[MOVED] What happens when a non-NASA astronaut is asked about the shape of the earth?

[Brightmoon]

So you are saying that the earth is not flat because there are roads like this.

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you’re saying that the earth is flat because of a road like that . I think that’s ridiculous!

 

[Jimmy D]

So according to that picture the curve can be seen at about a mile. wonder why i do not see that on the roads near me

Are you suggesting that photos can be misleading?

If you are, I concur.

Unfortunately for flerfers they are their main source of “evidence”.

 

[d taylor]

Are you suggesting that photos can be misleading?

If you are, I concur.

Unfortunately for flerfers they are their main source of “evidence”.

Sure photos can be misleading, but i was not making that point when i posted the photo of that road.

This person brightmoon wrote/posted this
(you’ve got a short distance on a road . That won’t go over the horizon . And there’s a hill and a dip in that road. It’s not flat to the surface.)

So i posted that photo because i really was not sure of what they were saying or asking. I was looking for a little clarity in their statement.

 

[Lost4words]

Then God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. God set them in the raqia of the heavens to give light on the earth,

INTERPRETATION

 

[Strathos]

Why is that needed

Because otherwise, you're just saying 'it works like this because I say so'.

 

[VirOptimus]

This is beyond silly.

 

[d taylor]

Because otherwise, you're just saying 'it works like this because I say so'.

Numbers do not establish truth, numbers can also be made to lie.

Three people check into a hotel. The clerk tells them that the bill for their stay is $30, so each person pays the clerk $10. The clerk puts the money in the cash register.

Later that night, the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged the three guests $25. He pulls $5 in one dollar bills out of the register and tells the bellhop to return the money to the guests.

On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot split the money evenly between the three people. As the guests don't know that they were charged the incorrect amount for their room, the bellhop decides to simply give them $1 each and pocket the extra $2 as a tip. Each guest gets $1 back, so they each paid $9 for their room, totaling $27. The bellhop kept $2, and $27 + $2 = $29.
But the guests originally handed over $30. What happened to the missing dollar?

 

[VirOptimus]

Numbers do not establish truth, numbers can also be made to lie.

Three people check into a hotel. The clerk tells them that the bill for their stay is $30, so each person pays the clerk $10. The clerk puts the money in the cash register.

Later that night, the clerk realizes that he made a mistake and should have only charged the three guests $25. He pulls $5 in one dollar bills out of the register and tells the bellhop to return the money to the guests.

On the way to the room, the bellhop realizes that he cannot split the money evenly between the three people. As the guests don't know that they were charged the incorrect amount for their room, the bellhop decides to simply give them $1 each and pocket the extra $2 as a tip. Each guest gets $1 back, so they each paid $9 for their room, totaling $27. The bellhop kept $2, and $27 + $2 = $29.
But the guests originally handed over $30. What happened to the missing dollar?

Thats not the numbers lying, thats you dont understanding basic math.

3x10-5=25
3x9-2=25.

 

[SeventyOne]

HEY!!!! Maybe the discussion could be about the OP topic. Let's try that!!

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

The Mobius Earth theory is not quite right.
The Earth is in fact a Klein Bottle Earth by gluing two Mobius Earths together.
Introducing the Klein bottle

This is our Klein Bottle Earth.

That ought to make for some interesting travel routes...

 

[durangodawood]

This is beyond silly.

Agreed. Its actually kind of disturbing to see how tenuous our grip on reality can be.

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Agreed. Its actually kind of disturbing to see how tenuous our grip on reality can be.

At least it will always be there for you - as Philip K Dick said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

 

[renniks]

No the raqia (firmament) is an open space. The space from the ground up to the waters above

What are the waters above? Where are the stars?

 

[Strathos]

What are the waters above? Where are the stars?

And if there was a solid dome so much closer than the moon, we should easily be able to bounce a laser off of it and measure its distance... funny how that doesn't work.

 

[lasthero]

Lunar craters were caused by impact with meteors, asteroids and comets. Some of the very oldest craters might have been volcanic in nature. Astronomers have actually observed a small number of impact events in real time.

Which brings up a question I’ve never seen a flat earther answer - if space ain’t real, where do meteors keep coming from?

 

[lasthero]

Well, would you look at that, you actually got an agnostic to pray for you. Maybe flat eartherism is good for something after all.

“God, I don’t think you exist, but on the off chance you do, there’s this guy...”

 

[d taylor]

What are the waters above? Where are the stars?

What are the waters above, a large body of water.

In the account of the flood the Bible states the windows of heaven were open. I am sure that part of the water that flooded the earth in Genesis came from the waters above and also from the fountains of the great deep.

Just like God separated the water at the Red sea, God separated the waters in Genesis creating two bodies of water, one large water body on the earth and another water body above the earth, separated by the raqia

The stars are in the same place as the sun and moon and birds in the raqia (the first heaven) or as the Bible states in the raqia of the heavens.

Genesis 1: 14,15,16,17,18, 20 also notice it is stated that these lights are created to give light on the earth.

 

[renniks]

Which brings up a question I’ve never seen a flat earther answer - if space ain’t real, where do meteors keep coming from?

Pieces of the ceiling falling?

 

[renniks]

What are the waters above, a large body of water.

In the account of the flood the Bible states the windows of heaven were open. I am sure that part of the water that flooded the earth in Genesis came from the waters above and also from the fountains of the great deep.

Just like God separated the water at the Red sea, God separated the waters in Genesis creating two bodies of water, one large water body on the earth and another water body above the earth, separated by the raqia

The stars are in the same place as the sun and moon and birds in the raqia (the first heaven) or as the Bible states in the raqia of the heavens.

Genesis 1: 14,15,16,17,18, 20 also notice it is stated that these lights are created to give light on the earth.

So what holds the waters above? I'm picturing a big bathtub in heaven? Maybe the angels left the faucet on too long and caused the flood.

 

[JackRT]

So what holds the waters above? I'm picturing a big bathtub in heaven? Maybe the angels left the faucet on too long and caused the flood.

WE are seeing here an entirely prescientific mythological cosmology. This is literature that should be read contemplatively for spiritual meaning rather than as literal history.