology became outdated. Nasa's information & data were all retained. "the proponents were making legitimate arguments that weren't things that could be brushed aside" Such as? FEers keep alluding to this Real Evidence but never produce it. All they do produce are the same smoke & mirrors from their gurus that rely on their ignorance.
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  14838.  @bmanmcfly  Data is evidence when it distinguishes between two or more possibilities; somebody can't claim data as evidence when it doesn't make any such distinguishment. Claiming it as evidence is a stupid (or at least ignorant) position for someone to take. Deliberately ignoring disliked evidence is equally stupid. The force required for an object to move in an orbit is gravitational attraction between the object and whatever is at the centre of rotation (Earth & sun respectively in this case). Counterintuitively you weigh the same and more at dawn & sunset (assuming an equinox for simplicity). The maths is out of my league. I gather the difference is in the range of 0.000,001%. That the ISS is visible indicates that space technology is not a complete fake. There are many claims of video fakery but all that ever get shown are due to video compression errors, misunderstanding of what the viewer is looking at (eg, "bubbles" travelling slowly sideways), objects being temporarily hidden during a presentation by pasting some background into the transmission and invisible wires that only The Enlightened can see. As I said earlier, data is evidence when it distinguishes between two possibilities and when fakery would be only one explanation for what is observed it is not evidence of fakery. Because I have pointed out twice that the Eratosthenes experiment can be replicated with THREE or more points which WOULD distinguish between sphere and plane. Your response was that the triangulation would still work which would require more than one sun (which some FEers have claimed). I noted in my first post that FEers seem incapable of thinking beyond two factors. Newtonian physics worked fine at explaining what was observed at that time. It doesn't adequately explain some of what has been observed subsequent to relativity being hypothesised; it took a while to find ways of making observations that would distinguish between the two. Relativity still explains almost all of what we observe. Only at galactic & quantum scales does it deviate from what is observed, observations that have been made only in recent decades. It might need replacing entirely but that is unlikely; far more likely is that it is subset of a larger theory in the same way Newtonian physics is a subset of relativity. Handwaving claims of "just gotta be something else" is not a valid hypothesis or argument and certainly not wondrous insight.
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  14975.  @jagritz2  " i’m challenging your thinking" Hardly. The process is abiogenesis, not evolution, and is also an incremental process, not an instantaneous one. It requires a molecule capable of self-replicating, mostly likely a combination of RNA & oligopeptide, which itself would arise from random chemicals across a whole planet in the course of a billion years. In combination with the early lipids and tidal pools it would lead to a cyclical occurrence of tide receding and the underlying self-recombining molecule being able to retain necessary reagents as the pool shrank with the low tide. Incremental changes over time would lead to a sealed "cell" with with modified RNA & oligoprotein enhancing the replication process. Ultimately a shift from purely RNA to the incorporation of DNA in the replication created greater stability and the development of the lipids capable of forming a double layer would create the early primordial cell. No divine intervention required, just time. You're never going to repeat that whole in the lab without a billion years to spare. However the individual steps can be deduced, the properties of the necessary structures determined and the likely transitions demonstrated to be plausible. "i already know how they did" Believing something and knowing something are two quite different things. You can be as sure as you like with your beliefs but it won't turn a belief into evidence. If you think it is demonstrable then summon up a god to create something from nothing.
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  15140. ​ @stevem437  The greater the size of the conspiracy and the longer it runs then the greater the probability that somebody will spill the beans. To claim a realistic probability that millions have been colluding for 2500 years with secrecy being compromised is farcical. When the claim also includes successfully hiding what anybody can observe for themselves by looking up it becomes fantastical. What level of proof are you after: legal, scientific, philosophical or denialist? A FE would have no horizons; the ship can't drop behind anything. When there are no horizons, nothing can drop below the horizon. That we can observe objects dropping behind a horizons disproves a notion that predicts no horizons. Everyday everybody can observe the sun rising from behind a horizon and setting below a horizon. You could assert that every eye witness is lying and all photos are fake but you need evidence that back that assertion, preferably with a plausible motive. Given the scale & detail of the conspiracy you would be asserting that evidence would be clearly demonstrative, not speculative. Tyson's point is that the people who are claiming such a conspiracy are not producing any evidence to back that; without such evidence then there is no debate to be had. Do note that total absence of evidence is not evidence of a perfect conspiracy, which incidentally is what you suggesting in your first sentence. The ancient Greeks deduced it from horizons, the motion of the sun (constant angular velocity, rising & setting), constellations changing with season, that the stars (think Polaris) decline in angle equal to latitude (Phoenician sailors were using the change in angle to estimate north-south distance) and lunar eclipses always exhibiting a circular cross-shadow. Anybody can observe these things, some without the need to travel; the notion that everybody could be lying to them doesn't hold water. Since then we have developed navigational instruments like the sextant that, with travel, means anybody can use personally to take the measurements for themselves; if somebody wishes to claim that all instruments are secretly designed by the conspirators to give the wrong results or simply eschew the notion of measurement then the onus is on them to prove that.
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  15142. 1a: Explain why you think 1970 technology, materials, computers etc are compatible with those of 2020. 1b: Explain why you think the Mars Rovers would require human life support. 2a. Because the stars are distant, generally in the 10-1000 light years away, and moving in the same direction as the sun. 2b. Explain why you think 10,000 years worth of change would be apparent from day to day. 3. Explain why parallel train tracks shouldn't appear to diverge as they approach you. 4a. For the stated purpose of avoiding military competition in an inhospitable climate. 4b. It's readily downloadable. Specify which clause supposedly forbids travel to Antarctica. 5a. By dividing circumference by time as anybody can do. 5b. Explain where you think arithmetic should change with time. 6. It isn't and they don't. 7a. Explain how you think a prominent white grid on said screen would not interfere with it being a blue screen. 7b. If you it wouldn't, then explain why studios all use blue-only screens. 8a. Blue Marble (1972) and Earthrise were taken in single frame shots on an analogue camera. 8b. Himawari-8, Elektro-L and EPIC collectively produce multiple full hemisphere shots per hour. Explain why you think they would need to use a wide angle shots from their orbital distances. 9. How much curvature would you expect to see from a globe on the inside camera at that altitude and why? 10. The atmosphere alters the light as it enters it; it's how we get a blue sky during the day time. 11a. Provide an example of such editing. 11b. Explain why you you think video compression errors wouldn't occur. 12. Free-fall, lasting about 30 sec. Explain how you think it is possible to shoot a 30min video in 30 sec. 13a. The rocket slowed and stopped when the engines shut off as programmed. 13b. Explain why you think a camera impacting a dome at a few hundred miles an hour wouldn't even be jarred. 14a. It's the International Space Station, not National. That is why it is referred to as the ISS, not the NSS. 14b. Explain where you saw a can of tuna on the ISS. These are the obvious questions that FE'es are never able to answer. Prove me wrong.
