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Well then why are you still getting it wrong?
You know what? You're right. You should tell your friends all about how you think the earth is flat.
I'm saying the majority opinion is always still just a collection of opinions.
Your opinion is not the final word.
Jack, this is a shot of my house with Google Earth. If there are no satellites, what took this picture?
Except, what I am saying is not my opinion, it is the truth and that's what I care about. I don't care if the earth is flat, round or a hexagon for that matter, and the truth does certainly not care what I like or care about. I just say it's round, because it is round.
I have been wondering myself..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth
It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and geographic information system (GIS) onto a 3D globe
I gave the website. It's wiki for Mount Foraker. It is wiki that states that they are 100 miles away.Your math is terrible. The amount of "tilt" would be less than one degree. Do you think that you can spot that amount of tilt in an irregular object. In fact, let's get more precise. You said 100 miles from the camera. I live in an area where you can see mountains quite a far away and I think that you may be overestimating the distance, but I will still use your figures. At 100 miles away the degree of "tilt" can be calculated quite easily. It will be 100 miles/25,000 miles times 360 degrees in a circle. How about that, I was wrong. The amount of tilt would be roughly 1.4 degrees. I was off by a factor of 2. So do you think that you could spot a 2 degree tilt on an irregular object? I know that I couldn't.
If you gave the mountains and where the photo was taken from I can even tell you how far away you were from them.
This has been explained already. If your example is even correct, it is the atmosphere that is bending the light. It's a very simple principle in physics.
Oh just wanted to share this beautiful pic of the snowstorm here in NYC, made from the ISS. Pretty round earth no?
Less than 2 degrees on the ground. If the barrel of a pistol moves a millimeter how far off the target would the bullet be at 100 yds or even 50. It translates into feet or yards of inaccuracy. If the foundation of a 100 story building is off by 1 inch how far off will the 100th story be. I believe it would be well withing the capabilities of the human eye to detect that error. These mountains should not, in any way shape or form, be fully visible, nor should their lines of rise be perpendicular to the ground at the photo site and they should be leaning away from each other at a degree that would be visible to the human eye.Your math is terrible. The amount of "tilt" would be less than one degree. Do you think that you can spot that amount of tilt in an irregular object. In fact, let's get more precise. You said 100 miles from the camera. I live in an area where you can see mountains quite a far away and I think that you may be overestimating the distance, but I will still use your figures. At 100 miles away the degree of "tilt" can be calculated quite easily. It will be 100 miles/25,000 miles times 360 degrees in a circle. How about that, I was wrong. The amount of tilt would be roughly 1.4 degrees. I was off by a factor of 2. So do you think that you could spot a 2 degree tilt on an irregular object? I know that I couldn't.
If you gave the mountains and where the photo was taken from I can even tell you how far away you were from them.
Less than 2 degrees on the ground. If the barrel of a pistol moves a millimeter how far off the target would the bullet be at 100 yds or even 50. It translates into feet or yards of inaccuracy. If the foundation of a 100 story building is off by 1 inch how far off will the 100th story be. I believe it would be well withing the capabilities of the human eye to detect that error. These mountains should not, in any way shape or form, be fully visible, nor should their lines of rise be perpendicular to the ground at the photo site and they should be leaning away from each other at a degree that would be visible to the human eye.
Well, here's what I think would happen: they'd publish their research in respectable peer-reviewed journals, we'd laugh as Sputnik crashed to the ground instead of going into orbit, and say, "Stupid commies, didn't know the earth was flat". It would be a stunning revelation, make no mistake, particularly because it's physically impossible in a number of ways and it doesn't take a multibillion dollar space agency to do the tests that demonstrate quite clearly that the earth is not flat, but it wouldn't be a death knell for some monolithic "science". It would just be another way we get better at understanding our reality.
