Did you all know this tidbit? I was just watching this short video that lays this out as well as other interesting info. Sorry for Screwtube link.
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The "firmament" being real or fake doesn't matter, it is an allegory.
Take a picture from beyond low earth orbit for me. No composites or cgi please.
Plenty of pictures. Now try to take a complete picture of your automobile, with the restriction that the camera is about 2 inches away from it. (The ISS is at ~420 km altitude. The Earth's radius is 6,378 km.) Maybe you will understand the impossibility of obtaining a picture of "the Earth" at such proximity, and why a greater distance (as between the Earth and the Moon) is required.
Those pictures exist and i think most of them are photographic, not digital. Recent probes to the Moon may have digital photos (not CGI).
But I charge you with making an impossible demand because you are not arguing in good faith. If you knew the subject at all, you would already understand why we cannot obtain a photo of the whole Earth from low altitude orbits, and why we must resort to combining partial photos into a whole. So, you don't care. You just want to make a sophistic point. Well, it is an empty point. All it shows is that you don't know the subject at all.
"Dashmoomoo"? I must make a point of remembering that handle.
The moon is 226,000 miles away. Put a camera on that. Lmao
They did with the Apollo astronauts. And took photos of the Earth. Don't you know these things? Actually, the Lunar Orbiter, an unmanned probe, took photos of the Earth from the orbit of the Moon. I have a poster print of the line-scan image.
You ask a snide question as though I would be stumped for an answer, and all that it shows is that you don't know a darned thing about what happened in those years.
There is no evidence that a flerf wouldn't hand wave away and cry "GCI!" Completely pointless endeavor.
For the flat-earth people, an impervious solid firmament is part of their whole conception. In reality, it is not even an allegory (of what?). It is simply a word they used for what we call the sky.
The flerfs believe that the "firmament" is a dome, and that it's boundaries are the "ice wall" of Antarctica. They believe that beyond the ice wall is an infinite flat plane, and that "the gubbment" is trying to keep them from reaching the ice wall because they will discover that there is more to the world than just what we see. The Truman show is a perfect allegory of this idea, if you don't understand, it isn't my problem.
I get the allegory, but---as I said---the movie would amount to debunkery, not propaganda. And if you don't understand that, it isn't my problem either.
You are ignorant.