The earth is spherical

What I'm about to show you is sincere. I'm not a troll, I'm not trying to be difficult. Modern day science has convinced us that our basic senses are deceiving us, when, if you were to think about it, makes more sense if the earth was a plane. I personally like the idea that when I lay down at night, I'm not moving at 1,000 miles per second. The ball earth theory paved the course for other theories, including the heliocentric model the Big Bang Theory evolution and others. I see many spend hours researching and arguing creationism over evolution, and there is little to no objective evidence on either side. Why not start with the first domino? At least we have our basic senses to ultimately explain what we see around us. Sure, modern science will tell us they are decieving us, and we are seeing mirages, or theories of relativity to explain why everyone isn't dizzy from spinning at 1,000 miles per hour. These are just clever ways to make their theories unfalsifiable, anything to hold up the ball. Everytime a hole is found, someone comes along to plug up said hole, and the lie can continue. One thing though, until you can entertain the idea that the earth is stationary and relatively flat, you'll never understand the basics, and more importantly, you'll never start researching, even when looking at objective evidence, you still won't believe you were lied to. This is whats known as cognitive dissonance. You must, from here on, unlearn everything you know. The globe has been implemented into the "education" system at a very young age. If it were taught at the high school level, I would've laughed at my teacher, and you would have too, but you've never seen the earth as a ball, nor your teacher, his boss, etc. This is subjective information. So before you consider the ball earth theory as fact, at least have a look at some objective information showing otherwise. I realize the implications of the idea of a flat earth, but this is something that can be dealt with. One of the biggest, is that if the top of the social pyramid can achieve this level of conspiracy against the entire plane (t), what does that mean for other conspiracies? Our leaders lie, that is irrefutable, but would they lie to us about the shape of the earth?? The answer is not intentionally, for most cases. They've been indoctrinated just as we have, only a handful of people claim to have actually been far enough away from earth to see it as a ball, and now NASA claims it is impossible, due to "high levels of radiation" in the Van Allen Belt. They went in 1969 on a tin can with the computing power of an original Gameboy (if you believe that) no problem, but when citizens actually started getting the idea that we were going to space In the 80's, Challenger disaster was perpetrated, as if to say, "you're not ready yet" and that settled it, until now. Talk of missions to mars, with billions invested, and Virgin Space promising to send civilians to space over 12 years ago, also millions invested, and not one civilian has even been to LEO. I'm not sure about anybody else, but there's only so many times you can pull my leg before I realize it's being pulled. I've ranted enough, let us see some objective evidence . Contention one: The Specular Highlight Anyone who celebrates Christmas can verify this. Have a look at the glass balls on your tree this year, most of us have them up right now, so have no excuse not to perform this simple, empirical experiment. Take a glass ball and make a right triangle with the observers eye at A, the ball at B, and a light source at C. (1) This is where we are in relation to the sun at the time of sunset.(6) Do you see the light reflected in the ball? Of course not! This is because spherical objects, or convex surfaces produce a specular reflection, whereas it points back to the source. (2,3) Not only that, but the reflection of the source appears smaller. This is why the give you that little warning on your side mirrors in the car. Sure you might can cheat a little with the relative distances and angles, and you might even get a hint of the reflection, but you'll never be able to reproduce this image. (4) Water is highly reflective, just like glass, or sheet metal. So let's try to reproduce this image with these reflective materials. Hold a flattened piece of sheet metal or like material up to the eye, and point the other end, as if you were aiming a rifle, up to a light source. The results are very much like the sunset. (5) We now have an empirically experimentally objective proof that the earth is not a ball. Contention two: The Chicago Skyline Joshua Nowicki has been photographing the Chicago skyline for a few years now. This would be impossible if he were doing so on a ball that is 25,000 miles in circumference. (7) Just like I said, modern science tells us that this is a mirage, but again, anyone who's actually seen a mirage, superior or otherwise, will agree that mirages are just "reflections" most of the time they are greatly distorted, and always upside down. Granted, visibility factors such as atmospheric blocking and waves and swellls on lake Michigan sometimes do not grant this sight always, but the skyline is seen on a regular basis. (9) This isn't the only instance of people being able to see further than they should, in fact, people are recently testing the globe, and the flatness of water to see landmarks that should be well over the curvature of the earth, and every time this test is done, no curvature can be found. This can be done easily if there is a fairly large body of water near you. All you need is a decent camera and the earth curvature calculator(10). This is yet another objective proof that the earth is not a ball. Contention four: Gyroscopes Definition from Wikipedia: "A gyroscope, not to be confused with gyrocompass, is a spinning wheel mounted on a gimbal so that the wheel's axis is free to orient itself in any way. When it is spun up to speed with its axis pointing in some direction, due to the law of conservation of angular momentum, such a wheel will normally maintain its original orientation to a fixed point in outer space (not to a fixed point on Earth). Since our planet rotates, it appears to a stationary observer on Earth that a gyroscope's axis is completing a full rotation once every 24 hours." (11) Anyone who has ever owned a gyroscope can verify that they do verify that they do very curious things, even seemingly defying "gravity" sometimes. This experiment show both that the earth is NOT rotating, and can't be a ball. Gyroscopes have been spun up for hours at a time, and not even the slightest of rotations can be observed. (12) Attitude indicators operate by use of a basic gyroscope. (13) If the earth were a ball, spinning, wobbling, going around the sun, which is bolting around our galaxy, that is rocketing around the universe at a combined rate of about 1,000 miles per second, they would be virtually useless, especially on transcontinental flights. Some higher end smart phones are equipped with a built in gyroscope. If yours has one, download any decent pitch indicator, and leave it on your night stand when you go to bed. Wake up in the morning and see for yourself that the phone has not moved or changed it's angle the entire time. Since your average person can get a good gyro and produce these same results, this is another objective proof that the earth is not a ball. My opponent may either use round two to refute these contentions, or provide objective evidence that the earth is a ball and refute them in round three. (1) https://upload.wikimedia.org... (2) https://www.scratchapixel.com...? 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