The theodolite app I use drifts out of calibration on its own Bert Rickles 2026-09-18 | The theodolite app I use drifts out of calibration on its own
David Weiss (DITRH) said this about daylight Bert Rickles 2024-10-19 | David Weiss (@flatearthdave) on @CryptoCafe used something that the weather channel tweeted to claim that 70% of the earth is in daylight and that "the globe physically doesn't work".This is a gross misrepresentation of the truth. Only 50% of the globe earth gets daylight. The remaining portion as depicted on timeanddate.com and on the weather channel also include the portion in twilight and represents areas that receive sunlight, directly or indirectly due to atmospheric scattering.The clip taken was at about 32 minutes into the original CryptoCafe video: youtube.com/watch?v=f6wmEI1UF10Link to the tweet by the weather channel: https://x.com/weatherchannel/status/1545365831596486656A link to the physicsforums addressing the 70% of the earth receiving daylight: physicsforums.com/threads/hows-it-possible-that-70-of-earth-receives-sunlight-simultaneously.1045437
Using DITRH FE clock app to make a prediction?? Bert Rickles 2024-10-14 | @ditrh324@DITRH@DITRHDAVE has a #FlatEarth clock app. If we live in a world depicted as in that app, then it MUST predict that the sun can never appear in the south when @The-Final-Experiment expedition goes to Union Glacier camp in #antarctica.I created this quick #ASMR like video as a filler to provide a historical record of how Dave Weiss' FE clock app shows the current understanding of the flat earth model.Will Weiss change the behaviour of his app if the results from the expedition shows that there is indeed 24 hours of sun circling 360º around them in December?
The 24 hour Antarctica circling sun is a problem on a flat earth Bert Rickles 2024-09-27 | I did a very quick thing this week, loosely based on something I've seen floating around on the platform formerly known as twitter.The @The-Final-Experiment is making the average #FlatEarth believer terrified of the very likely outcome it will show the earth is a globe. The coping mechanisms are fun to watch in action.
My implementation of a streaming timer Bert Rickles 2024-09-21 | It's fun to see a youtuber set an open ended streaming goal and end up getting tortured by their audience, but it can also be difficult for them to keep it all straight after a lack of sleep.I whipped something up so hopefully if @FTFEOfficial does another live stream or @MCToon does something similar, the point of the stream will not be on keeping the donations sorted out.Link to the resources (both the html page and the spreadsheet): drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FOU2KRWR29nOtD3CTAaD9iX76Cdlf9TT?usp=sharing
Yes, flat earthers, water CAN flow northward Bert Rickles 2024-09-15 | I wasn't surprised that the idea of rivers flowing northward came up again and how according to #FlatEarthers that can't happen, but it seems to be an old and hardly used argument these days.I thought I would spend a few minutes doing this to have a bit of a laugh at their inability or unwillingness to even acknowledge the globe position. I gave it all the attention and thought the flerfs deserve.link to flatearth.ws: flatearth.ws/nile
Clarifying something about 15º/hour from altitude and azimuth readings (take 2) Bert Rickles 2024-09-02 | In this video, I attempt to show how rotating an altitude/azimuth reading on an east/west axis in degrees by your latitude, reorients the direction to be parallel with the direction for your longitude at the equator.Since the north/south axis at the equator is parallel to earth's rotation, this simple transformation is very easy for anyone to do to show that there really is 15º/hour for anyone, anywhere.No wonky explanation like azimuthal grid-of-vision is needed to shoehorn an explanation for a #FaltEarth.
Can we pretend that the heliocentric solar system is just kinematics?? Bert Rickles 2024-08-31 | @Witsit said that there is a kinematic equivalent of the currently accepted consensus of the heliocentric model and the earth would be at the center. Ok, fine, let's play with that, shall we? For his statement to make sense, we need to put the solar system origin at earth, not the sun, while all other things remain equal. The sun will be the only thing that doesn't go all wobbly.
