Flat Earthers: what is the point of lying about the earths shape?

[xCivicx]

All of the points flat earthers have made have been thoroughly debunked. There's no purpose in going back and forth with someone who won't accept any tiny shred of evidence

Why do y'all keep saying this??

If this is true then it should be simple for you to post some of that "debunking" in here smh

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

Why do y'all keep saying this??

If this is true then it should be simple for you to post some of that "debunking" in here smh

Everyone who's saying the earth is round has posted ample evidence, unlike you fools

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

Let me get this straight, you accuse us of using CGI pictures and present DRAWINGS as evidence?????

Yo where the fukk is that turtle and snake? Were the hindus lying to us?

 

[xCivicx]

Everyone who's saying the earth is round has posted ample evidence, unlike you fools

Oh really?

Please quote 1. I'd appreciate it

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

Oh really?

Please quote 1. I'd appreciate it

I don't need evidence. I just have faith in the earth being round

 

[KodeBlue]

I'm not sure how

If the moon is completely in the shadow of the earth during an eclipse then it shouldn't be visible at all since it's receiving no light from the sun

Unless it's emitting it's own light...

Or, if the lunar eclipse from is an annular eclipse to the moon, with only the corona of the sun shining beyond earth on to the moon.

 

[KodeBlue]

Cool, so why does smoke rise straight up?

And how come clouds don't move at the same rate of speed as the earth?

I'm not sure that I understand your question. It sounds like you're using different examples to ask the same question, which is a question that I've already answered.

 

[Emoryal]

Oh really?

Please quote 1. I'd appreciate it

8 Reasons We Know the Earth Isn’t Flat | Nerdist
here

 

[xCivicx]

 

[xCivicx]

I don't need evidence. I just have faith in the earth being round

That's all you had to say /shrug

 

[Keepya onya toes]

I find this hilarious coz I don't know what to believe.

A few hundred years ago you say to the average person the world is round you'd be laughed at.....

Fast forward a few years

Flat earthers are being laughed at. But what if the world changes shape every hundred so years

I personally think of the world as a dome.

Therefore I'm always half right or half "wrong"

 

[I.AM.PIFF]

I mean how could I fight off such evidence?

 

[KodeBlue]

Look at Tokyo-Newark vs Sydney,Austraila-Santiago,Chile. Look how much further Sydney is from Chile on your flat Earth map than Tokyo is from Newark. It makes no damn sense for those two flight to be so close in terms of flight times (~12h50m vs ~12h20m) if the flat earth pic was true. However, if you look at the globe, the distsances between the two sets of cites are actually comparable.

Furthermore, if you look at the flight route for the Sydney-Santiago flight you'll see that it doesn't even take the most direct route on your flat earth map (which would bring you closer to Mexico)

So if your flat earth map was true, the Sydney-Santiago flight would have you traveling a SIGNIFICANTLY longer distance than the Tokyo-Newark flight in a shorter amount of time. Makes no sense.

This flight path proves that the flat earth does not exist. If going over the ocean from Syndey to Santiago, that would literally be the longest, flight possible on a flat earth. It would also be the biggest waste of fuel, and time in aviation history.

If you ever want to disprove a flat earth, remember to keep your argument below the equator, and/or on open water.

 

[Everythingg]

Newton's apple story isn't the bases of the law of gravity anymore champ.

Why don't you show how you PROVE there's a force pulling everything down to the earth?

 

[xCivicx]

8 Reasons We Know the Earth Isn’t Flat | Nerdist
here

Thank you

1.

You Don’t Weigh Less at the Horizon
While flat-earthers will contend that there is no such thing as gravity, this force unites the entire universe. It’s everything from what makes the numbers jump on a bathroom scale to the reason why planets and stars form. It uniformly pulls everyone on the surface of Earth toward our planet’s center of mass (roughly the exact center). That’s why you’ll weigh the same in Los Angeles as you will in Jakarta.

If the Earth was flat, gravity would no longer pull everyone the same way. If the flat Earth would be something like a disk, those at the edge of the disk would be pulled relatively sideways, while those at the center of the plate would be pulled straight down. The difference would change your weight enough to confuse a bathroom scale. Considering that humans have been to every landmass on Earth without celebrating sudden lightness, we can rule out a flat planet.

