Flat Earther spends $20,000 on DIY experiment that accidentally proved the planet is ROUND
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Well, you need to understand a gyrocompass, as least as much as by reading a Wikipedia description. It interacts with the rotation of the Earth to point North, and the dip angle depends on the latitude. On the North pole, the compass rotor axis and the polar axis align, and the interaction becomes zero. A physical principle is a proof. There is also the fact that the Sun rises and sets, and that we orbit around it (established by triangulation to the nearest stars). It goes on and on, but you deny that any of it would be "proof." I suspect if you were kidnapped and sent on a voyage to the Moon (and back) you would deny what you see out the porthole. You have no standard of "proof." You simply deny after denial: "That's not proof." Don't forget circumnavigation by land, sea, air, and space (especially space).
And I remain adamant that we have not been lied to about "everything." If you think so, you can try and prove it---but proving it would be to show unmistakable and unimpeachable evidence for a contrary truth. There are some lies out there, but you are being sucked into one of the biggest lies of all time and you are warm and fuzzy about it. So much for knowing and consciously lying to yourself...in your sleep.
If the Earth was a flat plane in rotation, the oceans would drain to the outer edge. Right? Because the farther south we went, the more it would seem to tilt downward with the effect of centrifugal acceleration (southward). I'm not waiting on any "nanosecond" conversion. If you understood the implications of what you are claiming, you would have thrown it out a long time ago. Ergo, you don't understand the implications.
So I tell you I'm going to look into and research a gyrocompass and you respond by ragging on me some more and telling me I don't understand them which I readily admitted to?
Dude, you've proven you can't read. You've decided you're a genius and I'm an idiot and nothing is going to shake you down from your irrational position. This is what leftist normies do day in and day out. You must be one of them, at least in spirit.
You just keep proving my point. I clarified my sentence for you, and yet you still choose to ignore my clarification in order to keep propping up your misguided position. Well done maestro. Denial at its finest!
You'll fight me to the end of time claiming you know yourself, that you know who you are. And yet you don't. Very few souls even know who they really are. How's that for a zinger! Forget about scientism and astrophysics and all the other "things out there", do you even know who you really are?
How's that for a big giant lie deathray? You don't even know who you really are. But I know, I know, you're 100% sure you do and you'll of course have no questions for me because I'm just a crazy flat-earther guy, right?
All of mainstream society, culture and institutions are PURPOSEFULLY DESIGNED to ensure you continue to have no idea who you really are. The political/governmental/economic lies we're immersed in here on GA are but the tip of the tip of the iceberg - kindergartner level material really.
And not only do you not know who you are, you almost certainly don't know WHERE you are. This place we call "earth" is far more mysterious and unknowable then anyone can imagine. But I digress, as you're most definitely completely brainwashed into believing you know exactly where you are - the third magically floating rock from the sun - cuz muh scientism says so!!!
I gave you a long list of things that are quite demonstrably lies and deceptions in the realm of "muh scientism", and you denied them all without asking any questions, without looking into them for yourself. This is what leftist globalists are notorious for and this is how I know you're operating within the same state of consciousness as they are.
Here's the biggest difference between us. You claim you know all these hundreds of truths because you BELIEVE what you've been told. I don't claim to know hardly any "truths", but I'm expert at sussing out and exposing lies and deceptions. I don't think we're ever going to know the full "truth" about this earth realm - not any time soon anyway. But I do claim that many tales we've been told from lamestream scientism are demonstrably lies.
You've been spending way too much time on "The Flat Earth Society" website - where the glowies lurk. As far as we can figure out for ourselves today, thanks to government restrictions, the outer edge of our 6 known continents is the antarctic ice wall. We've found dozens of ancient and relatively modern maps demonstrating that there are many untold continents beyond this ice wall. But we aren't allowed to explore any of these regions thanks to our truth-telling government agencies. So what's beyond, we can't say.
Taking this line of thinking to the next level, there is a video from a purported free mason out there that describes this 'earth realm" and how it works. Amongst other things, he suggested that there is an entire other "world" that we would think of as "beneath us". A perfect mirror reflection of what we think of us as the "surface", where we believe we live. He called it "Summerland". I'd never run across this term before so it remains a mystery to me.
Jason Brasheers of Archaix is quite possibly the most well-read historian on the planet today. While I don't agree with many things he has to say, one conclusion that he's drawn is that there are many civilizations living "within the earth" today and that many of these species are responsible for enslaving humanity. That's not too far a step from imagining they live "on the flip side" I surmise.
