I have met one who swore the earth was flat.
Remember the movie, Capricorn One?
Tom Adams, post: 440477, member: 7285 wrote: I'm curious where he claims to be a professional land surveyor. I looked for a profile, but didn't find it. I didn't sit through the 20 minute video or the 10 minute one. Can someone direct me to where he makes his claims?
He appears on a YouTube show called globebusters. I've never listened to the show. I've seen comments made by people on YouTube saying he's a professional surveyor of 30 plus years. So, maybe he gets introduced that way on the show or he makes the claim himself, I don't know, but the perception is out there he's a survey that believes the earth is flat.
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Peter Ehlert, post: 440537, member: 60 wrote: Maybe it is all tongue in cheek...
It's not.
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There's only so much a person can fix.
ANOTHER_TEXAS_SURVEYOR, post: 440521, member: 8610 wrote: Before I was licensed, I called my self a land surveyor. Easier than having to explain I was a party chief or the like. If I needed to go into detail that's when I would clarify I wasn't a R.P.L.S. Seems like this guy being asked questions like an "expert" is pushing the limits. Only harm I see is him perpetuating to the 50+ views on his videos that he represents an entire community.
Harmless and understandable when someone you meet casually asks you what do. More of a problem when you use the title to give credence to an idea in a public forum.
I do often enjoy the thought of surveying on an irregular polyhedron with thousands of flat faces... But it is still not flat earth!
OK, if the Earth is flat, then where is the edge?
Dale Yawn
Savannah, Ga.
M??bius is not an illusion
Dale Yawn, post: 440672, member: 492 wrote: OK, if the Earth is flat, then where is the edge?
Dale Yawn
Savannah, Ga.
Well....the edge is on the other side of the globe. I thought everyone knew that.
I have been to the west edge numerous times. Not sure where the east edge is located. My guess it is close to where the maps indicate sea dragon territory.
After $70K in cartography and surveying lessons, my wife just informed me that cats are prof the world is not flat. If it was, they would have pushed everything off of it by now.
Is he from the Molodensky or the Helmert flat earth society?
Walter Bislin messaged me on my channel to send me this pretty cool simulator -
Flat-Earth: Finding the curvature of the Earth - Waltis Blog - Walter Bislin
http://walter.bislins.ch/blog/index.asp?page=Flat%2DEarth%3A+Finding+the+curvature+of+the+Earth
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JOHN NOLTON, post: 440493, member: 225 wrote: Well the question above on the video is "DOES THE SUN CHANGE SIZE"
Every surveyor should know that the answer is YES ( and NO).
If you measure the Sun diameter from Earth the diameter does change due to the orbit of the Earth .
Perigee (nearest) of the Sun and Earth happens on 4 Jan 2017 and Apogee (farthest) of the Sun and
Earth happen on 3 July 2017. The semi-diameter of the Sun at Perigee is 16' 15.93" and at Apogee
the semi-diameter is 15' 43.90".Now if you measure the Sun Diameter at a constant distance or take in consideration the orbit of the Earth
the Sun does not change in size.JOHN NOLTON
This guy's citing change of size during a single day. He's only measuring digital camera images. And he's coming up literally a few pixels different. And he's not being methodical. Near the horizon the sun's vertical size is squashed a small bit. But as we know the horizontal dimension is constant in any one day. At least he's not arguing that it changes by large percentages, and if he just addressed the horizontal component he'd find it the same.
The worst part is he says his observations demonstrate a small, nearby sun. That's just messed up. But I suspect he may just be doing it for clicks.
He's odd. But in the flat earth club, he's a bit on the tame side. More of a Dunning/Kruger syndrome behavior.
Don't worry about the flat earthers....
They will fall off the edge, one of these days!!!
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Reminds me of the surveying experiments the Koreshans did here on Ft. Myers Beach trying to prove that we lived on the INSIDE of a hollow earth! Now those people were wacky! They actually made their own sort of equipment trying to prove if you leveled far enough the measurements would prove their theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreshan_Unity
If we could just pass the legislation, we could MAKE the earth flat. This would eliminate alot of survey problems. Scale factors, coordinates, no longer need Lat Longs, and building a GIS becomes much simpler. It should be a law. And, all those who oppose it should be labeled non progressive, and ignerant.
Makes sense to me...
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