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Although the above is true, I would still be a distracting off-topic a-hole if I tried to turn every single topic into a solipsistic discussion of "But how do we know our senses are real, what if we're just butterflies dreaming we're people who have heard information about the big bang/religion/whatever!".
If you want to argue about the shape of the earth, go back to your thread. it's just basic courtesy.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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So you won’t mind confirming that your mobile Alabama “experiment” you cited is valid, you have analyzed the results, and can’t find the correct curvature; and if anyone finds obvious and demonstrable curvature that is exactly what it should be given the distance: that you and they both missed, it would therefore confirm you’re either incompetent, a fool, or dishonest?
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Are you arguing that it is okay to argue about the flat earth in a big bang thread because:
a) As per your original argument if the earth isn't a ball then the big band theory has false assumptions in it
or
b) As per your new revised argument it is okay to focus in on anything that is mentioned in the OP.
When it's pointed out that your arguments are wrong, running away from them and just throwing more stuff at the wall to see what sticks isn't a valid form of debate.
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http://lmgtfy.com/?t=v&q=earth+curvature+test
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... and you don’t seem to be sounding too confident about it now that I am explicitly challenging you about it.
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"I mean, this was basically my intent when I provided the video, was it not? "
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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I want you to tell us all how accurate the video is, and that you went and confirmed their results by performing a basic analysis of the video....
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Also I'm backing me having showed the flaw in your original argument and you trying to backslide into a different one without acknowledging you were wrong.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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”this video is 100% accurate, and I have personally validated and confirmed that the claims in the video are accurate.”
You seem to be giving politician responses.
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”this video is 100% accurate, and I have personally validated and confirmed that the claims in the video are accurate.”
You seem to be giving politician responses.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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It's a rather pertinent argument really.
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Thats a politicians answer: it’s like you’re now not sure whether the video is correct, you didn’t bother to check it; and are wanting to give yourself enough wiggle to so that if it is disproven: you can say “well that’s not what I meant...”
I’m just looking for you to actually stand behind your claims by explicitly stating that the video’s claims are correct, and you have personally validated that the claims are correct.
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Thats a politicians answer: it’s like you’re now not sure whether the video is correct, you didn’t bother to check it; and are wanting to give yourself enough wiggle to so that if it is disproven: you can say “well that’s not what I meant...”
I’m just looking for you to actually stand behind your claims by explicitly stating that you have personally validated that the claims are correct.
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This OP is about the BB-story, why can't you Big-Bangers not answer my two simple questions so we could move on?
As for @Erfisflat comments on the Flat Earth, it is very relevant to this OP, .. because the Flat earth is observable reality, while the Big-Bang story creates the globe-earth which only exists in, .. in umm, .. in a science fiction story, how millions and billions of years ago a quantum-speck fluctuated in and out of nothing story that people like Carl Sagan spent his entire life brainwashing us with. This video collection is 100% proof of the MK-Ultra used on us;
So again, please, .. 1. What was it that Big-Banged?
2. What did it Big-Bang, or "suddenly inflate" in, or into?
From the story we know that the Big-Bang created a vacuum, which suddenly inflated, so my next question is, how can a vacuum cause a sudden-expansion?
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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And you just post videos without bothering to check them?
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@someone234 aliens are not the ones who are putting up all these 5-G cell towers and spraying us with all the metals that we breathe in and get imbedded in our brain making us susceptible to microwave attacks, it is our NWO (NaziWorldOrder) government. And I don't mean the ones the poor sheeple vote on, the ones we see in office either. The ones behind this are our neighbors, coworkers, friends and even could be close as our relatives. Humans who have sold their souls to Satan, gave up all their rational God given free will reasoning.
You need "eyes to see" to actually see them.
What is even more surreal is that "They" know the ones that can see, which this scene from the Movie "They Live" portrays frighteningly accurately:
This is almost EXACTLY how I go through life every day now, .. only God keeps me alive for whatever reason/plan He has for me!?
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I checked this one.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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You claimed that the video of mobile bay proved the earth is flat.
you claimed that the video showed no curvature.
I am literally asking you to confirm that the claims you’re making are true, and whether you have bothered to validate your claims.
We both know that the claims you made are wrong, and you haven’t bothered to validate what you have claimed; and are now desperately trying to avoid being called on it.
