How would a flat earther explain satellites, both regular and stationary?

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Since I don’t claim to know anything unless I am convinced it is true, and since much of the doctrine we a told about outer space is dubious, I’m willing to entertain the possibility that we have been lied to in a big way.

But I don’t see how satellites can exist if the earth was flat instead of an ellipsoid. Things like escape velocity cannot work in a flat earth and neither can a geostationary satellite if the earth did not spin.

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[–]LarrySwinger2 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

On top of what FuckYourMom said, it's also important to note that flat earth theory defies Newton's law of universal gravitation. What's supposed to keep us on the ground if it isn't the Earth's huge mass? How big, massive, and distant is the sun supposed to be, and why doesn't it affect us or (for example) the tides beyond what we're noticing? Where's the theory that goes beyond a simple narrative?

[–]Insider 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Imagine seeing everything in the fucking universe being spherical then thinking the earth is flat. Retards.

[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

My wife and I were talking about exactly this the other night. We saw several satellites that night, being in a good dark star-gazing place. The only contact I had with flat-earthers gave me no insights. They dismiss out of hand very simple logical observations that make sense in a spherical world and not in a flat one. They just dismiss them. That's not argument, and it didn't help me at all. I kept my mind open to flat earth, because all hypotheses (spherical earth included) need to address competing hypotheses. But I haven't yet seen arguments remotely sufficient to change my mind. The sphere is a remarkably solid interpretation of what we witness every moment of every day. I'll keep listening, but until I hear something very different from what I have heard from the flat-earth types (something far more convincing), the earth is still an obloid sphere in space for me.

[–]Losferwords 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They would move like the hands on a clock.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Basically, you got to throw away the last two centuries of (mathematics, invisible as usual), physics and geodesy to believe in this osmium-grade bullshit.

Funny ain't it ?

That is why you gotta be totally numbed down (or literally have fucked-up your own brain with drugs, e.g.) to even be able to think in this direction.

You can see with your own eyes that the earth isn't flat:

Just watch the horizon line over a planar hand-rail at the sea side. You can see the curvature of the earth when the rail is planar horizontally and long enough. Because the horizon line and the rail diverge more and more when looking more to the left or more to the right, so to say.

I believe to be able to make some very dim sense from satellite orbits in this context you can observe at night you'd have to "find" a completely "new" (<- bullshit, most likely to expect) "theory" of gravity first.