Straight from the FAQ noob. Learn it, use it, love it. Any more brilliant questions, or can I begin to ignore you now?
Q: "Why are other celestial bodies round but not the Earth?"
A: The Earth is not one of the other planets. The Earth is special and unlike the other bodies in numerous ways.
Q: "What about the stars, sun and moon and other planets? Are they flat too? What are they made of?"
A: The sun and moon, each 32 miles in diameter, circle Earth at a height of 3000 miles at its equator. They are located midway between the North Pole and the ice wall. Each functions similar to a "spotlight," with the sun radiating "hot light" and the moon "cold light." As they are spotlights, they only give light out over a certain are which explains why some parts of the Earth are dark when others are light. Their apparent rising and setting are caused by optical illusions.
Is the Earth special like all the people who actually think this theory is actually plausible?
First off, you suggest the sun and moon are spotlights. Let's accept this for a moment and look at the surface of the earth. Lets say we have a map of the flat earth, and we take a flashlight. We stand really far away and point the flashlight at the map. What do we see? We see a circle of light with edges gradating out into darkness, because of the distance of the light source. Now, since the sun and moon are both circles when we look at them, the shape of the light they projected would also strike objects maintaining this shape.
So we have our flat earth, and our circular sun and moon. It is 7:00 AM on solstice morning in Toronto, Ontario. It's fairly light outside. Tim decides to go visit his uncle, who lives a great distance away in New Liskeard, a small city directly north of Toronto. When he gets there, he notices that a significant amount of time has passed, yet it is barely lighter outside then when he left home. He has only traveled north on his journey. He looks up into the sky, assuring himself "Well, since the sun is a spotlight, I'll just look for the light in the sky." Having thought this, he keeps traveling north until he has found night again. He looks up into the sky, looking in the direction he came and see nothing. "What is this!?!?" thinks Tim. "Surely, the sun is a spotlight, so I must be able to see it still, even if the earth is flat and its not shining on me! I should be able to see it projecting its ray down toward where I came from, but I can't!" This obviously doesn't happen naturally, so we must conclude that the suns' light runs perpendicular to the equator. Like a scanners' laser scanning a document, it must then logically move across the surface of the earth in a uniform north-south beam.
But wait! I thought the sun and moon were spotlights! And they are round! So if they are round, yet they are spotlights, then they must project circles of light on the earth, because it is flat! They are indeed smaller in diameter then the length of the earth. But this phenomena never occurs! Light moves across the earth in bands!
So, with this knowledge then, we can ask how are both the most extreme Easts and Wests alight at the same time? If the sun moves above the earth on some sort of cosmic rail path, then how does it project its light to the other side? Is there some kind of rift on either side of the earth in space that the sun and moon pass through when they reach one side to instantly get back to the other?
One more thing. The moon is a spotlight. We know this, it must be true! It is one of the necessary components needed by the flat earth theory for it to work! But wait. I'm looking at the night sky. I see the moon, but it's not a circle! Oh my! It looks like a crescent! What is the cause of this strange occurrence? Is there, perhaps, some kind of slider on the face of the spotlight that shifts with the solar wind patterns? Or does the government have giant machinery in place to methodically shroud some of the moon from us each night to uphold this blasphemous theory of a spherical earth?
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Now to stop the theorizing. The reason that we know the sun is larger then us because to find an edge of its ray, we must go so far away as to not be able to see it anymore. Then, if we look at where we came from, we see no light shining down from space, we see darkness. There is one conclusion to make here, the slow curve of the earth hides the sun from us as we pass the farthest face it's rays are shining on. The sun shines on the earth in faces. And regarding the government conspiracy machinery that hides the moon from us each night. That's obviously untrue, because if such a structure were to exist, we would either see it's supports during the day because of the sheer size it would have to be, OR, mankind must have gone into space and installed a satellite controlled by the government, which, according to you lovable FE'ers, we can't do. So whats blocking that chunk of the moon each night? The shadow on this wonderful sphere called Earth.
Thanks for all the ammo, WardoggKC130FE
