Random flat Earth chit chat

^^^^Flat Earth video. Again. Show me the edge!

That's a self-defeating question. No science is 100%. That's not how science works.

And yet, stellar locations still do this well enough. That we can predict the location of stars in the sky from any location on earth requires a globe. If you move 1000 km in any direction on the earth's surface, and look at where the stars are from there, you can demonstrate that the world cannot be flat without a wildly exotic theory about how light works.

Look where Betelgeuse is (if you're in North America, it's in the sky right now). If you were somewhere else on earth, Betelgeuse would be in a different location in the sky. Do the math for a flat earth and a globe earth and predict its location.

Now pick a second star in a different part of the sky and do it again. Only one of the two models will correctly predict the locations of both stars from both locations.

That should be all the evidence you need to disprove your flat earth model.

A big problem with TF and folks like that is that they don't understand (or pretend not to) scientific conclusions reached by way of inference. For instance, I might say that a "single best spherical Earth proof" is simply Stellarium.

Stellarium is correct, every time you use it. Run it to a date and time, plug in a location and view direction, and you will get a night sky map. You can go to that place at that time and verify the night sky predicted by Stellarium, and it's going to be correct. Always! In fact you can just post a clear night sky picture anonymously, and we can use Stellarium to determine with high accuracy where you were when you took the pic.

So we can say, "Stellarium is based on a spherical Earth in a heliocentric solar system. Stellarium's predictions can be trusted within a high degree of accuracy. Therefore, we can infer that the model used is true."

But they'll just sputter some bullshit about logical fallacies rather than actually being able to provide a single contrary data point.

Science is 100% proof. Definition of science according to Merriam Webster;


And the scientific method is all about establishing cause and effect via systematic experimentation. Once you can establish what your cause is by being able to manipulate it, you've 100% proved your cause. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to recreate your cause if you weren't 100% sure of what your cause is.

An example of cause and effect is manipulating heat (cause/independent variable) effects water boiling rate (effect/dependent variable).

Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, a Ph.D. in Anthropology interviews 20 flat Earthers for over 38 hour in a case study of humans and human behavior and societies.

When you can show me the edge of the Earth you've got me belief.

Meanwhile, I can see other planets through a telescope. Funny that I can see that far away with a telescope but somehow the edge of the Earth is impossible to see.

My cousin had been to Antarctica. Unsurprisingly, no edge and no solid dome sky.

You're the one who said a round Earth couldn't be proven without going into space. I require the same proof for a flat Earth. Don't play the double standard game.