How you’ve managed to contort reality to believe that me asking you confirm you have validated your claims is shifting the burden of proof.
you either validated the claims you made, or you didn’t.
which is it?
Note: if you refuse to answer a straight up question like this, it’s pretty clear that the answer is “no, you don’t bother to check your claims”.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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That you’ve gone like 20 posts refusing to say whether you bother to check your claims, kinda tells everyone you don’t.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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This is kinda hilarious: it’s like you know what’s about to happen next.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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Yet again, it’s a case of you simply blurting our whatever nonsense claims you want, whilst providing utterly no argument.
In addition you don’t check anything you say, and you don’t validate your sources. In essence anything you angrily assert other people must do to prove a spherical earth? you don’t bother to do yourself, to any degree
And this is the crux: you deflect, obfuscate, and dissemble through all of your arguments (as your doing here), but you rarely, if ever, actually bother to defend your claims. You’ve asserted people use straw men multiple times in a thread, but when challenged ever explain why.
What you’re doing here is simply the same thing.
You've claimed the video was accurate: yet refuse to actually defend your claims. You won’t explicitly say you validated the claims, you won’t explicitly say that the video is 100% accurate, and I doubt you’d even go so far as to claim the video doesn’t show empirical evidence of refraction as I (and the rest of science) claim it work.
I’m trying to actually pin you down, to make you defend something you’ve claimed.
ironically, like you’ve tried to say I’m not doing.
If you have so little confidence in the arguments and videos you post that spend two pages refusing to state where you think that they are valid, and refusing to state that you have even bothered to check that they are valid yourself, why should anyone take one of your claims seriously?
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It's probably just as I suspected, there isn't one.
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How about, let's ignore your repeated rhetorical fallacies and get on with the argument.
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Flat earth proponent:
"This video records evidence that disproves the alleged curvature required of a ball that is 25,000 miles in circumference!"
Globetard:
"nuh-uh, there's some wrong or misleading information therein! The test actually proves the earth is a globe!"
Flat earth proponent:
"I'll be glad to have a look at it again, which information do you feel is wrong or misleading?"
Globetard rhetorically dances around proclaiming he's proved curvature but hasn't done anything.
Since the opponent now proclaims that I haven't provided an argument at all, (after pointing specifically to the video I referenced as an argument, claiming the test was somehow botched, with absolutely no explanation) I will now step out on a limb and thoroughly explain the test, and the results, in hopes of coaxing his counterargument from him, similar to the "pictures from space argument" this is like pulling teeth.
From North Beach park in Fairhope, AL to Mobile, AL, there is a distance, depending on what you are looking at, of 12.5-13 miles.
http://tjpeiffer.com/crowflies.html
This information has been analyzed, and is correct.
With an observer height estimated at 6 feet,
an object 12.5 miles away should be hidden behind 60 feet of curvature, IF the earth was a ball that is roughly 25,000 miles in circumference, according to the curvature calculator.
https://dizzib.github.io/earth/curve-calc/?d0=12.5&h0=6&unit=imperial
As the video shows, and the opponent, for whatever secretive reason disagrees, there is absolutely no curvature, proving that in this test, the water over 13 miles in Mobile is flat, where there should be plenty.
http://deanodle.org/articles/article/41/gods-flat-earth-the-firmament-of-his-power
The information provided here is accurate to my knowledge. Maybe this conversation can move away from the 3-4 page red herring "argument" that my opponent is adhering to.
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If the opponent will continue to ignore the repeated pleas to explain his counterargument, I can only conclude that there isn't one, and will, as promised, ignore his fallacious responses, and allow the more fruitful posts to take back the OP.
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
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Scientific method: noun; a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
Wayne Dyer
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The lesson of this post, is never, never underestimate the dishonesty, or incompetence of pseudoscientists.
I’ve made that mistake with Erf before, working under assumption that the images he posts are of exactly what they say the are: but in this example, as with so many others; both he and the people on the video he shows are just scientifically incompetent, or intellectually dishonest, as I will show.
Erf produced this video in order to give evidence that “earth is flat”, and in part later to claim that we are asserting that refraction happens; the best part of that video is that it provably demonstrates both of those facts.
