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Sphere and Plane: Sighting the Moon to Show the Shape of the Earth

The Experiment

Here is one simple demonstration of how to tell the shape of our earth by comparing a sphere to a plane by sighting the moon.

Say three people were looking at the same moon at the same time. One person is in California, one in Texas and the other person is in New York. Perhaps a fourth person on the other side of the globe would confirm they cannot see the moon at all.

The model below only has two people sighting the moon for demonstration purposes.

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If the sphere were flattened out while the North Pole remained facing the North Star, then the 3 people would all be looking in different directions at same moon at the same time, as if there were 3 different moons. Since we know there is only one moon, we must conclude we live on a sphere and not a plane.

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Try it with Some Friends

Below you will find a template for a paper sphere.

Directions:
1) Print out two copies of the sphere template.
2) Cut one copy out and tape it into a sphere.
3) Leave the other sphere copy flat. Let's call this the plane.
4) Find three friends who are on different parts of the earth, two who can see the moon and one who cannot because the moon is on the opposite side of the earth. Plot directional arrows for those who can see the moon including yourself on both the sphere and the plane. Just put a black dot for the friend who cannot see the moon at all.
5) View the results on both the sphere and the plane of the 3 arrows for those who can see the moon.
6) The model where all the arrows point in the same direction is the correct model.

Spoiler Alert: What you will find is that on a plane, arrows will be pointed in 3 different directions but on a sphere, all the arrows will be pointed in nearly the same direction. This will demonstrate the general shape of planet earth. Would you like to confirm your results? Choose 3 other friends on different parts of the earth and repeat the experiment.

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Kham on February 11th, 2018, 7:22 pm

Sphere and Plane: Sighting the Moon to Show the Shape of the Earth
If the sphere were flattened out while the North Pole remained facing the North Star, then the 3 people would all be looking in different directions at same moon at the same time, as if there were 3 different moons. Since we know there is only one moon, we must conclude we live on a sphere and not a plane.
I'd like to be obsessive by making the language a little crisper. I note that "looking in different directions" is subject to two meanings:
-looking towards two different points
-looking along two different vectors
The observers on a sphere would of course be looking along different vectors, but towards the same point.

You have proven that observers on a flat earth -- when it results from flattening a sphere-- will be looking towards different points. That is, they will not all be looking towards the moon. But I think that says nothing about a flat earth which does NOT result from squashing a sphere. Flat earthers maintain that the earth was always flat. If one can imagine such a thing as a flat earth, observers upon it would be looking towards the same point along different vectors. Just like the observers on a sphere.

Khan, you've attempted to give us quite an elegantly simple proof that the earth is not flat. But it isn't possible to prove a negative: I can prove there's a mouse in my pantry by pointing to droppings & tooth-marks. But if there IS no mouse I can point to no evidence of his nonexistence.

Please forgive the lecture, but evidence and therefore proof can be derived only from that which exists. I agree with you that the earth is a sphere, but I think we must content ourselves with
--proving the earth is a sphere, or
--disproving arguments that it is flat (I have not seen any EVIDENCE that it's flat)

Regards. That was fun.
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Penelope,

I don’t think your obsessiveness about language cleared up anything. Why not just try the experiment?
Assume any shape you wish for the earth. In fact try the experiment on a flat earth, a concave earth, a cube earth, a cylinder earth, a sombrero hat shaped earth, whatever shape you desire and see what happens. See how many different places the moon will be sighted. The shape of the earth with only 1 moon in common to all sighters will be the correct shape. Excited to hear about your results. :P
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The shape of the earth with only 1 moon in common to all sighters will be the correct shape.
Yes, of course, Kham. But I think that's different than your original argument, which does seem to decide that the outline of any flat earth would have to be derived from a flattened sphere.

At any rate I doubt that any flat earthers have come up with a presentation detailed enough to explain the path of the moon such that it appears at the correct times by all observers. (Or even the shape of their flat earth.)

I understand you to be saying that since the moon is correctly sited by observers on a sphere that the only other potential shape that could work is one derived by flattening that sphere. It is only that assumption that I am taking issue with. But NOT because I allege a different flat earth outline will work. I, like you, give no credence to the flat earth whim. I merely state that your assumption is not a proof.

I am perfectly happy to let stand our disagreement about what constitutes proof.
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brianv » February 21st, 2018, 8:31 pm wrote:I'm going to watch my favourite Kung-Fu Movie tonight in celebration. He qi dao.(Hapkido 1972)
Oh, vintage! Cute naïf scene in the end when the girl asks the guy with the slashed-up chest and belly: "Are you hurt?" :)
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Flabbergasted » February 23rd, 2018, 2:34 pm wrote:
brianv » February 21st, 2018, 8:31 pm wrote:I'm going to watch my favourite Kung-Fu Movie tonight in celebration. He qi dao.(Hapkido 1972)
Oh, vintage! Cute naïf scene in the end when the girl asks the guy with the slashed-up chest and belly: "Are you hurt?" :)
Oh haha! That would be Mao Ling and Whang In Sik. Which I'm sure he did the next day!

