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It's hard to explain, and is mostly visual
I explained that poorly, but a better version is that it's like hula hoops. If you have a hula hoop and hold it out towards you perfectly horizontally, it can look like a straight line. But when you raise the hula hoop above your head, it's a circle.
So by saying the star trails are like a hula hoop you are saying the stars are moving and the earth is stationary. Either way the lines are straight.
Cuz if you wanted to model it right. You would need to say we are standing on the outside of the hulu hoop, looking outward, in which case the lines would be straight also. I dont think you understand how simple this is. Star trails prove we are not on a spinning ball. Doesn't mean it's a flat earth. Just not a spinning ball.
The lines are curved because the earth is spinning, those images you provided support the claim that the earth is found
round
No. The images show the star circuits matching a basic toroidial field. If we were on a spinning ball you would see straight lines if you looked directly above you. But you dont, you see rounded circuits bending around the poles just as if you are looking at toroidial field from below it.
Those images of the stars aren't looking straight up, and one of them is using a wide angled lense
If you used a regular lense and positioned your camera so that the stars were completely vertical, they would be straight
They dont look straight because we aren't on a spinning globe
No they dont look straight
Show me straight star trails away from the equator
How straight, for each trail to be straight?
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They would all be straight if you were on a spinning ball
Watch the video. There is more to it then what I've said
Ok, now I get what you're saying.
The photo at 4:53 is using a wide angled lens I think, but the other photos, that's just how it would look on a spinning ball. The star trails you made on paper would look like straight lines, but that isn't the perspective people take photos from on Earth. If you drew the star trails *on* the ball, not away from it, then the stars would curve away from the equator because those stars aren't on the equator. Only the stars on the equator make straight lines.
Stars basically curve away from the equator because they aren't aligned with the equator, or not on the equator, so they're "trailing" but angled away from the equator
It's hard to explain because it's mostly visual, but try drawing it from the perspective of being on the ball, and it would do the same thing.
Perspective. That's a new one for the globe theory 😂
Im not talking about the perspective formula or whatevs, Im talking about the angle at which you look at something
From the angle you drew on paper, the lines are straight. From the perspective of standing *on* the ball, it would look the same as in the photos.
You're drawing the star trails from a different perspective than the actual photos
Quick question: @Citizen Z you said that the stars follow paths similar to that of a magnetic field. Slight problem with that, a flat Earth can't have two magnetic poles that would result in a field of that shape, because South has to always point outwards. Since the south pole would be stretched out over the ice wall, kind of like a ring magnet, you wouldn't get the patterns seen above, because there's no pole for the stars to move around.
yeh, same reason why a southern polar star is impossible on a flat Earth yet it exists
Think of a bar magnet
Yes, I am thinking of a bar magnet. The problem is that it doesn't work. A bar magnet has two distinct poles, around which the field can form. A flat Earth does not have two distinct poles around which that field can form.
Yes we do. The north and south
And where is the South Pole located on the Flat Earth map?
Who said I had a map
We dont know exactly how it could work. We just know something ain't right. I was asked for an explanation of how the stars could work. I think I've provided an alternative. I wont be able to answer every question obviously. I just find it interesting how it looks
And uh, the star movements don't match Earth's magnetic field... They match the field of a magnet if that magnet was up in the sky, causing the stars to move around it.
I also appreciate how interesting it looks though.
Right
Think of a bar magnet in the sky
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hello yes debate?
yeah but i might take a few to respond
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