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Flat Earth Debate / Picture showing the sunlight grazing the surface

« on: January 17, 2013, 07:05:45 PM »

I found this fantastic picture:



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It shows a shadow cast by Mount Rainier. How do you explain that?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Eratosthenes's experiment

« on: September 07, 2012, 07:08:33 PM »

Something has been bugging me for a while. Eratosthenes measured the earth circumference by measuring the difference of the angles the sun rays would fall in Aswan and Alexandria. The assumption was of course that the earth is round and the sun is "virtually" infinitely distant. But between the 2 models there is a difference in the angles. In the real world the angle of the midday sun falling on Alexandria on the summer solstice is 7.25 degrees, while in the FE model it's 9.5. Assuming the atmosphere causes some level of refraction, can there be a 2.25 degree bend in the light, if at all?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Seasons and lighting

« on: September 02, 2012, 09:33:30 PM »

I have read the FAQ and wanted to express my thought in pictures.
I hope I did everything correctly when I uploaded the pictures.

I want to show on a FE map which portions are bright and dark at midday over the null meridian at the time of the to solstices and an equinox. I apologize for not being precise, I did everything quickly and freehand, but it roughly reflects the true distribution of light and dark:


Summer solstice (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/femapsummersol.jpg/)


Equinox (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/femapequinox.jpg/)



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Winter solstice (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/52/femapwintersol.jpg/)

If this is the light distribution of the sun, how can you sustain the spotlight theory?

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Flat Earth Debate / Satellite TV

« on: August 31, 2012, 02:19:49 AM »

I'm aware of the fact that you refute the existence of satellites, but installing a satellite dish requires precise positioning of the dish to point up to the sky. If the dish looked a bit off the designated spot, the reception was gone.
Now... I used to live in Germany, and the dish had to look south to southeast close to 180 degrees and up 39 degrees. When we had good weather we had a visibility of well over 50 km. If the signal came from a tower, this tower would have to be way further away than 50 km, and since i have been to a place in that view field, it would need to be even further away. The antenna would need to be built on a tower that is at least 20km above ground level, and in the whole world there is no natural or artificial structure that reaches those heights.
Also, I leave in south east Asia now. The same satellite is now due west and maybe 5 degrees up.
If you draw a line (this is not travelling, but looking straight) from both locations on a FE, those lines will not cross, but they will on a globe.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Stars in the southern hemisphere

« on: August 31, 2012, 01:59:09 AM »

How do you explain that the stars seen from Australia revolve around a different point than the stars seen from England?