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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain .” - Benjamin Franklin So flat Earthers, man-made climate change deniers, and just science deniers.
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With that in mind...
Explain this.
This picture was taken from Genoa, and is photographing the island of Elba, from over 125 miles away.
The image was taken from a height of 70 feet too. Now lets put these results into a curvature calculator.
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Horizon = 10.25 Miles (54097.11 Feet)
Bulge = 2604.99 Feet (31259.84 Inches)
Drop = 1.97 Miles (10421.9 Feet)
Hidden= 1.66 Miles (8779.41 Feet)
Horizon Dip = 0.148 Degrees, (0.0026 Radians)
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With Standard Refraction 7/6*r, radius = 4618.83 Miles (24387440 Feet)
Refracted Horizon = 11.07 Miles (58431.55 Feet)
Refracted Drop= 1.69 Miles (8932.46 Feet)
Refracted Hidden= 1.4 Miles (7418.36 Feet)
Refracted Dip = 0.137 Degrees, (0.0024 Radians)
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If we also take into account the elevation of the Island, which is 3,340 feet, then we cannot say that it is due to elevation.
Simple, undeniable proof that we live on a stationary flat Earth, and we arent monkeys on a spinning ball.
Uh oh.
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The cited 70 feet above sea-level is clearly nonsense when you look at the source of the Italian youtube-video. These pictures must have been taken from one of the tallest buildings or highest points of observation in or around Genoa.
One seems to have been shot from one of the mountains surrounding Genoa.
One seems to have been shot from one of the mountains surrounding Genoa.
Here are the coordinates of the building in the first picture: 44°24'16.44"N 8°56'9.37"E.
It's Terrazza Martini Tower, 116m high and standing on roughly 20m ground elevation (according to google earth). The observer is clearly standing higher than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrazza_Martini_Tower
Edit: Changed the link because the video did not work.
Also, it could have been the superior mirage.
Sources:
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/supmrge.htm
https://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Superior_mirage
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz150.htm
The link you have underneath your post: http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2015/08/200-proofs-earth-is-not-spinning-ball.html, yeah here is a link debunking everything in it: http://200proofsearthisnotflat.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/debunking-Dubay-70-79200.html.
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When you look at the real heights based on the original source of the video, it seems reasonable.
The only way you can think he made the argument you claimed, is if you didn’t read any of his post.
Pogue made a long, detailed rebuttal where he explained what you asked him to explain.
This type of red herring nonsense is why I keep tagging your posts as fallacies: because that’s what they actually are.
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For example, when someone points out that you ignored everything an opponent said, and you argue that he doesn’t understand what a red herring is: that is a deliberate attempt to distract:
and thus a red herring. (As well as being an ad hominem)
An additional example, is if you ignore everything an opponent says, and simply dismiss their position for a side issue (as you did), this is also an attempt to distract away from the key point.
so yes: I understand what a red herring is. Do you?
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why didn’t you check you’re sources and data before making it?
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Youre entire argument seems to have been based on this incorrect initial height.
Then you seemed to have gone back and removed that portion of your post.
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Youre entire argument seems to have been based on this incorrect initial height.
Then you seemed to have gone back and removed that portion of your post.
And yet, I showed that it would still be impossible using your height(s). Is this debateisland or is this the kindergartners circus?
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I gave my measurements in the metric system so you said you used my heights so change it to metric. I do not know what is happening to this quote system, it is really messed up now.
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Pouge here is the same thing in meters. This is the link to the curvature calculator.
https://www.metabunk.org/curve/
Results ignoring refractionHorizon = 61.83 km (61827.91 m)Bulge = 792.72 metersDrop = 3.17 km (3171.48 m)Hidden= 1.52 km (1519.9 m)Horizon Dip = 0.556 Degrees, (0.0097 Radians)
With Standard Refraction 7/6*r, radius = 7432.83 km (7432833.33 m)Refracted Horizon = 66.78 km (66781.66 m)Refracted Drop= 2.72 km (2718.24 m)Refracted Hidden= 1.21 km (1211.72 m)Refracted Dip = 0.515 Degrees, (0.0090 Radians)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p6M-VgXHwwdpJarhyQYapBz-kRc6FrgdOLFAd3IfYz8/edit
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So, can I ask again: why didn’t you check your maths, and check your sources?
