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Riiiiight, Copernicus.
How about what can be seen with your own eyes?

Using Only a Camera, Trace the Solar Analemma and Plot the Solstice

The Sun traces a figure eight pattern in the sky when viewed at the same time every day for a year. This pattern, called an analemma, allows you to know when the solstices occurred. Image courtesy Jailbird

Why does the Sun trace this odd path? The reasons boil down to two facts. First, the Earth is titled at an angle when it rotates, and second, the Earth has an eccentric orbit–it orbits in an ellipse as it revolves around the Sun.

So why isn't the tilt reflected in temperature variances?

Shouldn't the analemma be a different shape, a true figure eight with equal parts on each side, if the Earth were round?

Here's a question for you...How did NASA send people through the Van Allen radiation belt without the people dying from radiation exposure?

Why didn't the Apollo space capsules send off clouds of steam when they landed in the ocean? They had to have been hot, like in the picture of the Shuttle above, right?

Why are the stars we see in the night sky still reliable for navigation if we're going through such a convoluted path of movement?

How about what can be seen with your own eyes?

Yes, like when you see the sun rise at the eastern horizon, arc overhead across the sky all day, then slowly disappear over the western horizon each night.

If the earth is a disk, the only explanation for that observation, is that it's oriented on edge to the sun. It means that the entire surface of our world is in daylight at the same time, and that during our night the reverse side of the disk is illuminated.

But we know this isn't the case, because half of our world is always in daylight, while the other half of the surface is in darkness.

That is only possible if our planet is a sphere.

Look with your ow eyes at the changing phases of the moon, and explain how that observation squares with the theory that planets and moons are disk shaped objects. It doesn't. Your direct observation disproves the theory. That is, unless your beliefs are so strong that they override your basic senses.

Why didn't the Apollo space capsules send off clouds of steam when they landed in the ocean? They had to have been hot, like in the picture of the Shuttle above, right?

Nope, Apollo had an ablation thermal protection system, which caused a phase change of the material, and emitted hot gases, keeping the remaining material relatively cool compared to Shuttle tiles.

Also, the Apollo was on parachutes for the last 40,000 ft, which allowed the remaining material to cool even further.