Sun simulators, inverse square law and the final experiment? Oh my Bert Rickles 2024-08-17 | In their latest fit of insanity trying to explain the 24 hour sun in Antarctica, #FlatEarth proponents are now using incredibly impractical devices such as a sun simulator.I decided to use the inverse square law to estimate how much electricity "THEY" would need to illuminate Union Glacier where @The-Final-Experiment is expected to go, so "THEY" could fake the sun and fool the expedition.... The amount is preposterous. Incredibly preposterous. So preposterous it puts the Acme devices Wile E. Coyote gets look reasonable.Link to the spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BCNDOLIyikkZUfZmAmKBV1iPr9RFlZE9e1h7s0txJz0/edit?usp=sharing
The globes predictive power and impossible flat earth daylight hours Bert Rickles 2024-08-10 | Honest question for anyone in #FlatEarth. Can tools like Stellarium, timeanddate.com, suncalc.org, etc be trusted to match observations? If it can, then why do simple things like observable daylight hours break on a flat earth?I also selected specific web camera images from over 7 months worth of collecting to show how a predicted globe earth model position matches the moon's observed position.
Azimuth is also a problem for flat earth in Antarctica Bert Rickles 2024-08-03 | This is a quick filler video to show what the various altitude and azimuth readings should be if we lived on #FlatEarth.
Analysis of Matthews opening statement against FTFE Bert Rickles 2024-07-26 | Right out of the gate, Matthew's two showcase pieces of "evidence" against the spherical earth was based on a misunderstanding.@FTFEOfficial might have missed some of the subtlety of those misunderstandings, so I thought I would take a bit of time in this video to provide my own analysis.FTFE's live "debate": youtube.com/watch?v=Kz0D2eT5gRk
Attempt #2. Yes, done right, it really is 15 degrees per hour Bert Rickles 2024-07-20 | Based on something a flat earther tried to convey on twit^h^h^h^hX, in this video I transformed the sun's altitude and azimuth to a position in 3D space, rotate that coordinate by my latitude along the east/west axis and then I look at how fast it moves across the sky.Unsurprisingly, when I follow these steps, I arrive at a constant 15º/hour no matter where I am.Link to the spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yb4c4dnyv4A1-uWZGlxg8Sq-6zy2InKN/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117443727631346651734&rtpof=true&sd=trueLink to the other video: youtube.com/watch?v=gmV4qwLfOMY
15 degrees per hour issue brought to you by a flat earther and an attempt at an explanation Bert Rickles 2024-07-13 | Can some random thing posted on X by a chronic #FlatEarth sufferer make us learn something new? Yes, it can.Link to the spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vf0tErcmL7m9Xg1d_3KWLaHPVUK2ZeQz/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=117443727631346651734&rtpof=true&sd=true
More suggestions for the final experiment Bert Rickles 2024-07-06 | Rather than focus on the experiments themselves, I thought I would take a closer look at what @The-Final-Experiment @DaveMcKeegan and/or other participants could do to maximize their success.I remain skeptical that this expedition will achieve the intended outcome, but we can always try to maximize its success with careful preparation.Links:The document I started to create but abandoned: docs.google.com/document/d/13AEg4VRhUcIyJkZXi5shPdxLOwoPNKVECZO4ViFKtdg/edit?usp=drive_link
The expected scene for the final experiment if the earth was flat (another nifty animation) Bert Rickles 2024-06-30 | #FlatEarth can't come up with a working model and their latest excuse for the 24 hour sun in Antarctica is the coffee cup caustic. The only problem is that they should see more than one light source at any time in Antarctica and some people in some locations would see random bursts of daylight at unexpected times each day.At what point does the "real" sun get switched for a "reflection" and why has no one every seen the transition from the one to the other?This animation is what they, like everyone else, everywhere else should see. A sun that always changes size and never sets. Being outside (South) of the tropic, it should never circle above them, but always stay north of east/west.
