The earth is spherical and spinning

Since this will likely be a lengthy debate, and my opponent and I are already aquainted, I'll just jump right into what evidence that I deem is worthy of review. I have seen hundreds that, although have seemingly been "fixed" by modern science to fit the heliocentric model, when looked at objectively and collectively, prove that the earth is flat. C 1.Not one photo or video of the entire earth from space NASA has supposedly had almost 50 years to get this done. Despite thousands of satellites strewn about at various distances from our home planet, all we as taxpayers receive in return for approximately $1 trillion are Photoshop images, or "composites", and very few of them. Though they claim to have done it in the late sixties on the back of the equivalent of an original gameboy, technology has improved so much that we should have a live streaming HD camera on the moon trained on our home planet available to all taxpayers. They will likely never be able to give us this. One can go to NASA's website and check the details of most images of earth and see this, and since NASA owns and operates several high altitude planes, (1) these scans of earth and patching them together in Photoshop can also be done on a flat Earth. Images claimed to be real are easily shown to be fake. (1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org... C2 Distances sighted Joshua Nowicki has photographed the Chicago skyline from across lake Michigan for some time now.(2) A local weatherman saw one of the photos and it was featured on the evening news (3). As he states, this should not be possible, this much I agree with. At a distance of 57 miles, the curvature over the earth is 2,166 feet. The tallest building in Chicago is Willis tower at 1,450 feet, yet we can see a majority of all of the buildings, minus what swell and perspective would hide. (57x57)8"12=2,166. (2) https://pbs.twimg.com... (3) http://www.abc57.com... Nobody was ever taught or demostrated this simple formula throughout school, I believe this was done on purpose, for good reason. But here's a quick lesson from Dr. Samuel Rowbotham; "IF the earth is a globe, and is 25,000 English statute miles in circumference, the surface of all standing water must have a certain degree of convexity--every part must be an arc of a circle. From the summit of any such arc there will exist a curvature or declination of 8 inches in the first statute mile. In the second mile the fall will be 32 inches; in the third mile, 72 inches, or 6 feet..." Basically you have to square the distance in miles and multiply by 8 inches to get the answer in inches, from there you divide by 12 to get the feet.: this formula has been verified and AutoCAD programs(4) and is accurate for any mileage up to 1000 miles. I contend that he is wrong in his assertion that these photographs are mirages, (5) and that this is direct evidence of a flat earth. There are several more instances where people can see a lot farther than they should on a regular basis but I'll just limit it to 2 to save space. (4) http://www.smokescreendesign.com... (5) http://aty.sdsu.edu... Two islands off the coast of Madagascar (7) are visible each way on every "clear winter night". These islands are approximately 150 miles away from each other. The math gets a little bit more complicated when you're dealing with higher altitudes, so I've simplified it by linking an earth curvature calculator. Since we have a picture identifying mountains in that article, well use this. Reunion seen from Mauritius 2nd picture from bottom (8) Shows Cimendef (minus what a few swells and waves would hide and what perspective would shrink it to) in its entirety. We can see most of this mountain. This Mountain stands at a little over 4000 feet.(9) The tallest mountain on Mauritius is about 2700 feet,(10) I'll be generous and say the photographer climbed to the top of this mountain to take the picture. Again I don't think this is the case but I'll be generous for simplicity. This would put the target (Cimendef) at a distance of 150 miles distance behind almost 5,000 feet of curvature.(11) (7) http://travelssmart.blogspot.com... (8) http://4.bp.blogspot.com... (9) http://peakery.com... (10) https://www.google.com... (11) https://dizzib.github.io... C3 High altitude balloon flights show a flat and eye level Horizon I will use two videos not only to save space but because of their relevance to the type of camera used by NASA as a means of deceiving the population into see the curvature when there is none. The dog cam (12) has two cameras mounted on it, one uses a fisheye lens and one uses a standard lens. You can see the difference when you look at the fisheye lens and see the Horizon morphing, and even sometimes going concave. Another video is the Red Bull Stratosphere dive(13) where Felix brown hair jumps Chrome this region. The standard lens is a little harder to catch on this flight, they don't use one on the outside of the crap. You must pause the video when Felix is still inside the craft and the camera is inside looking over his shoulder at a flat, eye level horizon. (12) https://youtu.be... (13) https://youtu.be... C4. Sunset over water Anyone that has been to the ocean on a clear day you can see this.(14) This is impossible if we were living on a giant ball. The reflection that the sun produces is a linear one while a reflection from a ball would produce a specular highlight.(15) We wouldn't be able to see a reflection at all, seeing as how the Sun is supposedly below our feet as it touches the horizon, and the horizon supposedly stops at 3 miles for the average 6-foot human. This specular highlight world be on the side of the earth facing the sun, where it would be noon. (14) http://il3.picdn.net...(height:160) (15) http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com... C5 Planes fly level If the earth were a ball that is 25,000 miles in circumference, plane travel would be a lot different. For instance, the Lockheed YF-12 flies at top speeds of mach 3.35. This is 2570.352 miles per hour. Divide this number by sixty and we get 42 miles per minute. Plug this number into out formula (42x42)8=1,223 feet. The YF-12 would have to descend over 1 mile every 5 minutes at top speed in order not to end up stalling in a nose up ascent, or leaving the earths atmosphere. C6 No motion ever detected That rounds up the "sperical" part, now to find out if were moving like claim we are. Several experiments have been performed in the past trying to prove that we are moving at all. None have been able to do it. Even Einstein said "I have come to believe that the motion of the Earth cannot be detected by any optical experiment". The Michelson Morley experiment, Aireys Failure and The Sagnac experiment all show that there is no spinning, wobbling, and flying through space in some random explosion's aftermath. If we are moving at breakneck (understatement) speeds in all directions, why can't we tell? Humans have the ability to detect motion, even when riding in an enclosed vehicle, an analogy science throws around.