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15 Sep 2015, 7:48 pm

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But the same effect of perspective would also make the sun's disk look progressively smaller as it approaches the vanishing point. It would intercept progressively less of an angle. It would maintain its round shape, but would get progressively smaller (like the light on the back of a train). become star sized. And then cigarette butt sized. Then finally vanish.

That's exactly what the Sun does NOT do. It stays the same size (intercepts the same degrees of arc in the sky). The disk of the sun stays the same size all day, and even at sunset it maintains its apparent size while it disappears at the horizon bottom first.

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Yes, that's true.
Its the 24 hour Antarctic summer sun and the counter rotating star field that prevent me believing in a flat earth, fun though as the concept might sound.
I have yet to find reasons though why the Earth is not stationary and a small sun orbits it.
Somewhere I have a DVD with a program that shows a geocentric model that works just as well as the heliocentric.

When I see such as the following, it makes me wary of anything the experts and scientists tell us to believe.



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15 Sep 2015, 7:59 pm

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If the Earth was flat, we wouldn't have so many time zones. The circumference of the earth would be considerably less. It wouldn't be able to rotate on its axis.

Most importantly, somebody would have discovered the "end" of the earth via ship by now.


I already asked about the "edge" of the earth.

The "edge" of the Earth is in Antarctica according to the videos posted by the OP (see above in the thread). :roll:



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15 Sep 2015, 8:21 pm

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If the Earth was flat, we wouldn't have so many time zones. The circumference of the earth would be considerably less. It wouldn't be able to rotate on its axis.

Most importantly, somebody would have discovered the "end" of the earth via ship by now.


Maybe Amelia Earhart flew over the edge and got lost.



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26 Mar 2016, 5:22 pm

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I'm going to go with Christopher Columbus and scientists on this and say the earth is round.

well I hate to tell you but Christopher was a freemason and if u remember the big symbol of the knights of templars on the boat right with these 2 evidences you can conclude that the data collected by his travels really wasnt actual facts...



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27 Mar 2016, 1:53 am

eric76 wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
If the Earth was flat, we wouldn't have so many time zones. The circumference of the earth would be considerably less. It wouldn't be able to rotate on its axis.

Most importantly, somebody would have discovered the "end" of the earth via ship by now.


Maybe Amelia Earhart flew over the edge and got lost.


Since we all now know the truth (that the Earth is flat, and that the Sun is only the size of a good year blimp, and goes around the Earth) we also now know what really happened to Amelia Earhart!

Malaysian Flight 370, and Amelia Earhart, both made the same mistake that Icarus (of Greek mythology) made.They Flew too close to the sun causing their wings to melt!



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08 Apr 2016, 3:58 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXnJF5MnHQ
Check out this mythbusters video
The external camera has a fish eye lens and makes the earth look curved.

The internal camera clearly shows a flat horizon at 70,000ft
At 7:28



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09 Apr 2016, 6:42 am

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Actually, it is not only flat, but hollow too.


A dyson... plane?



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09 Apr 2016, 8:26 am

^Maybe he is confused.

There was a theory that the Earth is-yes-round, but that we live on the INSIDE of the round earth.

The planets, and starsthe sun, and the moon, are little objects hanging in the air inside the hollow earth. When you circumnavigate the earth your sailing around the inside surface of the hollow earth, and folks on the other side of the earth are actually straight up above our heads walking around upside down relative to us on the opposite inside surface of the big spherical hole that is the heavens.

For a while the Nazis actually bought into this theory and set up telescopes on outposts on an island off Norway to look straight up through the sky to spy on allied countries on the other side of the earth.For some reason it didnt work. Lol!



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09 Apr 2016, 8:53 am

slenkar wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXnJF5MnHQ
Check out this mythbusters video
The external camera has a fish eye lens and makes the earth look curved.

The internal camera clearly shows a flat horizon at 70,000ft
At 7:28



Did anyone look yet?



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11 Apr 2016, 8:39 pm

Why the Earth cannot be flat.


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11 Apr 2016, 10:11 pm

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Yes. The Evidence is quite the Mind-Blowing. This Earth is more-likely to be FLAT than a Sphere.


You are partially right. The spherical manifold (surface of a three dim. sphere ) is -locally- differentiomorphic to a small region of a flat Euclidean space. However the mappings are local and must be patched together. The total surface of a sphere is not differentiomorphic to a plane.


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12 Apr 2016, 10:19 am

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Why the Earth cannot be flat.


There is no reason to assume gravity would attract everything to a central point under the north pole.

Did you check out the video I just posted in this thread?



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12 Apr 2016, 6:34 pm

slenkar wrote:
slenkar wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTXnJF5MnHQ
Check out this mythbusters video
The external camera has a fish eye lens and makes the earth look curved.

The internal camera clearly shows a flat horizon at 70,000ft
At 7:28



Did anyone look yet?


I looked. Dont know what you're talking about. The scene at 7:28 is of a curved horizon, while the Mythbuster guy in the plane is talking about how "the horizon looks curved".



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12 Apr 2016, 7:00 pm

For reference of what I'm talking about look at the thumbnail for the video, see the flat horizon behind him?

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12 Apr 2016, 7:25 pm

Whatever. The next moment after the frame in that thumbnail the horizon gets curved and he talks about the edge of the earth looking curved. Maybe the pic in the next was taken with a fish eye lens that caused it to look curved. But the guy says the horizon looks curved.

Even if the horizon did look flat I dont know how that proves the "Earth is flat". At fourteen miles above the surface of a planet that is 8000 miles in diameter you would expect the horizon to still look flat anyway.



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12 Apr 2016, 7:48 pm

If the horizon isn't going to look curved at 70,000 feet then using those fisheye lenses is incredibly misleading.

There is no need to use such a lens even if it expands the field of view, photographers say that a wide angle lens should be used instead and that fish eye lenses are only used for stylistic reasons!
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2013/ ... ye-lenses/

So why would scientists use a lens which only use is to distort an image?

The horizon is also at eye level at all times, this is consistent with a flat plane, not a sphere that drops off in height