In a Reddit
post simply captioned: ‘Checkmate flat Earth society’ user amazed_spirit shared
an image of him or someone they know posing for a selfie atop Mount Everest
with the - you guessed it - curved edge of the planet in the backdrop.
Everest, in
case you skived every day of school, is the highest mountain above sea level,
located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas on the border
between China and Nepal.
Its
elevation rises to 8,848 metres, or 29,029 ft.
Many Reddit
users came out in support of the concrete evidence, with one saying:
Forget about
dumb curvature arguments. The fact that you can only see 2.5% at a time proves
it isn’t flat. If it was flat you should be able to see the whole thing from
even just the top of the tallest mountain or on any commercial flat.
Though one
user brought into question whether the photographer was using a fisheye lens
and thus distorting the image.
There was no
appearance from ardent flat-earther Connor Murphy who recently disclosed why we
don’t fall off the edge of the planet.
Connor, son
of famous flat-earther Dave Murphy, spoke exclusively to UNILAD about NASA, the
Sun, Photoshop and pretty much everything you’ve ever wanted to ask someone who
thinks the reason you see the curvature of Earth from a plane is because the
windows are round.
Watch the
documentary here:
Speaking
about why NASA and the government would lie about space travel, he said:
There are
two good reasons in my opinion. One obvious reason would be money. The money
raised by NASA alone since their inception is something like fifteen trillion
dollars, and with that money they’ve really shown little for their work.
A second
thing is to make people feel insignificant. It makes you feel like you’re an
insignificant speck of dust and therefore you’re easy to control. Basically if
you can imagine the globe squashed down with Antarctica instead of being its
own continent, being the perimeter around the side. So a lot of people say
that’s an ice wall. It’s more like a shelf or cliff.
And as for
why we don’t fall of the edge of the world, he added:
Fall off
into what, do you know what I’m saying? The way we see it is it’s an enclosed
system.
There’s
water above, there’s the firmament - or the dome - and there’s water above it
and water below it and there’s no leaving it, there’s no finding other Suns and
stuff. You can’t fall off the edge, essentially.
What about
the curve of the Earth you can see when you fly? Conor said:
You cannot
see curvature from a plane. The reason why it may seem is because of the way
planes have to be designed. Every single window on a plane has to be round and
curved because the cabin itself is curved.
You can’t
have straight panes or they would explode and everyone with the plane would be
done. Next time you’re on a plane, look out the window and at the wing, because
the wing will seem to curve as well.
Fish eye lens
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