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Is the earth really flat. Flat earth theory - real facts

Subject " flat earth» Do you find it funny? Then I'll remind you. Just 500 years ago, everyone KNEW that the Earth was Flat, and those who said that the Earth was Round took a serious risk. At best, friends, acquaintances and relatives looked at him as a "lunatic". At worst, he was burned at the stake by religious fanatics.

Now this story has a sequel...

Earth became again flat, but now no one will burn you. Most people still do not understand what is written, because they have not learned to think with their heads. However, this is not about you. And treat the article with humor.

Piece: "The Flat Earthers Strike Back."

Scene 2: "Evidence for a Flat Earth".

Characters:

Professor Sharov — (PW ). He talked about the Round Earth. . I hope you have seen his official answers. Because now the thing that we love most on this site will begin - “Melting Our Reality «.

Professor Wonderful — (PZ ). Talk about Flat Earth. Right now.

You -simple buyer.

Did I read Scene 1?

1. Our world.

You : Good afternoon Professor Wonderful (PZ ), I just talked to your colleague Sharov about our world, and somehow he didn't look 100% entirely convincing. What do you have?

PZ : I have a model and flat earth map. She looks like this.

PZ : Our world is a Flat Disc surrounded by an ice wall. Therefore, water does not leak anywhere and it is impossible to fall from the edge. The ice wall, officially called Antarctica, covers the entire disk, how far it goes into the depths - we don't know, maybe - to infinity. Or maybe a hundred kilometers there is life. The military closed Antarctica with a special treaty from 1959. Therefore, it is not so easy to get there. Alas.

The Flat Earth map is officially called in science Azimuth Projection.

More details: From above we are covered by the "Dome" - a structure UNDER which the Sun and the Moon rotate, plus the rest of the "planets". The height of the Dome is 5 thousand km. The moon rotates just below the sun. Stars are light bulbs on the Dome.

You : Clear. Professor Sharov, can you remind me of your version?

PS: Earth is the planet on which we live, and our model is called Globe, from Latin globus -> ball. The surface is 29% land, 71% water. A simplified model of the Earth looks like this.

PS : The Sun - 99.86% of the mass of the entire solar system, is located in the center. The planets revolve around the sun. Earth is the third planet from the Sun. visually below.

You : Clear. Refreshed memory. Question for you PZ . There is generally accepted evidence that is usually taught in schools as confirmation that the Earth is round. Can you refute them or show an alternative explanation?

PZ : Yes, sure. Show me your evidence and I'll comment on it.

What's more, I'm willing to pay 1000 dollars the one who refutes evidence that the earth is flat. You are interested?

You : Yes, I want to earn $1000 if you're not kidding. But first, refute the evidence for a round earth. Ready?

PZ: I seriously offer a deal. Ready.

You: Proof 1. The ships go beyond the horizon and the hull disappears first, and then the sail disappears. This is not proof of the curvature of the Earth's surface?

PZ: No, not proof. The ship simply decreases on the horizon and disappears as soon as it passes " convergence point", that is, goes beyond" visibility horizon". You can return it back if you take binoculars.

How vision works.

An object that is receding from you reaches a point on the horizon when it is too small for you to see anything. Here is the point in the center in the figure where the road shrinks into a point. This point is called « convergence point «, the point where parallel lines IN THE EYE converge. Such is our vision on Earth.

We use 2 eyes to determine the distance to the object.

That is, the further the object is from us, the smaller it will be. And even 2 parallel lines are still removed and reduced to Points of convergence of the lens of the eye. This skill is very useful for PREDATOR HUNTERS (us, in the past). Determine distance to prey or danger .

Even 1 eye is still able to show us the Distance, because the light passes through the edges of the lens (points 1, 2, 3, 4). Pupil = ROUND LENS, not a narrow SLIT. Therefore, even 1 eye is very cool!

We see an object up to 7 km away on the horizon. The physical size of the pupil does not allow you to see further.

Practice.

Here are 2 parallel railway tracks. They are parallel to each other for thousands of kilometers ahead, WAYS DO NOT CROSS, DO NOT CLOSE TO EACH OTHER AT ALL, otherwise the train would not have been able to travel for weeks along the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok.

But, you see how 4 parallel rails converge to a point on the horizon, right? So it is with the ship. Curvature has nothing to do with it. Curvature is the most primitive way to explain all these effects.

Keep in mind that hot air or water vapor can interfere with seeing a ship in the distance and above the horizon.

Here, for example, is the phenomenon of a mirage. When in the summer the effect hangs over a hot road, like a wet puddle. I think everyone has seen it in their lives. The middle dividing line disappears into " puddle«.

Object, ship-machine will swell and shrink with distance. The wheels will disappear first, because it is closest to the ground, although the road is absolutely flat in front of you. The same is true at sea.

Water and wind create waves. Waves breaking on the surface of the water create a lot of small splashes and all this mass hangs above the surface of the sea. It is clear that the sail will be the first to rise above the thick mass, a mist of drops. After all, you look almost parallel to the surface of the water. A sail is the tallest object on a ship. The closer the ship is to you, the higher the sail will be above the surface of the water. Although, initially, you see the whole ship on the horizon. Just because of the small spray (kilometers away from the ship), you won't see its hull until it's close enough. You might as well try looking through the fog. Will it be strong?

You : According to Evidence 1: Features of vision, "vanishing point" + mirage + water vapor.

Proof 2: Moon and Lunar eclipses. We see how a semicircular shadow from the Earth creeps onto the Moon during eclipses. A semicircular shadow gives a ball or disk of the Earth to the Moon, and according to your theory, the Sun and Moon are above us. What then causes the eclipse in your model?

PZ : Solar eclipse easy to explain. The Sun and Moon orbit above our head. And the Moon is a little lower than the Sun, so when their path intersects, we see it as a semicircular shadow (of the Moon) creeping onto the Sun, and we have the Black Sun in front of our eyes.

For the lunar eclipse.

Let's begin with Moon by her own anomalous object on the whole head . You never wonder what we see Always only 1 side of the moon? Why is that? Perfect synchronization of orbits? ---> or this artificial object? Why is everything in nature tied to the moon? The planting of plants, the migration of animals, even those very female cycles are perfectly synchronized with the cycles of the Moon, which last 28 days? Isn't it because of this that women have a shift of "women's days" by 4-5 days by the beginning of the month?

In a word, the Moon is a very strange object and behaves differently than an ordinary piece of the Stone overhead should. By the way, scientifically the Moon is a satellite of the Earth. A satellite can be either artificial(turned with its dish-antenna towards us), or natural.

Let's be kids for a minute. How about the fact that the moon was built by previous civilizations? We do not know this, but modern scientists do not know how the Moon ended up in the sky. The version of the impact of a meteorite on the Earth is nonsense. Because the moon has WATER . In an explosion, from a meteorite hitting the Earth, and then flying in a VACUUM, WATER not formed! So what's the point then? Just imagine what it could be artificial sphere with its own light source.

We can't see the other side of the moon, can we? And what's in there?

You : Imagined (fantasy), let the Moon be an artificial object, as in your version. Go ahead.

Proof 3. During Moon Phases we see semicircle in heaven and during Lunar Eclipse we see semicircle a shadow, that is, it is given by a semicircular object, "sphere / ball / disk" as you wish. How do you explain it?

PZ : These are 2 different phenomena: Lunar Phases and Lunar Eclipse.

As for the Moon phases, when you have a crescent moon in the sky, and not full moon, this is due to the illumination of the moon. The earth has nothing to do with it. The moon is a ball-sphere, and a spherical body will still be illuminated. For example, the "lamp", which is located BEHIND THE MOON. Will now beexperiment with iphone 5.

Imagine there is a lamp inside the moon. And she turns. Are not such phases you will see?

As for the Lunar Eclipse, I already answered in the previous example. There is a third body or phenomenon that we do not yet know. For example, that the moon has its own light source INSIDE, and a semicircular disk passes between the light and the surface, obscuring the light. Moreover, its size can be thousands of times smaller than the moon itself. You don't need the sun for this.

By the way, the Moon does NOT reflect sunlight, as official scientists say, but is the source of its own OWN light, easy to install on this example. If you have a Sphere (ball), then we know perfectly well how light will be reflected from it. Like this.

I didn't see a spot on the moon. And you?

You : Proof 4. World travel? Sailing or flying all the time to the East or to the West, you will arrive at the same point from where you started sailing. Isn't that talking about the Round Earth?

