"We notice that many boats along the river are semi-permanently moored house boats, often housing enormous fish pens underneath with hundreds of thousands of fish."
Mekong Basa fillets anybody ? 😱 .
Dan.
One of the greatest problems I see with FE theory is the claim that the sun and moon scribe a circle in a plane at a fixed distance over the flat earth. If this were so, the sun and moon would never "set". They would always be visible.
Simple perspective. The same reason tall buildings seem small when you are miles away. The same reason railway tracks seem to converge as they go off into the distance. Nothing complicated.
Yes, I agree. There are some very complex explanations for that, the simplest being the "spotlight" theory. But having watched a lot of sunsets over the Pacific ocean, none of that looks right to me. Trusting the evidence of my own eyes, it really does look like the sun goes beyond the horizon. The ocean does appear flat, but the way the sun and moon move does not feel at all right for a flat earth model.
If they were spotlights, they would change shape in the sky as they receded. Yet they remain circular until they reach the horizon. Spotlight theory does not hold up.
We in Hungary live in the Carpathian Basin, i.e. a somewhat flat country surrounded with mountains. There is also the Great Hungarian Plain, where you can see only the horizon (and cattle 🙂), nothing else. But i suppose you should see the Carpathian mountains (highest point is about 2600 m) especially in clear sight conditions. But you don't see even a tree in the remote distance...
During a lunar eclipse, the moon colors red, due to filtering of light by the earth's atmosphere.
The brighter red halo surrounding the moon is due to the height of the atmosphere (~30 miles).
A perfect circular bright red edge can only exist if the orientation of the flat earth's plane is perpendicular to the sun-moon-earth axis.
A sun and moon scribing a circle in a plane at a fixed distance over the (parallel) flat earth would violate the above (=> Newton's gravitational law, Henry Cavendish, earth's center of gravity)
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I suppose those peaks are 350-400km from you over in Romania? In globular theory, the highest peaks would be hidden at about 180km distance over land or water.
In planist theory, who knows? How small would that mountain appear at such a distance? Perhaps you do see it, but it's so small on the horizon, you can't tell. 😛
But - in theory, if you looked from a height, to remove nearer obstructions, you could see it. But there are things that, however high you go, *cannot* be seen as it's a globe...
Is there a theory (belief, religion?) wherein the Earth has a lentil (lens?) shape? It could explain why we don't see distant objects, and many other facts. I would call it The Not-so-flat Earth Theory, which is reasonably flat for practical purposes.
A flat earth has a horizon, of course. It's he vanishing point where lines converge. You don't have to live on a globe to get that.
The planists dispute that. Yes, of course going higher will allow you to see farther, no argument there. That works on almost any shape earth. But the planists would dispute that you can ever get high enough to see the whole earth. They claim that there is no obstruction by a curve, simply perspective and air quality. Objects appear smaller and smaller has they get farther away. eventually they become so small you can't see them.
I think we always forget our irrational side, that is always there, even in who try to follow the path of science. Sometimes people think and do things that don't lead to any benefit, for any one. Why? I don't know... People like to tell stories, build complexe castles of sand with their own internal logic. Just for pleasure. Problems begin when we identify these constructs with reality.
I've been to Australia and I still find it hard to believe I was a few thousand miles away in a vertical direction.......
On a good air day, you can punch a powerful laser beam to a distant detector, that gets around the "too small, too far to see".
Except they'd probably say light bends away from gravity....
You are forgetting the ice wall......Siberian tigers or snow leopards might be up to the task but there aren't many of them about
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