Flerf comment of the day, including spelling and grammar:
Its a fac regardles of Nathan saying it, all measurments of Earth are flat and require earth to be flat.
And the excellent response:
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”The Earth Measures Flat”
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Ferdinand Magellan
The church says the earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence even in a shadow than in the church.
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Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens’s razor.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence
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Lines of Longitude Converge South of the Equator.
The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is credited with specifying locations on the Earth using latitude and longitude in the 2nd century BC. It wasn’t until the 18th century AD that John Harrison produced the first timepiece good enough to enable marine navigators to get an accurate fix on their longitude.
It’s safe to say that flat earthers and the rest of civilisation agree that the latitude/longitude coordinate system accurately maps locations on the Earth; after all, they make a lot of noise about celestial navigation proving the Earth is flat.
So, can latitude and longitude be used to find out what shape the Earth is?
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Admiralty Chart 4009
(more…)“All maps are flat” flerfs will say, usually to avoid showing a flat Earth map. Making a flat Earth map would be simple, using just a straight transformation of the terrain with the same scale everywhere.
In contrast, the scale on all maps of the actual Earth varies, as every map is a projection of a globe.
One map I’ve yet to hear a flerf comment on substantively is Admiralty Chart 4009, even though it’s the type of map flerfs should be familiar with.
Admiralty Chart 4009. Small scale navigational map of Antarctica and the surrounding seas. Note the converging lines of longitude.