It is not possible for a country half way around the world and down under to have sun rise while I can still see the sun here in summer
Yes, it is, and it's because the Earth's axis of rotation isn't parallel to the axis of the plane of its orbit or to the sun (i.e. the Earth is 'tilted').
There are places north of the equator and 'left' of the axis receiving sun, and there are places in the south to the 'right' which are also in the sun.
Then I simply know it's 12 there and their shadow looks like this while my shadow looks like this if that makes sense.
'Noon' (the time of day when the sun is at its highest point) varies with location.
Two people a few miles apart will have a different local noon to each other.
As @Budgie mentioned, until relatively recently cities had their own local time (Bristol was different to London, for instance) and it's only the introduction of fixed time zones which have made clock-noon out of synch with solar-noon. In the UK, the only place where clock-noon and solar-noon coincide is on the Greewich meridian - in any other location the sun will not be at its highest point at '12 midday'
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It's official, Dex has lost it, and Budgie has become a scientist.
The truth is the earth is of a cube shape with the edges rounded of to make the earth look circular, Heavy man, hellllllllllllllllllp. Where's that fucking Deeks when you need him.
I believe the equator countries are flat while northern hemisphere is up hill. That's the only way I can explain that the sun doing what it does while tether countries it does a higher in the sky and lower in the sky motion.
And because we are up hill the light or heat source of the light has moved lower it's hot season down there while it's short days and cold here .
Not sure if I made sense lol
Can you describe how the sun moves in this setup? Up, over, down and under the bowl? Around the rim? Back and forth from side to side? Like a 'u' shape inside the bowl (pehaps with a rotation as well)?
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Here's a useful tip... To find south, point the hour hand of a watch at the sun and halfway between there and 12-noon is south.
(In the southern hemisphere this will find north.)
If you're in a place which is currently using Daylight Savings Time then you should account for this by subtracting an hour (so, for example, if the hour hand points at '11', you should point the '10' at the sun).
I will not be able to take a pic at 12 because I'll be doing school run
The UK is currently using Daylight Saving/Summer Time, so you should be doing this at 11 am rather than midday.
You should also correct for your local time compared to Greenwich or other timezone meridian (noon in Bristol, for instance, can be as much as 24 minutes later than in London).
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Lol I vowed not to get involved in this thread...Ahh well
Right.
Lets fucking get shit in perspective here.
I googled experiments to prove the earth is round and flat.
The easiest way to prove something, is to do some experiments yourself.
For the "earth is flat" camp. We have this veritable mountain of scientific knowledge........
As the top of the google search (2nd) I may add too. not buried 10 pages in.
Flat Earth.
We know the Earth is flat because the Bible tells us so. But for those of you skeptical, close-minded types that flat out refuse to accept the overwhelming Biblical evidence, I have designed some experiments you can do at home that will show you, before your very eyes, that the world is indeed flat, and not spherical as some crazy scientists proclaim. It's amazing how many people blindly believe in a spherical Earth, without ever having seen it for themselves! I intend to change that.
1) Jump!
Now, scientists claim that Earth is spherical and rotating at a speed of between 700-1000 miles per hour, depending on your latitude. This is a very high rate of speed. You can disprove this nonsense by simply jumping up as high as you can. Really, it's that simple. What happens when you jump? You come straight down to where you were. But, if the Earth were indeed spinning at such a fast speed, wouldn't you land hundreds of feet away?
If you were to stand in the flat bed of a truck going 75 mph, and jump straight up, what would happen? You wouldn't fall straight down. You would fall out of the truck. That's because trucks move, the Earth doesn't. This experiment proves the Earth is fixed in space and doesn't move.
2) Blow!
Since if the Earth is supposedly a sphere, it naturally comes to assume what would happen to people below the equator, like in Australia? Since they are underneath the sphere, wouldn't they fall off? This is where scientists come up with mumbo-jumbo like "gravity" and "centrifugal force" to explain away their theories. So, the scientists want you to think that because the earth is so much more massive than people or things, that people will naturally "stick" to the bottom of the earth because of gravity.
This can be disproved very simply. Get a balloon and inflate it as big as possible. It will be a spherical shape. Now, take a piece of paper and try to rip, tear, or cut the tiniest speck of paper possible. This paper represents a human being, much smaller in mass to the balloon, which represents the Earth. Now try and place the small piece of paper to the underside of the balloon. What happens? It falls off!
That's right. Even though the balloon is so much bigger in mass, it cannot hold the tiny paper. So if the Earth was a sphere, no one could live below the equator because they would fall off.
3) Get High!
Ok, this one you really can't do at home, but you can do it out in the world. Stand on the ground and look around you. What's the farthest you can see? Maybe it's a building, tree, or mountain. Now, find some place very close to it where you can get a much higher vantage point. (This also works if you're on a jet and about to take off.) Notice how in the higher place you can see much farther? You can see more of the world the higher you get. This shows the world is flat because the higher you go, the easier it is to see over obstacles. At the same time, it shows the world cannot be spherical. Because if the world was curved, the far distance would forever remain out of view because of the Earth's curvature. It would eternally be over the horizon.
If the Earth was a sphere, it would not matter how high you went, you would still see the same thing. Since this is not the case, the Earth is flat.
These experiments are all confirmed by creation scientists as being 100% accurate. If you're skeptical of the flat Earth, why don't you do these experiments so you can see truth with your own eyes.
Yours in Christ,
Rev. Jim Osborne
After reading that shit, my faith in humanity has been totally destroyed.
I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Especially the bit that says "These experiments are all confirmed by creation scientists as being 100% accurate. If you're skeptical of the flat Earth, why don't you do these experiments so you can see truth with your own eyes."
Seriously?
In the 3rd experiment, he is that fucking maronically stupid, he actually answers the question that PROVES the earth is round!
The 1st one jump, haha fucksake if you jump up and down in a truck you don't fall out. Your forward velocity is the same as the truck you're travelling in. Laws of motion people, laws of fucking motion.
Now fucking number 2. Number motherfucking two. Seems christains don't believe in gravity! (btw christains is not a typo )
Dip shit don't understand what MASS is too ironic or what!
I never bothered with the experiments to prove the earth is round because whats the point?
It's 2016 almost 2017 and the top google answers for flat earth experiments was Jump! blow! and Get high!
Seriously this fucking planet is doomed and I for one have had enough.
E.T! Ring up the mother fucking space ship you glowy fingered cunt. I want off of this fucked up rock.
@Labs dexter
Mate I din't wanna put you down but I don't think you understand the science. Things like seasons and different lengths of daylight in different places on the earth are all proof that it's spherical in shape
and wobbles around.
The north star doesn't point north exactly and is actually in a 26000 year wobble too. it just happens to be in a position where it's movement through the night sky from earth is minimal.
And to be blunt, in a sky with 500 billion stars and 500 billion galaxies of 500 billion stars. occasionaly ones gonna seem a bit weird in correlation to the earth.
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