Until the #FlatEarth community can explain these observations away, #FlatEarthIsDead.
Even then, they'll still have mountains to climb, but if explaining even simple observations like this are too much for them to handle...oh well.
@MeidasClips@MeidasTouch It's a start, but that's still 15.625 square miles. That's almost a 4-mile x 4-mile square.
To put that in perspective, downtown Los Angeles can fit in that area TWICE and still have plenty of room.
@GloberZune Understandable. Reading the Bible and comparing what it said to what I kept hearing from the pulpits is part of the reason I left the Church.
Hold a ping-pong ball up to the moon, you'll see it lit up the same way by the Sun.
Matches what you get from parallel light rays striking distant, spherical objects, just like what the globe model expects.
Good try, though.
You don’t erase history with a bonfire first. You start with a sponge. “Peaceful protest.” “Tourists.” “Concerned citizens.” Little soft lies for little soft brains, until the next generation inherits a polished corpse and calls it nuance. January 6 wasn’t a misunderstanding. It was democracy getting its teeth kicked in on live TV.
@TheTwilightDome Ah yes, the astrolabe.
A tool that requires a different baseplate every 5-10 degrees of latitude which, when you take all the different baseplates together, show the stars rotating 2 points in the sky.
Easily explained by the globe, utterly impossible on a flat Earth.
@AdonaiOnGaia Pity you didn't read the rest of that list.
"Constant mass" simply burning fuel changes mass.
"Rigid body" flaps, turbines, landing gear, the slight wobble of the wings in flight...aircraft aren't rigid.
These assumptions make the math easier and still get them close enough.
@FlatEarthModel It takes just under 24 hours for the Earth to rotate 360⁰. That's 1⁰ roughly every 4 minutes.
That's half as fast as the hour hand on a clock.
You honestly think you're gonna sense *that?*