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  15376.  @HeyDan1983  The Earth's physical curvature is continuous; it doesn't begin anywhere. The horizon is simply the point at which objects start becoming blocked by the Earth's curvature; it's not a set distance but the effect of the observer's location. If your eyeballs were at ground level then objects would start disappearing almost immediately; if they are 5-6 feet above ground level (i.e., in your head) then it's about 3 miles away. The higher placed your eyes are (ie.e., your elevation) the further they can see before curvature starts blocking objects. See the diagram at the bottom of this webpage: https://www.metabunk.org/curve/ A 25,000 mile circumference sphere is going to have 1 degree curvature over 69 miles. Higher elevations will let you see further but the 230 miles visible at 30,000ft amounts only to 3.3 degrees, not something that would be readily apparent to the eye. You need to be substantially higher before enough of the Earth becomes visible for a substantial amount of curvature is viewable. There's no limitation to how far you eyes can see; they are passive receptors, detecting whatever light reaches them regardless of how far it ias travelled. Our visual acuity is limited, i.e., how wide an angle of view an objects needs to be apparent to the eye. A boat can become too small to be apparent to the unaided eye well before reaches the horizon and some people assume that accounts for the horizon but no amount of zooming with telescopes can bring an object back into view once it has gone over the horizon. A perfect test would be zooming the set sun back in to view but nobody has ever managed to do that. There's no evidence or suggested explanation for atmospheric lensing. The sun maintains the same angular diameter throughout the day whereas atmospheric lensing would make it very variable throughout and between days.
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  15484. ​ @WesD92422  "We never see a geometric horizon." Which indicates FE'ers denying atmospheric refraction exists doesn't magically nullify it. "Angles to Polaris?" The angle to Polaris matches the degree latitude. Below the equator (0 degrees) Polaris is below the horizon. FE predicts it is visible across the entire FE. "Poles are in question so to use them is a presupposition" You can see the stars revolving anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. How are you saying things revolve without a central point to the revolution? "We shouldn't have the same constellations if we're blasting through space at nearly 67,000mph" A. Why is it that the people who prattle on so much about perspective never think about the effect of distance on how much an object would be displaced? B. The constellations do change; due to the distance to the stars and the fact that they are moving in the same general direction as the sun, substantial change take 100,000 of years, not 100,000 of seconds. "The Mercator map projection is inaccurate in regards to the size of the landmasses. The Gall-Peters map is inaccurate in regards to the shape of the continents. Both being projections of the globe into a flat surface; projection of one shape surface onto another shape will inevitably create distortion. Is says bugger all about the accuracy of the globe map. It ought to be easy for FE'ers to create an accurate map of the FE on a flat surface but none of you seem able to do it. "Laser gyroscopes do not demonstrate rotation lol.. You lot love that argument, but it's from ignorance" There's a steady 15 degrees per hour drifty. Still waiting on the FE'er explanation. "As you move up through the atmosphere, there's less pressure. So what?" If the atmosphere was held purely by a container then there would be equal air pressure throughout the container. When the atmospheric pressure simply declines with altitude until it becomes indistinguishable from a vacuum then there is no requirement to separate a vacuum from a vacuum. If your think there is then you need to explain why.
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  15488. ​ @WesD92422  "Refraction is your rescue device." It demonstrably exists. "Flat Earth does not predict that. Why strawman?" With a dome of stars over a flat plane and Polaris placed at the apex of such dome, what do you think would get in the way? Denying to claim that it would be visible while pushing models that predict it would be visible across the FE is indicative of how little thought goes into FE models. "The two models have different ideas of what the South Pole is." I'm referring to the celestial poles - the centre of revolution for the stars. Look up. "We see the same 88 constellations for all of recorded history" Oldest records are about 5000 years old. 100,000 years for significant change to be apparent to the eye. How the hell do you conclude 5000 years is long enough to test 100,000 years? "Your maps are inaccurate, so don't talk about "worldwide accurate cartography"." Globe PROJECTIONS are inaccurate. I explained why PROJECTIONS would be inaccurate compared to the globe. The globe is accurately mapped. Half your goods are labelled "Main in China". In the course of the 20th century we fought two world wars. These days (Covid aside) you can hope on a plane, spend a week on a beach on the other side of the world and fly straight home. How the hell do you think all that is achievable without accurate maps? "And you know for certain the gyroscope was detecting rotation?" Still waiting on the FE explanation for what they would be detecting. "Not if it's a closed, dynamic system instead of a closed, static system like you're suggesting." It is a dynamic system; air circulates and there is still a pressure drop with altitude. "Using your heliocentric model " Claiming other planets are just stars when you can see through a reasonable quality telescope that they are not stars is dumb.
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  15489. ​ @WesD92422  "Another example, the Selenelion Eclipse." The sun is trackable and can be observed to apparently deviate from a straight course as it approaches the horizon. How much of the lower part of a distant object you can see varies with the atmosphere; do you think an object rises up & down to give the illusion of refraction? "People can't see forever through the atmosphere" Which would mean that folks in the FE southern hemisphere should see an area of the night sky that is completely starless; they don't. "How do you conclude they will change when we have only seen the same constellations for all of recorded history?" Because eyeballing is not the only means to measure the position of something. The stars' movement is measurable with fine instruments from year to year. "Gleason map is the most accurate." Like all other globe projections, the Gleason azimuthal projection is distorted; the only accurate distances are those that are directly longitudinal. Mapping a 2D surface to a 2D is not going to produce distortion; what is so difficult to understand? "If you want to know what the gyroscope was detecting, go do some independent, open-minded research." You mean you don't know but some cool-sounding guy has given you an explanation that sounds plausible and you seriously think scientists haven't considered it. "Yes because there is less atmosphere on top of you" And so? You're the one arguing the only reason pressure exists is because it just gotta be in a container, which would result in equal pressure distribution. "All you see are lights in the sky." Are you denying telescopes exist or you just don't know how to focus one or are you claiming telescopes are unfocusable?
