Anyone who has played Civ 1 knows when you reach the edge of the map in the east, you get teleported to the west.
This is correct, as the world is neither flat nor spherical, but a cylinder.
This is the correct interpretation of Putin’s flight to Alaska. The teleportation in fact occurred.
- Flat earthers are already way out there conspiracy theorists and if you’re telling them that two of the most powerful men in the world chose their meeting location in an inconvenient place and way to reinforce round earth propaganda they will absolutely believe it
- This is a modern “flat earth map” which shows the travel would be pretty similar to round earth:
That would make Brazil the biggest country?
That’s actually kind of clever. I wouldn’t immediately know how to counter this map on a debate.
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ChatGPT: On this map, distance from Australia to South America is absolutely enormous — thousands of kilometers longer than it is on a globe. Yet in reality, there are direct flights from Santiago to Sydney that take about 12–14 hours. On this map, those flights would be absurdly long or impossible. Airlines can’t be faking that because passengers time them, track them on GPS, and even bring their own fuel calculations.
Why is there ice in the center and edge, with the warmest region being r/2?
Why are time zones shaped like pie slices? Like no seriously, show me a functional solar geometry that would give those observable time zones even remotely as well as the globe model?
Why do seasons flip at r/2?
My immediate thought is “why is the equator warmer?”
Obviously because the sun floats in a circle tracing above the equator
Space lasers
Have em show how Antarctica can have a 24 hour sun on this model.
The real problem is that current flerfers have wised up to the fact that their model is shit, so most will say “we don’t make claims/have a model we just point out flaws in the globe model.”
The best way to demonstrate the earth curve is a water level sight though.
The problem would be that they’ve heard all of the common arguments against and probably be prepared for them. I would point out that this map has a pretty severe northern “hemisphere” bias that would make the age of exploration confusing. But I wouldn’t be surprised to hear them say history is made up too
It’s impossible for this map to have polar day or night. So bring them to Antarctica during the summer.
Ask them how long it would take to get from one side of Antartica to the other.
Clearly he used a body double or clone they already had prepared in Alaska to continue selling the lie that the Earth is round. Russia’s greatest tactical advantage is convincing the US that it’s not actually that far away.
Continues shoving crayons up nose
This convinced me that maps are an afront to god. The 3d earth was never meant to be bastardised as a 2d projection
Actually, the map the flat earthers seem to use the most is the polar azimuthal equidistant projection (as in the UN logo). Trips not involving the southern hemisphere get distorted much less.
