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Title: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 14, 2016, 01:09:27 PM
A circumpolar star is a star that never sets because it is near a pole, (this is relative, as you get closer to the equator less stars never set).
Here is an animation that shows how circumpolar stars work in RET http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion2/animations/ce_hc.html (http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion2/animations/ce_hc.html) (turn all the checkboxs on)
In FET you woudn't get stars that never set in the south pole, how come you do?

On a related note, how can star maps like this, http://www.astroviewer.com/index.php (http://www.astroviewer.com/index.php) , work when they "wrongly assume" that the earth is round.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: legion on January 14, 2016, 01:14:59 PM
A circumpolar star is a star that never sets because it is near a poll, (this is relative, as you get closer to the equator more stars never set).
Here is an animation that shows how circumpolar stars work in RET http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion2/animations/ce_hc.html (http://astro.unl.edu/naap/motion2/animations/ce_hc.html) (turn all the checkboxs on)
In FET you woudn't get stars that never set in the south poll, how come you do?

On a related note, how can star maps like this, http://www.astroviewer.com/index.php (http://www.astroviewer.com/index.php) , work when they "wrongly assume" that the earth is round.

Do you mean, "pole"? Or, this:

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poll
pəʊl/
noun
noun: poll; plural noun: polls; plural noun: the polls

    1.
    the process of voting in an election.
    "the country went to the polls on March 10"
    synonyms:   vote, ballot, show of hands, straw vote/poll, referendum, plebiscite, election
    "the electoral rules provided for a second-round poll"
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 14, 2016, 01:19:56 PM
Did you really need to ask that?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: legion on January 14, 2016, 01:22:45 PM
Yes, I did. You used the word "poll", twice. Maybe your brain may get stronger if you use it, rather than looking at silly space apps on the web.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 14, 2016, 01:26:36 PM
So you were unable to know which one I ment from context, maybe you need to use your brain more.

But back on topic,
The second app I linked can predict where the stars will be in advance, how does it still work if the earth is flat.
But by main question is this
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In FET you woudn't get stars that never set in the south pole, how come you do?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: legion on January 14, 2016, 01:32:52 PM
So you were unable to know which one I ment meant from context, maybe you need to use your brain more.

But back on topic,
The second app I linked can predict where the stars will be in advance, how does it still work if the earth is flat.
But by main question is this
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In FET you woudn't get stars that never set in the south pole, how come you do?

And you expect us to debate you based on the results from a couple of web apps?

I'm out.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 14, 2016, 01:35:27 PM
You are out because you can't explain it, don't try lying, your bad at it.
Also it's funny that someone who says that following the rest of society is bad, complains that I don't follow the spelling that said society created. You appear to be indoctinated to have to spell correctly.

Can anyone answer how you get stars that never set in the southen hemisphere.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 15, 2016, 12:38:40 AM
Bump.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Rayzor on January 15, 2016, 04:58:27 AM
You are out because you can't explain it, don't try lying, your bad at it.
Also it's funny that someone who says that following the rest of society is bad, complains that I don't follow the spelling that said society created. You appear to be indoctinated to have to spell correctly.

Can anyone answer how you get stars that never set in the southen hemisphere.

I  would have preferred a flat earther to do this,  but they aren't around much  all we seem to get is youtube bunnies.

Imagine you are standing on a fixed flat earth,  and the earth is surrounded by a sphere,  the celestial sphere containing the fixed stars is rotating on an axis which has the north pole at one end and the south pole at the other  (  please don't ask me for a map ).    That will satisfy the SCP observations  without requiring the earth to be a globe.  Then add extra celestial spheres for each of the planets and a few for comets.    What do you get...   you get the Ptolemaic system.   which is of course geometrically equivalent to the Copernican system.   

You'd  still have to explain why you can't see the SCP from north of the equator,  but given they can't explain sunsets,  I'd not be too fussed,


Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 15, 2016, 05:31:13 AM
The FE has no south pole?
Also I still don't get how a star can never set in the south. The most southern stars would travel around the edge of disk disk, so over the night the star will go from one side of the disk to the other side, wouldn't the stars get further that the northern star over the night.

Also if the earth is flat and the stars are in a rotating sphere, why is the celestial equator at a different angle to the ground depending on your location.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 16, 2016, 12:06:34 AM
Bump
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 16, 2016, 12:21:49 AM
Bump
I hope you have more luck this time. I got virtually accused of being subversive for pushing the obvious answer in a similar thread.   
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Slemon on January 16, 2016, 02:30:19 AM
I think the only one who's tried to answer this question is JRowe, and he seems to have left. Basically he had both hemispheres existing as separate disks.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 16, 2016, 08:17:27 AM
If the earth is flat and the stars are in a rotating sphere, why is the celestial equator at a different angle to the ground depending on your location?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: 29silhouette on January 16, 2016, 08:42:17 AM
You are out because you can't explain it, don't try lying, your bad at it.
Also it's funny that someone who says that following the rest of society is bad, complains that I don't follow the spelling that said society created. You appear to be indoctinated to have to spell correctly.

Can anyone answer how you get stars that never set in the southen hemisphere.

I  would have preferred a flat earther to do this,  but they aren't around much  all we seem to get is youtube bunnies.

Imagine you are standing on a fixed flat earth,  and the earth is surrounded by a sphere,  the celestial sphere containing the fixed stars is rotating on an axis which has the north pole at one end and the south pole at the other  (  please don't ask me for a map ).    That will satisfy the SCP observations  without requiring the earth to be a globe.  Then add extra celestial spheres for each of the planets and a few for comets.    What do you get...   you get the Ptolemaic system.   which is of course geometrically equivalent to the Copernican system.   

You'd  still have to explain why you can't see the SCP from north of the equator,  but given they can't explain sunsets,  I'd not be too fussed,
Is this celestial sphere's axis parallel with the surface of Earth?  How would a celestial sphere result in polar stars being seen at angles ranging from the horizon to directly overhead if Earth is flat?  Also, if the axis is parallel with the surface, one would go to the north pole and see polaris to the south, and around the southern rim looking south the star rotation would be that as seen from the equator with only one spot looking toward the southern polar stars, which will again be on the horizon instead of overhead.  Another point along the southern rim would be looking south toward the north star.

Or maybe it would work in a way I'm not realizing?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 16, 2016, 01:17:02 PM
The FE has no south pole?

That depends on who you ask. It seems few agree with anyone else about what the Earth looks like, other than "it must be flat because it looks flat to me sometimes".

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Also I still don't get how a star can never set in the south. The most southern stars would travel around the edge of disk disk, so over the night the star will go from one side of the disk to the other side, wouldn't the stars get further that the northern star over the night.

Also if the earth is flat and the stars are in a rotating sphere, why is the celestial equator at a different angle to the ground depending on your location.

Some say the Earth is a disk with the North Pole at the center and the stars rotate around that - the "unipolar" model. Others say it's a disk with the North Pole at one point and the South Pole at another, and there are two sets of stars, with one set rotating around each of the poles, in opposite directions, and "mesh" at the equator - the "bipolar" model. A relative newcomer posits that the Earth is a disk with a nearly-flat Northern Hemisphere on one side and nearly-flat Southern Hemisphere on the other - "dual-earth". There are others, of course, like an infinite plane, and the "Ice Dome" which is so incoherently explained that few, if any, other than its originator have any idea what it is supposed to be like, and it's unclear if he does either.

Each has obvious deficiencies. The unipolar flat earth has no way to explain southern circumpolar stars at all. To people in the Northern Hemisphere who don't get out much and believe only what they see for themselves or otherwise want to believe, they simply don't seem to exist and therefore this is of no concern. The bipolar model explains what you'd see from each of the poles, but stars on different sides of the Celestial Equator would constantly change in angular distance from each other, which simply isn't seen in the sky. It also fails to competently explain why you would only see half the stars from any given point at any given time. Dual-earth also explains nicely what you'd see at each pole and also why you only see one hemisphere's worth from there, but not, plausibly, how you can see more than a few of the stars in the other hemisphere as you move closer to the equator. Nor is there a sensible explanation how you can go from one side of the disk, at the equator, to the other without noticing what would be very obvious effects. Note "sensible" in that sentence.