A pointless full 360 degree panoramic rendering of union glacier for the 14th Bert Rickles 2024-06-24 | Warning. This animation may or may not accurately portray genetically modified guard penguins.Other than that, Google Earth says the elevation at the camp should be 767 meters, the planned arrival date is December 14th and the camp site may or may not be where we think it will be.Other than those silly confounding variables, even at the earliest date, it still seems the @The-Final-Experiment expedition should be able to see the full 24 hour sun.
Just an average cubic update (my third) to my final experiment prediction Bert Rickles 2024-06-22 | One of these days, I'll get the prediction to a level that meets my standards... Is this the one? The count is the original prediction plus 3 updates.I show in this video the process I used to recreate mount Rossman and how the camp site may or may not be cast in the shadow cast by it.
A (hopefully final??) prediction times an update squared (see description) Bert Rickles 2024-06-14 | Is the third time going to be enough??? The code I wrote to create the virtual camera is not quite right. I never spent any real amount of time getting it accurate for an arbitrary aspect ratio source image. From horizontal to the highest peak, the altitude angle should be 9.7º. Even at its lowest, the sun should remain 13º above horizontal, higher than the peak as seen from the coordinates in the travel brochure.After several predictions (and videos) based on progressively more precise information regarding the@The-Final-Experiment upcoming expedition, I think I got the path of the sun reasonably close to what it should be like if the earth is a globe.The previous videos were made out of haste and a bit of laziness regarding the precise location of the camp and local topography, but I wanted to create this animation that is a fair approximation of what the expedition will see when they get there in December.I used google earth street view to create a panoramic image source for my virtual pan/tilt/zoom camera. I also used the same math I showed in the last video with the distances and elevations reported by google earth to calculate the elevation angle of the highest mountain peak and with that, I was much more careful to create a virtual camera landscape with that computed elevation angle. I also compare my generated images against images taken from videos from people who were there.This will probably be the last one I make (for a while) on this subject.... I hope.(and if you didn't notice, I put a joke in the thumbnail related to acceleration caused by gravity, something flat earthers deny and are blissfully unaware of how it's calculated)
An update on my last prediction video and more final experiment suggestions Bert Rickles 2024-06-08 | Hearing about the possibility that the sun might drop down enough to be hidden by one of the mountains for @The-Final-Experiment upcoming expedition, I thought I would do a quick analysis of the terrain as seen on Google Earth to see how it compares to my prediction in my last video.I also came up with several more ideas to possibly make their trip that much more successful.
Making a prediction for the final experiment and a suggestion about time zones Bert Rickles 2024-06-01 | With Will Duffy of @The-Final-Experiment going to Antarctica to (try to) help settle the debate of the shape of the earth, I created these animations to predict what they should see when they get there. Unless the #flatearth operates in a way contrary to reality, I also rendered what it should look like if the earth really was flat.I also see that the company chosen to take them there (ALE - Antarctic Logistics and Expeditions) provides multiple time zones for reference.I suggest everyone get used to the idea of which time zone will be the reference, mainly to avoid unnecessary confusion when the results from the expedition will be made available.
Status reports for the Southern flights animations plus a McMurdo station moon prediction Bert Rickles 2024-05-25 | I've been a bit busy and didn't have time to do something else so I put this status report together.I'm almost done making the multi projection animations for the various Southern Hemisphere flights.I also went back to revisit a prediction I made suggesting where the moon should be the following day.Link to the google drive folder containing the flights: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DtRpoh1TleoNdH05w5njR5fpV_3d5rhS?usp=drive_linkPlaylist: youtube.com/watch?v=w2ILMCse0qU&list=PLosh9fm_S_fwWUas1J3kJje5f7ndMdjCN&index=8&pp=gAQBiAQB
Multiple projections of LAN805 recorded from flightaware com Bert Rickles 2024-05-18 | Thanks to a request by @Earthislife1031, this is a followup from my previous video, I created this example animation of flight LAN805 recorded from flightaware.com and projected to multiple maps.I plan to make the animation source files for multiple Southern Hemisphere flights available to everyone .Link to my google drive folder: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DtRpoh1TleoNdH05w5njR5fpV_3d5rhS?usp=drive_link
24 hours of FlightRadar24 playback on different projections Bert Rickles 2024-05-11 | Thanks to @DaveMcKeegan for giving me the idea to create a simple standalone tool to transform between different projections, I recorded 24 hours of flight playback on flightradar24.com and transformed to the AE map as well as on a globe centered over Indonesia.All this because #FlatEarth thinks.... Well, I don't know what exactly flat earth thinks. They are all extremely inconsistent.
