The Earth is mostly spherical.

Thanks goes to my opponent for his prompt response. I was anxious to see many images my opponent mentioned, but to my disappointment, I saw only a drawing. Nevertheless, let's get to his arguments.Distances sighted "In other words, the opponent needs to prove that this is definitely a real image and not a mock image or mirage image. If I can show he has not proved this, then the point does not weigh in his favor and becomes moot. "Fair enough, my opponent offered a valid source, I'll assume, and there's lot's of information in this, but no pictures. I was thinking actual pictures of mirages for visual aid, since it is a fully visual phenomenon. Anyway, while confirming my opponents mirage statement, he ignores part of this paragraph, and I know he's going to kick himself. Full quote from the article my opponent provided the link to in the last round."Don't confuse image inversion (i.e., something appearing upside down — the common property of all mirages) with the thermal inversion (an atmospheric structure) that produces mock mirages and superior mirages. "All mirages are inverted. Whether it be image inversion, thermal inversion, mock mirage (although the name does sound convincing) superior, or inferior mirage, they are ALL inverted.With this in mind, let's look at Mr. Nowicki's beautiful photos. This is a mirage. You can tell because the buildings seem taller, but the midsections are missing from some notice how you can see the actual city below the mirage. Beautiful. Now look at this one. http://investigate-nasa.com...; alt="" /> Does this look upside down at all? I would like to thank my opponent for that source at this time, and of course, Mr. Nowicki, look him up on facebook, he'll forever be the guy that first proved that the earth was flat to me. Send him money.http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu...Reflections on water "The opponent evades my argument by pointing out I used the term "stretching" instead of "shrinking". Regardless of the correct term, my argument still holds"What argument? This one?"Looking at the photo provided, we see the sun setting over the horizon, producing a linear, gradiated line of reflection which extends toward the camera. This is the expected behavior of light in both a flat and spherical earth model. The following image illustrates this:" You provided no photos, you sketched a few drawings. I provided photos. What happens when the sun gets a bit lower? The next ray of light will not be visible, being reflected well over his head, but the sun is "well above the Earth"! It's got a long way to go to sunset, because the sun is actually about 4,000 feet below your feet just before sunset, according to the ball earth theory. Continue the ball where you cut it off, and drop the sun.In respect for the globe's untimely demise, and my opponent's untimely drawings meant to defend his ball, I offer a photo that we can refer back to in case we forget that we can see 60 miles at least to the horizon, and this should be a 2,400 foot drop. Flight PathsThis topic is getting redundant, agree to disagree, and hope the voters have some common sense, and courage with them. Though I would like to point out to the voters, I did say there were other flight paths like this. Gyroscope My opponent abandons his rod and tries to use precession as the excuse that gyroscopes don't roll back with his ball's rotation, or flights thereon. He is confused about what precession is, and his drawing is also confusing, I'm sure the voters will agree. Let's look at what precession is."the slow movement of the axis of a spinning body around another axis due to a torque (such as gravitational influence) acting to change the direction of the first axis. It is seen in the circle slowly traced out by the pole of a spinning gyroscope. " This is precession s://i.ytimg.com...; alt="" /> This is the roll, that is expected. Satellites Tracking sitesSo you agree they are fake tracking sites. What else is fake? Let's examine one. http://iss.astroviewer.net...Immediate fakeness. Why can't we, as taxpayers, who are paying these clowns to play musical instruments in Vomit Comets, have a high def, moderately zoomed in so maybe I could start a fire and see it, quality live video, instead of Google Maps? This isn't "what the Astro-nots are seeing even if they were in space! Put one on the moon if there's no problem getting there, and it's always facing us. They have the equipment to do it with.U2"Opp moves away from U2 planes and attempts to say that the ISS is a hologram by referencing grainy photos of the ISS taken from Earth. Obviously long distance photos are grainy -- this is not indicative of a hologram. More on this in the next point when we discuss "light". "I did not, a holograph could be displayed under the U2 plane. Alternatively, it could be projected onto the firmament. When were you going to elaborate on holograms and light? ISS too far to see.The Nikon p900 is a great camera for the price, the manufacturer claims that objects can be seen from 10 miles distance! Notice that there is no explanation why one would be able to see this object from 250 miles. Once again, I give you a photo of an entire city shrunk to less than a fraction of it's original size at only 60 miles.http://www.diyphotography.net... Radiators in space. "The opponent is basically correct in his explanation of radiators. As it applies to satellites, heat absorbed by the exterior of the satellite is vented through the craft to the radiators, which more effectively absorb and vent heat than the rest of the craft. So the heat moves to the "cold radiators", which is dissipated out of the craft. "How is this heat dissipated from the craft? It can't dissipate to the already 2,000 degree (how did they obtain this information? do thermometers look the same in space?) very sparse molecules in the near vacuum. I think my opponent would better understand this argument explained in detail, from an engineer and physics teacher, Mr. Brian Mullin. And yes, he knows the earth is flat. Satphones An image from my opponents source (thanks again bud!) shows actual coverage areas, around land masses. I would also like to remind everyone that Mr. Teslas work was confiscated by the U.S. government. This man promised to bring power to the world wirelessly. I would put nothing past these guys. If you can see a craft like the iss through a p900, we would be able to see some of these others, maybe some moon gazers caught some? http://apps.agi.com...I await my opponents response.