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Flat Earth.
Anonymous
No.148613
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This thread is meant to debunk the deranged idea that our realm is a planet floating in space.
If the so called established science can't be challenged, then it's not science, but religion.
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Anonymous
No.170218
170219
>>170217
>It has almost complete coverage over all the world's oceans.
Go below the Ecuator parallel and see how it works, the further you sail to the south, the less functional is.
Anonymous
No.170219
170221
>>170218
They were it to track ships having to go around the horn of Africa in real time during that Suez canal fiasco. It works perfectly fine down south.
Where are you getting this?
Anonymous
No.170221
170222
>>170219
>Where are you getting this?
First hand experience sailing the Cabo the Hornos, where the world ends before reaching Antartica. This have been described by me like a thousand posts above.
Anonymous
No.170222
170223
>>170221
You tried using Starlink there? What year was this?
Anonymous
No.170223
170224
>>170222
>What year was this?
I won't dox myself neither my boat. Sorry.
Anonymous
No.170224
170225 170226
>>170223
Well, if it was more than three years, that's not really relevant, because most Starlink satellites have gone up very recently.
>dox yourself
>implying a boat among tens thousands sailing on a particular year is doxxable
Anonymous
No.170225
170227 170228
>>170224
>because most Starlink satellites have gone up very recently.
Yeah, but satellital service is way before Musk's hoax.
Anonymous
No.170226
>>170224
>implying a boat among tens thousands sailing on a particular year is doxxable
The Cabo the Hornos is a veeeeeeeeeery special route where no many adventure into. Just yandex it.
Anonymous
No.170227
>>170225
General satellite service isn't Starlink internet. Starlink has proven to be reliable all over the ocean, so sailors can shitpost from anywhere on the seas.
And as I said before, the number of satellites has doubled in the past few years.
Anonymous
No.170228
170229
>>170225
>hoax
Considering how lucrative and influential satellite internet is proving to be, it wouldn't even matter if it were made of a bunch of balloons or dangling on strings glued to Ymir's skull. Whatever it's made of, Starlink is an incredibly promising technology.
Anonymous
No.170229
170230
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>>170228
>Starlink is an incredibly promising technology.
I would say a balloon technology rebranded as satellital.
Anonymous
No.170230
170231
>>170229
>pics
These aren't Starlink terminals though?
Pic 1 is from a test flight for a silly sunlight-blocking technology to fight climate change in Sweden. It was cancelled due to being stupid
Pic 2-3 are pics of NASA's launch of the Compton Spectrometer.

None of this has anything to do with Starlink.
Anonymous
No.170231
170233
>>170230
>None of this has anything to do with Starlink.
Of course not. You really expect Mr Musk to show us commercial secrets? But the balloon technique stands.
Anonymous
No.170233
170235
>>170231
>But the balloon technique stands
Based on what?
We could've had satellite Internet a lot earlier if balloons were reliable satellites.
Starlink took off when spaceX developed a method to recover rockets so that the equipment for putting satellites in orbit wasn't only disposable.
Anonymous
No.170235
170236 170238
>>170233
>We could've had satellite Internet a lot earlier if balloons were reliable satellites.
Exactly, balloons are so effective as the wind currents that take them away, that's the reason why a continuous launching rate of balloons are necessary to fake satellites and keep an apparently stable communication link.
Anonymous
No.170236
170237 170238
>>170235
Except balloons also deflate over time at a rate that makes them unreliable for permanent infrastructure.
>continuous launching rate of balloons are necessary to fake satellites and keep an apparently stable communication link
Oh, hahaha, just continuously keep launching $250,000 satellites that fall into the sea when their balloons pop. That's totally a sustainable business model.
Anonymous
No.170237
170238
>>170236
>$250,000 satellites that fall into the sea when their balloons pop. That's totally a sustainable business model.
Dude, even Amazon was not a sustainable model for years and I'm not sure is getting even today. All these private enterprises would never survive a year without government contracts and assistance. You see, while claiming to be a companies in a free market environment, reality is that they survive because government centralized communism.
Anonymous
No.170238
170239
>>170235
>>170236
It would cost $15,000,000,000 per day to continuously replace all Starlink satellites without communications loss, and that's just considering the manufacturing, not the salaries of the technicians or the cost of launching balloons.
>>170237
You seriously think Elon is spending more than fifteen billion dollars per day to continuously replace over five thousand satellites on weather balloons that cost two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and only last for two hours each?
Anonymous
No.170239
170240 170242
>>170238
>You seriously think Elon is spending more than fifteen billion dollars per day to continuously replace over five thousand satellites
>5,000 satellites
You seriously think Elon is telling you the truth? KEK
Anonymous
No.170240
170241
>>170239
Okay, tell me what it would cost then.
Anonymous
No.170241
>>170240
No idea and it actually is not important because is the same case than Google. The government is interested in keeping functioning at any cost, if it makes profit is good, and if not injections of capital will keep it afloat.
Anonymous
No.170242
170243
>>170239
How would Starlink possibly work if there weren't that many satellites? You think this is possible with only a few satellites? This is a fuckload of data we're talking about.
Anonymous
No.170243
170244
>>170242
>This is a fuckload of data we're talking about.
It is not. 97% of all internet traffic goes through submarine cables and the rest is distributed between land fiber optics and airborne relays.
Anonymous
No.170244
170245
>>170243
Except all of that has to be accessible through the satellite if Starlink is supposed to be useful for anything, so it does indeed have to go through the satellite.

