Bendy Light and Sunset Clouds

I seem to recall Scepti attempting a diagram of this some time ago.  I'm not sure why he doesn't just post the same one again (if still available), as I'm sure it will still be the same.

If this link works there is a picture of the sun casting a shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html

Easily explainable on a round earth.

If this link works there is a picture of the sun casting a shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html

Easily explainable on a round earth.

Great photo. Specifically, mathsman is referring to this one:



How do you flat earther's explain this one? There can be zero doubt that the sun's light is hitting the bottom of the clouds, except where the mountain is casting its shadow of course.

I'm glad at least we can move past the predictable responses of 'optical illusion' or other such absurdities about cloud density and the like.

Nice photo, and for what it's worth around here, I've seen the effect in person, in Kenya. It looked a lot like that, except the mountain was a bit closer and our cloud cover wasn't quite as tidy and uniform. On the other hand, we could watch it from earlier, before the sun got low enough to cast a shadow, then the cloud bank being lit from its edge with a shadowed volume running through it, finally the effect shown in the picture, where the clouds are no longer back or internally lit but lit from below with a shadow cast on their underside.

Presumably this is another case of bendy light bending in whatever way is necessary to make the flat earth appear round to anyone who doesn't know better.

Quote from: mathsman on May 22, 2014, 02:00:58 AM

If this link works there is a picture of the sun casting a shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html

Easily explainable on a round earth.

Great photo. Specifically, mathsman is referring to this one:



How do you flat earther's explain this one? There can be zero doubt that the sun's light is hitting the bottom of the clouds, except where the mountain is casting its shadow of course.

I'm glad at least we can move past the predictable responses of 'optical illusion' or other such absurdities about cloud density and the like.

Wow that's beautiful! It's amazing how something so simple, like a mountain, can do something as lovely as that.

Presumably this is another case of bendy light bending in whatever way is necessary to make the flat earth appear round to anyone who doesn't know better.

I suppose this image is actually a double whammy - the edges of the shadow look pretty straight to me so I can't see how anybody can claim light can bend yet suddenly go straight to fit the pattern we see here.

Quote from: FETlolcakes on May 22, 2014, 07:26:23 AM

Quote from: mathsman on May 22, 2014, 02:00:58 AM

If this link works there is a picture of the sun casting a shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html

Easily explainable on a round earth.

Great photo. Specifically, mathsman is referring to this one:



How do you flat earther's explain this one? There can be zero doubt that the sun's light is hitting the bottom of the clouds, except where the mountain is casting its shadow of course.

I'm glad at least we can move past the predictable responses of 'optical illusion' or other such absurdities about cloud density and the like.

Wow that's beautiful! It's amazing how something so simple, like a mountain, can do something as lovely as that.

Quote from: Goddamnit, Clown on May 22, 2014, 07:46:47 AM

Presumably this is another case of bendy light bending in whatever way is necessary to make the flat earth appear round to anyone who doesn't know better.

I suppose this image is actually a double whammy - the edges of the shadow look pretty straight to me so I can't see how anybody can claim light can bend yet suddenly go straight to fit the pattern we see here.

Good point! If it were light bending noticeably we'd see a large curve.

Quote from: FETlolcakes on May 22, 2014, 07:26:23 AM

Quote from: mathsman on May 22, 2014, 02:00:58 AM

If this link works there is a picture of the sun casting a shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds. (You have to scroll down a bit.)

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.co.uk/2011_10_01_archive.html

Easily explainable on a round earth.

Great photo. Specifically, mathsman is referring to this one:



How do you flat earther's explain this one? There can be zero doubt that the sun's light is hitting the bottom of the clouds, except where the mountain is casting its shadow of course.

I'm glad at least we can move past the predictable responses of 'optical illusion' or other such absurdities about cloud density and the like.

Wow that's beautiful! It's amazing how something so simple, like a mountain, can do something as lovely as that.

Quote from: Goddamnit, Clown on May 22, 2014, 07:46:47 AM

Presumably this is another case of bendy light bending in whatever way is necessary to make the flat earth appear round to anyone who doesn't know better.

I suppose this image is actually a double whammy - the edges of the shadow look pretty straight to me so I can't see how anybody can claim light can bend yet suddenly go straight to fit the pattern we see here.

I'll take this one since it can be easily disproved from a FE perspective using FE theory. This clearly works on the FE model because light bends and the earth looks flat and optical illusions and stuff. Therefore I have proved you wrong and you are brainwashed so that proves it.

I thought this was a science forum.

You kind of blew science out of the water when you said the earth was flat. To be fair.

Quote from: jroa on May 21, 2014, 05:38:19 AM

I thought this was a science forum.

You kind of blew science out of the water when you said the earth was flat. To be fair.

Not really.  We are all truth seekers.  If the Earth is round, then I will admit my errors.  If the Earth is flat, however, you people will fight tooth and nail to deny it.  It is a shame. 

Quote from: PiemanFiddy on May 26, 2014, 05:38:55 PM

Quote from: jroa on May 21, 2014, 05:38:19 AM

I thought this was a science forum.

You kind of blew science out of the water when you said the earth was flat. To be fair.

Not really.  We are all truth seekers.  If the Earth is round, then I will admit my errors.  If the Earth is flat, however, you people will fight tooth and nail to deny it.  It is a shame.

Incorrect. If the preponderance of evidence points to a FE, I would accept it.

Quote from: PiemanFiddy on May 26, 2014, 05:38:55 PM

Quote from: jroa on May 21, 2014, 05:38:19 AM

I thought this was a science forum.

You kind of blew science out of the water when you said the earth was flat. To be fair.

Not really.  We are all truth seekers.  If the Earth is round, then I will admit my errors.  If the Earth is flat, however, you people will fight tooth and nail to deny it.  It is a shame.

Well, I think a long time ago when I was less civil on these forums, I told you all to take a test drive on one of NASA's rockets into space, to prove our 'theory'. Unfortunately as asinine as the request was, you denied it, and therefore I did what I could to give you evidence.

I'm not big on astrology or astronomy.. but I do know something about the Earth. How the light works.. the gravity.. the rotation. It's not rocket science at all.

Quote from: jroa on May 26, 2014, 05:43:23 PM

Quote from: PiemanFiddy on May 26, 2014, 05:38:55 PM

Quote from: jroa on May 21, 2014, 05:38:19 AM

I thought this was a science forum.

You kind of blew science out of the water when you said the earth was flat. To be fair.

Not really.  We are all truth seekers.  If the Earth is round, then I will admit my errors.  If the Earth is flat, however, you people will fight tooth and nail to deny it.  It is a shame.

Incorrect. If the preponderance of evidence points to a FE, I would accept it.

Then, why not stop spending your time trying to defeat the FE and try, for a change, to dissect it?  Perhaps you might learn something for a change.  Unless you just want to follow markjo's pattern of denial?