WHy do you roundies always think you're being smart, when all you're doing is repeating the same tired old shit we've heard dozens fo times before? It was stupid then, it was stupid now.
And if it wasn't stupid then, it likely wont be stupid now.
We often repeat the "same old shit" because it hasn't been addressed properly.
Although some new people will ask questions simply because they have the questions and can't be bothered looking for answers.
But for things which do have answers I will often answer them.
If for once you people could stop spamming the forum and let the multitude of threads where all this was answered stay accessible, maybe you could learn to be honest, but I guess that's never going to happen huh?
Or if you guys could come up with an agreed upon model and have say a wiki or the like explaining it all so we don't need to search through a multitude of threads, many with just complaints about "the same old shit" people would be less likely to ask the same questions.
It is a problem with a positive feedback loop.
The more people ask, and the more complaints about it, the more likely people are to ask again rather than trying to search to find the answer.
Us REers can't do anything about it, but FEers can.
And if we do search we do find many things.
For example, we find numerous claims about the shape of Earth, such as your claims that it is 2 discs, some claiming it is infintie, some claiming it is a circular disc with an ice wall.
We find FEers repeatedly claiming that no one is allowed to visit Antarctica, with some claims of it being patrolled.
no one thinks the Sun hides under the sea
He never suggested that.
He said that is what it looks like.
How does FE explain that?
The better worded question would be how does FE explain sunsets where the sun drops below an angle of elevation of 0?
no one is bribing fucking teachers
Then why don't they teach that Earth is flat?
Why do they teach that Earth is round?
Why do so many others (it isn't just teachers) all teach or say that Earth is round?
And why would anyone lie when there is nothing to get out of it?
Again, as a better worded question:
Why would anyone lie about the shape of Earth, which would require a massive conspiracy, when there is nothing to gain?
Which is more likely, this massive conspiracy and a FE; or a RE and FEers being wrong?
There's a downwards force, ta-da.
That is effectively just saying things fall.
Why is there a downwards force?
What gives it its directionality?
The Sun gets far enough away that we cannot see its lit face.
That would not result in the sun setting.
That would result in it disappearing.
At sunsets we can clearly see its lit face as it gets obscured by Earth.
They can perform a bunch of experiments which still make perfect sense on a flat earth
No. While some of the experiments do make sense, the vast majority don't.
The mere existence of the horizon doesn't.
The sun setting beyond the horizon doesn't.
Objects disappearing beyond the horizon doesn't.
The existence of 2 celestial poles always 180 degrees apart doesn't.
As in: actual source, not some random projection of a globe map that a roundie made and that no FEer thinks is accurate.
Again, plenty of people indicate that the AEP is a map of the FE, at least a rough map.
Some use this map, and the fact that there are basically no flights in the southern hemisphere which go long distance and near the pole to try to "prove" a FE, often acting like there are no flights.
They also use indirect flights such as where they stop in Dubai to again act like proof Earth is flat, claiming that route makes no sense of a RE, but makes perfect sense on a FE as the plane flies directly there, just stopping at an airport along the way.
If you think this map is wrong can you provide a map of a FE you agree with?
That's been trivially explained for ages. It gets further away, it seems to get closer to the Earth's surface.
And that trivial explanation fails to actually explain it.
As things get further away, they also appear to get smaller, while the sun and moon do not.
While they do appear closer to Earth, that can only ever make them appear at 0 degrees at an infinite distance.
Meanwhile, the bottom of the sun goes well below 0 degrees, and we can observe light being cast upwards which again indicates it is below 0 degrees.
Perspective can't do that.
The other issue is just how far away the sun would need to be for it to appear so close to the horizon.
Using the often quoted 5000 km, it would need to be over 280 000 km away to appear 1 degree above the horizon (ignoring refraction which makes it appear higher).
Yet it is always above some point on Earth.
So perspective clearly doesn't explain it.
This has also been pointed out repeatedly.
This is the kind of thing which makes these questions get repeatedly asked, FEers repeatedly providing "explanations" which don't work.
Given too that the Sun is a spotlight and only one face is lit, as it gets further away you'd see it 'flatten' against the horizon, thus vanishing bottom-up
No you wouldn't.
If there was no obstruction on the side, it would appear as an ellipse, shrinking into a line.
If there was an obstruction then that would obstruct the view to the top first. This would then result in the top of the oval disappearing before the bottom.
This would also mean it would disappear high in the sky.
A spotlight can explain why it becomes dark (i.e. night time). It doesn't explain why it appears to set. It also fails to match the illuminated areas, but that links back to the lack of a map.
And that still doesn't make up for you blatantly ignoring the rest of my post
It could be that he is trying to focus on one topic.
Which I would recommend you do for my post rather than trying to address it all (or else the posts will get very long).
There is also the issue of if your explanation has a fatal flaw, it doesn't matter what comes after that, as anything built upon that fatal flaw is likewise flawed.
Nope, linked in my sig, always has been.
And repeatedly refuted/shown to be unjustified.
No, just that the distance change is relatively negligible while it's visible, even ignoring other factors.
Which would mean its angle of elevation would change negligibly.
You need a dramatic change in distance to make it go from directly overhead to it appearing on the horizon.
And like I said above, if you want to make my replies short, I suggest picking one topic to focus on.