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When the surveyors came through this area nearly 200 years ago, they marked out what became the section line roads as well as the future property line markers. Because the regular division of a spherical surface into squares won't quite work, here and there the north-south roads across the countryside don't quite line up. I live fairly close to one of those corners, which four townships come together. If you root around with Google satellite view, you'll find some of these types of corners.

This won't of course have any impact on the TrollInThoughtWordAndDeed, because he's absurdly stupid and self-deluded, and looking around some more will find that the surveyors' long experience with the curvature of the Earth is attacked by people just as absurdly stupid and self-deluded as TrollInThoughtWordAndDeed.

My guess is, some of the Flat Earth a-holes got to where they were by their self-delusion and paranoia about the quite real Apollo missions to the lunar surface, you know, the jokers who deny that the Apollo landings ever took place. Flat Earth is just one more step down that very stupid road, as it denies that anyone can orbit the Earth, and therefore the Moon (which is, btw, in orbit around the Earth, semantic hobgoblins notwithstanding) is just a big flat image.

Piso Theory and False Eschatology

Both the idiots who claim there were no manned missions to the Moon, and the Flat Earthers, remind me of the mental defectives who claimed, completely seriously, that the Roman Empire never existed, that it was hoaxed. Yes, you read that right, there was once upon a time an online advocate (possibly more than one) of Piso Theory, the view that someone had hoaxed the whole Roman Empire, because it was important for people to believe that the Roman Empire used to exist. His constant line was, "I don't come to debate. I come to inform." I'm getting the same vibe from TrollInThoughtWordAndDeed.

TrollInThoughtWordAndDeed seems to think that repeating "WATER IS FLAT" is somehow factual -- which it isn't -- and represents a compelling argument for a flat Earth -- which it doesn't. It's just stupid that the moron continues to repeat something that is so obviously a LIE, while claiming that his view is the only valid form of Christianity.

The Empty Can Makes the Most Noise

I've actually enjoyed the Flat Earth stupidity in the recent past -- after one of the SpaceX launches, which carried at least one camera along to make sure the payload deployed, and the picture showed quite clearly the oblate spheroid we call Earth, the Flat Earth nitwit who'd borrowed (ahem) the video had a really convincing argument, he kept yelling, "It's FAKE! Look how FAKE!" And that was the sum of his argument -- all the evidence is contrary to what Flat Earthers claim, so the only thing they can do is tell you not to believe your own eyes and thousands of years of human experience. All Flat Earthers are just stuck on stupid, there's nothing that can be done until they get their meds adjusted, or they stroke out and die.

Some Sidebars

The Coriolis Effect

For instance, a German gun of 21-cm bore called ‘Big Bertha’ was used in 1918 to shell Paris from a distance of 122 km. Over such distances the inclusion of the Coriolis effect is at least as important as the consideration of deflection by the wind.

Artillery and Coriolis E. Linacre and B. Geerts

Curvature and Refraction

$Curvature and Refraction$

SunkenCiv,

Water on the earth is flat. That can be verified with a laser - and your own eyes, if you care to believe them.

Your insults were prophecy long ago. 2 Peter 3

You are now fulfilling the prophecy.

This is your destiny. Matthew 12:35-37

It does not have to be.

You can repent all the way up to your dying day.

After then, it will be too late.

Man is destined to die once, and then face judgment.

You do not want to be an unrepentant sinner in the hands of an angry God.

In 240 BC a man named Eratosthenes stuck a stuck in the ground at noon on the summer solstice and fairly accurately measured the arc and radius of earth as a sphere.

I'm afraid to ask how they explain the shadows in the craters near the terminator.

Thanks for your input, I have flown for several decades.

Great circle (shortest distance between two points on a sphere, where one flies an arc) routes come into effect on distances of 100 to 200 miles, it is very noticeable on greater distances

If the earth was flat, there would be a constant course between any two given points. Flying a constant course on a long leg and one will not get to their destination.

LOL. Love your post...especially the “stroke out and die” part. 😂