The Earth is Flat

I'm mostly convinced that the earth is flat and stationary. I've been researching the subject for a few months now, and I've come across more proof of a flat earth than a spherical earth. In this debate I will discuss some of these proofs. I know con feels the need to explain what we have all been taught all of our lives, and I know that the still unproven theory of gravity will arise, because if gravity didn't exist, the world couldn't be a globe. I am however prepared to disprove gravity as many have done before me. Gravity is make believe. Yes, I know… I am very impressed with your ability to hold up a pen and drop it to the ground to show me “proof” that gravity exists. However, you are simply showing one of the natural properties of weight, wherein items that weigh more than the substance around them fall and if they weight less than the substance around them, they rise.A balloon filled with hydrogen, which is the lightest of the gases and lighter than nitrogen, oxygen and the rest of the elements that make up air, will rise if released. A balloon with helium will do the same because it is also lighter than the air around it but will rise up slightly slower. If however you have a baseball and release it, it will fall to the ground, not because of gravity as you were taught but because the baseball weighs more than the air around it. Gravity is simply a magical word used for an all encompassing force that does whatever is needed of it and in most cases it is used to prove a ball earth. Take a look at this paragraph from wikipedia and tell me if you really think gravity is capable of these most amazing attributes.As a consequence, gravity has a negligible influence on the behavior of sub-atomic particles, and plays no role in determining the internal properties of everyday matter. On the other hand, gravity is the dominant force at the macroscopic scale, that is the cause of the formation, shape, and trajectory and orbit of astronomical bodies, including those of asteroids, comets, planets, stars, and galaxies. It is responsible for causing the Earth and the other planets to orbit the Sun; for causing the Moon to orbit the Earth; for the formation of tides; for natural convection, by which fluid flow occurs under the influence of a density gradient and gravity; for heating the interiors of forming stars and planets to very high temperatures; for solar system, galaxy, stellar formation and evolution; and for various other phenomena observed on Earth and throughout the universe. If you are a thinking individual and know when your leg is being pulled, you will have course see this as nothing but nonsense in word form. Gravity does not exist and is simply a tool used to convince people that they live on a ball. I must ask, is my opponent familiar with the flat earth theory? We can save a lot of time if so, and my opponent could disprove it instead of asking the questions involved in my theory. If not, here is a quick Q&A rundown of the theory. (1)Realize however, the flat earth theory is young still, and much more research must be done, so we don't have all the answers. Also, many shills have been implemented in this movement, so a lot of disinformation is out there to make the theory seem silly, so again, not all information is 100% correct, but the shape of the earth is now undisputed in the flat earth community.(1) https://youtu.be...1: Empirical evidence.More and more amateurs are launching balloons and rockets with cameras now. While most of these are equipped with go pro cameras, some are not. Go pro cameras have a wide field of view lens attached, and through this lens, straight lines appear to be curved. This one (1) has both a regular camera, and a fisheye lens attached. You can differentiate between the two by looking for lines that should be straight, but are curved, and seeing those lines morph when the camera is not centered on the horizon. Here are some fisheye cameras (5,6,7) (5 actually has a regular camera inside the capsule as seen in the beginning before Felix exits it, and you can plainly see a flat Horizon at eye level) and here are some without(2,3,4). As you can see, at any altitude, the horizon is always flat and at eye level, which is impossible on a globe that is 25,000 miles in circumference. So you can see, with your own eyes, that the earth is flat.(2) https://youtu.be...(3) https://youtu.be...(4) https://youtu.be...(5) https://youtu.be...(6) https://youtu.be...(7) https://youtu.be...2. Go fast rocket launch(8) This launch broke some records for being the highest and fasted amatuer rocket ever launched. Although they used the fisheye type lens, the proof is at the rocket's peak, as it topples over, beginning it's descent. You can make out a small moon in the distance. This is proof in two ways, as you ascend, the moon should either remain the same size, because it's so far away, or grow. Not only that, the moon should not even be visible at all! In the description, they provide the time and date of the launch, but as you will see, this time is impossible. For one, an accompanying video(9) shows short shadows, and a high sun. Too high for 7:30 am. Two, the GPS tracker has 11:40 on it, which is 4 hours after the time they claim the launch occured. It is reasonable to say the launch happened between the hours of 9am and 11am, probably much closer to the latter. This type of event is very exciting, and they must have hurried to obtain the cameras mounted on the fuselage. So, using this new time, and the date specified, we can go here,(10,11) and see the moon is over Australia, and impossible to see from above Nevada, where the launch occured.(8) https://youtu.be...(9) https://youtu.be...(10) http://www.timeanddate.com...(11) http://www.timeanddate.com...3. According to the globular model, the horizon of a 6' human should be approximately 3 miles away. At this point, ships should start going over the hump in water (which sounds ridiculous seeing that no body of water has ever rested in humped form). However many major landmarks(12) have been sighted at distances which would be impossible on a globe with the measurements given. Most of the time, refraction, or mirages(15) are the given explanation to this, but mirages are always distorted, or even upside down(13), so the lie detector test determines that is a lie.(12) https://youtu.be...(13) https://youtu.be...(14) https://youtu.be... https://image.slidesharecdn.com... 4. Antarctica Antarctica is, in my model, not a continent. It is a ring of ice that surrounds the Flat Earth preventing anything from escaping such as water and, up until the last century, people(15) At that point, (60's) the Antarctic treaty was put into effect(16), barring any civilians from exploring that region. What lies beyond can therefore only be speculated, unless you ask admiral Byrd(17). It is for this reason I am not prepared to give any proof of an edge or as some (Nicholas Tesla and the Bible are among the most prominent) speculate, a dome.(15) https://en.m.wikipedia.org...(16) https://youtu.be...(17) https://youtu.be... 5. NASA If you're not familiar with the lies that NASA Feed Us, feel free to check out this debate(18). If you feel the need to rebutt anything that it's in there, feel free to. On the other hand NASA is truthful on occasion, for example this document from 1988 states that the Earth is flat and Motionless in its summary.(19)(18) http://www.debate.org...(19) http://www.nasa.gov...6. When you observe the Sun and Moon you see two equally-sized equidistant circles tracing similar paths at similar speeds around a flat, stationary Earth. The “experts” at NASA, however, claim your common sense every day experience is false on all counts! To begin with, they say the Earth is not flat but a big ball; not stationary but spinning around 19 miles per second; they say the Sun does not revolve around the Earth as it appears, but Earth revolves around the Sun; the Moon, on the other hand, does revolve around the Earth, though not East to West as it appears, rather West to East; and the Sun is actually 400 times larger than the Moon and 400 times farther away! You can clearly see they are the same size and distance, you can see the Earth is flat, you can feel the Earth is stationary, but according to the gospel of modern astronomy, you are wrong and a simpleton worthy of endless ridicule if you dare to trust your own eyes and experience.