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its not a conspiracy!!!!!!"everyones out to get us"......what benefit do they have?
seriously, youre all wasting your lives on some fairy tale.....settle down, get an education ( if possible) get a family, and have a nice life......stop wasting your days away on here.........if you really believe its true, then if its the government, you cant exactly do anything about it can you?
Then why don't they? Because even the "inferior" working class can work out that the Earth is round. Everyone can. Is it not obvious?
It's no slur if it's fact.
Pictures don't prove anything. Here's a picture of the flat earth taken at an altitude of 198 nautical miles:
Ferdinand Magellan went around the Earth in 1518-1521. Are you suggesting that his Navigation systems suddenly changed his direction to go back around? Or has this conspiracy gone on since the dawn of time?
Question:Who figured out the Earth is round?Answer:It has actually been known that the Earth was round since the time of the ancient Greeks. I believe that it was Pythagoras who first proposed that the Earth was round sometime around 500 B.C. As I recall, he based his idea on the fact that he showed the Moon must be round by observing the shape of the terminator (the line between the part of the Moon in light and the part of the Moon in the dark) as it moved through its orbital cycle. Pythagoras reasoned that if the Moon was round, then the Earth must be round as well. After that, sometime between 500 B.C. and 430 B.C., a fellow called Anaxagoras determined the true cause of solar and lunar eclipses - and then the shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse was also used as evidence that the Earth was round.Around 350 BC, the great Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere (based on observations he made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you travelled further and further away from the equator) and during the next hundred years or so, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes actually measured the size of the Earth!
Pythagoras reasoned that if the Moon was round, then the Earth must be round as well.
After that, sometime between 500 B.C. and 430 B.C., a fellow called Anaxagoras determined the true cause of solar and lunar eclipses - and then the shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse was also used as evidence that the Earth was round.
Around 350 BC, the great Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere (based on observations he made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you travelled further and further away from the equator) and during the next hundred years or so, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes actually measured the size of the Earth!
How do you say pictures cannot be used as evidence because they are fallible, then show a picture.
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QuotePythagoras reasoned that if the Moon was round, then the Earth must be round as well. Fallacy. The moon is not the earth.http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za50.htmQuoteAfter that, sometime between 500 B.C. and 430 B.C., a fellow called Anaxagoras determined the true cause of solar and lunar eclipses - and then the shape of the Earth's shadow on the Moon during a lunar eclipse was also used as evidence that the Earth was round.A two dimensional shadow on the moon does not mean that the earth is a sphere.http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za29.htmQuoteAround 350 BC, the great Aristotle declared that the Earth was a sphere (based on observations he made about which constellations you could see in the sky as you travelled further and further away from the equator) and during the next hundred years or so, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes actually measured the size of the Earth!Since the stars are only a few thousand miles away from the earth in FE, they would also appear to change as you traveled further and further away from the equator.http://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za37.htmhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/earth/za/za48.htm
Pictures don't prove anything. Here's an picture of the flat earth taken by Space Shuttle Endeavor from it's maiden flight on May 7th 1992, at an altitude of 195 nautical miles. It is an untouched photograph taken from a 35mm camera with a diagonal of 43 mm. It uses a normal lens of 50mm focal length. No zoom is applied.http://i17.tinypic.com/2rwn4i1.jpg
Quote from: Tom Bishop on March 07, 2007, 01:53:18 PMPictures don't prove anything. Here's an picture of the flat earth taken by Space Shuttle Endeavor from it's maiden flight on May 7th 1992, at an altitude of 195 nautical miles. It is an untouched photograph taken from a 35mm camera with a diagonal of 43 mm. It uses a normal lens of 50mm focal length. No zoom is applied.http://i17.tinypic.com/2rwn4i1.jpg(Bold emphasis mine) Umm... The EXIF data would suggest otherwise...
is terry pratchett your god?
How come if you go from London to New York it's quicker to go North West and make the journey in a semi-circle?
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