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#FlatEarthBusted
According to Wikipedia, modern Flat Earth societies have been around since 1816, which was started by Samual Rothbotham.
Flat Earther’s believe in the following:
A must watch:
Flat Earth Debunk Visualization
Earth is indeed round
Proofs that the Earth is indeed round or at least close to it. It is a bit chubby at the center.
Shadows & Sticks
If you stick a stick in the [sticky] ground, it will produce a shadow. The shadow moves as time passes (which is the principle for ancient Shadow Clocks). If the world had been flat, then two sticks in different locations would produce the same shadow. The do not because the earth is round and not flat. Eratosthenes used this principle to calculate the circumference of the Earth quite accurately.
“A Greek astronomer by the name of Eratosthenes clearly showed Earth was round just over 2,000 years ago. He realized that rays of sunlight are hitting Earth at the same degree, but because Earth has a curvature, the length of shadows at different locations across Earth aren’t the same.
By calculating this shadow length change between two cities – Alexandria and Syene – he gave an estimate for the circumference of the Earth: 46,620 kilometers (28,970 miles), which is only 16 percent larger than the actual value.” – source: http://www.iflscience.com/space/why-are-there-still-flat-earthers-around-today/
“If the Earth were flat, you could drive two sticks into the ground at any place on Earth, and the shadows those sticks would make would be the same length. (Because the Sun is so far away from Earth, its incoming rays can be considered parallel).
Place a stick in the ground on a sunny day, then measure the length of the shadow. At the same time, call a friend who is at least a few miles away from you and tell them to do the same. The lengths you measure will be different! The curvature of a spherical Earth means that sunrays will hit each stick differently if they are far enough apart. Measuring shadows like that is how Greek astronomer Eratosthenes very nearly calculated the exact circumference of the Earth in…250 B.C.” — http://nerdist.com/8-reasons-we-know-the-earth-isnt-flat/
Proving the Earth is not Flat – Part 1 – The Horizon
https://www.metabunk.org/curve/
Earth’s Curve Horizon, Bulge, Drop, and Hidden Calculator
Toronto – viewed from Niagara on the Lake, New York at 30 miles away. CN Tower (1,815.4 feet tall).
**Refracted Hidden = 377.22 feet. CN Tower is (1,815.4 feet tall).
Superior Mirage – bends the light around the curve of the earth, which is caused by colder air below warmer air.
Superior mirage of Chicago skyline seen from Michigan shoreline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage#Superior_mirage
Proving the Earth is not Flat – Part 2 – The Stars
The Flat Earth Model does not work.
Circumpolar stars – is a star that, as viewed from a given latitude on Earth, never sets (that is, never disappears below the horizon), due to its proximity to one of the celestial poles.
North Star (STAR TRAILS) Time-lapse HD!
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The Moving Stars of the Southern Hemisphere
Star Trails, North & South Poles: How Do Flat-Earthers Explain Such Things?
You cannot have stars rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and rotate clockwise in the southern hemisphere at the same time on the flat earth model. It is not possible.
Flat earthers believe there is no gravity. Instead, they believe that the disc of the earth is accelerating up at 32 feet per second squared driven up by a mysterious force called dark energy.
If this is true, then if you pointed a camera straight up at the northern hemisphere, time lapse photography would show something like this:
Flat Earth’s Greatest Challenge: Southern Stars
The Southern Cross is only visible to those in the southern hemisphere.
Weightless Water – Experiments In ‘Zero Gravity’
Proving the Earth is not Flat – Part 3 – The Moon
Size of moon and curvature:
https://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/astrophotos/alway/lunareclipse.html
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/teachersguide/MeasECBkgd.html
http://www.eso.org/public//outreach/eduoff/aol/market/experiments/basic/skills102.html
Earth’s curvature projected onto the moon during a lunar eclipse.
An alternative to the standard model of gravity if you don’t believe in the standard model is gravity in the Electric Universe.
http://www.holoscience.com/wp/electric-gravity-in-an-electric-universe/
Satellites:
Iridium Flares
An Iridium flare is a specific type of satellite flare (also known as satellite glint) made when the antennas of an Iridium communication satellite reflect sunlight directly onto the surface of the Earth.
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-an-Iridium-Flare
Iridium Flare!!!
Satellite Tracker:
International Space Station – ISS
http://www.universetoday.com/28190/more-awesome-views-of-the-iss-in-3-d-and-from-the-ground/
Flat Earth Debunked: A time lapse of the 24 – hour sun in Antarctica
**Impossible on a flat earth model
Planets rotating:
Mars
Mars rotation in 2014 by Damian Peach through a 356mm (14 inch) reflecting telescope with ASI camera
Jupiter
Jupiter’s full rotation in 2014 best edition!
BOOM! Famous Geocentric Scientist DEBUNKS Flat Earth! (Malcolm Bowden)
TOP 10 REASONS Why We Know the Earth is Round
10. All other planets are a globe.
9. Time Zones. It’s always daytime somewhere and nighttime somewhere else. That can’t happen on a flat earth.
8. The Coriolis Effect. Free-moving things deflect to the right if you are north of the equator, left if you are south.
7. You can take a journey, applying only three 90 degree turns, and end up back where you started. That is impossible on a flat earth.
6. You can measure the earth’s curvature, by measuring the shadow created by the Sun. By measuring two different places north/south of each other, you see that they have two different angles, you prove the earth is not flat.
5. Stars change going north or south. The constellations are upside down in the southern hemisphere as compared to the northern view.
4. Magellan navigated the Earth. He and others have traveled West until they ended up where they started.
3. The Horizon. Ships disappear as they move away, bottom first. On a flat earth, there would be no horizon to cause things to disappear.
2. Lunar Eclipses. The shadow of the Earth on the moon is curved.
1. Photographic Evidence. Not all images are from NASA.
Coriolis Effect:
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/coriolis_effect.html
What is the Coriolis Effect?
Flat Earth Debunked… again.
Photographic Evidence: NOT NASA
U2 SPY PLANE
“At 70,000 feet, dark space can be clearly seen above the curving earth.”
Source: http://www.christophermichel.com/keyword/U2HighFlight/
CONCORD FLIGHT:
“We climbed beyond 50,000ft and the curvature of the Earth was by now clearly visible, and the sky was a dark inky blue, with a thin sky blue strip visible below. It was very clear below with not too many clouds making the curvature very visible.”
Source: http://planecrazyblog.blogspot.kr/2010/09/10th-sep-2002-lets-go-supersonic.html
SOURCES:
http://www.livescience.com/24310-flat-earth-belief.html
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/128063/20160126/rapper-flat-earther-what-believe.htm
http://www.iflscience.com/space/why-are-there-still-flat-earthers-around-today/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/28/amateur-astronomer-spies-on-spy-satellites/#.WErqMndh2uU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Tower
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Octantis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumpolar_star
http://www.smarterthanthat.com/astronomy/top-10-ways-to-know-the-earth-is-not-flat/
http://nerdist.com/8-reasons-we-know-the-earth-isnt-flat/