For example, last month the third annual Flat Earth International Conference convened in Dallas the rapper B.o.B once started a GoFundMe campaign as part of a quest to gather ungatherable evidence for the idea and basketball star Kyrie Irving has found himself having to apologize for publicizing the view on Twitter. We’re speaking of what appears to be the disturbing trend of people thinking the surface of the world is flat. Nearly the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible, along with the Arabian Peninsula. It's the first time astronauts were able to photograph the South polar ice cap. The Apollo 17 crew caught this breathtaking view of Earth as they were traveling to the moon on Dec. The image below is a comparison of what the flat Earthers were expecting to see, a massive shadow significantly larger than the moon itself.The spherical shape of Earth is what we like to call around here “settled science.” But nowadays, pit even a 2,500-year-old truism against the evangelism of Internet algorithms, and you got yourself an actual “debate,” no matter how inane. They found that if they moved the quarter closer or farther from the wall the shadow was always bigger than the quarter itself. A few flat Earthers tested their hypothesis by turning on a flash light and shining it at a quarter against the wall.
The second argument is that the shadow the moon casts on the Earth has to be bigger than the moon itself. However, in the case of car B which is passing car A, car B would travel from the back bumper to the front hood.
Car A typically finds objects first pass by the car from the front hood and travel toward the back bumper. This would mean the moon's shadow will move from west to east at 1,730 km per hour at the equator.Īs an analogy, imagine car B passing car A on the highway.
This is compared to the Earth rotating to the east at 1,670 km per hour at the equator. According to NASA, the moon travels to the east as it orbits Earth at approximately 3,400 km per hour. However, it's important to understand the speed at which the Earth and moon travel.
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