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You used the wrong number, which meant that you’re argument was wrong (now you’ve made another), you didn’t check your sources; and I’m asking why.
was this a one-off, or general thing? Where did you get that 70ft number from?
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You got that from your source http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2015/08/200-proofs-earth-is-not-spinning-ball.html.
Here is the debunk from http://200proofsearthisnotflat.blogspot.com/2016/02/debunking-Dubay-70-79200.html.
#74 Very phony numbers
The cited 70 feet above sea-level are clearly nonsense when you look at the source of an Italian youtube-video. These pictures must have been taken from one of the tallest buildings or highest points of observation in or around Genoa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Fasce
Here are the coordinates of the building in the first picture: 44°24'16.44"N 8°56'9.37"E.
It's Terrazza Martini Tower, 116m high and standing on roughly 20m ground elevation (according to google earth). The observer is clearly standing higher than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrazza_Martini_Tower
Since the 70 feet (21m!) are so utterly misleading and you can't tell the distances from the video, for all following pictures from Genoa I'll calculate with 300m height.
(Sources for calculations: See #69&70)
Gorgona has an elevation of 254m, with 300m observing height in Genoa and refraction coefficient of 0.2 (this is a generous guess for these kinds of conditions) at a distance of 131km you get 143.7km of added intersecting sight lines. Gorgona is visible.
#75 Very phony numbers
See #74 for details.
Monte Cinto on Corsica has an elevation of 2706m. With 300m observation height in Genoa and refraction coefficient of 0.2 at a distance of 159km, you get 260.8 km of added intersecting sight lines. Corsica is very visible.
#76 Very phony numbers
See #74 for details.
Monte Castello on Capraia has an elevation of 447m. With 300m observation height in Genoa and refraction coefficient of 0.2 at a distance of 164km, you get 170.9 km of added intersecting sight lines. Capraia is visible.
#77 Very phony numbers
See #74 for details.
Monte Capanne on Elba has an elevation of 1019m. With 300m observation height in Genoa and refraction coefficient of 0.2 at a distance of 201km, you get 207.1 km of added intersecting sight lines. Elba is visible.
Metabunk.org only accounted for the standard refraction. The Superior-mirage is an option. Genoa has frequent mirages. In the original video, the bottom is gone, and parts of it are gone.
http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/supmrge.htm
https://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Superior_mirage
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/fz150.htm
http://blog.daimonie.com/2015/11/200-reasons-why-flat-earthers-are.html
Here is a reason why the Earth is round:
Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same thing: Spinning masses of air sucking moisture from the ocean, dumping it back on us and destroying things in their path. A hurricane is just a giant wind drain—a low-pressure center with winds flushing into it. The wind always blows counter-clockwise inwards in Northern Hemisphere hurricanes—check out this picture of Hurricane Katrina and the United States. Notice the direction the wind is traveling with a compass, depending on where the Hurricane is.
However, in the Southern Hemisphere, the wind travels the opposite direction. Here’s a picture of Hurricane Catarina, a very rare Southern Hemisphere Atlantic Hurricane:
Notice that Catarina is very clearly spinning in the opposite direction. That’s because of the Coriolis effect—the wind changes direction as the planet spins beneath it. If the Earth wasn’t spinning, the wind should blow straight into the middle of the hurricane from all directions. But the Earth spins faster at the equator than at the poles, because our planet’s midsection has the furthest distance to travel with each rotation. Winds traveling northwards or southwards curve as they travel from slower spinning to faster spinning regions of the planet. The wind carves the opposite direction based on whether you are above or below the equator since the Earth’s rotation gets slower on alternate sides.
You can recreate this by spinning a basketball on your finger, and moving a marker from the bottom up or the top down—notice what the line looks like above and below the middle of the ball.
Okay, let’s try to explain all that with a flat Earth. If Earth was a giant spinning plate with the North Pole at its center, all hurricanes should spin in the same direction and should have a much more spiral shape the further south (i.e., away from the center) you head. You could maybe slow down the spins further from the center of the spinning plate, but then you should see the continents ripping apart from the different speeds. It just doesn’t make any sense.
