The Earth Is Not Flat

[tulc]

as has been pointed out before: the Earth can't be flat or cats would have pushed everything off the edge a long time ago:

tulc(that's simply a scientific fact)

 

[HARK!]

It really is too late for me to think lol XD

It's easy. Take a disk; and hold it between a flashlight, and the wall, in a darkened room. As you move the flashlight above and below the disk; the shadow will change from a line, to varying curvatures of an ellipse.
However, if the same is done with a sphere; the curvature of the shadow will remain consistent.

If you don't know what an ellipse is; take a disk and look at it from its edge. It should like a strait line. Then rotate it until it looks like a circle. Slowly rotate it back so that it looks like a line again. All of the shapes that you see as it changes from a circle to a line, are various ellipses.

The shadows of earth, that we see on the moon, do not reflect an ellipse; therefore they do not reflect a disk shaped earth.

 

[SeventyOne]

And here we go,..

I'm sorry. Was I required to agree with you?

 

[Sabertooth]

Hehe,.. I always pictured God spinning the earth around on His thumb.

A little theme music to go with your thread...

Sweet Georgia Brown, Brother Bones (1949)

 

[April_Rose]

I'm sorry. Was I required to agree with you?

No,.. I just don't understand how you couldn't.

 

[SeventyOne]

No,.. I just don't understand how you couldn't.

Do you know that the picture you posted is a photoshop creation by a NASA employee named Robert Simmon? You can find the audio interview with him describing how he built it, including how he designed the sun's hotspot and used ctrl-Z a lot on while designing the clouds. It's really quite interesting.

 

[April_Rose]

Do you know that the picture you posted is a photoshop creation by a NASA employee named Robert Simmon? You can find the audio interview with him describing how he built it, including how he designed the sun's hotspot and used ctrl-Z a lot on while designing the clouds. It's really quite interesting.

You can believe it if you want to,..

 

[SeventyOne]

You can believe it if you want to,..

No. I'm quite serious. It's not a secret. NASA openly admits it's CGI composite and not a real photo.

Here's a NASA.gov blog by the man himself describing how he constructed it.

Elegant Figures - Crafting the Blue Marble

 

[April_Rose]

No. I'm quite serious. It's not a secret. NASA openly admits it's CGI composite and not a real photo.

Here's a NASA.gov blog by the man himself describing how he constructed it.

Elegant Figures - Crafting the Blue Marble

Okay so he created that picture,.. but the world really does look like that from space.

 

[SeventyOne]

Okay so he created that picture,.. but the world really does look like that from space.

How do you know? Unfortunately, all the 'pictures' NASA has provided of earth have been admitted composites. That wasn't the first.

 

[ewq1938]

How do you know? Unfortunately, all the 'pictures' NASA has provided of earth have been admitted composites. That wasn't the first.

Agreed.

 

[Jok]

But how could a picture of Earth NOT require Photoshopping? A picture of Earth would be pretty dark, isn’t it by complete necessity that they need to photoshop color into it or else the picture would be useless since you couldn’t make anything outl? To photoshop an image is to alter the image, not to totally invent an image. And that photo of Earth that necessarily requires Photoshopping due to it being pitch black is a photo of a spherical object.

 

[ewq1938]

To photoshop an image is to alter the image, not to totally invent an image.

Photoshop can do either.

 

[Jok]

Photoshop can do either.

But do you agree that photoshop is a complete necessity because a picture of Earth would be totally dark?

If it is a necessity because of darkness, then any argument that sheds light on people “Admitting to” photoshopping the image would lose its effectiveness.

 

[Radagast]

But do you agree that photoshop is a complete necessity because a picture of Earth would be totally dark?

No. There are many photos of Earth from space, like this one, taken before Photoshop existed:

But people knew the Earth was that shape for 2400 years before NASA.

 

[prodromos]

I don't believe the Earth is flat but I also don't believe that is a real picture of the Earth.

It looks entirely consistent with a relatively high altitude image, much higher than the ISS orbit at any rate.

 

[ewq1938]

But do you agree that photoshop is a complete necessity because a picture of Earth would be totally dark?

Why would it be totally dark? The sun shines on a massive part of it all the time. All they would have to do is take a picture when the sun shines on it.

Photoshop would not ever be needed even when taking pics of the "dark side of the Earth".

 

[Timtofly]

The sun spot only outlines California? Who was focusing the sun on just that section of earth, yet leaving the rest of the picture dark? They had to take that picture on the opposite side of the sun from where the earth was.

 

[Radagast]

It looks entirely consistent with a relatively high altitude image, much higher than the ISS orbit at any rate.

That specific "blue marble" is based on a flattened composite image, rolled back into a sphere, with clouds added. But plenty of unedited images exist. Weather satellites provide them live.

 

[Jok]

No. There are many photos of Earth from space, like this:

That’s a nice shot!

I just never came into one of these flat Earth threads and I always meant to ask that question, when I see these arguments it always seems to be over one of those perfectly up close and straight on pictures of Earth. So I figured that to get such an ideal position of Earth you would have to sacrifice good lighting. Maybe I shouldn’t have said pitch black, maybe it’s just partially lit and needs a lot of added coloring (speaking of the perfectly up close pics).

Edit - I didn’t see your post above mine until after I posted this. Ok that explains it thanks @Radagast