StarCityFan

Freedom/Spirit fan since 2001, retired from covering women's soccer for AllWhiteKit, NASA SW engineer in real life. He/him.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone I've done it in this very office. Try it with a light that's larger than what's casting the shadow, and you'll get the exact same effect.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@GBacon20 @JSpoerle68202 @FlatEarthZone Surveyors measure curvature on a daily basis. Just ask one.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone @Mischa_e_k No amount of perspective is going to make half of a disk appear to sink beneath the horizon.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@Michael54301847 @FlatEarthZone If all they had to do was get 250 miles up, they could do it in a matter of minutes. But not only do they have to get to that altitude, they have to match the exact trajectory and location of the ISS. That takes a lot longer.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@Gleamingthecub2 @FlatEarthZone We do.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@RJM7708 @FlatEarthZone 1. Neil Armstrong wore boots when walking on the Moon.
2. The tape was protective and removed before launch.
3. This is a training photo. The uncropped version has a parking lot in the background.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@TimeTigerr @FlatEarthZone No one who claims that moonlight cools things off (which would violate the first law of thermodynamics, for starters) has done the same experiment on a night without the Moon shining down. They'd get the same result.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@MagaMikeboll64 @FlatEarthZone Selenelion eclipses can be predicted under the heliocentric model - they confirm it, not debunk it. Meanwhile, sunsets alone make no sense on a flat earth, let alone myriad other observations. And I'd like to hear about the heliocentric model "constantly being revised."

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@MagaMikeboll64 @FlatEarthZone Kochab was the closest bright star to the pole in Ptolemy's time. Polaris was 12° away. And it does move measurably. https://t.co/t39Bhmywid

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@MagaMikeboll64 @FlatEarthZone Polaris isn't even the pole star in Ptolemy's star catalog from c. 300 AD. And, no, I can't verify every single aspect of modern astronomy on my own. But I can study it well enough to understand that it makes way more sense than the alternatives.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@thecavedaddy Because a flat tax that raised the same amount of revenue as current law would be more like 20% than 5%, meaning the vast majority of people - especially the poor - would pay more in taxes and only the well-ff would pay less.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@William1053095 @BGatesIsaPyscho If there's no atmosphere, then the dust or debris will fall at the rate determined by gravity. And I don't see anything vanishing - I see the cloud of dust slowly sinking.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@MagaMikeboll64 @FlatEarthZone Anyone who's been watching the night skies as long as I have can verify all of these as true. Can you prove that Polaris hasn't moved in the last 50 years?

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone Ford can't build Model Ts any more, either. So what? As for the telemetry, I'd like to see any of you explain what still having it would do for us.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@William1053095 @BGatesIsaPyscho Because there’s no atmosphere

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone What enforcement? The only example I've ever seen is a video of a couple of fishermen straying into military waters off the coast of Australia, thousands of miles from Antarctica.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone I'd like to see you explain how this violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@FlatEarthZone The Coriolis Effect only applies to objects traveling in a north-south direction. If you fired a bullet due east, you would not notice any effect.

[StarCityFan @StarCityFan]

@investfordays @FlatEarthZone It's called physics. Learn some.