1

Flat Earth Debate / Re: This site's a joke, right?

« on: July 17, 2012, 07:19:03 PM »

And still! We have no explanation for the huge discrepancy in the calculated distance between Sydney and Adelaide under the Flat Earth Hypothesis and the measured distance in the REAL WORLD.

Flat Earth Hypothesis? Calculated by determining the circumference of the disk at the latitude of the two cities and then the ratio of the circumference against the longitude delta between the two cities.

Flat Earth Hypothesis calculation: 1878 miles (3005 km)

Real world. Maps are published with this info. These maps are used EVERY DAY by people traveling about Australia.

Real World: 740 miles (1184 km)

2

Flat Earth Debate / Re: I think your position is illogical

« on: July 17, 2012, 07:04:17 PM »

And still! We have no explanation for the huge discrepancy in the calculated distance between Sydney and Adelaide under the Flat Earth Hypothesis and the measured distance in the REAL WORLD.

Flat Earth Hypothesis? Calculated by determining the circumference of the disk at the latitude of the two cities and then the ratio of the circumference against the longitude delta between the two cities.

Flat Earth Hypothesis calculation: 1878 miles (3005 km)

Real world. Maps are published with this info. These maps are used EVERY DAY by people traveling about Australia.

Real World: 740 miles (1184 km)

3

Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Is this hypothesis not easily disproved?

« on: May 29, 2011, 05:16:25 AM »

I expect that no one is rebutting because the argument is iron clad. No 'conspiracy' can stop someone from measuring the distance from one city to the next and comparing it against the enormous difference between the two models as calculated. This isn't a tiny difference... we're talking about a nearly 2:1 error that far below the equator (Or rimward from the equator in the FE model.)

Samuel Rowbotham actually tries this argument in his arguments FOR FE in England back in his day, but he used data which, when looked at now, was obviously in error. Not only in error, but apparently manipulated to support his defective hypothesis.

4

Flat Earth Q&A / Is this hypothesis not easily disproved?

« on: May 26, 2011, 09:33:00 PM »

It seems to me that the hypothesis of a 'flat earth' as given is easily disproved. You just need to be able to move about the planet, something you had trouble doing back in Samuel Rowbotham's day.

Simple.

Calculate the distance between cities south of the equator based on both the FE model and the RE model.

Measure the distance by actually traveling between them.

I would suggest the cities of Sydney and Adelaide in Australia. They have very close to the same latitude, which is easy to calculate in relation to the sun (And is the same in both models) but should have greatly different distances between them model to model.

On a RE, these cities appear to be about 725 miles apart. Slightly more as the road goes... but in the FE model, the distance is much more, well over 1000 miles. Easy to verify.