This comment is so understated, yet I could scour the depths of the English language and never find the right words to describe just how far beyond retarded this really is.
Im curious, how fast do flat earthers think the moon moves, or the sun for that matter. In their defense, the formula for calculating this works either for them being really close, or really far away. Cant really find proof of that, but someone here im sure knows what im talking about. I however did find this.
The first distance to be measured with any accuracy was that of the Moon. In the middle of the 2nd century BCE, Greek astronomer Hipparchus pioneered the use of a method known as parallax. The idea of parallax is simple: when objects are observed from two different angles, closer objects appear to shift more than do farther ones. You can demonstrate this easily for yourself by holding a finger at arm's length and closing one eye and then the other. Notice how your finger moves more than things in the background? That's parallax! By observing the Moon from two cities a known distance apart, Hipparchus used a little geometry to compute its distance to within 7% of today's modern value – not bad!
Knew about parallax, triangulation and/or the distance to (or spherical shape of) the lights in the sky? The horoscope doesn't require any of those things.
Someone knew the world was round, long before humans could supposedly even add and subtract. Inconsistencies, for sure.
Possibly, but the first people to historically record such a thing (that survived to us, anyhow) were the ancient greeks and they came to the conclusion by sitting around and guessing. The ancient egyptians conceived of a flat world, for instance.
This is beyond retarded
This comment is so understated, yet I could scour the depths of the English language and never find the right words to describe just how far beyond retarded this really is.
Has no basic understanding of the parallax effect, or even relative motion if I had to guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD7C4V9smG4
Im curious, how fast do flat earthers think the moon moves, or the sun for that matter. In their defense, the formula for calculating this works either for them being really close, or really far away. Cant really find proof of that, but someone here im sure knows what im talking about. I however did find this.
https://solar-center.stanford.edu/FAQ/Qsunasstar.html
Mainstream science, gatekeepers of truth.
We know that someone had a good idea bout everything long before the greeks started toying with the idea. Whoever built the horoscope knew.
Whoever built the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism knew.
Someone knew the world was round, long before humans could supposedly even add and subtract. Inconsistencies, for sure.
Knew about parallax, triangulation and/or the distance to (or spherical shape of) the lights in the sky? The horoscope doesn't require any of those things.
Also requires none of those things - right?
Possibly, but the first people to historically record such a thing (that survived to us, anyhow) were the ancient greeks and they came to the conclusion by sitting around and guessing. The ancient egyptians conceived of a flat world, for instance.
Flat earthers will never provide any data that can actually be measured.