Sorry, your reasons for believing the earth is a spinning ball are total bollocks.

in flatearth •  8 years ago  (edited)

"We've seen tons of photos from space."


  • Have you really? Look again at some of these images that are fed to us constantly and consider if any of them are really just photographs or actually cgi, composites, paintings and other manipulations, rather than a straight photo like you'd take with your phone, warts and all?







Why are the sea colours so uniform? Where are the cities? Any signs of life anywhere?




  • No lens exists that can make a curved line straight pre-manipulation; Fisheye/ Wide Angle/ Go-Pro lenses are everywhere, especially when major international 'space' news is concerned - always making straight lines look curved so they can fit more of the view in. Again, check back for yourselves and ask is it the whole earth you're seeing?
  • We need to stop believing what is fed to us by the banker-owned media disinformation system, and start thinking for ourselves and using our own senses to really discern what we are being presented with.


"I've seen the curve from an airplane, up a mountain or sailing."

  • Look again when you next fly, airplanes cruise at only around 7 miles up, the ISS allegedly 240 miles, and this dscovr satellite one million miles away from earth, supposedly.
    If you think can see the curve from the sea, you're not taking into account perspective - you're seeing a near infinite horizon (as far as your senses are concerned) in all directions. What else do you expect it to look like - corners like a swimming pool?
  • Show me a photograph, because we've got these:



Also, this was taken from 65 miles up, can you see any curve?




"Everything else in the sky is a ball, why wouldn't the earth be?"


  • This argument arises out of faulty logical thinking. You are assuming the premise that the earth is in a massive solar system that we have all seen thousands of images of all throughout our lives, non-stop since we were born, with the sun in the centre and all the planets orbiting round it, but we haven't actually seen for ourselves - like this but with billions and trillions of miles between them:



  • We need to get rid of that model altogether for now, and completely re-imagine the picture of the world where we live from the ground up, literally, using our own senses to build a picture of what the earth and its attendant heavenly bodies actually look like, piece by piece. We have to disregard anything NASA have shown you, anything you have ever seen on a screen at all, and use our own collective senses to start afresh.



  • What do we actually know for sure? What can see see, feel and hear any day that we can be assured of being truth, at least as we experience it consistently?
    That the ground we stand on is stock still but the clouds, sun, moon, stars and planetary system move in the sky above us, right?



"The Lunar eclipses show the earth's shadow across the moon and it's curved."


  • Look carefully at these photos. They tell you that's the shadow of a curve of a perfect ball - but does it look perfectly circular to you? Like nasa's cgi-round? And how is the shadow on the top of the moon in places - surely that would mean the sun would have to be above the horizon, and wouldn't that therefore cause daylight, not night-time?

  • And why should a shadow cause the totally-eclipsed object to turn red? Yes i know they give you a 'scientific' explanation for it involving umbrae, but is this your every day experience in real life?
    Lots of things cause shadows all over the place, does anything ever make anything go red when it's fully obscured to the sun? Why aren't there red spots everywhere?
    Something else is causing it and we have no idea yet what it is. It could well have something to do with the same reason many sunrises and sunsets are also red, but as yet no one has explained it satisfactorily.






  • Again, this belief is based on the unproven and a priori-assumed idea that everything is different out in space, so the laws of physics that we can prove down here on earth with observation and experimentation somehow don't apply when it comes to astrophysics, thus we all have to resort to oblique and complicated mathematical hypothetical theory, rather than use our own eyes, ears and legs.


"Ships disappear over the horizon hull first, and will appear mast first, because they're going over the curve of the earth."

  • Yes, but the full ship comes back into view every time with a decent telescope. Please watch this short video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYMiGyEbjIg

  • How far is the horizon would you say? How far are you saying 20 or 100 foot boats need to be away from your eyes before they disappear over the curve of the earth? Do you know what the rate of curvature should be for a big ball with a supposed radius of 3959 miles?




"Foucault's pendulum."