Ridiculous. This link already started off on the wrong foot. It dictates that gravity exists regardless of what anyone says. It starts as a strawman and draws a ridiculous conclusion from said ridiculous strawman

2.

You Don’t Fall Off The Planet
Where is the edge of the world according to flat-earthers? The answer changes, but it usually involves some impenetrable barrier at said edge that prevents people from going past or falling off. Global conspiracies apparently prevent people from investigating these boundaries.

Another ridiculous strawman. Most serious flat earth believers believe that antarctica is the boundary for this plane, holding everything we know of within it's boundaries

3.

You Don’t Always See the Same Constellations
Hit up a friend in Australia and ask them what constellations they can see at night. Now tell them which ones pepper your patch of darkness. They won’t be the same. Because the Earth is a shape other than a flat disk, when looking into the night sky the Earth itself can block your view.

If the flat Earth theory were true, everyone should be able to see the same constellations all the time, as if we all were staring up from the same section of summer grass.

Incorrect. We see the exact same constellations at the exact same times of the year, which is how old hunter/gatherer/farmers knew when to harvest crops

4.

We’ve Seen Earth From Space, From Multiple Angles


This is “Earthrise,” arguably the most famous photo ever taken. It was beamed back to us by the astronauts on the Apollo 8 mission on Christmas Eve, 1968. It shows the Earth as a perfect (from that vantage point at least) azure orb speckled with land and clouds, and us. It’s true that the Earth could be a disk in this photo, and the astronauts were seeing it face-on, making it appear spherical.

No stars in this pic smh

No satellites causing dark spots on the earth smh

5.

The Same Objects Make Different Shadows
Here’s one you can try at home. If the Earth were flat, you could drive two sticks into the ground at any place on Earth, and the shadows those sticks would make would be the same length. (Because the Sun is so far away from Earth, its incoming rays can be considered parallel).

Place a stick in the ground on a sunny day, then measure the length of the shadow. At the same time, call a friend who is at least a few miles away from you and tell them to do the same. The lengths you measure will be different! The curvature of a spherical Earth means that sun rays will hit each stick differently if they are far enough apart.

Again incorrect. In basically all serious flat earth models, the sun is shining down more like a spotlight than anything else, so if you're at a different angle from the sun than someone else, then yes, the shadow lengths would be different

6.

Timezones Exist
To make the seasons work with a flat Earth, advocates claim that the Sun orbits in a circle above our disk, like a tetherball on an invisible string. But timezones exist. Try calling someone in China right now and convincing them that you are experiencing the same time of day (and then apologize).

A flat Earth can’t account for how some parts of the planet are provably in darkness while other parts are bathed in light.

Timezones exist so the that majority of the planet can experience similar amounts of sunlight at similar times of day. It has absolutely nothing to do with the earth spinning while revolving around the sun

7.

The Rest of the Solar System
Like how we’ve seen the Earth from many angles and found it round, we’ve sent cameras to the rest of the planets in our solar system and snapped photos of them from many angles too. They all appear to be spheres. That makes sense if gravity is the main force in the universe pulling cosmic gas and dust and rock together to form planets.

The chances that the Earth is the only planet in the solar system that is non-spherical, yet subject to the same forces as other planets, are zero.

Another strawman smh. In all serious flat earth models the solar system does not exist. But go ahead and provide proof that the solar system exists if you can.

Also throw up a non CGI pic of anywhere in space if you can

8.

Eclipses Show You Earth’s Shape
Have you ever seen a lunar eclipse? It’s when the Earth passes in between the Sun and our moon and casts a shadow over the lunar surface. If you look closely, you can pick out a slight curvature.



Curvature is possible with a flat disk, but even flat-earthers admit that the Earth spins. If the Earth were flat, there would be some people that occasionally see a straight line projected on the moon (the edge of a disk). That hasn’t happened since humans looked up, so a sphere is the logical shape to assume.

The moon should not be illuminated at all during a lunar eclipse, unless you're claiming that sunlight is bending around the earth to reflect off of the moon?