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March 14, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Flat Earth delusion deconstructed
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Welcome to Health Rangers Science.
This is my new science podcast website, healthrangerscience.com.
And today's topic is the flat earth debate.
I don't even know if you can call it a debate.
It's a delusion.
I mean, there is a growing number of people out there who say that the Earth is flat.
And, of course, they are wildly incorrect, but they have convinced themselves that they know what they're talking about.
So in this podcast, you know, because I'm a scientist and I run a science lab, but I'm also into I'm very curious about the nature of the universe.
I'm obviously always open to questioning the status quo, but there's no question whatsoever that the Earth is basically a sphere.
not a flat disk floating in outer space.
So, I'm going to explain to you in this podcast why that is so you can actually prove it to yourself very, very quickly.
Okay, here's the first thing.
If the Earth were flat, then how does satellite bandwidth work?
You know, a lot of people have a dish network dish or they have a satellite dish for some kind of broadband network, you know, a lot of satellite systems.
Now, you notice that these dishes are pointed, well...
Toward outer space, right?
These dishes aren't pointed horizontally across the landscape, which is the way they would have to be pointed if Earth were a flat disk.
No, they're pointed upward toward outer space, and you know why that is?
You know why that is?
It's because that's where the satellites are orbiting, believe it or not, and most of those satellites are in geostationary orbit.
Which means, by the way, that their orbital velocity matches the necessary rotational velocity so that the satellite appears to be stationary over a fixed geographical position on the planet.
But actually, the satellite is orbiting at a fixed speed relative or velocity relative to Earth.
It just happens to match the Earth's rotational motion.
So it's incorrect to say that geostationary satellites aren't moving.
They are moving.
They're moving quite fast.
Quite rapidly, but the Earth is spinning also.
So when those two match up, you have a satellite that stays in a fixed angular position in the sky relative to the ground.
Now, I think that distance, by the way, this is just from memory.
I think it's like 22,500 miles or something.
Actually, let me check it.
Okay, here it is.
22,236 miles above the planet, the land of the planet.
That's where geostationary satellites sit.
So that's pretty far, if you think about it.
There's nowhere near the surface of the Earth.
That's pretty far out there.
And it's that distance that explains the latency in any kind of communication that bounces off of these satellites.
So if you're surfing the web on a satellite system, you'll notice that you click a link and it takes an extra second or two for that to load.
That's because the speed of light, of course, the electromagnetic signals have to reach the satellite and come back And that introduces some latency.
That's why your signal is slower.
Obviously, if you had satellites that were closer to the surface of the Earth, they would be moving across the sky.
You'd have to track them, but they would have a lot lower latency.
However, that's not easy to do, obviously, because you'd have to move your dish around and track the satellite and so on and so forth.
Nevertheless, that's a different topic for a different science podcast.
But here's the thing.
If you want to prove to yourself that there actually are satellites orbiting high above Earth, even though you can't see them, with the naked eye anyway, you can do a couple of things.
Number one, you can take your satellite dish and you can start downloading, let's say, a movie.
I don't know.
Maybe you have a Netflix account.
You can start playing a movie and then go take a big aluminum trash can lid and hold it over the satellite dish between the dish and the sky.
And when you do that, you're going to notice something very interesting happening.
Your Netflix movie stops playing.
Why is that?
That's because you've introduced an obstacle between the geostationary orbiting satellite and your satellite dish.
That right there is very strong evidence that the Earth is not flat, because if the Earth were flat, Then why would you be pointing satellite dishes at high-orbiting satellites?
That's a question that the Flat Earth people really can't answer.
What do they say?
What, that there's like a roof up there and there's satellites hanging off of strings or something?
Right next to the moon, you know, the moon on a string, and the sun, and I guess the stars, which are little twinkly light bulbs or LED lights that they have to swap out or something crazy like that.
I don't know.
They're hanging off a roof, or that somehow they're bouncing off of the ionosphere back to some other...
I don't know who...
I don't know.
It doesn't make any sense.
It makes more sense to point a dish in a straight line where you want it to go.
So, you know, the straight line goes from the dish to the satellite, which is in orbit.
Alright, there are many other pieces of evidence that make it obvious that the Earth is not a flat disk.
For example, did you know that hurricanes and tornadoes and such, they spin in opposite directions in the northern hemisphere versus the southern hemisphere?
Why is that?
Well, it's because of the Coriolis effect.
Now, the Coriolis effect is, well, what's the best way to describe this?
It is an imparted rotational velocity vector that's imparted onto objects due to The extrapolation of the spinning of the sphere of the planet.
Well, I guess that wasn't a very clear way to explain it.
How about this?
Let me say it this way.
You know I'm a long-range target shooter, and I like to shoot targets at a thousand yards or more.
