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Old 2nd December 2017, 02:06 PM   #334
davefoc
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Daniel,
Instead of winding yourself up with word salad that pretty much only means something to you, how about answering a few of the simpler questions?
1. What does the edge of the earth look like? Are photos available? Have you been there or seen it? Has anybody?
2. What prevents the flat earth from forming into a spheroid shape? Aren't all the other planets that we observe spheroid shapes? Have any of them been observed to be flat?
3. Where is this container you keep talking about? Do you have pictures of it? Has anybody seen it? What is in this container, the moon, the sun, the stars?
4. Do you reject the idea that people in the southern hemisphere see a different set of stars than people in the northern hemisphere?
5. Do you reject the notion that there is a force between two objects proportional to the product of their mass? If so what is the source of the force that pulls things toward the earth.
6. The graph below is of atmospheric pressure versus altitude. Do you think the graph is wrong? Do you think the atmospheric drops to zero someplace? The normal idea is that the atmospheric pressure we sense on the surface of the earth is the result of the air above us being pulled towards the earth by the force of gravity. Do you have a different idea in mind?


image credit: By Klaus-Dieter Keller - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/inde...curid=25608825
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