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  15490.  @WesD92422  A shadow is the absence of light; there is nothing to refract. When all the light around the absence is refracted then the shadow will still be the empty bit in the middle of the refracted light. Do I need to point out again that the sun is traceable, that’s its path can be monitored as it moves towards the horizon and can be seen to apparently deviate from that path as it approaches the horizon? What’s so difficult for you to understand? The concept of measurement? You said the folks in the Southern Hemisphere don’t see Polaris because it is too far away to be seen. Why would stars that are even further away be visible? If the stars on the other dude if the FE dome are two far away to be seen then there would be no stars seen in the sky? If you insist there are then where are these stars? Diddums at expecting everything to happen at a timescale you can comprehend. It isn’t the most accurate; it sacrifices accuracy in favour of looking cool. It isn’t usable for anything. The globe map is 100% accurate. Unlike you I am capable of analytical thinking; I’m not dependent on cool sounding guys rubbing their chins and tossing off plausible sounding explanations that don’t hold water. I don’t keep referring to it as a static system. You don’t think gravity pulls the air down but you’re talking about the weight of the air creating a pressure gradient while prattling in about a container being the only agent. Telescopes, idiot. They exist. They are used. You can use one.
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  15491. ​ @WesD92422  "If the sun and moon are both above the horizon, and the moon is eclipsed, the Earth is not causing the obstruction." I've already told you twice that the sun is trackable; do you have difficulty with the concept of measurement? A series of shots of the sun moving across the sky repeatedly & consistently indicate that the sun moves at a constant 0.25 degrees/min following a calculable arc path with any deviation. What can be observed as it approaches the horizon is an apparent deviation from the path, a deviation that is not observed from locations further westwards where the sun would be higher in the sky. (I'm assuming you have no problem with the concept of multiple observers; you do realise that in a world of 7 billion plus people that you are not the one and only person?). The amount of deviation observed at the horizon varies according to atmospheric conditions. That is the effect of atmospheric refraction and denying it occurs means you need to explain how the sun can follow two different paths simultaneously. Do that. "There is no reason people in the Southern hemisphere wouldn't see stars." You earlier said that the folks in the Southern Hemisphere don't see Polaris because it is too far away. Now you're saying there no reason that can't see it. Which is it? Make your mind up. "'I just stick to what we know" You mean what you know. You need to understand that you don't know everything that everybody else knows. You think yourself capable of knowing something that other people don't; that applies to everybody. you need to open your mind to the concept of other people knowing something you don't. "Mercator and Gall-Peters aren't accurate." Mercator projection is designed for nautical navigation, Gall-Peters projection for land area comparison, Gleason projection worldwide map to look cool. Each projection has its own inaccuracies, which (for the third time) is a consequence of projected a curved surface (the accurate globe map) onto a flat surface (a foldable & rollable map). That the projections have inaccuracies does not mean the globe map is inaccurate; it means projection to a differently shaped surface generates inaccuracies, somebody that should be bloody obvious with a little thought. I'm dependent on other people taking & reporting accurate measurements as they are on the measurements I take & report. When multiple people obtain the same values for the similar measurements it isn't plausible that everybody is doing to incorrectly or are out to fool each other. Unlike you, I am not locked into the mentality of believing I'm the only person capable of taking measurements. "The container is for gas pressure" Not the weight of the air? You haven't explained why a container is necessary to generate any atmospheric pressure at all or how a container would generate pressure. We've already determined that the atmospheric pressure declines to a vacuum so why would a container wall separating vacuum from vacuum generate any pressure? If it is the weight of the air generating the 15 psi at ground level then where does this container contribute? What is acting on the air to give it weight? The container it isn't in contact with? You think you have an idea how it all works; you need to explain how you think it works, not just keep repeating "it needs a container". "I do not know the makeup of a distant star by looking at it" The key word in that sentence being "I". As I said earlier, you need to open your mind to the concept that other people can know something you don't. Other people have looked at the "wandering stars" with telescopes and observe that they are not lights; that you haven't looked means bugger all. Other people use the properties of light to deduce the components of the light source or the substances between the source & observer; that you don't know how means bugger all.
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  15492. ​ @WesD92422  I wrote about the apparent deviation in the trackable path of the sun & moon as they approach the horizon that is caused by atmospheric refraction. An selenelion eclipse is where sun & moon are both close to and apparently above the horizon, atmospheric refraction making them appear a little higher than they actually are, ie, they appear to have deviated from their trackable paths. If you can't see the connection that's your lack of brainpower. You need to learn to think. If Polaris is too far way to be seen on a FE then stars that are even further away should also be too far away to be seen. To anybody in the FE southern hemisphere there will be a region of sky that is further away than Polaris; if Polaris is too far away to be seen then the stars in that region would be too far away to be seen and hence the observers would see a region that is devoid of stars. I pointed that out and you told me that they there's no reason they wouldn't see stars. You need to explain how you think those stars can be too far away to be seen and yet seen. "the 2 globe maps have purpose" They are globe projections, not globe maps. You need to grasp the difference. "the flat map is just to look cool" I said the Gleason projection specifically was to look cool. An azimuthal projection has its uses for local mapping but is useless on a world scale. It just looks cool mounted on the wall. Incidentally, I note that you keep talking about inaccuracies in the projections but never mention the lack of inaccuracy in the globe map even though I have brought it up. Criticising projections is a strawman on your part, deliberate or not. "Rate of curvature can be determined from that. It's been falsified MANY times." No, the cretins who can't understand that they don't live on a perfectly smooth, airless ball keep forgetting to factor in atmospheric refraction and variation in elevation when calculating how much drop they should see. When their omission is repeatedly pointed out to them and they continue to ignore key factors, that is wilful stupidity on their part, not profound insight. It is also repeatedly potned ou to the that they are using the wrong maths; clinging to 8"/mile^2 is wilful stupidity, not profound insight. If you want to calculate something accurately then you need to account for all pertinent factors. You can't ignore factors and expect to get the right answers. (And, no, 8"/mile^2 is no the "official equation", it is not used by NASA, it is a parabolic equation and it is just a rule thumb that assumes short distance and no change in elevation.) "Why do I have to explain to you that pressure requires physical containment?" Because none of you ever explain why you think it is mandatory. You just keep coming up with examples of tyres or similar where a barrier is needed to separate two immediately adjacent different pressures; you never explain why you think a barrier is needed to separate a vacuum from a vacuum. You've already said that the ground level air pressure is caused the weight of air (though you still haven't explained what gives it weight); there is no apparent role for a barrier at high altitude separating vacuum from vacuum in generating the pressure at lower altitudes. Nowhere in the atmosphere are there two differing adjacent pressure requiring separation so what role do you see a barrier as playing? "It stops the air leaving" is not a valid argument because there would be no pressure on either side of your barrier; there's no pressure difference to need separating. "THE PRESSURE SEEKING EQUILIBRIUM" And the equilibrium in a planetary atmosphere is a balance of gravity pulling air towards the planet and the expansion that would come from pressure trying to equalise. I'm trying to get you to explain on the planetary scale where gravity is a significant factor and the pressure differential occurs over 10's of km, not 0.25mm of aluminium. You realise that 25km and 0.25mm are significantly different distances? "You just love your fairy tales too much and don't know what actual science is" I am a scientist. I'm asking you pertinent questions. I'm asking for your reasoning. I'm not getting answers, just canards and a failure to realise the limits to your personal knowledge & experience does not determine other peoples. If you think you have viable explanations then you need to provide them. If you think a factor is unimportant then you need to explain why; a hand-waving "it doesn't exist" is not an explanation.
