I know the difference and I mean "generated". It's not an actual picture from space or an altered/enhanced picture from space. It's all graphics designed from a computer.
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I know the difference and I mean "generated". It's not an actual picture from space or an altered/enhanced picture from space. It's all graphics designed from a computer.
--Dave
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That's rich, Dave.
This is from https://www.universetoday.com/15055/diameter-of-earth/:
the diameter of the Earth at the equator is about 43 kilometers (27 mi) larger than the pole-to-pole diameter... the latest measurements indicate that the Earth has an equatorial diameter of 12,756 km (7926 mi), and a polar diameter of 12713.6 km (7899.86 mi).
You can tell the difference between 7926 miles and 7899.86 miles in a photo on your screen????? That's .0034 percent difference. 27 miles is only 5 times the height of the largest bump on the earth's surface. Yet you claim that picture can be used definitively to discern such difference? What attempt did you make to measure it?
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.0034 is the ratio, which is .34 percent. Still incredibly small and beyond what the human eye can detect in a picture like that.
Dave has gone totally off the deep end.
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I did this calculation wrong. The coastline of Antarctica would only be 70,000 miles long. Thus that would expand the width of Australia to 6 inches or so. Sorry about the confusion.
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Do you not even read your own links? It said he sailed 10,000 miles in "uncharted" waters before he wintered in New Zealand. He spent the winter sailing around to the various south pacific islands. He sailed south again and came back to New Zealand. And it was more than 14,000 miles from England to New Zealand. Just going down there and back would account for half of the distance he traveled. He had been to New Zealand in his previous voyage, so none of that would overlap with the "uncharted" miles.
On the other hand, with your flat earth model, the circumference of the world at New Zealand's latitude in the flat earth model would be around 56,360 miles. Dipping down further south numerous times and exploring the South Pacific islands would account for way more than the remaining 3640 miles to add up to 60,000. not to mention the distance from England to the south Atlantic twice.
And I find it rather odd that you will take Adm Byrd's testimony about one thing (an unexplored area the size of the United States) and not about the other (that he could and did actually fly over the South Pole). If he's lying about the one thing--that he could actually fly over the pole, I would think his credibility would be completely destroyed in his assertion about unexplored areas.
But certainly his assertions have had ample opportunity to be visually confirmed or refuted since then, or do you think all research into Antarctica stopped with Adm Byrd?
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That video is fake. You can tell because it shows a curved earth and stars.:chuckle:
Then by this the earth is a "virtual" sphere and not an oblate spheroid.
The difference is so indistinct we better tell Tyson he's making an idiot of himself by making such a claim.
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P.S. You missed the point, which is distrust of NASA.
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I think you're splitting hairs over unimportant details. It's perfectly acceptable to call a "'virtual' sphere" a sphere.
How can you tell Dave?
Again, the problem is distrust and secrecy.
Byrd talked about a land of opportunity and rich with natural resources that could enrich all nations waiting to be explored, that suddenly became forbidden territory. This was way before the EPA and environmental concerns.
At the supposed South Pole all you actually see is more ice and snow.
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Yet if the earth were flat.... all you would see is an edge and a drop-off into space.
Compare with this from the ISS
Stars, no stars, orange then green and red at the horizon??
If you watch these long enough and compare them there is just way to much variation and inconsistencies.
Can't trust this.
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Yes, just like you're a virtual idiot. Don't feel bad, I didn't call you an actual idiot.
--Dave
Dave, help me out here because I'm really interested.
If we sail straight South we get to the big ring continent that is Antarctica yes?
That's the outside circumference of the disk correct?
And you can't go there because the government will stop you?
But if you got thru the government then you'd come to an ice wall?
That nobody has ever climbed?
Right so far?
If we sail straight South we get to the big ring continent that is Antarctica yes?
That's the outside circumference of the disk correct?
And you can't go there because the government will stop you?
But if you got thru the government then you'd come to an ice wall?
That nobody has ever climbed?
Right so far?
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