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Flat Earth Claim @Nasa if the sun is 93 million miles away how is it possible I took a picture with clouds behind it? #FlatEarth #FlatHorizon #NasaLies pic.twitter.com/m57a32vxUK — Kelly Warren (@KellyWarren15) November 20, 2016 The Facts You didn't.  You overwhelmed your camera sensor and the charge bleed into adjacent cells which can be better understood by looking at this YouTube video  where the sun appears , not only in front of some clouds, but in front of the power lines. Please tell me you aren't credulous enough to believe the Sun was literally in between some people and some power lines? Conclusion Lack of Research Handbook of CCD Astronomy ( page 17 ) CCD Blooming and Anti-Blooming How To Avoid Blooming This happens in film also.

Flat Earth Claim The Facts I'll just rip through these one-by-one although many are actually related... 1. "I have never witnessed the horizon curve" Unless you have never seen a horizon at all, it curves around you 360°, so you are just not paying attention.  Your horizon simply is a circle, that is a fact.  And if it curves around you it is simply impossible for it to also magically extend out to infinity left and right.  It just doesn't. The horizon below is 180° of my view - the software has simply distorted the image to bend that 180° into a straight line (panorama) but the left of the image is East and the right side is West.  It curves. The term 'horizon' even means "limiting circle". Even if the Earth is "Flat" your horizon is a circle due to the limits of atmospheric visibility. It's roughly equal in every direction (assuming an obscured view). But once you figure out that, at least the edge of your horizon is a circle, and we ...

Reunion and Mauritius are two Islands off the coast of Madagascar. Reunion has 2000 m and even 3000+ m high mountain peaks and Mauritius is a little more modestly appointed but the Piton de la Petite Riviere Noire peak is 828 meters. On a clear night you can see across the 110 miles of ocean between them very nicely.  Well I was told it was 149 miles by a Flat Earther but on double checking seems it's only about 110 over the water. Which inevitably means that some Flat Earther is going to claim this "proves" the Earth is flat. Figure 1. The claim (original photo source possibly here ) I clock the distance between Cascavelle (approximate location of the photo from the source) and the Saddle between Cimendef and Roche Écrite peaks at 219.52 km (136.4 miles) and will estimate the observer at 146 meters.  So kudos on getting the distance pretty close. Seems the Flat Earthers ignored the Observer height which isn't the worst of it. The most striking omission fro...

Flat Earther calling himself 'W@keTheF@keUp' tried to claim that because we can see Mt. Rainer from Brunswick Mountain that the Earth is 'flat' and of course, he can prove it, by utterly failing at math (which he apparently took from Mr. Thrive and Survive - can't even do his own analysis). @ColdDimSum disproven. even on top of Brunswick using exact math of you globetards mt Rainer can not be seen You failed 😢 #itsflat pic.twitter.com/Gd5UcPnzfq — 🔥W@keTheF@keUp🔥 (@5tate0fan3nemy) November 29, 2016 Of course, he also tried to claim that "Canada is 917 miles from Mount Rainer". @djboptics Distance from Rainer to Canada is 917 miles. 8 in per sq mile. 917x8=7336 inches of curve should be missing lol. I'm done here lmao — 🔥W@keTheF@keUp🔥 (@5tate0fan3nemy) October 28, 2016 Eventually, contradicting himself, he claims it is 193.8 miles from Brunswick Mountain to Mt. Rainer - which seems to be accurate as we find in PeakFinder: Figure 1. PeakFinder ...

Flat Earth Claim Please show me any instance ever in the history of humanity where water has been observed curving around a ball? You won't find it because it doesn't exist. DEMONSTRATE IT. Not math, but a demonstration. The Facts Flat Earthers really have a thing for wet balls. Okay... I'm not going to judge. All that is required for water to 'curve around a ball' is an adhesive force. 1. There exists a physical force of adhesion. 2. The rate of spin imparts an outward centrifugal force less than the force of adhesion. — Grey Analyst (@doctorbuttons) October 24, 2017 Here is a fairly round rock that is holding onto water quite well despite the Earth's gravity pulling on it. This is because the adhesive force between the molecules of water and the rock surface are greater than the forces pulling them away. WATER EASILY CURVES AROUND A BALL Figure 1. A ball curving water to its surface Even when I spin it, the water can remain on it -- apparently you just ne...

I'll admit up front that this contains a bit of playful ad hominem, mea culpa. However, I'm not saying their arguments are invalid because they have a bunch of loons in their ranks, I'm just saying - they have a LOT of loons in their ranks and the rest of my blog makes the case that their arguments are invalid because they are wrong in every way - they are illogical, they are riddled with factual errors that are so grotesque they border on flat out lies, and they are grossly under researched and ignore many obvious explanations. Their machinations remind me very much of the Flintstones... They have the wheels but push the extra weight of the car with their feet and their story is the same epic failures repeated over and over. This is a relatively short review of the EIGHT HOUR 'debate' * cough * which mainly involves two Flat Earthers whom I will dub as Anger Management Fred (aka MrPonchoPete) - pictured here in his common mode of communication - screaming, near an...