And so I use some very high-caliber rifle cartridges for this, such as the.338 Lapua.
Yeah, that's my favorite round, although...
It does give you a big kick in the shoulder when you fire that sucker off.
Nevertheless, you can shoot targets 1,000 yards away or even, by the way, 2,000 yards away, although I've never personally shot something that far.
But in order to do that, You have to use a ballistics calculator.
And a ballistics calculator is a piece of software.
You can get them on your iPhone or your Android or you can buy a little standalone device.
The ballistics calculator tells you where you have to aim in order to hit your target.
And where you aim, it's not like in the movies where you just put the crosshairs over the target and pull the trigger and it just automatically hits.
No, it doesn't work that way at all.
Why?
Because bullets drop.
You know, because of the acceleration of gravity, G, right?
So the minute that bullet leaves your rifle, it is dropping.
And not only is your bullet dropping, it's also slowing down because the muzzle velocity starts to decrease as the bullet meets air resistance, right?
There's friction with the air.
This is all basic high school physics.
So the bullet velocity is slowing down at the same time that gravity is dropping the bullet at the same vertical acceleration as if you held the bullet in your fingers and just dropped it to the ground.
It's actually the same acceleration of gravity.
It doesn't matter that the bullet's also moving horizontally.
It's dropping to the ground.
Now, what does the Coriolis effect have to do with all of this?
Well, everything.
Ballistics computers take this into account.
They actually take into account the compass direction of the direction you're firing, and they calculate that in so that you don't miss your target.
Now, this doesn't matter at short ranges, by the way, if you're shooting, I don't know,.308 or.762 by.51 round at, let's say, you know, 400 yards or whatever.
You don't have to worry about this because these are very small effects at that range.
It might only be an inch or something like that.
But when you're shooting long, long ranges and your bullet has a lot of flight time, then the rotation of the Earth actually has a big impact.
Now, If the Earth were flat, then ballistics computers would always miss their targets.
And I guarantee you, they don't.
Ballistics computers are so accurate that if you don't have one, you won't hit anything probably in a thousand yards or farther.
Because you have to take into account all these factors.
You can't just guesstimate it in your head.
You can't just fire off a.338 Lapua at a 1,000-yard target and hit a 6-inch round blast point.
No, it doesn't work that way.
You're not Luke Skywalker using the Force to blow up the Death Star.
You've got to use a ballistics computer.
Don't use the Force, Luke!
Keep the computer on, said Ben Kenobi.
That's because the Earth is moving, and if you don't take that into account, you're going to miss your target.
So I have yet to find, by the way, a flat Earth person who is also an accurate long-range target shooter because they are contradictory ideas.
You can't believe both things at the same time.
Obviously, if the Earth were flat, then you wouldn't have to aim high or low or left or right.
You just account for the gravity drop and that's it.
Now, by the way, speaking of gravity, how does gravity work if the Earth is flat?
Is it a disk?
And so where's the mass underneath the disk that would account for all the gravity?
And by the way, if the Earth were flat, then wouldn't gravity be stronger at the very center of the disk because there's more mass directionally underneath you at that point?
And gravity would be weakest at the edges of the disk because, well, actually gravity would sort of pull you towards the center.
So if you were standing on the edge of the so-called flat Earth, you'd have to be leaning out over the edge, like about to fall off.
The fictional flat Earth, because the gravity would be pulling you, like, diagonally into the center of mass, which is somewhere under your feet, to the center, right?
So that would mean that everywhere around the world, people would have to be leaning as they walk around.
Like, the farther they are away from the center of the so-called flat Earth disk, they would have to lean more to the outside, right?
And that's not true.
I've been all over the world.
Well, not every continent, but I've been to a lot of places around the world, and I don't find people leaning all the time, except in California, where they all lean left.
But that's more of a philosophical thing rather than a gravity thing.
That's a mental thing.
They're not physically leaning to the left.
So no, no, the Earth is not a disk.
It's a sphere.
It's a sphere.
Okay, now, I've seen flat earthers say, they've shown photos, and they say, well, look at these photos.
The clouds have been photoshopped on the planet.
It's photoshopped clouds, they say, and that's why they say the earth is flat.
Well...
It doesn't mean that somebody hasn't photoshopped some pretty looking clouds on it to depict the planet.
You know, when you look at a map, let's say you're looking at a map of the United States, it's not actually the United States.
It's a beautified representation of the United States.
It's a map.
It's a metaphor for the United States.
If you go up high into the air, and you look down on the boundary between, let's say, California and Arizona, there's not actually a line there.
Did you know that?
And California is not like a little red pastel color, and Arizona is like a yellow pastel color.
No, that's the map.
That's not the way they actually look at the real world.
And many of these pictures of the planet are really maps.
They're representations.