There are so many more ways you can prove to yourself the Earth is round. You can see more things the higher up you are. You don’t feel a centripetal force like you would on a carousel. Long suspension bridges’ towers slope slightly away from one another to account for the curvature of the Earth. Every other planet is a spinning sphere. Satellites exist (as proven by the existence of your iPhone), and obey rules that only work if they’re orbiting around Earth. We’ve taken many, many pictures of Earth. Buy a weather balloon and strap a camera to it.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/how-to-prove-to-yourself-or-shaq-the-earth-is-round-1793441692
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1. You guys act like 8-year-olds because you guys are 8-year olds.
2. Here is some evidence for the flat Earth:
a. The horizon always appears perfectly flat 360 degrees around the observer regardless of altitude. All amateur balloon, rocket, plane and drone footage show a completely flat horizon over 20+ miles high. Only fake space agencies like NASA and SpaceX show it with their CGI.
b. The natural physics of water is to find and maintain its level. If Earth were a giant sphere tilted, wobbling and hurdling through infinite space than truly flat, consistently level surfaces would not exist here. But since Earth is, in fact, is an extended flat plane, this fundamental physical property of fluids finding and the remaining level is consistent with experience and common sense.
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Completly false! Look at this amateur with their homemade spacecraft. Evidence that SpaceX is fake. Oh and that every space agency is fake. The shape of the horizon is in fact highly dependent on altitude/scale. This is easily proven by drawing a circle and measuring the angles of the apparent fields of view down on a proposed sphere and the radius of the visible horizon on that sphere from different altitudes of observation, without any topography
Source: https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/homemade-spacecraft-reaches-100000-ft-films-the-whole-way-1287792/
On small scales, water doesn't maintain its level due to surface tension. That's why falling water drops form spheres. Over long distances, water never is consistently level on earth. Example: Tides. Also, if you overlooked a perfectly level lake from a 50m elevation in perfect conditions, you could see ~50km far, with the horizon appearing 0.225° lower than eye-level. There is no way for your eyes to perceive anything near a curve. This is perfectly consistent with water leveling perpendicular to the center of the Earth.
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B.) water can be objectively observed to be curved, with basic experiments such as watching boats, planes, the sun falling over the horizon.
Now, I’m not sure why you decided to launch into an ad-hominem attack unprompted; but quite honestly, if all you have is this type of non-evidence and name calling that typifies the other flat earthers here; the most appropriate thing you can contribute to this thread is silence.
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1.) You completely ignored, for the fifth time; the entire first 75% of my post, that outlines and details how and why you’ve refuted your own argument.
2.) what, exactly, is this a rebuttal of? Because it is unrelated to my argument:
You’re claiming that sunset and ships going over the horizon is due to “perspective”. which is not possible.
Your rebuttal to this is an image in which neither ships nor the sun go over the horizon, and at no point shows the ground interfering with or getting in the way of objects above the ground. It doesn’t show anything you’ve claimed
You offer no argument or explanation as to why it’s a rebuttal. Nor offer a description of what it is intended to show, or refute; nor did you even describe or referwnce anything I said.
As I pointed out, parallel lines don’t meet; and as a result, the ground (or the sea) can’t appear in front of an object above the ground (or sea) if they’re flat: and this is actually mirrored - and shown - by your perspective non-rebuttal image.
So no: your argument makes no sense, it’s literally an irrelevant image asserted as if it shows something It doesn’t.
As a result, your post constitutes both a non sequitur/red herring and an argument by assertion: so are genuinely fallacious.
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And this one too:
So, let’s talk about his perspective works; given that you made accusations.
When talking about objects and perspective, the important quantities you need to talk about are angular size and angular position. This is the size of object and position of the object as it appears without referencing distances.
When you have an object above your eye like, it’s angular position is = inverse tan(height above eye line/distance). An obvious consequence is as the object gets far away the angle gets smaller and smaller.
When an object is infinitely far away the object will have an angular position of 0 degrees, the tan of 0.
This is known as for the vanishing point: the location all objects would appear when infinitely far away. The further and further away an object is, the smaller it will appear and the closer it will be to this vanishing point.
Inv tan ( height / distance) is the trigonomic explanation of pretty much all perspective.
