Is the World Flat? The Flatlander's theory..

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Rrog

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Like I said, facts and reality aren't the issue. It's the defense of the delusion at any cost.

This thread is a great example. Clearly silly to even an elementary school student, yet they'll embarrass themselves to support the delusion
 
Rrog

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Cool map! A flat map with less distortion than other flat maps representing a round earth.
 
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That's an interesting article. Could be low self esteem or narcissists. Either end of the spectrum experiences paranoia. Wow.
 
GreenLogician

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Sure Shot said:
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That jet is rushing passed so quickly because it's nearby.
You know when you are in your car driving down the road, and nearby trees are rushing passed, but distant trees, houses, and mountains cruise by slower, in proportion to their distance?
The ISS is high enough that looking at it from the ground, you can see it cruising smoothly - it doesn't move too fast to see.
It would be like that if you were right next to it, but that's the mistake being made with the comparison to footage of a jet passing nearby. The ISS isn't nearby.

The Moon orbits the Earth at about 2200 mph, but it's so far away that the distance it has to cover to do an orbit is huge. That's why from the ground, it doesn't rush through arc degrees of our visual field. One degree of movement across your field of vision represents more and more distance the further away you look.
 
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GreenLogician

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Point in two directions at right angles, as if to North and East.
The distance something has to travel to cross the line you are pointing along with your left hand, and then cross the line you are pointing along with your right hand, increases with distance.
A jet passing nearby, a hundred meters away, would only have to cover (use Pythagoras' theorem) 142 meters to zoom passed that much of your field of vision.
It can do that in a jiffy.
A jet 100 kilometers away would have to cover 142km to zoom passed that much of your field of vision.
It would appear to pass by much slower, taking a thousand times longer to cross the same portion of your field of vision, even though it is moving at the same speed.

747 public transport jumbo jets, you've surely seen them plenty of times, lumbering slowly across the sky. They move at 600-1000 kilometers an hour, but they are so high up that they don't race passed like the nearby jet in your video.
 
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Unclebaldrick

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GreenLogician said:
Point in two directions at right angles, as if to North and East.
The distance something has to travel to cross the line you are pointing along with your left hand, and then cross the line you are pointing along with your right hand, increases with distance.
A jet passing nearby, a hundred meters away, would only have to cover (use Pythagoras' theorem) 142 meters to zoom passed that much of your field of vision.
It can do that in a jiffy.
A jet 100 kilometers away would have to cover 142km to zoom passed that much of your field of vision.
It would appear to pass by much slower, taking a thousand times longer to cross the same portion of your field of vision, even though it is moving at the same speed.

747 public transport jumbo jets, you've surely seen them plenty of times, lumbering slowly across the sky. They move at 600-1000 kilometers an hour, but they are so high up that they don't race passed like the nearby jet in your video.
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