Is The Earth A Flat Round Disc or Is It a Round Spherical Globe?

[TinselKoala]

It is odd that from my geological location,i can watch the stars make an almost straight line trace over the period of night. One would think if i lived on a flat earth,the stars would at least show a trace of 1/2 a full circle during 12 hours of night.


Brad

Yeah.. and how is it arranged that it is the middle of the night where you are, at the same time it's the middle of the day where I am? How is it that the stars rise 4  minutes earlier from one night to the next, yet the moon rises 50 minutes later each night? And the 5 naked-eye-visible planets wander around on their own schedules? Is Gravock going to tell us that they are all projected by different programmable projectors, like something in a giant planetarium? Where is this huge, always working, projector located and how is it powered, who operates it, who built it, and why, I wonder? (NOT....)

Anybody who spends a good amount of time looking at the sky in a dark, clear location can see for themselves that we are located on a spinning ball that revolves around a distant sun, and the stars are a _lot_ further away than that sun. It's the simplest and most sensible model that explains what we see, and Gravock might be interested in reading up on the History of Astronomy to see the progression in observation and thought that has happened over the centuries.

But we know he won't do it.

Brad, can you see the Southern Cross and the constellation Octans from your location?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_pole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Octantis

[TinselKoala]

Wrong!

The glass and windows are all slightly reflective. 

If the back side of the flask is painted with silver or aluminium paint, more of the light will be reflected and the rainbow should be brighter (see images below and the reference link).  This clearly shows a mirror is essential in making rainbows.  More light being reflected equals a better and brighter rainbow.

Gravock

No, I am not wrong, and I have told you how you can make a _real_ mist rainbow indoors if you don't mind getting your floor wet. Any kid with a garden hose can do the same thing outdoors with sunlight.
You've presented a way using mirrors. There are other ways, and what you are doing now (saying the glass and windows slightly reflective) is called "Special Pleading". After all, the mist droplets are acting as mirrors of a kind too, but that's not what you meant when you first made your statement. Learn some optics, why don't you? I  know why -- because any _real_ physics knowledge will challenge what you (pretend to) believe and you can't meet that challenge.

[gravityblock]

Yeah.. and how is it arranged that it is the middle of the night where you are, at the same time it's the middle of the day where I am? How is it that the stars rise 4  minutes earlier from one night to the next, yet the moon rises 50 minutes later each night? And the 5 naked-eye-visible planets wander around on their own schedules? Is Gravock going to tell us that they are all projected by different programmable projectors, like something in a giant planetarium? Where is this huge, always working, projector located and how is it powered, who operates it, who built it, and why, I wonder? (NOT....)

Anybody who spends a good amount of time looking at the sky in a dark, clear location can see for themselves that we are located on a spinning ball that revolves around a distant sun, and the stars are a _lot_ further away than that sun. It's the simplest and most sensible model that explains what we see, and Gravock might be interested in reading up on the History of Astronomy to see the progression in observation and thought that has happened over the centuries.

But we know he won't do it.

Brad, can you see the Southern Cross and the constellation Octans from your location?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_pole
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma_Octantis

Southern "Hemisphere" Constellations and the Southern Cross Explained by the flat earth model.  This has already been previously posted.

Gravock

[gravityblock]

No, I am not wrong, and I have told you how you can make a _real_ mist rainbow indoors if you don't mind getting your floor wet. Any kid with a garden hose can do the same thing outdoors with sunlight.
You've presented a way using mirrors. There are other ways, and what you are doing now (saying the glass and windows slightly reflective) is called "Special Pleading". After all, the mist droplets are acting as mirrors of a kind too, but that's not what you meant when you first made your statement. Learn some optics, why don't you? I  know why -- because any _real_ physics knowledge will challenge what you (pretend to) believe and you can't meet that challenge.

Go ahead and try to make a rainbow indoors where there is no light being reflected by it's surrounding environment and we'll see if the mist droplets themselves are acting as tiny mirrors to form a rainbow.  No reflected light, equals no mirror, equals no rainbow.

Gravock

[Magneticitist]

what is this, some ruse to lower the perceptions of this website yet again?

how does one ignore the multitude of evidence alluding to spherical cosmic bodies in favor of an alternate theory that can be disproved as easily as taking a flight to the edge of Earth and photographing the boundary?

this flat earth misconception was put to rest ages ago and any resuscitation of the idea is in actuality done by those wishing to secretly 'troll' and make a joke of out any who would join the bandwagon. you can visit the flat earth forums and websites online and see they mainly consist of bored teenagers who get their jollies from stringing along gullible people.