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Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020) by eminence32 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:36AM (#29975516)
This is slightly beyond what an average layman can do, but it's not terribly hard or expensive to receive images of our globe from NOAA weather satellites [1]. Generally the most costly part is a ~$120 USD antenna. It's a super fun and rewarding project if this is the kind of thing that interests you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Envi...

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Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020) by NateEag on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:39AM (#29975539)
The problem is that then you aren't verifying it yourself, and a flat earther can claim you're just using one of the propaganda sources created by the government.
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Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020) by kavalg on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @03:49AM (#29976666)
You can also use the ESA earth observation program, which provides free downloads of earth observation data every ~5 days. Look for Sentinel-2. It still won't prove that earth is round though :).
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