PZ : Simple experiment. Take a plate of water, put a powerful magnet in the middle of the plate, lower a small boat with a compass in there and move to the West. You are moving only to the West, and will make a round-the-world trip on a saucer!

Here is tea with lemon. If the lemon wedge twists around the center while remaining peeled towards the rim of the cup, it will make " trip around the world' by your cup.

Schematically: You are always move to the WEST. The magnetic compass shows all the time on North .

This is what a round-the-world trip above a flat Earth looks like.

This is what Ferdinand Magellan's journey around the Earth looked like 1519-1522.

You: Proof 5. If all body over our heads Round then why should we think that our earth flat?

PZ : Here is a billiard table with Round Balls on it. Table, according to your logic = Round?

You : The table is naturally flat,

Proof 6. Availability of time zones when in some parts of the planet it is night, and in other parts of the planet it is day. How to explain? Is it not the rotation of the Round Earth?

PZ : No. And what about the turn? The sun moves over the surface of the Flat Earth, in the place where it is bright. Where it is not, there is Night.

Why does the Sun not illuminate the entire disk if it is at a height? Very simple. Here is a light bulb that does NOT light up the entire wall. The wall is too big, like the surface of the Earth.

SIGNS:

IF EARTH IS FLAT
why don't we see sunlight 24 hours a day?

Explanation:

For the same reason that a small lamp cannot illuminate the entire wall.

LIGHT SOURCE = SMALL + MOVING.

You : How do the seasons work? Why is it cold in winter and hot in summer?

PZ : The sun moves from North to South throughout the year. When we are hot - the Sun moves along the Yellow trajectory close to the North Pole ( Tropic of Cancer). When it's cold here, it rotates along the Red trajectory (Tropic of Capricorn), far from the North Pole, but it's Hot in the Southern Hemisphere. And, yes, the Sun moves much faster in the Southern Hemisphere to make its 360 degrees in 24 hours.

The fact that we have Winter in December, and in Australia - Summer, says this picture. Christmas - December 21 in Australia is celebrated in costumes of Santa Claus right on the beach.


You : Then we do not leave the Sun and the evidence of the Flat Earth. I'm interested in 2 more things: polar day And Polar night. When 24 hours a day is light and 24 hours a day is dark. You know this phenomenon, don't you? In official science, this is explained by the tilt of the Earth by 24.5 degrees and the location of the Earth relative to the Sun.

PZ : polar day- this is when the sun does not set below the horizon for 24 hours. That is, it spins above the Horizon Line, approaching the horizon, but not disappearing below it.

Interestingly, the photographs of the Polar Day and Night most often show from the North Pole, but very rarely they are shown from the South Pole. Do you know why? Because in the Flat Earth theory, the Sun does not illuminate the South Pole 24 hours a day. But there are no problems with the North Pole.

Here is an example.

How to check South Polar Day?

No way.

The South Pole is CLOSED for visiting, CLOSED for inspection. There are only government"scientific stations" and " military". Both the first and second government + military) are known as liars With long long history… Not for me to tell you. So there are only 2 options left:

1. There are no days at the South Pole when the Sun is 24 hours above the horizon.

2. There is Polar Day at the South Pole, when the Sun is 24 hours above the horizon.

But, even if it is really shown that there is a Polar Day in Antarctica, then we have a theory. It uses the concept of reflected light from the DOME. Schematically and mathematically it looks like this.

By the way, since we have already started talking about Antarctica, then all of our people are showing some unhealthy interest in it. Earth Elite .

Chronicle for 2016:

1. February 12, 2016 Patriarch Kirill found in the Pope. February 18, 2016 - urgently flies to Antarctica.
2. Beginning of March 2016 - US President Obama flies to Argentina, from where he travels for several days in Patagonia. The territory borders on Antarctica, what he did for a couple of days is unknown. In the delegation with him was a representative of NASA.
3. November 11-12, 2016 - US Secretary of State John Kerry 3 days after the US elections - flies to Antarctica and is there, signing another agreement , which prohibits the entry of fishing vessels into the waters near Antarctica.

Some strange stirring around the icy wastelands among politicians and religious figures. Don't find?

But, let's leave that aside. Let's go back to the Sun and the evidence for a Flat Earth.

You A: Interesting, but that's later. Now m I am interested in the fact that the Sun should decrease in size if it simply moves away from us, and not set below the horizon in a huge disk with the same dimensions. After all, you say that the Sun simply moves above our head in a circular path.

PZ : Let's talk seriously about the Sun.

This video will be enough to prove that the Sun is decreasing in size, moving away from us in a straight line, when it goes to the horizon. Taken from observatory ABOVE cloud level. Link .

Now look here. You must understand that we very often see the Sun that sets above the level of the Earth. Mountains, hills, obstacles, buildings often block our view. And since they are much closer to them than to the real horizon, you see how the big and round Sun hides behind the "visible" horizon, although in fact, it is just REMOVED in a straight line and REDUCED.

Decreases BEFORE "vanishing point".

In this case, the point of convergence closed by a mountain. Therefore, the Sun is hidden from our view by a large disk, but still decreasing along the way.

Here simple experiment in flat earth proof, you can make it at home. Stretch the string across the room so that it has the same height from wall to wall. Place obstacles in his way, such as a book or a board (in this video, it's 4 bottles of beer that hold the carton), and so that the obstacle is below the thread. And then look from ground level to see what it looks like.

Get this is the "effect".

The sun will move away from you, and the BIG will go “beyond the visible horizon”, and not a point. That's all. No rotation of the Round Earth is needed for this.

This experiment didn't impress you?

Okay, then what about an obstacle on the horizon like iPhone 6? Camera on the ground distance of 110 meters from the camera to the person? Consider that in our case IPHONE is a MOUNTAIN.

THE MAN IS VISIBLE OVER THE MOUNTAIN.

You : And the last question about the Sun and the Moon - how do they fly in a lateral orbit? What keeps them in the sky?

PZ : Magnetic levitation. Here are working devices with magnetic levitation.

Lamp ,
computer mouse,
armchair sofa ,
maglev train on a magnetic cushion.

Incidentally, this also explains ebbs and flows on the ground. Water repels magnets ! And the Moon and the Sun = magnetic background sources, so they are just " push the water apart» underneath and she runs off to the shore. Gravity here, as always, is superfluous. Ebb and flow is only in the Oceans and Seas with salt water, which are in the path of the movement of the Sun and Moon.

At home, check how ordinary tap water reacts to a comb. Just before that, run through your hair to transmit an electric discharge

In the tap - the usual fresh water! A sea ​​water- responds even better to electricity. There SOOOOOOOOL!

The ebbs and flows have nothing to do with the gravity of the MOON. Because most gravity doesn't exist at all. This is Newton's fantasy and invented power, how to describe the world and facts at the beginning of the 19th century. This is how the electromagnetic repulsion of the Moon and Water looks like. Schematically.

You:Proof 7. Photos from satellites? Photo from above? Are you still saying the earth is flat?

PZ: Have you heard about special effects in photography? And fisheye lenses, right? These lenses bend the image a lot in order to cover a large area. Here are some examples:

1. Real round walls? Below = no distortion.

4. Round subway cars.

5. The spire of the church bows to the building on the right

6. Square Curves…

Horizon = Curvature.

What does the proof of a spherical Earth look like?

Now back to Space and the ISS. Here is a picture from 2008. Where is NASA recognized , that pictures are taken through a fisheye. These lenses are at the MIR station. Come in, check it out.

Here is the same picture in Wikipedia , where it says that the curvature of the Earth is due to the "Fish Eye".

Why use if the earth is round?

Correct, to warp a flat image, such as curvature proof.

Although all the photos, without corrections, tell us otherwise. Earth is flat! From any height!


You : Proof 8. Ballooners claim that with height we see farther, because we see beyond the horizon.

PZ : An absolutely stupid argument from the Sharovers (like all the others, by the way). Why?

Because

Here is an example - a flat lawn near the house. If you put the camera at ground level and move away from it, then you " hide behind the horizon". Is this evidence that a flat field suddenly has a curvature? No. Link to video .

You : I like this explanation. Accurate and with evidence.

Proof 9. And yet, what about the satellites? Communication / satellite TV / GPS? How are they explained on the Flat Earth?

PZ : Communication between continents without wires was long before satellites. The first transatlantic radio contact was successfully made in 1906, from Brant Rock, USA to Mahri, Scotland. Nobody heard about the satellites for the next 50 years, and the continents ALREADY communicated with each other.

