Flat Earth

[notbatman]

There will be a total eclipse of the Sun on the 21st of August 2017 over the USA.

I'd like to discuss the size of the shadow cast by the Moon, who can tell me the diameter of the shadow?

[cigaLeider]

Seriously, just go to the border of your flat earth and jump to the abyss. Please, do a favor to humanity, we will thank you

[notbatman]

Who can tell me the diameter of the shadow cast during a total eclipse of the Sun?

[notbatman]

Using a sextant and plane trigonometry the diameter of the Moon can be measured and it's 32 miles across.

So now who can tell me the diameter of the shadow cast by the Moon during a total eclipse of the Sun?

[notbatman]

Come on assholes, back up your fucking spinning globe theory with some numbers. What is the diameter of the shadow cast by the Moon during a total eclipse of the Sun?

[notbatman]

Seriously, just go to the border of your flat earth and jump to the abyss. Please, do a favor to humanity, we will thank you

Eat shit and die.

[notbatman]

While we're waiting for the globalists to explain the size of the Moon's shadow during a total eclipse of the Sun lets watch this fun video. -- https://youtu.be/5CCLbyRLQyo

[Gleb Gamow]

^^^ Thanks for wasting 10 seconds of my life.

I'd say you missed it. Hint: The proof presented was for your camp (I snuck out for a sec; they think I'm getting beer). Listen to it again, then apology to me. 

I'm sorry. What did I miss?

"This spacecraft orbiting 120 miles above the Earth will go farther than any other spacecraft before." Salyut 7 was launched in April 1982. That's all I'm saying as I head back to my camp with beer in hand, my comrades none the wiser that I shared this tidbit while staring at the ... wait for it ... moon.

[Elcapsono]

^^^ Thanks for wasting 10 seconds of my life.

I'd say you missed it. Hint: The proof presented was for your camp (I snuck out for a sec; they think I'm getting beer). Listen to it again, then apology to me. 

I'm sorry. What did I miss?

"This spacecraft orbiting 120 miles above the Earth will go farther than any other spacecraft before." Salyut 7 was launched in April 1982. That's all I'm saying as I head back to my camp with beer in hand, my comrades none the wiser that I shared this tidbit while staring at the ... wait for it ... moon.

Guys, why today men are called such a trend that indicates the confrontation between two camps of people who have different opinions about how a person found himself on the earth and what kind of land in general is Well, and what it is.

[protokol]

Come on assholes, back up your fucking spinning globe theory with some numbers. What is the diameter of the shadow cast by the Moon during a total eclipse of the Sun?

I mean it's a bit late to do the maths right now, but the first way I would work out the diameter of the shadow (the umbra, full totality), is by simple geometry.

Diameter of the Sun (about 865,000 miles)
Diameter of the moon (about 2,160 miles)
Distance from the Sun to the Earth (about 93,000,000 miles)
Distance of the Moon from the Earth (239,000 miles)

So now we can draw a pretty diagram, to scale, and work out the diameter of the shadow. Here is a diagram (obviously not to scale) of what I mean:



Edit: Whoops, that's actually a diagram of a lunar eclipse (with the shadow being cast by the Earth), but my method is still valid.

There would me other ways to do this if you don't have a big piece of paper, for example using trigonometry to calculate the angles and distances.

Of course there's not a fixed size, the size of the shadow is related to how close the Moon is to its perigee. But it turns out the diameter of the umbra is about 100 miles.

It's honestly not rocket science. How does this work on a flat Earth again?

[protokol]

Oh yeah you didn't answer my question about angular resolution of the human eye, how it's not related to the angular resolution of optics/light sensors, and why if you stand on your head the tops of ships don't get cut off. So?

[notbatman]

@protocol,




You claim this is an accurate depictions of the Sun's rays? You should go fuck yourself.

[protokol]

@protocol,




You claim this is an accurate depictions of the Sun's rays? You should go fuck yourself.

It's protokol, and fuck you too. 

You don't need an accurate depiction of the Sun's rays to work out your question, you just need to use the angles coming from its diameter, and line them up with the object that is casting the shadow. The same rules apply for any light source, you can literally try it with an electric light bulb and a ball in your house right now.

[notbatman]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

[BADecker]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

At least until they are reflected or refracted. But protokol has a good point. After all, you don't know that the FE sun isn't a sphere.

[protokol]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

No of course not ya doofus. The lines are what we see, as an observer. The sun obviously (well if you believe it's a ball), radiates photons out in every direction.

The lines don't represent the Sun's rays, per se, they represent what we see on Earth - the photons that hit our eyes. It's really not that hard to understand, photons emmited from a large diameter light source (like the Sun) go out in every direction, but we only see the photons that travel directly from the object in a straight line to our eyes (or light sensor).

So how do you think solar eclipses happen? And what's your calculation for the diameter of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse?

[protokol]

you can literally try it with an electric light bulb and a ball in your house right now.

It's against his religion.

Absolutely haram.

Das ist verboten in der Flat Earth community apparently 

I mean NASA knew we might use household objects to represent our physical universe - they rigged the lightbulbs! All lightbulbs are fake, they don't emit real photons, just weird conspiracy photons that trick us into believing the propaganda...

[flekkelek]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

No of course not ya doofus. The lines are what we see, as an observer. The sun obviously (well if you believe it's a ball), radiates photons out in every direction.

The lines don't represent the Sun's rays, per se, they represent what we see on Earth - the photons that hit our eyes. It's really not that hard to understand, photons emmited from a large diameter light source (like the Sun) go out in every direction, but we only see the photons that travel directly from the object in a straight line to our eyes (or light sensor).

So how do you think solar eclipses happen? And what's your calculation for the diameter of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse?

We went through these a few pages earlier. They are braindead as fuck, what calculations do you expect from them? They can't even count the fingers on their hands. Well actually nomad knows only his thumb because he still sucks it when he falls asleep in his mothers basement.

[BADecker]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

No of course not ya doofus. The lines are what we see, as an observer. The sun obviously (well if you believe it's a ball), radiates photons out in every direction.

The lines don't represent the Sun's rays, per se, they represent what we see on Earth - the photons that hit our eyes. It's really not that hard to understand, photons emmited from a large diameter light source (like the Sun) go out in every direction, but we only see the photons that travel directly from the object in a straight line to our eyes (or light sensor).

So how do you think solar eclipses happen? And what's your calculation for the diameter of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse?

We went through these a few pages earlier. They are braindead as fuck, what calculations do you expect from them? They can't even count the fingers on their hands. Well actually nomad knows only his thumb because he still sucks it when he falls asleep in his mothers basement.

His mom owns the funny farm?     

[flekkelek]

^^^ The Sun's rays don't fucking intersect at any point, period.

No of course not ya doofus. The lines are what we see, as an observer. The sun obviously (well if you believe it's a ball), radiates photons out in every direction.

The lines don't represent the Sun's rays, per se, they represent what we see on Earth - the photons that hit our eyes. It's really not that hard to understand, photons emmited from a large diameter light source (like the Sun) go out in every direction, but we only see the photons that travel directly from the object in a straight line to our eyes (or light sensor).

So how do you think solar eclipses happen? And what's your calculation for the diameter of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse?

We went through these a few pages earlier. They are braindead as fuck, what calculations do you expect from them? They can't even count the fingers on their hands. Well actually nomad knows only his thumb because he still sucks it when he falls asleep in his mothers basement.

His mom owns the funny farm?     

She owns more like zika virus. That's the only explanation, because there is no other way someone can give birth to a descendant with such a small brain.