If the earth was flat and they found out and they told the world, what would that do to society? Try to wrap your head around that.What do you think? What do you think the purpose of the conspiracy is? They're hiding the flat earth because...? You asked a lot of questions, but you didn't actually answer mine. You just left them hanging, in typical conspiracy theorist fashion.
But that's just it. They don't. You, someone who is apparently only playing devil's advocate, have pointed to several of these questions and they have been not just wrong, but laughably wrong. "If the earth is a globe wouldn't midnight sun on the north pole be impossible?" No, because the earth is at a tilt, which is responsible for the seasons. This question demonstrates an incredible lack of understanding of what the current cosmological model is. Why in the world did you think that was a good question? You held up a page touting this model as though it had some merit:
Because lemme tell you, if I was this wrong about something, I'd spend a whole lot of time wondering what else I was wrong about, because it takes a seriously broken filter to be this wrong.
Can you not orbit the flat earth, or can you? Do you know?
If the earth was flat and they found out and they told the world, what would that do to society? Try to wrap your head around that.
Also, look at all the money they have made with the space program. Is that not motivation enough?
Why is the Van Allen belt of radiation such a game stopper for the mars mission, with our technology of today, (they are stumped as to how they are going to stop the astronauts from being irradiated to death) while in 1960's they sent men through it repeatedly with no ill affects?
I hope you do better research than that. In order to argue against a model you should learn the function that the presenter is expressing. Their model shows perfect reasons for the Arctic midnight sun, seasons, time zones etc. But, not midnight sun at the south pole. Your model is a start, however, their model is much more detailed as to the movement of the sun and moon.
Many educated and intelligent people are taking a good hard look at the FE theory. It is exploding on the internet. There are thousands of people that are just like me...... observing, reading, questioning.... and many others that are convinced that the earth is not a globe.
This is not going away. It would if there was no merit to the questions that are be put out there.
Distance and angles are math. If a buildings foundation is 2 degrees higher on the north side than the south side, the building will lean to the south. This lean will be magnified with every floor added to the building. Eventually the angle will cause the north side of the building, at the top floor, to be further south than the south wall at the foundation. The building will then fall over.Sorry, but now you are mixing up your distances and angles. Math is just not one of your talents.
Buildings, or towers, tend to be constructed with straight lines. If you want to compare those mountains to a building you should compare them to a one story house at the most. In that case a two degree tilt may be noticeable, but only because it has straight vertical walls. That is not the case with mountains. Find a better analogy.Distance and angles are math. If a buildings foundation is 2 degrees higher on the north side than the south side, the building will lean to the south. This lean will be magnified with every floor added to the building. Eventually the angle will cause the north side of the building, at the top floor, to be further south than the south wall at the foundation. The building will then fall over.
The leaning tower of Pisa has a lean of 5.5 degrees. It is 55 or 56 meters tall (this depends on which side as the builders started making one side taller than the other to avoid it from falling over). In that 55 meters it is leaning 4.5 meters or 15 feet.
If my calculations are right, I'm sure you'll check, a building with a foundation 1.5 degrees from level will tip 3 feet at a height of 138 feet. 3 feet at 138 feet would mean that a mountain would tip much further. This would be math. The deviation would be quite visible to the naked eye. 3 feet at 138 would be visible.
Many educated and intelligent people are taking a good hard look at the FE theory.
It is exploding on the internet.
There are thousands of people that are just like me...... observing, reading, questioning.... and many others that are convinced that the earth is not a globe.
Level =/= flatSure there is. I have one level. It is so long it circles the earth and forms a ring connected on both ends.
Every person on earth walks over to it with their cell phone and they all
talk to each other and confirm that it's flat and level.
And in science, majority rules.
If you want to claim that something can orbit the flat Earth you need to explain the physics of it. We can explain the physics of an object that orbits the Earth.
Not too much. Though people that lived in the southern hemisphere would be very confused about their air travel times.
Nope. Conspiracies of that order do not hold up.
It isn't. Where did you get that idea from?
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