Today, 99% of all Internet traffic is carried by submarine ocean cables between continents, and not via satellites.

Satellite dishes on homes are only called "satellite" because they all look at the horizon, NOT the sky, at a 90% angle. You see such antennas every day on houses and roofs, right? Are they looking vertically UP IN THE SKY at the satellite?

Or —————————> TO THE HORIZON?

"These antennas" receive conventional radio signals from conventional transmission towers standing on the ground but not from outer space. Can you see the tilt of the antenna?

What you see with your own eyes on the houses is called " tropospheric» radio communication.

The distance of "tropospheric radio communication" is 300-800 km. The signal bounces off the ionosphere. What modern scientists call the "Ionosphere", I call the "Dome". It's a flat-earth dome that bounces radio waves down to Earth.

And everything that is less than 300-800 km can be covered with additional 300 meter towers, as shown below. The signal "on the dish" comes from the radio towers.

Do you recognize these engineering creations 200-300 m high?


Why do you need TV satellites? Everything works without them.

You: And what's about GPS and Flat Earth?

PZ: GPS - Global Positioning System. Its only purpose is to convince you that it " GLOBAL “, i.e. = GLOBE, i.e. BALL! And how does it work?

In cities, it works at the expense of mobile towers. And 3 towers are enough to determine your location exactly to the meter. It is called - Triangulation .

Outside the cities, there is an ordinary radio network with powerful towers that cover most of the Earth. It was first used during the Second World War to navigate ships and aircraft, when no one had heard of satellites. next 20 years... The accuracy of determining the ship at sea is 150 meters with a range of 1,500 km! Name - LORAN And DECCA. Come in, check it out.

Here is the tower LORAN 190 meters high in Canada.

In 2000 they were renamed GPS and shoved into your cell phone with beautiful cards. The system is operated by the US military, and how it actually works you will never know. Just as you won’t find out why the Kursk nuclear-powered ship sank, and how many full-time military of the Russian Federation died in the Donbas and in Syria. The military will always lie.

As you understand, positioning systems worked successfully BEFORE even the idea of ​​... SATELLITE ...

You: Anyone else know about this theory?

PZ : Everybody knows. This is not a secret. For example, NASA in its calculations and models of aircraft flight in the air uses a model of a FLAT and NON-ROTATING Earth.

That is, future pilots are taught on models that have not heard that curvature must be taken into account, or that the surface of the Earth rotates under them. Why? Because it doesn't really exist.

You can download the document . E it is written on the first page in the first paragraph.

Here is another document for FAA (Federal Aviation Administration, USA), which states that flight simulation software should be as close to reality as possible for high-quality pilot training in the air, training controllers on the ground. Therefore, everything must be exactly in calculations.

Various situations and behavior of the aircraft in the sky are played here. "The Engineering Analysis and Design of the Aircraft Dynamics Model For the FAA Target Generation Facility". You can download.

On page 32 it says in plain text: We we do not take into account the rotation of the Earth, and the flight passes over flat earth«.

Simulation as close to reality as possible, right?

So what is our Reality then, dear pilots?

Official cards?

Here is the official flat earth map for a wide range of users. Created in 1892 year, a paper copy is kept in the library of Boston, USA. What is interesting in it?

3 moment!

Moment 1 : Right at the top of the card is written in large letters

"AS IT IS"

which means " In fact »

Moment 2: Right and Left says: scientifically correct« (scientifically and ) And " practically true« (practically correct). Seriously

Moment 3. The bottom of the map shows how the Sun moves in June and December. Where do they come from June 21 and December 21.

June Solstice.

« The white oval shows the location of the Sun in the Tropic of Cancer, in June, at noon. This causes 24 hours of sunshine in the Polar Regions (Polar Day). After June 21st, the Sun begins to spiral towards the South until it reaches its final point on December 21st.«

December Solstice.

« On December 21, the Sun moves across the Tropic of Capricorn, and as it moves, it illuminates the South Antarctic ice sheet. There is no light below 80º S, only unexplored regions of ice. On December 23, the Sun completes its South move and begins to move back towards the North Pole, ending its season."

In addition, all the most serious organizations in the world such as the UN - the United Nations, ICAO - the International Organization Civil Aviation, IMO - International Maritime Organization, WMO - World Meteorological Organization use the Flat Earth map. irony, true?

Organizations that control globe,
use flat earth map..

question in a million: Can you find Antarctica here?

Pilots.

Sailors.

Climatologists.

Did you find Antarctica?

And it is considered the 6th continent of the Earth, actually ...

Google reveals original drawing for Winter Solstice . So, by the way. There's nothing special here.

2. Question 2. What experiment was carried out to reveal Gravity? - Answer . There is nothing to check here, Gravity does not exist, it is a fictional force that exists only on paper.

3. Question 3. How does the water in the oceans curve in an arc? - Answer . No way. Water in the oceans in a horizontal position, from the North Pole to Antarctica.

4. Question 4. Is the curvature of the Earth taken into account when building long bridges, rails, shipping channels and pipelines? - Answer . No, it is not taken into account, because there is no curvature. There is only height.

5. Question 5 . Physics of the XXI century. standard model elementary particles our Universe (in short, how everything works in the world) includes only 3 forces: electromagnetic, weak and strong interaction, does NOT include gravity in its calculations. - Answer . He does the right thing by not turning it on, because gravity does not exist.

6 . Question 6. How did the Vacuum of Space not suck out the Atmosphere? - Answer . Atmosphere protected by the Dome.

7. Question 7. Why doesn't gravity pull clouds? - Answer . Different density of air near the Earth and air at altitude.

9. Question 9. How rivers (water) can flow UP? - Answer . They can't and you know it. Water always flows down.

10. Question 10. Why do airplanes fly so strangely?- Answer .

Regarding the first example, the Bali flight - Los Angeles landed in Alaska. Here flat earth map and a straight line between the two cities.

About routes through Antarctica. Where to fly?

Fly in circles? From Africa to Australia, there's not enough fuel. From South America to Australia, there's not enough fuel. From Africa to South America, there's not enough fuel. Keep in mind that Antarctica goes in a circle for a distance much greater than the equator. And the equator itself is 40,000 km in circumference!

But, like this, flying in a straight line is the most it!

Therefore, no one will pull optical Internet cables from Africa to Australia and South America. It's VERY far away. Red zones are empty.

You : OK then. Governments know that the earth is flat. They have evidence of a flat earth, a map of a flat earth, then what is the benefit of hiding the truth?

PZ : Because there will be a disaster in science.

No Gravity = No Globe = No Rotation = No big bang= No millions of galaxies, planets and stars = No aliens = No Evolution = No connecting Link between living organisms and people = Is that enough to keep silent about the shape of the Earth?

Gravity is a Religion for Scientists. Everything that cannot be clearly explained is explained by the mysterious word Gravity. From RELIGIONS DO NOT REFUSE!

Why is the earth round? — gravity .
Why do people not fly away from the rotating Earth? - gravity .
Why doesn't water fly away from the surface of the Earth and collect at the Equator, where is the maximum speed? - gravity .
Why is the moon in the sky? - gravity .

Replace the word " gravity» word « God «, and get the same result. Level explanations ZERO «.

Why is the earth round? — God decided so .
Why do people not fly away from the rotating Earth?God decided so.
Why doesn't water collect at the Equator, where is the maximum speed?God decided so .
Why is the moon in the sky?God decided so.

I will say by secret:

« Gravity is the force that attracts the Absurd«.

Do you know why?

Because after Newton came up with Gravity, science has evolved this way for the last 300 years.

Scientists have realized thattheory of gravity will lead to a singularity (the whole universe will shrink, in the end, to a point) then they invented"Dark Energy". It is, in principle, Anti-Gravity. But, as a result of further calculations of the formulas, they realized that the expansion"Dark Energy" will lead to the rupture of Einstein's "space-time", and then they came up with"Dark Matter" which must balance"Gravitons" of gravity and "Dark Energy".

Before us is a fictitious force, which should explain another imaginary power, and so time after time when formulas don't stick.

But in fact: "Gravitons" do not exist, hence Dark Energy does not exist, hence Dark matter does not exist. And when you are forced to believe in things that exist only on paper and in dreams, then this is not science, this is -"MAGIC".

Therefore, physics for 2017 rested its forehead against the wall and is waiting for a new Prophet who will explain what and how. Without "gravity" and other "magical entities".