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  15503.  @WesD92422  "I dispute space as described" You have yet to say why. "If they can go in the 60s, they should be able to go now" That the technology worked in 1960s & 70s doesn't make it magically compatible with 2021 technology. The technology for manned flight beyond LEO has not regressed; it hasn't advanced while all other aspects have. "I'm saying I don't believe in the Kármán line." You're saying aerodynamics is incorrect? "No known experiment shows no gas pressure anywhere" You seem to be having a problem with numbers & scale. That you never reach an absolute vacuum (zero gas particles per cubic metre) does not mean you never reach a relative vacuum, which is what we are talking about. If you feel there is gas pressure everywhere, regardless of how low it is, then where is the need for a barrier to separate air from vacuum? "you think the Cavendish experiment can exclude wind?" It's usually conducted in a sealed room with days of pre-equilibration. What are you envisaging generates the wind and why would the effect always be the same regardless of the size of the room or equipment used? "you reject long-distance photography that falsifies your model" On a FE you should be able to see for hundreds of miles; no photo reflects that. From a mountain tip it would be possible to see a hundred miles on a globe which is what photos indicate. Meanwhile none of you ever explain what is wrong with the ever-increasing number of photos of the Earth from space. "I don't know for sure" You need to be sure, you need to have a workable explanation before you claim everything else is wrong. I'm asking you to tell me what it is. You told me air has weight; what do you think generates that weight? "If gravity makes mass attracts mass, why doesn't ALL mass attract other mass?" It does. As I pointed out earlier, more than one force can act simultaneously and gravity is a continuous force, not an irresistible one. I also noted the FE'ers seem to have great difficulty grasping either point; what is the problem exactly? "Are the wings as strong as your muscles?" Why would a butterfly have to lift me? Butterfly has little mass, I have big mass. Butterfly wings need only lift little mass.
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  15504.  @WesD92422  Traceable signal to, on & from the moon, detectable equipment left there, verifiable material brought back. "How you jumped to not believing Aerodynamics, I don't know" You not knowing the relevance is the point; you don't know what defines the Karman line but you say that you disagree with it. "If there is still pressure, there's still a container" Sails are not containers. Windmill vanes are not contains. Your ears are not containers. All work by air putting pressure on them. They all have surfaces for that purpose; none are containers. Containers are referred to when discussing gas pressure because a sealed container offers the easiest way to visualise the relationship temperature, concentration, volume and pressure while excluding complicating factors. It is not a requirement for a container to obtain pressure. "Believe what you want about the Cavendish experiment, I really don't care." If you wish to disprove it then you need to care. "YOU CAN'T SEE FOREVER. TECHNOLOGY CAN'T SEE FOREVER." Several hundred miles is not forever and the FE sun would need to be visible over thousands of miles. "you can't provide ONE single experiment that validates it" I referred you to three, each reproduced countless times with similar results. Denying them does not make then go away. "the reason ALL mass doesn't attract" It does. As I've pointed out twice before, FE'ers have extraordinary difficulty understanding that more than one force can act simultaneously. I'm sure you have all helped somebody carry something, engaged in a tug of war, tried pushing two magnets together or tried to stop something rolling downhill but none of you seem to grasp there was more than once force at work. I've also pointed out that you're the only people claiming gravity is an irresistible force. "Did I say a butterfly would have to lift you?" Yes; you asked why a butterfly can't handle my mass when my muscles can. "You are MUCH BIGGER AND STRONGER than a butterfly. Butterflies are MUCH SMALLER AND WEAKER than you." The key words being BIGGER and SMALLER; two very different size masses and therefore two different strengths of attractive force. As I have pointed out before, FE'ers cling to the notion that all forces are equal when the law of gravity states the force will be proportional to mass. Let me put it simply: Gravity is the attraction between two masses (e.g., Earth & ocean, Earth & butterfly). Oceans very very big and butterflies tiny. Oceans have very very much mass, butterflies have tiny mass. Attraction is proportional to mass. Oceans have very very big attraction to Earth, butterflies have tiny attraction to Earth. Oceans have a very very great deal of weight. butterflies have tiny weight. What's difficult to understand about the word "proportional"?
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  15505.  @WesD92422  Bouncing signals of a wholly different magnitude. When you are wanting to know how the air is held in place, a mechanism by which the air is held in place is a valid point. "Yes it is a requirement" I just gave you examples that don't require containment. "you basically claimed any experiments cut out external factors" The basis of lab experimentation is controlling or preventing confounding factors. You still haven't explained how there would be wind in a sealed, equilibrated room. "Just gotta be" is not an explanation. "There's something called the atmosphere which blocks your vision when you're looking through too much of it." Which is why you wouldn't see beyond several hundred miles on a FE. That is still much further than it is possible to see on a globe the size of Earth. Where are the photos? "I asked why butterflies can move freely when gravity is supposedly keeping us to the ground and holding the oceans to a fairy tale spinning ball. " And I keep telling you: A. Gravitational attraction is proportional to mass. B. Butterflies have very little mass. C. Gravitational attraction is very little for butterflies. What is so difficult to understand? "You failed to address that we're taught that "planets" with a higher gravitational pull would be harder to move for us" Once again: gravitational attraction is proportional to mass. The greater the mass of a planet, the greater the gravitational attraction that acts on an object. The greater the mass of an object, the greater the pull the planet has. You're trying to criticise the Law of Gravity but you seem clueless as to the equation that you are criticising. F = G.(m1.m2)/d^2 where F is gravitational force between two objects,, G is the gravitational constant, M1 & m2 are the masses of the two objects and d is the distance separating them (d is planetary radius on the surface of a planet). The strength of the gravitational attraction is proportional to BOTH masses, not just one of them. That is what we observe.
