Topic: Flat Earth - page 59. (Read 1095196 times)

Who is saying that the sextant doesn't measure the sun? It can even measure other stars that are much farther away. But because of its limitations, the sextant can't tell how far they are away, or how far the sun is away. This doesn't mean that the sextant doesn't measure the sun.

But it DOES mean that you don't measure straight up at 90 degrees. Rather, you measure straight up at zero degrees. When measuring an overhead sun, 90 degrees shows you a position slightly above the horizon.

Your calc that tells us how you think a sextant measure the sun is incomplete and incorrect. All the sextant tells us is the angle. If the sun were 93 million light years away, and were the corresponding diameter (a light year to a mile), it would appear almost the same as it does.

You are sadly mixed up, or criminally trolling.

^^^ You're a fucking liar, a sextant can measure the Sun when it's directly above you at 90 degrees, the fucking scale has 120 degrees on it. YOU FUCKING LIAR!



Image source: https://www.bookharbour.com/freiberger-yacht-sextant

32 minutes, calculated from the center of the earth, and extended beyond the earth increases beyond 32 nm, continually increasing in size, the further you get away from the earth. Simple geometry.

The only time you can measure the sun at 90 degrees, is when it is halfway sunk below the horizon. At that position, there is always refraction. What are you even talking about?

@Astargath,

No, you don't get it, there's no calculation I'm still trying to working out. I've stated the proof in at least three posts now. I haven't provided a diagram yet because of the work involved, I completely botched the first attempt and I'm in no hurry to repeat that even though I know what I was missing now.

Let me try and break it down here:

1. Measure the Sun with a sextant (use a marine sextant as it has the welding glass for looking at the Sun) at sunrise or sunset when the Sun is 50% visible i.e. 0 degrees elevation. The result will be 16 minutes. This is the Sun's refracted size and it can very slightly based on weather conditions. I believe this type of refractive magnification is also called looming.

2. Calculate the Sun's un-refracted size at 0 degrees elevation based on the angular size limitation of the human eye (1 minute). The result is unsurprisingly, 1 minute as there is in fact no calculation involved.

3. Calculate the distance to he horizon through the atmospheric plane with a 1 foot eye elevation. The result is unsurprisingly, 1 nautical mile. The angular limit of the eye being 1 minute equates to being able to see a 1 foot object at a maximum distance of 1/2 nautical miles.

4. Measure the Sun at 90 degrees elevation with no refraction. The result is 32 minutes.

5. Use a right angle trigonometry calculator and enter the Sun's radius in nautical miles (16) and an angle from one side (59.73333). The result is a distance of 3440 nautical miles. We know the Sun's radius in nautical miles because we proved 1 minute equals 1 nautical mile with the calculation in step #3.

That's it, proof beyond a reasonable doubt the Sun is a close small object.

Well, of course the air is a plane. It flies, doesn't it? Why are you picking on Spain? The air-plane flies over Sicily, as well, doesn't it?

Are you still calculating that shit? Its taking a bit too long, perhaps the fact that its wrong is a big issue? Please update us on how its going.

An airplane flies over the plain in Spain because the air above the plain in Spain is a plane.

Why yes... it's the longest running ever  4 year old April Fools prank thread on the internet (and counting because,well, why quit now?), the topic is alive and well... starring our beloved champion bitcointalk troll Batty..


I'm holding my breath... I can't wait for the comedy gold....

Zempy doooode! another bonus! I love ya bro!!!


Well he's still doing the calculations, doncha know....

Not commonly known is the fact that the two oceans have different sea levels, and different levels of high tide. At the entrance to the Panama Canal, the Pacific Ocean can rise as much as 20 feet, but 45 miles away, the difference between high tide and low in the Atlantic is just three feet.

http://www.yourpanama.com/panama-canal.html

The Flat Earth - The Panama Canal 2017 -- https://youtu.be/XSYPl0lcSzU

Besides, anybody can go to the Panama Canal to see that water isn't flat. If water were flat, you wouldn't need locks at the Canal. The thing that the Canal proves is that water is different levels, but depending on where it is, the changes in levels are so tiny that they are not noticeable.

What this does is makes the level water idea insufficient for determining if the earth is flat or some other shape.

So water being still proves the earth is flat? Would then water moving prove the earth is moving and a globe? You only need to go to the sea then, check how the water moves, boom, flat earth disproved.

Nobody was ever or will ever be on the moon. Moon is not a ball of rock you can land on, but a hyperdimensional - part physical, part spiritual.
You can read more here: https://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_3.HTM

Moon landing was staged in remote hollywood studio. It is a fraud, hoax...





Sure, here is a man who has already been to mars along with nasa:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg_u_dXsQjY&

bonus:


Earth is flat motionless plane covered with a firmament-dome. 

Are you a "Ball" Globot, or "Oblate Spheroid" Globot (At least this one has the distances correct, proven every second by millions traveling)

    11330 km

33° 3′ 0″ S,       71° 37′ 0″ W   Valparaiso
33° 51′ 54″ S,  151° 12′ 34″ E  Sydney


You can always verify on the proper map of the world
https://imgur.com/yI94ewM


Here enjoy 4 PLANE view.

I've asked a few times what's the distance from Valparaiso, Chile to Sydney, Australia (by plane or ship) and notbatman obviously doesn't have an answer.

We will be laughing at you from Mars when elon musk finally makes it there. Might not be in the next few years but 10-20 for sure.

No technology is lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtTMxKE4Gv4
Every modern Mobile phone has a stronger computer than was available in 1969


You where doing alright before you started thinking


Still correct
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.49656611

We are going back to the moon soon, with many people who will be able to testify. Will this flat earth argument finally go away, along with creationism?