The only reason Starlink works is because there's so many of them, and there's that many of them because SpaceX recovers the rockets for reuse.
Anonymous
No.170245
170246
>>170244
>so it does indeed have to go through the satellite
>satellite
Airborne relays.
Anonymous
No.170246
170247
>>170245
Weather balloons only last two hours.
To have continuous connection, you'd have to replace each of them 12 times a day.
Anonymous
No.170247
>>170246
>Weather balloons only last two hours.
Non-sense. Think about many days.
Anonymous
No.170372
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For those in the known.
>The current solar cycle is, indeed, a circle. Because the sun revolves in a circle, that is also the shape of the ice wall that exists at our boundaries.
>The firmament barrier may be much larger than this, though, according to the 'moon map' - the image of the Earth we see projected on the moon.
>On the moon map, we see many other, HUGE pieces of land - and resources - outside our solar cycle, and the ice wall.
Anonymous
No.170373
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>>170372
I've heard of Dark Continent theory. It's basically the Flat Earther's equivalent to Hollow Earth theory: it would be really amazing if it were true, but there's little evidence for it (even in context of Flat Earth cosmology). The concept of a terrestrial hidden world outside the known boundaries of our own with it's own lands and resources and unexplored frontiers is a cool idea, although not much supporting it.
I've seen Dark Continent theory in referenced in a lot of fantasy world-building. One example would be the Magi manga (although it has a spherical earth, it's still the same concept). It's a fun trope, for the reasons above. I would recommend it for fantasy world-builders interested in making a final frontier who's existence tells a story about the meaning of the world's creation, being in close proximity to the great rift of creation, perhaps even the path to an ancient, dead world from eons before this land was formed, or an inverted world unlike our own, perhaps even the realm of the dead, or the home of our ancestors.
The trope is, in many ways, like an inversion of hyperborean hollow earth theory. Where Hyperborea depicts a paradise in the north, and a world within a world, Dark Continent theory depicts a dark and loathsome wasteland which encompasses our own, a world outside our world.

In my own fantasy pony worldbuilding, I considered the idea of the Dark Continent being the icy frontier of the world being a rugged and untamable place, where providence withers, reality breaks down, and the wendigos rule the frigid edges of disharmony. I based it on the warning sign in The Witcher III: "You've reached the edge of the world! Only devils roam here! Turn back!". I love the trope of the edges of reality being dark and sinister places inhabited by nameless horrors, but still worlds in and of themselves.

Where did you quote that greentext from? I would like to read more about this supposed "moon map". All I find is maps of the cartography of the moon itself. I know the moon is reflective, but I didn't think it was reflective enough to reflect a mirror-like image of earth.
Anonymous
No.170374
>>170372
This picture appears to be from a book. What's it from?
Anonymous
No.170375
170376
>>170373
Okay, I did some research on the "moon map" thing. It's the suggestion that the moon is actually a map/reflection/projection of the earth.