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  15506. ​ @WesD92422  "No, it was the moon" Yes, with return signals of a wholly different magnitude. "a fictitious force that you wanna claim affects everything differently" I told you what the three variables involved were in calculating the precise interaction between two objects. Gravity is not mysteriously varying; it conforms to that equation. It has been demonstrated to exist regardless of how much you want to deny it. "doesn't violate natural law" You still haven't said which natural law that is. ""Gravity" is non-physical" Same for magnetism. Are you disputing that it exists? "Did someone walk out causing air displacement as they did? YES" Hence the several days equilibration prior to the experiment for any such displacement to have died down. I did stipulate it. "No, you wouldn't see several hundred miles, otherwise the world-record photograph would be a lot further and back up what you are saying. It's not. Only about 270 miles." Quite: we can only see as far as you could expect on a globe and nobody can see the distance that you should be able to see on a FE. "you believe that gravity is affecting everything around you differently" So out of three variables (two masses and the separating distance) which do you think shouldn't be used to calculate gravitational attraction between two objects and why do you think that? "an experiment that shows water sticking to the exterior of a spinning ball by gravity alone" Venus. Venera 9 & 10 and Pioneer. "It's not a law." A scientific law is a description of the phenomenon, not an explanation of the phenomenon; all the examples you come up with adhere to that law. The strength of the attraction is proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the separating distance. You can't come up with examples of different masses and claiming different weights disprove the law of gravity when the mass is one of the variables in calculating the weight. Wes, you're trying to replace gravity with a force that has identical properties. What exactly do you think would be different?
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  15507. ​ @WesD92422  "your point about bouncing signals off the moon is irrelevant if they were doing it before the supposed moon landing." Which part of "wholly different magnitude" do you not understand? A signal bounced off a reflector has a return about 1000-fold stronger than that bounced off the moon surface alone. There's an unmistakable difference. The Good Will moon rocks have been verified to be rocks from the moon (crystal structure with no indication of atmospheric erosion and with evidence of solar radiation exposure). Moon rocks distributed to universities & museums around the world have been verified to be genuine. A personal gift was misunderstood to be a moon rock. "I told you that there is no evidence for it" And I showed you what the evidence was. Denying it does not magically negate the evidence. "2nd law of Thermodynamics." An uncontained atmosphere doesn't violate the 2nd Law. "Who's disputing magnetism? " Since it isn't a mechanical force then why aren't you disputing it? You said that was the basis for you disputing gravity so why are you prepared to accept one but not the other? "The scientist still would have affected the experiment so it's not accurate" How? Unless you can come up with a sound reason why it would be artifactual you're just throwing a hissy fit. "Just gotta be" is not a reasoned argument. "It should be covered by over 8 miles of curvature. Your model necessitates physical obstruction." Earth is not the smooth featureless ball your calculation assumes. There is significant variation in elevation, a key factor in determining how far you can see. The record photo was of the tip of a mountain and taken from the tip of a mountain. Denying elevation affects how far you can see would be dumb. "Nobody should be calculating gravity in any shape or form because its fictitious. Mass does not attract mass." And yet mass attracting mass is observed. The attraction always matches the calculation. Wailing "it doesn't exist!" is not going to wipe it from existence. "Presupposition" I referred to the Venera 9 & 10 and Pioneer probes sent to Venus. "Helium defies gravity. Butterflies defy gravity." For the fourth time: MORE THAN ONE FORCE CAN ACT SIMULTANEOUSLY How difficult is it to understand that? "I'm researching what makes things fall down on a flat plane." You have yet to demonstrate that Earth is flat so your starting point is a bit premature? Presumably you're going to explain how butterflies are unaffected by your force if it isn't by wing power?
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  15508. ​ @WesD92422  Explain to me why you think 1000 = 1. Again: the rock in question was neither of the two Goodwill moon rocks, both of which were subsequently retested to satisfy people that they were genuine. The rock in question was a personal gift from an Ambassador to a Prime Minister, not a state gift. "An inaccurate experiment doesn't count" When the same results are obtained every time it is reproduced by different people in different places at different times there is no question it is accurate. "High pressure systems move to low pressure systems to establish equilibrium" More than one force can act simultaneously and equilibrium is reached when there is balance of all forces involved. "I don't need to dispute magnetism because I dispute gravity" ""Gravity" is non-physical (no surfaces)." You said you disputed gravity because it was non-physical. The same applies to magnetic force so if you are using that criterion then why aren't you disputing magnetism too? "Because he was in the room causing air displacement." Days before. You need to explain why there would still be air moving around days later when kinetic forces would already have been lost through contact with the room's walls. You need to explain why there would always be just the right amount of air movement remaining to give the exact force needed for each varying set-up. You can't just wave your hand and come out with a "just gotta be" assertion; you need to explain. "Nobody is denying elevation. You are just being stupid. 270 miles falsifies the globe" You just denied elevation. The shot was taken from a mountain top of another mountain top peaking above the horizon; that is the effect of elevation. On FE you should be able to photograph most of the 2nd mountain twice as far away and from a sea-level vantage point. "Nobody observes gravity whether it be and experiment," Observable as the only explanation every time you conduct the experiments above whether you like it or not. We are still waiting for a plausible alternative from FE'ers to explain why objects fall. You already said that you don't know why objects fall if not by gravity. The Venera & Pioneer probes were looking at the chemical composition of the Venusian atmosphere; that they found water is evidence that there is water on Venus. It's not a presupposition. "Which force allows helium and butterflies to "defy gravity"?" A helium balloon in a vacuum chamber stays on the floor; in the atmosphere it is displaced upwards by air as that responds more strongly to gravity (more mass per volume), ie., buoyant force. Butterflies counter gravity with the lift generated by their flapping wings. "Long-distance photography does that for me" Yet none of you are able to take the shots that would be possible on a FE, only those possible on a globe. Why do you find the absence of relevant shots convincing? "you don't want there to be a Creator." Non sequitur. "Why are you making stuff up? Did I claim a force? NO" Altering an object's momentum requires force. If something starts to move then there is a force acting upon it. Many of you assert a force isn't necessary; explain to me your reasoning. Until one of you comes up with a viable argument why a non-force can make something move then demanding that explanation is not a strawman.
