Lumi's Batshit Insane Thread
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How about line of sight between geosynchronous satellites?
If you have a satellite sitting over Beijing (which can be proven by someone with a strong enough telescope, you can visually look at it) and then you have another satellite sitting over New York city. If the Earth is flat, surely a person with a strong enough telescope should be able to see the one over Beijing, and conversely a person in Beijing should be able to see the one over New York?
Or hell, not even satellites, aircraft fly high enough that they should be viewable with a strong enough telescope from a distance of several thousand miles along a flat trajectory.
If you have a satellite sitting over Beijing (which can be proven by someone with a strong enough telescope, you can visually look at it) and then you have another satellite sitting over New York city. If the Earth is flat, surely a person with a strong enough telescope should be able to see the one over Beijing, and conversely a person in Beijing should be able to see the one over New York?
Or hell, not even satellites, aircraft fly high enough that they should be viewable with a strong enough telescope from a distance of several thousand miles along a flat trajectory.
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LMAO
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Actually, that's a good picture to illustrate a point. If Giza is the center of the disc, then directions like east west north and south can't be right. Those directions only make sense to produce circles (like the tropics and equator) if the north pole is the center of the disc. If Giza is the center, then all of the directions and the tropics are wrong.
Which is it?
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You don't even need to think that big. Nothing I do with microwave communication, or basically any RF would work correctly if the earth were flat. I can talk between two 200' towers 40km apart because we know the exact curvature of the earth and how atmospheric conditions work to bend the wave around said curvature. And the calcs aren't even that hard.
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The north pole is the center of the Earth, the Great Pyramid is built on the central point of land mass.
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Satellites are another myth. All GPS is based upon ground based cell towers. Things like Google Earth use airplane based imaging scans. Nothing can go beyond the firmament. We're trapped in this place. We're literally in a giant snow globe like construction.
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When Marconi sent the 1st transatlantic radio communication he was told he couldn't send it more than 200 miles due to Earth's curvature. He sent it about 1,900 miles. Things that make you go hmmmm.
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yeah because the radio signal bounced off the ionosphere, retard
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Sure it did. Oh and if we can just bounce signals off the ionosphere then why do we need satellites again?
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because you're confusing radio waves with microwaves you stupid inbred fuckhead
radio waves reflect, microwaves dont because they have shorter wavelengths
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Because the sun is much closer and goes beyond the vanishing point of our perspective.
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