Flat-Earthers

SeventyOne said:

At least you recognize it as a throwaway comment. If you want insights into that post, feel free to check out the extensive work done by Globebusters or Jeranism. Every objection I've encountered to FE has been extensively covered by someone.

As I've said numerous times, I'm not getting into those debates on this forum any more. Too many closed-minded hateful people.

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SeventyOne said:

The concept is easy. Find a spot in one location, then find a spot several miles away. Calculate the required curvature between the two points, then observe it never being there.

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And I have to ask, all what experiments that measured the circumference are you referencing? You have anything that doesn't involve the inconclusive Greek experiment over 2,000 years ago, or the one on TV a few years back where they tried to show globe measurements but actually marked their measuring spots incorrectly?

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Steve Petersen said:

Then why are you here posting, over and over?

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Freodin said:

You mean the kind of things geodesists deal with constantly?



Erathostenes' experiment was anything but inconclusive, and it is very easy to repeat and build upon. It gives quite consistent results.

But if you don't like it... how about Al-Biruni?

And, from the lack of a response to the last part of my question, I guess you have never done anything to measure the curvature.

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