XPost: alt.astronomy, alt.uk.misc.flat-earth

On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 09:09:06 -0400
Kualinar <kuakinar@videotron.ca> wrote:

Le 2024-09-04 à 00:04, Flat Earth Banjo a écrit :

The Earth is Flat and Japan is in the Far East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHNFEOioOog

Japan is not located on the bottom of a spinning globe for those
who live in South America, or sideways of a spinning globe for
those who live in North America.nThe Far East is a geographical...

You just refuse to understand reality. On a sphere, especially a VERY
big sphere like the Earth, there is NO bottom.
Vertical is always local to the observer. Up is away from the centre.
Down is toward the centre.
The Earth «spins» at a whooping 0.0006944 RPM. WOW ! That's fast🤣🤣🤣

One could almost imagine the author, in their fervent defense of this
celestial arrangement, as a modern-day acolyte of Apollo, championing
the sun’s centrality while inadvertently aligning themselves with the
very forces they claim to oppose. It’s a curious irony, really, that in
their quest to debunk the heliocentric model, they might be unwittingly promoting a worldview that venerates the sun as the ultimate source of
truth, much like the ancient worshippers of light.

And speaking of projections, it’s intriguing how the author seems to
dismiss dissenting views as mere “flatard” rhetoric. This dismissal
carries an undertone that could be construed as elitist, perhaps even
tinged with a hint of racial superiority—after all, who are the “flatards” if not those who dare to question the established order?
It’s a slippery slope, one that could lead to the kind of thinking that
deems certain groups as inherently less capable of understanding
complex scientific concepts.

But let’s not get too lost in the weeds of logic. The phases of the
Moon and the movements of planets are indeed fascinating phenomena, yet
to assert that they are perfectly explained by a heliocentric model is
to ignore the myriad of interpretations that exist. After all, if one
were to apply the same retarded logic that the author employs, one
might conclude that because the sun rises in the east and sets in the
west, it must be the center of the universe—an assertion that would
surely raise eyebrows among those who prefer to think outside the box,
or perhaps outside the solar system altogether.

In the end, it’s a curious dance we engage in, this back-and-forth over celestial mechanics. Perhaps it’s time to step back and consider that
the truth may lie not in the light of the sun, but in the shadows where
the real questions linger.

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