This is why I have asked Erf whether he still supports this claim, and whether he bothered to check the claim before posting it. His repeated refusal to answer that question, combined with this disproof below demonstrably shows he doesn’t bother checking his claims, and implicitly knows that the claims are invalid and makes them anyway.
This post will both refute Erfs claims, and point out the pseudoscience strategy he uses to make the claims. The video shows two things:
1.) Almost exactly the right amount of curvature for the viewed distance.
2.) Almost exactly the same type of refraction I’ve explained and reproduced with other evidence.
As Erf, or the video hasn’t bothered to check or make any measurements, and have simply unscientifically declared that the image “doesn’t look like there is curvature”, let’s do the science for him.
To determine what, if any, curvature there is, you need, given a known distance to the object you need:
1.) Known geometry about the object in question, enough to work out how tall it is.
2.) A comparison image with multiple points you can use to compare the image with the image you take, multiple points required to determine the refraction occurring.
3.) A detailed scientific comparison between the two to determine the changes in size/shape/cut off.
This video simply posts a comparison image, and leaves it there...
The video shows 5 images. Let’s deal with these one at a time:
1.) claim: “the image with the black cranes, boat, and gantry doesn’t show 60 feet of cut off”
This claim is BS. Not only is it BS, when the cut off is explained: it proves that you didn’t bother to even google the object you were looking at.
This image, is taken of downtown mobile, and the BAE systems boat yard (You can tell this because the gantry on the right even says “BAE Systems”. This is part of a larger “dry dock” complex, there are plenty of images on the internet of it, and some as you will see that explain exactly what you’re seeing…
Here is an image from the video and a comparison photo of a close up of the gantry. We can provide scale here, by copying and pasting the top bar of the gantry and attempting to use it to estimate how many times the width that gantry is high: and then comparing the two images to see if they are the same relative height:
The answer is no they are not: The “video” shows the gantry at 6 times its own height, with the real image showing 9 and a bit times its real height. Given this, we can actually estimate where the cut off is occurring (shown by the red line).
If the cut off was because of water: it would mostly look like the boat that is currently hoisted up out of the water because it’s in a dry dock.
The most interesting part of this is that as I will show: the height of the dock above the water (the concrete), is around 15 feet around the corner of the island: It looks like the cut off is around 4 times the height of the dock wall: so about 60 feet.
How much curvature did they claim was missing again???
You can cross reference this again with the image on the right-hand side: this is showing the dry dock, with the cranes sitting on concrete barriers so that they can actually be ABOVE the boat they are servicing. This corresponds nicely with the image on the left: the cranes stand well above the water line and appear to be on the water line in the other image.
1/1 Debunked!
2.) The images of the cranes is a really great one.
This is another example of Flat earthers and you not bothering to check anything that they post. Any simple google or even LOOKING at the image would reveal the curvature. The curvature, once revealed, indicates that the claims are desperate and unverified nonsense that anyone with a brain that bothered to check the images should have noticed
Let's try and establish some scale here… According to the port authority, the boom of the crane has a reach of 150 feet; we can use this to come up with approximate sizes: the bottom looks around 50% larger than the bottom part: so we can estimate 120feet and 80 feet.
In the “cut off image” the bottom part is the same size as the top part; meaning that 40 feet of the bottom of the crane is missing.
Add in the bottom of the dock: which we can see based on the car in the foreground is about 3-4 truck heights high, making it around 15-20 feet, gives us missing curvature of between 55-60 feet.
2/2 debunked.
This image also proves that there is refraction going on. Look at the bottom portion of the image compared to the top. Measuring the higher portions for scale reference gives us the right numbers: but you can see what’s happening lower down; even though the bottom and top portions are roughly the same height in the video, the top of the horizontal bar is much higher up than it should be in a direct image comparison:
If the image was the same scale at the top as it was at the bottom: for example non-magnification, or constant magnification: the geometry of the cranes you see in the real image would mean that the horizontal bar at the bottom in the video should appear lower than it is.
This is demonstrable and visible proof of the refraction you have scoffed at; proven by a flat earth video, no less!
How can I tell that? Easily: look at the far right: I have copied and pasted the crane on the right; and drawn lines from the top/middle and bottom bars to it.
The top two bars are exactly in line: on the video image: looking through the atmosphere over water…. The bottom bar in the video is HIGHER than the bar on the closeup image.
