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>Here is the exercise: If you take all the information of NASA and the government out of the equation, how would you KNOW the earth is a sphere by using the scientific method? By using a shop bought telescope to observe the heavenly bodies, like the way the moons of Jupiter and Saturn orbit them and not us. By observing the shadow of the moon on the sun during an eclipse, from multiple points on earth. Then using good old fashioned geometry working out that the shadows I observe are not consistent with viewing them from a flat disc. By travelling to an "edge country" and observing buildings in the street, which would have to be built at steeper and steeper angles the closer they got to the "edge" of the planet. By going to a country that is purported to be on the edge of the world and walking towards said edge. If I didn't feel gravity tugging me back towards the centre of the Earth, I would know that that was consistent with living on a globe. By watching the video of that dude that parachuted from space, and observing his view of a curved globe. By going to the HDEV ISS live (technically not NASA) and looking at the live video link (https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/) I could go on; but I won't :-) Sorry one more! In order for gravity to work the way it does on Earth, he sun would have to be 32,000 miles away and a lot smaller than it actually is. This would be fairly easy for an amateur astronomer to verify. OK, that really is it now :-D *Cg*
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<blockquote>By watching the video of that dude that parachuted from space, and observing his view of a curved globe.</blockquote> That is a GoPro camera with a fish-eye lens. You would not be able to see Earth's curvature from that close. Even NASA will tell you that. Look at that video again and notice that the camera inside his pod does not use a fish-eye lens. You can see a "flat" horizon. Now look at the fish-eye lens used afterwards and tell me, how small would the Earth have to be to see that much curvature from that close to Earth. Use your head man, stop relying on what you've been told. :) <blockquote>By using a shop bought telescope to observe the heavenly bodies</blockquote> Do it and take some pictures and show us. I am interested to see how it comes out. NASA's CGI images are getting old. <blockquote>By observing the shadow of the moon on the sun during an eclipse</blockquote> Believe it or not there is also a perfectly good explanation for this if the Earth was flat. But it requires an open mind and research. You must throw away the indoctrination for a few minutes and allow yourself to learn of other possibilities. <blockquote>By travelling to an "edge country" and observing buildings in the street</blockquote> It is called "perspective". Artist use it all of the time on a flat piece of paper. ;) <blockquote> If I didn't feel gravity tugging me back towards the centre of the Earth</blockquote> Up and down is different from forward and backward. You are saying that if you walked towards the "edge" you can feel the Earth pull you back to the center of the Earth? I think you are confusing two different directions to make your point. There are also these things called "mass" and "density" that could also answer the "feel" that you have. <blockquote>By going to the HDEV ISS live (technically not NASA) and looking at the live video link</blockquote> The ISS is a whole new can of worms I do not think you are ready for yet my globalist friend. But it is some cool imagery. I will give you that. <blockquote>Sorry one more! In order for gravity to work the way it does on Earth, he sun would have to be 32,000 miles away and a lot smaller than it actually is. This would be fairly easy for an amateur astronomer to verify.</blockquote> Really? How easy would it be? So easy that they have changed the distance the Sun is from the Earth how many times now? That dang math! Is it just a coincidence that the Moon is 400x smaller than the Sun and the Sun is 400x farther away from Earth than the Moon and that's why they appear to be the same size to us on Earth? These are just a few of the questions you can ask instead of believing what you have been told. When we begin to think for ourselves and do our own experiments our minds really being to open up from the closed indoctrination we have been served our entire lives. Science is about questioning things, not accepting what we are told as the truth. Do not be afraid to question! You have obviously bought into the indoctrination and have been taught to ridicule anything questioning your indoctrination. We are all taught this as kids. Make fun of the other kid that questions anything the teacher says. Make that kid feel stupid and call them names and repeat what the teacher has told you. Isolate that kid until they stop saying things that are different from the indoctrination. It is a sad state of affairs to see that in today's world we still have people doing this same thing into their adult lives.
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Lol, here's one more for you, by observing the shadow of the earth on the moon during a lunar eclipse, the fact that it was never a thin line dissecting the moon would be a tough one to get around. I look forward to your answer though. *Cg*
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<blockquote>Lol</blockquote> <blockquote> I look forward to your answer though.</blockquote> Thank you for proving the point I made! ;) You simply want to ridicule anything that differs from your indoctrination and yet you ask me to give you answers instead of doing any research of your own to find your own answer. I am afraid I will be unable to help you. Your mind appears to be as closed as the doors to your childhood classroom. You want others to give you the answers as long as they are answers you have already been given by an authority figure. Otherwise you will lol as a defense mechanism because it is making you question what you have been taught yet you are afraid to question what you have been taught because you fear what you may find. You only want an answer from me so that you can go copy some more indoctrination responses as a reply instead of using your brain to question things you have been taught. It is ok to question things despite what you have been taught. It is called science. Let the fear go and begin to question things and search for your own answers. Do your own test and stop relying on what you have been indoctrinated to believe without giving it any thought other than "did I give the teacher the answer they were looking for?". You are not being graded here my friend. You are free to question things and do some experiments on your own to come up with your own answers. Not everything is answered with a Google search or in a textbook. It is alright to use your own brain to search for the answers you seek.
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