How do flat earthers explain time zones?
And the fact that it is always day time somewhere on the planet.
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You wrongly assume they understand science, at all.
Fact, hmm. How would you prove to them that it’s always daytime somewhere on the planet?
Time zones are part of the lies that round earthers tell.
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Also amongst their lies is the ability to cross the Pacific Ocean… or someplace… where exactly is the edge?
@ragingloli “How do flat earthers explain time zones?”
Merely asking the question indicates that you are bereft of basic bodhi.
The time changes as the sun passes over the earth and it is dark when the sun goes under, der
Save your sneering smirching sardonicism and seering sarcasm for science you naysayer.
@Zaku Where is the edge? From LiveScience
“The leading flat-earther theory holds that Earth is a disc with the Arctic Circle in the center and Antarctica, a 150-foot-tall wall of ice, around the rim. NASA employees, they say, guard this ice wall to prevent people from climbing over and falling off the disc.”
“According to the Flat Earth Society’s leadership, its ranks have grown by 200 people (mostly Americans and Britons) per year since 2009.” What an embarrassment.
Good news young cadet! You’ve been accepted into NASA!!
Bad news is you’ll be guarding the ice wall that surrounds the giant disc that is our “planet”.
For hundreds of years people believed the earth was flat and had explanations for the sun rising and setting. Whether the earth is round or flat, they observe the sun moving overhead. That’s the thing, it looks and feels like the sun is moving, unless you know better.
People sussed out that the Earth is a sphere thousands of years ago. The idea that most people believed the Earth to be flat is a myth.
Ok, well, my point is flat or sphere, the sun moves over the earth (the earth moves around the sun) so that would explain time zones.
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I think they call it “Fake News”...they believe the rest of the world is crazy!!!
@JLeslie
No, that only explains day/night, and it would be the same everywhere on earth, if the planet was flat.
@ragingloli Not if the planet was huge and the sun started on one side, continued overhead, and then set on the other side. The sun wouldn’t be shining at the same height or brightness all at once over the earth, even if it was flat.
And it still would be the same everywhere on earth.
@ragingloli I don’t see why. If the sun archs over the earth, getting higher as it’s over the middle, and the sun is smaller than the earth, it seems to me it wouldn’t light up all the earth at the same time with the same light or heat.
@JLeslie
The relative position visible from the surface would still be the same.
There would never be a case where there was sunset on one place on earth, and noon on the other.
Not to mention midnight at one place, and noon on the other.
I have to think about it. I’m recovering from my 24 hour stomach flu, and I can barely stay awake more than an hour at a time.
Hold a flashlight above a plate. The beam will cover the entire plate. No matter how much you move it around at no point will there be darkness on the surface of the plate.
Take that same flashlight, however, and move it around a ball…
I just woke up again. Lol. I even slept through my husband coming home to check on me. I’ll do your exercise, but one thing I know is there is a difference between someone shining a light in my face or 20 feet to the side of my face.
I have never heard from anybody who claimed to be a flat earther.
^^Me either. I’m guessing there are very very few if any.
@JLeslie
Is your face shaped like a broad, flat plate?
Well, I can’t do it now, because I’m banished from the kitchen. I’ll just trust you.
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