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Ever heard of underground cables or some of these, what ever you call them ?

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I keep telling you. There are only two cables attached to my satellite tv box. One is the mains cable where it gets power. The other is from the satellite dish. There are no other cables.

If I remove the one from the dish, the signal disappears. So the signal is from the dish. There is no other cable connected to the dish.

If I move the dish even 2 degrees out of alignment, the signal disappears, so the signal comes through the air, not a cable.

And that signal can only be received by accurately pointing the dish at a particular point in the sky. So no balloon can hold that position for so long - for years!

And there is no terrestrial antenna which could be anywhere near the direction and height where the the dish is aligned towards.

You are just regurgitating nonsense from flat earthers without critically examining their claims.
 
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If I remove the one from the dish, the signal disappears. So the signal is from the dish. There is no other cable connected to the dish.

Well you must be receiving a signal from one of these,

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As there are no satellites orbiting earth.

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Well you must be receiving a signal from one of these,

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You're not thinking straight. The only way one of those could be sending the signal to my own dish is if it was many miles high into the atmosphere and held there....like a geostationary satellite!
 
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No, I'm not quoting from Scripture any more especially on this thread.
Because Scripture does not indicate the shape of the earth....which makes your points here merely sourced from conspiracy theorists who are either clueless about technology, maths and physics....or are pure deceivers.
 
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No, I'm not quoting from Scripture any more especially on this thread.
I know you said you were not going to try quoting Scripture verses to prove the shape of the earth, but surely you are not saying that on this Christin forum you are never going to quote Scripture at all.
 
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So what is the attached balloon still doing there ?
I've no idea.
But what's that got to do with the statement that satellites do not look like balloons, and then you posted a photo which proved it?
 
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Because Scripture does not indicate the shape of the earth

No not directly.

Which makes your points here merely sourced from conspiracy theorists who are either clueless about technology, maths and physics.
I have too admit some of them are, but most are as bright as you or me :flat4:
 
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I know you said you were not going to try quoting Scripture verses to prove the shape of the earth, but surely you are not saying that on this Christin forum you are never going to quote Scripture at all.

Only on this thread.
 
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No not directly.
Not indirectly either. As has been repeatedly explained to you, most of the verses you have quoted so often are poetic and are not to be used in a literal way. Other verses are misinterpreted by you and others to mean something specific when the Hebrew language is vague.
I have too admit some of them are, but most are as bright as you or me :flat4:

Well now.....being bright is not the issue! A person can be bright (intelligent) but not understand anything about technology, maths or physics. You are a bright person, but you have admitted that maths is just "gobbledygook" to you. I'm no mathematician either, but that doesn't make maths actually gobbledygook.

As for satellite tv, I know how it operates, can install a system in a house and could even have a fair attempt at repairing it if it failed.

That means I know when somebody is spouting nonsense when they claim I'm picking up signals from balloons, cables, terrestrial antennae or other dishes!
 
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I've no idea.
But what's that got to do with the statement that satellites do not look like balloons, and then you posted a photo which proved it?

I have no idea what David mean't by 'satellites do not look like balloons' everyone knows that satellites do not look like balloons, maybe David could explain.
 
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I have no idea what David mean't by 'satellites do not look like balloons'
It was in response to your post, #743, where you said that satellites are "weather balloons".
 
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Not indirectly either. As has been repeatedly explained to you, most of the verses you have quoted so often are poetic and are not to be used in a literal way. Other verses are misinterpreted by you and others to mean something specific when the Hebrew language is vague.

Best not to use them in this thread then but they are verses that do indicate towards an unmovable foundationed level earth.
 
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Best not to use them in this thread then but they are verses that do indicate towards an unmovable foundationed level earth.
Why is it best not to use them on this thread? As has been repeatedly pointed out to you they do not "indicate towards an ummovable foundationed level earth". They indicate poetic language, phenomenological language and words which have vague meanings. That's why Bible study is so important. If you study it instead of just reading verses in isolation and listening to teachers who just take words and verses out of context, then you will be deceived.
 
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It was in response to your post, #743, where you said that satellites are "weather balloons".

Yes he said 'Satellites don't even look like balloons.' Well everyone knows what a satellite looks like, don't they ? I think David must have misunderstood what I said.

Why is it best not to use them on this thread?

Because no one believes me when I do, many on here reckon they are either poetic or allegories.
 
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