1. Flight patterns disagree with you.
No, those
maps disagree with me. And what those maps have to do with anything I don't know.
All I need to do is Google "Sydney to Santiago" to find a flight duration of 12 hours 30 minutes. When I Google "Sydney to Los Angeles" I get a flight duration of 13 hours 55 minutes. Yet according to that map of yours a flight from Sydney to Santiago passes through Los Angeles. How can a flight of twice the distance according your map take less time?
And please address the issue of travel times in Australia. The map on the right shows an Australia which simply doesn't accord with travel distances. You might be able to get away with distortions like that with fellow Americans, but not with people who travel around Australia.
2. Foucault’s pendulums do not uniformly swing in any one direction. Sometimes they rotate clockwise and sometimes counter-clockwise, sometimes they fail to rotate and sometimes they rotate far too much. The behavior of the pendulum actually depends on 1) the initial force beginning its swing and, 2) the ball-and-socket joint used which most-readily facilitates circular motion over any other. The supposed rotation of the Earth is completely inconsequential and irrelevant to the pendulum’s swing.
I'm sorry, I think you're fibbing about the precession of the pendulums, and I think you're quibbling about the set-ups. Pendulums in the one hemisphere all precess in the same direction. Pendulums on the Equator don't precess. And a pendulum set up at the South Pole precessed 360 degrees in one day, exactly as predicted.
And please address the issue of the Coriolis Force.
3. Tycho Brahe famously argued against the heliocentric theory in his time, positing that if the Earth revolved around the Sun, the change in relative position of the stars after 6 months orbital motion could not fail to be seen. He argued that the stars should seem to separate as we approach and come together as we recede. In actual fact, however, after 190,000,000 miles of supposed orbit around the Sun, not a single inch of parallax can be detected in the stars, proving we have not moved at all.
Stellar parallax was observed in the 19th century by astronomers with Earth-based instruments considerably more sensitive than those available to Mr Brahe, and it's been measured with higher levels of accuracy by the Hipparcos satellite since 1989. The issue is simply that stars are a very long way away, even compared with the 300-odd million kilometre diameter of the Earth's orbit.
And please address the issue of the phases of Venus.
4. Time-lapse photography shows the Moon itself turns clockwise like a wheel as it circles over and around the Earth. You can find pictures of the Moon at 360 degrees of various inclination from all over the Earth simply depending on where and when the picture was taken.
Please provide a link to this alleged time-lapse photography of the Moon turning like a wheel.
And please address the issue that everyone on the half of the Earth with the Moon above the horizon sees the Moon showing the same phase and the same size at the same time, and against the same background stars.
Did you also know that the moon and the sun are the same size in the sky but we are TOLD that the sun is really far enough away that it just so happens it appears to be the same size as the moon? lol
Yes, I did know that. I've observed both the Moon and the Sun. As for the fact that they have the same angular size, yes, it's an amazing coincidence. And that's all.
5. The natural physics of water is to find and maintain its level. If Earth were a giant sphere tilted, wobbling and hurdling through infinite space then truly flat, consistently level surfaces would not exist here. But since Earth is in fact an extended flat plane, this fundamental physical property of fluids finding and remaining level is consistent with experience and common sense.
Lovely pictures. But yes, the surface of the Earth is curved, which is why the hulls of sailing ships disappeared before their masts did. When you have a globe of nearly 13,000 kilometres in diameter, even in those pictures you can't easily see the curvature of the apparently flat surface. But all points of the surface of the ocean are equidistant from the Earth's centre of gravity.
6. If “gravity” is credited with being a force strong enough to curve the massive expanse of oceans around a globular Earth, it would be impossible for fish and other creatures to swim through such forcefully held water.
Why?
How does gravity affect an objects ability to sink or float in water?
It doesn't. Objects float or sink due to buoyancy, which is the relative density of the water and the object placed in the water. If the object's density is greater than water, then gravity determines which direction the object goes (that is, down).
And please explain what keeps us on the ground according to Flat-Earthism?
Is it Intelligent Falling?
7. A spinning object will create a force called centrifugal force. You feel this force if you have been on a merry go round. The faster it spun the harder it was to hang on. How does this magical gravity hold everything on a sphere (globe earth) where the speed is not constant depending upon your location?
Because the force of gravity is much stronger than the centrifugal force generated by an object spinning at the rate of 1 revolution per day.
In fact I should weigh the least at the equator as that is the max velocity I would experience on a rotating globe earth.
And you do! It's just that the weight reduction is about 0.5% - measurable but not enough to see you thrown off the Earth at the Equator.
And please address why your cup of coffee on the train doesn't slide off the table when you let go of it.
The above explanations are why I keep stating that the globe earth is a religion based on faith and not observational facts. We see one thing but are TOLD to believe another.
Yeah, well until you address the points I made here and the ones you avoided addressing in the post of mine you were responding to, I'll work on the basis that
you're the one with a religious obsession.
So here's a brief summary:
- flight durations;
- shape of Australia;
- Coriolis Force;
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Observed stellar parallax;
- Phases of Venus;
- Time-lapse photography of rotating Moon;
- Observations of Moon;
- Disappearing ships;
- Fish swimming in the ocean;
- What keeps things stuck to Flat Earth; and
- Non-moving cups of coffee.
And, for bonus points, please explain the physics of the Sun according to FE physics.
Thank you.
