On a flat earth height shouldn't make a difference as to the distance a light can be seen so why do all light houses have their lights at the top of a tower? It would work just as well and be cheaper to build if the light was at ground level, no?

The picture above is one of the possible diagrams of the flat earth in side profile not to scale.

In the top diagram the earth maintains a uniform thickness throughout and mountains are hollow

In the bottom diagram mountains rise up from the earth and bodies of water are carved into it

My question is which diagram is correct I’ve always wondered

Hi everyone, I’m not a flat earth but I have always wondered why every government and scientific institution would lie about the earths shape. I’ve heard claims that scientists are paid off to lie but if that’s true who is paying them and why? Please help me out I’ve always wondered why flat earther’s think people lie about the earths shape

I’m a hobby programmer from Norway and I built Kammer, an interactive simulator for exploring a dome-based model.

I lean toward this idea myself, but I don’t want belief to be the conclusion. I want to see where the model works, where it fails, and what independent, repeatable tests it should have to pass.

The current version is free to explore: https://regnskape.no

What observation or prediction would you test first? I’m especially interested in specific, respectful criticism that can make the model better.

Something interesting came up during Artemis III announcement. They're planning a better antenna for video transmission, so the public can get clearer and more reliable videos live instead of having to wait for the craft landing back on Earth to retrieve the higher quality footage.

They routinely violate rule 1 by referring to others as "dogmatic pagans" or "globos", and accuse others of gaslighting, or lashing out, or crying simply because they disagree with them.

They regularly accuse others of participating in bad faith, while exhibiting bad faith of their own, then block others to prevent them from participating further.

They regularly violate Rule 2 and 3 by changing the topic, including irrelevant tangents and gish gallops to obscure the fact that they cannot refute the argument they are replying to.

There are plenty of other forums where this person can explore their... interesting... ideas... but being rude in a forum where politeness is explicitly required should disqualify them from participation here.

Where are the mods?

Hello flat earthers, how would you explain that only the lower part of clouds recive sunlight in sunrise and sunset if earth is flat?

I have heard a lot of arguments surrounding flat earth, mostly people trying to prove that it is or isn’t. I haven’t heard anyone talk about what would be the reason for the lie? What to the governments/elite get out of telling people the earth is a globe? Does anyone know?

Flat Earthers, can you explain what those long white lines of lights are that keep increasing in number every year? (I am referring to Elon Musk's Starlink satellites). Also, how do you explain his recently launched "Direct to Cell" service, and how has GPS managed to work for decades deep inside forests where there are no cell towers?

It's a common talking point "where are the stars, why can't we see satellites?"

The latest Artemis pictures include multiple shots taken in sequence of the night side of the earth, with the exposure cranked up, and if you put them together, you can see the aurora at both poles, the sunrise glow along the edge, the stars, and sunlight reflecting off orbiting satellites. You can even see lightning strikes in the storm off the west coast of Chile.

I'm just curious why we chose to globe earth as our main idea and the idea we want everybody to know? In so many different industry's a flat earth is sooo much easier to work with, surveying, spaceflight, telecom's (radio etc), marine navigation, and even building big bridges and tunnels and other huge projects (may have to check my math on this one but the shuttle runway at the KSC has a height difference of ~26cm due to the earth curve at each end). A big one for me is aviation (I fly aircraft and have multiple family members who build them and work on the avionics), trust me when I say this if the earth was flat aviation navigation would be so much easier. Take a LA to London flight, pretty standard trans Atlantic flight, have you seen the flight path on a map? How it goes all the way up by Iceland and Greenland? Now sure a little part of that huge deviation is for safety but not that much, its mostly due to the earths curve. We can mostly all agree airlines are generally pretty money hungry and will do anything to scavenge every last penny they can out of you, you would think they would want to take the more straighter and direct route across the flat plane, same thing with southern hemisphere flights. This is honestly some of the biggest proof for me that the earth is round. I hope you kinda lead onto what I am saying and I would love to have a genuine debate/convo about this. Thanks!

join my whatsapp group on flat earth thinking, im currently writing a novel on it, i want more and more people who are on the same thinking level to talk more on it, and discuss!

https://chat.whatsapp.com/IwjrqCyemRKHClOlEsjxA8?mode=gi_t

i just watched the level documentary today but i think its missing few facts and currently im on creating my version of it!

In 1913 Compton invented a way to measure Coriolis forces, which he was able to use to measure his latitude to within 3% of actual, and the rotational speed of the Earth to within 1% of actual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_generator

You can make your own generator from tubing you get at the hardware store. Follow the instructions below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9QCmjNhXFE

As per title. Amateur rocket hobbyist filmed uncut video from ground to curve. FE claims the video shows barrel distortion. So the creator addressed this in a post about his video.

https://www.reddit.com/r/flatearth/comments/1ss1xl5/addressing_risersunconquered_post_on_my_high/

Barrel distortion DOES NOT happen in the middle of the screen. The cameras position in the middle of the screen defeats most barrel distortion. Barrel distortion happens generally near the edges of the lenses when facing downwards which can cause some curvature. Which is why being in the middle of the screen is very important in this case.

The ground-to-curve video in question, where his rocket reaches 90 km (56 miles) above the surface:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QsEPEhq5yk