  • Is it the earth's rotation causing this phenomenon or the sun's movement in the sky? Or the moon's perhaps? Or maybe the firmament of stars that travel together as one, if 4 degrees higher, almost 24 hours every day over the whole earth?
  • This is another erroneous logical assumption that is accepted without proper examination. Yes, the pendulum's angle of rotation moves around like a clock and doing a full cycle every few minutes, but what is the exact time it takes, to the second (no one seems to know,) and why does it change depending on what latitude it's at?
  • How does this cancel out what you see and feel for yourself every day of your life, especially when you are outdoors, and even more so looking over a vast beautiful landscape. Does it look like the earth is rotating at over 1000 mph at the equator to you, ever?








Coriolis effect, bullets, toilet flushes etc.

  • These suffer from the same problems as above, things that don't actually occur naturally or get taken account of in practical use. But here is a navy missile commander explaining why there is no coriolis effect, and the surface of the earth cannot be curved (skip the radio jock parts if you want:)


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pG1__IetHY



That's it for now, i don't want to live on the internet 24/7 any more, so more soon, including:

"BUT WHY WOULD THEY LIE??"

with power & love & grace & glory,

Darren xxx

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Hm, not a single explanation for your questions in the comments, only insults :/ That's not how to combat misinformation imo.

This one got me scratching my head:

Earthrise, Apollo 8, Dec. 24, 1968. nasa.gov
LM approaches CSM for docking / earthrise in b.g., AS11-44-6642 (Apollo 11). nasa.gov
Earthrise viewed from lunar orbit prior to landing, AS11-44-6550 (Apollo 11). nasa.gov
Crescent Earth, Apollo 17, nasa.gov
From a Million Miles Away, NASA Camera Shows Moon Crossing Face of Earth

;)

It maybe that they either haven't read beyond the title and decided to post insults based on that alone, or they so high on fluoride that the above points simply can't spark any interest.

Yes, but the full ship comes back into view every time with a decent telescope. Please watch this short video:

Come visit me in Santa Barbara and try this out for yourself! We have container ships that pass about 30-50 miles offshore, and from the beach by my house I look at the ships through my high-power binoculars. It's often the case that from the beach itself, I can only see the top of a ship, but if I climb onto the bluffs, a sliver of the ship's hull comes into view.

OMG! Your worse then anyone at constantly feeding people B.S. and trying to brainwash morons into believing the world is what?! A square!? I dont need a camera to see with my own eyes the moon and sun are infact round! Like every other planet in the universe! Just how much money are you making pushing and brainwashing ,absolute morons , who actually follow this crap and believe in you! I just wonder what looney bin are you posting from!?

Look again...........can you tell the difference between a circle and a sphere. Have you ever been in space and actually orbited the moon for instance so that you then know that it is a sphere and not just a circle. Also how come we only ever see one side of the moon............maybe it only has one side. The only real evidence of a globe earth are the image produced by nasa, but when the artist who produced the latest image was interviewed his words were............"It is Photoshopped but it has to be"................WHY!

'Just how much money are you making pushing and brainwashin'g ,absolute morons , who actually follow this crap and believe in you!'

what a lovely open-minded and intelligent attitude you have. none btw, not one penny. unlike NASA who get $18 billion a year from blind programmed monkey-drones like you who believe their every cgi painting.

well done for looking at the evidence with a critical eye!

I totally agree with whitezombies post saying ( how could a group of people this stupid survive so long ! ) and you know this type of brainwashing is whats causing these idiots to actually believe this shit! This guy is abviously making a ton of money pushing this crap! And hes laughing all the way to the bank!

Remember, the Earth used to be flat. And I upvoted because the OP used the word bollocks in the title...lol :)

still is, as far as the eye can see, or the nikon p900 at least.

is this the world we live in now? you have nothing to say but this?

and you don't think it makes you the dumb one, literally?

about flat earth? yeah pretty much.

Spoken like a true Flat earther.

I only upvoted you for spending all that time and energy on this rediculous topic that seems to be circulating around alot lately!

Bwahaha! And I you! Lol!

I am amazed that somebody with such a complete lack of understanding of science actually managed to use the internet (or for that matter, feed themselves)