Posted on 10/06/2021 5:25:40 PM PDT by Salman
The hosts even call it "fake news".
I met a flat earther for real
It took 10 seconds to get in a “you’re kidding right?” before I concluded he was a true believer
He’s part of the 38% who think Biden is doing a good job
Ship of idiots
When these guys get around to the end of the WW II channel I hope they present the particulars of the planned Downfall assault on the Japanese home islands.
What! But, but, but the Google map is flat. :)
Most of the intellectual elite knew about Eritosthenes’s calculation of the circumference of the earth by Columbus’s time.
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200606/history.cfm#:~:text=Values%20between%20500%20and%20about,slightly%20less%20around%20the%20poles.
The gamble Columbus presented was that he thought it was much smaller than that.
He was proceeding from tales of Basque fishermen and others taking tons of codfish off some western lands. The Basque had reason to keep their discovery secret, like a protected secret recipe or doohickey for bizness.
The thing that really freaked them out was when they saw that sailing around the world threw the ship’s calendar off by one day.
They quickly figured out the puzzle and started using chronometers in ships.
Columbus also was one of many who had fallen for the ballyhoo of Marco Polo, who drastically exaggerated the size of Asia to make his adventures there and back seem all the more heroic.
So Columbus believed the earth wasn't as big around as actually it is at about 25° north latitude. And he also believed Asia extended far further to the east than it actually does. Between them, he underestimated the sailing distance to Asia by about 5000 miles.
Which should have been a fatal miscalculation because his ships could only sail about 3500 miles before running out of food and water. So the typical strategy was to sail 1750 miles from land and if they hadn't found anything, turn around and come home. But Columbus sailed about 3100 miles before he made landfall in the Bahamas.
So if he had not been rescued by a completely theretofore unknown continent (or two), he'd would have never been heard from again. Instead, pure blind luck (and some guts) made him immortal.
Never thought about that but if course it’s true...makes it a little tricky to keep a ship’s log or for someone reading it later to be sure of the “when” part.
My governor would have branded him a knucklehead.
Columbus encountered the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola on his first voyage. He only saw bits of South America and North America on later voyages.
Not until they created accurate clocks that would work on a ship. check out Longitude movie or series.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/
A friend of mine, a retired engineer, built a reproduction of the H1, Harrison’s first clock. I did a series of Photographs of it, one of which made the cover of the March/April 2013 Watch and Clock Bulletin, (Vol. 55/2 Number 402)in which he wrote an article about the making of the clock.
Harrison’s story is pretty cool.
Columbus encountered the Bahamas, Cuba and Hispaniola on his first voyage. He only saw bits of South America and North America on later voyages.
The Bahamas are in North America, as are Cuba and Hispanola. They're just not part of the continent.
Tell the flat earther the world isn’t flat because if it were puddy cats would have pushed everything off the edge.
An April 1964 discussion with Dr Arnold Shostak about the hydrogen maser.led my father to start his Timation Navsat. With modification of the the signal it became GPS. See my website (and book!) www.gpsdeclassified.com
The old expression about “sailing off the edge of the Earth” originated from the fact that sailors were heavily dependent on the North Star to navigate. When they sailed far south, the North Star approached, and finally disappeared below, the horizon. They had “sailed over the edge”.
There is an interesting history of the Viking Greenlanders. The author postulates that their disappearance was possibly due to the Portuguese (Basque?) recruiting of the limited number of Greenland males for fishing crews, and not so much climate change.
If there is any interest, I will do some more digging to find the title.
Great book. Fast read.
It especially bothers me when people say that the Bible was the reason people thought the Earth was flat.
Isa. 40:22 and Job 26:7
I’d be interested but I’m pretty sure they were overwhelmed by the “little Ice age”. The indigenous Inuit could handle the cold and hunt locally while the Vikings depended upon crops to survive and didn’t hunt whales & seals. The Vikings’ superiority was their ships. Once they were outnumbered on land, they could be pushed back to the sea as long as a tribe was willing to sustain high casualties.
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