Dave McKeegans flightradar24 animation converted and animated for multiple globe locations Bert Rickles 2024-05-03 | In @DaveMcKeegan video youtube.com/watch?v=AJP00jd5Cg8 he mentioned he could only animate FlightRadar24's flights transformed to a globe from the prime meridian.I decided to take the animation from that video and use the code I wrote earlier to project onto a globe and play that animation sequence from multiple locations.
Perspective is lost on flat earthers Bert Rickles 2024-04-27 | I set out some bait for #FlatEarth #cultists and I caught two of them. Instead of addressing the point of the video, both started chanting their mantra over and over in the chat.I showed the process in my last video that should let us calculate the height of the sun, Polaris or anything else in the sky if the earth was flat, but rather than ponder the accuracy of the process and extend it to celestial objects, I got a hot mess of pointless comments.Spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/122JTXsMZ3oPdkrDK4L-a5EZ3JQhPvZIxf738p6_VEhA/edit?usp=drive_linkLink to Where's Wally's video: youtube.com/watch?v=a07ENOfF-Rg
How DOES perspective wok on a flat earth??? Bert Rickles 2024-04-19 | Seriously. If I can use simple angle measurements and distances to calculate the height of an object, how far away does the light from the sun have to travel for normal perspective to break?
The 95% eclipse felt a bit strange, but not really Bert Rickles 2024-04-13 | I couldn't experience the full majesty of a total solar eclipse as I was not in its path, but I was close enough to get a reasonable sense of what it might have been like.There were three things out of the ordinary that stood out, felt a bit strange even otherworldly, and yet didn't really feel all that out of place.This is not a video showing the eclipse, but more like a journal of how I perceived the event.
Time lapse of McMurdo station, 3 months later (Observation Hill) 2/2 Bert Rickles 2024-04-09 | This is a slightly modified time lapse of the Observation Hill camera at McMurdo station that spans 3 months. It goes from the December solstice to April 1st when the (local) midnight sun is well below the horizon and it is considered night.There is another picture-in-picture video showing a computed and expected day/night cycle for that location using globe math.
Time lapse of McMurdo station, 3 months later (Arrival Heights) 1/2 Bert Rickles 2024-04-07 | This is a slightly modified time lapse of the Arrival Heights camera at McMurdo station that spans 3 months. It goes from the December solstice to April 1st when the (local) midnight sun is well below the horizon and it is considered night.There is another picture-in-picture video showing a computed and expected day/night cycle for that location using globe math.
Introduction to two 3 months long time lapses at McMurdo station Bert Rickles 2024-04-05 | I'm about to release two time lapse videos that span 3 months at McMurdo station. While each of those videos focuses on a specific camera and compare it against a computed/simulated day/night cycle, this one explains the process and gives them a backstory.