It’s not simply magnification, that would change the top bars: The lower portion of the image is refracted more than the top: refuting your unsupported assertions that objects only ever appear lower, and measurably demonstrating that objects appear HIGHER due to refraction.
3/3 Debunked
3.) The third image is of the USS Alabama the video says this should be hidden by 50-60 feet of curvature (based on its actual distance)
Again: no one bothered to check anything. You’ve just swallowed the claims verbatim and not checked the height and position of the ship. The video slapped a line high through the ship at at least 40-45m and asserted that this is where the cut off should be. This is again just BS claim by people too stupid or too dishonest to scientifically analyze their claims.
The draft of the ship is 11m, and it’s height from keel to the truck is just a shade under 60m, meaning the entire ship is 49m above the water line. (It could also be up to 1m higher than this: different images I have seen show the draft might markers - the white numbers on the front of the ship, showing it is higher out of the water)
The 1/4 line of the ship will be around 45 feet and the 1/3rd point of the ship will be a fraction under the 60 feet point.
I have an image of the ship, and it’s real-life counterpart for reference (actually 2): drawing a red line at around the ¼ and 1/3rd point give or take.
I’ve drawn comparison points (in green), a thin orange line JUST BELOW the waterline on the video image; and a pink, black and orange line from the truck, to three different points of reference. This is so we can compare sizes in one image with the other for scale in 3 different ways
What we can do, is what I’ve done in the second set of images: resize the ship until the comparison lines are the same size: and then compare where the water line is.
Note: despite Erf lying by repeatedly asserting this experiment “accounted for refraction” when it obviously doesn’t: using multiple points of reference does account for refraction, by measuring the ship from different points, it allows you to quantify the distortion of the ship due to refraction.
If we use the orange line as reference: the water is Faaarrr below the red line, if we use the black line, for some odd reason; the water line is a little closer: just a shadow below the ¼ line, which is closer.
The pink line, the water line is around the red line where the boat should be cut off; and appears to be showing a tiny bit less than the 50 feet of cut off or so expected.
Which is almost exactly the amount of curvature you’d expect at the distance to the USS Alabama (which is the closest of the mobile images), as the refraction appears to decrease as you go up (and as the image is the grainiest, especially when measuring the top portion which will reduce the perceived cut off), being a few feet from exactly the curvature that should be seen, it could be accounted by even small measurement error (such as if their camera is 6 feet rather than 7feet off the ground)
4/4 Debunked.
In addition, as I mentioned with the cranes before; there is measurable refraction: you can see it in the image: as the lines from the top to different positions on the boat do not scale the same way:
The bottom of the boat is measurably compresses compared to the top.
This is exactly how science explains how refraction over water works, and exactly how I have described it.
5/5 debunked.
4.) The final set of crane images is harder than it looks.
Again, however; the claims made have made absolutely no analysis: they have literally ignored all the evidence that is perfectly visible in the comparison image that demonstrates the cranes are cut off by 60 feet.
I believe I have found the same images, but it’s impossible to find any images on the line of cranes that look the same, and have the same red/white pattern, as a result, I’ve decided to use the image the video provided; because you’re more likely to find that trustworthy!
In that image, we clearly see the cranes cut off below the red line on the image I’ve provided. Given the truck in the foreground as a reference, the distance in the image to the red line from the water, is about 5-6 trucks high:
Using this to calculate the hidden height appears around 60ish feet give or take is being cut off in this portion of the image.
6/6 Debunked
5.)The final image, I tried to google exactly what boat was shown. It appears to be the boat “Grand Canyon II”, or a similar profile: a boat that appears to operate around the Gulf of Mexico and matches the image profile exactly.
https://www.fleetmon.com/vessels/grand-canyon-ii_9653874_9736784/photos/1966419/
I can’t tell what the height of the ship is, nor how much is hidden. But I can tell you one thing though; the flat earther that edited the video mistook the descending treeline as the bow of the ship.
The image is likely of deer river/bayview - as this appears to be the only location that matches the image (there Grand Canyon is likely to be docked at one of the servicing companies with docks at the location) - This is 10.7 miles away and when you actually look at the boat (or any similar boats), it’s obvious that there could very, very easily be 40 feet - 4 stories - cut off the boat in that image, given how tall the boat actually appears to be.