Overall, I have to say, I disagree. Not only do the craters of the moon not really match the geography of the earth (although they could look vaguely similar if you squint), the moon's craters are also observable in greater detail with medieval-era telescopes, and while observing the moon shows that it indeed does have mountains, pits, and valleys, they don't really match up with the geography of the world.
To kill time, I decided to check out if anyone decided to map out the moon's craters in detail and compare them to the earth, but all I found was vague outlines drawn with an excess of wishful thinking.

Cool idea, but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.
Anonymous
No.170376
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>>170375
>Cool idea, but it doesn't really hold up to scrutiny.
At less... you try to match the map with the undersea geology, then suddenly it makes sense.
Anonymous
No.170377
>>170373
>Dark Continent theory depicts a dark and loathsome wasteland which encompasses our own
Did you know that there is some myths about sunny warm lands beyond the frozen wasteland? If so, it may be that there is at least other sun circling the dome in a wider ring.
Anonymous
No.170378
>>170373
>The trope is, in many ways, like an inversion of hyperborean hollow earth theory. Where Hyperborea depicts a paradise in the north
A reminder that the north is also guarded by men with weapons and no one is allowed to travel there.
Anonymous
No.170379
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>>170376
Nah, I considered that. There doesn't seem to be any exact match with abovesea geography.
>there is some myths about sunny warm lands beyond the frozen wasteland?
Of course I know. I just referenced Hyperborea.
>no one is allowed
That's not really true at all. People go there all of the time. You can schedule holiday trips there. Multiple shipping routes go there too.
Anonymous
No.170380
170522
>>170379
>Nah, I considered that. There doesn't seem to be any exact match with abovesea geography.
Hang on. I saw a good presentation but long and geometrically convoluted, but kinda a geographical match nevertheless.
Anonymous
No.170385
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Our constellations have never changed, and our Earth clock has never changed.
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Anonymous
No.170386
>>170385
>Our constellations have never changed
Our constellations have demonstrably changed, since Ancient Egypt.
>If everything was moving we'd see different things in the sky
We've had this exact conversation before. It was explained. Scroll up.
Why are you posting redundant arguments? Why are you repeating yourself? Did you just forget?
Anonymous
No.170387
170388
>>165136
Somewhere around here. You've brought this up before. Everypony remembers.
Anonymous
No.170388
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>>170387
>You've brought this up before. Everypony remembers.
Yeah, and yet you still insist in your misinterpretation because you have no clue what you are talking about. If your ball is flipping around in a allegedly universe, then is impossible to have any periodicity in stars' position.
Anonymous
No.170389
170391
>>170388
>then is impossible to have any periodicity in stars' position
How is that impossible?

And again, you're just repeating yourself, with the same arguments you've already made in this thread, like a broken record.
Anonymous
No.170391
170392 170396
>>170389
>And again, you're just repeating yourself, with the same arguments you've already made in this thread, like a broken record
No U.
I have a better idea, instead of talking about something you know nothing about, why you don't plot the earth trajectory in a heliocentric setting and then find out where the stars are?
Anonymous
No.170392
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>>170388
>is impossible to have any periodicity in stars' position
Untrue. The stars have consistent positions because in the grand scheme of things we're not actually getting very much closer to any of them. The universe is so enormously vast that the amount the earth has moved in the history of humanity has made very little difference in terms of positions of the nearest stars.
>>170391
>why you don't plot the earth trajectory in a heliocentric setting and then find out where the stars are?
Pic related
There is an entire field of science devoted to tracking the position of the earth relative to the nearest celestial bodies.
Anonymous
No.170393
>>170392
Wrong pic
Anonymous
No.170394
>>170392
Oooooh. I'm impressed, you brought stuff.
Anonymous
No.170395
170397
>>170392
>The stars have consistent positions because in the grand scheme of things we're not actually getting very much closer to any of them.
Correct. This realm is fixed.
Anonymous
No.170396
170399
>>170391
>earth trajectory in a heliocentric setting
Are you asking for the trajectory of the Earth's or it around the sun, or the trajectory of the sun itself (and thus also the moon) around the center of the milky way?
Anonymous
No.170397
170401
>>170395
>This realm is fixed
If by that you mean the universe is only so big, then sure.
Anonymous
No.170398
170400
>>170388
We literally refuted that argument 2 years ago.
Anonymous
No.170399
>>170396
Well, there are a lot simultaneous translations for a ball in a vacuum. Self spinning, relative to the sun, relative the cosmos. Then you may consider all of them.