Correcting something from my last flat earth eclipse video (plus 12 minutes of animations) Bert Rickles 2024-03-29 | A slight math error I made for my last video made me conclude that the moon's height and/or size were not constant. When I revisited this project to make an animation for the 2017 #solareclipse on a #flatearth, I noticed that I didn't quite get the math right so I explored the relationship between the sun and moon on a flat earth at different distances from a point of totality.After fixing the various formulas, I used the resulting values to create new animations for both the #2017 #solareclipse2017 and the upcoming #2024 #solareclipse2024 .As always, flat earth is entirely inconsistent with the way eclipses are observed and expected to work. No special magic is needed for a globe, yet if the earth WAS flat, there would be a great deal of magic required that flat earthers seem incapable, unable or unwilling to provide.Link to the new spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W89xh9BloOR3rROpH0qt3l9nJ0xF7jbf2dfZn9aO8Xc/edit?usp=sharing
I tried to get an eclipse to work on flat earth, bu it doesnt and is just silly Bert Rickles 2024-03-23 | After being inspired by @TommyGronvold to shoehorn the upcoming April 2024 eclipse on some sort of #FlatEarth model, I threw this together as quickly as possible to catch all the eclipse mania.Using broad strokes and wild assumptions, I animate the expected path of totality for a flat earth (which not only fails but is nothing like reality). Also, letting the moon drift around aimlessly and be an arbitrary height or size, where it should be to produce the expected path of totality.Finally, to show an example of pointless eye candy, I added a stereo mode to the AE map projection, allowing one to see the different heights of the sun and moon over the flat earth.Link to the spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HReMQNTj82sPO_Rjv-moD5bZrOf9VlsWLcubu5YEAXE/edit?usp=drive_link
Another Qantas flight (QFA64) fails miserably on flat earth (4/?) (a visual illustration) Bert Rickles 2024-03-20 | At this point, the only "shortest path" between two points is a a great circle route on a globe... But flerfs seem to think we live on a pancake world. So why does QFA64 have a very pronounced droopy path on the #FlatEarth map of choice, the AE map? One would almost think that airlines would be going out of their way to deliberately hide the shape of the earth if it was flat... which it's not.
a better visual illustration of 5 different solar eclipses (flatties, care do better?) Bert Rickles 2024-03-17 | After adding the shadow cast by the moon to my clock app, I redid the 2017 and 2024 American solar eclipses and added 3 others.
An animation of the 2017 and 2024 American solar eclipses Bert Rickles 2024-03-15 | The best I've seen a flat earther do to "predict" the solar eclipse was to "borrow" a screenshot from timeanddate.com then transform to the AE map.I decided to use my multi-transformation clock app to create animations of the 2017 and the upcoming 2024 eclipses to illustrate how the path of the eclipse can work on a globe.
Another Qantas flight (QFA3) fails miserably on flat earth (3/?) (a visual illustration) Bert Rickles 2024-03-14 | If the shortest path between two points is a straight line, then why does QFA3 have the most non-straight path on a #FlatEarth map of choice, the AE map? all the other maps for this flight seem to be far straighter for some reason. One would almost think that airlines would be going out of their way to deliberately hide the shape of the earth if it was flat... which it's not.
Qantas flight 28 (QFA28) fails on flat earth (2/?) (a visual illustration) Bert Rickles 2024-03-13 | This is part of a series of videos that show a Qantas Southern Hemisphere only flight on various map projections. It seems fairly clear the only one projection that works in all cases is a spheroid.According to #FlatEarth, this should be a best fit on their North Pole centric AE map, and yet it's not.
Flat earthers cherry pick their flights to support their flatland claims (1/?) Bert Rickles 2024-03-10 | I looked at flight paths before, but I decided to revisit them again, starting with the one Flat Out Truth brought up as his "gotcha" to somehow prove #FlatEarth. I was able to make a few tweaks to my multi-projection clock app to display the flight path on multiple projections and to create an animation on each of them. The clips in this video take the 10.5 hour long AFL598 flight and compress it into a 30 second rendering in multiple projections.By all accounts, the flight between New York and Moscow appears to be a straight path (more or less) on both the AE map and on the globe, but unfortunately, when we apply the same kind of process to other flights, it very quickly becomes evident that flights don't make any sense on a flat earth.I am quite confident that flat earthers MUST cherry pick their flights and even misrepresent them to convince others (and maybe themselves) that we must somehow live on a flat and stationary earth.I will be exploring many more flights in subsequent videos.
Having a bit of fun creating stereoscopic animation videos Bert Rickles 2024-03-09 | I got the idea recently to explore making stereoscopic animation videos of the globe earth from Apple's recent release of their augmented reality wearable device and its associated marketing noise.Since the aspect ratio of the globe earth is preserved in this video, it does not quality as a 3D video. With a bit of trickery, forcing yourself to view beyond the image so each eye sees its own copy of the earth, a similar 3D effect is possible.