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  15509. ​ @WesD92422  "Yeah OK, you believe that." You need to produce evidence they aren't genuine. "When an inaccurate experiment is repeated, it repeatedly gets inaccurate results." You wouldn't get the same results; people do get the same. You still haven't said what is wrong with the experiment other than you don't want to hear the results. You need to come up with a sound reason. "It's a law. Laws don't get violated." Which does not prevent more than one force acting simultaneously. "I don't need to dispute magnetism because gravity is false." When the grounds you're disputing gravity on applies equally well to magnetism then you sre disputing both whether you like it or not. "Does air stay still?" It doesn't move itself. There is nothing in the room to disturb it once the equilibrium has been reached. YOu still haven't specified a plausible cause for the motion of the air or an explanation why the motion would always be just right for several days for no apparent reason. You need to come up with your plausible explanation. "The Earth does not curve at this rate." It curves at that rate. Incompetent people ignoring elevation & atmospheric refraction and using the wrong maths are not going to prove otherwise. When competent people measure the curvature they find the correct curvature. "Just because I'm not sure, it doesn't make gravity true." Just because you don't like the idea does not make gravity false. You need to come up with a plausible alternative mechanism. You already are being intellectually dishonest: "It just gotta be something else" is not a plausible argument. "Space is your heliocentric model and that is in question." Would be helpful if you could come up with something other than "it just gotta be wrong". Try doing it. "To use the supposed "planets" as evidence is a presupposition. " We went through this earlier. There are these things called telescopes.... Anybody can own & use one; if you think there is a massive worldwide conspiracy planting video chips in all the telescopes then it is possible to build your own. Arguing that not looking is evidence against planets existing is intellectually dishonest. "The helium balloon falls because it comes more dense than the surrounding atmosphere." The air becomes thinner, there is less buoyancy and gravity becomes the stronger force; at that point the helium balloon falls. In practice it either burst when the pressure difference stretches the material too far or it will remain at the altitude where buoyancy and gravity are in equilibrium. "Black Swan, Chicago skyline, World record photo" Black Swan occurred briefly; nobody has been able to photograph that again. Similar for the upper half of the Chicago skyline. Did you not wonder why the photos were newsworthy if they were routine? You still haven't produced a world record photo that contradicts the globe; I ran you through why the record photo was consistent with the globe. You still haven't produced any photos that would be consistent with the greater distances possible on a FE. "Yes it does follow. " No, it's a non sequitur. "No, I don't have to replace your fairy tale. Falsification is independent of replacement." You do have to come up with evidence to back your ideas and to disprove what you disagree with, otherwise you are just another whining idiot. I'm trying to get you come up with something concrete, not just conspiracies and denial. You claim to have thought it through so convince me of that.
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  15510. ​ @WesD92422  " I did. You rejected it." You didn't Pointing out that an unrelated rock was not from the moon is not evidence that any of the moon rocks are not from the moon. I told you how they are verifiable as coming from the moon; you haven't refuted that. All the moon rocks have been verified as coming from the moon; you haven't refuted that. You are not an omnipotent entity whose word of "I deny it" will change reality. "'Again... I did. You rejected it." Ditto you are not an omnipotent entity; "It just gotta be wrong" from your mouth is not evidence. "LAWS ARE NOT VIOLATED. You globers all seem to think the globe can break natural law. It can't." We haven't put forward any arguments that do. You are just playing the omnipotent entity declaring "Gravity doesn't exist", thinking the universe bends to your will and is throwing a wobbler because we aren't playing along. "We have ferrous and non-ferrous metals, a magnetic field, magnets... There's no reason for me to dispute magnetism. There's nothing for gravity" We have (demonstrably) matter attracting mass and doing so through a gravitational field. You reject it because you won't acknowledge field theory. The only reasons you aren't rejecting magnetism is because you can't come up with a plausible alternative explanation and its existence is so obvious you would look a fool doing so. You still haven't come up with a plausible alternative for why objects fall down; you backed away from your magic barrier somehow initiating it and stuck with "there just gotta be something else". "Air is always moving." Not in a sealed environment. Individual fluid particles are always moving about absolute zero but the random direction of each produces not net motion of the fluid. You need to explain where your mysterious breezes arise from, how they would persist and why they would all be just the right strength to interfere with the particular set up being tested to produce highly consistent results. You need to come up with plausible explanations. "It just happens" is not a plausible explanation. "Scientifically illiterate people deny reality for a fairy tale. I'm glad you agree on what you're doing. "I don't like or dislike gravity. It's simply not true." It is demonstrable and demonstrated. Mass attracts mass. Ditto you not being an omnipotent entity; waving a hand and pronouncing "It doesn't exist" does not magically remove it from the universe. "Would be helpful if you stopped presupposing stuff and showed actual evidence." You want evidence that you can possess and use your own telescope? Have you thought to try buying and using one or are you just falling back one godly pronouncements again? "You also don't think there is an atmosphere that gets more dense as you look through more of it" I said that you would be able to see for several hundred miles, not an infinite distance. I realise that numbers are a very difficult concept for FE'ers to grasp (that you can't understand the difference between 1 and 1000 demonstrates that) but I'm obliged to be as specific as possible. If I thought you would be able to see an infinite distance then I would have specified that, not applied a number to it. "I do not have to replace your fairy tale and I just told you why" Again, you are not an omnipotent entity whose pronouncements dictate reality. You're in the same boat as the rest of us; you need to come up with evidence why something is wrong (not opinion or godly pronouncements) and you need to come up with plausible explanations for how something can really work (not opinion or godly pronouncements). We've been talking for nearly 100 comments and you are still coming up with nothing but variations on "it just gotta be" as your only argument. None of you can produce anything beyond "it just gotta be" so why do you all keep claiming you can produce proper answers? If you think you have them then be novel and actually produce them otherwise have the sense to shut up until you do.
