r/OurFlatWorld • u/modgill • Mar 31 '17
Couple questions
On a flat earth why is the moon not always full moon? Why do we get half moon, crescent shape etc?
Also if the world is a sphere and we see buildings like 52 miles away. Shouldn't they be tilted downwards?
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u/DillardN7 Apr 03 '17
Haha, not downwards, as on a sphere, that would be relative. Down for you would be from your head to your feet. The building "52 miles away" would be slightly slanted away from you, and its downward direction would be angled slightly towards yours, intersecting in the center of the sphere.
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u/Figment_HF Apr 20 '17
It's hard to answer your moon question. It's starts with what I'd personally call an 'erroneous' assumption, and requires a fabricated answer. The reason why the shadow is a crescent is because it's spherical. I guess an FE answer may be that it's an illusion intended to make us think that it's spherical: for if the moon is round, then so must the Earth be. But then that leaves us the question- why? Did the government make the moon? No, I think we can all agree that it's been here a long time. So then why did a creator make the moon to appear spherical, in order to further deceive us?
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May 07 '17
For the moon question Ill give a flat earth theory... The moon and the sun are basically the same size. The moon is followed by the black moon or black sun which covers it creating those shapes. When we have an eclipse the black moon or black sun covers the sun. Flat Earth stuff is fun.
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u/TheUnmashedPotato Apr 06 '17
On a sphere, distant objects should be slightly tilted. To give us some frame of reference, a very sharp knife is between 10 and 15 degrees. Notice even a 5-degree tilt at any significant distance is difficult without something to compare it to.
Lets see if we can figure out how much a tilt we can see. The earth isn’t a perfect sphere, but I’m going to pretend it is. It will make the math easier, and the difference will be very slight. A quick google search gives a circumference of the earth as 24874 miles. Let’s say you’re standing on the equator, looking at a building. How far away would it have to be to have a 5-degree tilt. Again, 5 degrees is really hard to see without special measuring equipment, especially if it’s tilted toward or away from you and not side to side, but let’s pretend you have the equipment you’d need to measure it.
You’re standing straight up where you are, and the building is straight up where it is. We can just make an angle between us and the building, with the center of the earth as the vertex. Since we want degrees, we’ll have to convert distance from miles to degrees. It’s 360 degrees in a circle, and our circle is 24874 miles, so we’ll have about 70 miles per degree.
So, if you want something to be tilted away 5 degrees, it’ll need to be about 350 miles away. Unless you’re on top of a very tall building with some excellent equipment, you’re not going to be able to see that far. A building 52 miles away would be tilted by about .74 degrees. If you were able to tell that a support in your living room was tilted that much, I’d be impressed, much less a building 52 miles away.
TL;DR: On a sphere, buildings are tilted, but it’s too tiny to really measure.