Analyzing wolfie6020s sunset video (see the description) and YouTube is no place to find evidence Bert Rickles 2024-03-01 | @FTFEOfficial suggested we test Globe Slayer's claim that the sun changes size...... I decided to do that. I compare the size in pixels of the sun in the referenced Wolfie6020 sunset video as the sun is setting and found a few interesting things along the way. I also test the end-to-end process to see what YouTube MIGHT do that could contribute to getting such results.When the very small sun was expanded to a much larger size, it did appear to seemingly get a bit smaller, at least by a tiny bit and that is subjective given it only seems to shrink by two pixels out of 27. From all the processing done on the video available here on YouTube, that could have come from anywhere and when I take one of the frames that came from YouTube and play with the contrast/brightness, it seems very compelling that the sun does stay the same size and the apparent change of the sun's size is coincidence.One other thing I completely forgot to add in the video is that when you watch Wolfie6020's original video (the portion without the use of the solar filter), the point where the sun appears to start shrinking is caused by clouds far off in the distance. With the presence of those clouds, this entire exercise was pretty much pointless.Link to the spreadsheet:drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fK3fEYuojEiD0SavYdi20xuQMS8qfVxM?usp=drive_linkZip file of @Wolfie6020 video youtube.com/watch?v=LFTWGdR8SiU in two sizes, simulated sunset source images and java app that created them:drive.google.com/file/d/1N9OsFwewWYSz7IRdA7AkhqqraHinB7ZM/view?usp=drive_linkZip of the different scripts used:drive.google.com/file/d/1t-kcx8BVYfX7P0yBd2cST3DQtxL6o2KQ/view?usp=drive_linkLink to the primary video generated using ffmpeg from the simulated sunset source images:drive.google.com/file/d/1gQaBVAkT6ZJzMDqJfC_5_FNoJniCfYJD/view?usp=drive_link
Free education (take 2 and a bit cranky): daylight vs sunlight Bert Rickles 2024-02-27 | Cranky? Surly? Bad day? Pissed off at things and people in general? A long two days at work and I decided to redo a video I put up and took down on Sunday? I won't tell.I read out the definition of what "daylight" means. If you don't like it, feel free to cite a source that says otherwise.
Response to a flat earther regarding my one month McMurdo time lapse (4/4) Bert Rickles 2024-02-23 | A #FlatEarth believer on X suggested I should "maybe make videos about how his glob (sic) projection doesn't work". Ok, challenge given and challenge accepted. This is part 4.Either they don't want to or they can't, but there is no flat earth model. The best any of us can do is attempt to triangulate the position of the sun from the observable elevation angles and when we do, we quickly realize that it is indeed the flat earth that doesn't work.All in all, flat earthers are simply delusional and cannot or will not reconcile observable reality matched by a model with what they perceive as a hoax or some deception.Link to spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I3CZT7HEwsgy46RaYQRYjfy5bBviEMtZGktxw1Ah0N8/edit?usp=sharing
Response to a flat earther regarding my one month McMurdo time lapse (3/4) Bert Rickles 2024-02-16 | A #FlatEarth believer on X suggested I should "maybe make videos about how his glob (sic) projection doesn't work". Ok, challenge given and challenge accepted. This is part 3.The code I wrote and made available over a year ago shows exactly how to go about calculating the direction of the sun, moon, stars and planets. The math used clearly shows how earth is spherical.Sorry flatties, your attempt failed.All in all, flat earthers are simply delusional and cannot or will not reconcile observable reality matched by a model with what they perceive as a hoax or some deception.My GitHub repository: github.com/qbertGloberCoder/glober-apps/tree/main/skywatcherMoon: github.com/shred/commons-suncalcStars: ???Sun -- NOAA: gml.noaa.gov/grad/solcalc/calcdetails.htmlSun + planets: codepen.io/lulunac27/full/NRoyxESample calculations in this video: drive.google.com/file/d/1zVRGk4Ql51Q0S2kpqY9zVRUd3RSogI6Q/view?usp=drive_link