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  15511. ​ @WesD92422  "NASA lies and sends petrified wood under the guise of moonrocks, doesn't make it any less true. " The two Dutch moon rocks are the National Museum of the History of Science & Medicine in Leiden and have been since they arrived in the Netherlands. The Rijksmuseum received its rock from the estate of a former Primer Minister, who received it as a personal gift in 1969. You need to explain how something can be in two places simultaneously for 40 years. "I don;t care" is not an appropriate explanation. You're making the claim, you need to care about justifying the claim. "If you wanna believe the Cavendish experiment is valid 😂 go ahead. Again... I don't care." Again, when you;re claiming something is incorrect then you need to care about what you're saying. You need to come up with a plausible explanation for why you think it is incorrect. Since you are not a god, "It just is" is not an appropriate explanation. Produce yours. "Globe can't exist in space as it violates the law" We haven't put forward any arguments that do. You are just playing the omnipotent entity declaring "Gravity doesn't exist", thinking the universe bends to your will and and throwing a wobbler because we aren't playing along. Again, you need to come up with a proper explanation for how you think it violates any law and, again, divine pronouncements don't cut it. "I dispute gravity, there is no evidence." There is abundant evidence. The Great God Wes denying evidence is not going to nullify it. Come up with your plausible explanation for the Cavendish experiment results and, again, divine pronouncements don't cut it. You claim to have it thought out so try actually coming up with it. "I am fine with magnetism. It is observed. And yet is impossible according to what you have said. How do you justify your explanations being both right & wrong simultaneously? A god can do impossible things? "The atmosphere requires a container to contain it, not a fictitious force. IT MUST BE PHYSICAL, not fictitious" The Great God Wes uttering that gravity is fictitious means bugger all. "I deny it, I deny" is not evidence. You are not an omnipotent entity who can banish gravity with a wave of your hand. You need to explain why the evidence for gravity is wrong and, again, divine pronouncements of "It just is" do not work. "Nothing to do with magnetism." Both are field forces which you were saying don't exist. You can't have it both ways. "Air is always moving and omni-directional." Which is what I said. You're claiming there are directional air current popping out of nowhere, blowing in just the right direction with just the right strength for just the right length of time to bejinx all Cavendish experiments. You need to explain how the omnidirectional motion of air molecules would create just the right breezes at just the right strength for just the right time. You;re professing to be the Thinker so stop prevaricating and come up with your explanation. "It's never been demonstrated." It's been demonstrated to exist countless times, be it a direct force or space-time curvature. How gravity works remains unproven. There is a difference between the two. If you are going to argue they are the same thing then explain how people were killed by lightning before we knew what generated lightning. "Why does everything have to be broken down for globers? Seriously, learn to think critically." We do think critically; we can see the holes in your argument and evidence and are continually asking you for the fine details as that is standard practice science. You all keep come backing to "Just Does" and "Just Gotta Be" so we keep asking you to fill those gaps. What's so difficult for you to do so? You're falling back on divine pronouncements rather than give the explanations you claim to possess. "You can not use your model to prove your model. " You use a model to make predictions and you try to disprove the predictions. If the prediction was incorrect then the Venera & Pioneer probes would have found no or too little water on Venus. "You're presupposing that we can leave, or send stuff the atmosphere. It is not evidence when leaving the atmosphere is in question dumbass." That would be the highly permeable impermeable barrier at an indeterminate height that nobody can find that exists to separate air from air and somehow induces air to move downwards for no apparent reason? The barrier whose existence relies solely on the evidence of "It Just Gotta Be There", the denial of gravity and the mental inability to understand why a container is used in teaching? Meanwhile we have trackable satellites passing overhead, GPS & satellite phone in the middle of the ocean and the ISS visible as it passes over, all denied by FE'ers on the grounds of "They just gotta be something else". How difficult is it for the Thinkers to produce concrete arguments when you claim you have thunk it al out to the depths of profundity untouched by scientists? "I've told you numerous times that you can't see forever and the atmosphere is more dense the more of it you look through. So it will block your vision eventually. " You agree with what I said then. Your view would gradually disappear into a haze after 600-700 miles according to ambient atmospheric conditions. Yes, with no sharp cutoff about a haze there is no specific distance. I've asking you to produce the photos that prove you can see that far. It would be straightforward to take such pictures so where are they? "Water seeks its level." How does water observe its environment, make decisions and move itself? "How is 70% of a ball level, " Level for water is the point of gravitational equipotential, i.e., the surface (weather aside) is a constant distance from the centre of the globe.
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  15532. ​ @el8558  Tyson did not call it pear-shaped; the host of the TV programme did. Tyson was quite exact about the actual deviation from a perfect sphere. The Earth is about 7800 miles in diameter. Viewing 1ft vase from 10ft away would be the equivalent of viewing Earth from 78,000 miles away. Viewing the vase from 1" away would be the equivalent of a satellite taking a shot from about 65 miles altitude. The ISS orbits at 254 miles, Himawari-8 at about 22,000 miles, EPIC 1,500,000 miles. In other words, you walking away from a vase doesn't reflect the altitudes shots have been taken from. "the proportions between continents changes drammatically" Because of the variation in altitude of the different cameras, ranging from <1" away from your vase to 190ft away. The closer you are the smaller the area viewable by the camera. Try taking a full picture of the vase from less than 1" away. Similar principle applies to you photographing a marble. You realise that camera lenses can be used to magnify the shots? That not all cameras are bound to use 1x magnification and if someone is going to spend a fortune putting a camera in orbit they would think to include means for such magnification? "explain how south america became 1.5 bigger than north america." Differing altitudes of the cameras. "distance effects proportion of the same object?!" No, that distance from an object alters how much of said object will occupy your camera lens. You're viewing marble & vase from sufficient distance to see the whole object. Hold the vase to the end of your nose and see if you can see all of it at once (without moving your eyes).
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  15605.  @scottessex952  The brightness of a light source is determined by the number of photons being released, not the energy of individual photons; the energy of each photon is proportional to its frequency. Light is electromagnetic radiation; it is not magnetic or charged. The inverse square is due to a point source illuminating an area; the further from the source the greater the area and the further apart the photons become. It has nothing to do with photons losing energy. If a photon does not encounter something then it will continue indefinitely. Plasma is a form of matter, not concentrated light. Still waiting on a FE'er explanation for how a sphere would act as a spotlight, why it would it light a limited misshapen area, how it would always appear circular or how it retains the same angular diameter & velocity; the law of just does is not an explanation for such. Still waiting on the FE'er evidence for a dome; just gotta be is not evidence. The heat in the bulbs elements reduces when the power is switched off and fewer higher energy photons are released, resulting in red light being favoured. There are 8 billion people on Earth, not one observer. When the sun appears red to you it is a normal light to people elsewhere. It is not the sun changing colour. Your eyelids block most of the light, either reflecting the photons or absorbing the energy as heat. It is not the photons running out of energy. "once you know nature takes on a whole new meaning" A statement that would be a hell of lot more convincing if any of you could provide evidence and plausible mechanism that agrees with observation.
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  15733. el lobo blanco I told you what was wrong and explained why; that is analysing evidence, not dismissing it. It’s not something the FE Thinkers have any talent for. You’ve dismissed the routine observation of Ushuaia’s population. You spoke of 24hr daylight in SP, I asked you questions about the sun and you told me that we were discussing the moon. Make your mind up which you are talking about and stick with it. I asked about angular diameter and you said it wasn’t a fact. If you think it isn’t established then you have reason to believe it changes. I’m asking you what you think those reasons are. You see a bright spot on a pool ball because it is smooth enough to actually mirror the light rather than simply disperse it. The sun is distant from the moon and the reflected light is dispersed by the lack of smoothness on the moons surface. If a sphere did not reflect light then you would be unable to see it. If the bright spot was the only light being reflected then the bright spot would be all you could see of the sphere. Have you ever played pool? Even the black ball is fully visible. Explain how you think the moon self-illuminated, follows phases and how it could be transparent. Pearls before swine. It is pointless putting evidence in front of something who will simply dismiss it out of hand without explanation simply because it contradicts a FE. If you believe there is evidence you find acceptable then lay out the criteria by which you would accept it. Don’t bother stating tangible, observable & repeatable; that applies to moon observations dating back into prehistory and you’re dismissing it all.
