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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by osoab View Post
    The F.E. model has the "stars" much closer.
    How much closer, that is the question?

    When you get closer anybody can use basic trig to find out the distance to objects like the moon or the sun and the planets.

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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by Bigjon View Post
    How much closer, that is the question?

    When you get closer anybody can use basic trig to find out the distance to objects like the moon or the sun and the planets.
    I don't think the Mayans were using calculus.

    Let me dig around on numbers. Might be a day or two.
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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    So simple - open your mind. To clarify the key point: on a globe earth, when the observer rises the horizon must stay at a constant height relative to the observer, because the observer is always looking at the crest of the curve of the sphere, it's highest point relative to the observer. Capeche?

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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away



    Witnessed it in Boise on the 21st with my own eyes Mamboni. How do you explain what I saw?

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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by mamboni View Post
    So simple - open your mind. To clarify the key point: on a globe earth, when the observer rises the horizon must stay at a constant height relative to the observer, because the observer is always looking at the crest of the curve of the sphere, it's highest point relative to the observer. Capeche?

    heh, I was starting to worry about the Mambo... http://gold-silver.us/forum/search.php?searchid=3118338 his first post (above) since 6/29, > 2 months!
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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by Jewboo View Post


    Witnessed it in Boise on the 21st with my own eyes Mamboni. How do you explain what I saw?

    I can't. Nobody can. All we can do is conjecture, if we are honest with ourselves vis-a-vis our limited knowledge.
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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by PatColo View Post
    heh, I was starting to worry about the Mambo... http://gold-silver.us/forum/search.php?searchid=3118338 his first post (above) since 6/29, > 2 months!
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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by mamboni View Post
    I can't. Nobody can. All we can do is conjecture, if we are honest with ourselves vis-a-vis our limited knowledge.


    Can we continue to honestly disagree then?



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    Re: Flat Earthers Won't Go Away

    Quote Originally Posted by Jewboo View Post


    Can we continue to honestly disagree then?



    Sounds like a partial surrender. No, there is no compromise with factual knowledge. The earth is, by thousands of measurements done by thousands of investigators over hundreds of years MEASURABLY flat. Can your pigheaded mind understand that the empirical databank of objective scientific measurements proves that the earth is flat. It has been proved to me, a trained scientist, to my objective satisfaction, one thousand times over. I don't believe it. I know it. It is flat.
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