Checkmate, Round Earthers 🌍

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’m an inverse round earther. The earth is round, only we are on the wrong side of it.

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• basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where are the Himalayas?

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gotta turn around to see them

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Where would the photographer be here that they can see the pyramids with the Statue of Liberty (what a joke) is to the left of them? Saudi Arabia maybe?

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would that actually be true? Someone should try to render a flat earth, for science, shits, and giggles.

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  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    …stackexchange.com/…/assuming-a-flat-world-and-no…

    Basically, you could see for a long way but your eyeballs suck so it largely doesn’t matter. Even with the best telescope and optics on a perfect day you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere which scatter light.

    Also, Barad-dûr was destroyed when Frodo threw the One Ring into the fires of Mount Doom so it wouldn’t be there.

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    • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      you will be limited by the gasses in the atmosphere

      Lol if you’re going to abandon the round earth theory, you might as well dump the concept of an atmosphere, too.

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• knightmare1147@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Okay, I want to be able to simulate what the world would actually look like from a vantage point where you could see the whole world unwrapped like this.

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  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Ok I just spent 20 mins with an LLM and it got me setup with three Js and adding landmarks to a flat earth projection.

    I’ve not the time nor inclination to take it further but happy to share a link to the code if someone else wants to expand on it.

    I am a software developer but my curiosity was piqued and the LLM cured that, but happy to zip up the project.

    Leaves a lot to be desired as it’s not what you would actually see and more a play on this meme where you can use the camera to set vantage point and see how things would align. We used cubes to represent landmarks so no crazy graphics.

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  • cuerdo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    now i need this

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t forget that it’d be nighttime after a certain distance, because light can only travel a certain distance before it disappears.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well now you’re assuming the sun is spherical and gives off light in all directions.

    If it were more like a flashlight, then flat earth day and night still works. So checkmate again.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But we wouldn’t see sunrise/sunset.

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    • Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A flashlight still lights up the whole room, even if it’s just pointed at one wall. It’s not like half the room is totally dark, while the other half is totally bright.

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    the sun is also flat and it sits directly above the earth. it’s just that it rotates so sometimes we can only see the side of the sun that doesn’t have any light.

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• thagoat@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One does not simply walk into Flat Earth

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• psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a rare sight and you can only see this on mid of 2020. Not a single report at all because of the lockdown. They want us to drive car so the smog will make sure you couldn’t see any further than your city.

  They are covering up, wake up sheeple!

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  • lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s very far away and we’re still seeing the light from when it still stood

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It has been remade

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Pray I do not remake it further.

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    • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Make sense, Sauron didn’t die he just weakened and took ages to recover.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    maybe OP has elf ancestry? physics doesn’t really apply to them so maybe they can see into the past

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Straight_Road

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• atlien51@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Lool talk about PERSPECTIVE!

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• thefluffiest@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That black tower center-left is in Washington DC is it not?

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  • mathemachristian@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its tel aviv but they are very similar.

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    • Famko@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Looks a lot like Sauron’s tower ngl.

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  POV: you’re in Australia

  (Hypothetically the only way the arrangement of Pyramids, Eiffel Tower, and Statue of Liberty works on flat Earth)

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Eiffel Tower is too far to the right. I think you would have to be in the US standing very close to the Statue of Liberty for this to work. If at all. You’d have to be pretty far north to get the pyramids that far to the left of the Eiffel Tower and still have the Statue of Liberty in the pic. TLDR, I think this might be fake.

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• CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Telescope lens is getting crazy out here

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• renzhexiangjiao@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  not much of a clear day in that image

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  • dukatos@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think that is a shot from “Babe: Pig in the City” movie, from 1998.

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• loomy@lemy.lol ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  impressive

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