Behold the beauty of a new idea forming. The Idea of a flat earth was nearly completely dropped back in the 4th century bce. Now though it has had 200 years since it's return. Little has been accomplished in proving it, do to the repression from other scientists and the general populous who wag their heads with the majority.
I am new to this form but I must express my approval for what you Flat Earthers are trying to do. You are the only true scientists I have thus far seen on this site. You like many others have taken the standard way of looking at things and thrown them out the window. Trying to look at the world in a new light, to maybe make sense of the mysteries that lay within. You have shown that you are willing to say "we may not know everything about our world" even at the risk of being proven wrong. An advance in either direction is still an advance.
While I myself believe in a round earth I would like to hear more about your theories as to why the earth is flat. I will provide insightful criticisms to help you solidify ideas, or come up with new one to explain things that haven't been covered. I would like to request that there be no debating here, only a sharing of Ideas and higher thinking.
One question that I do have, to give us a starting place, is this. If the earth is flat are the other planets also flat? Appearing as spheres to us because they all face us, as has been used to explain the moon.
A second question that need not be answered right away is as follows. Why do the stars change the further south you go? I have heard the theory of bendy light, is this the cause of the north star eventually disappearing over the horizon? And why do the stars drift over time.
ex. The Egyptians used, not the north star, but a group of stars that rotated around a point to determine both when, where, and what direction to build the pyramids. The northern points of all the pyramids at Giza point directly at magnetic north (if I remember correctly its been awhile). But since this time the earth has drifted slightly on its axis and now points directly at the north star. Predictions show that the earth will eventually drift back.
I apologize that this is now running on, but while I wrote the last question I thought of another that I would like to understand in a flat earth world. How does south work?
I see two ways that it could work.
1) (disk world theory) South is every direction that is not north (the center). But this leads to the question of how does one fly over the south pole.
2) (Map set up) South is down north is up. This one has a few more holes in it than the first one. One being that during the cold war missles where programed to fly over the north pole to Russia and vis versa.
I have many more questions but i figured I would leave it at this. If this is too much for one form page, or it simply becomes an argument fest I would like for the FE believers to email me instead.
Thanks for you time.
-Jamie Jenson-