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(OP) User ID: 76489026 United States 07/03/2018 08:38 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Flat earthers: Please explain how and why a flat earth would produce an earth with areas of daytime/nighttime as measured. The only shape that explains this shape of daytime/nighttime areas is a spherical earth. . Of course the reason the daytime/nighttime is sinusoidal near the solstices is due to the earth being a sphere and the axis of rotation of that sphere is inclined to the plane of the orbit. At the equinoxes the daytime/nighttime will be a straight band from north to south. Sunrise will be due east no matter where on earth you are. . Around Sept 21/March 21 go [link to www.time.gov (secure)] to see what the shadow looks like = a straight band north to south. This change in the shape of the earth's shadow through the seasons also needs some 'splainin' by the flat earth loonies... Have fun. R. Kooks lie. Constantly. It's part of the job description. Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 76725199 United States 07/03/2018 08:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | one of the things that make the flat earth theory hard to believe is the circle the sun takes.....the speed the sun takes on the winter solstice route around the north pole would have to be much faster than the speed the sun takes around the north pole on the summer solstice for them both to equal a 24 hour day. i'm open to the theory, but would like to hear from a flat earther about this. |