They're put together in order to educate people about atmospheric conditions or the continents or sometimes the movement of the continents and so on.
So there's just another great simple example of all of that.
Alright, now, I mean, I could go on and explain hundreds of examples here of how the Flat Earth Theory is completely wrong.
I mean, one of the things they say is that the sun is a disk in the sky, and it just sort of moves across the sky at a constant elevation.
Well, if that were true, the sun would look really, really tiny as it goes away, and it would never really set, would it?
I mean, what...
It would get smaller and smaller and smaller as the Sun moves farther away from you.
If it's close in elevation, right?
If it's not very far away, it would look really big when it's right overhead, and then it would look smaller and smaller and smaller as it goes farther away.
But, in fact, It appears to be much the opposite.
The sun looks small in the sky during the day, but in the evening, as the sun is setting, it's disappearing over the horizon of the spherical Earth, it actually looks bigger.
Now, some of that is an illusion, because we're now comparing the apparent size of the sun versus the terrain, the mountains, and so on.
So there are some optical illusion effects there, but certainly the sun doesn't get smaller.
It doesn't get smaller at all as it's not moving.
I mean, I don't even know.
The geometry doesn't even work if you're trying to say that the Earth is flat.
The geometry doesn't work.
I mean, I consistently find that those who are arguing that the Earth is flat really never really understood high school geometry or physics or algebra or mathematics or just the basics of basic science.
All right, again, I could go into lots and lots of reasons for all of this, but here's something else that is obvious.
You must agree that we live in a three-dimensional universe.
In other words, the space that we occupy is, it has three physical axes, X, Y, and Z, you might call them.
They're typically called.
So you can move, you know, back and forth and forward and backwards, up and down.
There's not a fourth dimension of physical space that you can move into.
There's only three dimensions.
Now, what is the most natural shape in a three-dimensional universe?
What is the most efficient gathering of mass in a three-dimensional space?
The answer is a sphere.
A sphere.
And since gravity exists in our three-dimensional space, if you were to throw...
A large mass of stuff into outer space.
And it would start being attracted to itself because all mass has an exertion of gravity effects.
So the masses would start coalescing and gathering to each other.
And by the way, this is how every star ultimately formed and even every planet ultimately formed, if you want to get into cosmology.
But everything would start gathering together.
And it would form, naturally, a sphere.
Why is that?
Well, why are bubbles, if you blow bubbles in the air, why are they spheres?
Because it's the most efficient shape.
It's the most efficient distribution of the molecular tension across the film of the bubble, which is very, very thin, by the way.
Very strong for its thickness.
Why are water droplets spherical?
Again, because it's the most efficient shape of the surface tension effects of water molecules.
Water droplets are round, you know, spherical.
They're not disks, okay?
They're not little flat disks.
If water droplets were disks...
It would rain like little razor blade discs.
It would cut you to pieces when it's raining.
I'm pretty sure that rain doesn't cut you to pieces.
Rain is survivable because they're spherical drops.
Spherical drops.
Why?
Why?
Why is hail spherical?
Because a sphere is the most efficient shape in any three-dimensional universe.
And that's why the sun is spherical.
That's why the moon is spherical.
That's why the planets are spherical.
That's why the stars are spherical.
And if you look at small forms of life, I mean spores from ferns are spherical.
And up to very large things like the Sun or Saturn, the planet, or other large heavenly bodies, why are they spherical?
You can even look at galaxies.
Galaxies are mostly spiral, but they're also thick.
And in the center, it's mostly spherical of galaxies, but they have a spiral effect, which is sort of a vortex extension of a sphere in motion.
So even the shape of a galaxy hints at the spherical nature of the natural state of the aggregation of mass in a three-dimensional universe.
We do not live in a two-dimensional world, otherwise the most efficient shape would be what?
A circle!
Right?
If we lived in a two-dimensional world, we would see circles everywhere.
Planets would be circles, the sun would be a circle, you know, like a flat circle, if we lived in a two-dimensional universe.
Which we don't!
Thank God, because otherwise the traffic in LA would be horrible.
You couldn't build overpasses.
You know, you couldn't have subway systems that go underground because you don't even have that dimension in a two-dimensional world, right?
Wasn't there a scientist who did a deal on that?
Like 2D world?
What do you call it?
Flat world.
That's what it's called.
Yeah, flat world.
Look that up online.
It's kind of an interesting sort of mind experiment into what would happen if we lived in a flat world.
And that's not flat Earth.
It's actually like a two-dimensional thought experiment of a flat world where...
You exist as like a cartoon stick figure walking around, and you have to walk over someone else in order to pass by them, because there is no additional dimension to go around them.
Anyway, that's just a thought experiment.
And speaking of thought experiments, by the way, I'm going to wrap this up, because the Flat Earth narrative is actually a thought experiment.
