One of the best arguments for the globe Earth is that you don’t need to trust scientists to prove it. You can run the experiments yourself. Go to a large body of water. Observe a ship disappearing hull-first over the horizon. Use a telescope. You won’t bring the hull back into view. Why? Because it’s gone beyond the curve.
Try the Bedford Level experiment, the original test flat Earthers love to cite. When done with modern optics and control for refraction, the curve is visible. The original result was flawed due to atmospheric distortion, which we now understand and can account for. When redone properly, the curvature appears right where the math says it should.
You can use a drone to film the shadow of a stick at solar noon in two locations. It recreates Eratosthenes’ 2,000-year-old experiment showing Earth’s curve. He didn’t have satellites or CGI. He had geometry. And it worked.
Belief in the globe Earth doesn’t rest on authority. It rests on repeatability. That’s science. If your model only works when you distrust all other evidence, maybe it’s not a model, it’s a belief system.
One of the best arguments for the globe Earth is that you don’t need to trust scientists to prove it. You can run the experiments yourself. Go to a large body of water. Observe a ship disappearing hull-first over the horizon. Use a telescope. You won’t bring the hull back into view. Why? Because it’s gone beyond the curve.
Try the Bedford Level experiment, the original test flat Earthers love to cite. When done with modern optics and control for refraction, the curve is visible. The original result was flawed due to atmospheric distortion, which we now understand and can account for. When redone properly, the curvature appears right where the math says it should.
You can use a drone to film the shadow of a stick at solar noon in two locations. It recreates Eratosthenes’ 2,000-year-old experiment showing Earth’s curve. He didn’t have satellites or CGI. He had geometry. And it worked.
Belief in the globe Earth doesn’t rest on authority. It rests on repeatability. That’s science. If your model only works when you distrust all other evidence, maybe it’s not a model, it’s a belief system.