I've been to Antarctica. It was easy to tell I was in high southern latitudes. Everything about my 3-month stay there, and the trips from and back to New Zealand on the way, and the trips between the US and NZ, were completely consistent with a visit to the southernmost region of a spherical earth. Little, if anything, was consistent, in any way, with a flat earth.
I was there as well for 6 months and I couldn't tell where I was, except I was cold and the ground was covered in snow and ice.
Really? That's remarkable and sad. You must have no curiosity at all; what a wasted opportunity!
Can you think of some simple observations that would distinguish between the Arctic and Antarctic regions of a spherical earth?
Nope. You see, if you haven't been all around the inner circle, [one] part can differ from another. You could be on one side, then sail around to the other and bear in mind it would be a fantastic circular distance to the other side of it, you could almost believe you had went over a globe to the south pole if you were naive.
If you
have been all around the inner circle (what is that, by the way?) would parts still not differ? I mean, what is it about you (or me, or anyone) traveling that would cause all parts of of earth to become the same? Note the change from 'once' to 'one' in the quoted passage - is that what you meant to type? It didn't scan as it was written; it still doesn't make sense.
In the spirit of the "think for yourselves" mantra often voiced here, I'd like to see if any flat-earth proponents can present at least one practical (and easy!) way to tell if someone were trying fool them by taking them to the Arctic and telling them it's the Antarctic. Believe it or not, it really is easy to tell one from the other!
It's only easy if you know what you're looking at when you're travelling from one side to another and because you are merely a dot on the circle, I doubt you would know anything at all.
Do you really mean you can't think of a single observation you could make - for yourself - that would immediately reveal the lie if someone told you you were in Antarctica when they had in fact taken you to the Arctic? I can see why you are so suspicious.
Even if you can't think of anything, let's let this question stand for a while and see if any of your compatriots can. If none of them can, either, won't it make the whole "Wake up people! Think for yourselves!" schtick a little thin?
You might be cocooned, but by no means is everyone. If you are, unless you're a complete invalid or involuntarily confined for some reason, its your own fault, so stop navel-gazing and whining about how everything we're told is a lie (everything, that is, except "everything we're told is a lie"), and do something!
In your home you're cocooned. In the street, you're cocooned in the street. Ina car driving you are cocooned and see only what's around your limited vision. In a plane is the same. On a boat is the same. Basically unless you go into your space and look over a globe, seeing north and south poles, you're cocooned. Now since space does not exist and is therefore impossible to be in, you are cocooned. No disability required.
You can be cocooned anywhere if you want to be. Coming from someone who was in Antarctica for six months but still missed the trip, this isn't a surprise.
Travel to Antarctica if you can afford it; it's expensive (but not hideously expensive), but can be done, and little there is "out of bounds" other than for logistical difficulties (which are significant). Better yet, if you have a useful skill, get a job with a contractor or government agency that maintains and operates the facilities there and stay for a year or longer; they need tradesmen, professionals, and labor of all kinds as well as scientists and engineers.
Same thing applies to my earlier post.
I am sorry you had to endure that. Even worse, if someone else had gone they might have gotten something out of it.
If that's not practical (it's certainly not easy), go out and watch the stars. Especially watch the stars for a few hours as they appear to circle the pole - that's easy and cheap.
From one side, that would be fine. Go around it and your perception has changed to the so called stars you see from that point.A full change of perspective.
Not sure I follow. From one side of what? Go around what?
If you mean the North Pole, then, no, you're wrong. Someone in London (51.5 N, 0 W) has the same stars in his evening sky as someone else on Adak Island (51.6 N, 177 W) has in his 12 hours earlier or later. Both will see the same stars directly below Polaris in the early evening rotate slowly through the night in a counterclockwise direction until they're directly above Polaris after 12 hours, and those that start directly above Polaris rotate counterclockwise to directly below. If it's dark in both locations at the same time, the stars that appear highest from London appear lowest from Adak, and vice versa, since those locations are almost exactly on opposite sides of the pole. And, for the terminally obtuse: those locations were selected to be fairly far north and almost exactly 180 degrees apart in longitude. This circumpolar ("around the pole") rotation is visible from anywhere north of the equator, but the number of stars visible below the pole varies from few when viewed from near the equator to all the northern stars when viewed from the North Pole.
If you can, travel to the opposite hemisphere and watch a different set of stars circle the other pole - in the opposite direction.
You can do that around the centre. You're getting mixed up with thinking that you could see the same thing from one side of the north pole to the other which your eyes would not allow, even with optics.
By opposite hemisphere, I meant Northern and Southern; I thought the "other pole" made that clear enough, but perhaps not. Restating more explicitly, if you watch northern stars appear to circle a point in the sky due north of you, then travel to the Southern Hemisphere, you can see a different set of stars circle a different point in the sky, in the opposite direction, due south of you.
Or just sit around and complain how "they're trying to trick all of us." Boo-hoo. It's much easier.
I'm not complaining. There's nothing I can do about it. As long as I know I'm not being duped then I'm fine.
If you think about it, all we have here is the "we're told" whining again. Your "what if" makes little sense, but should be easy enough to observe, if true. So go check it out for yourself.
Like I said earlier.
If I understand what you said earlier, it was "I can't be bothered. 'They' are trying to dupe me and I don't know how to tell, so by refusing to believe anything, 'they' can't dupe me."
[Edit] Fixed nested quotes. Removed gratuitous snarky comment.
Entirely up to you what comments you put in. They're all the same to me.
They have a tendency to derail conversations; I try to avoid them.