There’s ice at the equator*

How doesn’t that part of ice melt from the sun??

also, if the Earth is flat, how come one can take a ship and go from one end of South America to the other by going straight across Earth.

Going due east over a long distance won't be a straight line in either model actually

to stay due east would require course adjustment

yes

On a globe

The most common flat earth model is also compatible

i.e. when they do the sailing race around Antarctica, from west to east, they have to turn to the right

to stay on course,

Which eliminates any possibility of the ice wall

The common flat earth model has the north pole in the center

right, but that model fails lots of other places

thus the course correction leads to a circle around the noth pole

24 hrs sun in antarctica in January for example

https://i.postimg.cc/5NJbJTCS/image0-1.gif

@Wolfgang Goyim Ron's got a new name

How do we get star trails on this?

B/c that's what happens when that motion exits

Why is that a question

Also

A common FE argument is that Polaris doesn't move, but in the globe earth model, it actually does very very slowly, so slowly that it's imperceptible over short timeframes. In 3000 BC, Thuban was the north star, and circa 320 BC, Pytheas said that the north celestial pole was devoid of stars. A complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes takes over 25,000 years.

@SiliconBassist Thats not right

Polaris moves in a circle over one night, just like all the other stars

it does

You're right about teh precession though

That's different

OIc what you're saying

There's also this :

http://www.backyardastronomer.com/ccd/Barnard_Mortfield_Cancelli_labels.gif

One star in particular is moving quickly enough to pick up in our lifetime

What star is that?

And yeah, i didn't mean the circular movement seen every night

Although that circle is currently getting smaller as Polaris moves closer to the north celestial pole iirc

Barnard's star

Ah

That gif shows literally *years* of orbital motion. A star trails timelapse is 7 hours long.

Polaris moves. You finally got it right

@SiliconBassist what the circular path of polaris is getting smaller?

Yeah. From Earth's perspective, Polaris is slowly getting closer to the north celestial pole which causes the circular path in which it appears to follow to shrink.