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RELEASE THE KRACKENS: When I first started seeing these FE youtubes showing up the last six months or so, I wasn’t even curious. Is it just those wacky Christians who believe this? I have read Genesis many times, and the detailed description of the Creation of the Earth was incomprehensible when compared to NASA’s Big Blue Marble hurling through the Void. How to reconcile God’s creation as a flat plane covered by an impenetrable dome with water above and water below and sun and moon within the dome and the stars imbedded in the firmament. Finally my curiosity got me, and I watched some FE youtubes. Many compelling points were made.

However, NASA could shut it all down if they had the proof everyone thinks they do. How about some actual photos of the spherical earth if we actually did go to the moon 240,000 miles away or Mars at 35 million miles. I would settle for the Hubble turning its camera around up there 350 miles away (ISS is a total joke)—Nothing, not one single photo of earth in NASA’s gallery that is not CGI/Artist creation.

AS to an objective observation of the earth’s shape... Ever heard of Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist who went up 10 miles into the stratosphere in a balloon in 1931. His feat was written up in Popular Science. Here is a quote from what he and his partner observed through their non-fisheye glass windows:

“The story of their adventure surpasses fiction. During the ascent, the aluminum ball began to leak. They plugged it desperately with vaseline and cotton waste, stopping the leak. In the first half hour, the balloon shot upward nine miles. Through portholes, the observers saw the earth through copper-colored, then bluish, haze. It seemed a flat disk with upturned edge. At the ten mile level the sky appeared a deep, dark blue. With observations complete, the observers tried to descend, but couldn’t. While their oxygen tanks emptied, they floated aimlessly over Germany, Austria, and Italy. Cool evening air contracted the balloon’s gas and brought them down on a glacier near Ober-Gurgl, Austria, with one hour’s supply of oxygen to spare”
https://books.google.com/books?id=BCgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false

However, NASA could shut it all down if they had the proof everyone thinks they do. How about some actual photos of the spherical earth if we actually did go to the moon 240,000 miles away or Mars at 35 million miles. I would settle for the Hubble turning its camera around up there 350 miles away (ISS is a total joke)—Nothing, not one single photo of earth in NASA’s gallery that is not CGI/Artist creation.

You've bought into a phony argument. Photo's from space are ALWAYS computer generated. They have to be. In fact any photo you take with a digital camera of a phone is computer generated. They have to be. From "How Stuff Works":

The digital camera is one of the most remarkable instances of this shift because it is so truly different from its predecessor. Conventional cameras depend entirely on chemical and mechanical processes -- you don't even need electricity to operate them. On the other hand, all digital cameras have a built-in computer, and all of them record images electronically.

So ALL digital cameras are computer generated images. The only alternative is traditional photography which on a satellite is impractical if not impossible. Take a picture on film and bring them all down to earth?

Maybe you're talking about composite photos taken by satellites near earth? Pictures taken by satellites NEAR earth will NEVER show all of earth. If the earth were the size of an orange then a typical satellite is about a 1/4 inch away. There's no way to get the whole earth in a shot. So those types of satellites take as much as they can as they orbit and then the images are stitched together to make a whole.

However there are several satellites that are far from earth. A NASA satellite devoted studying the climate is a million mile orbit. That's far enough away to get whole earth pics (see this link for the story).

Here's an image:

So essentially ALL photos from space ARE always going to be digitally altered or enhanced in some way because they DATA for the picture is going to be transmitted to earth and then it has to be reconstructed by a color to get correct colors in etc etc etc.

So that argument is all wet and has been since the 1960's when pictures of the whole earth were taken by the Apollo missions.

“it just those wacky Christians who believe this? “

That’s the idea of this hoax. Smear conservatives as lunatics. Equate not buying global warming or other leftist proposed Eco disasters with flat earth.

I read further and see you are quite insane or else one of the hoaxers.

“However, NASA could shut it all down if they had the proof everyone thinks they do. How about some actual photos of the spherical earth if we actually did go to the moon 240,000 miles away or Mars at 35 million miles. “

Of course NASA can’t reveal this stuff otherwise the real secret about the moon could get out. Flat earthers know the truth about the moon. We didn’t land on it because the moon is made of cheese. The moon was once a giant cheeseball sitting in the middle of the flat earth.