The managers of the site, who identify themselves by the assumed names Guy Mass and Richard Byrd
I dont think I can recall admiral byrd and hollow earth being used to proof flat earth. Can hollow earth and flat earth even co exist? How can earth be hollow if its just a flat square.
We’re alone on a huge and stable surface – the fact is that things don’t move in your room – as people believed in ancient times.
Ahhh yes, nothing is moving when your in a moving car, so therefore its not moving, right? Basic physics here people.
“About a year and a half ago my eldest daughter asked me: ‘Who said that the world is a ball and not flat?’ I searched on Google, and I read a ridiculous article on the subject that suffered from misinformation.
I thought this shit would be common knowledge. It was the greeks who supposedly first came up with it. But obviously that is not true, just like how the magnetic compass is a invention of china lol ^^. In the original legends of Hercules, he uses a compass to navigate the seas.
Historians think China may have been the first civilization to develop a magnetic compass that could be used for navigation. Chinese scientists may have developed navigational compasses as early as the 11th or 12th century. Western Europeans soon followed at the end of the 12th century.
Excerpts from Atlantis THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD by ignius.
The magnet was called the “ Stone of Hercules.” Hercules was the patron divinity of the Phænicians. He was, as we have shown elsewhere, one of the gods of Atlantis — probably one of its great kings and navigators. The Atlanteans were, as Plato tells us, a maritime, commercial people, trading up the Mediterranean as far as Egypt and Syria , and across the Atlantic to “ the whole opposite continent that surrounds the sea ;" the Phænicians, as their successors and descendants, and colonized on the shores of the Mediterranean, inherited their civilization and their maritime habits, and with these that invention without which their great voyages were impossible. From them the magnet passed to the Hindoos, and from them to the Chinese, who certainly possessed it at an earlydate. In the year 2700 B.C. the Emperor Wang-ti placed a magnetic figure with an extended arm , like the Astarte of the Phænicians, on the front of carriages, the arm always turning and pointing to the south, which the Chinese regarded as the principal pole.
“ Hercules, it was said , being once overpowered by the heat of the sun, drew his bow against that luminary ; whereupon the god Phæbus, admiring his intrepidity , gave him a golden cup, with which sailed over the ocean. This cup was the compass, which old writers have called Lapis Heracleus. Pisander says Oceanus lent him the cup, and Lucian says it was a sea-shell. Tradition affirms that the magnet originally was not on a pivot, but set to float on water in a cup. The old antiquarian is wildly theoretical on this point, and sees a compass in the Golden Fleece of Argos, in the oracular needle which Nero worshipped, and in everything else. Yet undoubtedly there are some curious facts connected with the matter. Osónius says that Gama and the Portuguese got the compass from some pirates at the Cape of Good Hope, A.D. 1260. M.Fauchet, the French antiquarian , finds it plainly alluded to in some old poem of Brittany belonging to the year A.D. 1180. Paulo Venetus brought it in the thirteenth century from China, where it was regarded as oracular. Genebrand says Melvius, a Neapolitan , brought it to Europe in A.D. 1303. Costa says Gama got it from Mohammedan seamen . But all nations with whom it was found associate it with regions where Heraclean myths prevailed . And one of the most curious facts is that the ancient Britons, as the Welsh do to -day, call a pilot llywydd (lode). Lodemanage, in Skinner's ' Etymology,' is the word
for the price paid to a pilot. But whether this famous, and afterward deified ,mariner (Hercules) had a compass or not, we can hardly regard the association of his name with so many Western monuments as accidental.”
Anyway, you would have to be brain dead to think that someone didnt figure it out long before that. The people who built the great pyramids or some of these other 7 wonders of the world type shit, had to have figured it out long before that to line up their temples to such precision for things like the 8 sided pyramid or the serpent of light to appear.
One thing I will give you flat earthers. The equations that the greeks came up with could work both ways.
This answer from some random person explains it better than me...
This is a long answer, explaining more or less step to step why the data available to Eratosthenes indicted that the Sun should be a vast distance from the Earth, thus makings its diverging rays almost parallel when they struck the Earth.
Eratosthenes Lived from c. 276 BC to 195/194 BC.
There are (rare) eclipses of the Sun by the Moon.