The reason you get such fragmented and ill-fitting ideas is, of course, because the Earth isn't flat, so there's no neat way to make straightforward observations fit a flat-earth model.

Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Dinosaur Neil on January 16, 2016, 01:26:35 PM
I have a thread offering a cash prize to anyone who can answer this.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 17, 2016, 01:20:48 AM
So no flat earthers can answer it, they don't have a working model of the stars. A working one has existed for thousands of years, yet the FES can't get them to work on their model, what does that imply.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Rayzor on January 17, 2016, 01:24:06 AM
I have a thread offering a cash prize to anyone who can answer this.

The earth is a globe,  how do I collect my money?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 17, 2016, 03:18:55 AM
RET is the only model that can explain the stars then?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Slemon on January 17, 2016, 03:24:23 AM
I have a thread offering a cash prize to anyone who can answer this.
You never said anything was wrong with my entry on page five, so I won  ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Dinosaur Neil on January 17, 2016, 01:38:09 PM
I have a thread offering a cash prize to anyone who can answer this.

The earth is a globe,  how do I collect my money?

See the thread for the rules of claiming. Unlike Heiwa, I will honour  fulfillment of the terms.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 17, 2016, 03:37:47 PM
So the only response from a FEer is a spelling correction. wow
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 18, 2016, 01:28:51 PM
The question the thread asks might to be clear, I give a simpler example.
If your at the most southern points of Africa, South America and Australia, part of the southen cross will never go below the horision, I can see no way that this can work on a flat earth.
How do I know they never go below the horizon, star maps. And unlike a map of the earth, a map of the stars isn't posible to fake successfully, you can easily check the map is correct from looking at the sky at night. If the star maps were faked, some astronomers would of noticed.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Dinosaur Neil on January 18, 2016, 02:51:52 PM
I have a thread offering a cash prize to anyone who can answer this.
You never said anything was wrong with my entry on page five, so I won  ;D

I don't remember that - let me go back and think of a loophole.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Dinosaur Neil on January 18, 2016, 03:00:45 PM
It turns out that I found a wizard, and asked him to demonstrate magic, and he couldn't. Sorry.  ;)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Luke 22:35-38 on January 18, 2016, 04:34:36 PM
This got quiet quick.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 18, 2016, 10:29:14 PM
So the only response from a FEer is a spelling correction. wow
Well maybe not a FEer?
3. I am not a flat earther. Just because I'm on this site does not mean I am. Or if it does, then you must be one as well.
What then? Don't ask me, I just remembered an earlier quote!
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Slemon on January 19, 2016, 07:42:01 AM
It turns out that I found a wizard, and asked him to demonstrate magic, and he couldn't. Sorry.  ;)

But how did you confirm they were in fact a wizard?  :o If they can't demonstrate magic, they don't sound like much of a wizard to me.

The magic theory remains the only working FE answer for circumpolar stars. Well, that and JRowe, but hey, no one cares about him.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 20, 2016, 04:22:31 PM
It turns out that I found a wizard, and asked him to demonstrate magic, and he couldn't. Sorry.  ;)

But how did you confirm they were in fact a wizard?  :o If they can't demonstrate magic, they don't sound like much of a wizard to me.

The magic theory remains the only working FE answer for circumpolar stars. Well, that and JRowe, but hey, no one cares about him.

Though I am not an expert in this field, I would humbly draw your attention to refraction, reflection and all other kinds of optical distortions and atmospheric effects, alone or combined. RET widely uses this explanation, in combination with innuendoes on individual or collective hallucination and/or impaired vision, if necessary. I'm surprised I have to remind you that.

For example, this is how Wikipedia explains the famous Miracle of the Sun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 20, 2016, 04:30:55 PM
That explains how a star can be south of two people on opposite sides of the planet how?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 20, 2016, 04:37:28 PM
That explains how a star can be south of two people on opposite sides of the planet how?

From RET, my impression is that explains anything and everything. A truly powerful argument, indeed.
 ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 20, 2016, 06:11:28 PM
Though I am not an expert in this field, I would humbly draw your attention to refraction, reflection and all other kinds of optical distortions and atmospheric effects, alone or combined. RET widely uses this explanation, in combination with innuendoes on individual or collective hallucination and/or impaired vision, if necessary. I'm surprised I have to remind you that.

For example, this is how Wikipedia explains the famous Miracle of the Sun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Though I too am not an expert in this field, I would humbly draw your attention to the fact that the "Miracle_of_the_Sun" was an extraordinary event, it would hardly have made the news otherwise.
Of course there are mirages of various sorts but again they are unusual events.  You could also look up the "Fata Morgana".

Also a small amount of refraction for objects (sun or moon) near the horizon (not often over 0.5°) is not that uncommon, but not the massive amount that might explain the "southern circumpolar stars".  Even given massive refraction, I still cannot see any possible mechanism!

On the other hand the "circumpolar stars" in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 20, 2016, 10:49:43 PM
Though I am not an expert in this field, I would humbly draw your attention to refraction, reflection and all other kinds of optical distortions and atmospheric effects, alone or combined. RET widely uses this explanation, in combination with innuendoes on individual or collective hallucination and/or impaired vision, if necessary. I'm surprised I have to remind you that.

For example, this is how Wikipedia explains the famous Miracle of the Sun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun
Though I too am not an expert in this field, I would humbly draw your attention to the fact that the "Miracle_of_the_Sun" was an extraordinary event, it would hardly have made the news otherwise.
Of course there are mirages of various sorts but again they are unusual events.  You could also look up the "Fata Morgana".

Also a small amount of refraction for objects (sun or moon) near the horizon (not often over 0.5°) is not that uncommon, but not the massive amount that might explain the "southern circumpolar stars".  Even given massive refraction, I still cannot see any possible mechanism!

On the other hand the "circumpolar stars" in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.

I thought my point was obvious (sapientis sat), but let me explain that to you. That example shows that even in the case of apparent miracle (note that nobody in the crowd of many hundred folks had any doubt about that, including highly educated people), they are trying to explain it by some distortions, atmospheric effects etc. Thus, it is not surprising (at least, for me) that for less extraordinary events such "explanations" are being widely used by REers, with amusing variations. For example, you may check yourself how Wikipedia describes repeats of those experiments conducted by Parallax. It looks like they are ready to rather admit that the light is propagating along the RE curvature, wow. In such a way, one can explain absolutely everything (s)he pleases. Air temperature gradients... coefficients of refraction that could not be neither verified nor reproduced... systems of lenses in the sky... the light beams going along curved lines... occasionally consumed hallucinogenic mushrooms in local restaurants... Whatever.

Being inspired by such RET creativity, we might, for example, humbly hypothesize that using modern laser projectors, governments of Earth can draw any constellations in the sky and imitate "ISS", "spaceships", "comets", "asteroids"... whatever they please. Or show us some movie. Why not? Use your fantasy, be RE-creative.

"are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough."
You meant latitude, didn't you?
 ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 21, 2016, 12:04:33 AM
Being inspired by such RET creativity, we might, for example, humbly hypothesize that using modern laser projectors, governments of Earth can draw any constellations in the sky and imitate "ISS", "spaceships", "comets", "asteroids"... whatever they please. Or show us some movie. Why not? Use your fantasy, be RE-creative.

"are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough."
You meant latitude, didn't you?
 ;D

Projecting an image seems to need something to project it on.  What do you suggest for that?

Also these southern constellations are visible from Australia, South Africa and South America, and commonly from two of these at the same time. From all of these locations the South Celestial Pole is exactly due south from ALL of these locations!

The suggestion that this might be a projection is pure fantasy!  Not the least because these southern constellations have been visible in exactly the way for centuries.

As for the ISS please explain how it appears right "on cue" all over the world. I am sorry we just don't have the imagination you have, but you really need for your flat earth!

And NO, I really did mean exactly what I said "These constellations are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.". That is from Australia, South Africa and South America, though I should have said  "whenever night the sky is clear enough"

Once you understand it, believe me, the rotating globe needs a lot less magic than any flat earth model I have seen.
Maybe you explain you flat earth model and map, we might learn something!

Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 21, 2016, 06:24:32 AM
Being inspired by such RET creativity, we might, for example, humbly hypothesize that using modern laser projectors, governments of Earth can draw any constellations in the sky and imitate "ISS", "spaceships", "comets", "asteroids"... whatever they please. Or show us some movie. Why not? Use your fantasy, be RE-creative.

"are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough."
You meant latitude, didn't you?
 ;D

Projecting an image seems to need something to project it on.  What do you suggest for that?

Also these southern constellations are visible from Australia, South Africa and South America, and commonly from two of these at the same time. From all of these locations the South Celestial Pole is exactly due south from ALL of these locations!

The suggestion that this might be a projection is pure fantasy!  Not the least because these southern constellations have been visible in exactly the way for centuries.

As for the ISS please explain how it appears right "on cue" all over the world. I am sorry we just don't have the imagination you have, but you really need for your flat earth!

And NO, I really did mean exactly what I said "These constellations are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.". That is from Australia, South Africa and South America, though I should have said  "whenever night the sky is clear enough"

Once you understand it, believe me, the rotating globe needs a lot less magic than any flat earth model I have seen.
Maybe you explain you flat earth model and map, we might learn something!

Dear Rabinoz,

If I am not mistaken, your question was, how and why we can see certain stars in the sky. I am just trying to help you, providing useful (I hope) hints. I do not want to exert any intellectual or propaganda pressure on you, for it could hamper and distort your mental development. I mean, if you are really interested in finding a suitable answer to your question, let your brain itself find it in the most natural and least painful way. I am not going to do any harm to you. Just relax and let the truth gradually penetrate your mind.

Please note that the very fact you are here and speaking to me - means you do doubt your current perception of your life and the Universe. You do feel there's something wrong, you are trying to find a solution to your problems, and that is why you are posting here. There is no reason to deny that. There is nothing shameful in that. We all learn.

Projecting an image seems to need something to project it on.  What do you suggest for that?

and
The suggestion that this might be a projection is pure fantasy!

Look. First, you in fact admitted the possibility of that and even started to think how it might be done. Then, your internal RE-censor interfered and closed your mind. Relax and try to keep your mind open. Dig yourself in that direction and in the literature you'll find curious descriptions of some peculiar experiments, in which the government agencies were producing fumes, vapours etc. in the upper atmospheric layers, many years ago. How do you think, why they were doing that? Do you think they've stopped doing that? Do you think they're telling the public everything they are doing? Why, for example, noctilucent clouds were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century?

"From all of these locations the South Celestial Pole is exactly due south from ALL of these locations!"

May I ask you, how do you know that? Have you been there, in ALL those locations, personally, at the same time?

"these southern constellations have been visible in exactly the way for centuries."
How do you know that? Why you're so sure the data could not be falsified? Did you observe the stars yourself, for centuries?

"As for the ISS please explain how it appears right "on cue" all over the world."
For instance, 'cause they are drawing it in the sky, that's how, - using one projector, then switching to another, all over the world. Do you think it's impossible?

And NO, I really did mean exactly what I said "These constellations are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.". That is from Australia, South Africa and South America, though I should have said  "whenever night the sky is clear enough"
 ;D
Then they can not be seen from any longitude.

"the rotating globe needs a lot less magic than any flat earth model I have seen."
Yeah, yeah. Sure. Just one more example of the umost absurdity of that rotating globe, filled with molten dense magma. Let's admit for a brief moment, that RE is right, that globe is rotating and has two tidal bulbs on each side, about 1 meter high or so, as they teach us. The bulbs, filled with hot dense magma at immense pressure, covered with Earth crust made of the solid rock layer 10 to 50 km thick, are, therefore, moving under the surface of the globe with the speed of approximately 500 m/s (at the equator). Interesting, isn't it? You could calculate the volume and mass of those things yourself. Just a few questions:

How that dense magma can travel under the crust at 500 m/s? Otherwise, those tidal bulbs won't be moving.

Why the Earth crust is not cracking and we do not see cheerful fountains of pressurised magma (500 m/s!) at the equator, twice a day?

Why that magnificent process does not influence the acting volcanoes?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 21, 2016, 06:32:36 PM
Dear Rabinoz,
If I am not mistaken, your question was, how and why we can see certain stars in the sky. I am just trying to help you, providing useful (I hope) hints. I do not want to exert any intellectual or propaganda pressure on you, for it could hamper and distort your mental development. I mean, if you are really interested in finding a suitable answer to your question, let your brain itself find it in the most natural and least painful way. I am not going to do any harm to you. Just relax and let the truth gradually penetrate your mind.
I have never seen a less humble, nor sanctimonious "scientist" than Humble_Scientist.  I imagine you did the course on "Humility and how I achieved it!" - I think it was at Pale Hernigy College - something like that, bit hard to remember.  I think you must have failed to read the book "How to win friends and Influence People", at least I know that was by Dale Carnegie - obviously I haven't read it!
And, no I don't need any assistance from you to find these answers.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Please note that the very fact you are here and speaking to me - means you do doubt your current perception of your life and the Universe. You do feel there's something wrong, you are trying to find a solution to your problems, and that is why you are posting here. There is no reason to deny that. There is nothing shameful in that. We all learn.
The real psychoanalyst aren't we! And, no that I am certainly not looking for a "solution to my problems".  I am trying to get some answers from you about the OP of this thread!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Projecting an image seems to need something to project it on.  What do you suggest for that?
 and
The suggestion that this might be a projection is pure fantasy!
Look. First, you in fact admitted the possibility of that and even started to think how it might be done. Then, your internal RE-censor interfered and closed your mind. Relax and try to keep your mind open.
You read far too much into a few words.  I guess that is to be expected from an obviously conspiracy fearing mind, always afraid this organisation or that is out to get you.
Sorry, I was just assuming that you would see this whole idea of a "projection is pure fantasy!" was purely fantasy!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Dig yourself in that direction and in the literature you'll find curious descriptions of some peculiar experiments, in which the government agencies were producing fumes, vapours etc. in the upper atmospheric layers, many years ago. How do you think, why they were doing that? Do you think they've stopped doing that? Do you think they're telling the public everything they are doing? Why, for example, noctilucent clouds were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century?
As I said a conspiracy here, a conspiracy there, conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere!  You claim that "for example, noctilucent clouds were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century?".  Well, firstly a bit of evidence that "noctilucent clouds " even exist and secondly how do you know that "were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century", I suppose you were old enough to observe them first hand before 1900!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"From all of these locations the South Celestial Pole is exactly due south from ALL of these locations!"

May I ask you, how do you know that? Have you been there, in ALL those locations, personally, at the same time?
No, I have not been there, but neither have you!  I have read reports from observers in both places, and I have seen video of stars rotating about the South Celestial Pole from both Sydney Australia and from Chile.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"these southern constellations have been visible in exactly the way for centuries."
How do you know that? Why you're so sure the data could not be falsified? Did you observe the stars yourself, for centuries?
No, I am not going to claim that I was there!  And yes, there are reports from explorers going back centuries.  Falsified? Why?  Oh, sorry, it must have been another conspiracy to hide you precious Pepperoni Pizza Planet!
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"As for the ISS please explain how it appears right "on cue" all over the world."
For instance, 'cause they are drawing it in the sky, that's how, - using one projector, then switching to another, all over the world. Do you think it's impossible?
And are you really suggesting that as possibility?  Just how many millions of these projectors must there be around the earth.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
And NO, I really did mean exactly what I said "These constellations are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.". That is from Australia, South Africa and South America, though I should have said  "whenever night the sky is clear enough"

Then they can not be seen from any longitude.
I gave those countries because that is where most observers are! But, how do you infer from "Then they can not be seen from any longitude." from that.  No, you can't see the stars on a cloudy night, and no you cannot see the stars in daytime  ::)(well occasionally Venus is visible near sunset or sunrise - but that "little light in the sky" is a planet, not a star!   ::) ).
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"the rotating globe needs a lot less magic than any flat earth model I have seen."
Yeah, yeah. Sure. Just one more example of the umost absurdity of that rotating globe, filled with molten dense magma. Let's admit for a brief moment, that RE is right, that globe is rotating and has two tidal bulbs on each side, about 1 meter high or so, as they teach us. The bulbs, filled with hot dense magma at immense pressure, covered with Earth crust made of the solid rock layer 10 to 50 km thick, are, therefore, moving under the surface of the globe with the speed of approximately 500 m/s (at the equator). Interesting, isn't it? You could calculate the volume and mass of those things yourself. Just a few questions:
How that dense magma can travel under the crust at 500 m/s? Otherwise, those tidal bulbs won't be moving.
Why the Earth crust is not cracking and we do not see cheerful fountains of pressurised magma (500 m/s!) at the equator, twice a day?
Why that magnificent process does not influence the acting volcanoes?

