DDO Tier Tournament 2-Flat Earth Theory vs Spherical Earth Theory

1. As seen from spaceA.There is a few problems with accepting these photos as evidence. The fits problem is that photos are less reliable than experiments like the ones I mentioned you can do first hand. Photo's can be faked, manipulated, not come out right etc. I can go show photos of UFO's, Bigfoot etc. and I know the voters would find them less reliable than experimental data. I ask that the voters weigh these as much as they'd weigh a photo of bigfoot. Even if an expert in cryptozoology took the photo himself. People usually just blindly accept photos as evidence, and this is a shame. Numerous studies show that photographic evidence is no more reliable than eyewitness evidence. http://illinoisjltp.com...B. NASA was caught using a fish eye lens on their cameras. The fish eye lens can make normally flat objects look rounded. Not to mention that the flat Earth is a disc shape, so it may appear round from space anyway. http://m.youtube.com... (source video 1). C. NASA is inherently biased and motivated to perpetuate the round Earth myth. If it's discovered the Earth is flat they will lose their jobs and funding. NASA has been known to resort to photo manipulation and lying. It's an unsavory organization and I wouldn't put anything past them. Click the links. NASA is full of crap.http://www.examiner.com...http://www.burlingtonnews.net...http://blogs.discovermagazine.com...D. According to flat Earth theory. The sun is a spotlight. So if you were in space the spotlight/sun would have a circular light pattern and you'd expect only to see a round shaped Earth anyway. 2. Horizon ObservationsA.What you're seeing here is obvious. As ships get further away they appear smaller, until eventually they disappear. As the ship gets smaller waves that are a little closer cover up the bottom of the ship. The ship appears to disappear bottom first, not because the Earth is flat, but because the small waves that are much closer, though slightly/ or not at all perceptible hinder the view. This is what causes the optical illusion. B. Another reason this occurs is because of what's known as light diffraction. This is the bending of lights around objects. On a quantum level everything is just waves. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu...(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/mch/diff.rxmlThese bends of light actually cause the bottom of a ship to be obscured at a distance. The further the ship gets, the more light diffraction comes into play.C. Other factors to consider with this effect are haze, clouds etc.3. Lunar EclipseThe shadow on the moon could prove a disc shaped Earth as well as a ball shaped Earth. I've shown pictures in round 2 showing what type of Flat Earth theory, I've been advocating for.4. Circling the EarthI don't have time to refute every example of circumnavigation and it would be unfair of my opponent to bring up new arguments in the last round that I don't have time to respond to. If you notice the flat Earth model has the North Pole in the center of the disc shapes Earth. That means all compasses will be pointing to the center of the Earth. The vast majority of circumnavigation is East to West. If my opponent brought up a case of North to South circumnavigation I could easily debunk it, but now all I need to debunk is Magellan and his west/east passage. Since the compasses point to the North Pole and the Pole is the center of the Flat Earth model, these navigators may think they are traveling around the Earth, but in reality. They are only traveling in a circle around the North Pole. Interestingly enough, Magellan's travels verify a flat Earth as well as a Ball Earth. 5. Center of Gravity Look gravity doesn't exist. Gravity assumes a round Earth model and is used to explain why people stick to the bottom of it. I'll get to what some modern scientists say on the matter. For now let me personally address it. Gravity is used to rationalize the round Earth model. It's a theoretical concept that hasn't been proven and modern scientists pretty much know doesn't exist. Erik Verlinde argued in a recent paper, titled "On the Origin of Gravity and the Laws of Newton," that gravity is a consequence of the venerable laws of thermodynamics, which describe the behavior of heat and gases. http://www.nytimes.com... http://arxiv.org... According to Aaron Guerami, if gravity were real than helium balloons shouldn't be able to float upwards. http://www.gsjournal.net... Besides these people, Einstein disproves gravity a long time ago. Newtonian physics has been replaced by Einsteins model. Gravity is just an illusion as Einstein points out. http://science.howstuffworks.com... 6. Time Zones The Flat Earth Model explains how the Sun operates a little differently than the Round Earth Model does. The sun and moon circle over the Earth instead of rotate around it, and they are much smaller than popular opinion believes. The sun acts as a kind of spotlight. http://www.sacred-texts.com... Here is an extremely short video of how the sun and moon circle above the Earth. The video is 20 seconds long. Please watch it. http://youtu.be... The Flat Earth model is vastly different than the Round Earth Model and assumptions made to support the round Earth hypothesis, can't be used to disprove flat Earth theory. Conclusion My opponents points are refuted and in many instances support the Flat Earth Model. I've conclusively proven the Earth is flat. I anxiously await con's arguments.