What about us?

And we need other answers to questions as old as the world: “Who are we?”, And “What have they forgotten here?”. Without "magic", "gravity" and "ape-people theories".

ORIGIN OF THE WORLD:

1. Divine version of the world. You heard about it, the world in 6 days. According to the Bible.

2. Version - Big Bang with Evolution proposed priest Georges Lemaitre)) and Darwin.

“There was NOTHING, then suddenly nothing happened to this NOTHING and NOTHING exploded! Then all the exploded and scattered NOTHING magically transformed itself into matter and living particles, which still magically learned to copy themselves, multiply ... And then there were dinosaurs ...

How do you like this theory from the Catholics of the Vatican? It is considered official "in science" for 2017. Seriously!

More options?

3. The most obvious is theory, O which we wrote recently. We live in the Matrix (Digital Universe), and it seems that this is a game for our distant descendants, for example, children 2100. People of the Future play the games of the Past. How we play computer games about Greece, Feudalism and the Middle Ages. And our descendants play us - with 100% immersion in the virtual reality of the Past. As fantastic as it may sound.

All in all.

PS: You won't be able to drag your flat earth theory into mainstream science. She is absurd.
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If normal person, accustomed to living in the modern news paradigm, someone will seriously say that space does not exist, the planet Earth is flat, and the sun is actually much smaller than we used to think, most likely, this citizen will twist his finger at his temple. Especially if the speaker supplements his conclusions with the opinion that NASA is financed by a secret Masonic organization, and no one has ever landed on the Moon.

The statements seem absolutely crazy, and it is all the more surprising that all these theories have many supporters around the world. These people are convinced of the correctness of the flat earth theory: for them, this is an indisputable truth, and not anti-scientific fabrications of ignoramuses.

Adherents of the theory set up experiments, publish research papers, citing evidence that humanity does not live on a rotating ball flying at great speed (30 km / s) in space. According to these people, the earth is a flat disk covered with a transparent dome.

Despite the seeming madness of this theory, it continues to excite the minds. Flat Earth theorists can immediately ask the following questions: why doesn’t water from the oceans overflow from the “disk” where the Sun hides at night, where did tens of thousands of photographs of a spherical planet come from? We have dedicated this article to answering these and other questions.

History of the flat earth theory

School education provides a clear guide: - this is a fairy tale invented by our ancestors, who did not have the opportunity to conduct a serious scientific work. The ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Chinese agreed that the Earth was flat. In absentia, the Sumerians and Scandinavians “agreed” with them. In mythological cosmogenesis, the ancient Vedas and the Bible, our planet is unequivocally called flat. The same can be said about Buddhist and Hindu practices.

If we talk about an earlier time in relation to us, then there were enough theorists of a flat Earth in the Middle Ages. A categorical breakdown came during the Renaissance, and in our time everyone knows that our planet is round. The scientific research of our ancient ancestors has been ostracized and relegated to the margins of history.

But this does not mean at all that everyone agrees with the ideological dictates of modern science. There were people who did not believe the textbooks and in all seriousness began to study the ancient treatises.

In the 19th century in England, the British scientist and inventor S. Rowbotham organized the Flat Earth Society. Rowbotham spent hundreds scientific research, which proved, in his opinion, that the Earth is flat.

Hiding under the assumed name "Parallax", Rowbotham published a pamphlet called "Zethetic Astronomy", which contained descriptions of his experiments and stated evidence for the impossibility of the existence of a spherical earth. Samuel claimed that the planet is flat and the ocean is perfectly level.

The pamphlet went through many editions during Rowbotham's lifetime, and each time it became thicker as Parallax added more and more chapters to it. The number of supporters of the flat earth theory also grew rapidly.

Samuel Rowbotham was not devoid of marketing talent, he always took money for lectures. The researcher was so confident in his theory that he could lash out with his fists at those who expressed doubts about his conclusions.

Very soon adherents of the flat earth theory appeared all over the world. There were especially many of them in Europe and the United States. Among the followers of this direction there are quite unexpected personalities, for example, Adolf Hitler.

Surprisingly, the number of followers of the flat earth theory is growing every year. In some countries, this idea even caused a kind of social split. Adherents of the Earth-disk theory categorically reject the arguments of modern scientists and present their own evidence, which seems to them to be the only true one.

To understand how serious the dispute with the supporters of the flat Earth is, it is enough to open the Yandex search engine. At the very first request, an abyss of articles, photographs, videos, forums and heated debates dedicated to Rowbotham's theory will open before you.

Before starting to get acquainted with the most popular proofs of the flat earthers, let's study their key postulates.

Proponents of Parallax think of the Earth as a disk with the North Pole at the center. The diameter of the planet coincides with official scientific data - 40 thousand km. The disk is covered with a dome, behind which the Sun and the Moon are visible. Thanks to these heavenly bodies, there is day and night on the planet. Gravity is something fundamentally different than the phenomenon that studies modern science.

According to Rowbotham and his followers, the South Pole does not exist in principle. No Antarctica either. The entire circumference of the earth's disk is surrounded by a wall of ice.

Photographs from space are declared a clever photoshop, a fake. In general, astronautics is a complete deception and scam. Rockets, devices for transporting and lifting ships - skillfully executed props. Space travel and video from the ISS are filmed on Earth by professional filmmakers.

The sphericity of the planet was declared by supporters of Rowbotham to be a lie spread by conspiring Masons. Scientists, NASA specialists and astronauts know the truth, but they receive money from the Masons and therefore are silent.

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What is the solar system?

The idea of ​​the flat earth adherents about the structure of the solar system is also interesting. At school, they teach that several planets revolve around the star, the Earth occupies the third orbit from the Sun, located between Venus and Mars. Is it possible that such a system exists? The followers of Rowbotham answer unequivocally: no.

In their opinion, a model with a fixed Sun is impossible, if only because there is constant movement in the Universe. If the generally accepted version of the solar system were correct, the sun would fly through space at an incredible speed, dragging the planets with it. Oval orbits of the planets in this case would be impossible, only spiral ones.

Another interesting argument concerns the forces of repulsion and attraction, thanks to which a balance is achieved in the solar system: the planets do not fly away from the star and do not collide in space. Supporters of the flat earth theory point out that the mass of all planets is different. If the solar system were as described in textbooks, major planets would be located closer to the sun, and small ones - further from the luminary. After all, an object of smaller mass simply does not have enough repulsive force to “escape” from the sun. Rowbotham's followers calculated that, in the paradigm adopted by official science, the Earth would be in the sixth orbit. This determines its mass. Such a distance from the Sun would make life on the planet impossible: eternal cold would reign here.

Evidence base

Of course, the most interesting thing about the flat earth theory is the evidence collected by Parallax supporters. With a planet diameter of 40 thousand km, the planet makes a revolution in 24 hours. These data allow you to calculate the rotation speed: more than 400 m / s. That is, according to official science, The earth rotates at a speed of 0.5 km/sec.

Adherents of Rowbotham are wondering: under such conditions, how can planes land exactly on the runway? The earth is round and constantly spinning! According to the proponents of the theory, the runway will shift due to the rotation of the planet, and the plane will not be able to land.

Another proof: if we agree that the Earth is spherical, the cannonball that has flown out of the muzzle of the cannon in the direction from West to East will be in the air 2 times less than it actually is. If, however, a cannon is fired from East to West, the cannonball will fly twice as far due to the rotation of the Earth in the opposite direction.

However, neither the first nor the second phenomenon is observed, which, according to the adherents of Rowbotham, exposes the generally accepted view that the Earth is a spherical rotating body.

Proponents of the theory also point out: if you shoot up, the flight of the core will continue for a certain time, during which the location of the gun will shift relative to the projectile by 5-6 kilometers, but this is not observed.

These simple conclusions evoke a sense of triumph among Rowbotham's supporters. Traditional science answers: do not forget about the atmospheric column, which rotates with the planet and "drags" everything that got into it. Adherents of the earth-disk put forward a counterargument that is striking in its boldness: in their opinion, atmospheric pressure simply does not exist.

The official film about the real shape of the Earth from Terra Convexa

At the end of the film, mainstream science experts sum up the experiments and give an authoritative opinion on the tests carried out.

Terra Convexa provides answers to many questions.

Criticism of the atmospheric pressure theory

The inventor of the mercury barometer, E. Torricelli, suggested that the entire atmosphere of the Earth evenly and constantly presses on the planet. The Italian proved his idea in experiments with water and mercury. Torricelli refuted Aristotle's postulate that there is no absolute emptiness (vacuum) in the Universe. An Italian scientist created a vacuum in which there was no atmospheric pressure at all.

