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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 10:51 am
(July 19, 2022 at 10:59 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Premis: We don't know what shape Earth actually is.
Persuade me, do you know the shape of this realm?
Can you stretch the line across it an measure it for me?
Regardless of your position, any non-God fearing person should embrace the challenge of proving their knowledge of something as foundational as the ground we stand upon.
We have a number of ways of telling the shape of the earth.
1: We have a working physics that says that a body the size of the earth should be a sphere because of gravity.
2: we can observe other bodies of a similar size and see that they are spheres.
3: we have photos and videos from space showing the earth as a sphere.
4: from ancient times they were able to work not only that the earth was a sphere but were able to work out approximately how big a sphere. They did this by finding a well tha the sun shone directly down, at exactly the same time they measured the shadow on sticks to the east and west of the well on flat ground. by measuring the shadow they could work out the angle that world was tilted by and extrapolated the circumference.
So we do know what shape the world is.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 10:51 am
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(July 19, 2022 at 10:59 am)h311inac311 Wrote: Premis: We don't know what shape Earth actually is.
Persuade me, do you know the shape of this realm?
Can you stretch the line across it an measure it for me?
Regardless of your position, any non-God fearing person should embrace the challenge of proving their knowledge of something as foundational as the ground we stand upon.
We have a number of ways of telling the shape of the earth.
1: We have a working physics that says that a body the size of the earth should be a sphere because of gravity.
2: we can observe other bodies of a similar size and see that they are spheres.
3: we have photos and videos from space showing the earth as a sphere.
4: from ancient times they were able to work not only that the earth was a sphere but were able to work out approximately how big a sphere. They did this by finding a well tha the sun shone directly down, at exactly the same time they measured the shadow on sticks to the east and west of the well on flat ground. by measuring the shadow they could work out the angle that world was tilted by and extrapolated the circumference.
So we do know what shape the world is.
Double posted for some reason
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 11:09 am
(July 22, 2022 at 10:51 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Double posted for some reason
Probably for the same reason someone posted a sign over a toilet in a Target restroom saying, "Flush twice. It's a long way to Hardee's."
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 11:28 am
(July 22, 2022 at 11:09 am)Angrboda Wrote: (July 22, 2022 at 10:51 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Double posted for some reason
Probably for the same reason someone posted a sign over a toilet in a Target restroom saying, "Flush twice. It's a long way to Hardee's."
That would probably be funny if I knew what a "Hardees" was.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 11:33 am
(July 22, 2022 at 11:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (July 22, 2022 at 11:09 am)Angrboda Wrote: Probably for the same reason someone posted a sign over a toilet in a Target restroom saying, "Flush twice. It's a long way to Hardee's."
That would probably be funny if I knew what a "Hardees" was.
It's a fast food restaurant.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 11:35 am
(July 22, 2022 at 11:33 am)Angrboda Wrote: (July 22, 2022 at 11:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: That would probably be funny if I knew what a "Hardees" was.
It's a fast food restaurant.
Ah a sort of Maccie Ds or Wimpy type thing then.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 12:14 pm
How do flat Earthers explain the time difference between the UK and Australia?
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 12:30 pm
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That's like, just on your watch, my dude. We all know that the sun rises on the edge of the flat earth for all observers at exactly the same moment. You know how you get super tired when you go on long walks? That's because the force of gravity increases as you get nearer the edges - why, everytime I visit shanghai I find myself walking in the horizontal with nothing but a face full of dirty chinese pavement on the horizon line.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 2:00 pm
(July 22, 2022 at 11:33 am)Angrboda Wrote: (July 22, 2022 at 11:28 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: That would probably be funny if I knew what a "Hardees" was.
It's a fast food restaurant.
Hardee’s still exist? The few I knew closed during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Are these orphaned franchises like the last blockbuster video stores?
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 22, 2022 at 2:02 pm
(July 22, 2022 at 12:14 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How do flat Earthers explain the time difference between the UK and Australia?
When you think conviction should be required to be explanatory, much less predictive, that means your intelligence is disgracefully high, at least double digits. Shame on you.
Go lobotomize yourself.
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