April 1, 2019 at 06:51Flat Earth: Experiments and Evidence
Already in the elementary grades of state schools, in natural history textbooks they write that our Earth is flat, and children grow up without thinking about what the government puts into their heads. But a thinking person can get to the bottom of the truth, sometimes studying seemingly unrelated facts or even setting up his own experiments.
Last summer, I had the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse. You all saw this picture from a textbook of natural history:
I prepared to enjoy the sight, but the reality turned out to be completely different, the appearing shadow was curved, as if the Earth was a ball!
This discovery deprived me of peace - have all of us been deceived all this time, and is the Earth really a ball? It was necessary to investigate this issue further. Where and how can we notice a shadow from the Earth? The most interesting is the time of sunset and sunrise. From textbooks, we know that the Sun shines on a flat Earth like a lantern with a reflector, directed. Otherwise, the whole disk would have been day or night at the same time, and now, with the spread of communications, you can call or write to a friend for several thousand kilometers and find out that his Sun has already set or has risen.
This means that the border of day and night has a slope, and on a flat Earth, tall objects in the opposite direction from the Sun after sunset will be in the shade.
And on a spherical Earth, on the contrary, skyscrapers or mountains will be lit by the Sun after sunset or before dawn.
And I not only personally observed the illuminated skyscrapers immediately after sunset, but, judging by the photographs of other people, this is found everywhere. It turns out that the Earth is everywhere a ball!
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Source , in the same place is in full size
And this is not all cases when the shadow of the Earth can be observed directly. The clouds are higher than buildings, and they are also lit after sunset or before dawn.
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Let's go even higher. The so-called “missile launches” can give an amazing optical effect, but only if they occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise (the most interesting is from 2:21).
And finally, if we go to one of the sites of the Sharov’s sect, which predicts the position of bright points moving across our sky, then the case when the point goes out before reaching the horizon can only be explained by entering the Earth’s shadow.
And finally, on a flat Earth at sunset, the Sun should decrease, moving away from us, and increase at dawn. Alas, neither personal observations, nor numerous photographs of other people confirm this. But on a spherical Earth, the Sun just should not change size.
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Amazing surprises await us on travel. The celestial sphere above a flat Earth should show the same picture regardless of north / south movements, but for some reason, when moving south, new stars become visible in the southern part of the sky, and on the opposite side the North Star, on the contrary, tends to lower towards the horizon. Moving only 12 ° south, from Ufa to Sochi, I saw that the planets had become noticeably higher, and unfamiliar stars were burning in the southern part of the sky. Even more amazing pictures will be visible if we look at photographs of the night sky in different corners of the Earth, taken with a long shutter speed so that the rotation of the sky becomes noticeable.
In the northern hemisphere we see a clearly distinguishable axis of rotation. Here, for example, Sweden.
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On a flat Earth, this axis would also be visible from the equator, but this does not happen. Here is a photo from Ecuador.
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And in Australia, the second pole is visible, which is in no way possible to observe on a flat Earth, but on a spherical one it should be there. This photo was taken on Lake Eppalock, just north of Melbourne.
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Observations from different points located on the east / west line also give interesting results. It is easy to establish that the Sun rises over different cities at different times. And with the help of friends and / or webcams, you can measure the time of sunrise or sunset with pretty good accuracy. Only this must be done in the area of the spring or autumn equinox so that the border of day and night does not deviate much from the north-south direction. I got 73 minutes for the Ufa-Moscow base. The distance between cities in the region of 1100 km directly (on the road in the region of 1300 km, but it is not perfectly straight). Thus, we get that the terminator line (the border of day and night) runs about 15 km per minute. Multiplying by 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day, we get 21,700 km - the Earth’s circumference at a latitude of 55 °. From here we can find out the length of the equator, dividing the resulting number by the cosine of 55 degrees. 21700 / 0.573 = 37800 km, which, given the low accuracy of our measurements, almost coincides with 40 000, which are mentioned in the sect of sharing.
The truths of a flat earth become completely ghostly if you have a telescope. Governments led by mysterious forces can tell us that demons or reptilians fly in the chariots (like motorcycles on a vertical wall in a circus), but when the so-called “ISS” appears in the sky strictly according to the schedule of the site of the Sharov’s sect, and through a telescope you can see the "solar panels", according to textbooks that there is no space, somehow I can’t believe it. I personally saw these panels, but I pointed the telescope with my hand, and it was not possible to take a photo. But there are people who manage to take a picture, moreover, coinciding with what the balloonists say. Official science tells us that rockets fall back to earth, but you can’t believe it when the launched “cargo ship” is visible in the sky.