If you’re in the shore, looking at a boat, and it falls over the horizon: this can’t be perspective if the earth is flat.
The sea is always below you (unless your eyes are below sea level), which means h is negative; and the angle is negative.
The boat will either be taller than you (positive height), or be below you (negative height) but higher than the water: in both cases the angular position of the bottom of the boat would be higher than the angular position of the sea at the position of the boat: and given that INV tan (h/d) always moves closer to the horizontal with greater distance, the closest the sea can appear to be to the boat will be where the boat actually is.
You’re claims about perspective are neither explained, nor make any mathematical sense. The mathematics of perspective is pretty well known, and the easiest thing to repeat.
The only examples you will see in YouTube of this perspective are generally where the camera is below the level of the flat surface: and so can get in the way.
So now that I’ve explained to you that I actually know how perspective works to a fairly technical degree: please feel free to explain how you’re impossible perspective mechanism actually works.
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And this one too:
So, let’s talk about his perspective works; given that you made accusations.
When talking about objects and perspective, the important quantities you need to talk about are angular size and angular position. This is the size of object and position of the object as it appears without referencing distances.
When you have an object above your eye like, it’s angular position is = inverse tan(height above eye line/distance). An obvious consequence is as the object gets far away the angle gets smaller and smaller.
When an object is infinitely far away the object will have an angular position of 0 degrees, the tan of 0.
This is known as for the vanishing point: the location all objects would appear when infinitely far away. The further and further away an object is, the smaller it will appear and the closer it will be to this vanishing point.
Inv tan ( height / distance) is the trigonomic explanation of pretty much all perspective.
If you’re in the shore, looking at a boat, and it falls over the horizon: this can’t be perspective if the earth is flat.
The sea is always below you (unless your eyes are below sea level), which means h is negative; and the angle is negative.
The boat will either be taller than you (positive height), or be below you (negative height) but higher than the water: in both cases the angular position of the bottom of the boat would be higher than the angular position of the sea at the position of the boat: and given that INV tan (h/d) always moves closer to the horizontal with greater distance, the closest the sea can appear to be to the boat will be where the boat actually is.
You’re claims about perspective are neither explained, nor make any mathematical sense. The mathematics of perspective is pretty well known, and the easiest thing to repeat.
The only examples you will see in YouTube of this perspective are generally where the camera is below the level of the flat surface: and so can get in the way.
So now that I’ve explained to you that I actually know how perspective works to a fairly technical degree: please feel free to explain how you’re impossible perspective mechanism actually works.
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That's because it is in free fall, and water adheres to whatever it touches.
Place a drop of water on a table, it looks like a dome, right? Now take a toothpick and slowly touch it, and drag the toothpick and watch how the water adheres to the dragged toothpick.
In freefall, all the drop of water has is itself, so it forms a sphere.
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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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I’ll mark posts as fallacies that are fallacies.
For example, I refuted your position, and you ignored the response 4 times; the fifth you posted a reply that made no sense, I pointed out in extensive detail why: and you’ve ignored that twice now.
You then complained that I wasn’t interested in debate or discussion in the midst of it, and are still doing that.
I get the feeling you’re disinterested in a discussion; and so are finding whatever nonsense distraction you can, rather than to address any one of the number of posts you ignored.
this makes your post a red herring.
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When an object is infinitely far away the object will have an angular position of 0 degrees, the tan of 0.
This is known as for the vanishing point: the location all objects would appear when infinitely far away. The further and further away an object is, the smaller it will appear and the closer it will be to this vanishing point.
Vanishing point, interesting. So why don't you go and explain this to NASA, because they are calculating a lot of stuff using trig, on stars as far as 13 billion light years away, to another star 12.8 billion light years away.. to convince us of the expanding universe, the Big Bang and many other .
If a ship on earth can reach it's vanishing point, or angular position of 0 degrees here on earth, then what is the angle from a NASA observer here on earth, and between two stars 12, and 13 billion light years away? (A new celestial wonder has stolen the title of most distant object ever seen in the universe, astronomers report. The new record holder is the galaxy MACS0647-JD, which is about 13.3 billion light-years away.)
They aren't just calculating the expanding stars, but the very source of that light that has been traveling 13 billion years to reach us.
