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 Truman Show is flat earth propaganda, and Jim Carrey is a kid eater (according to Kappy). Wouldn't be surprised if he was on a Diddy list somewhere, too.
I've seen The Truman Show. It is not in the least flat-earth propaganda. If anything, it would be flat-earth-debunking (the firmament is a fake)...but there is no connection. Jim Carrey is a "kid eater" according to an allegation by a man, Isaac Kappy, who thought he was Judas Iscariot and committed suicide? Truth-seekers are standing on wild rumors, these days.
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.