Even though it is hard to see a thin sliver of the Moon in the daytime sky, especially when it is close to the painful glare of the Sun, people did observe the Moon before the Sun came up or after the Sun went down, approaching the position of the Sun and becoming thinner and thinner until it becomes unseen, and then becoming a thin new moon and the crescent increasing in thickness as the Moon's angular distance from the Sun increased.
Anaxagoras (500 BC - 428 BC) believed that the Sun was larger than the Peloponnese, which is about 80 miles wide. Since the Sun appears to be about half a degree wide as seen from Earth, it should be at least about 114.59 times 80 miles, or 9,167.2 miles, from Earth according to Anaxagoras. And as the ancient Greeks explored the world and found it was larger than they thought, Greek philosophers realized the Sun had to be larger and farther away.
Anaxagoras is said to be the first person to explain that solar eclipses are caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun. Which of course shows that the Moon is closer than the Sun.
The math really isnt that hard believe it or not...
How can earth be hollow if its just a flat square.
It just has to have large hollow spaces beneath the surface (which it obviously does, in any case), the shape of the entire world is irrelevant to that. Even if the world is a flat square, it obviously isn’t 2 dimensional!
Basic physics here people.
Most people struggle with physics. It isn’t for everyone.
I thought this shit would be common knowledge
Lots of shit is taught as “common knowledge”. Historically (and contemporarily) speaking, “common knowledge” is always wrong and at best incomplete. Thank god truth is not a democracy, eh?
In the original legends of Hercules, he uses a compass to navigate the seas.
Interesting - never heard that before!
The equations that the greeks came up with could work both ways.
The equations that eratosthenes apocryphally used to calculate the circumference of the world assume and depend on the world being spherical (and many other unvalidated assumptions). Misrepresenting it as a “proof” for the shape of the earth is at best disingenuous/erroneous and at worst fraudulent. Eratosthenes never doubted the world was spherical (and hence, of course, never sought to verify/validate it), because he was taught it as fact from childhood just like we were.
Anaxagoras is said to be the first person to explain that solar eclipses are caused by the Moon passing in front of the Sun
Also interesting. Pythagoras usually gets the credit for the explanation of the lunar eclipse, and from it the further deduction that the world is spherical - maybe anaxagoras is the real source.
I dont think I can recall admiral byrd and hollow earth being used to proof flat earth. Can hollow earth and flat earth even co exist? How can earth be hollow if its just a flat square.
Ahhh yes, nothing is moving when your in a moving car, so therefore its not moving, right? Basic physics here people.
I thought this shit would be common knowledge. It was the greeks who supposedly first came up with it. But obviously that is not true, just like how the magnetic compass is a invention of china lol ^^. In the original legends of Hercules, he uses a compass to navigate the seas.
Excerpts from Atlantis THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD by ignius.
Anyway, you would have to be brain dead to think that someone didnt figure it out long before that. The people who built the great pyramids or some of these other 7 wonders of the world type shit, had to have figured it out long before that to line up their temples to such precision for things like the 8 sided pyramid or the serpent of light to appear.
One thing I will give you flat earthers. The equations that the greeks came up with could work both ways.
This answer from some random person explains it better than me...
The math really isnt that hard believe it or not...
https://ecampus.matc.edu/mihalj/astronomy/test1/history_of_ast_the_universe.htm
Of course, why not?
It just has to have large hollow spaces beneath the surface (which it obviously does, in any case), the shape of the entire world is irrelevant to that. Even if the world is a flat square, it obviously isn’t 2 dimensional!
Most people struggle with physics. It isn’t for everyone.
Lots of shit is taught as “common knowledge”. Historically (and contemporarily) speaking, “common knowledge” is always wrong and at best incomplete. Thank god truth is not a democracy, eh?
Interesting - never heard that before!
The equations that eratosthenes apocryphally used to calculate the circumference of the world assume and depend on the world being spherical (and many other unvalidated assumptions). Misrepresenting it as a “proof” for the shape of the earth is at best disingenuous/erroneous and at worst fraudulent. Eratosthenes never doubted the world was spherical (and hence, of course, never sought to verify/validate it), because he was taught it as fact from childhood just like we were.
Also interesting. Pythagoras usually gets the credit for the explanation of the lunar eclipse, and from it the further deduction that the world is spherical - maybe anaxagoras is the real source.