Actually, when looking at the horizon from a ship out at sea, I think the horizon line 360 degree around may actually be horizontal after all.
The reason being the horizon line would meet up. Look down on a spherical soccer ball as an example and the horizon line meets up but of course the line is always below you r eye.
I was looking at 200 Proofs the Earth is Flat by Eric Dubay a week ago.
Anyone care to offer an explanation to number 15?
#15 is brilliant
Why don't pilots have to constantly correct their attitude downwards so as to maintain a constant altitude?!!!
Just brilliant!
Because that's pretty much what they do! And even at 30,000 feet that is pretty much imperceptible and achieved by balancing lift against gravity.
But it's not so much that they have to tilt the plane down to maintain, it's the fact they don't have to tilt the plane up as much to maintain altitude.
It's not as though the plane has achieved escape velocity
I got kicked out of the flat earth club. I said that I'd travelled extensively and apparently that was going too far.
Hey PC,
Do you like the FE model the presenter puts forward at the end of the video?
Jan '16 - The FLAT EARTH LIVE!! [Lancashire, England @ New Horizons] - YouTube
"Eratosthenes Measures the Earth. ca. June, 240 B.C.
By the 5th century B.C., it was widely accepted that the Earth is a sphere. This is a critical point, as there is a widespread misconception that ancient peoples thought the Earth was flat.
Eratosthenes' most famous accomplishment is his measurement of the circumference of Earth. He recorded the details of this measurement in a manuscript that is now lost, but his technique has been described by other Greek historians and writers.
Eratosthenes had heard from travelers about a well in Syene (now Aswan, Egypt) with an interesting property: at noon on the summer solstice, which occurs about June 21 every year, the sun illuminated the entire bottom of this well, without casting any shadows, indicating that the sun was directly overhead. Eratosthenes then measured the angle of a shadow cast by a stick at noon on the summer solstice in Alexandria, and found it made an angle of about 7.2 degrees, or about 1/50 of a complete circle. By knowing the distance between Syene and Alexandria through the help of professional surveyors, he was able to report that the circumference of the earth was 250,000 stadia or between 24,000 and 29,000 miles."
Oh Man, I Watched this as recommended by PCD. It was entertaining, I especially like the way he can't answer one of the audience questions and just says "well, that's not what I have seen"
Jan '16 - The FLAT EARTH LIVE!! [Lancashire, England @ New Horizons] - YouTube
I was making little notes throughout, so that I could provide some commentary to anyone else interested in watching it, in case you wanted to see the Gold Standard of PCDs evidence.
I watched all the way to the end, and in the last section, the guy explains what his belief of the earth is and how he came to that conclusion.
And I realised that all my notes were unnecessary, what he says perfectly explains how he has denied reality in favour of a belief.
When trying to understand something, like how our world is shaped and how we fit into the wider universe, I always thought that a systematic approach to observation and collection of data was necessary. From there you would make a hypothesis which you could test and compare predictions with future observations.
But the guy in this video claims it is wrong for people to determine the earth is a globe by gathering data and evidence and then build a model from what they have observed.
He explains that he was late coming to Christ and Christianity proper as a religion, but what he read in the perfectly explains why the earrth must be flat. He personally favours the model of a created, enclosed earth as portrayed in the Mercator Projection, just with infinite space/time loops on all four sides enabling contiguous travel.
He literally started with a belief that the Earth is flat and then spends the entire video trying to misrepresent well understood (by other people) phenomena as evidence that his belief must be true.
He starts with a Belief, then sees a picture of a cloud that almost looks like a word and says "See, See! It's a conspiracy and I must be right!"
Gobsmacked you actually looked at the evidence.
Pull a long string a few miles in length or any decent length tight across a straight beach.
Now if their globe theory holds true the middle point of the string would be higher than the two ends.
Never let a practical experiment get in the way of your atheism.
D3 is a stronger man than me watching that drivel. But good for him, pathological-liar and attention-seeker, Pcdefender, approves.
Beyond the Curve - ive watched hundreds of his clips lol.
Watch Rob Skiba. In depth research on him is fascinating.