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« on: May 31, 2016, 02:37:26 PM »
1. Other planets are round
According to Flat Earth Theory, the Earth and other planets are not really the same type of celestial body. To put it another way, which I'm sure everyone everywhere will take offense to, the Earth is different.
There's no indication that Earth is a different type of celestial body. You made this up, to support your conclusion that the Earth is flat.
2. Time Zones
This is the first of a trend in this video, in which Henry (the host of MinutePhysics, for those not subscribed) assumes that the Flat Earth is exactly the same as the Round Earth in every way except for shape. The sun works in a manner similar to a spotlight in Flat Earth Theory, which is why time zones exist. When the Sun isn't pointing overhead, it's nighttime.
This may work well for the equator, but the poles? Not so much.
3. The Coriolis Effect
Once again, Henry is making assumptions. There are a few differing opinions about this, as Flat Earth Theory is not a unified theory. Some people doubt the existence of Coriolis as anything more than a theorized force, as the evidence for it is largely contrived. Others have various explanations for it, such as the Shadow of the Aetheric Wind theorized by myself.
A theorized force? Yeah, right. There's clear evidence for the existence for the Coriolis Effect. Also, Aetheric Wind. Ahh, Aether. Your go-to made-up material when you have no explanation!
4. Triangles
This is little more than conjecture. It is literally impossible to perform this experiment on the scale required.
Literally impossible? No. Implausible? Yes. But you can prove the Earth's curvature if you do decide to go to the north pole by going 1 km south, 1 km east and 1 km north. You'll end up back where you started. On a flat earth, you'd end up a kilometer west.
5. The Sun
Henry is assuming again. The Sun's apparent movement is caused by the Sun actually moving. As for Eratosthenes's famous experiment to measure the diameter of the Earth, that assumes a Round Earth. If we assume a Flat Earth, the same experiment gives us the distance to the Sun.
Okay, seriously. You guys looked for crazy ways to explain your conclusion, because that's where you started, instead of following the scientific process, which says to form a conclusion from the evidence. In reality, a moving, tilted, round earth could easily explain it all without having to move an entire star. Also, What do the other planets orbit around. Don't tell me you guys think they're overly tiny, too.
6. Stars Change
Another assumption. This time, he's assuming that FE geography is just a Mercator map. It's not. The Earth is a disk centered around the North Pole, which would provide the same effect.
No, it wouldn't. This is where your theories begin to really falter. If the sun is a spotlight, we should be able to see every star in the sky when it isn't pointing at us. If it isn't a spotlight, we should be able to see it everywhere at once, at all hours of the day.
7. Magellan
Again, the Earth isn't in the shape of a Mercator map. That would be silly. Magellan and many others simply made a circle around the disk of the Earth.
What held them on? This leads to an interesting point: On a flat Earth, all straight lines go south.
8. The Horizon
This is just a perspective effect. First of all, apparently large waves will obscure apparently small objects. Therefore, looking out long distances over water you will of course be unable to see land on the other side. In addition, refraction has an effect. Some flat Earthers theorize an electromagnetic acceleration which appears to bend light upward.
I admit you're correct about waves obscuring things. But that doesn't change it. Even if there are no apparently large waves occurring, you still can't see Spain from the USA. And you flat earthers made up the "electromagnetic acceleration" to support your flat earth lies.
9. Eclipses
Eclipses are caused by the sun going behind the moon, or vice versa. It's that simple. Once again, Henry is assuming everything is exactly the same.
Lunar eclipses. The moon behind the sun would cause only the sun to be visible, not darken the moon.
10. Photographic Evidence
Most photographic evidence actually demonstrates what we would expect to see on a disk shaped, flat Earth: a circle with little to no apparent curvature. Add in camera distortion, and that's our explanation for low Earth photos. As for photos like the famous Blue Marble, that the space agencies of the World are involved in a conspiracy is depressingly obvious if you look at the evidence.
No, it doesn't. No photo shows the whole surface of the Earth, like it should on a flat Earth. And why would you make up such a massive conspiracy, accusing millions of people, rather than admit you're wrong.
IT'S ALL JUST STUPIDITY