I don't think I mentioned tides.  It's not a simple topic - and there's no way I am going to try to cover it here, like 2 tides a day and they lag the overhead moon, etc!
Maybe the Humble_Scientist can give some logical explanation.

Just remember that the Heliocentric Globe Model took around 2,000 years to "come to fruition", and many details much longer than that.
You will find that the real humble scientists will concede that there are still many details being determined - weather systems and under the oceans to name just a couple.

BTW if you do chance to reply:
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 22, 2016, 08:33:00 AM
That explains how a star can be south of two people on opposite sides of the planet how?

From RET, my impression is that explains anything and everything. A truly powerful argument, indeed.
 ;D
Im talking about the FE map, you can't have a star being south of Africa, South America and Australia at the same time, if I am wrong show me a FE map where a star can be south of every point.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 22, 2016, 01:41:16 PM
Im talking about the FE map

Which FE map are you referring to? 
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 22, 2016, 03:36:12 PM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 22, 2016, 04:36:11 PM
Dear Rabinoz,
If I am not mistaken, your question was, how and why we can see certain stars in the sky. I am just trying to help you, providing useful (I hope) hints. I do not want to exert any intellectual or propaganda pressure on you, for it could hamper and distort your mental development. I mean, if you are really interested in finding a suitable answer to your question, let your brain itself find it in the most natural and least painful way. I am not going to do any harm to you. Just relax and let the truth gradually penetrate your mind.
I have never seen a less humble, nor sanctimonious "scientist" than Humble_Scientist.  I imagine you did the course on "Humility and how I achieved it!" - I think it was at Pale Hernigy College - something like that, bit hard to remember.  I think you must have failed to read the book "How to win friends and Influence People", at least I know that was by Dale Carnegie - obviously I haven't read it!
And, no I don't need any assistance from you to find these answers.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Please note that the very fact you are here and speaking to me - means you do doubt your current perception of your life and the Universe. You do feel there's something wrong, you are trying to find a solution to your problems, and that is why you are posting here. There is no reason to deny that. There is nothing shameful in that. We all learn.
The real psychoanalyst aren't we! And, no that I am certainly not looking for a "solution to my problems".  I am trying to get some answers from you about the OP of this thread!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Projecting an image seems to need something to project it on.  What do you suggest for that?
 and
The suggestion that this might be a projection is pure fantasy!
Look. First, you in fact admitted the possibility of that and even started to think how it might be done. Then, your internal RE-censor interfered and closed your mind. Relax and try to keep your mind open.
You read far too much into a few words.  I guess that is to be expected from an obviously conspiracy fearing mind, always afraid this organisation or that is out to get you.
Sorry, I was just assuming that you would see this whole idea of a "projection is pure fantasy!" was purely fantasy!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Dig yourself in that direction and in the literature you'll find curious descriptions of some peculiar experiments, in which the government agencies were producing fumes, vapours etc. in the upper atmospheric layers, many years ago. How do you think, why they were doing that? Do you think they've stopped doing that? Do you think they're telling the public everything they are doing? Why, for example, noctilucent clouds were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century?
As I said a conspiracy here, a conspiracy there, conspiracies, conspiracies everywhere!  You claim that "for example, noctilucent clouds were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century?".  Well, firstly a bit of evidence that "noctilucent clouds " even exist and secondly how do you know that "were so seldom, if ever, noticed before the 20th century", I suppose you were old enough to observe them first hand before 1900!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"From all of these locations the South Celestial Pole is exactly due south from ALL of these locations!"

May I ask you, how do you know that? Have you been there, in ALL those locations, personally, at the same time?
No, I have not been there, but neither have you!  I have read reports from observers in both places, and I have seen video of stars rotating about the South Celestial Pole from both Sydney Australia and from Chile.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"these southern constellations have been visible in exactly the way for centuries."
How do you know that? Why you're so sure the data could not be falsified? Did you observe the stars yourself, for centuries?
No, I am not going to claim that I was there!  And yes, there are reports from explorers going back centuries.  Falsified? Why?  Oh, sorry, it must have been another conspiracy to hide you precious Pepperoni Pizza Planet!
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"As for the ISS please explain how it appears right "on cue" all over the world."
For instance, 'cause they are drawing it in the sky, that's how, - using one projector, then switching to another, all over the world. Do you think it's impossible?
And are you really suggesting that as possibility?  Just how many millions of these projectors must there be around the earth.
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
And NO, I really did mean exactly what I said "These constellations are seen any time from any longitude whenever the sky is clear enough.". That is from Australia, South Africa and South America, though I should have said  "whenever night the sky is clear enough"

Then they can not be seen from any longitude.
I gave those countries because that is where most observers are! But, how do you infer from "Then they can not be seen from any longitude." from that.  No, you can't see the stars on a cloudy night, and no you cannot see the stars in daytime  ::)(well occasionally Venus is visible near sunset or sunrise - but that "little light in the sky" is a planet, not a star!   ::) ).
Quote from: Humble_Scientist
"the rotating globe needs a lot less magic than any flat earth model I have seen."
Yeah, yeah. Sure. Just one more example of the umost absurdity of that rotating globe, filled with molten dense magma. Let's admit for a brief moment, that RE is right, that globe is rotating and has two tidal bulbs on each side, about 1 meter high or so, as they teach us. The bulbs, filled with hot dense magma at immense pressure, covered with Earth crust made of the solid rock layer 10 to 50 km thick, are, therefore, moving under the surface of the globe with the speed of approximately 500 m/s (at the equator). Interesting, isn't it? You could calculate the volume and mass of those things yourself. Just a few questions:
How that dense magma can travel under the crust at 500 m/s? Otherwise, those tidal bulbs won't be moving.
Why the Earth crust is not cracking and we do not see cheerful fountains of pressurised magma (500 m/s!) at the equator, twice a day?
Why that magnificent process does not influence the acting volcanoes?

I don't think I mentioned tides.  It's not a simple topic - and there's no way I am going to try to cover it here, like 2 tides a day and they lag the overhead moon, etc!
Maybe the Humble_Scientist can give some logical explanation.

Just remember that the Heliocentric Globe Model took around 2,000 years to "come to fruition", and many details much longer than that.
You will find that the real humble scientists will concede that there are still many details being determined - weather systems and under the oceans to name just a couple.

BTW if you do chance to reply:
  • Leave the psychoanalysis gobbledygook out.
  • Leave the conspiracy gobbledygook out.
  • Present some evidence you have for what you claim.
  • If you are going to criticise aspects of the globe model, get an understanding of if first.
  • Possibly present just what your alternative to the Heliocentric Globe might be, with shape of your earth, paths of sun, moon, planets and stars
  • It would be good to have a map for this, because mariners for over 600 years have been navigating the globe and the maps they produced fitted on a globe - that's why many ancient mariners actually took a large globe with them - gave them a better understanding of where they were on the earth's surface!

"no I don't need any assistance from you to find these answers."

As you wish, dear rabinoz. Thanks for conversation.
;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 22, 2016, 04:55:24 PM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.

A bit of geometry tells us we can not see a piece of paper just above water 6 km away on a round Earth. Yet that was reported.

You are also perfectly welcome to enjoy the view of Toronto 50 km away that I recorded myself. It's in my Youtube collection. Or make your own footage. Toronto is still there, as far as I know.

 ;D

By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 22, 2016, 09:22:33 PM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.

A bit of geometry tells us we can not see a piece of paper just above water 6 km away on a round Earth. Yet that was reported.


There are a few problems with this assertion.

