A Question for Flat-Earthers

If you don't want to read the FAQ:

1] The shadow on the Moon is not necessarily the Earth. http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za51.htm
2] http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za32.htm
3] I don't know
4] The statement "If the world had been flat, then two sticks in different locations would produce the same shadow" is incorrect.
5] You are seeing through less atmosphere, so naturally you can see farther.
6] Circumnavigation is explained in FET. You travel in a circle around the Earth.
7] Now this is just stupid. The Earth is planet therefore it is round? That is just classification. If need be, the classification of the Earth can change from being a planet or the other planets can be called something else.
8] The Sun travels in a circle along the equator. When the Sun is directly overhead an area, it is noon. Noon is at different times in different areas, ergo time zones are explained.
9] Gravity does not exist.

9. You're kidding, right? How do you explain why things fall down, then?

To clarify: we believe that gravity is actually the acceleration of the Earth, which, according to Einstein's equivalence principle, is mathematically equal to gravity.

1. So what is it, then, if not the earth? It's like a weatherman saying "It's not sunny outside today". That answers next to nothing about what the weather really is. It could be cloudy, or it could be a thunderstorm. When you say "The shadow isn't the Earth's", it means it's something else. What is it?
2. The concept of perspective requires a round earth. See proof 3.
4. How would it be incorrect if light is coming to them from the same angle?
5. The atmosphere doesn't really interfere with how far you can see, unless it's foggy. The ability to see farther the higher you are works outside of fog.,
6. That still doesn't explain why you can see the curvature of the earth in a plane. If you don't believe the pictures, ride a plane yourself and look out the window.
7. Okay, that argument was a bit heavy on semantics. There are still other pieces of evidence.
8. You say the sun is only 32 miles wide. That isn't nearly wide enough to explain how sunlight could get to the poles.
9. You're kidding, right? How do you explain why things fall down, then?

5. Go on any weather wobsite. It'll tell you the day's visibility. It's usually about 3 miles on a clear day. And oh, look! according to
Nice.

6. You can't, unless you're in a U2 spy plane. The accepted height at which you can see curvature is 60000-90000 feet, which is higher than planes go.

Visibility is a measure of the horizontal opacity of the atmosphere at the point of observation and is expressed in terms of the horizontal distance at which a person should be able to see and identify: in the daytime, a prominent dark object against the sky at the horizon; at night, a known, preferably unfocused, moderately intense light source.

The maximum visibility on a clear day is 11 kilometres (7 miles), after which a flat ground horizon will fall away to a point that surface conditions cannot be observed.

you could really see that from concorde! thats amazing and almost unbelievable. if you saw that you would be like "dam its bloody round!" *facepalm

Where were the photographs taken during the AF4500 flight, processed? At the EADS labs, by any chance?

Here is a photograph which is more realistic, taken from Concorde:


http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18209127

we see the earth curvature from the high because lack of light and the earth indeed like a circle....

Quote from: maserati on September 09, 2011, 05:23:40 AM

we see the earth curvature from the high because lack of light and the earth indeed like a circle....

I've offered a refutation of this absurd proposition before and not one FE'er offered any attempt at counter argument.  I'll repeat the basic premise here: the transition from light to dark is not as delineated as the transition from light to dark is shown on the ISS photos.

Also, pitroidtech posted:

First human spacewalker, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov: “Lifting my head I could see the curvature of the Earth's horizon. ’So the world really is round,’ I said softly to myself, as if the words came from somewhere deep in my soul. "

You haven't done your homework...

Here is the real deal:

http://theflatearthsociety.net/talk/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=606#p26271 (fake Gagarin, Leonov, and Sputnik soviet spaceflights)


How the Leonov flights were faked...

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Fakes/Fakes.htm
http://www.vho.org/tr/2004/3/Kausch250-253.html

'Four months of solid research interviewing experts in the fields of photo-optics, photo-chemistry and electro-optics, all of whom carefully studied the motion picture film and still photographs officially released by the Soviet Government ... (indicate them to be) double-printed .. The foreground (Leonov) was superimposed on the background (Earth below). The Russian film showed reflections from the glass plate under which a double plate is made ... Leonov was suspended from wire or cables ... In several episodes of the Russian film, light was reflected from a small portion of wire (or cable) attached to Leonov's space suit ... One camera angle was impossible of achievement. This showed Leonov crawling out of his hatch into space. It was a head on shot, so the camera would have had to have been located out in space beyond the space ship.'

Quote from: pitdroidtech on September 09, 2011, 05:30:14 AM

Quote from: maserati on September 09, 2011, 05:23:40 AM

we see the earth curvature from the high because lack of light and the earth indeed like a circle....

I've offered a refutation of this absurd proposition before and not one FE'er offered any attempt at counter argument.  I'll repeat the basic premise here: the transition from light to dark is not as delineated as the transition from light to dark is shown on the ISS photos.

what i know is the earth is flat