A source
Another source of doubt is Venus. Because if the Sun is closer than the celestial sphere, then Venus should always be visible as a circle. But with her telescope, the phases are perfectly visible, coinciding with what the balloons write - when they say that the distance to the planet is less than to the Sun, Venus is visible as a large sickle. And when the marginal-sharover says that Venus is close to the point of the “orbit” opposite to us, then it is visible as a small but almost complete circle.
A source
The fact that the Earth is not flat is noticeable not only in the range of visible light. First of all, there is such a thing as "satellite television." If the Earth were the fixed center of the Universe, no “geostationary orbit” could exist in principle. But for some reason there are “satellite dishes” on the houses, directed just to the south, where impossible satellites should be. And if on the territory of Russia the antennas do not look very high above the horizon, then with a decrease in latitude they rise up higher. In the equatorial region they are directed vertically, and ordinary travel bloggers unwittingly give out the existence of “geostationary satellites”
Photos from Indonesia
Ground photographers also manage to shoot objects that are clearly not on the dome of the celestial sphere, because they move at different speeds than the stars.
Source
If the Earth were flat, then there would be no “satellite transmitters”. An ultrashort-wave transmitter on a high tower could broadcast over great distances, and the transmission of the conventional Ostankino would be visible not only in Russia, at least to the Urals, but also in the USA (via the pole). Aircraft would be visible on radars along the entire length of the disk without difficulties with “over-the-horizon radars”, and there would be no stories of passenger liners missing over the ocean.
Even the history of shipbuilding contains evidence of the sphericity of the Earth. The most famous tea clippers of the 19th century tried to follow the shortest possible route, which made sense only in the case of the sphericity of the Earth. Movement near the Antarctic wall is the longest route on the disk, and the clippers did not deviate towards India, as it would make sense for a flat Earth.
Ariel Clipper Route , 1866
In general, if the Earth were flat, sailing ships would not need to shorten the path, risking movement in the “roaring forties” of the southern hemisphere.
Truth provides a holistic picture of the world and erupts even in unexpected places. Personal observations, specially set up experiments, alien experience, even seemingly not directly related historical facts allow us to come to an unambiguous conclusion about the sphericity of the Earth.
PS The material was specially prepared for April 1, I hope that readers will forgive the slight irony in the form of an inversion of conspiracy theories :)
Dark things
Last summer, I had the opportunity to see a lunar eclipse. You all saw this picture from a textbook of natural history:
I prepared to enjoy the sight, but the reality turned out to be completely different, the appearing shadow was curved, as if the Earth was a ball!
This discovery deprived me of peace - have all of us been deceived all this time, and is the Earth really a ball? It was necessary to investigate this issue further. Where and how can we notice a shadow from the Earth? The most interesting is the time of sunset and sunrise. From textbooks, we know that the Sun shines on a flat Earth like a lantern with a reflector, directed. Otherwise, the whole disk would have been day or night at the same time, and now, with the spread of communications, you can call or write to a friend for several thousand kilometers and find out that his Sun has already set or has risen.
This means that the border of day and night has a slope, and on a flat Earth, tall objects in the opposite direction from the Sun after sunset will be in the shade.
And on a spherical Earth, on the contrary, skyscrapers or mountains will be lit by the Sun after sunset or before dawn.
And I not only personally observed the illuminated skyscrapers immediately after sunset, but, judging by the photographs of other people, this is found everywhere. It turns out that the Earth is everywhere a ball!
Source
Source , in the same place is in full size
And this is not all cases when the shadow of the Earth can be observed directly. The clouds are higher than buildings, and they are also lit after sunset or before dawn.
Source
Let's go even higher. The so-called “missile launches” can give an amazing optical effect, but only if they occur shortly after sunset or before sunrise (the most interesting is from 2:21).
And finally, if we go to one of the sites of the Sharov’s sect, which predicts the position of bright points moving across our sky, then the case when the point goes out before reaching the horizon can only be explained by entering the Earth’s shadow.
And finally, on a flat Earth at sunset, the Sun should decrease, moving away from us, and increase at dawn. Alas, neither personal observations, nor numerous photographs of other people confirm this. But on a spherical Earth, the Sun just should not change size.
A source
Distances and movements
Amazing surprises await us on travel. The celestial sphere above a flat Earth should show the same picture regardless of north / south movements, but for some reason, when moving south, new stars become visible in the southern part of the sky, and on the opposite side the North Star, on the contrary, tends to lower towards the horizon. Moving only 12 ° south, from Ufa to Sochi, I saw that the planets had become noticeably higher, and unfamiliar stars were burning in the southern part of the sky. Even more amazing pictures will be visible if we look at photographs of the night sky in different corners of the Earth, taken with a long shutter speed so that the rotation of the sky becomes noticeable.
