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The Earth Is Not Flat
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<blockquote data-quote="HARK!" data-source="post: 75247669" data-attributes="member: 403545"><p>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.</p><p>However, if the same is done with a sphere; the curvature of the shadow will remain consistent. </p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>The shadows of earth, that we see on the moon, do not reflect an ellipse; therefore they do not reflect a disk shaped earth.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HARK!, post: 75247669, member: 403545"] 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. [/QUOTE]
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