Prove Earth is a Sphere without using the word NASA

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  1. CircleBird

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    You assumes that someone cares what shape the earth is.

    As long as I don't fall off the edge and my Iphone works it could be a parabola for all I care.
     
  2. Validation Boy

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    based on all the scientific evidence we have from multiple international sources, it is now illogical and irrational to say the Earth is anything but a sphere.
     
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    So prove your new law of perspective you just invented.

    Hint, your example of a golf ball. You can't see the other side of the golf ball no matter what kind of telescope you use.
     
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    If the earth were flat (I can't believe I'm responding to such stupidity), then Sarah Palin really could see Russia from her house.
     
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    You can't prove a law, only observe that there are no exceptions to it. And the gold ball analogy won't work, since he's posing the situation isn't a sphere. You can't assume what you're trying to prove.

    You need to go the other way around. Draw a straight line from one side of the earth to the other and demonstrate it cuts through the earth. Showing the ground must be curved.




     
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    Actually, he was talking about how there IS no south pole, and how he should've found it after hundreds of miles of ice, but never did.

    He's talking about the traditional flat earth model and how, despite popular science's baseless spherical postulations, it seems to him like the flat earth model must've been true all along.

    He speaks about it like it is an ice barrier that SURROUNDS us, not the island NASA and the Vatican want you to believe it is.
     
  9. Validation Boy

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    Too bad that can only be done on paper or in a computer program, and not on our flat earth.
     
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    Light travels in a straight line. Walk away from a light source until your eye no longer detects the light.

    At that point there are three possibilities. The light isn't bright enough to reach you, your eye isn't sensitive enough to detect it, or there is something between you and the light source blocking the light.

    Have someone raise the light source straight up. You'll see the light and eliminate the first two possibilities.




     
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    Listen Henny Penny, don't presume to think you know me. I stand by facts, truth, and logic.

    LMAO! I don't think I'm better than anyone else.

    Joining Freemasonry does not mean I think I'm better than anyone else nor is there any "bisexual mother worship" in Freemasonry and I've seen a lot of Freemasonry. This is not the subject of the thread though, but you are more than welcomed to go to the Ask a Freemason thread and challenge me.

    This isn't true either, but take it to the other thread.

    And you know this how?
     
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    No,and neither have you,boy

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    Honest to God,boy,you belong in a rubber room
     
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    The boy got his quotes mixed up,Byrd never said there was an area larger than the United States just beyond the south pole,he was talking about the permanent ice pack at the NORTH pole
     
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    He hadn't been to the south pole yet in that video

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    View attachment 34228 Boy,Antarctica is a continent,not an 'Island'
     
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    Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!

    One of the oldest proofs of the Earth's shape can be seen from the ground and occurs during every lunar eclipse. The geometry of a lunar eclipse has been known since ancient Greece. When a full Moon occurs in the plane of Earth's orbit, the Moon slowly moves through Earth's shadow. Every time that shadow is seen, its edge is round. Once again, the only solid that always projects a round shadow is a sphere.
     
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    You read that all in 7 minutes. Huh. Prove you exist and you aren't just a slightly, but not very, sophisticated bot written by a bored Russian hacker.
     
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    Game, Set, and Match.

    [video=youtube;7f-K-XnHi9I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-K-XnHi9I[/video]
     
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    Wait wait wait......did he really counter my herizon argument by saying that if he walks up to the herizon it's still there? Ok. I am going to have to educate VB in basic third grade science.


    The herizon is the point at which the earth curves. It's for this reason that if you use a telescope and looked at the herizon, you would see no part of the earth beyond it, because the planet's curve puts it out of your line of sight.

    The herizon is always present because the earth is always curving. There is not just a single herizon, it's always going to be there, wherever you are on the planet.

    If the earth was flat, you could use a telescope and see beyond the herizon. This was one of the tests done by Galileo and other round earth scientists. Galileo observed ships traveling to and from the herizon, and noticed that he did not see them beyond it. He used a telescope to see if he could follow their past the herizon, and could not. This was the discovery that began Galileo's research into the shape of the Earth.
     
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    Actually, the burden of proof is on you. All of this has been explained by science already. So if you want to convince any modern, adult human from an industrialized country that the Earth is flat, you need to answer the following questions:

    1. Please explain how time zones would work on a flat Earth?
    2. Please explain how seasons work on a flat Earth?
    3. Please explain why the shadow on the moon from the Earth is round?
    4. Please explain why Amature Radio operators can send signals to distant countries by bouncing radio waves off the moon when they can't reach the same countries by standard line of site radio, even though the distance to the distant country is much shorter than the distance from the moon and back again?
    5. Please explain why in this day and age where pretty much every part of the Earth is mapped, no one has found the edge?
    6. Please explain how GPS would work without satellites orbiting the Earth?
     
  20. Validation Boy

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    Lol.

    Look at the fisheye lens they use.

    It makes the earth go from concave to convex about 50 times in your fake little video.
     
  21. Validation Boy

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    Preferably, you'd be sitting in front of the 100% mathematically perfect traditional flat earth model which humanity used for thousands of years while you read this. I know you won't, though, because you're a lazy american.

    Firstly, the north pole is at the center. There is no south pole, but instead there is a wall of ice which spans for possibly thousands of miles beyond the point which we cannot pass.

    Admiral Byrd told us all about it, in the early 20th century after multiple failed attempts to physically reach the apparently non existent south pole.

    The sun and moon circle overhead, gaining and losing altitude during seasons.

    Law of perspective, proven countless times, demonstrates how the entire thing works.

    There is an impermeable dome above us, and that's what Amateur radio users are bouncing their signals off.

    Show me one satellite. I challenge you.
     
  22. Validation Boy

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    You should've asked your 3rd grade teacher how to spell HORIZON.

    You think its spelled like Verizon! That's funny!

    But anyways, have you ever seen this "curvature" with your own eyes?

    Don't bother lying, because I already know with 100% absolute certainty that you have not.

    And yes, the HORIZON is everywhere, just like you said. There is too much topography on this flat planet to use a telescope to do what you propose. And this is by design.

    Law of Perspective negates all your other arguments. Try researching next time, before you make a fool of yourself.
     
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    Actually the idea that people thought the earth was flat was discounted 1000s of years ago. Calling someone lazy even though you didn't know that. Funny.

    Except that is not true. There is no wall.

    I watched your video and he never said that.

    How does that work as the seasons in the south are the opposite of the north...if the sun is farther away wouldn't it be the same for both?


    Actually no way would that explain the things we see when we go outside.

    how do meteorites get through.

    go outside and look through a good telescope on any light that moves across the night sky.
     
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    If only you could think.

    MOD EDIT - Rule 3
     
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    Nah. Its just that I've heard all those 100% unproven lies a thousand times.

    Im also a bit skeptical of a Science Fiction writer's agenda behind repeating such nonsense.
     

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