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Any Flat Earthers Here?[W:79]

zyzygy said:
I was asking you. The radius of the Sun is 696,000 km. It must be a very large sphere. How do we see city lights from such a huge distance, how big is the surface area of the Earth and why aren't the planets between us and the Sun? You have not thought this through.
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Nonsense. Have you ever looked up at the sky? The Sun appears as big as the moon, whose radius is 1,737.5 kilometers and fits perfectly within the spherical earth. If the Sun's diameter was really 696,000 km, how on earth (actually, how IN earth) could there ever be a solar eclipse? You wouldn't even notice the moon in front of the sun.
 
Dibbler said:
What if the earth really is flat and we've all been taken in by the...

Round Earth Conspiracy ! :2razz:
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Haha. All the cool kids use ORT for Official Round Theory. They're just sooooo clever.
 
Natan said:
Nonsense. Have you ever looked up at the sky? The Sun appears as big as the moon, whose radius is 1,737.5 kilometers and fits perfectly within the spherical earth. If the Sun's diameter was really 696,000 km, how on earth (actually, how IN earth) could there ever be a solar eclipse? You wouldn't even notice the moon in front of the sun.
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Amusing but the joke is wearing thin. Shall we stop now?
 
wl45hd said:
Ferdinand Magellan did that over 500 years ago.
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Sorry, there is an explanation for that...

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And Magellan did not prove it, he was killed part way through as a way to cover up that he had discovered the truth.
 
wl45hd said:
Ahhh,No.
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Notice, I did not say I believed that explanation, I simply said there was one.

And it is a fact, Magellen was indeed killed in the Philippines, over a year before the single remaining ship of his 5 ship flotilla limed it's way back to Spain.

So not quite sure what you are saying "no" about. I stated the truth in both of my claims.

However, do not make the mistake so many make, of my correcting a mistake and assuming that is a belief I share. I do not believe the Earth is flat, I was simply showing how you could not take the voyage of Magellan and assume that automatically resolves the debate.
 
Oozlefinch said:
Notice, I did not say I believed that explanation, I simply said there was one.

And it is a fact, Magellen was indeed killed in the Philippines, over a year before the single remaining ship of his 5 ship flotilla limed it's way back to Spain.

So not quite sure what you are saying "no" about. I stated the truth in both of my claims.

However, do not make the mistake so many make, of my correcting a mistake and assuming that is a belief I share. I do not believe the Earth is flat, I was simply showing how you could not take the voyage of Magellan and assume that automatically resolves the debate.
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Got it
 
505 said:
It's pretty obvious that several posters here believe in pretty much every conspiracy theory out there, from JFK to faked moon landings to chemtrails to sandy hook to 9-11. What has always been interesting to me is how most of the people that believe in one of these alternative theories also seem to support ALL of them (or at least several of them).

One that I can't remember ever seeing around here over all these years though is the flat earth nonsense, which seems to have been getting a little bit of a revival lately on other forums and reddit.

I mean, how can you argue with such impeccable logic, such as this one brought to us by youtuber "Know The Truth" (a complete moron that is posting a fresh brand new pile of **** video every single day, and is currently up to 15):



Hairspray, film studios set up in planes doing parabolic zero-G maneuvers, air bubbles on space walks, holograms of the ISS, and the impossibility of aluminum surviving at 250 miles off the ground. I mean gosh. It's just all so obvious now. Wake up sheeple!

Or how about this guy that is "just asking questions", "promoting discussion and debate", and of course begging for donations on his website:





So then. Do any of our resident CT believers buy into this one too?
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Hahaha you believe in the earth XD
 
Jump up into the air. You will come back to Earth. Why? Because you live there.
 
If you jump into water, you will drown. Why? Because dihydrogenmonoxide is toxic if ingested into the lungs.
 
Natan said:
If you jump into water, you will drown. Why? Because dihydrogenmonoxide is toxic if ingested into the lungs.
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Is the world ready for that information?
 
It's a terrible addiction. I need it every day.
 
Jets can fly high enough to directly observe the curvature of the earth and do so every day...
 


There are lots of cities up there.
 
Natan said:
I think that's a photo of the Netherlands. I was recently told on this forum it's massively overpopulated and densely built .
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You weren't told by someone who actually lives there. I live 5 miles from the Belgian/ Nederland border. My youngest daughter lives in Eindhoven. It's a great town. The Milky Way is not the Netherlands. Very bad trolling on your part.
 
Your video said it is the "galaxy" as seen from Texas. If we live on the inside of hollow sphere, as I claim, it is quite reasonable to assume all those lights may be part of the Netherlands, as seen from Texas. I should know, I live just a few miles from the Dutch border in Belgium.
 
Natan said:
Your video said it is the "galaxy" as seen from Texas. If we live on the inside of hollow sphere, as I claim, it is quite reasonable to assume all those lights may be part of the Netherlands, as seen from Texas. I should know, I live just a few miles from the Dutch border in Belgium.
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Is it reasonable to assume that cities can move on the surface? You haven't thought this joke through.
 
I thought you'd never bring it up. Ofcourse, if we really lived on the inside of a sphere, the "stars" or city lights on the opposite side would never move. You could have ended this long ago. The other argument that ends either flat earth or hollow earth immediately, is the already mentioned observable curvature of the earth from planes in post #68.
 
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