Re:In defense of flat earthers (2020)
by ajuc on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:42AM
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The problem is - explanations for each of these demand different flat earth models. Often several different flat earth model for several cases of one of these points.
For example to make 10 different flight paths over the pole make sense on flat earth you need 10 different flat earth maps contradicting each other. The only way to make all the flight paths make sense is round Earth.
Same with weather, day-night and seasons - you can get some of them with different flat earth models, but these models contradict each other. To get all the daily and yearly patterns at the same time you need round Earth.
As for tides I'd like to see even one good flat earth model where moon is visible in the correct place on the sky at the same time looking from equator, north hemisphere and south hemisphere. Most flat earth models put moon 180 degree away from "center of flat earth" opposite of the sun, which is obviously wrong (cause you can see moon and sun at once in many places).
And there's such problems with each point. But that's not a problem, because flatearthers don't want to have a consistent model of reality, they just want to think The System is out there trying to deceive them. So it's fine having 100 different contradicting models that explain one thing each.
For example to make 10 different flight paths over the pole make sense on flat earth you need 10 different flat earth maps contradicting each other. The only way to make all the flight paths make sense is round Earth.
Same with weather, day-night and seasons - you can get some of them with different flat earth models, but these models contradict each other. To get all the daily and yearly patterns at the same time you need round Earth.
As for tides I'd like to see even one good flat earth model where moon is visible in the correct place on the sky at the same time looking from equator, north hemisphere and south hemisphere. Most flat earth models put moon 180 degree away from "center of flat earth" opposite of the sun, which is obviously wrong (cause you can see moon and sun at once in many places).
And there's such problems with each point. But that's not a problem, because flatearthers don't want to have a consistent model of reality, they just want to think The System is out there trying to deceive them. So it's fine having 100 different contradicting models that explain one thing each.