With ships over the ocean, the light reaches us in microseconds, but stars and galaxies, .. yet they can trig it all out with "great accuracy" to where they can tell us what happened down to the millionths and billionths of a second after the Big Bang?
You see what they can do with angles and trig? Even make us believe the Earth is a ball.
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I think you’re confusing perspective maths, with something else.
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So it seems like @Erfisflat and @SilverishGoldNova are not responding to this so can you?
Here is a reason why the Earth is round:
Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same thing: Spinning masses of air sucking moisture from the ocean, dumping it back on us and destroying things in their path. A hurricane is just a giant wind drain—a low-pressure center with winds flushing into it. The wind always blows counter-clockwise inwards in Northern Hemisphere hurricanes—check out this picture of Hurricane Katrina and the United States. Notice the direction the wind is traveling with a compass, depending on where the Hurricane is.
However, in the Southern Hemisphere, the wind travels the opposite direction. Here’s a picture of Hurricane Catarina, a very rare Southern Hemisphere Atlantic Hurricane:
Notice that Catarina is very clearly spinning in the opposite direction. That’s because of the Coriolis effect—the wind changes direction as the planet spins beneath it. If the Earth wasn’t spinning, the wind should blow straight into the middle of the hurricane from all directions. But the Earth spins faster at the equator than at the poles, because our planet’s midsection has the furthest distance to travel with each rotation. Winds traveling northwards or southwards curve as they travel from slower spinning to faster spinning regions of the planet. The wind carves the opposite direction based on whether you are above or below the equator since the Earth’s rotation gets slower on alternate sides.
You can recreate this by spinning a basketball on your finger, and moving a marker from the bottom up or the top down—notice what the line looks like above and below the middle of the ball.
Okay, let’s try to explain all that with a flat Earth. If Earth was a giant spinning plate with the North Pole at its center, all hurricanes should spin in the same direction and should have a much more spiral shape the further south (i.e., away from the center) you head. You could maybe slow down the spins further from the center of the spinning plate, but then you should see the continents ripping apart from the different speeds. It just doesn’t make any sense.
There are so many more ways you can prove to yourself the Earth is round. You can see more things the higher up you are. You don’t feel a centripetal force like you would on a carousel. Long suspension bridges’ towers slope slightly away from one another to account for the curvature of the Earth. Every other planet is a spinning sphere. Satellites exist (as proven by the existence of your iPhone), and obey rules that only work if they’re orbiting around Earth. We’ve taken many, many pictures of Earth. Buy a weather balloon and strap a camera to it.
Look at this, a guy sent a camera to space and the Earth is round: https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/homemade-spacecraft-reaches-100000-ft-films-the-whole-way-1287792/.
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain .” - Benjamin Franklin So flat Earthers, man-made climate change deniers, and just science deniers.
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Can you please respond to what @qipwbdeo said?
"The equator is the largest distance you can go on the Earth. This is testable. However, on a flat Earth, with the model you provided, shows the path along the Antarctic to be the longest." This clearly proves the flat Earth model wrong!
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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain .” - Benjamin Franklin So flat Earthers, man-made climate change deniers, and just science deniers.
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That video is incorrect.
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The video proves why the Coriolis effect is real and is dictated by hemisphere. The important parts are from 1:44-5:35. It has a controlled experiment. At the end, it explains why there is a difference between hemispheres. It works because it does. To understand this, think of a pool at the geographic poles. It is stationary relative to Earth, but every sidereal day, it is actually completing one full rotation. The part further away from the pole and closer to the equator move faster because it has to complete a larger movement in the same amount of time (that is why rockets are launched closer to the equator. When the plug is pulled (part of the experiment) everything is moving toward the drain in the middle. The far side is faster so it gets ahead while the slower part is too slow so it lags behind.
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Definition of a Red Herring: Red herring is a kind of fallacy that is an irrelevant topic introduced in an argument to divert the attention of listeners or readers from the original issue.
SilverishGoldNova has done nothing wrong here. Even if you think the post doesn't make any sense, that does not make it a red herring. He seems perfectly interested in the discussion, please show a bit of respect. I know that I sound cynical, but this is starting to get out of hand.
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