Sydney, 17 Nov 2016 Silly Globe Earther (and Professional pilot)  Wolfie6020 posts this video very clearly showing Sunset from his location. I thought SURELY this would finally prove the Earth Was Flat at last so I got out my handy Flat Earth Map.  Ok -- let's say it's maybe not 100% accurate -- we'll just try to get an idea of just how WRONG the Globe Earthers are, LOL. So we jump over to timeanddate.com to find out where the Sun was at sunset in Sydney. Haha, stupid Ball Earthers - they are about to get their ball handed to them... Look at this! Proof!  I made a map with a line on it! Um... wait... What did that video show? The Suns sets where? What... 246° from Sydney!?  That's South of due West! Wait... that would mean... Whoops. Night night Flat Earthers...

It's been 4 months (my first post was on July 13th, 2016)!  Wow. I've covered a lot of ground (57 posts), I've learned a lot & had a good time.  Traffic is now coming in spontaneously, based I think largely on Google results.  You can help my linking to me if you want. I think the most effort went into my analysis of High-Altitude Balloon footage - that required a lot of thinking about the geometry and how it would look in a camera and then turning that into mathematical model took a while to go back and re-write it all.  We also had to address the Lens Distortion bug-a-boo . But I found an incredibly solid and crisp image of the curvature of the Horizon short of the ISS, so I was very happy with the final results. I also finally put together my own horizon curvature calculator  and I'm working on some improvements to that which will help to visualize the expected curvature in a photograph - based on the lessons learned from the High-Altitude balloon footag...

Flat Earth Claim YouTube video claims ' Ship visible at 12 miles on horizon ': The Facts Seems to me either this ship is sinking or we have confirmed Earth's curvature. I created some side-by-sides up to the 7.8 mile mark -- seems like the missing height is right about where it should be at 13.2 feet missing given your 7.5 foot high observation point. Figure 1. captures of the ship at various distances, resized for comparison The last frame in this series shows the horizon/water line has risen to be all the way the back of the boat. Given the observer height of 7.5 feet and a distance approximation of 7.8 miles we get a height Obscured at that distance of 158 inches (~13.2 feet)  [see also  derivation for this formula ]. As we have reviewed previous, this is NOT explained by perspective . BTW I think I ID'ed this ship as the CLARA . This ship is not very high so the 13.2 feet is a very good match at this distance. Beyond this point the ship becomes very difficult to see...

You've probably heard that the Supermoon is upon us, but what does this mean? Supermoon is defined as: new or full moon which occurs with the Moon is within 90% of its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit I'm going to focus on the full moon case because the New moon case is pretty boring since we can't really see it. Does the Supermoon have a Supereffect on us? (earthsky.org) Biggest Supermoon for 70 years (meteorwatch.org) What happens is that as the Moon goes around the Earth, and the Earth goes around the Sun they are not always in the same relative position to each other in the Sun/Earth/Moon system so it goes through cycles .  One effect of this is that the exact Apogee (furthest distance of the Moon to the Earth) and the Perigee (closest distance of the Moon to the Earth) distances vary as the extra gravity of the Sun pulls the moon a little further away on one side and keeps it closer to the Earth on the other side.  In addition, the moon isn't always in ...

I will continue to update this page over time. Things are in the order I put them in. Blogs Blog: Dark Star: Flat Earth Insanity   |   FEI Horizon Calculator   |   Catalog of Flat Earth Claims Blog: Gordon S. Brooks' Embrace The Ball   |  Book:  The Earth Is Not Flat Blog: One Big Monkey - Apollo Missions [post  Sun Hot Spots ] YouTubes YouTube: My own collection of YouTube videos for  Flat Earth (debunking) YouTube: Sly Sparkane's channel - lots of incredibly good animations explaining how Flat Earthers are wrong ( GoPro Effect , Equinox Analysis ) YouTube: Reds Rhetoric channel - rocket launches and general Flat Earth debunking YouTube: Jesse Kozlowski's channel - professional Geodetic Surveyor, lots of educational videos YouTube: Wolfie6020's channel - professional pilot, part-time Flat Earth debunker YouTube: Frank de Brouwer's - Flat Earth Nonsense YouTube: Peter Leane's channel - good amateur science, very methodical (see Cu...

Flat Earth Claim Why Is This Continent So BIG!?  NASA FAKE! LOLS [see video ] Suomi NPP  VIIRS COMPOSITE image The Facts Well... You know that thing that Flat Earthers get wrong OVER... Crepuscular rays are parallel and only APPEAR to converge and OVER... Like how Flat Earthers excuse buildings hidden by curvature and OVER... Like when zooming in doesn't bring those buildings back ...called ' Perspective '? Well... The space station is only 250 miles above a planet with a 24,901 mile circumference... SO YOU AREN'T SEEING THE WHOLE EARTH. Are you somehow actually unaware that when you are closer to a sphere you can see LESS of it and therefore an object on that sphere will APPEAR to take up a larger portion of the visible whole? Far Away (left) vs Up Close (right) Even at 250 miles up your horizon is ONLY 1429 miles away aboard the ISS.  Because the whole Earth is BIG.  Even at 518 miles up the horizon is still only 2090 miles away . So yes, a WHOLE CONTINENT i...