Random flat Earth chit chat

Look what I found:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth

A lovely just so story. Alas, just so stories are proof of nothing. It's like Saren Arterius walking up to Harbinger to inquire if he's really been indoctrinated and Harbinger gives him a lovely just so story that everything is fine. His mind is still is own.

Exponential growth - Growth of a system in which the amount being added to the system is proportional to the amount already present; the bigger the system is, the greater the increase (see geometric progression)

Geometric progression - a sequence of terms in which the ratio between any two successive terms is the same, as the progression 1, 3, 9, 27, 81 or 144, 12, 1, 1//12, 1/144.

Linear growth - means that it grows by the same amount in each step. ie. 1, 2, 3, 4 or 1, 3, 6, 9.


Exponential vs. Linear. You can recognize exponential and linear functions by their graph. Linear functions are straight lines while exponential functions are curved lines. ... If the same number is being added to y, then the function had a constant change and is linear.
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If if we look at the Earth curvature drop rate;

We see that it is an exponential drop rate with each consecutive mile (8 inches per mile squared).

1 mile = 8 inches curvature drop
2 mile = 32 inches
3 mile = 72 inches
4 mile = 128 inches
5 mile = 200 inches

Connect the dots and you end up with a curved line.



Now compare that with a flat Earth and our perspective angular reduction rate;

^ And you get a linear straight line drop rate.

So in this next picture, the drop of telephone poles is a linear drop matching perspective viewing function.

^ As in the telephone poles aren't going over Earth curvature, they are simple being reduced in viewing angle size at a linear rate due to perspective alone.


The globe model simple hijacked perspective for curvature drop, and the funny thing is that if you combine curvature drop rate with perspective (which the curve calculators conveniently ignore since it's just hijacked perspective in disguise), the curvature drop rate should be twice as noticeable. Because things are now going behind the curve and shrinking in angular size at the same time, resulting in foreground objects obstructing background objects at a higher rate.

WOW, you think actual historical events are a story?!

You truly deserve this gif.

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You know that just randomly picking fallacy names out of a hat doesn't make an argument, right?

Apologies for the double post but I want to you see how the reply you posted is a complete and utterly worthless response to mine. Let's break down my post point by point and then the same for yours.

"Well, was already aware of the Mercator and Gall Peters projections."

Aware of what? Their existence? Or the fact that they fail to depict reality?

You made a statement, that you are aware of two projections. I asked for clarification on that statement. You were (purposefully or unintentionally) vague in your response. So, you could easily respond with clarification on that, but you failed to.

If you don't feel qualified to answer (or more accurately, you know that answering is devastating to your beliefs) do you know what other flat earthers say about map projections?

I'm giving you an out here to save face by being able to admit simple ignorance on a subject, something that everyone has since no one can speak intelligently on every single subject. You could take this lifeline and simply let others do the talking for you. This is clearly an olive branch (despite the snarky parenthetical) in wanting to learn more about the subject from the FE point of view and not simply trying to trap you in a falsifiable statement. You could have taken it, but you failed to.

I've looked but haven't been able to find any possible explanations. Not that those explanations would be correct, because the only correct explanation is that the earth is spherical, but I'm always interested in FE attempts nonetheless.

I'm making my position known, that the reason why 2D maps are incorrect is because they're attempting to portray a three dimensional object in a 2D plane, which is obviously not possible without shortcomings. Again though, it has nothing to do with you specifically, it's establishing that I really am interested in the standard flat earth position and not your position. You could have ran with this and provided the requested information to further the conversation, but you failed to.

And now your response:

Maps are a reification fallacy.

And saying "the only correct explanation is that the Earth is spherical" is an affirming the consequent fallacy.

How does any of that follow? Does it clarify the ambiguous statement you made earlier? Does it provide additional information that I asked for? It does neither. It is simply more syntactically correct but semantically meaningless nonsense. 

"We can't prove maps." - Flat Earth, 2019

What does that even mean?

Here's a great article about the difference between skepticism and denial. It's from 2002 so they don't address FE concerns, but the principles apply here as well as their sample cases. theness.com/index.php/skepticism-and-denial/

All you ever do is obfuscate with assertions you never back up. Called this ever since I pointed out your fave philosopher and philosophy is the guy who says nothing can be proven, which is a philosophy and excuse in how to obfuscate indefinitely and appeal to ignorance.

So lets recount in spoiler tag a few times I've backed up my claims on how vision works;




And how many times you've backed any of your claims on Superman comic fiction vision?


What's next, asserting we can see through walls?

No, that's just you.

Globebusters is back for another season of live streams every Sunday 3pm Eastern Time (2 hours from now). These live streams have the most gathering of flat Earthers for quite the busy live text chats, so good place to gauge what flat Earthers are like for anyone interested.

The host, Bob Knodel, is a great representative of FE and he highlight FE materials from other channels, has guests from other channels and is a great gathering place for what's going on in the FE community.