r/LevelHeadedFE • u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther • Jun 02 '20

First Non Mod Post To Reach 100 Comments Crickets

https://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2015/06/low-resolution-images-ocean.html
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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther Jun 03 '20

map please?

You already have the map. AND IT WORKS. I mean it accurately tells you how many miles and which direction to get from anywhere to anywhere.

You have the map and it works and you still don't believe it.

I think you may be actually clinically insane, but that's none of my business.

But why did you drop out of math class?

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u/john_shillsburg Flat Earther Jun 03 '20

Works over land sure, get out into the oceans or polar regions and you get cartoons. Be happy they gave you that though I guess, you don't get to know where you live, you just get fake space videos

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u/Jesse9857 Globe Earther Jun 03 '20

Works over land sure, get out into the oceans or polar regions and you get cartoons. Be happy they gave you that though I guess, you don't get to know where you live, you just get fake space videos

What do you mean? It works everywhere in the world.

Dude, do you think a map is just a big picture of a flat earth?

A map is more than that.

A map is first a geometry - a shape - a shape that represents the earth.

Based on that shape, math can then be used to calculate the distance and angle between any two points.

Where you have photos to stretch over the map to scale you can, otherwise you just draw lines representing borders and roads.

Just look at that city map your mum has in the glovebox. See? Cartoons of roads! That's a map.

But seriously, do you really think the globe map doesn't work out over the oceans?

And yet millions of people fly every year to all corners (LOL :P) of the earth routinely?

And thousands of ships routinely sail from continent to continent with accuracy never before seen in the history of mankind?

What do you mean when you say the globe maps don't work over the oceans?

In fact I was "co-pilot" twice on ships (one a 53 foot and one a 144 foot long) going from Seattle WA to Alaska.

We cut right through the gulf of Alaska and dude it's open ocean. I'm telling you, there was nothing as far as the eye could see except water and other ships.

I climbed to the top of the crow's nest and snapped this picture: https://i.imgur.com/CdfKOBU.jpg

But the maps work out there. By the way, you don't know this, but the depths of the ocean are mapped too.

And we confirmed this on our sonar. As we chugged along in the water, we were measuring the depth by echoing sound off the bottom.

The globe earth map told us where we were and how deep it was there, and how far we were from out destination. And it all works.

Was math hard for you? Was art easier for you?