This is a visualization of the star trails and why they diverge from the equatorial star trail.

Thsts not how it would look on a spinning ball

How so?

It's about the exact same

That's how a spinning ball would look

If you are looking straight up that's how it would look

It's impossible for a curved star strail, like a star trail near a polar star, to be a straight line while far to the left/right of your FOV

It's like holding a hula hoop out in front of you vertically and seeing a straight line, then moving it to the right and still seeing a straight line and not an arc towards your middle FOV

So we live on a tiny earth?

The size of a hula hoop

It's an analogy

Like, try imagining that image you drew with the straight lines over my image, but with the northern and souther polar stars

To the left and right

I understand what you are saying I think. Im just picturing what it should look like if looking up 90 degrees from the ground

Not sideways just straight up

And if you were on the outside of the spinning ball, most the lines should be straight

Its impossible to always get straight lines besides near the equator since eventually the lines will have to shrink in size

Like this

And become the polar stars and the tiny circles around them, slowly making them circles and not straight lines

That middle line represents the star trail at the equator btw

I will try to do an experiment

Or find other examples

so if the earth is flat, how come nobody has ever fallen off the edge?
and if there is an ice wall, how come nobody has ever climbed on top of it?
i feel like these are things that would definitely make new headlines.

@MbLeRgh because everyone is playing fortnite

hahaha

Uh, apparently the government keep people away from the ice wall 24/7

Which would be a lot of ships

which would probably be even more noticeable

I mean they could just say you can't go to Antarctica its off limits and all the companies would suck em off and not go there, or take people there

so you are trying to tell me that throughout the entire history of earth, nobody has ever tried to peek over the edge?

btw there is no edge, the earth is spherical

science tells us this, there have been many experiments to prove this and a couple of hair-brained ideas with meaningless experiments isn't going to disprove the fact that the earth is in fact a sphere

the earth is large enough that it may not look like it is round, but we are far too small compared to the size of earth to make that decision just by looking at it from our perspective on the ground

Our personalities are overrated

?

*falls off edge*

Uh

What's the image meant to mean?