Torricelli's experiment worked great with mercury and alcohol, but the trick didn't work with water: the Italian never managed to create a water barometer. Modern science has proven that barometers on water are possible, but their size will be much larger than those of mercury or alcohol. You can read more about Torricelli's experiments in his own writings. For example, there you can find out where the scientist took a bucket of mercury - a radioactive liquid metal.

The flat-earthers could not but pay attention to Torricelli's experiments and try to expose them. In their opinion, a false vacuum formed in the test tubes of the Italian. In fact, the space was filled with mercury vapor. On this basis, Rowbotham's supporters concluded that atmospheric pressure is a myth, as is gravity. The huge space located above the planet remains motionless. Adepts of the Earth-disk point to free-flying birds, to clouds that “travel” across the sky at the behest of the wind. The pilot of a helicopter hovering above the ground, according to the logic of a spherical rotating planet, must see a gradually changing landscape below him. But this is not observed.

Why does a stone, thrown hard into the air, land in almost the same place, and not many meters from the person who made the throw? Parallax adherents give an unequivocal answer - this is because the earth is a flat immovable surface.

Horizon and curvature of the earth

The first experiments on the curvature of the earth began to Rowbotham, his modern followers conduct hundreds of such studies. If our planet is a ball, then, given the curvature of the surface, the horizon line should be a solid line beyond which nothing is visible. However, in practice, mountains, giant sculptures or Egyptian pyramids perfectly visible on the horizon line.

The Needles lighthouse in the British county of Hampshire (height - 54 meters) can be seen from a distance of 60 km, with a curvature of the earth of 282 m. If the Earth is a ball, the lighthouse should be 282 m below the horizon. The situation is similar with ocean-going ships. Gradually moving away from the coast, the ships disappear behind the horizon line. This would seem to confirm that the surface of the planet is curved. However, the supporters of the flat-earth theory armed themselves with high-end optical instruments - and saw the ships that supposedly "disappear" over the horizon...

With the naked eye, a person cannot see a ship that has retired at such a considerable distance, in addition, vision is limited to a scattering perspective. With good optics, the horizon line disappears, and the stronger the optics, the greater the distance you can look at.

Thus, according to flat earthers, there is no horizon line. Pictures from the International Space Station are fake, since the sky is a dome. When flying in an airplane, a person sees the rounding of the earth - but this is just an illusion. Even the emblem of the United Nations seems to the adherents of Rowbotham to be a model of the earth-disk.

Round and flat Earth at the same time: video

Watch the video online about the round flat Earth

Moon landing: NASA hoax

Members of the Flat Earth Society pay special attention to the history of the landing of Americans on the moon. Of course, they are sure and furiously prove that man has never set foot on the only satellite of our planet. Rowbotham's supporters point to a photograph of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that is widely believed to have once brought earthlings to the moon.

With a strong increase in the photograph, it can be seen that the lunar shuttle is made of materials sold in a hardware store: plastic and cardboard shields, foil and polyethylene. Of course, it is impossible to fly anywhere on an apparatus built from such materials.

Supporters of the theory of a flat Earth carefully studied the photographs of astronauts, finding rings with Masonic signs on their hands. For the adherents of Parallax, Masons are the main world conspirators who have penetrated all international structures and governments of all states of the world.

Where do photographs of Mars come from?

A similar situation with photographs of Mars. For followers of the theory, photographs of the Red Planet are a skillful fake, photoshopped. Photographers hired by the conspirators take pictures of the deserts and mountainous terrain on Earth, then, after processing the pictures, pass them off as photos from Mars.

Photos of the lifeless Martian desert, covered with stones, flew around the world. If we reverse “filter” these images in Photoshop, we get an ordinary earthly landscape with a blue sky. There are many such places on earth.

Strange air travel

Many aircraft routes seem extremely illogical. For example, a Sydney-Santiago flight would seem to be much more convenient to make through New Zealand. It will be a direct and easy route with one refueling.

In reality, the plane from Australia to Latin America flies through Mexico and the United States. If we consider the Earth to be spherical, this looks extremely strange: the plane makes a big detour, consuming fuel and increasing the distance. If the same route is drawn on a flat earth map, it becomes clear that the air carrier has chosen the most reliable and direct route.

Adherents of Rowbotham propose to check in this way any air route that seems illogical and strange. When transferred to flat earth, the trajectory begins to look quite adequate.

Video: how do planes fly over a rotating earth?

Why do all planes fly on maps of a flat earth, and not a spherical one?

The picture of the universe

To better understand the logic of the supporters of the flat earth theory, you need to know what they think about the universe - the Moon, the Sun, the stars. In general, they adhere to the same statements that Rowbotham used two centuries ago. The only thing is that they constantly have to “fend off” new scientific discoveries.

For example, lunar photographs have been claimed to have been taken on Earth. Followers of the theory regularly conduct research expeditions, main goal which is the search for territories where "false" images from space were taken.

In the summer of 2015, the Society published photographs from the Icelandic expedition, which depicted landscapes that were like two drops of water similar to photographs presented by the Americans as lunar. Earlier, journalists invited the astronauts of the first Apollo expedition to put their hands on the Bible and say: “I swear that I was on the moon.” All the astronauts refused. A video of the flat earth experiment can be found on the global web. One astronaut began to rudely swear at the journalist, another tried to laugh it off, and the third simply sent the TV man.

The Flat Earth Society analyzed all the data of alternative researchers, superimposed them on their own theory and came to a stunning conclusion: it turned out that the Moon is not a satellite of our planet at all. The moon does not exist at all.

But what then do we see in the sky? According to Parallax adherents, this is a constantly updated hologram. They control the hologram from the Earth.

But what do Rowbotham's followers think of the stars? People began to study astrology many centuries ago, this science is one of the first in the world. The same Ursa Major was discovered by people several millennia ago.

How can it be, ask the flat earthers, that during this time the constellations have not undergone any changes? After all, all celestial bodies, including stars and galaxies, move in the Universe at an enormous speed. The Earth rotates around its own axis, flies around the Sun in its orbit, but people in different countries of the world always see the same "set" of stars above them? Why is that? Why did the stars freeze above the rotating and rushing in space Earth, like soldiers on guard? Members of the Society consider this situation absurd.

In this regard, supporters of the "flat theory" declared the stars to be holograms. They don't exist either.

Sun

If the Moon and stars are holograms, then what about the Sun? Does the world star really not exist? But what then warms the planet, brings life to all its inhabitants?

Flat earthers claim that there are actually seventeen suns. All of them hover over different regions of the planet, shine and warm with different intensity. The Society's pamphlets list features different suns: Californian, Russian, Chinese, etc.

Any scientist would call these statements sheer nonsense. However, the explanations of the adherents of Rowbotham are by no means devoid of a certain logic. The color of the Sun we observe varies from pale yellow to bright red and burgundy, depending on natural conditions or time of day. According to the prevailing scientific concepts, the sky is seen by a person as blue or blue because the sun's rays, overcoming the atmosphere of the planet, are broken into the corresponding spectra.

But why, then, do we see a yellow sun? If we observe the luminary through the prism of the atmosphere, then it should be blue. Followers of the flat-earth theory give an unequivocal answer: the fact is that the Sun is located not at all above the atmosphere, but below it.

As a result, the Society draws the following picture of the universe: the Earth-disk is covered with a dome, under which there are artificially made holograms - the Moon, stars and the Sun. Those wishing to learn more about the ideas of Parallax adherents can find a lot of videos and articles on the Internet.

The closer to the light source, the warmer

The nature of delusions is based on the inability of people to give answers to the simplest questions. At the same time, we love to give a lot of pseudo-scientific evidence for the craziest theories.

For example, try answering the following question: it is obvious to everyone that the closer an object is to a source of light and heat, the hotter it is. Try touching a light bulb or getting close to a fire - does it get hotter? Certainly!

But why then, rising up in a balloon, we find ourselves in a zone of severe cold. And the higher we go, the lower the temperature becomes.

When answering this question, most will talk about the layers of the atmosphere that have different temperature characteristics. All of this evidence comes from books and has not been tested in practice.

Let's dwell on the obvious - the closer a person is to a heat source, the warmer he is. This should be relevant for the Sun as well. The closer to the sun, the higher the temperature. However, this is not observed in practice. Followers of the flat earth theory conclude that the Sun is not a source of heat, since in space in this case it would be much hotter than on our planet.

