[SweGabber]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

Let's see science tackle these arguments!

Okey here we go:

There are a multitude of methods in which any one can prove that the earth is a sphere. These are the most common.

You can launch a rocket to a high altitude and take pictures of the earth (which various government agencies and private groups have already done thousands of times in the past), but that isn't the most practical way. Pictures and videos taken by orbiting satellites and space stations are certainly the most definitive proof that the earth is a sphere.

But if you're not convinced, read on...

You can also observe, with binoculars, ships slowly 'sinking' below the horizon as it sails farther and farther out to the ocean, then watch them come back. They certainly didn't fall off the edge of the earth! You can also sail or fly around the world.

The Greeks discovered that the earth is round by observing lunar eclipses (i.e. when the earth blocks the sun from the moon, casting its round shadow on the moon's surface).

Another method is simultaneously measuring the length of the shadows cast by identical poles perpendicular to a flat surface that is tangential to the earth's radius at various, distant locations. If indeed the earth is round, then the shadows should all vary in length from one distant location to another, which means that the angle at which the parallel rays of sunlight struck each pole varied from one location to another. (recall the alternate-angles theorem from Geometry class) If the earth is flat, then the lengths of all the shadows should be identical when measured simultaneously, since all rays of sunlight that strike the earth are parallel. However, they are not identical, but in fact, varies in such a way that the angles indicate a spherical surface. (This was one of the earliest methods to determine the radius of the earth)

Also, keep in mind the 24 hour time zones. When it is noon in Hawaii, it is approximately midnight in the Middle East and vice versa. How can it be noon and midnight simultaneously? It is certainly impossible with a flat earth and a sun millions of times more massive.

If I were a billionaire and physically fit, then proving to you the earth is round would be no problem. I can just take you with me on the space shuttle and we'll watch with our own eyes the earth from the orbiting International Space Station.

I have heard from astronauts that there is no experience comparable as watching the earth from above.


God bless you.

[Brother Harold Porter]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

Please read the entire thread, my friend. Your guesswork, conjecture and sleight of hand arguments have been addressed ad nauseum.

Nothing new in your twaddle.

In Christ

[Jack O'fagan]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

The Greeks discovered that the earth is round by observing lunar eclipses (i.e. when the earth blocks the sun from the moon, casting its round shadow on the moon's surface).

Lunar eclipses are a lie. Yes the moon sometimes does go dark but this is because it is God's will that the moon darkens.

The moon shines not because it reflects sunlight but because it has it's own glow.

Isiah 13:10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Ezekiel 32:7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.

Matthew 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

YIC

Jack

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

Okey here we go:

There are a multitude of methods in which any one can prove that the earth is a sphere. These are the most common.

You can launch a rocket to a high altitude and take pictures of the earth (which various government agencies and private groups have already done thousands of times in the past), but that isn't the most practical way. Pictures and videos taken by orbiting satellites and space stations are certainly the most definitive proof that the earth is a sphere.

But if you're not convinced, read on...

You can also observe, with binoculars, ships slowly 'sinking' below the horizon as it sails farther and farther out to the ocean, then watch them come back. They certainly didn't fall off the edge of the earth! You can also sail or fly around the world.

The Greeks discovered that the earth is round by observing lunar eclipses (i.e. when the earth blocks the sun from the moon, casting its round shadow on the moon's surface).

Another method is simultaneously measuring the length of the shadows cast by identical poles perpendicular to a flat surface that is tangential to the earth's radius at various, distant locations. If indeed the earth is round, then the shadows should all vary in length from one distant location to another, which means that the angle at which the parallel rays of sunlight struck each pole varied from one location to another. (recall the alternate-angles theorem from Geometry class) If the earth is flat, then the lengths of all the shadows should be identical when measured simultaneously, since all rays of sunlight that strike the earth are parallel. However, they are not identical, but in fact, varies in such a way that the angles indicate a spherical surface. (This was one of the earliest methods to determine the radius of the earth)

Also, keep in mind the 24 hour time zones. When it is noon in Hawaii, it is approximately midnight in the Middle East and vice versa. How can it be noon and midnight simultaneously? It is certainly impossible with a flat earth and a sun millions of times more massive.

