Quote (hunter_1 @ Aug 2 2019 01:06am)
For the last 50 years, we've been able to view pictures of the Earth from space, which might seem like all the proof you need to see that our planet is in fact round.
One of the best documented methods for determining the Earth's roundness was first performed (to our knowledge) by the ancient Greeks. This was achieved by comparing the shadows of sticks in different locations. When the sun was directly overhead in one place, the stick there cast no shadow. At the same time in a city around 500 miles north, the stick there did cast a shadow.
If the Earth were flat then both sticks should show the same shadow (or lack of) because they would be positioned at the same angle towards the sun
Another piece of evidence for a globe is the difference between the night skies in the northern and southern hemispheres. The view is completely different because the Earth beneath you is pointing in a different direction. If the Earth were flat, the view should be the same.
You can observe the planets as well. They all rotate, and watching over the course of a few days gives a clear picture they are spherical rather than flat. The chance that most of the planets are spherical but the Earth is flat seems very unlikely.
Perhaps the most impressive experiment that even schools can do today is to send a camera up in a high-altitude balloon. The footage will show that from a high-enough vantage point you can see the curvature of the Earth.
Aristotle (who made quite a lot of observations about the spherical nature of the Earth) noticed that during lunar eclipses (when the Earth’s orbit places it directly between the Sun and the Moon, creating a shadow in the process), the shadow on the Moon’s surface is round. This shadow is the planet's, and it’s a great clue about the spherical shape of the Earth.
Get fucked kid.
You’re just on the flat earth bullshit because it sounds flashy.well that was fast - obviously some copypasta from https://www.space.com/38931-kids-can-prove-earth-round.html "proof for kiddies" - lol - ill still debunk it
1. Curved horizon pics are a result of horizontal refraction of the the angle change from the center of vision as well as using curved optics, that as well as CGI
2. Eratosthenes experiment works on a Flat Earth as well as admitted by Neil Degrasse Tyson with a close sun, which the Flat Earth has. The idea the Sun is far away is an assumption, not Science.
3. The directional difference in the sky can be explained with inverse perspective and this effect here https://youtu.be/3ykktviMyUE
4. Balloon tests that show a curved Horizon at like 70k feet - also show you the same curved horizon than 100 feet - example of this type of lense https://imgur.com/VgctDZu
5. Eclipses are caused by Nodal Points which are junction points in the path of the sun and moon and can be predicting in how they relate to the fundamental plane, consider how light is twisted here
https://imgur.com/HePDZns and this diagram that illustrates the paths https://imgur.com/Fbp1AKO
years of trolling debunked in 5 minutes, keep wasting your life with nonsense