Anyone who has played Civ 1 knows when you reach the edge of the map in the east, you get teleported to the west.
This is correct, as the world is neither flat nor spherical, but a cylinder.
This is the correct interpretation of Putin’s flight to Alaska. The teleportation in fact occurred.
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This convinced me that maps are an afront to god. The 3d earth was never meant to be bastardised as a 2d projection
Actually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.
- Flat earthers are already way out there conspiracy theorists and if you’re telling them that two of the most powerful men in the world chose their meeting location in an inconvenient place and way to reinforce round earth propaganda they will absolutely believe it
- This is a modern “flat earth map” which shows the travel would be pretty similar to round earth:
That would make Brazil the biggest country?
That’s actually kind of clever. I wouldn’t immediately know how to counter this map on a debate.
i mean, “this goes against thousands of years of evidence, including observations you can make yourself” is a pretty good one
My immediate thought is “why is the equator warmer?”
Obviously because the sun floats in a circle tracing above the equator
Space lasers
Ask them how long it would take to get from one side of Antartica to the other.
The problem would be that they’ve heard all of the common arguments against and probably be prepared for them. I would point out that this map has a pretty severe northern “hemisphere” bias that would make the age of exploration confusing. But I wouldn’t be surprised to hear them say history is made up too
It’s impossible for this map to have polar day or night. So bring them to Antarctica during the summer.
Have em show how Antarctica can have a 24 hour sun on this model.
The real problem is that current flerfers have wised up to the fact that their model is shit, so most will say “we don’t make claims/have a model we just point out flaws in the globe model.”
The best way to demonstrate the earth curve is a water level sight though.
Why is there ice in the center and edge, with the warmest region being r/2?
Why are time zones shaped like pie slices? Like no seriously, show me a functional solar geometry that would give those observable time zones even remotely as well as the globe model?
Why do seasons flip at r/2?
