The Earth is flat

To start off, my opponent does not believe in curvature. Gravity may make Earth seem flat. However, from high enough height you can see the curvature. Otherwise, there is curvature, but it is very minor and cannot be seen. . https://en.wikipedia.org... But we can see a curvature on a live video feed from the ISS. Speaking of satelites, a harmful aspect of the flat Earth theory seems to be their denial of climate change (which has been proven by satelite imaging). They believe anything that doesn't follow their ignorant belief is fabricated. The Solar Day: My opponent obviously believes in the spotlight sun garbage. "A mean solar day (the time required for a single rotation of the Earth on its axis with respect to the Sun) is 24 hours. How many degrees does the Earth rotate in one solar day? " Ok and how will this prove anything about the Earth being flat? "Mainstream science" The fact that you are using this argument tells me you are making up stuff. "What are the astronomical odds that the Earth rotates perfectly just to keep day and night from switching as the Earth moves to the other side of the Sun; why would gravity care whether night and day shifted every six months? " Except a day is 24 hours, not 8760. By the way, . http://howdoweknow.org... And there aren't 2 seasons, there are 4. What else? "Flight patterns between cities on different continents over the southern hemisphere are VERY strange on a globe model but make perfect sense on a flat Earth. " Your argument here completly neglects gravity. On a sphere Earth gravity may make everything look flat, and things can be treated as such. On a flat Earth, gravity would be like a steep hill and alot stronger. 0:45 1:50 If the Earth was flat, the only thing that would keep you from falling off would be gravity and centripical force. But that neglects that Earth would naturally collapse into a ball. And the only thing still keeping you from falling is gravity and centripical force. You would not any orbits if there was no gravity. . http://www.debate.org... (Someone else used it. So I'll show it). One of the most ridiculous arguments I see to deny gravity is "The Earth is accelerating up at 32 feet per second" If this were true, objects would fall alot faster (seemingly teleport). Jumping would be impossible. "Non-stop flights between major cities in the southern hemisphere appear to be relatively rare and somewhat difficult to book. Instead, the vast majority of the flights in the southern hemisphere take inexplicable and very long v-shaped detours to the northern hemisphere" Alot of flights take a curved path that would seem weird on a FLAT Earth, actually, regardless of hemisphere. There are other reasons than a flat Earth to take that detour anyway. Mountains, weather, you name it. The Compass Argument: I see my opponent is trying to refute the Earth being round by compasses. A compass would not disprove the existence of a round Earth, because a compass is based on the poles. You could likely not have poles on a flat Earth. On a flat Earth, how is there a magnetic field? Magnets can't be unipolar. Some flat Earthers believe that there aren't poles and there is a giant wall of ice around the Earth, which is ridiculous. Furthermore, I'd like to get a little head start and refute 1 of my opponents possible rebuttals. "The sun appears big from space, so it must be a spotlight in orbit around the Earth". This theory is challenged by the mere existence of a day/night cycle on other worlds in the Solar system. Furthermore, guess whatelse disproves this and the flat Earth theory. Varying constellations! Also, if you consider the suns size, 93 million miles is not alot. Proxima Centauri is a small star, but it can be seen in the night sky as a dot. Sun Distance from Proxima Centauri: About 25,500,000,000,000 Miles One AU: About 93,000,000 Miles. The sun is alot larger than Proxima Centauri and is, as you can imagine, alot closer. So obviously the sun won't appear as a dot. Thank you. I hope to see your response to my Round 2 arguments soon. - Cat47