If I were a billionaire and physically fit, then proving to you the earth is round would be no problem. I can just take you with me on the space shuttle and we'll watch with our own eyes the earth from the orbiting International Space Station.

I have heard from astronauts that there is no experience comparable as watching the earth from above.


God bless you.

Nice cut-and-paste job, Bjorn.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT

Another method is simultaneously measuring the length of the shadows cast by identical poles perpendicular to a flat surface that is tangential to the earth's radius at various, distant locations. If indeed the earth is round, then the shadows should all vary in length from one distant location to another, which means that the angle at which the parallel rays of sunlight struck each pole varied from one location to another.

Oh dear!

[Insanity01]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

Ok let's make science tackle this. Do you feel yourself move when the earth turns normally? you do not. When you jump, you're still bound to the gravity caused by the earths rotation, therefor not feeling you go forward aswell...

Also if the earth where flat, why when seen from space, it is round? Do you denie what you can see?

[Meek and Humble]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

Ok let's make science tackle this. Do you feel yourself move when the earth turns normally? you do not. When you jump, you're still bound to the gravity caused by the earths rotation, therefor not feeling you go forward aswell...

Also if the earth where flat, why when seen from space, it is round? Do you denie what you can see?

Hey retard, why not actually read the thread where your dumb questions have been answered and debunked time and again.

[Jack O'fagan]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

When you jump, you're still bound to the gravity caused by the earths rotation

It's so funny how retards come here and know nothing about secular science and then try to tell us we are wrong. If you are going to use science as an argument at least know your subject.

YIC

Jack

[unsavedatheist]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

I don't get it, if you guys take everything in the bible absolutely literally how can explain the technological developments in our time. As for the person posts about TCP/IP a few pages back, I can tell you with 100% certainty that you are wrong about "Gods" involvement in the development of internet communication. Is the bible really necessary for the explanation of everything in the world? Do you honestly believe that a book written thousands of years ago accurately depicts the current human condition?

I'm saving you the trouble of saying I am going to hell for my beliefs, I was born Jewish and I am an Atheist. If hell exists I would gladly burn in it for the rest of eternity just so I don't have to take everything in the bible literally.

[Meek and Humble]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

Do you honestly believe that a book written thousands of years ago accurately depicts the current human condition?

Yes, don't you?

[unsavedatheist]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

Yes, don't you?

No because it allows for slavery, rape, among other things. As we move on as a civilization and a society so should our views. Slavery, rape, and domestic abuse are no longer acceptable in modern society (all outlawed). If we remained stagnant in our views we would still be in the stone age.

[Brother Enoch]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

No because it allows for slavery, rape, among other things. As we move on as a civilization and a society so should our views. Slavery, rape, and domestic abuse are no longer acceptable in modern society (all outlawed). If we remained stagnant in our views we would still be in the stone age.

I think you're confusing technology with morality.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

No because it allows for slavery, rape, among other things. As we move on as a civilization and a society so should our views. Slavery, rape, and domestic abuse are no longer acceptable in modern society (all outlawed). If we remained stagnant in our views we would still be in the stone age.

No, God would have given us the Bible and brought us into the modern era. The Ten Commandments are responsible for civilization, and God gave us the Ten Commandments.

[John Kirk]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

I think you're confusing technology with morality.

You think wrong.

The morality in this so called 'bible' is way too typical for bronze age, not very fit for our modern society. Why don't you go then in Israel or whatever place jesus is born and live there.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: 3 Experiments You Can Do At Home that PROVE THE EARTH IS FLAT!

You think wrong.

The morality in this so called 'bible' is way too typical for bronze age, not very fit for our modern society. Why don't you go then in Israel or whatever place jesus is born and live there.

The great nation of America is founded on Christian values. Western Civilization would not exist if it weren't for Jesus and His teachings. You would be raping your mother if it weren't for Jesus.