Archived Flat Earthers debunked: How we know the Earth and Moon are spheres, not discs (space.news)
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Archived Flat Earthers debunked: How we know the Earth and Moon are spheres, not discs (space.news)
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[–] Macdaddy5000 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Lunar eclipses always show a round shadow regardless of whether it happens at dusk, dawn or midnight, and the only way it could show a round shadow every time is to be spherical. Otherwise at least one of them would be an ellipse (assuming the flat earth was a disk).
That would imply that you'd have to cross the edge to get to the dark side, and no such edge is found.
Again, if the earth was a disk and had people living on both sides to account for day and night at the same time, the people on the bottom would be left behind.
[–] gosso920 ago
FALSE! The Rapture hasn't happened yet.
Checkmate, Flat Earth deniers!
[–] Romney ago
Not every point has to (or should) be absolute 100% proof, but each is a refutation of a flatty's argument.
That does not make them bullshit.
[–] iamjanesleftnipple [S] ago
Except that, as a rotating sphere, the shadow we cast stays the same throughout the moon's nightly cycle. If it were a flat disk you'd see the moon move in and out of shadow as the night goes on, unless you believe that the flat earth rotates not just around the north pole but also around it's Z axis to keep facing the moon (which doesn't mash with the FET that the earth sits still in space).
Not at all. First, a flashlight is a cone of light, you'd need a bulb that emits 360 degrees of light. Next, you'd need to be the same relative distance from your sticks as the sun is from the earth. Try that out and see the results.
Same thing again, you need to have the same type of light source and relative distances and then try it out and see what happens on a flat disk vs a sphere.
And they have no proof of this vs the large amounts of evidence that we have that extremely large bodies (planetary scale) will naturally collapse inwards and create a sphere and generate the same inward force (gravity) based on their mass. We can even observe this effect on space-time.
So yeah, all of their examples disprove flat earth. Still waiting for a flat-earther to go up into space and bring back visual proof.