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RotaFlight - Near Space Weather Balloon With Gopro To 109 000 Feet Full 4 Hour Video The full 4 hour RotaFlight footage is available on YouTube, as well as an edited version with just the highlights.  The edited video is posted by user sivrot (short for Sivert Rotabakk I believe ). Flat Earthers use this footage to claim the Earth is Flat and I use this video to show the Earth is curved.  So I thought I would take a little time to dig into more details about this video so we can use it for more accurate analysis. Launch Time (approximate, based on  YouTube comment  and video analysis, +/- 30 minutes): 24 July 2014, circa 4pm (12 minutes, 57 seconds into the video) The date July 24th is given in the details.  At  1:46:56  in the '4 hour' video we can see Trondheimsfjord, from around 63°27'N /  10°28'E looking West towards the Sun so that is getting towards evening, maybe 5:30pm.  Which would put launch time around 3:45pm.  This was my estimate until I found Sivert'

I happen to own an original 8"x8" print of this image so this was fun.  This is the NASA high-resolution scan of the image designated AS11-36-5355. Apollo 11 Earth AS11-36-5355 A little research showed that this was taken on 1969 July 16th around 1211Z from 98,000 nautical miles - here is the result in Celestia : Celestia recreation of AS11-36-5355 This is the power of the scientific model we have built, based on thousands of years of detailed observations and study of physics.  Almost all of the planetary model that enables this exquisite level of detail to be exactly recreated is based on a SINGLE observation -- that mass mutually attracts proportional to GmM/r ² From this and the basic physics of motion we get the planetary motions that predict and recall the motions of the planets over thousands of years -- and we also find that we must add Relativity to get the motions down to the next level of accuracy.  No measurement made thus far have proven this model to be wrong.

Flat Earth Claim Bali 2 Los Angeles Mid flight birth forced to land in ALASKA? http://t.co/0lKGf564tc Is #FlatEarth making sense now pic.twitter.com/QyDvItfNwk — Gr8Believer (@Gr8Believer) October 16, 2015 Globe Earth Reality In true Flat Earth-style they "researched" this thoroughly (right?).  So I guess that means they are lying?  Or maybe they just can't research, you be the judge... That flight went from Bali to Taiwan, and THEN to Los Angeles -- it did NOT cross the Pacific from Bali going to LA as claimed. "Gr8Believer", in true Flat Earther fashion, refuses to accept this and doubles down: Dear @JPQuinn66 The Dr boarded on Wed at Taiwan, flew to Bali. Pregnant woman boarded Thursday then flew to LA. https://t.co/HY75wkBFpL . — Gr8Believer (@Gr8Believer) October 19, 2015 So I dug around a bit and found the actual flight data from Flight Aware on flight CAL8 from 2015 Oct 7th: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/CAL8/history/20151007/1550Z/RCTP/KLAX Once

Just a few of the consequences of believing in Flat Earth... (Thanks to JW3HH for the idea) You must believe that every astronomer and most of the scientists are either liars/traitors/in on a VAST conspiracy or are utterly incompetent.  Because everyone using an Equatorial mount can see it track objects in the sky all night and track the Sun all day but somehow the Sun is magically taking a sharp turn at turn so it isn't REALLY going on the other side of the Earth DESPITE this being exactly where the EQ mount is tracking it and the way the EQ mount works is it simply tracks a circle in a fixed plane.  So the sun is moving EXACTLY in this plane all day but magically after sunset it would have zoom around never ACTUALLY going below the observers ground-level only to reappear at dawn in the same plane. You have to believe that Gravity doesn't exist despite a vast array of evidence that no Flat Earther has ever actually defeated other than to blindly call scientists liars.  Almos