Counterarguments of official science

straight horizon

People only think that they see a straight line of the horizon. Already from an airplane or from the roof of a skyscraper, one can notice the curvature of the earth's surface.

Fake photos from space. NASA conspiracy

In the flat earth paradigm, NASA is almost a criminal organization. One gets the feeling that the American space agency is headed by Professor Moriarty, and all of his employees are Masons-conspirators who hide the truth from people because of the desire for personal enrichment.

However, there is not only NASA in the world. Russia has its own space agency, Roskosmos, which broadcasts from the ISS and launches manned vehicles into space. Russian cosmonauts, like their American counterparts, confirm that the Earth is a sphere. Is it possible that Freemasons also “rule” Roskosmos?

There is no gravity

Another popular statement of the Flat Earth Society is that there is no gravity and the planet is constantly moving upwards. If this statement is true and the Earth does not attract anything, then how can birds and planes fly?

The sun is located 5 thousand kilometers from the surface of the Earth, its diameter is 51 km

Why, in this case, the seasons change on the planet, the day follows the night, there are climatic zones. If the Sun were positioned in the manner described by the adepts of Parallax, the entire surface of the Earth would have the same temperature.

How do planes land on a round and rotating Earth?

Planes "rotate" in the atmospheric column along with the Earth.

Atmospheric pressure is a myth

Those who say this should go to the mountains and experience the effect of atmospheric pressure on their own experience.

Flat Earth Books

The idea of ​​the Earth-disk is very stable and has been very popular for two centuries now. Various authors and researchers drew attention to this theory, presented evidence of the correctness of the teachings of Parallax in their books.

One of the most popular books of this kind is The Most Ancient Cosmology by W. Warren. This great work tells about the cosmogonic ideas of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Babylonians, ancient Chinese, Buddhists. Readers will learn how our ancestors imagined the universe. The book contains many interesting illustrations.

"Earth is not a ball: 100 proofs" by M. Carpenter. The book contains the most convincing, from the point of view of the author, proof of the correctness of the theory of a flat Earth.

"The Earth is not a ball" S. Rowbotham. A book by the founder of the Earth-Disk Society. Rowbotham did a great job of confirming his theses.

Hello dear friends and blog readers. Ruslan Miftakhov is in touch. Recently, one topic has been haunting me, but is the earth really arranged the way we were told at school?

If you ask any person passing by, is the earth round or flat? Almost everyone will say without hesitation that the earth is a ball, someone else will add in the form of an ellipse. And maybe one in a hundred will say jokingly - the earth is flat.

Or maybe everything that we were told about the earth, we just believe in it as in God without evidence.

Let's discuss together what is hidden from us, whether it is really spherical and what is happening around us in general.

I must say right away that I am not a supporter of flat earthers, but flat earthers put forward their theory, thereby breaking stereotypes about the sphericity of the planet. And forcing you to think with your own head, and not stupidly believe in everything that the people programming center imposes on us (read the school).

Recall from history that before everyone was convinced that the earth was flat. Then humanity was convinced that the earth is spherical, that the planet revolves around its axis and around the sun. And until now, we all unquestioningly believe in this, without thinking whether it is really so.

If there is no evidence, then it is just a guess. How could Copernicus in the Middle Ages prove that the earth is spherical? How? Flew into space, looked from above?

Or maybe space doesn't really exist. Why is the space program not developing after the flight to the moon in the last century? What is behind this? Maybe it's all fake? And there was simply no flight to the moon?

Yes, you can troll me in my lack of education, that I studied poorly at school and so on. But think about this, are you sure that in the programming centers of humanity called the school, reliable information was poured into our brains, and not the one that was beneficial to the superior race?

Are you wondering how many times Russia is larger than Africa? You will be surprised when you watch this video.

For example, I made sure that the story in school curriculum most lies, or simply do not tell the truth or lie outright. So maybe they don’t reveal the whole truth to us about our planet?

And since in adulthood a person has all the vessels in his head filled with knowledge, whether false or not, he is skeptical about new information, rejecting it as immunity. Try to free your vessels a little from the old and fill in the new information.

Are you ready for new information? Then look further, you may be shocked ...

Giant mine of another civilization

The most interesting thing in the video starts from the 12th minute, talking about the fact that all the rocks, canyons, gorges on our planet are nothing but giant mining quarries for another civilization, since 95% of the mining disappear into nowhere.

The essence of the video is that our Earth is not a planet, it is a giant quarry on which the entire periodic table is mined in the most barbaric way.

Truth from John Carter

After watching the video about the quarry, then watch the movie John Carter if you haven't watched it yet. Movies from the science fiction category of 2012, as they say in every fairy tale there is some truth. I read somewhere that it failed at the box office. Or maybe there is a reason for this?

Below I posted an excerpt from the film.

I was especially impressed by the conversation with the thorn that all planets have the same fate - overpopulation and destruction as such.

Well, what is your goal? John Carter asked.

He replied - but it does not exist, we are not haunted by the ghost of mortality like you, we are immortal. We played these games when this planet (Mars) did not yet exist and will play after yours (Earth) disappears.

But we do not bring the captain to the death of the planet, we control them, feed on them, if you like. But on every planet, the same thing is happening... population growth, a split in society, widespread wars.

And at this time the planet is devastated and quietly fading away.

Remember what we have been doing lately? The population of the earth has exceeded 7 billion, the division in society into the poor and the very rich, constant wars.

And there is no doubt that it is being devastated, only from Russia how much is mined and taken away in an unknown direction. But who and where is unknown, and it is unlikely that we will know.

And how much forest was laid here in Siberia, it's just terrible. Although this is not a forest, and we do not have trees, these are all shrubs compared to what ... however, see the video below.

There are no forests on earth

Watch this video and you will be shocked that all these mountains that we used to take for stem mountains are not mountains at all, but ... stumps of large trees.

I myself used to be amazed at the shapes of some mountains and suspected that they must have been artificially created. But the fact that this is the base of the tree did not even occur to me.

Waterfalls from the mountains, where does so much water come from?

In continuation of the previous video, watch a video about waterfalls. Decide for yourself how plausible this is, I'm not imposing anything on you, I'm just giving food for thought.

Life under the dome

Let's get back to the topic of flat earth. In general, I wanted to publish this article back in September 2017, but I considered this topic nonsense, it remained gathering dust in my drafts. But having collected some arguments, I returned and supplemented the article with information that was interesting in my opinion. And the article has acquired the right to life.

Back in the fall of 2017, when meeting with a friend, one conversation came up, saw a video on YouTube about the fact that the earth is flat?

I say: I saw it, but I don't quite believe it. And here's what he said to me...

He remembered one movie starring Jim Carrey. The plot is that main character for 30 years he lived in the largest film studio in the form of an island under a dome.


Walked around usual life, people went to and from work, drove cars, the day turned into night, there were rains, nothing strange in general, except for one thing ...

There were all actors around, except for that same man named Truman.

Without suspecting anything, for many years he thought that everything around was true and did not doubt it. Until one girl broke down and told him the truth, which shocked him a little.

After that, he found more and more evidence that everything around was false and decided to leave the island. But he was prevented in every possible way from doing this, and so one night he escapes.

However, you can watch this movie yourself, it's called The Truman Show. Strange as it may seem, the 1998 film, and I didn’t even know about this film, if a friend hadn’t told me.

And so I began to understand his thought of the conversation, what he was getting at.

Have you ever thought that everything around us is an illusion, a deception that we take for truth. Once upon a time, everyone believed that the earth was flat and stood on three elephants, and elephants on a turtle.


Now that seems like nonsense, doesn't it? And we believe that the earth is spherical and revolves around the sun. And is it really true? Maybe this is all the matrix and we live in this program and we are being watched from the outside.

Or maybe we also all live under such a dome and the earth is not round at all?

Why do we see stars when we look up into the sky at night? And pictures from space show that the sky is black and there are no stars. Who to believe? To your eyes? Or maybe there is a dome on top, and the stars are just a hologram.

Well, yes, you probably now think that I was crazy and came up with here. Then tell me, where is she really? And there is no truth. We live our lives here in our little world and entertain the viewer named God.

No, of course the earth is spherical, spinning around its axis and around the sun. There is a universe where there are many stars, and no one knows what's next.

Haven't you ever wondered if there are other planets like ours in the universe.

