We now have the technology to go up and see what shape it is.
My point on the "data and experiments" that goes back thousands of years was that it extends to the present and has not been seriously disputed, except by a few minority groups!
And!
Yes, we certainly do have the technology!
There are numerous satellite photos, including many showing a full hemisphere. But they, of course are all deemed fake by Flat Earthers.
Also I find the photos of Geostationary TV satellites showing streaks of the background stars and quite sharp images of the satellites quite convincing.
Well don't you think that is the fault of NASA, with their stitched together CGI photos? And why is there no recent single photo of the "globe"? In 4K or better would be nice!
Oh and can you show me those sharp and "convincing" images from Geostationary TV satellites ?
First that black&white image looks like a 1970s video game similar to Ping Pong! With all the taxpayers money that NASA gets that is what they can show us? Unbelievable!!
The other (computer generated) photo is also not very convincing to me. Where are the stars? Why are part of the sides perfectly sharp? And to be honest it does look like it's taken with a fisheye lens!
That first photo:Your smart alec comment: "First that black&white image looks like a 1970s video game similar to Ping Pong!
With all the taxpayers money that NASA gets that is what they can show us? Unbelievable!!" Well, you are the unbelievable. Why on earth should NASA (or anyone else) be at your beck and call, just because you are so paranoid you doubt everything around you?
Well it IS a genuine photo and was
NOT TAKEN BY NASA.
It was taken through an astronomical telescope of 7 Geostationary TV satellites, what YOU think it looks like is of no consequence to the big wide world out there!
Photos like this can be taken by amateur astronomers quite easily.
If you are interested go look it up yourself. Jadyyn might have more patience than me - he might help.
The second photo:
You comment "Where are the stars?". If you are the expert on photography that you claim then you would not need telling that the exposure is for daylight conditions, so will be too short for any stars to show.
Also, if someone was trying to fake this don't you think that they would be smart enough to add stars if they should be seen?
Then "Why are part of the sides perfectly sharp?" You really can't work that out? The fuzzy curved part to the right (on the original, left in this one) is the boundary between day to the west (left) and night to the east (right). The sharp boundary around the rest is simply the outline of the Globe.
Before you ask, from a lower altitude (say with your magic fisheye lens) the atmosphere would show as a fuzzy boundary. The effective depth of the asmoephere is only about 5 miles, and the satellite is about 26,250 miles away from that, so the depth of the atmosphere is only a fraction of a pixel, making the outline of the earth quite sharp.
These images are generated "real time" (on each half hour) and anyone can download them. And it was NOT generated with a fish-eye lens. If you are such an expert on these matters you would recognise that immediately!
A fish-eye lens could not take a picture of (almost) the whole eastern hemisphere from (almost) the South Pole to (almost) the North Pole. If you happen to live in the region covered by the photo you would find that the cloud cover does match the local cloud. And no, I cannot PROVE that it is correct cloud pattern for the WHOLE hemisphere!
You can download these from the site http://www.jma.go.jp/en/gms/. The default is an infra-red photo, in false colour if required, but a visible light image can be selected in monochrome or colour. You might note that the image is time and date stamped along the bottom.
If you wait for them to download, you can play by a "video" of the previous 24 hours. Since it is a geostationary satellite the image of the earth will remain fixed.
On the right is the download from a short time ago, it was about 10:40 pm here so dark over Australia.
There are literally thousands of amateur astronomers, many of whom take a particular interest in tracking and photographing satellites. I simply can't understand how you can think that ALL these people are lying! The altitudes of the satellites can be determined by angle measurement and triangulation and can be shown to agree with the geostationary altitude. Jadyyn has done it in one post, but no-one cares. To flat earth supporters these are "Just little lights in the sky, they mean nothing". That attitude bewilders me.
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