Sythe Users: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Lets Find Out! #3

[I Am Hunter]

Look at an object far away. Perspective shows that it is not parallel but converges upon a point, a vanishing point. Now if you look up, you can see the sun's rays are pointing towards you and makes them appear to converge towards that same converging point. Those beams that converge are called crepuscular rays. Now when you watch the sun starting to set low on the horizon, you can see ANTI crepuscular rays which converge to a different point on the OPPOSITE side of the sky. This proves that the rays are parallel and there's another vanishing point in the opposite direction from the sun.

inb4 spotlight

 

[Accounts Shop]

Jim has asked me kindly to take the overlords around for a trip in my space shuttle to show them that the earth is round thus respecting his contract of not leaving the country.

Being a multi-billionaire, I can afford to put hydrogen in my space shuttle and take them.

He also didn't need to have money as I am doing this volountarily.

 

[Accounts Shop]

I'm excited to see the full answer; I'm curious to see what variable we all neglected.

My initial answer is a good answer but seeing as i'm missing some parts to explain it scientifically mister sythe disregards it :L

 

[I Am Hunter]

once it got to the point where proof the sun is a sphere and proof of speed of light, i signed out


that way was not the way 2 go

 

Look at an object far away. Perspective shows that it is not parallel but converges upon a point, a vanishing point. Now if you look up, you can see the sun's rays are pointing towards you and makes them appear to converge towards that same converging point. Those beams that converge are called crepuscular rays. Now when you watch the sun starting to set low on the horizon, you can see ANTI crepuscular rays which converge to a different point on the OPPOSITE side of the sky. This proves that the rays are parallel and there's another vanishing point in the opposite direction from the sun.

Assuming the overlords can accept the perspective convergence of anti crepuscular rays as proof of the coherence of setting sunlight, it still does not prove a spherical earth. If the sun is a local spot light that "sets" by moving horizontally far away then the light still reaching the observer would naturally be more coherent than during the rest of the day.

I'm excited to see the full answer; I'm curious to see what variable we all neglected.

I will post it after everyone's had a good go.

 

[I Am Hunter]

Assuming the overlords can accept the perspective convergence of anti crepuscular rays as proof of the coherence of setting sunlight, it still does not prove a spherical earth. If the sun is a local spot light that "sets" by moving horizontally far away then the light still reaching the observer would naturally be more coherent than during the rest of the day.

inb4 spotlight

5char

 

[Accounts Shop]

let's just all wrap our minds around the fact that jim's dun goofed

he done for.

 

[Aesiir]

Sythe are you secretly a flat earth society member? lol

 

Jim has asked me kindly to take the overlords around for a trip in my space shuttle to show them that the earth is round thus respecting his contract of not leaving the country.

Being a multi-billionaire, I can afford to put hydrogen in my space shuttle and take them.

He also didn't need to have money as I am doing this volountarily.

Ah yes but don't you know the space program is the work of capitalist dogs. Communist overlords don't trust being strapped to a oxyhydrogen bomb. They would never go.

once it got to the point where proof the sun is a sphere and proof of speed of light, i signed out


that way was not the way 2 go

Most of modern science was built on simple reproducible experiments you can do at home with inexpensive equipment. How will anyone discover new properties of the universe if they can't even devise experiments to measure the truth of existing "facts" without relying on an argument from authority?

 

[I Am Hunter]

let's just all wrap our minds around the fact that jim's dun goofed

he done for.

I think those overlords have something against Jim

 

[Accounts Shop]

I think those overlords have something against Jim

clearly jim has done something to the overlords ... first they wanted to get him wasted, after that they asked him to build a fucking ridiculously huge wall and now they want him to prove science to them with a roll of toilet paper and scissors ... what's next for jim? Learn more on the next episode of ' Sythe Users: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!'

 

Waiting to see if Meteor posts before I post the answer

 

[Accounts Shop]

Waiting to see if Meteor posts before I post the answer

right cuz 'meteor' is the shits ... let me remind you he's the reason for dinosaur's extinction ... stop putting him on a pedestal

 

[I Am Hunter]

Most of modern science was built on simple reproducible experiments you can do at home with inexpensive equipment. How will anyone discover new properties of the universe if they can't even devise experiments to measure the truth of existing "facts" without relying on an argument from authority?

Is this just a state the fact of how science became or trying to encourage me not to be lazy...


edit: the answer you have is likely a lot simpler and nicer to look at, rather not spend a bunch of time doing proofs only to have a post that is like 2 sentences as the answer ;-;

 

don't remember exactly how but isnt there a way to calculate the angle of curvature by using the shadow lengths of two sticks that you plant on the ground, uses trig

 

[I Am Hunter]

don't remember exactly how but isnt there a way to calculate the angle of curvature by using the shadow lengths of two sticks that you plant on the ground using trig

spotlight

 

[Time To Buy]

Let me read through the thread quickly to see what all has been said so far and then I'll make a post

 

Poor Jim he was unable to prove to his overlords that the earth is a sphere.

What Jim should have done is thought carefully about the fictional forces produced by a rotating spherical body.

Since Shité is equatorial some of the country is in the northern hemisphere and some is in the southern hemisphere.

If he had built a Foucault pendulum in the north, and one in the south he could demonstrated with that the precession is always reversed across the equator line. After demonstrating this in his first week he could then built an arbitrary number in each hemisphere to demonstrate that it is always the case.

There is no way to explain the opposite precessions across the equator line on a flat earth. The "equator line" on a flat earth is not special, it is just half radius. It would be difficult if not impossible to produce this effect on a flat earth even if you could put whatever machinery you liked under the plane.

 

[Thatnameistaken]

I still believe my reasoning is valid. Jim knew he needed more concrete that what he would need to build a wall along a flat plane.

 

[Aesiir]

You can see further away as you climb to a higher altitute. Thus, the Earth is curved.