Message from @Citizen Z
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Show me straight star trails away from the equator
How straight, for each trail to be straight?
Ima eat then brb
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
hello yes I wish to debate
hello yes debate?
yeah but i might take a few to respond
goodbye no agreement
not sure if anyone else will join but they are welcome
earth is round
no, it cant be due to sight distances.
wdym sight distances
the fact if the earth was round we would be able to see as far
as we do
so you're saying the earth is round
round like a pizza with stuffed crust
uh
ok so i'm just going to assume there was a typo and you meant we wouldn't