I will say this, when the overall picture is built and you understand how it all works, your soul just becomes calmer from awareness and understanding of the rules of the game in this world.

What do you think about this, write in the comments. Be sure to share this article with your friends, to do this, press the special buttons social networks at the bottom.

I was with you, Ruslan Miftakhov

American rapper B.o.B is raising money for satellites to find evidence that the Earth is actually flat. And on September 25, the federal TV channel REN showed the release of Igor Prokopenko's program, which says that shooting from space is computer graphics, and video with astronauts on the ISS is studio shooting on chromakey with further processing. The Flat Earth Society regularly makes headlines. Who are all these people and what to do if they are trying to prove to you that the Earth is not a geoid and not even a ball - in the material of "Futurist".

“If the Earth were a sphere, water would flow down from it and people would die of thirst, and plants would wither. The earth, O most worthy and noblest of teachers and teachers, was and is in the form of a flat disk and is washed on all sides by a majestic river called "Ocean". The earth rests on six elephants, and they stand on a huge tortoise. This is how the world works, O teacher!” - this was the answer of Volka Kostylkov, the hero of the fairy tale "Old Man Hottabych" to school exam by geography. The teachers decided that the head of the astronomical circle and the diligent student was ill or worried, but in fact the culprit for Volka's failure in the exam was a fictional character, a genie named Hassan Abdurrahman ibn Hottab, who was released after 3.5 thousand years of imprisonment in a bottle and decided to help to your deliverer.

A flat map of the Earth drawn by Orlando Ferguson in 1893. The map contains several references to passages from the Bible, as well as arguments against the sphericity of the Earth.

It's hard to believe, but people who would rate such an answer as "excellent" still exist. The Flat Earth Society is making headlines more and more often. According to members of the society and their followers, the Earth has the shape of a flat disk with a diameter of 40 thousand km, in the center of which is the North Pole. The South Pole does not exist at all, and what we call Antarctica is an ice mountain that runs along the edge of the Earth, fencing it off from the rest of the world. Supporters of the theory support their conclusions with ancient maps depicting a flat Earth. They claim that all photographs and videos of the Earth from space are faked by space agencies as part of a conspiracy theory - and in general, space does not exist. There is no gravity within their cosmology either: objects are attracted to the Earth, because it supposedly constantly moves upward with an acceleration of 9.8 m / s². And finally, there is no atmospheric pressure.

Who are all these people?

In ancient times, people really believed that the earth was flat. This concept appears in the cosmogonic myths of the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians, in Hinduism, Buddhism and Scandinavian mythology. However, already early scientific research gave an idea that the Earth has the shape of a ball. For example, Aristotle in 330 B.C. e. provided evidence for the sphericity of the earth. In particular, he noticed that the starry sky at different latitudes looks different.

In the Middle Ages, views on the structure of the universe were diverse. In the writings of the church fathers, the Earth appears either as a pancake, or as a ball hovering over the sea under a spherical dome, and in the illustrations from the book of Cosmas Indikopleust, the surface of the planet is inscribed in a tabernacle - a camp tent where a church could be located - and the Sun rises from behind a large mountain and sets for her. However, the idea of ​​Ptolemy dominated: the Universe is a closed system, in the center of which is a motionless spherical Earth, surrounded by nine rotating heavens-spheres, which are located one above the other. This idea is reflected in Dante's Divine Comedy.

However, there have always been people who claimed that the Earth is flat. As a rule, these were religious fundamentalists, illiterate people or charlatans. In 1956, Samuel Shenton founded the International Flat Earth Society (IFERS), better known as the Flat Earth Society. The organization was supposed to become the successor to the Universal Zetic Society, at the origins of which was the English writer Samuel Rowbotham. This man, who lived in the 19th century, for a long time lectured on the flat earth under the pseudonym Parallax and wrote the book Zethetic Astronomy - The Earth is not a Globe. From one of the lectures, in which he could not explain why the masts of ships remain visible on the horizon while their hulls disappear, he had to flee. And in one of the experiments, he falsified the results, saying that the lighthouse lantern on the horizon was completely visible, although in fact only half of it was visible. Contemporaries called him a charlatan, but noted his wit and skill as a storyteller.

Shenton took Rowbotham's ideas deeply. Shortly before the launch of the first satellite in the USSR, he stated: “Will swimming around the Isle of Wight prove that it has the shape of a ball? It's the same with these satellites." Because of the space race, the ideas of society did not gain popularity. But with the arrival of a new president, journalist Charles Johnson, the flat-earth theory gained a lot of supporters. Johnson acted as a professional media worker: the Apollo program became a news outlet for popularizing the ideas of the society. Society leaders publicly claimed that the moon landing was a Hollywood hoax, scripted by Arthur C. Clarke or Stanley Kubrick. The society gained several thousand supporters and lasted until Johnson's death in 2001. It was later revived by Samuel Shannon's namesake Daniel as a website.

In the US, flat earth ideas were advocated and promoted by religious fundamentalists such as John Alexander Dowie and Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who led the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church founded by Dowie in 1895. In one of Russian speaking groups supporters of a flat Earth VKontakte says that the community was created "to counter pseudoscience that encroaches on the foundations of the biblical world order" and is called upon to fight everyone who preaches "atheism and obscurantism." They describe their worldview as "Scientific Orthodoxy".

At the same time, many representatives of the church criticize their views. So, the Tsargrad TV channel published critical material about the film by Igor Prokopenko “But the Earth is flat!”

With the advent of popular Internet services such as YouTube and Twitter, it has become much easier to spread such ideas. Where members of the community used to have to scatter leaflets, now it is enough to post a video or post a tweet.

“We are happy to see that the gender bias in the representation of the flat earth theory is disappearing. Just look at this cool woman!”

Rapper B.o.B. in January of last year, he started posting tweets in support of the flat earth theory. In particular, he wrote that if the Earth had the shape of a ball, the horizon would be curved, but this is not the case in reality. The young man believes that all the videos and photos from the ISS and frames from space telescopes were shot with a wide-angle lens (fish-eye), which distorts the real contours of objects.

B.o.B's tweets were responded to by science popularizer Neil deGrasse Tyson, who began to explain to the musician that it was all about the small viewing angle.

However, the musician was not convinced. The rapper recorded the song Flatline, where he appears as a man who revealed the truth about the flat Earth to the world and therefore became the number one target for the special services. B.o.B included a recording of his opponent's lecture in which Tyson talks about the sphericity of our planet. And recently, he launched a crowdfunding company to raise money to launch satellites to take pictures of the Earth and test its shape. The rapper has no concept of satellites, but he managed to collect $2,136 out of $1 million.

Basketball player Shaquille O'Neal also voiced his views on the shape of the Earth - following his colleague, Cleveland Cavaliers player Kyrie Irving. However, Irving later said that he was just joking and did not think that his words would be taken seriously. But O'Neill is sure he's right.

“I travel from Florida to California all the time, so it's flat for me. Because I don't move up and down at an angle of 360 degrees, I don't feel gravity and other nonsense. Have you seen all these buildings outside of Atlanta? Are you saying that China is under us? This is wrong. The earth is flat," O'Neil told the Internet radio station podbay.fm.

The solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 led to numerous YouTube videos showing how the details of the eclipse prove the Earth is flat.

And a scandal recently erupted in Arab scientific and educational circles when a Tunisian graduate student attempted to defend a thesis that the Earth is flat, stationary and at the center of the universe, and its age is 13,500 years.

On September 25, the federal TV channel REN showed the release of Igor Prokopenko's program dedicated to the theory of a flat Earth. It says that shooting from space is computer graphics, and video with astronauts on the ISS is studio shooting on chromakey with further processing. According to the film, the flat-earthers even launched a rocket, and it broke through the dome, but no one at NASA believed them.

Andrey Bukharin, presented in the credits as a "popularizer of science", acts as an expert in the program. In fact, this person is engaged in astrology. He has his own website, on which he tries to popularize astrology as an exact science - while modern science denies the effectiveness of its methods, and in the American scoring system "Science and Engineering Indicators" astrology is completely the standard of pseudoscience.

How to argue with them?

Only the most basic arguments are given here.

"The horizon is straight, but photographs with a curved horizon are taken with fish-eye." We just think the horizon is straight. We are on the surface of the planet, and we are too short and too narrow an eye to pick up the curvature of the line. But it can be seen from the window of an airplane or from the roof of very tall buildings.