1) Just because something was reported doesn't make it true.

2) "Just above" is vague, to say the least.

3) In the presence of an atmosphere, simple geometry is only the starting point since the atmosphere can bend light.

Details, please?

Quote
You are also perfectly welcome to enjoy the view of Toronto 50 km away that I recorded myself. It's in my Youtube collection. Or make your own footage. Toronto is still there, as far as I know.
 ;D

Has anyone disputed the existence of Toronto?

Quote
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D

Really? Please demonstrate this geometry.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 07:02:14 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 07:38:02 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.

What makes you think you can see stars from all three of those locations at the same time? 
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 23, 2016, 08:49:21 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.

What makes you think you can see stars from all three of those locations at the same time?

Geometry. I'm still waiting for H_S to show his "bit of geometry" that tells us why this is not possible. Remember, that's what his claim is.

Seeing stars in daylight is obviously more difficult than seeing them at night, but still possible with a telescope if its mount is accurately aligned and calibrated and the star is bright; I suspect this is probably where you're going with this.  Alpha Centauri or Canopus would be easier than Acrux because they're much brighter.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 08:53:18 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.

What makes you think you can see stars from all three of those locations at the same time?
Maybe not the southernmost points, but a part of each continent can be dark at the same time. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
The southern cross will be south of all three continents.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 09:22:25 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.

What makes you think you can see stars from all three of those locations at the same time?

Geometry. I'm still waiting for H_S to show his "bit of geometry" that tells us why this is not possible. Remember, that's what his claim is.

Seeing stars in daylight is obviously more difficult than seeing them at night, but still possible with a telescope if its mount is accurately aligned and calibrated and the star is bright; I suspect this is probably where you're going with this.  Alpha Centauri or Canopus would be easier than Acrux because they're much brighter.

Is it dark in all three of these locations at the same time?  Perhaps you can see stars during the day with your magical gravity telescope? 
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 09:25:07 AM
Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
Exactly, if the earth was flat you wouldn't see the same star from all three points, yet you do, you can see the southern cross from all of them.

What makes you think you can see stars from all three of those locations at the same time?
Maybe not the southernmost points, but a part of each continent can be dark at the same time. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
The southern cross will be south of all three continents.

So, I suppose the whole premise of this argument was BS then? 
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 09:30:00 AM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that has a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 09:33:10 AM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.

But they can't all see it at the same time.  Are you even reading the thread?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 09:36:47 AM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.

But they can't all see it at the same time.  Are you even reading the thread?
I gave a link to a daylight map a few posts ago, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
A small part of Australia and South America are at night at the same time as Africa.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 23, 2016, 10:05:21 AM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.

But they can't all see it at the same time.  Are you even reading the thread?
I gave a link to a daylight map a few posts ago, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
A small part of Australia and South America are at night at the same time as Africa.
Well, there you go!

Dark at the same time in all three places makes it easier. Now all we need is for H_S to show us why it would be impossible, geometrically, to see the same star from the three continents at the same time.

Is it dark in all three of these locations at the same time? 
Apparently it can be. Good find, Empirical!

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Perhaps you can see stars during the day with your magical gravity telescope?
Yes. It's optics, not magic, though.

Did you mention gravity because optics, like gravity, is another topic of physics that you don't understand?

So, I suppose the whole premise of this argument was BS then?
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
That part appears to be, unless H_S can provide something more than an empty claim. I'm still waiting for that "bit of geometry ;D". I'm anticipating a long wait.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 12:47:51 PM
I gave evidence that Jroa was wrong, so he's not coming back to this thread.
FET disproved.
Get Duuuuuunked on.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 01:13:49 PM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.

But they can't all see it at the same time.  Are you even reading the thread?
I gave a link to a daylight map a few posts ago, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
A small part of Australia and South America are at night at the same time as Africa.

But you said the southern most part, which is not at night in your picture.  Perhaps you simply change things around to suite your needs?  ::)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 23, 2016, 02:47:07 PM
Why? You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.

But they can't all see it at the same time.  Are you even reading the thread?
I gave a link to a daylight map a few posts ago, http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
A small part of Australia and South America are at night at the same time as Africa.

But you said the southern most part, which is not at night in your picture.  Perhaps you simply change things around to suite your needs?  ::)
Read the thread.
You still have three points in the southern hemisphere that have a star south if all of them. Which is impossible.
Can you show me a map where it is possible.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 23, 2016, 02:54:11 PM
That part appears to be, unless H_S can provide something more than an empty claim.

Well, the simplest explanation of what you & Empirical have written so far is the following:

If you can simultaneously be in South America, Africa and Australia and observe the stars -

you are smoking a really good stuff!

 ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 23, 2016, 07:37:48 PM
That part appears to be, unless H_S can provide something more than an empty claim.

Well, the simplest explanation of what you & Empirical have written so far is the following:

If you can simultaneously be in South America, Africa and Australia and observe the stars -

you are smoking a really good stuff!

 ;D

Nope, sorry, I don't smoke.

Do you have anything to back this up?
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D

I'd still like to see that "bit of geometry ;D"
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 23, 2016, 10:25:19 PM
That part appears to be, unless H_S can provide something more than an empty claim.
Well, the simplest explanation of what you & Empirical have written so far is the following:
If you can simultaneously be in South America, Africa and Australia and observe the stars -
you are smoking a really good stuff!

I don't smoke either and that particular post may not have been addressed to me but here goes:
On January 18 Empirical posted:
The question the thread asks might to be clear, I give a simpler example.
If your at the most southern points of Africa, South America and Australia, part of the southen cross will never go below the horision, I can see no way that this can work on a flat earth.
How do I know they never go below the horizon, star maps. And unlike a map of the earth, a map of the stars isn't posible to fake successfully, you can easily check the map is correct from looking at the sky at night. If the star maps were faked, some astronomers would of noticed.
Then
Maybe not the southernmost points, but a part of each continent can be dark at the same time. http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134 (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/sunearth.html?iso=20160620T2134)
The southern cross will be south of all three continents.
Well Empirical was quite right, though I was looking for the South Celestial Pole.  It turns out than on the Southern Winter Solstice (Empirical had 20/June/2016) at 10:00 UTC
  • in Fremantle (Australia), the local date and time are 21/June at 06:00 and it's just before dawn
  • in Capetown (South Africa), the local date and time are 21/June at 00:00 and it's just midnight
  • n Ushuaia (Argentina), the local date and time are 20/June at 19:00 and it's just after sunset
So in all these locations it is dark enough to easily see at least the brightest stars.  Using the "On line Planetarium" at https://in-the-sky.org/skymap.php (https://in-the-sky.org/skymap.php) we get the night star maps for these locations shown at the right.

In all 3 cases I have added a white cross to show the location of the South Celestial Pole.  The green circle marker shows the location of Octans, the closest constellation to the South Celestial Pole.  The Southern Cross (Cruz) can readily be seen from Cape Town almost SW and at a slightly elevation than the South Celestial Pole.  From Perth the Southern Cross is almost on the horizon and due south.  From Urshuaia its elevation is too high to show on this chart.

At most times of the year while we could often see the South Celestial Pole from two of these locations, one at least would have too much daylight to see it from all three.

I am fully aware that these are computer generated star charts, but if these are not correct then I am sure we would have found out years ago.  Astronomers have been studying the stars for millenia and I don't really think they could be fooled that easily!

BTW
;D  By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time. ;D
We are still waiting on this bit of geometry.

Fremantle (Australia), 21/June at 06:00 or 20/June/2016) at 10:00 UTC
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/RabDownunder/South%20from%20Fremantle%20Australia%20at%2021060620%2022.00%20UTC_zps53pfzoqc.jpg)
South from Fremantle (Australia) at 21060620 22.00 UTC
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/RabDownunder/South%20from%20Capetown%20South%20Africa%20at%2021060620%2022.00%20UTC_zpsspfxyzvj.jpg)
South from Capetown (South Africa) at 21060620 22.00 UTC
(http://i1075.photobucket.com/albums/w433/RabDownunder/South%20from%20Urshuaia%20Argentina%20at%2021060620%2022.00%20UTC_zpsu8emfyzl.jpg)
South from Urshuaia (Argentina) at 21060620 22.00 UTC
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 23, 2016, 11:44:25 PM
Quote from: jroa
But you said the southern most part, which is not at night in your picture.  Perhaps you simply change things around to suite your needs?  ::)
Read the thread.

