To any flat-earther who might possibly be reading this, I have a set of challenges for you. Even if you are unable to actually research and give accurate answers, at least think about them for a while. That's all I ask.
1. How do scientist predict eclipses?
Scientists can predict both solar and lunar eclipses literally to the second (exactly when it will start, when it will end, and what exact path the shadow will take), literally decades in advance. And they are not using some kind of super-secret methods and formulas for this: It's all open and public information and data.
How do they do that? Especially, how are they able to predict the eclipses with that incredible level of accuracy literally decades in advance?
Also: The data, models and formulas they are using are based on a strictly globe-Earth heliocentric model, and you can corroborate this by yourself if you want. Please explain how it could possibly apply to a flat Earth model.
2. How do scientist coordinate in the global conspiracy?
Literally tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of scientists from all around the world, from all kinds of countries, cultures, backgrounds, belief systems and even religions, have no problem in agreeing on the exact model of the Earth and the solar system, all the math, all the formulas, all the predictions.
And not only that, they have been doing this for literally centuries (way, way before NASA even existed), including back when many of these countries were enemies of each other, sometimes even at war with each other, and thus the people, including the scientists, in these countries had literally zero incentive in agreeing with the enemy on keeping up a huge conspiracy of this magnitude.
And that's just the scientists. The same is true for all kinds of engineers who research, develop and manufacture devices related to navigation, land surveying, and so on, as well as map makers, pilots and so on and so forth. How do all these vastly different professions and communities all coordinate with each other to agree and promote the huge conspiracy, with no whistleblowers?
3. Which direction should the Sun raise from and set to?
Consider that especially during the equinox the day is exactly 12 hours long, and the night is exactly 12 hours long, everywhere on Earth. And if you are anywhere close to the equator, if you check which direction the Sun raises from, it will be directly from the East, and which direction it sets, it's directly to the west.
This can be very easily tested with literally just a chalk: In the morning, just when the sun appears, draw a line on the ground that points towards the Sun. 12 hours later, just when the Sun is about to disappear behind the horizon, draw another line pointing towards it. These lines will be at exactly 180 degrees of each other. In other words, the Sun raises and sets in exactly the opposite directions.
Now, take your flat Earth map, consider a point somewhere near the equator, and think about where the Sun is when it becomes first visible, and where it is just before it disappears 12 hours later. Draw lines pointing towards those directions. These lines will be 90 degrees from each other.
How do you explain that in the real world the lines will be at 180 degrees from each other, not 90 degrees?
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