Flat Earther spends $20,000 on DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is ROUND
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No. That is the dumbass explanation.
The Apollo program photos were real. After the Apollo program, we weren't going high enough to get a whole-Earth photo (this was corrected with the recent Artemis flight, which took a picture of the Earth). Take a basketball, which has a 75 cm circumference (23.8 cm diameter). At that scale, a 250-km high orbit would be tantamount to a distance from the ball of about half a centimeter (or 0.18 inch). Put your eye at that distance and tell me how much of the ball you can see. Hardly any of it. That is the problem. So what NASA does is take pictures in a swath along the path of the satellite and then digitally "stitch" the images together on a spherical surface. (Be mindful of the fact that this technique would be impossible for a flat Earth.) Consider it a photo-mosaic. It is done all the time with high-altitude photography.
These are not images that are taken from the theoretical reference position in space, but they are not "fake" either. The land forms and the weather are quite real and accurate.
So, don't accuse others of being a "dumbass" when you own ass is on display.
The accounts are nonsense. No CGI during the Apollo days (hard to do something when the technology is not yet in existence). No "admittedly fake." What would you know about any of this, that you can look down on my 40 years in the industry that accomplished it? You certainly don't know "every fucking thing." You don't even know the facts of the Apollo program.
With unerring precision, I have found that the key signature of a failed argument is the recourse to scorn and insults.
I'm not interested in or impressed by "mysterious deaths," which you do not enumerate. What is a mystery to you may be "none of your business" to the family involved. Spare me the paranoid fantasies.
The land mass sizes are not changing. That would raise hell with air travel, and it obviously is not doing so. The land mass size where I live is not changing. None of my friends around the world are announcing any such problem. You are dreaming, pal.
So, the only people who know anything are already dead? Then how do you know they knew anything? (If they told you, you would be dead, too.) You don't even appreciate the absurdity.
The rest is just scurrilous insult and ranting. Really? Is that all you can say for yourself?
I know flat earth cultists claim to be open minded, but it seems at odds with how any time a subject matter expert in navigation, sailing, aviation, or other jobs tied to moving around the earth and sky...
All of a sudden we don't trust what people experienced because it doesn't line up with preconceived notions.
Oh boy. Spock here is a stubborn brainwashed dick
How is it you think an insult is an argument? I happen to know this subject quite well, as it is a prelude to orbital mechanics.