Any one where a triangle drawn from the southernmost point of Africa, South America and Australia will contain the north pole. A bit of geometry tells you that this would make it impossible for a star to be south of all three points.

::)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 24, 2016, 12:09:32 AM
Your either a troll  or a retard. My bets on troll, you don't actually think the earth is flat, so when someone brings up a point that disproves it, you start derailing the thread. There is nothing that important about the southern most points of a continent, it's just that "a triangle drawn from all three points will contain the north pole", I was using them because they fulfilled the condition, the new points I am using still fulfill it, plus they can all be dark at the same time.

Does this statement not apply to the three points I started using (the three ones from the daylight map which are all at night at the same time) after you wouldn't accept stars during the day.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Rayzor on January 24, 2016, 02:45:47 AM
Your either a troll  or a retard. My bets on troll, you don't actually think the earth is flat, so when someone brings up a point that disproves it, you star derailing the thread. There is nothing that important about the southern most points of a continent, it's just that "a triangle drawn from all three points will contain the north pole", I was using them because they fulfilled the condition, the new points I am using still fulfill it, plus they can all be dark at the same time.

Does this statement not apply to the three points I started using (the three ones from the daylight map which are all at night at the same time) after you wouldn't accept stars during the day.

You got me confused now,  didn't you mean SOUTH pole,   why bring the NORTH pole into it?

Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 05:51:15 AM
BTW
;D  By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time. ;D
We are still waiting on this bit of geometry.

It is very simple, dear rabinoz. These locations are on different continents at the opposite sides of the globe (in RET terms). It is impossible you can be simultaneously in all three places. It is very unlikely that the weather conditions would allow you to conduct your astronomical observations, at all three locations simultaneously. And the time right after sunset or just before dawn is not good for the observations, either.

Prove I'm wrong. Go there, to all three places simultaneously, and bring back your pictures and videos.
 ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 24, 2016, 08:57:55 AM
BTW
;D  By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time. ;D
We are still waiting on this bit of geometry.

It is very simple, dear rabinoz. These locations are on different continents at the opposite sides of the globe (in RET terms). It is impossible you can be simultaneously in all three places.

How did we get from the same star being visible from three different southern continents at the same time, to one person being in three different continents at the same time?

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It is very unlikely that the weather conditions would allow you to conduct your astronomical observations, at all three locations simultaneously.

Citation needed. We only need one observation.

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And the time right after sunset or just before dawn is not good for the observations, either.

That depends on how bright the star is. Canopus and Alpha Centauri are very bright and can be seen in the sky at dusk if you know where to look.

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Prove I'm wrong. Go there, to all three places simultaneously, and bring back your pictures and videos.
 ;D

Why bother. Even ignoring the "all three places simultaneously" dodge, any picture or video anyone provided would simply be dismissed as a fake.

So far you've given a purely speculative meteorological reason why you don't think seeing the same star from South America, Australia, and Africa at the same time is possible. We're still waiting for you to back up your claim that "a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time. ;D"

So where's the geometry that tells us that?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 24, 2016, 09:16:31 AM
Your either a troll  or a retard. My bets on troll, you don't actually think the earth is flat, so when someone brings up a point that disproves it, you star derailing the thread. There is nothing that important about the southern most points of a continent, it's just that "a triangle drawn from all three points will contain the north pole", I was using them because they fulfilled the condition, the new points I am using still fulfill it, plus they can all be dark at the same time.

Does this statement not apply to the three points I started using (the three ones from the daylight map which are all at night at the same time) after you wouldn't accept stars during the day.

You got me confused now,  didn't you mean SOUTH pole,   why bring the NORTH pole into it?
The north pole bit is a geometry thing, on a flat earth an object can be south of all of a set points, if you can draw a straight line through the north pole which has all the points on one side. If the triangle created by three points has the north pole inside of it, you won't be able to draw a line through the north pole that had all three points on one side.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 24, 2016, 09:46:53 AM
BTW
;D  By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time. ;D
We are still waiting on this bit of geometry.

It is very simple, dear rabinoz. These locations are on different continents at the opposite sides of the globe (in RET terms). It is impossible you can be simultaneously in all three places. It is very unlikely that the weather conditions would allow you to conduct your astronomical observations, at all three locations simultaneously. And the time right after sunset or just before dawn is not good for the observations, either.

Prove I'm wrong. Go there, to all three places simultaneously, and bring back your pictures and videos.
 ;D
The map I linked showed full night and twilight, If you look at the link you can see that a part of South America and Australia are in night, not twilight, so you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 10:45:06 AM
The map I linked showed full night and twilight, If you look at the link you can see that a part of South America and Australia are in night, not twilight, so you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.

you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
At the same time?
 ;D

Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.
Now you got me confused. What do you mean by that?

And why, if you claim that I "will be able to see the stars at all three continents", I have to prove that?
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 24, 2016, 11:54:31 AM
You could have a group of three people retard.
And by saying I'm wrong about the star being south of all three points, your saying that the star must be north of one of them, this disagrees with the current map of the stars, which has tons of evidence for it, anyone can check if it works in their area, so it should be very easy to falsify if it is wrong.
Since the currently accepted star map is very easy to falsify, you should be able to falsify it.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Son of Orospu on January 24, 2016, 02:38:24 PM
Please watch the personal insults.  This is a friendly forum.  Thanks. 
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 24, 2016, 03:13:04 PM
The map I linked showed full night and twilight, If you look at the link you can see that a part of South America and Australia are in night, not twilight, so you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.

you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
At the same time?
Stop shouting, I can read!
Yes at the SAME time!

Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.
Now you got me confused. What do you mean by that?
And why, if you claim that I "will be able to see the stars at all three continents", I have to prove that?
Oh, stop the funny faces (yes I copy yours a bit) and fancy colours - we can read without being shouted at - it makes you seem so childish
So, you don't accept that the Southern Cross (Cruz) can be seen from all southern continents, yet you probably expect us to believe that Polaris is visible from all norther continents - sounds a bit suss to me!

I am afraid that the Southern Cross has been know for longer than you and I have been around! Just take a look in http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/who-discovered-southern-cross.html (http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/who-discovered-southern-cross.html)  where you will find

Quote from: Who discovered the Southern Cross?
The question of who "discovered" Crux, the Southern Cross, is complex. The Southern Cross would have been familiar to the Ancient humans who lived in Africa, before they expanded out of Africa and in to the rest of the World. Some modern South African groups see the Southern Cross as part of a group of giraffes.
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Australia, where the Southern Cross takes pride of place in the sky. The Karuna people of the Adelaide Pains, where I live now, saw the Southern Cross as the footprint of the Wedge Tailed Eagle, Wilto. The Boorong Peoples of the Western Victorian Plains, where my spouses family live, see the Southern Cross as a ring tailed possum. Other indigenous groups see it as part of a larger constellation of an eagle, or as a stingray.
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Humans had colonised South America, where the cross is also prominent, the descendants of the Incas see the Southern Cross as part of a constellation the represents a Llama. Up until 3000 years ago, the Southern Cross could be seen low in the sky from Ancient Greece. It formed part of the constellation of the Centaur.
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It was first sighted by Europeans when Portuguese and Spanish explorers entered the Southern seas. Amerigo Vespucci mapped the stars of the constellation during his expedition to South America in 1501, depicting Crux as an almond! It then appeared as "Crux" on star charts from Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius in 1598 and 1600.

So you ask "And why, if you claim that I "will be able to see the stars at all three continents", I have to prove that?"

Yes, we have evidence that at least the Southern Cross has been observed from Australia, South Africa and South America for thousands of years.

