Addressing your second point: Balloons have gone up 121,000 feet which is hight enough according to the math to see the curvature of the earth if it were there. The curvature is supposed to be 8" x mile squared so at that height it would be visible.
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Here is an article explaining why there is confusion with the photographs. http://thulescientific.com/Lynch%20Curvature%202008.pdf
Again I keep coming back to this point, there are tens of thousands of students studying this right now, and hundreds of thousands more that have studied it in the past. And you are telling me that 99.999999999% of them are wrong?
It's actually pretty cool for me to see flat earth theory come back around
I used to browse the Flat Earth Society forums like 10 years ago; I'd memorize stuff from their wiki and use it to annoy my friends at school, bait people into random arguments
from what I could tell it was mostly comprised of physics undergrads who spent their free time trolling people on the internet, though I guess that demographic has shifted towards conspiracy theorists which is pretty interesting
It's a good intellectual exercise to contemplate; if you get super deep into the facts on either side of the debate it becomes less about physics and more about philosophy, how knowledge can be derived in more ways than axioms and logic, what knowledge means even; not trying to be condescending to anyone, whatever side of the debate you fall sincerely or otherwise you have a special place in my heart :)
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http://planetary.org/explore/space-t...pacecraft.html
This site has tons of pictures of Earth from space with a variety of cameras from not only NASA but Chinese, Japanese, Indian and Soviet Spacecraft. Are these all fakes? What would be the motivation for all of these countries to lie?
I wonder what Buckminster Fuller would have to add to the discussion. Would his Dymaxion map be an accurate map of a 'flat earth'?
https://www.bfi.org/about-fuller/big...d/dymaxion-map
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
No, I dont think so. Every flat earth Map I've seen has no Antarctica at all, but instead has the ice wall around the rim of the disk.
Buckmister would probably have a good laugh about the flat earth theory. He's probably have some really good ways to prove it round as well.. that guy was a spacial genius.
All those pictures are either composites, cgi or straight up fake. Here is video of Robert Simmon who created the 2002 'blue marble' admitting it's photoshop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaRurjWjf4Y
Here is footage of the astronauts faking the 1972 blue marble image that Robert spoke about in the above video that inspired him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmnMJoFQHk0
So you looked at the site I linked and determined that every photo there was photoshopped or completely faked, even though none come from NASA and many are from recent missions from countries that would have no reason to "go-along" with the lies told by NASA?