It started long ago, i took all the science classes in college, learned all the book stuff.
And then i started running into counter narratives.
Pieces of data that didn't fit with the main stream narrative.
Like, when studying Nikola Tesla.
Every "scientist" says that Tesla was a show boater, that he rigged his experiments to fool the news men
... however, when you look at what he did, that explanation holds no water.
Making hundred foot lightening arcs on command (as Tesla did) is not something i see physics professors repeating.
(the longest on record is 110' when a substation melted to the ground in the hot, dry Arizona day.)
After that i studied much about all kinds of phenomena.
Of course, this includes flat earth.
Now, with flat earth... all they really have is enough data to show the ball earth as wrong, but there isn't anything real to show the earth is flat. What you find is a bunch of facts that do not make any sense to flat earth or ball earth. So, we are probably dealing with something else.
All the photos of earth are faked, or photoshop. ("Strange thing that happened on the way to the moon" - a video to watch). NASA has been caught manipulating photos so much, they are not to be relied upon. When really questioned about the moon landings, all the data, is suddenly gone.
Every test to measure the curvature of the earth has failed.
The flat earth people are not doing too great on measuring its flatness.
Way before flat earth started becoming a religion, a thing...
There were these guys who took the evidence from the original lighthouse person.
The first guy, took data from the govern-cement published books on how far away a light house could be seen. And computed that some of the number put the light houses over the edge of the horizon. The "scientists" got a famous mathematician to prove him wrong. All he said was, his mathematics is correct.
So, this other group of men, went and looked at far away they could see a light house.
On a still night, with binoculars and telescopes, they found they could see a light house that should be wwaaaaaay over the horizon.
Each light house in an area has a unique flash pattern, so you can tell which light house you are seeing. So, there is no mistaking they were looking at the correct light house.
If true, and there are lots of evidence and reports that it is true. (and now, IR photos of cities from huge distances away)
- The earth is not a ball of the stated size. and/or
- Light doesn't travel in straight lines across earth.
One of my better theories is that the earth is a flat 3D space (all the axis at right angles) and this space is folded into higher dimensions. So, we literally can't tell from the inside. Light travels parallel to the earth's surface, because to the light, that is flat / straight.
And then, you can read about hollow earth theories. Lots and lots of tales of this from ancient texts. Add that in, and we have no clue what shape the earth is.
How do you know this? How have you validated and verified these claims?
All is quite the assertion. Composites aren't fake per se. False color images are edited, but not pure imagination. How do you know?
That's a pretty emphatic statement. Can you support it? Eratosthenes reportedly disproved your assertion thousands of years ago with incredibly rudimentary means.
That's a massive [citation needed], and one anyone should be able to test even today with active lighthouses.
That looks a lot like word salad, and not a coherent hypothesis, at least to me.
Finally, images without source links don't help much, and it's painfully obvious that pictures of a sphere taken at different distances result in different percentages and degrees of distortion even without any lens effects or computerized manipulation involved.
None of this proves the Earth is a spheroid, of course, but at some point I inevitably grow weary of assertions presented without evidence, or with only one possible interpretation presented as the only interpretation. Are you as skeptical of these NASA debunkers as you are of NASA itself?
Oh yes, in this area, there is a bunch of shills, a bunch of paid opposition, a WHOLE bunch of people who do not know any science and/or logic. And you often cannot tell who is what.
You know, like you said, way up above, many times people say they can see over the horizon, but it turns out the math was wrong.
So, as i said, I do not believe in the ball earth, because too many disproofs... but what to believe in? There are no good theories.
I will try to find the website that copied the guys paper that did the light houses thing. This was pre-internetz.