This is what you do:
Ask yourself: "Have i seen the world from space with my own two eyes directly, and not eyes and not via any other means (video/pictures)?"
If your answer is "no" then you can say "I only know what i have been told about it, i have not seen it myself, so i can't really say for certian, but if i were to go by <flat earther> it would be flat, and if i go by <globe earther> it would be a globe. I will reserve my decision until i can see it for myself, but i know what both sides say"
If you answer "yes" then you know how it is, and if anyone gives you grief just throw your hands up and say "well, it looks like you'll have to just see it for yourself with your own two eyes then"
There are a few things that you can observe that indicate a globe:
Time of the day is the same for everyone in your longitude
The peak angle of the sun is the same for everyone in your latitude
You can see all of the stars at night from the equator, but as you move toward the poles the amount of stars that you can see diminishes gradually to 50% visible at the poles.
When a ship departs the harbor, the lower section appears to drop beneath the horizon before the upper section
Solar eclipses are only visible in certain areas, but lunar eclipses are visible across the entire night side of the Earth
I'm on the fence. But I'll bite since no one tried.
Unsure. But a common flat earth model is built of a hyperboloid torus field that radiates following longitude
Latitude is just the same distance from the center of the north pole. Like a circle drawn with a compass. It makes sense the sun would have the same peak angle?
I'm not sure to be honest. But the equator is a location centered between north pole and south outskirts as stars rotate overhead. There's simply too much atmosphere for us to see across the plane (from the south to the north). Farthest things also disappear into the horizon
"Ships disappear from the bottom". This is an element of perspective. All things disappear towards the horizon / vanishing point. We can see the top of a ship because of the angle. There are TONS of clips where a powerful telescope can bring that ship into view.
Haven't looked into it sorry. My counter question would be A) How do Selenelion Eclipses work (just refraction?)? The sun and the moon can be seen in the sky, and there's some where the shadow emerges from the TOP of the moon (should be the bottom)? Also what about all the amateur astronomers who have reported seeing stars THROUGH the moon (plasma?)?
My questions for the globe model to explain.
Where is the curvature of the earth, measured over water (land has varying elevations, water finds its level)?
We should have 8 inches of curvature over a mile squared. Yet we don't see that drop. Telescopes bring ships miles away back into view when they should be "over the horizon". Suez canal is 200 miles long and is built without accommodation of a curve
The sun, why can we see divergent rays? Flat earthers argue this points to a local sun. Globe earth model is the sun is 93 million miles away, so we get parallel rays. Some would say "refraction" for the divergent rays, but then why don't we see crossing rays? Parallel rays should hit earth at every inch of earth
How haven't the constellations changed in thousands of years? Pyramids of Giza are lined up with Orions belt. The Georgia Guidestones perfectly show the north star. Spinning earth, around sun, as solar system moves through milky way, as milky way moves through the universe, with stars of varying distances away. And why don't the stars move through the sky in a random, winding path?
How do you have a vacuum next to atmosphere? Physics tells us pressure should equalize. If this "container" or van allen belt is that strong it can contain atmosphere, how did we pass through it?
This is what you do: Ask yourself: "Have i seen the world from space with my own two eyes directly, and not eyes and not via any other means (video/pictures)?"
If your answer is "no" then you can say "I only know what i have been told about it, i have not seen it myself, so i can't really say for certian, but if i were to go by <flat earther> it would be flat, and if i go by <globe earther> it would be a globe. I will reserve my decision until i can see it for myself, but i know what both sides say"
If you answer "yes" then you know how it is, and if anyone gives you grief just throw your hands up and say "well, it looks like you'll have to just see it for yourself with your own two eyes then"
There are a few things that you can observe that indicate a globe:
I'm on the fence. But I'll bite since no one tried.
My questions for the globe model to explain.
We should have 8 inches of curvature over a mile squared. Yet we don't see that drop. Telescopes bring ships miles away back into view when they should be "over the horizon". Suez canal is 200 miles long and is built without accommodation of a curve
The sun, why can we see divergent rays? Flat earthers argue this points to a local sun. Globe earth model is the sun is 93 million miles away, so we get parallel rays. Some would say "refraction" for the divergent rays, but then why don't we see crossing rays? Parallel rays should hit earth at every inch of earth
How haven't the constellations changed in thousands of years? Pyramids of Giza are lined up with Orions belt. The Georgia Guidestones perfectly show the north star. Spinning earth, around sun, as solar system moves through milky way, as milky way moves through the universe, with stars of varying distances away. And why don't the stars move through the sky in a random, winding path?
How do you have a vacuum next to atmosphere? Physics tells us pressure should equalize. If this "container" or van allen belt is that strong it can contain atmosphere, how did we pass through it?
You've defined Latitude.
Longitude is your angular distance from an imaginary line that connects the North and South Poles through Greenwich, England.
Thank you
I'm on the fence too but number 3 makes me baffled as well