The ignorance of residents of the many northern hemisphere countries of the southern hemishere constantly amazes me! 
I live here, I do know a bit about it. And no I personally have not seen the Southern Cross from South Africa and South America, but I am quite prepared to believe the copious evidence available.
Really, it's about time you changed your name.  You have proved over and over that you are neither Humble nor a Scientist.
True scientists would look a available evidence, and then base their belief on that.  Your approach seems to be "The earth looks flat, so it must be, then you try to force all other evidence to fit!  It doesn't work!
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 03:57:51 PM
The map I linked showed full night and twilight, If you look at the link you can see that a part of South America and Australia are in night, not twilight, so you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.

you will be able to see the stars at all three continents.
At the same time?
Stop shouting, I can read!
Yes at the SAME time!

Quote from: Humble_Scientist
Also the burden of proof is one you to show that the southern cross will be in the north of the sky, since there is a lot of evidence that modern star maps are accurate, you can just look at the sky at night to check a lot of it.
Now you got me confused. What do you mean by that?
And why, if you claim that I "will be able to see the stars at all three continents", I have to prove that?
Oh, stop the funny faces (yes I copy yours a bit) and fancy colours - we can read without being shouted at - it makes you seem so childish
So, you don't accept that the Southern Cross (Cruz) can be seen from all southern continents, yet you probably expect us to believe that Polaris is visible from all norther continents - sounds a bit suss to me!

I am afraid that the Southern Cross has been know for longer than you and I have been around! Just take a look in http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/who-discovered-southern-cross.html (http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/who-discovered-southern-cross.html)  where you will find

Quote from: Who discovered the Southern Cross?
The question of who "discovered" Crux, the Southern Cross, is complex. The Southern Cross would have been familiar to the Ancient humans who lived in Africa, before they expanded out of Africa and in to the rest of the World. Some modern South African groups see the Southern Cross as part of a group of giraffes.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Australia, where the Southern Cross takes pride of place in the sky. The Karuna people of the Adelaide Pains, where I live now, saw the Southern Cross as the footprint of the Wedge Tailed Eagle, Wilto. The Boorong Peoples of the Western Victorian Plains, where my spouses family live, see the Southern Cross as a ring tailed possum. Other indigenous groups see it as part of a larger constellation of an eagle, or as a stingray.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Humans had colonised South America, where the cross is also prominent, the descendants of the Incas see the Southern Cross as part of a constellation the represents a Llama. Up until 3000 years ago, the Southern Cross could be seen low in the sky from Ancient Greece. It formed part of the constellation of the Centaur.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
It was first sighted by Europeans when Portuguese and Spanish explorers entered the Southern seas. Amerigo Vespucci mapped the stars of the constellation during his expedition to South America in 1501, depicting Crux as an almond! It then appeared as "Crux" on star charts from Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius in 1598 and 1600.

So you ask "And why, if you claim that I "will be able to see the stars at all three continents", I have to prove that?"

Yes, we have evidence that at least the Southern Cross has been observed from Australia, South Africa and South America for thousands of years.

The ignorance of residents of the many northern hemisphere countries of the southern hemishere constantly amazes me! 
I live here, I do know a bit about it. And no I personally have not seen the Southern Cross from South Africa and South America, but I am quite prepared to believe the copious evidence available.
Really, it's about time you changed your name.  You have proved over and over that you are neither Humble nor a Scientist.
True scientists would look a available evidence, and then base their belief on that.  Your approach seems to be "The earth looks flat, so it must be, then you try to force all other evidence to fit!  It doesn't work!


Dear rabinoz,

I have no idea why you've got so much excited. If I'm not mistaken, our dear Empirical assured me that I will be able to see the stars at all three continents and I have to prove that. Curious, isn't it? I've just asked him:

At the same time?

And you suddenly answered:

Stop shouting, I can read!
Yes at the SAME time!

Wow.

All right, this time I shall not draw a funny face, if it makes you feel better. Though this would be such a perfect occasion for that...

If my posts for any reason make you so uncomfortable, just stop reading them, what's the problem. I definitely do not want you to get a stroke. C'mon, man, relax... We are here for friendly chat, fun & pleasure - and seeking the truth, of course.
  ;)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 04:43:05 PM
True scientists would look a available evidence, and then base their belief on that.

 ;D ;D ;D
 :P :P :P
 ::)

BTW, who told you that, dear rabinoz?
If under "True scientists" you mean the scientists at labs and universities, most of them usually look for another position, because their contracts expire in less than a year... often in a few months... and I've seen a case of a 2-week contract, when a M.Sc. did not know Friday night if she would have to come to work Monday morning 'cause her boss did not bother to tell her... and, from one of those unfortunates I have learned that if the contract is less than 3 months they're not eligible for benefits... and all that pleasure for a salary less than a general worker... girls sleeping with their bosses just to be left at work... I'm scared to think what they're doing to get promoted... science, eh? well, I could've told you quite a few stories about the real life in science... so, when my kids told me they want to be scientists, too, my answer was quick: "Over my dead body!". Cheerios.

 8)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 24, 2016, 04:45:45 PM
All right, this time I shall not draw a funny face, if it makes you feel better. Though this would be such a perfect occasion for that...

If my posts for any reason make you so uncomfortable, just stop reading them, what's the problem. I definitely do not want you to get a stroke. C'mon, man, relax... We are here for friendly chat, fun & pleasure - and seeking the truth, of course.
  ;)
No, I'm careful to take all my meds (thers's only one actually).
But you seem to be insisting it was impossible to see these stars from all southern continents that I found just a little hard to swallow.

I realise it is not often that the South Celestial Pole and the Southern Cross can be seen at the same time.  The only reason for that is that usually one or more locations are usually in daylight, especially at this time of the year, when sunset at Ushuaia today is at 9:50 PM.

I hope all that is now cleared up.  No, I can't ask you to prove it is not so, but maybe you could simply accept the overwhelming evidence till you have some reliable evidence to the contrary.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 05:54:45 PM
maybe you could simply accept the overwhelming evidence till you have some reliable evidence to the contrary.

Dear rabinoz,
I've seen too many cases when the opposite is true. And, by the way, I've already said I uploaded to Youtube my view of Toronto, enjoy it. Decide yourself if it is a reliable evidence.

As a brief offtopic, just one of such cases, closer to my field. I've already mention the book (a great book, I think), written by a Canadian scientist (a great scientist, I think). The book is here, I placed it, so the others could benefit from it:

http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/172/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/172/)

It says that many, if not most of diseases (including cancer, diabetes, HIV, autism, Alzheimer, infertility etc.) can be cured by using herbs (the formula is given) and/or an electronic apparatus (the circuit and assembly instructions are also provided). All the instructions are given. The author wrote her book as a gift to mankind, in 1993, - 23 years ago. She wrote that before writing the book, she personally cured 100 (one hundred) cases of cancer in about 2 years (so, she was saving one man every two weeks or so), just to be sure she's right. Of course, all the, so to speak, official science are pouring dirt on her name (Hulda Clark), calling her a quack and so on, you may check it yourself, just google, look in Wikipedia etc. So that's about the "evidences" and who knows... how about the conspiracy?
  ::)

Naturally, I was intrigued, assembled the device, played a bit with it to enhance the efficiency etc. Basically, it works as described. I did not have a chance to treat cancer (fortunately, because those who do that end up in jail), but I saw myself how the blood sugar level in a case of officially diagnosed diabetes went back to normal in just 2 hours, from about 11 to 5.3.

Naturally, I was telling people about that interesting story, that she's right, it's working, folks could be healthy and happy and do not have to pay a fortune for that etc. So, recently I was approached by a man from a distant country whose kid (5 years old) was seriously sick for the last 2 years, the physicians could not do much and he was, well, desperate about that. The guy asked me if I could make the device for him but, as appeared, did not have much money. So, I just assembled the main part of the apparatus, he got it and recreated the machine in his country. You know what, the kid became completely healthy on the day 4 after they started to use the device...

And I'm so happy about that.
 8)

If that sounds interesting, I briefly summarized some of my findings in those still imperfect, but, hopefully, readable essays:
http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/192/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/192/)
http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/193/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/193/)
Enjoy.
 8)

Of course, if the moderator thinks it's too an offtopic, feel free to delete.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: getrealzommb on January 24, 2016, 06:03:02 PM
maybe you could simply accept the overwhelming evidence till you have some reliable evidence to the contrary.

Dear rabinoz,
I've seen too many cases when the opposite is true. And, by the way, I've already told I uploaded to Youtube my view of Toronto, enjoy it. Decide yourself if it is a reliable evidence.

