As Alfred Korzybski has beautifully said: "The map is not the territory."
Flatearthers in particular seem to forget or ignore the fact that our natural perception is very limited. That's why we need microscopes to see down to the cellular level and beyond or telescopes for space. Or why we need instruments to detect infrasound, ultrasound, etc. Our bodies are meant to function as good as possible on the macro-level, because that's where we could get attacked by bears, where we can see whether it's safe or not to make a certain step in the mountains, etc.
Just because we can't see air with our naked eyes doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's "invisible" to our eyes, but when you f.ex. wave your hands rapidly you can feel it. It is "invisible" and yet it is everywhere around us.
Btw., if the Earth is supposed to be flat, how come when the sun "goes down" in the US, it rises in Australia? Also, isn't the sun supposed to move in a straight line from the US to Australia in a flat-earth-model? Wouldn't have planes recorded such a phenomenon by now? The sun actually going down proves the fact that Australia is geographically "below" the US and not simply to the right as a map would suggest. Once more, the map is not the territory. In case someone wants to make the argument that "the sun just seems to go below, because of elevation", here's the obvious counter-argument: get to the place with the highest amount of elevation in your country and look from there, you won't see the sun, because it is actually on the other side of the globe. Night in the US, daylight in Australia? Crazy magic...
Another important fact to consider: if the sun would move in a straight line, due to the hight amount of light it emits we would never have nights anywhere, because the sun would still be visible everywhere to some degree, but from different distances. In doubt you could still climb the highest point of elevation in your country (usually a mountain) and you would have to see the sun in the distance. No mountains are wide enough to completely block the light from reaching other places on the planet... don't be ridiculous! Clouds aren't able to do that on the cloudiest days, hell... even the moon can't do it during solar eclipses. Case closed, next topic!
Flatearthers in particular seem to forget or ignore the fact that our natural perception is very limited. That's why we need microscopes to see down to the cellular level and beyond or telescopes for space. Or why we need instruments to detect infrasound, ultrasound, etc. Our bodies are meant to function as good as possible on the macro-level, because that's where we could get attacked by bears, where we can see whether it's safe or not to make a certain step in the mountains, etc.
Just because we can't see air with our naked eyes doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It's "invisible" to our eyes, but when you f.ex. wave your hands rapidly you can feel it. It is "invisible" and yet it is everywhere around us.
Btw., if the Earth is supposed to be flat, how come when the sun "goes down" in the US, it rises in Australia? Also, isn't the sun supposed to move in a straight line from the US to Australia in a flat-earth-model? Wouldn't have planes recorded such a phenomenon by now? The sun actually going down proves the fact that Australia is geographically "below" the US and not simply to the right as a map would suggest. Once more, the map is not the territory. In case someone wants to make the argument that "the sun just seems to go below, because of elevation", here's the obvious counter-argument: get to the place with the highest amount of elevation in your country and look from there, you won't see the sun, because it is actually on the other side of the globe. Night in the US, daylight in Australia? Crazy magic...
Another important fact to consider: if the sun would move in a straight line, due to the hight amount of light it emits we would never have nights anywhere, because the sun would still be visible everywhere to some degree, but from different distances. In doubt you could still climb the highest point of elevation in your country (usually a mountain) and you would have to see the sun in the distance. No mountains are wide enough to completely block the light from reaching other places on the planet... don't be ridiculous! Clouds aren't able to do that on the cloudiest days, hell... even the moon can't do it during solar eclipses. Case closed, next topic!
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Originally Posted by NameLikeNoOther
we need an emoticons of Buz doing the finger sign .