"Photos and videos of space are fake!" It turns out that not only the heads of NASA and Roscosmos are involved in the global conspiracy, but also ordinary cosmonauts who personally broadcast from the ISS, and amateur astronomers who take pictures of deep space objects and other planets without any remuneration. Strange logic. Flat earthers often cite the following video as an example of using chroma key. Indeed, this kind of chroma key is used as a substrate for 3D animation. However, the grid looks different: the sizes of the cells in it differ. The video grid is used to capture the motion trajectory of objects against a clear background.

"There is no gravity, the Earth just moves upward with universal acceleration." Suppose that if a person jumps up, the Earth will not pull him back (there is no gravity), but she will rise up. Then how do birds, insects and airplanes fly? After all, according to this theory, nothing can stay in the air for a long time, since the disk is constantly rising.

"The sun is located only 4800 kilometers from us and has a size of about 51 kilometers." And how then to explain the change of seasons and the length of the sunny day, as well as climatic zones? The surface of the Earth would always receive the same amount of heat and light.

“How can planes land on a runway if the Earth is round and constantly spins on its axis? By the time of landing, the runway would have gone far from the place intended for landing. Atmospheric pressure drags everything that is in its field of action. That is, everything that enters the atmosphere flies along with the surface of the Earth.

"There is no atmospheric pressure." Invite your opponent to climb the mountains and monitor his well-being at high altitude. After that, you can solemnly read him a school course in physics.

"The moon is a hologram." At this point, you can apologize to the person and end the conversation. Let him think that you are at the same time with them - it's more fun that way.

We live in amazing time. Most of the celestial bodies in the solar system have been explored by NASA probes, GPS satellites are circling the Earth, ISS crews are flying steadily into orbit, and returning rockets are landing on barges in the Atlantic Ocean.

Nevertheless, there is still a whole community of people who are sure that the Earth is flat. Reading their statements and comments, you sincerely hope that they are all just trolls.

Here are some simple proofs that our planet is round.

Ships and horizon

If you visit any port, look at the horizon and watch the ships. As a ship moves away, it doesn't just get smaller and smaller. It gradually disappears behind the horizon: first the hull disappears, then the mast. Conversely, approaching ships do not appear on the horizon (as they should if the world were flat), but rather come out of the sea.

But ships do not emerge from the waves (with the exception of " Flying Dutchman" from " "). The reason why approaching ships look like they're slowly rising from the horizon is because the Earth isn't flat, it's round.

Varying constellations

Paranal Observatory in Chile

Different constellations can be seen from different latitudes. This was noticed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle as early as 350 BC. e. Returning from a trip to Egypt, Aristotle wrote that "in Egypt and<…>there are stars in Cyprus that are not visible in the northern regions.

The most striking examples are the constellations Ursa Major and the Southern Cross. Ursa Major, a bucket-like constellation of seven stars, is always visible at latitudes above 41° north latitude. Below 25° south latitude you will not see it.

Meanwhile, the Southern Cross, a small constellation of five stars, you will find only when you get to 20 ° north latitude. And the further south you move, the higher the Southern Cross will be above the horizon.

If the world were flat, we could observe the same constellations from anywhere on the planet. But it's not.

You can repeat Aristotle's experiment when you travel. Find the constellations in the sky will help you these for Android and iOS.

Lunar eclipses


stages lunar eclipse/wikimedia.org

Another proof of the sphericity of the Earth, found by Aristotle, is the shape of the earth's shadow on the moon during an eclipse. During an eclipse, the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, blocking the Moon from sunlight.

The shape of the Earth's shadow that falls on the Moon during an eclipse is perfectly round. That is why the moon becomes a crescent.

Shadow length

The first to calculate the circumference of the earth was a Greek mathematician named Eratosthenes, who was born in 276 BC. e. He compared the length of the shadows on the day of the summer solstice in Syene (this Egyptian city is today called Aswan) and Alexandria located north.

At noon, when the sun was directly over Siena, there were no shadows. In Alexandria, a stick placed on the ground cast a shadow. Eratosthenes realized that if he knew the angle of the shadow and the distance between cities, he could calculate the circumference of the globe.

On a flat earth, there would be no difference between the length of the shadows. The position of the Sun would be the same everywhere. Only the sphericity of the planet explains why the position of the Sun is different in two cities at a distance of several hundred kilometers from each other.

Observations from above

Another obvious proof of the sphericity of the Earth: the higher you go, the farther you can see. If the earth were flat, you would have the same view regardless of your elevation. The curvature of the Earth limits the range of our view to about five kilometers.

World travel


View from the cockpit of the Concorde / manchestereveningnews.co.uk

The first circumnavigation of the world was made by the Spaniard Ferdinand Magellan. The voyage lasted three years, from 1519 to 1522. To get around Earth, Magellan took five ships (of which two returned) and 260 crew members (of which 18 returned). Fortunately, in our time, in order to make sure that the Earth is round, it is enough just to buy a plane ticket.

If you've ever traveled by plane, you may have noticed the curvature of the Earth's horizon. It is best seen in flight over the oceans.

According to article Visually discerning the curvature of the Earth, published in the journal Applied Optics, the curve of the Earth becomes visible at an altitude of about 10 kilometers, provided that the observer has a view of at least 60 °. From the window of a passenger airliner, the view is still less.

More clearly, the curvature of the horizon is visible if you fly above 15 kilometers. It is best seen in photographs from the Concorde, but, unfortunately, this supersonic aircraft has not flown for a long time. However, high-altitude aviation is reviving in the passenger rocket plane from Virgin Galactic - Space Ship Two. So in the near future we will see new photos of the Earth taken in suborbital flight.

An airplane can easily circle the globe without stopping. Round-the-world travel by plane was carried out repeatedly. At the same time, the planes did not detect any "edges" of the Earth.

Weather balloon observations


Image from weather balloon / le.ac.uk

Ordinary passenger airliners fly not so high: at an altitude of 8-10 kilometers. Weather balloons rise much higher.

In January 2017, students at the University of Leicester tied some cameras to a hot air balloon and launched it into the sky. It rose to a height of 23.6 kilometers above the surface, significantly higher than passenger airliners fly. In the pictures taken by the cameras, the curve of the horizon is clearly visible.

Shape of other planets


Photo of Mars / nasa.gov

Our planet is pretty ordinary. Of course, there is life on it, but otherwise it is no different from many other planets.

All our observations show that the planets are spherical. Since we have no good reason to think otherwise, our planet is also spherical.

A flat planet (ours or any other) would be an incredible discovery that would contradict everything we know about planet formation and orbital mechanics.

Time Zones

When it's seven in the evening in Moscow, it's noon in New York, and it's midnight in Beijing. In Australia at the same time, 1:30 am. You can see what time it is anywhere in the world, and make sure that the time of day is different everywhere.

There is only one explanation for this: the Earth is round and rotates around its axis. On the side of the planet where the sun shines, in this moment day. Opposite side The earth is dark, and there is night. This forces us to use time zones.

Even if we imagine that the Sun is a directional searchlight that cruises over a flat Earth, then we would not have a clear day and night. We would still observe the Sun, even if we were in the shade, as we can see the spotlights shining on the stage in the theater, while being in a dark hall. The only explanation for the change in time of day is the sphericity of the Earth.

Center of gravity

It is known that gravity always pulls everything towards the center of mass.

Our Earth is spherical. The center of mass of the sphere is located, which is logical, in its center. Gravity pulls all objects on the surface in the direction of the Earth's core (that is, straight down) regardless of their location, which is what we always observe.

If we imagine that the Earth is flat, then gravity will have to attract everything on the surface to the center of the plane. That is, if you find yourself at the edge of a flat Earth, gravity will not pull you down, but to the center of the disk. It is hardly possible to find a place on the planet where things fall not down, but sideways.

Images from space


Photo from the ISS / nasa.gov

The first photograph of the Earth from space was taken in 1946. Since then, we have launched many satellites, probes and astronauts (or astronauts or taikonauts - depending on the country) there. Some satellites and probes have returned, some remain in Earth orbit or fly through solar system. And in all the photographs and videos transmitted by spacecraft, the Earth is round.

The curvature of the Earth is clearly visible in photographs from the ISS. In addition, you can see photographs of the Earth, which are made at intervals of 10 minutes by the satellite of the Japan Meteorological Agency Himawari-8. It is constantly in geostationary orbit. Or here are real-time photos from the DSCOVR satellite, NASA.

Now, if you suddenly find yourself in a flat earth society, you will have several arguments in arguing with them.