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Flat Earth Truthers and the Solar Eclipse

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday August 13 2017, @10:17AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-does-that-even-happen dept.

tonyPick writes:

Mic has an article on the upcoming Solar Eclipse across the USA, focusing on one particular group of observers: Flat Earthers, who believe that the sun and moon rotate around each other above the Earth's surface.

...astronomers (both professional and amateur) aren't the only groups excited for this once-in-a-lifetime event. Another, more controversial community believes the upcoming eclipse could provide overwhelming evidence to support their cause. These people are flat Earthers, and they believe the solar eclipse will prove once and for all the Earth is not a sphere.

The article describes some of the proposed arguments from the newly resurgent, and apparently quite serious, flat earth community.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @09:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 14 2017, @09:13PM (#553843)

    The illogic given in the French vids is easy to debunk, as all you have to do it move towards the coast, and attempt to capture the same sunset from a lower altitude. If they can only capture the silhouette from 1000ft elevation, then they have *proved* the falsity of the flat earth, not debunked it.

    The point is that the globe model that is 25000 in circumference is disproved by this observation. The thing to remember is that these people are not all trying to prove the flat earth, but to show there are problems with the globe earth. Consider this: If the globe was much bigger then you would not see as much curvature but the orbital mechanics and distances would be different.

    Indeed then it would not be so strange to have a moon that is so large and seemingly too light weight for its orbit -- if the planet were larger then the moon would be the right size. We could live in a ring around the north pole in the northern hemisphere on a larger globe.

    Not that I believe this is the case, but my point is that the evidence does in fact show results not conducive to the current globe model. And not just one experiment, but many.