Response to a flat earther regarding my one month McMurdo time lapse (2/4) Bert Rickles 2024-02-10 | A #FlatEarth believer on X suggested I should "maybe make videos about how his glob (sic) projection doesn't work".Ok, challenge given and challenge accepted. This is part 2.I used a tool (there are MANY that all agree) to confirm the movement and expected visibility of the sun (not including cloud cover) I used an app I wrote years ago for another project to determine the camera's orientationI used Google Earth pro to match against the buildings in the camera live feeds and the direction obtained is more confirmation that everything matches as expectedAll in all, flat earthers are simply delusional and cannot or will not reconcile observable reality with what they perceive as a hoax or some deception.KML file: drive.google.com/file/d/1L8Pz2jWR_7vxMh8L6p-Xhg9Ppu0_LxRZ/view?usp=sharing
Response to a flat earther regarding my one month McMurdo time lapse (1/4) Bert Rickles 2024-02-02 | A #FlatEarth believer on X suggested I should "maybe make videos about how his glob (sic) projection doesn't work".Ok, challenge given and challenge accepted. This is part 1 of what will be several (how many? I'm not sure) videos showing how it works just fine on a globe earth.Maybe our illustrious flat earther can provide math to show how such observations would match a flat earth?
Time lapse of over one month of continuous daylight at McMurdo station on our spherical earth Bert Rickles 2024-01-27 | Starting a few hours before the December 2023 solstice, I got my computer to save a copy of the live web camera images from 3 different McMurdo station camera feeds. In all that time, the sun never even THOUGHT of setting.If earth was a giant flat disc, how could that part of their magical pancake never get dark when I live in a location that should get more light than them, but I get more night than day during the same period?#FlatEarth cannot explain this. All they have are fantasies and wishful thinking that cannot match reality.
Flat earther demands are impossible and ultimately meaningless Bert Rickles 2024-01-05 | Flat earthers set impossible demands and IF those demands were reasonable, they would still reject them for various reasons. There is a disconnect somewhere and they will still claim it's somehow proof of a #FlatEarth.
My response video to FTFEs response video to MindShocks video of FTFEs debate with Kaleb Bert Rickles 2023-12-31 | @FTFEOfficial It was really painful watching you trying to keep track of all those fallacies MindShock was making. Almost as painful as watching that "logical analysis" video itself. I don't want you to struggle that much on the next one, so I whipped up a very quick and simple tool for you.In fact, I would hope this is used by most of your viewers the next time you go through a video like this so everyone can share their results at the end and help keep some sort of consensus.If it's deemed to be quite useful, I have ideas for a new one with a lot of extra features, but that would be for another time.GitHub link: github.com/qbertGloberCoder/glober-apps/tree/main/html/score%20keeper
Robert Simmon quote mined by flerfs (this contains 50% more snark than usual) Bert Rickles 2023-12-29 | Good Lord of mercy. #FlatEarth is the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time. The flerfkin claim Robert Simmon said things he never didn't. I decided to address their stupid claims and read specifically what Mr Simmons said about his "blue marble". Nothing he said matched what they claim he said, but what else can you expect from angry and ever so wrong dirt pizza believers.
Various tools (mostly) agree on the precise winter solstice moment (see description) Bert Rickles 2023-12-21 | Ok all you #flatearth believers, perhaps you can explain why:1) 4 separate tools I looked at agree with each other (only one seems off by precisely 8 hours, strongly suggesting a timezone issue)2) The location and direction of the sun is based on a spherical earth3) All tools are able to make predictions of future events4) The math says the earth is a sphere (this is point # 2 repeated, but it's so important, I had to say it again)I'm pretty sure there is a standalone stellarium app version that can be downloaded and that will probably not have the time issue I discovered. The math clearly demonstrates how insane flat earth is, yet there is a segment of the earth's population who, despite all the evidence out there to the contrary, cling to that belief.Flat earth is so far on the right side of the silly scale, it's not funny any more.