7/7 Debunked
@erfisflat is obviously lying or flat out stupid when he claimed he “validated” the images shown. He has done no such thing, as everything I’ve noted is revealed with less than 5-10 minutes of basic google searching and looking at images.
As shown: EVERY claim he and the video makes is flat out false; and when you do the science, they are objectively false. Every image show the amount of cut off and curvature that would be expected on a spherical earth.
In addition, the video provides proof that refraction produces measurable effects which are identical to how I’ve described them.
This experiment proved that the required cut off due to curvature is almost identical to what you’d expect on a spherical earth: because the video and Erf spectacularly and embarrassingly failed to perform even basic analysis.
I mean come on; how stuoid do you have to be to decide not to google how tall the USS Alabama is? Or to not google what you’re looking at to know that you’re taking an image of a dry dock?
On what planet are you on where you think just looking at an image is justification for saying there is no curvature? When even a basic analysis demonstrates the curvature is right there in the image.
This was just an unfounded assertion: Erf wanted to believe it was true, so asserted it was true.
This is, in general, the flat earth strategy: throw out insane and incorrect claims with no justification or scientific validity or analysis: and simply rely on the actual scientific minded individuals to refute their claims: then instead of defending the poor claims they make, simply attack the analysis without any acknowledgement that the original claim has been destroyed which I’m sure is what erf will do now.
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You’re not going to write a rebuttal. We both know that. I don’t think you’d even know where to begin, scientifically.
Your claim is that these images show no curvature. The videos claim is that these images show no curvature.
My claim: supported by detailed actual analysis, demonstrates that there is almost exactly the right amount of curvature. This is the type of analysis you should have done but obviously didn’t.
As I’m confident that my data, measurements are correct within an acceptable margin of error no better or worse than the estimates made by the video, and I’m confident that my analysis is valid: and I know for absolutely sure you’re too lazy and too incompetent to be able to provide anything logical to refute this; a rebuttal will not be forthcoming.
What you will do, I’m sure, and I will call out before you do it, is one or more of the following:
1.) You will assert, with no argument or justification, that “I haven’t proven anything”, or you will dismiss the measurement or analysis out of hand without an explanation why in some way. You may claim the flat out refutation of the claims with a detailed analysis is a “straw man”, or “red herring”: with no explanation, or justification.
2.) You may complain that my conclusions are invalid because you will claim that I made a 1-2 pixel error drawing a line, or rounded a height up. You won’t make any attempt to show how that error would impact the conclusion.
In reality, a couple of pixels or rounding errors are not going to effect my conclusion more than a foot or too).
3.) Even though I have provided an explanation of how refraction works, provided an experiment that validated how it works, pointed out how and why your claims contradict science and sometimes themselves, and showed how this video can be used to show the refraction effect I claim exists appears to be present and working in exactly the way I say it is in several of your images: you will assert, without any justification or evidence, that I haven’t accounted for your refraction that you refuse to explain and cannot show to be happening in this image.
Obviously this would be an attempt to change the subject, as you would be admitting that the curvature appears to be present: despite you claiming it didn’t appear to be present before, or in the video.
4.) You will make no attempt whatsoever to provide your own analysis, or post how you originally concluded there was no curvature, because you don’t seem to be scientifically competent enough to do so. You will do little more than point and say “no curvature”, you will not reference the objects that I am, and will conveniently forget what claims the video makes. You will focus on making new claims and objections: and won’t bother to actually defend the original claim with your own analysis.
5.) You will object to the analysis or methods I’m using, without explaining how or why they are wrong, or showing that they are inaccurate enough to produce answers of 60ft of curvature when there is apparently none.
6.) Despite the video getting multiple claims flat out wrong (claiming the dry dock cranes were shipping cranes, that a tree line was the front of the boat, that the cut off of the uss alabama was much lower than claimed, and more), you will claim that everything else is 100% accurate, and will not acknowledge that they could be off observer height by, say 1.5 feet: which would produce a change in observed cut off far in excess of any measurement error.
7.) anything not supported by a link, but is trivially googleable: will be asserted to be incorrect. You won’t bother trying to confirm or validate/disprove any of the core data I’ve used so will solely rely on saying “nuh-uh” and not bothering to check anything yourself: obviously, in the process of validating the claims, you should have obtained all this information yourself.
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