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Shhhhhhhhhhhh the internet has earsIts the RAND (McNally) Corporation pulling the strings hey?
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Shhhhhhhhhhhh the internet has earsIts the RAND (McNally) Corporation pulling the strings hey?
I hope so. Our understanding of the universe is so poor it needs to be acknowledged as such which gives weight to theories like these.Oh I missed this. Thank god someone started it over again here where we can get back to discussing the topic genuinely
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Don't want to read 100 pages of this, but has anyone mentioned the purpose of this conspiracy? There must be millions of people in on it, people involved in space research, gps tech, satellite tech, maritime travel, polar research etc etc etc, it'd be an enormous plot. So to what end? If the earths flat, why go to such extreme ends to hide it? Seems a bit random.
It is impossible for us to make any worthwhile conclusions using human senses. They are just that,we are well aware that other creatures on earth have better and worse senses than humans in all areas.It's impossible to use horizon as indicator of flat or spherical earth. Because from our perspective we will never see a curvature (if the earth were round), from any major altitude. 100 feet, 1000 feet, 100,000 feet. It's always going to look flat. We'd have to look at the Earth from approx 4500 MILES above it to start seeing a curvature. That also means NASA are faking images to make the Earth look round when they wouldn't be able to see curvature either.
I do believe NASA/etc are faking so much tho. The green screens, the wires on their trousers (notice how everyone's trousers at the crotch are pulled up but everything else isnt. There was a video I posted Top 10 reasons or something, and in there you can see all the bullshit.
Also, there are still plenty of oddities still that support a non-Heliocentric view. Just as there are factors/data that still support a spherical globe.
In all truth, I'm neither for or against. There really isn't proof for EITHER supposition - flat or round, geocentric or heliocentric. Not YET anyway.
Where have you got this figure from?It's always going to look flat. We'd have to look at the Earth from approx 4500 MILES above it to start seeing a curvature.
You should be able to detect it from an aeroplane at a cruising height of around 10,600 metres (35,000 feet), but you need a fairly wide field of view (ie 60 degrees) and a virtually cloud-free horizon.Aug 30, 2016
I was reading a debate between a flat earth scientist and a spherical earth scientist, somewhere on the internet, can't remember where now, a Google+ group discussion or something, where they agreed that about 4500 miles would be about right. Using examples like a flea on basketball surface would be similar math, and that an elevation of something like 100,000 feet is akin to a flea being about a half a millimeter above the surface of the basketball and that it would not be able to perceive a curve. They were both applied mathematicians or something, going on about angles and measuring the distance of the sun etc.Where have you got this figure from?
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Google's cool,but it's a human thing. We are not talking about medicine etc and human stuff like that hereWhere have you got this figure from?
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Bookmarked. Your views on cricket are about as knowledgeable as your views on the shape of the earthAustralia won't make 180. Book it and come at me.

I'm not happy with any telescope argument. It is still the human eye looking through the telescope. It's nothing more than a magnified misconception of one of our senses.Another way to put it, like they were talking about, is that the horizon is not a thing. It can't be quantified. It's basically just where the edge of our seeing powers end, where the earth meets the sky. So it's ALWAYS going to be flat to the eyes -- whether naked, via camera or telescope. We are far too close on the surface of a plane to see curvature. The higher one goes the more one can see. And it would require a distance of 4,500 miles (they agreed) to see curvature.
An interesting question is,why aren't we taking any photos of the earth from these explorations we are sending to far off galaxies?That's why that video of the camera about 100,000 feet up, panning 360 degrees only shows a flat earth 360 degrees. Because the Earth is so massive still and we're not high enough, the "horizon" (the land meeting the sky) always going to appear flat as far as the eye can see.
I'll see if i can find that video.
You couldn't possibly answer my question unless you knew where gg.exe got the figure of 4,500 miles.Google's cool,but it's a human thing. We are not talking about medicine etc and human stuff like that here
Our perception beyond ourselves is poor. Your question is fair,I'm just attempting to answer it within the correct and acknowledged perspective.
George Mason 3 months ago
I was in the US Navy and operated Radar systems designed to track air and surface targets, a system accurate enough to guide missiles to the target for a direct hit at 100 miles. We consistently tracked surface ships up to 30 miles away when they had "supposedly" fallen over the horizon. Keep in mind Radar is a radio signal that has to reflect back to the transmitter essentially in direct line of sight. We could track air targets up to 60 miles out that were flying over the surface, again well beyond the supposed curvature. People would try and rationalize it by saying "the signal was reflecting off the atmosphere", which is completely ridiculous as we could get rage rate (relative speed of the target to the ship), bearing and distance readings from the return signal which is impossible for that to happen from a scattered, "reflected off the atmosphere" RF signal that had to be processed by a signal processor that would have no way of knowing that effect was in play not would the signal be strong enough to be detectable!