In the northern hemisphere we see a clearly distinguishable axis of rotation. Here, for example, Sweden.
A source
On a flat Earth, this axis would also be visible from the equator, but this does not happen. Here is a photo from Ecuador.
Source
And in Australia, the second pole is visible, which is in no way possible to observe on a flat Earth, but on a spherical one it should be there. This photo was taken on Lake Eppalock, just north of Melbourne.
A source
Observations from different points located on the east / west line also give interesting results. It is easy to establish that the Sun rises over different cities at different times. And with the help of friends and / or webcams, you can measure the time of sunrise or sunset with pretty good accuracy. Only this must be done in the area of the spring or autumn equinox so that the border of day and night does not deviate much from the north-south direction. I got 73 minutes for the Ufa-Moscow base. The distance between cities in the region of 1100 km directly (on the road in the region of 1300 km, but it is not perfectly straight). Thus, we get that the terminator line (the border of day and night) runs about 15 km per minute. Multiplying by 60 minutes in an hour and 24 hours in a day, we get 21,700 km - the Earth’s circumference at a latitude of 55 °. From here we can find out the length of the equator, dividing the resulting number by the cosine of 55 degrees. 21700 / 0.573 = 37800 km, which, given the low accuracy of our measurements, almost coincides with 40 000, which are mentioned in the sect of sharing.
With the naked eye
The truths of a flat earth become completely ghostly if you have a telescope. Governments led by mysterious forces can tell us that demons or reptilians fly in the chariots (like motorcycles on a vertical wall in a circus), but when the so-called “ISS” appears in the sky strictly according to the schedule of the site of the Sharov’s sect, and through a telescope you can see the "solar panels", according to textbooks that there is no space, somehow I can’t believe it. I personally saw these panels, but I pointed the telescope with my hand, and it was not possible to take a photo. But there are people who manage to take a picture, moreover, coinciding with what the balloonists say. Official science tells us that rockets fall back to earth, but you can’t believe it when the launched “cargo ship” is visible in the sky.
A source
Another source of doubt is Venus. Because if the Sun is closer than the celestial sphere, then Venus should always be visible as a circle. But with her telescope, the phases are perfectly visible, coinciding with what the balloons write - when they say that the distance to the planet is less than to the Sun, Venus is visible as a large sickle. And when the marginal-sharover says that Venus is close to the point of the “orbit” opposite to us, then it is visible as a small but almost complete circle.
A source
Not a single light
The fact that the Earth is not flat is noticeable not only in the range of visible light. First of all, there is such a thing as "satellite television." If the Earth were the fixed center of the Universe, no “geostationary orbit” could exist in principle. But for some reason there are “satellite dishes” on the houses, directed just to the south, where impossible satellites should be. And if on the territory of Russia the antennas do not look very high above the horizon, then with a decrease in latitude they rise up higher. In the equatorial region they are directed vertically, and ordinary travel bloggers unwittingly give out the existence of “geostationary satellites”
Photos from Indonesia
Ground photographers also manage to shoot objects that are clearly not on the dome of the celestial sphere, because they move at different speeds than the stars.
Source
If the Earth were flat, then there would be no “satellite transmitters”. An ultrashort-wave transmitter on a high tower could broadcast over great distances, and the transmission of the conventional Ostankino would be visible not only in Russia, at least to the Urals, but also in the USA (via the pole). Aircraft would be visible on radars along the entire length of the disk without difficulties with “over-the-horizon radars”, and there would be no stories of passenger liners missing over the ocean.
Sailboat Accuses
Even the history of shipbuilding contains evidence of the sphericity of the Earth. The most famous tea clippers of the 19th century tried to follow the shortest possible route, which made sense only in the case of the sphericity of the Earth. Movement near the Antarctic wall is the longest route on the disk, and the clippers did not deviate towards India, as it would make sense for a flat Earth.
Ariel Clipper Route , 1866
In general, if the Earth were flat, sailing ships would not need to shorten the path, risking movement in the “roaring forties” of the southern hemisphere.
Epilogue
Truth provides a holistic picture of the world and erupts even in unexpected places. Personal observations, specially set up experiments, alien experience, even seemingly not directly related historical facts allow us to come to an unambiguous conclusion about the sphericity of the Earth.
PS The material was specially prepared for April 1, I hope that readers will forgive the slight irony in the form of an inversion of conspiracy theories :)