The flat Earth is round !!!
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This is one of those examples I told you about exhibiting why almost no one takes FEers seriously. However, as is my habit, I will provide you an accurate and polite answer.
NDT is not one of "my guys," he is a celebrity who makes entertainment for the (very stupid) masses. I assume that "goalposts have to be moved" implies that all the scientists are hiding that the globe model is totally failing. In this case what they are hiding is "all the extra land in the southern hemisphere" which is of course consistent with FE. This is typical Duvey / Weiss style nonsense that uses the sloppy language of an entertainer like NDT to make an argument that sounds like it makes sense if you don't know anything about the topic.
TLDR: The "pear" you are referring to is a north pole / south pole difference on the order of 0.000007, not some "secret failure of the globe that the world elite are hiding." Flat earthers finding problems in things like NDT popular interviews is not an argument. If you want to be taken seriously, find a major flaw in modern geodesy.
A long time ago, astronomical observations (i.e. the sun, the stars, etc.) suggested that the earth is round and rotating. The simplest model, then, is a sphere, and rudimentary measurements converge on a rough figure of a sphere of 4000 mile radius. Once a system of mechanics and gravitation was worked out, it was clear that a spinning body under self gravitation must be an oblate speroid. Improved measurements did in fact confirm that the equatorial radius is about 13.4 miles larger than the polar, giving a flattening of about 1/298.2 (~0.00335). The so called "pear shape" in this NDT video is a finding initially from the first satellite orbits in the 1950s. As you can read for yourself, modern measurements put this at a 148 foot difference between the distance to the north pole and the south pole from the center. Compared to the "theoretical polar radius" this is a "pear shape" on the order of ~0.000007. It has also been found that the equator is not circular to a similar order of magnitude. Nowadays, everything is done using the reference ellipsoid and the geoid.
Yup...long winded, drawn out explanations that need to be go into mental gymnastics to try to explain the idiocy of tge heliocentric model. It's expected at this point.
U know when a kid makes up a lie and then it compounds into a convoluted explanation?
That's what always happens when arguing the stand point of the mainstream narrative based on lies.. That's why we see NDG getting tripped up calling the shape a pear now...😅
We aren't moving, nor is there any curve. Trust your senses not a bunch of masons.
This is what I mean when I say I find this whole thing so bizarre. Assuming you are not trolling, I would love to know what is so confusing about "the earth is roughly a sphere, to a smaller extent the middle bulges out less than 1/100 than the top and bottom, and to an even smaller extent the top is a bit less than 1/100000 times farther than the bottom."
I honestly find this to be so simple an idea that I cannot even fathom why someone would describe it as "mental gymnastics to try to explain the idiocy of tge heliocentric model" or "a lie and then it compounds into a convoluted explanation," or "NDG getting tripped up calling the shape a pear now."
If you could, could you tell me specifically what aspect of this you are referring to? I am assuming you cannot but I am just curious if you even have an answer.