And none of this can be that far-fetched for a globalist like you who believes people are standing upside down in Australia, NZ, Argentina, etc. They have to be, right? Funny how we don't have any satellite pictures of this phenomenon seeing as how it would be beyond fascinating to see al these people and buildings oriented upside-down from the frame of the northern hemis-plane.... eh?
All these simple things that would be so easy to prove the globe - there's an endless list. And yet our beneficent government rulers choose to produce none of them for us. It's almost as if.... they can't, eh?
You've made it obvious you can't think in any other way other than in terms of your globe. "South" would be traveling away from magnetic north - in all directions!!! East/West is a circle on the plane. So simple.
I don't even understand what you're trying to get at here. It appears you can't stop thinking about a pancake floating in a void. Is that all the further your imagination will allow you to go? Yet another problem the leftist globalists all have. They can't think outside of the box their rulers have created for them.
You're going to have to willfully CHOOSE to expand your thinking. Until then, you're hopelessly trapped in the cabal's delusion.
Total blather, from beginning to end. You don't know me from a cast iron statute.
You don't even understand the implications of centrifugal force on a world like an LP record. The seas would stack up at the edge. (I actually did this in a senior class experiment, creating a rotational vortex in a confined liquid.) Indeed, "south" would be traveling toward the rim. That is what I meant. Go ahead. Calculate the centrifugal force. Follow the implications.
Your problem is that the circumference of the meridian at 60 degrees south latitude is much shorter than the circumference of the equator. This has been an absolute fact since the world has been navigated, and is related to the use of Great Circle routes as the shortest distances, not unreal straight lines on an unreal (non-existent) flat Earth map. You don't have one, so don't impute anything to me if you can't offer a flat map of a flat Earth. All flat maps are distorted from what we see at close range, which is a consequence of the Earth being round, not flat.
You're never gonna get anywhere because you can't stop ASSUMING the shape of the earth. You are constantly making an A PRIORI ARGUMENT, a LOGICAL FALLACY.
Prior to each of your statements, it would help a great deal if you just prefaced them with: "Since we all know earth is a magically floating globe.....I will now make my point based on this indisputable fact".
Riddle me this; why don't lakes "stack up at the edge"? Can you not comprehend what is being said?
This is yet another ASSUMPTION you're making and why you can't fathom the possibility of a flat, non-rotation plane. You just fail to see this again and again reasons I can't understand.
Nobody is even allowed down in this region for like 70 years, and those before were largely all sanctioned by gubmints of one sort or another.
We're not going to get anywhere, obviously, as you accept and believe what you've been told and I don't. I think it's as simple as this.
As usual, you've got everything backwards as it's the other way around...as usual. Surely you're aware of Gleason's map of the world? Have you not even done this basic 101 level of research into flat earth?
https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:7h149v85z
But wait, save your breath, because "Reuter's Fact Check" says it's all nonsense, right? You do realize all the "fact checkers" started to pop up online when the truth started being revealed by more and more people, right?
When I see an "official fact check", I always know I'm on the right track....never fails to be the case!
I was referring to the implications of a rotating flat Earth. On a rotating spherical Earth, we have the equatorial bulge, but no perceptible centrifugal effect (too small to notice, but not zero).
The rotational vortex was created in the laboratory. It was a demonstrated fact.
You don't like 60 deg S latitude? Then use 50 deg S. Stop carping over minor details, when the principle is the same. There was plenty of exploration before the Antarctic Treaty was signed in 1959. Are you saying there wasn't? No belief necessary. Airlines prove all the time that Great Circle routes are the shortest paths between points on the globe (flying time is a great measuring stick), and these do not correspond to any straight lines on a flat map.
Gleason's map, patented in 1893, was based on the projection of a globe, as he explained in his patent. It has severe distortion in the areas south of the equator. For example, New Zealand does not conform to the shape we know it has from terrestrial surveying. A flat map that does not agree with detailed flat maps of regions and nations of the globe? Kind of a contradiction. Since he admitted he was only projecting a globe, there is no mysterious significance to Antarctica and the South Pole. People have been there. You can go, too. https://www.swoop-antarctica.com/adventures/south-pole/fly Put together a gofundme solicitation among your flat-headed friends and take the trip. Stop moaning about "I can't do this." You are like the guy who insists the atmosphere stops at 8 kilometers and shrinks from climbing to the summit of Mt. Everest (8.84886 km), as though something being too costly to visit was proof that it was nonexistent.
In this case, the fact check is correct and you are not. The whole world operates on the basis of this Earth being a globe, from transportation to communication. Astronauts on the International Space Station go around the Earth every 93 minutes, visible to the naked eye at night. What do you do when it goes overhead? Turn away so you don't have to see it?