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The Flat-Earth™ vs. sextant Challenge - this one offers $500 to the first flat earther who is able to pinpoint her/his position with a sextant. (www.youtube.com)
posted 3 years ago by xolotltlaloc 3 years ago by xolotltlaloc +14 / -6
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– YuuugeAsshoe 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Lol I don't see how this settles anything. For centuries people successfully used sextants whether you thought it was flat or spherical. Columbus even used them when he was wrong about how big the earth is. Whether we use a Mercator projection map or a azimuthal equidistant projection, they both have lines of latitude and longitude over them that we can plot ourselves on.

Shit during world War 2 the primary map that was used by military vessels and planes was the 'ww2 air map of the world', Google it and tell me what that looks like.

Sextants make more sense on flat earth: https://www.bitchute.com/video/x3qknB0XWOnA/

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– deleted 6 points 3 years ago +7 / -1
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– YuuugeAsshoe 2 points 3 years ago +3 / -1

Hahaha lmao. Hey which break room at the pentagon you want to have lunch at tomorrow?

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– xolotltlaloc [S] -2 points 3 years ago +1 / -3

Sextants make more sense on flat earth

correct me if i am wrong, but sextants only work because Earth is a globe.

if Earth wasn't a globe, you wouldn't need a sextant to correct for refraction etc - as the sextant does.

that video basically mocks how many hoops you have to jump through to basically flatten the globe and get a straight bering.

lol, but once you jump through all the hoops ....sextants work!

this is undeniable.

and they wouldn't work if the Earth were actually flat - because a sextant corrects for factors that a globe creates. if you correct for events that don't actually exist, the final result will be wrong.

right? :)

#greatminds

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– Afks 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

where does a sextant correct for the globe

you're confirmed just a retard shill

fuck off

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

let me restate:

the sextant uses geometry -- which Aristotle used to further his globe theory.

i thought flat earthers didn't believe in geometry.

am i wrong about that ? you don't believe in all the geometry brainwashing, do you ??

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

where does a sextant correct for the globe

tell me you don't know how a sextant works... w/o telling me you know know how a sextant works :)

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– Afks 1 point 3 years ago +2 / -1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=00ZEIZsl5xk

Here you go, retard

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

let me restate:

the sextant uses geometry (which Aristotle used to "prove" a globe, but whatever)

i thought flat earthers didn't believe in geometry.

am i wrong about that ?

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– Afks 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

"flat earthers don't believe in geometry"

crepuscular rays

seeing things across a span of water that should long ago have been fully obscured from view due to earths curvature

we use geometry to disprove the spinning globe

we use geometry among other things to come to the conclusion that our surface is planar

you aren't serious

you're just a clown

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– YuuugeAsshoe 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

Laugh all ya want but the fact is sextants are used by people who hold both beliefs globe and flat for hundreds of years. You were too retarded to make that simple connection.

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 0 points 3 years ago +1 / -1

hold both beliefs globe and flat for hundreds of years.

you can "believe" whatever you want ... :)

Just like "flat earthers" can believe whatever they want, but the internet will still works for them - even though the internet was built with "science".

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– YuuugeAsshoe 1 point 3 years ago +2 / -1

Man watch some celestial navigation videos, you have it completely inverted. How do I know? Cause I've been a licensed mariner my entire adult life. When you use a sextant you view a local apparent horizon, and the zenith is straight overhead. You have to correct your observation to get a celestial horizon. This forms a 90° angle (flat earth horizon) which you use to calculate the local apparent altitude of a star.

Whether you are on a globe or a plane you would still have to make corrections to form a 90° angle with the celestial horizon and zenith. If you are on a flat earth it's because of your height of eye over the ocean and potential atmospheric distortion. If you are on a globe it's also because of earth curve. BUT EARTH CURVE IS NEVER INCLUDED IN CELESTIAL NAVIGATION CALCULATIONS. Your corrections assume a plane dipshit.

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

BUT EARTH CURVE IS NEVER INCLUDED IN CELESTIAL NAVIGATION CALCULATIONS

let me restate:

the sextant uses geometry (which Aristotle used to "prove" a globe, but whatever)

i thought flat earthers didn't believe in geometry.

am i wrong about that ?

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– YuuugeAsshoe 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

The sextant wasn't invented until like 2000 years after Aristotle. I think what you are referring to is the Eratosthenes experiment with pillars and shadows in two different cities that 'proved' a sphere. Unfortunately you can produce the same results on a plane with a local light. I can show you with two beer bottles and a light bulb, so this effect fits the flat earth model.

It was literally geometry that first clued me in to flat earth. As a Mariner I would sometimes do earth curve calculations to see when an object like a lighthouse or drilling rig should come into view. And I kept seeing them so far off, with such clarity that refraction couldn't explain it. It was as if there was no curve that you would expect on a planet of 24,901 miles in circumference. Then finding out nasa fakes everything finally got me to investigate flat earth.

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– xolotltlaloc [S] 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0

SS:

Deep link to see how this challenge is presented:

https://youtu.be/QyLogn0SxR4?t=83

  • If the flat earther can successfully use a sextant, then we'll talk (and here's $500).

  • If the flat earther can is not able to use a sextant, then there is no point is any further discussion.

Seems reasonable.

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– Iknowitsu -4 points 3 years ago +2 / -6

You are fake and stupid.

Not even believable in the least.

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– jack445566778899 1 point 3 years ago +1 / -0

This is a common misconception. The sextant does not rely on the shape of the world.

(Most) Any person, regardless of what shape they believe the world is, can learn to use a sextant. This whole thing is stupid, and nonsensical. It’s just intended to be condescending/diminutive - but it isn’t cogent enough to make sense or withstand the smallest amount of scrutiny.

If you have any interest in learning about the perspectives of flat earth researchers (on sextants or anything else), and/or wish to exchange our respective perspectives, please join us on flatearthresearch!

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– Iknowitsu -4 points 3 years ago +3 / -7

Flat earth is astroturfed bullshit with a hand of useful idiots.

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