Quote (card_sultan @ Dec 14 2017 03:31pm)
Proof that they "independently" came to that decision and that is was not just trying to agree with the religious nutjob fanatics at Nasa trying to control their space and they didn't try it and see it was a joke?
https://i.imgur.com/kqm52gG.jpgAlso if you saw China moon landing footage, you d know why they had to shut down that project, and why their "ISS" is falling out of orbit - cause they know the whole thing is a joke.
So you cant proof gravity, you cant even explain gravity fields and know your making another ridiculous claim that they "independently" came to that decesion.
When will you prove any of your stupid claims?
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In 850, al-Farghani wrote Kitab fi Jawani (meaning "A compendium of the science of stars"). The book primarily gave a summary of Ptolemic cosmography. However, it also corrected Ptolemy based on findings of earlier Arab astronomers. Al-Farghani gave revised values for the obliquity of the ecliptic, the precessional movement of the apogees of the sun and the moon, and the circumference of the earth. The book was widely circulated through the Muslim world, and even translated into Latin.
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Aryabhata was the author of the Āryabhatīya and the Aryabhatasiddhanta, which, according to Hayashi (2008): 'circulated mainly in the northwest of India and, through the Sāsānian dynasty (224–651) of Iran, had a profound influence on the development of Islamic astronomy. Its contents are preserved to some extent in the works of Varahamihira (flourished c. 550), Bhaskara I (flourished c. 629), Brahmagupta (598–c. 665), and others. It is one of the earliest astronomical works to assign the start of each day to midnight.'[15] Aryabhata explicitly mentioned that the earth rotates about its axis, thereby causing what appears to be an apparent westward motion of the stars.[15] In his book, Aryabhatiya, he suggested that the Earth was sphere, containing a circumference of 24,835 miles (39,967 km).[21] Aryabhata also mentioned that reflected sunlight is the cause behind the shining of the moon.[15]
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The Chinese developed three different cosmological models. The Gai Tian, or hemispherical dome, model conceived the heavens as a hemisphere lying over a dome-shaped earth. The second cosmological model, associated with the Hun Tian school, saw the heavens as a celestial sphere not unlike the spherical models developed in the Greek and Hellenistic traditions. The third cosmology, associated with the Xuan Ye school, viewed the heavens as infinite in extent and the celestial bodies as floating about at rare intervals, and "the speed of the luminaries depends on their individual natures, which shows they are not attached to anything."
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The earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the 1st century BCE.,[28] as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument. This would have allowed them to measure the north polar distance (去極度, the Chinese form of declination) and measurement that gave the position in a hsiu (入宿度, the Chinese form of right ascension).[29]
During the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC-9 AD), additional developments made by the astronomers Luo Xiahong (落下閎), Xiangyu Wangren, and Geng Shouchang (耿壽昌) advanced the use of the armillary in its early stage of evolution. In 52 BC, it was the astronomer Geng Shou-chang who introduced the fixed equatorial ring to the armillary sphere.[29] In the subsequent Eastern Han Dynasty (23-220 AD) period, the astronomers Fu An and Jia Kui added the elliptical ring by 84 AD.[29] With the famous statesman, astronomer, and inventor Zhang Heng (78-139 AD), the sphere was totally completed in 125 AD, with horizon and meridian rings.[29] It is of great importance to note that the world's first hydraulic (i.e., water-powered) armillary sphere was created by Zhang Heng, who operated his by use of an inflow clepsydra clock (see Zhang's article for more detail).
This is an armillary sphere:
http://education.asianart.org/sites/asianart.org/files/styles/asianart_resource_detail/public/resource-images/Ming_Dynasty_Armillary_Sphere.jpg?itok=asjgnZRH
It's a model of the celestial bodies visible from the Earth, so clearly they understood the spherical nature of the Earth.
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Well of course he means modern arabs and Indians when hes talking about space exploration - and actually ive never heard of any Arab space program - they're probably to smart to fall for the BS you do.
Man you dumb.
Did he specifically say Ancient, no he didnt.
And that "hole" took like 12 years - if its simple a drill hole they could do that in like a year, i think they purposely made it vague so that it wouldn't offend anyone's core beliefs
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No, I really did mean ancient civilizations. We're talking about the shape of the Earth.