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VonBraunsGhost

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    Comment #22131926

    'satellites' = high altitude helium balloons

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    Comment #22131758

    ADD - Attention Deficit Disorder ADHD - Attention Deficit 'Hyperactivity' Disorder Two different things. One is a lack of interest and ability to retain information, the other is a…

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    Comment #22006657

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcEpmm1vLiU

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    Comment #22001245

    The old faithful Eratosthenes. The 2300 year old experiment used to refute no curvature being detected using modern optics in the year 2020. That experiment is irrelevant because i…

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    Comment #21997971

    That guy was 'controlled opposition', just like most of what you see promoted as 'flat Earth'. An attempt to make someone look foolish, therefore making the general public disinter…

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    Comment #21997933

    It fails in the sense that the rate of curvature expected on a sphere of that size cannot be seen or measured anywhere. Here's a curvature calculator from a non-geocentric site htt…

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    Comment #21997927

    You literally can't.You're repeating a myth that's been perpetuated since the 1500s. Look up some of the shots taken with the Nikon P9000, then come back. The limitation of what yo…

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    Comment #21997909

    I'm being lazy? Look in the mirror. I made a point and backed it with evidence you can check on your own. The only lazy people in this thread are the armchair wannabe astrophysicis…

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    Comment #21997897

    Refute the point then Cleetus. Reality is reality, no matter what story you've been told, by who, and for how long. Facts are facts and there isn't a curve.

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    Comment #21995826

    Typical NASA fanboy response. Ad-hominem, no substance. Refute the point. You can't. No curve = no sphere

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    Comment #21995748

    You can direct the 'you people' at yourself. I once believed in the pseudo-science promoted as truth, then I took some time to educate myself. You should do the same.

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    Comment #21995628

    Downvote me to oblivion, but riddle me this Neil DeGrasse Tyson. If the Earth is an 'oblate spheroid' (it used to be a perfect sphere, you've seen the pics, right?) with a roughly …