As a brief offtopic, just one of such cases, closer to my field. I've already mention the book (a great book, I think), written by a Canadian scientist (a great scientist, I think). The book is here, I placed it, so the others could benefit from it:

http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/172/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/172/)

It says that many, if not most of diseases (including cancer, diabetes, HIV, autism, Alzheimer, infertility etc.) can be cured by using herbs (the formula is given) and/or an electronic apparatus (the circuit and assembly instructions are also provided). All the instructions are given. The author wrote her book as a gift to mankind, in 1993, - 23 years ago. She wrote that before writing the book, she personally cured 100 (one hundred) cases of cancer in about 2 years (so, she was saving one man every two weeks or so), just to be sure she's right. Of course, all the, so to speak, official science are pouring dirt on her name (Hulda Clark), calling her a quack and so on, you may check it yourself, just google, look in Wikipedia etc. So that's about the "evidences" and who knows... how about the conspiracy?
  ::)

Naturally, I was intrigued, assembled the device, played a bit with it to enhance the efficiency etc. Basically, it works as described. I did not have a chance to treat cancer (fortunately, because those who do that end up in jail), but I saw myself how the blood sugar level in a case of officially diagnosed diabetes went back to normal in just 2 hours, from about 11 to 5.3.

Naturally, I was telling people about that interesting story, that she's right, it's working, folks could be healthy and happy and do not have to pay a fortune for that etc. So, recently I was approached by a man from a distant country whose kid (5 years old) was seriously sick for the last 2 years, the physicians could not do much and he was, well, desperate about that. The guy asked me if I could make the device for him but, as appeared, did not have much money. So, I just assembled the main part of the apparatus, he got it and recreated the machine in his country. You know what, the kid became completely healthy on the day 4 after they started to use the device...

And I'm so happy about that.
 8)

If that sounds interesting, I briefly summarized some of my findings in those still imperfect, but, hopefully, readable essays:
http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/192/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/192/)
http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/193/ (http://3annep.prostosite.org/filemanager/download/193/)
Enjoy.
 8)

Of course, if the moderator thinks it's too an offtopic, feel free to delete.


Wow so you're a faith healer with a prop.  ::) happy days!
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 24, 2016, 06:13:21 PM
Wow so you're a faith healer with a prop.  ::) happy days!

No, I am not a healer. Happy days to you, too!
 ;D
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 24, 2016, 07:12:59 PM
maybe you could simply accept the overwhelming evidence till you have some reliable evidence to the contrary.
Dear rabinoz,
I've seen too many cases when the opposite is true. And, by the way, I've already said I uploaded to Youtube my view of Toronto, enjoy it. Decide yourself if it is a reliable evidence.

Well, overwhelming evidence in this case is in the records from numerous places, my own personal observations from Australia and I suppose you could include the thousands of users of the various star-charts. They all say the same!

When it comes to the star-charts I find it a little strange that no-one queries the fact that Polaris can be seen from essentially everywhere in the northern hemisphere, yet here we you denying that the same thing happens in the southern hemisphere!

Why lumber all you troubles on the southern hemisphere?[nb]Yes I know, Rowbotham live in England![/nb] such as:
I honestly think that, rather than finding fault with the accepted model, your time would be far better spent finding a flat earth model that fits the known dimensions of the earth.  So far, any maps I have seen are demonstrably wrong in many aspects.

At the moment it seems you are trying to knock down a model that works perfectly well, that in some aspects has been accepted for millenia, and almost in its entirety for around 500 years, but as yet you have no credible alternative

You don't even have a map that works!  How can you expect the populace in general and navigators etc in particular to seriously consider a flat earth without even a map to find your way around!

Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: 29silhouette on January 25, 2016, 09:27:37 AM

By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
;D
So let's set up a 3 person team, or use cameras streaming live, or a person at each location with a camera streaming, whichever, so that a person can see the view from all 3 continents at the same time (excluding any communication lag of course), with clear skies, and let us now ask the question;

Does the geometry show that on a round Earth, on June 20, with a view looking south from South America along the south-east coast just after sunset, South Africa around mid night, and the West coast of Australia before sunrise, the southern polar stars can be seen at the same time?

If you feel there is too much light at those times for S. America and Australia, then let's adjust the time a few hours and go with S. Africa and Australia when it's night-time completely.

Yes or no?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 25, 2016, 10:57:06 AM
It wiĺl definitely be dark enough, the map I linked shows that it's between astronomical dusk and dawn for all three points. http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilight.html (http://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/different-types-twilight.html)
It won't be any of the twilights at the three points. It will be full night.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Humble_Scientist on January 25, 2016, 05:50:47 PM

Gentlemen,

This is what I started from:

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=65503.msg1751051#msg1751051 (http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=65503.msg1751051#msg1751051)

By my natural disposition (if you have not noticed that yet), I am a very shy, timid, meek and humble person. It looks like rabinoz is of such high an esteem about my so imperfect abilities and gifts that he most kindly proposed me to address (almost) all questions asked here about FET! I am indeed flattered, but there are so many others, who truly deserve to be called experts in these arease.

If you do not mind, let us start with the expedition proposed by 29silhouette. There are already three of you, Empirical, 29silhouette and rabinoz, who already lives in Australia, if I'm not mistaken. Only Africa and South America are left. Go there, why not, and tell and show us what you see in the sky at the same moment of time, on all three continents. Wonderful, isn't it? Then we will gladly discuss your findings.
 ::)
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: 29silhouette on January 25, 2016, 07:08:07 PM

If you do not mind, let us start with the expedition proposed by 29silhouette. There are already three of you, Empirical, 29silhouette and rabinoz, who already lives in Australia, if I'm not mistaken. Only Africa and South America are left. Go there, why not, and tell and show us what you see in the sky at the same moment of time, on all three continents. Wonderful, isn't it? Then we will gladly discuss your findings.
 ::)
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That doesn't answer my question though.  Yes or no, does the geometry (of a spherical Earth) show it to be possible?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 25, 2016, 07:39:07 PM
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
At the risk of being diagnosed with "Obsessive Curiosity Disorder", please tell:
Just what is this "bit of geometry"?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Alpha2Omega on January 25, 2016, 08:20:49 PM
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
At the risk of being diagnosed with "Obsessive Curiosity Disorder", please tell:
Just what is this "bit of geometry"?

I'm still waiting to find out, too. The closest we've gotten so far was an unsubstantiated claim that weather might not cooperate, and a remark about viewing conditions right before sunrise or after sunset, which are irrelevant.

It is very unlikely that the weather conditions would allow you to conduct your astronomical observations, at all three locations simultaneously. And the time right after sunset or just before dawn is not good for the observations, either.

Nothing about geometry. He may be regretting that claim about "a bit of geometry"; I suspect it will be a long wait.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 26, 2016, 04:53:05 PM
By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
Still waiting!

It's just a little strange that suddenly "All is Quiet on the Western Front" when no valid answer can be provided?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 30, 2016, 12:38:14 AM

By the way, a bit of geometry also tells us we can not observe a star from Africa, South America and Australia at the same time.
Still waiting!

It's just a little strange that suddenly "All is Quiet on the Western Front" when no valid answer can be provided?

All Points Bulletin, any reports of the location of the Not_So Humble_Scientist?
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 30, 2016, 03:42:42 AM
Funny that no FEer can answer a simple question about the stars, it's probably because they have no model of the stars.
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: rabinoz on January 30, 2016, 04:19:09 AM
Funny that no FEer can answer a simple question about the stars, it's probably because they have no model of the stars.
Some have literally said "They are just little lights in the sky, I don't care about them" and "We are not meant to ask about them".
Title: Re: Explain circumpolar stars in the southern hemisphere.
Post by: Empirical on January 30, 2016, 11:32:58 AM
Funny that no FEer can answer a simple question about the stars, it's probably because they have no model of the stars.
Some have literally said "They are just little lights in the sky, I don't care about them" and "We are not meant to ask about them".
"We are no meant to ask about them" that's one of the rules in their shill handbook, yep the FES pays people to make it look like people believe their theory.  ;D