RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
April 1, 2023 at 2:23 pm
(This post was last modified: April 1, 2023 at 2:30 pm by Anomalocaris.)
On a flat earth, you will be able to plot out an exact square with 2 of the sides perfectly aligned north and south anywhere on earth.
Yet on this earth, that is not so. If you try with precision survey instrument you would find it is utterly impossible to do on anywhere on earth except at the equator. The farther from equator you go, the more impossible it gets. By the time you go really really far north or south, you would find you would have to, and can, completely delete one of the square’s four sides to make it into a remarkable equilateral triangle with extraordinarily 2 right angle corners in order to keep 2 of the sides exactly aligned north-south. This remains true whether you use true (celestial) North or magnetic North.
You can use the location of the square and exact deviation of the sides of a square from perfect north south alignment to work out the exact size of the spherical earth. .
Ask any halfway competent 18th artillery gunner why guns aimed exactly on target hits on target if aimed to the east or west, and guns aimed to the north and south systematically miss the target and fall towards one side.
These are all tests that can be done right where you are, don’t need to circumnavigate the globe to prove it is round.
Yet on this earth, that is not so. If you try with precision survey instrument you would find it is utterly impossible to do on anywhere on earth except at the equator. The farther from equator you go, the more impossible it gets. By the time you go really really far north or south, you would find you would have to, and can, completely delete one of the square’s four sides to make it into a remarkable equilateral triangle with extraordinarily 2 right angle corners in order to keep 2 of the sides exactly aligned north-south. This remains true whether you use true (celestial) North or magnetic North.
You can use the location of the square and exact deviation of the sides of a square from perfect north south alignment to work out the exact size of the spherical earth. .
Ask any halfway competent 18th artillery gunner why guns aimed exactly on target hits on target if aimed to the east or west, and guns aimed to the north and south systematically miss the target and fall towards one side.
These are all tests that can be done right where you are, don’t need to circumnavigate the globe to prove it is round.