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Angela got paid $100 for her role as Bruce Lee's "ill-fated" sister in Enter The Dragon! :wub:
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A funny article of special relevance to truthseekers:
https://www.iceagenow.info/seeing-the-light/
The Polywater Discovery

The current photon discovery reminds me of the late 1960’s when a claim of the discovery of “Polywater” made the news circuit then. That novel form of water was not only of obscure interest to some scientists, it was portrayed as a major menace to any life depending on the current forms of water. It was hypothesized that, by just adding a drop of it to 300 km long Lake Ontario might –instantaneously – “polymerize” the entire lake into something of the viscosity of gelato.

The problem then was that no other laboratory could replicate those earth (or water) shattering findings. In the end, the novel substance thought to have been discovered was determined to be nothing more than trace remnants of stop-cock grease. Polywater, as proclaimed then, did not and does not exist; period. It wasn’t a breakthrough-discovery after all.
The article also lists some of the common features of past science frauds/mistakes.
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Simon, you could ask them, if you are going to challenge, what their policy on fake news and the decades of lies on TV and their reproduction of it, is in general?

And people, if you aren't using Firefox browser, then install it now. Go to Add-Ons, in the Main Menu and search for uBlock-Origin, and install it. Only takes a second. Blocks every poxy Advert on Youtube. And speaking of inappropriate content, has the Google/Youtube "Community" ever scanned their "users" comments for propriety? Ignorant foul-mouthed lying scum. And they are removing videos which try to educate people and may contain truth...and probably because one of the aforementioned "users" "flagged" it.
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Simon, your entire Youtube account is gone!!! Absolute scumbags!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORu-68SHpE

I bet that American pornographer [whatever] clown with the dead beaver on his head was responsible.
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FYI, while posting the Hawking death I clicked on the "How to" for Embed videos. My anti-virus wouldn't load it and spit this out:

Threat Secured
We've safely aborted connection on cluesforum.info because it was infected with HTML:Iframe-inf.

Not sure if it's a false alarm but thought admin should know about it.
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Dear Cluesforum members & readers,

Stay tuned.

In a couple of hours of time (around midnight, European time), the TYCHOS model will be launched.

That's right: on March 21, 2018 - our spring equinox - your view of our 'solar system' will be (hopefully!) forever changed.

Let's have some fun - and emulate NASA and their phony rocket launches...

...10...9...8...7...6...5...(*"all systems nominal!"*)...4...3...2...1...
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Congratulations Simon!

I already feel I have definitely achieved "lift off" from my own petard and gotten a good walk in just pondering the significance of these findings. I am eager to see what people have to say after it has sunken in just how inspiring a model it is and just how aimless and wrong the Copernican meanderings and their associated justifications and equivocations have been for hundreds of years.

By the way, this is neither here nor there, really. The information speaks for itself. But for those who find this sort of thing fun (I didn't realize how fun it was to lay out a book manuscript until I had a real classic to work with) the manuscript ends up at about 160 pages of extremely dense material (though 188 with citations and other information) and the book lays out elegantly in about 222 pages with white "breathing" space. The total book contains about the same number of cited references (links, which I counted to be around 220, so on average each page of the PDF produces a link to a scientific paper, web site or illustration) and your book has over 140 figures (illustrations, most of them your own original diagrams). I know because InDesign counted these for me with the bulleting and cross-referencing tools.

Dude. You have been seriously working on this research! :blink: And it's been seriously a blast to help out. :wub:

Now ... I am sure you are dreading this question but as a fan I gotta ask, when are you going to write a new song about the TYCHOS?

:lol:
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Patrix, what happened to your last post in the Chatbox?

ADMIN NOTICE(simon) : Dear flabbergasted, I moved it here (as Patrix suggested to me via e-mail): http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?p=2405429#p2405429
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Flabbergasted » March 21st, 2018, 7:08 pm wrote:Patrix, what happened to your last post in the Chatbox?
It was moved on my request to the Tychos intro thread
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elmoastro » March 14th, 2018, 5:13 am wrote:FYI, while posting the Hawking death I clicked on the "How to" for Embed videos. My anti-virus wouldn't load it and spit this out:

Threat Secured
We've safely aborted connection on cluesforum.info because it was infected with HTML:Iframe-inf.

Not sure if it's a false alarm but thought admin should know about it.
Thanks for letting us know about it. Not sure we can even be infected by such a thing but we do have some iframe stuff in our embedding code on that page. It's basically just pointing to another page using an in-line "window" (frame) and apparently people are exploiting that and putting weird code there. I haven't found any (0x0) iFrames but sounds like your computer has prevented something, which I guess iFrame-inf does.

Has it actually been "installed" on CluesForum or is it just loading in with the iframe exploit? I am not sure. I wonder if nonhocapito can advise since he helped with the video embedding code on our forum.
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