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@Coveny I didn't really see your argument there. No "circles aren't lines" anywhere. You've given a NASA sponsored elementary school explanation for the heliocentric change of time of day. I've explained it in detail. Both models have a circle of light on it. You can't shine a light on a ball and produce a "line". It's physically impossible. The light will be circular, since in your model, earth is a ball. This is yet another strawmen that does not prove curvature, and demonstrates your complete ignorance for BOTH models.
" but I think you are confusing accepting and understanding. I do not accept it, even though I understand it."
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https://debateisland.com/discussion/comment/18248/#Comment_18248 (Me officially stating that I am no longer a flat-Earther)
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Try to understand my model, and while you are at it explain your model rather than ridiculing and insulting people. How does the flat earth have time zones as we see them in the world today?
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#globehead 4 lyfe
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not true.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Yes I agree you have cognitive dissonance and don't want to admit your sky fairy isn't real.
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No they aren't.
Also because I can't stand your lies. No azimuthal equidistant maps are NOT the only map used by the USGS. https://www.usgs.gov/products/maps/geologic-maps
You get so use to spouting easily provable lies that no one else calls you out on.
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"Also because I can't stand your lies. No azimuthal equidistant maps are NOT the only map used by the USGS."
I can't stand morons who pretend they know it all, while linking some city maps...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections
From the source:
"Used by the USGS in the National Atlas of the United States of America.
Distances from centre are conserved.
Used as the emblem of the United Nations, extending to 60° S." (Far right)
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The proof was the map with the circles did you miss that and need me to post is a 15th time? Ok SURE. The white circles are what times zones look like on the flat earth.
Oh look you went from "(the only map used by the USGS)" to "sed by the USGS in the National Atlas of the United States of America". Now what fallacy is that... oh ya I remember.
And you called me a moron... (this must be one of the personal attack @SilverishGoldNova never sees)
And yet somehow I'm the one who keeps getting accused of personal attacks, and using fallacies.... ROFL.
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That line Is also a circle, unless of course you are arguing for a flat earth, in which case, I accept your concession.
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Do you see any other (world map) projections being used?
And I never called you a moron.
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Nice cherry picking too.
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On a globe time zones are a line.
On a flat earth time zones are a circle
So time zones do NOT work on the flat earth. This has NOT been refuted or even address regardless of how many ad hominem attacks you do.
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No cherry picking. You said "harder to walk" and gave no reference to the airplane ascending or descending with your red herring. What difference does it make if it's "harder to walk" in one direction rather than the other? You don't feel the movement do you? You "shouldn't" feel the movement because that's how reality works. Rather than addressing my point, you went off on a tangent about one direction being more difficult that the other... so I referenced the 500 mph which is the POINT, and brought back the point of the topic which was feeling movement... which you can't when the speed is CONSTANT.
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