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Flat Earth Claim Flights from Johannesburg to Perth all go far North Here is his little 'infographic': Globe Earth Reality Yes, SOME flights go elsewhere FIRST and then fly to other places.  Those are called FLIGHT HUBS.  Not everyone flying to Dubai, Hong Kong, or Malaysia is going to Perth.  In fact, I bet almost NONE of them are going that way.  You COULD go that way if you were desperate and the other flights were full.  Or maybe you want a specific airline. But OTHER flights, like SAA280 go non-stop from Johannesburg to Perth. And you're wrong, it's not 11 hours, it's 9 hours. You clearly didn't research this so I'm calling you a liar.

WHICH IS IT? 160 Miles no curve whahahaha pic.twitter.com/9z1T37IyCz — Tom (@antiliberalTom) June 8, 2017 Well, first of all, Flat Earthers don't understand perspective, which I've covered at some length: Perspective Explained for Flat Earthers Flat Earth Failures: Perspective and Vanishing Point Flat Earth Follies: High Altitude Balloon footage PROVES Flat Earth Secondly, it's always funny to see how Flat Earthers shift from "Haha NO CURVE!" to "No, it only LOOKS curved cuz perspective" or sometimes... "FAKE MATH" (the same 'math' they are using to try to prove there is no curve) I've covered numerous long distance views and this is always what they do -- but then they fail to follow-up and acknowledge that they are wrong about perspective.  Perspective simply cannot hide half of a mountain behind the ground, which is below your line of sight.  Perspective doesn't curve anything like that. Atlanta Skyline from 74 miles away sho...

Nibiru appears!  Indisputable evidence ! Original Image Copyright: Barry & Noemi Diacon Wow, that is really amazing. We would be STUPID to suspect that something else might be going on, right? Even APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay said "a sincere photographer claims the effect was visible to the unaided eye". Ok then, that settles it, Nibiru is real. Oh wait... what was that? You photographed it through double paned glass?  Hmmm You have SECOND image?   ఠ_ఠ APOD: IMG_9810.JPG And the images shifted as the camera moved?  𝄇⥀.⥀𝄆 Aww... I guess nobody on the Conspiracy-nonsense side DID THEIR RESEARCH. Shocking, I know. Conclusion from the APOD discussion : This thread is now locked. The cause of the triple sunrise was determined to be a double paned glass window (double glazed).  Conclusion: BUSTED

Certain Flat Earthers have complained that the Sun/Earth/Moon shadow diagrams aren't to scale properly and since I don't want to post a 10 GB image large enough to show anything useful to scale, I'm going to calculate it. I'm going to calculate the Umbral size for a SOLAR eclipse.  This is where the Moon is a New Moon and it falls in between the Earth and the Sun and the SHADOW OF THE MOON falls on the Earth.  Not EVERY New Moon does this because the Moon's orbit is slightly tilted and an eclipse only happens with the Moon is at (or very near) the Node where the lunar orbit and ecliptic cross. First the BASIC data we're going to focus on, using the average solar and lunar sizes and distances: Earth - radius:  6378 km Sun - radius / diameter : 695,700 km / 1,391,400 km Sun - distance : 149,600,000 km (varies with time of year) Moon - radius / diameter : 1737.5 km / 3,474 km Moon - distance: 384,400 km (varies with time of month) Moon - surface distance : 384,400...

Sly doesn't seem to have Google Earth Pro (where you can draw 3D lines & polygons) so I thought I would add a few bits of information about Blackpool Tower and the surrounding geography beyond his Live Stream . Our subject is Blackpool Tower and I've drawn a 3D polygon where the Heart is: The aerial image Sly shared was from aeroengland  -- which is from the backside but shows nicely what should be well lit on the piers. And one more view from webbaviation shows that the lighting gap on the Ferris Wheel isn't always in the same position: Here are the 3D sightlines drawn from Hoylake -- you can see the heart sightline is just a bit above the Ferris Wheel, which is why you can't see the Ferris Wheel -- which means about 165 feet is hidden from view. Shnaz Shin also points out that the images in question were taken at low Spring tides so we're seeing further than we would at a high tide. If we use 14% refraction in our calculator we estimate an observer height of a...

I found some neat information about one of the more famous Earthrise images the other day, the First Earth-Moon image taken by the Lunar Orbiter 1 (which was recovered from old tapes by the LOIRP ). In that data was an analysis of when and where the image was taken of frame 1102: Since this gives a lot of detail about the image I decided to try to recreate it in Celestia My first attempt failed, the images didn't match (it was close but not close enough) so I had to do some more research.  What I found was this data sheet contains a slight omission of a negative sign for the Lunar Latitude latitude of the spacecraft! This page details the Spacecraft Position as:   Altitude: 1198.22 km   Latitude: -9.76°   Longitude: 150.37° So using those values we immediately get good agreement with the data -- from an open source program that is built on the heliocentric model... I think that's pretty neat -- not only did we find a good match with the image but we found an ...

The Video: What we see... The Beau Rivage Casino Hotel is 346 feet (or maybe  347 feet ). Since the top section of the building is ~53 feet high (estimated from inset image by taking the fraction of that height from the total building - confirmation of this is that the windows align very well in the overlay so our error is reasonably small). By taking the total height (346 feet) and dividing it by our ruler length (53 feet ~ 102 pixels) we find approximately how many top sections should equal the total height of the building... (346/53) = 6.5283 Now we just multiply that by the 102 pixels we measured and we get the estimated total height of the building in pixels. (346/53)*102 ~ 665.8 ~ 665.8 pixels So our whole building should be about 665.8 pixels high and THAT should align with the inset image. The curvature drop height from here would be about 114.4 feet but since our observer is about 5 feet above the water that means that only (ignoring refraction) about  71.6 feet sho...