Same way the ancient Greeks figured it out, the angle to the sun at solar noon, measured at three latitudes on the same day of the year. The results can only be consistent with a round earth and distant sun.
Hell you don't even have to climb that high of a mountain to see a curve in the horizon either. The great lakes are another example but don't even need to go that big even Lake Tahoe has enough of a curve that you can't see across to the opposite shore if standing on the beach with binoculars.
True!
AND it is TRUE that the same experiment works with a local sun traveling around a flat plane much like the face of a clock. Spiraling in at the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice, and down to Capricorn for winter solstice. And unlike the spinning ball corkscrewing through space at 88 times the speed of at sound, every year on that particular date you do the stick experiment, you can look up at sky that night and see the same stars in the exact same position as they have been century after century. Wild, huh? I bet you never even thought of that before, have you?
The stick experiment (your way) would work only for two locations. For all other locations, it would give the wrong answer. All other locations would have parallel lines of sight to the sun, possible only on a spherical Earth. I mean, this has been figured out by astronomers making measurements. Why don't you do the math instead of the arm-wave?
Flat or globe, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
North of a mid-line, as the sun traverses the sky from E to W, it is observed to pass through South at local noon (give or take).
South of the same mid-line, the sun still rises in the E & sets in the W; however, at the mid point of its traverse it passes through North-ish at local noon.
Riddle me that, if we're on a 2D construct. I'll wait.
'made no sense' - to you. I've observed it myself when operating both N & S of the equator. Within, or close to the tropics, it's not so easy to tell if the noon sun is truly directly overhead or not, as the N or S effect is quite small. It's unmistakeable from higher latitudes.
Do YOU know it’s a globe because of NASA “pictures”? How else would you say proves your smug understanding of the world we live on?
Same way the ancient Greeks figured it out, the angle to the sun at solar noon, measured at three latitudes on the same day of the year. The results can only be consistent with a round earth and distant sun.
Hell you don't even have to climb that high of a mountain to see a curve in the horizon either. The great lakes are another example but don't even need to go that big even Lake Tahoe has enough of a curve that you can't see across to the opposite shore if standing on the beach with binoculars.
Maybe take off the coke bottles Poindexter!
True! AND it is TRUE that the same experiment works with a local sun traveling around a flat plane much like the face of a clock. Spiraling in at the Tropic of Cancer during the summer solstice, and down to Capricorn for winter solstice. And unlike the spinning ball corkscrewing through space at 88 times the speed of at sound, every year on that particular date you do the stick experiment, you can look up at sky that night and see the same stars in the exact same position as they have been century after century. Wild, huh? I bet you never even thought of that before, have you?
What else do ya got?
The stick experiment (your way) would work only for two locations. For all other locations, it would give the wrong answer. All other locations would have parallel lines of sight to the sun, possible only on a spherical Earth. I mean, this has been figured out by astronomers making measurements. Why don't you do the math instead of the arm-wave?
Flat or globe, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
North of a mid-line, as the sun traverses the sky from E to W, it is observed to pass through South at local noon (give or take).
South of the same mid-line, the sun still rises in the E & sets in the W; however, at the mid point of its traverse it passes through North-ish at local noon.
Riddle me that, if we're on a 2D construct. I'll wait.
'made no sense' - to you. I've observed it myself when operating both N & S of the equator. Within, or close to the tropics, it's not so easy to tell if the noon sun is truly directly overhead or not, as the N or S effect is quite small. It's unmistakeable from higher latitudes.
I'll type slower for you in future.
Thanks fag