The Earth is mostly spherical.

I love how my opponent assumes he has won this debate. Distances sighted It's now apparent that my opponent had no prior knowledge of mirages until this debate. I honestly cannot believe I am still refuting this topic. My opponent now implies that the image is not a mirage, which is the purpose of this argument, to decide whether or not it is a mirage. While quoting the sentence in question, he leaves off the part that has inconvenienced his argument. "that produces mock mirages and superior mirages. " How my opponent arrives at the conclusion that mock MIRAGES are not mirages is a mystery. Thermal inversion is what causes a mock mirage. Image inversion is a basic property of all mirages. Read the excerpt again. The idea that image inversion causing mirages is a new type of mirage that is actually NOT a mirage, but a fake one with absolutely no basic properties of any known mirage is comical. I'm starting to wonder if I am being trolled. Maybe he though he could just simply google and use whatever he found. "As the source I referenced explains, a "mock-mirage" is a product of thermal inversion, not image inversion. I suppose the opponent saw "mirage" in "mock-mirage" and assumed it would be classified as a mirage. " What is it then? It's not a mirage, we both agree, and I'm all for going against mainstream accounts, but if it's not a mirage, and it isn't real, then what is it? It's Chicago, plain and simple, and proof of a flat earth. Upon further investigation, mock MIRAGES have nothing to do with anything but the sunset. All images of "mock mirages" (or whatever my opponent is trying to deceive us into believe it is) are of sunsets, a simple image search will show this. And it is an inversion by the way, it's where the sun has started to mirror itself slightly above itself, sometimes causing green flashes or of another color. A mock mirage is not a fake or pretend mirage, mock is used to describe the type of mirage. OSA Publishing is the largest peer-reviewed collection of optics and photonics information in the world. This is what they have to say about mock mirages. "A previously unrecognized phenomenon, which we call the mock mirage, produces inverted images of the Sun and Moon near the horizon when the observer looks downward through a thermal inversion. ." https://www.osapublishing.org... Conclusion : The pictures of the Chicago skyline which have no inversion are not mirages. They are definitely not "mock mirages", or whatever my opponent is trying to convey. Reflections on water. My opponent has offered another sketch to try and prove the ball, which has really gotten amusing. Had my opponent offered anything other than sketches to prove his point, I might've taken this a little more seriously. I'll just leave this decision to the voters. My opponent makes one more point in his argument which wasn't covered until now (This is why in Dubai, you can watch the sunset on the ground, right up to the top of the huge building, then watch the sunset again), and since this is the last round, I won't fully elaborate on this point, instead, I'll refer to Mr Mullin on his take on perspective and how this works, with simple, visual examples, not technical jargon that my opponent can somehow warp into his vision of reality. Unless you are an art student, perspective is largely understood. https://youtu.be... Flight paths Agreeing to disagree is not conceding. I still hold that flights should not go 5,000 miles in the wrong direction. Gyroscopes It is apparent that my opponent had little knowledge of gyroscopes prior to this debate, at first using pendulous rods as a reason that they do not rotate with the earth's spin or curvature, finally settling on precession as proof against me with a sketch explaining this. I pointed out that precession is not the same as a roll as what we should see on a ball. The entire argument rests on this precession and how it prevents the gyro from rolling back, my opponent cannot explain this read only by saying that a downward force causes a slight wobble in it's rotation. In conclusion, while things that go up inevitably go back down, causing this "wobble", it doesn't disprove a flat earth. It also can't explain why gyroscopes remain in a level position throughout the rotation of the earth or going over the curve in a plane. My opponent never addressed star trails. If the earth were spinning, wobbling, spiraling around the sun, which is spiraling around the galaxy which is spiraling around the universe that is ever expanding at ludicrous speeds, star trails would not exist. The stars would not move in perfect circles around the north star. Satellites I did not ask for pictures of the iss from space, I asked for a live feed of earth, zoomed in, from the ISS, or the moon. I will be waiting with a magnesium flare. They can't do that for this very reason. They can't even give us constant feed from the camera they do give us. And every bit of it is fake. https://youtu.be... Tracking sites http://iss.astroviewer.net... According to my source from last round, the tracking site, when one looks at the tracker on the bottom, underneath, "The blue sections of the ISS' track indicate when the space station is in the earth's shadow. The red sections mark when the ISS is sunlit." Notice how when the ISS is over a location, it is only reflecting sun during the daytime, which makes sense. So, seeing the ISS at night should be impossible. This should say something for these photos of the ISS, and bring this argument to an end. What the ISS actually is is not entirely known Project Blue beam comes to mind. And it could be bounced off of the firmament as I've said before. Polaris isn't 400 light years away either. Tesla stressed that the stars were in the firmament. Radiators You can't have a "vent" in a vacuum. You are honestly saying that the ISS is venting all of it's hot air into a vacuum. What is replenishing this artificial atmosphere as it is quickly sucked out into the vacuum. The ISS hasn't had a breath of fresh air in 18 years. Look, the ISS is sealed away from a vacuum, this is why there is an air lock. In order to transfer hot molecules of air inside to anything it has to be cooler, according to the 2nd law of dynamics. Is the ISS somehow bringing a cold atmosphere with them to transfer the heat from all those electronics, infrared from the sun, etc to, since it can't be transferred to a near vacuum? Satphones They should be reliable all over the globe, if it were one, with as many satellites as there are supposedly orbiting the earth, which no one can see crossing the moon. While this debate was somewhat better than the last, in that my opponent actually attempted to refute my claims, my opponent ultimately ends up kritiking again, indirectly trying to prove big g, now disguised as satellites. Dropping all other arguments for a spherical earth beneath his feet for a light in the sky. I have provided empirical evidence that the earth has no curve at all, while my opponent offers a weak "satellites could exist, therefore, the earth is a ball argument. I hope my opponent's embarrassment does not overcome him when the voters make their decision. To our voters, you don't have to be a flat earther to say who won this debate, no one except flat earthers like this name. Do not let public opinion sway your judgement though. I know I only lightly touched on the firmament in this debate, but if the voters would go back to see that nothing was refuted there by my opponent. So I have shown it to exist. A collection of mainstream videos of phenomenon that can only be explained by the critical thinkers to suggest an enclosed environment can be found here. https://youtu.be...