But I realized it applies here, and it’s something that I haven’t seen in my admittedly limited reading on the subject. It wasn’t even about proving Earth is round at first I was just wondering if I could see the curvature of the Earth. ( Camera distortions are very real, especially over wide angles.) These things are all difficult for the average layperson to measure, and it’s hard to account for all the complications when you do. Conspiracies, conceptual errors, and camera artifacts, they say. Taking a photo from a high-altitude balloon or actual space. Surveying equipment over the ocean or flat stretches of water. What about the circular shadow of the Earth during a lunar eclipse? Most of them say Earth is a circular disk, so it can still cast a circular shadow (even though there are lots of other problems like that).įine, but there are quantitative experiments that can be done to measure the curvature of the Earth, aren’t there? Eratosthenes’ shadows and so forth. Flat Earthers are (or seem to be) real, and they seem to have an answer to every argument that we are living on a spinning globe.īut shouldn’t it be obvious that the Earth is round, you ask? How do you explain the sunrise and sunset or time zones if Earth is flat? What about ships disappearing over the horizon? But Flat Earthers will say it’s refraction*-light bending through the atmosphere makes things appear to vanish over the horizon. But a growing (or at least growing in loudness) number on the internet say no. Is the Earth round? Most people say yes, obviously.
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