I think a lot of my enthusiasm for the topic stems from the fact that instead of thinking FET is a crazy conspiracy theory, I find it fascinating, much like the prospect of the universe itself. One of my favorite things to ask myself is, "What's out there? Can we discover it?" And FET makes me ask that about the home we live on, which I haven't been particularly curious about since I was a child. I think we all get to a point where we feel like we know all there is to know about Earth, since we've lived here our whole life... But then something just blows your mind and makes you think about it all differently, even in my case, where I don't necessarily believe in FET, I'd still like to think of it as a possibility, and that alone is exceptionally invigorating.
I personally choose to believe that we as humans exist to *discover*. To make our mark in the universe and to learn as much about it as we can. That is to me, the meaning of life. One of the greatest things about this theory is that it implores one to adventure into brand new territory of thought and essentially discover (or more accurately, re-discover) something totally different.
Welcome.
I'm 55 y/o and through all my life activities and experience I can say that nothing made me consider Earth to be flat.
Every observation, measurement and experiment shows that Earth is spinning globe.
It doesn't mean that I would try to force anyone to think like me.
But I will try to point out to anyone the fact that Globe Earth integrates facts into functional model.
Every fact can be attributed to something else, under certain conditions.
But first, those conditions have to exist.
And second, there is no anything else that could integrate existing facts into different functional model.
Flat Earth can't.
If we assume that it is because not enough people were working on it to make it work, then there is question"why?".
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To give you idea about the atmosphere on this forum, I will ask Ski one question, and you look what will be her answer.
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Looking down upon a disc (or the illuminated portion of the earth) would present a visible curve.
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Everyone saw the Sun.
It appears round as circle from any part of the world.
Always. (Never elliptical.)
Under any angle of observation.
Clearly, Sun is sphere.
We all saw that bottom and top of the Sun are equally bright.
HOW can Sun act as "spotlight"?
It is not about me.
It is not about any agenda.
It is about simple question:
HOW can equally bright top of the Sun NOT illuminate beyond "edge of illuminated portion of the Earth?