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  15734. ​ @elloboblanco9111  You expect me to accept St Petersburg's existence and daylight times but dismiss as hearsay Ushuaia's existence and daylight times. As I said, you need to lay out criteria for what you are willing to accept. "Where is the bright spot on the moon?" I explained why there wasn't a "bright spot" on the moon. Try reading and thinking before commenting. Scale is something that is very difficult for FE'ers to comprehend. The quote is that if Earth were shrunk to the size of a pool ball then the mountains would be within pool ball tolerances; nobody is saying the Earth and pool balls are the same size or that Mt Everest is 40um high. You still haven't produced any evidence of the moon being transparent. You have produced two videos (not thousands) that didn't show that (and I explained why not), referred to Stellarium animation, repeatedly claimed that you personally can see through it and repeatedly told me that my observations are wrong or hearsay. I did provide you to a link to a picture with a solid, opaque moon which you won't accept for no stated reason. As with St Petersburg's existence, you need to lay out criteria for what you find acceptable as evidence and stick to it. The moon's phases need to be explained. If you want to start claiming there is no evidence of phases then I remind that you referred to "new moon" earlier. If you want to claim the moon is self-illuminating then you need to propose a plausible mechanism, which will have to be entirely transparent to be consistent with your claim of the moon being transparent, and a plausible explanation for how phases would occur. If you wish to maintain the claim is a disc then you also need to explain why, over time, we can observe what is consistent with 190 degrees of a sphere.
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  15735. ​ @elloboblanco9111  As I said, scale is difficult for FE'ers to comprehend, as are numbers. The relative smoothness of the moon compared to a pool ball is the variation in elevation in proportion to the radius of each object. Absolute smoothness is the actual height of the variations. You are confusing the two. That the Earth & moon have comparable relative smoothness to a pool ball does not mean they have the same absolute smoothness. "There are many more videos and photos of the moon with stars visible through it" Then produce some of them; you're claiming they exist so the onus is on you to back up that claim, not on me go looking for them. Bear in mind that if they purport to show stars through the moon then the stars around the moon should also be clearly visible. If they don't and you think there are stars visible through the moon then you need to explain that discrepancy. "Isn’t it better to try and argue a reason how it may be possible" Which is why I am asking you to come up with a plausible mechanism by which you think it could be possible. You're saying the moon is a fully transparent but your also saying it is self-illuminating; that requires a means of generating light and you need to explain what kind of mechanism would be fully transparent. For the moon to have phases also requires the mechanism to be able to do that; that is why your explanation for the transparent self-illumination must include an explanation for phases. Any mechanism you propose has to be able to explain every aspect of the moon's appearance, not just the one you are interested in. That is not "ridiculous" or "arbitrary"; it is the necessity for explanations to be self-consistent. "Mental gymnastics I guess" Mental agility; the ability to determine and handle multiple factors simultaneously.
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  15836. ​ @williamborregard6384  "I said to prove through observation and experiment" You said "natural experiment" and that wasn't to include any instruments because they don't occur naturally. Logically you're asking for natural philosophy (observation & reasoningg) like motion of the sun, horizons, angle to Polaris, two celestial poles etc. Now you want them manipulated in a direct experiment but without any kind of tools. Are you suggesting we use telekinesis? "Water doesn’t curve." Meniscus. raindrops. Fill a glass to the point of overflowing and the water surface will be convex. How difficult is it for you to fill a glass with water? "an open system with gas pressure" By gravitational force balancing the expansion of the gas, the result being a decrease in pressure with increasing altitude. I am still waiting for the FE explanation for such a decline with altitude when you are all talking about equal pressure inside a container. Do you want to try? "Light dissipates over time" What do you think causes the dissipation and why do you think elevating the light source decrease the effect? "You think a ball of gas and fire is in an environment void of oxygen" Nuclear fusion reaction, not combustion. No oxygen required. "so light must go on forever." Unless something stops it. "You don’t know what attenuation and finite mean?" Yes, I do know what they mean but you seem to have problems understanding. "First thing it says “containment”" Because a closed system is the easiest way to understand the relationship between the different factors. It does not magically require a container for pressure to occur. You need to be able to think beyond the simplest example. "Throw down some synonyms for level. Not one will say curve." Obviously you need to use a more comprehensive dictionary.
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  16073. ​ @mooners40  Train tracks don't appear parallel either; do they meet up in the distance? What determines the length and direction of a stick's shadow if not the position of the sun? How can the FE sun be at multiple heights simultaneously? How can a heat source produce and not produce heat simultaneously? You're the man with the answers so produce them. "did you not grasp ANYTHING from that video ?" Eratosthenes measured the curvature of the Earth c. 300BC; it has been deduced to be a sphere 200 years earlier from the motion of the sun, horizons and the angle to Polaris matching latitude. Still waiting on the FE answers for those. The Coriolis effect is an apparent force, not a fictitious force, as is centrifugal force. It's due to inertia and the tangential velocity changing with latitude, not unexplained. Still waiting on the FE explanations for hurricanes rotating anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, clockwise in the southern hemisphere. Rotation has been demonstrated repeatedly with gyroscopes & pendulums. Still waiting for FE explanations for the phenomena. The Sagnac is explicable by aether and relativity; all other attempts to find aether have failed, e.g., Airy's Failure, Michaelson-Morley & Michaelson-Gale-Pearson experiments. Relativity's existence has been demonstrated repeatedly. Still waiting on the FE explanation for why absence of evidence is proof. Einstein the motion of Earth could not be measured *WITH LIGHT*, not that there was no motion to measure. He was referring to the effect of relativity. The lack of an absolute frame of reference is not evidence that the Earth isn't moving or that it can't be demonstrated to move. The angle of light reaching Arctic & Antartica changes in the degree of obliqueness; with a 23.4 degree axial tilt it is always going to be oblique in the polar regions, never directly facing the sun. Plus/minus 1 million miles of 93 million miles is 1.08% difference; the varying distance to the sun is not a significant effect because 1% it too small a difference to have any substantial effect. Positioning of the continents affects weather patterns. Particularly good example is the Arctic Ocean being water and Antartica being a continent resulting in lower temperatures in Antarctica. You wouldn't bother constructing a globe unless you knew what to put on it otherwise you are left writing "here be dragons" over most of the surface. Most of the exploration & mapping had been done by the 18th century. What Jeranism said is preying on your ignorance & incredulity. It doesn't take much effort or that to question what he tells you.
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