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[–] iamjanesleftnipple [S] ago 

Earth shadow on moon is round - that could also be the case if the earth was flat but circular.

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).

Shadows - uh, the same thing would happen if the earth was flat. If I put two sticks on my coffee table and shine a flashlight at them, the stick that's further away will have a longer shadow (granted, the curvature of the earth will make that shadow slightly longer than it would be if the earth was flat, but the basic principle that shadows are different lengths in different places could apply to either a round or flat earth).

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.

Its dark on one side and light on the other - Again, if I shine a flashling on one side of my coffee table, the other side is dark -- it really depends on how far away the light source is and how big the flat surface is.

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.

Gravity - they said it themselves "Flat-Earthers propos that a disk-shaped Earth is accelerating “upward,” which gives the illusion of gravity."

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.