When a flat Earther tells you that water cannot curve
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I think the conspiracy this exposes is Someone or group is trying to convince people the earth is flat.
By saying silly things that are trivially demonstrated wrong?!
The true purpose of the flat earth psyop is the opposite!
It is to ensure that no one seriously examines or discusses the subject because it is valuable to do so. It is labeled a "conspiracy" (when it plainly isn't one) for all the same reasons other legitimate things are - to slander, suppress, and disable general knowledge (and expression!) of them.
Tell us nobody ever explained to you why Latitude and Longitude are the only way to predict surface point-locations on Earth,
without telling us nobody ever explained to you why Latitude and Longitude are the only way to predict surface point-locations on Earth.
This isn't about prediction, it's about measurement. A flat map works better than a globe shaped one - which is why our maps are flat.
Assuming the world is flat, the latitude lines are circles and the longitude lines are axial lines from the north pole. The arbitrary coordinate system we use has absolutely no bearing on the shape of the world. This is an encouraged erroneous conflation.
And prediction can only be done with proper measurement, illiterate.
Flat maps DON'T work better, that's why the SPHERICAL COORDINATES are MARKED on ALL FLAT MAPS.
And the MAPS are ALTERED so they more CLOSELY reflect reality of the planet being a sphere.
YOU who don't even know why Longitude and Latitude EXISTS, and are the SOLE COORDINATES USED on even FLAT MAPS,
vs EVERY MAP MAKER who EVER EXISTED:
Everyone coming by take otice how jack thinks FLAT MAPS apply to Earth better?
MAP PROJECTION: THE SCIENCE OF TRYING to MAKE FLAT MAPS fit EARTH as WELL as GLOBES DO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_projection
That's catastrophic failure of your lack of knowledge,
even of the reason for existence of,
the MEASUREMENTS TAKING PLACE on MAPS,
being in LONGITUDE and LATITUDE.
Using only:
S P E R I C A L geometry
surface area formulas.
There is no reference, of any kind, EVER:
to anything flat, in deriving them.
Ever.
All measurements are taking SOLELY from a SPHERE:
of a PRECISE and unchanging size.
COMPARED M.E.A.S.U.R.E.M.E.N.T.S.
match the SURFACE AREA
FORMULAS,
in the Geometry,
no one ever told you about.
https://www.nosco.ch/mathematics/en/earth-coordinates.php
All systems measuring Earth surface are SPHERICAL coordinates systems.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system
[For broader coverage of this topic, see Spatial reference system.]
A geographic coordinate system (or GCS) is a SPHERICAL, or geodetic coordinate system,
for measuring and communicating positions directly on the Earth,
as latitude and longitude.
It is the simplest, oldest and most widely used of the various spatial reference systems that are in use, and forms the basis for most others.
The geographic coordinate system is not cartesian, because the measurements are angles related to a sphere; and are not on a planar surface."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinate_system