Mike asked for it

[Ronster]

I found direct flights from South Africa to Australia!

https://www.southafrica.to/transport/Ai ... ralia.php5

Departs
21:05 O.R. Tambo Internationa
Arrivesl
12:20+1 day Perth

Total duration 09h15m, Direct flight
South African Airways (SA280)

Flat Earthers gonna Flat

[Mike]

That's not real. If you try to book that flight, you will get very convenient, plausible excuses about cancellations and maintenance and such. Anyone who claims to have actually taken such a flight is lying. The direct flight time from Australia to South America is well over 40 hours, and there are currently no commercial planes capable of that sort of sustained flight.

[Ronster]

I should have known. I'm glad I had someone in the know tofact-check that. These "globists" are insidious with their lies

[Ronster]

well, I guess that proves it

[Mike]

It's no joke though. The earth was proved conclusively to be flat in 1849. There is a drainage ditch in England that runs for six miles uninterrupted in a straight line. The water in it is extremely slow-moving if it is moving at all on a given day. Thus it gets its name--the Bedford Level.

If the earth were curved, as the round-earthers would have you believe, with a radius of about 8000 miles from the center of the earth, then the Bedford Level should describe an arc of the circumference whose dimensions are easy to calculate. If the round-earthers are right, then the curve of the middle of that stretch should rise considerably and completely block the view of one end of the channel from the other. However, in 1838, Samuel Birley Rowbotham began measurements that he would verify many times and finally publish in 1849. In these experiments, Rowbotham placed a telescopic sight a mere 8 inches above the ground at one end of the Bedford Level, and then a boat with a flag on a three foot mast was rowed to the other end. Rowbotham, in repeated experiments, was able to see not just the flag but the entire boat in every instance. If the earth were round the flag would have disappeared from sight after two miles. But it didn't. Thus, he proved conclusively that the earth is flat.

[FlameBlade]

So is there so much steaming crap in the ditch that it bends the light sufficiently?

[Mike]

No. The earth is flat.

It took over 20 years for the round-earth conspiracy to invent a reason why this could possibly happen on a round earth and explain away the evidence of our own senses.

Atmospheric refraction. Yes, the same atmospheric refraction that supposedly explains why the sky is blue also explains how light can magically bend around the curvature of the earth, thus allowing round-earthers to maintain their claims.

Here's the problem: if refraction happens everywhere in the atmosphere, then how does air know to bend light In the direction of the supposed curvature of the earth ? And more than that... bend it at exactly the same rate as the curvature of the earth? Amazingly convenient for them, in my opinion.

[FlameBlade]

Under the flat Earth model, how do you explain differences in sunrise and sunset timing in different locations. Softball: West vs East?

Hardball: why no night during certain hours in Alaska, while total darkness in Antarctica at the same time? Assuming flat earth model.

Supremely hard question: If Earth is flat, then surely there has to be an infinite directions to explore? Why we haven't met any lizardfolks? Elves?

[Phoebe]

If you walk (or fly, sail) far enough to the west, you will find yourself emerging in the east. Nobody knows exactly where the line separating the two is, and frankly it might be in different places at different latitudes.

[Mike]