It's not real, but for a lot of people, they consider it to be a fun pastime, a fun hobby to discuss and brainstorm how they think things could possibly work in their world of a flat earth.
It's a thought experiment.
It's not real, though.
If it were real, again, all these things, all these examples that I've gone through, you know, how does GPS work?
You know, there are GPS satellites in orbit that are broadcasting their position all the time.
You know, time codes that are interpreted by your GPS handheld devices.
Why is it that you can get a GPS signal everywhere on the planet?
Why is it that satellite phones work everywhere on the planet?
Because there are satellites.
Again, to believe the flat Earth theory, you have to believe that all the satellites are fake and don't exist.
You have to believe in flat Earth.
You have to believe that the entire history of NASA had to have been faked, that they never launched a rocket or never went to the moon or never sent satellites to orbit Mars.
Actually, they did send some satellites to crash into Mars, but that was a programming error, a unit conversion error between the imperial system and the metric system Good job, NASA! Way to blow those tax dollars.
But they did send the Cassini spacecraft to Saturn.
It's actually still there, by the way, and it's been sending back pictures from Saturn.
So, in order to believe the flat-earth theory, you have to believe this insane narrative that says that all satellites are somehow faked and all the history of NASA is somehow faked and that ICBM missiles don't exist, that you can't launch nukes into orbit.
I don't know.
It's a crazy number of things that you'd have to believe in order to believe that theory.
And you'd also have to believe that somehow in a three-dimensional universe where everything else is fundamentally spherical, that for whatever reason the planet itself is a disk?
That doesn't even make any sense.
why would it be a disc oh man Oh, man.
Well, anyway, I hope this has given you some things to think about.
We love to be amused by some wild theories.
And by the way, if you're interested in some other crazy theories, here's one that scientists believe that when you inject mercury into a child, it becomes a magical inert metal that's magically transmuted from mercury into something that's non-toxic.
So that's a belief system of the scientific status quo, which is rooted in the same kind of lunacy as the flat earth theories, by the way.
So that's incredibly stupid.
And there are other similar theories.
Well, heck, the Big Bang Theory is a little bit lunacy.
Well, it's really crazy, actually, if you think about it.
The Big Bang Theory says, and this is what cosmologists believe, that everything in the universe, all matter and all energy, didn't exist until all of a sudden it did for no reason.
Like, everything came from nothing.
That's...
In other words, they don't even believe in cause and effect.
They're like, yeah, there was nothingness, and then all of a sudden, for no apparent cause, there was everything.
And everything suddenly existed with such ferocity that it began expanding.
It was a massive explosion of everything from nothing.
And then they say, no, someone couldn't have caused that because that would imply a creator or an intelligent design.
So, instead, the official explanation is that everything was created from nothing, which is kind of like saying that the Earth is flat and there aren't any satellites.
It's just as stupid.
It's just as insane.
How could everything come from nothing?
And then I was reading recently that scientists are now questioning their whole dark matter theory.
They say, well, you know how we said that dark matter was 96%?
Well, dark matter and dark energy together were 96% of the universe.
Remember how they've been saying that for years?
Like, you can only really detect 4% of everything that exists.
That's all we know.
The other 96% is hidden because it's dark matter and it's dark energy.
This is what they've been telling us for a few decades.
But just the other day I was reading a study that said, well, you know, the scientists have now decided that the dark energy never really existed after all.
So, roughly I think 68% of the universe was supposed to be dark energy, and they have now decided, apparently by a vote, they've decided that dark energy existed.
Ah, it was all bogus.
Kind of like the flat earth theory.
So basically the dark energy physicists are the flat earthers of cosmology and they've decided that their flat earth theory doesn't really pan out anymore.
They say, ah, we can explain the dynamics of the movement of matter and gravity and Big Bang theory without introducing dark energy.
So they've now decided it doesn't exist.
These people are so loony, I'm going to have to hire a translator who speaks loony just to be able to talk to these damn physicists and cosmologists.
They're just as crazy as the flat earthers.
You know, make up your mind.
Is there dark energy?
Is 96% of the universe invisible and mysterious and beyond measurement?
Or is it not?
And you guys are just full of crap because you couldn't explain anything without introducing fictional variables into your theories.
Seriously, people.
Give me a break.
Alright, anyway, something to think about and a little bit of sarcasm.
I like to make fun of the scientists and the anti-scientists and everybody in between.
If we can't have fun with science and human knowledge, then what the heck are we here for?
You know, look, the truth is, we know science has been great to give us access to a lot of knowledge, but it's also been used by a lot of status quo people to push a lot of bunk.
So don't believe everything you hear.
Even if it comes from status quo scientists who think that they discovered dark energy running their CERN experiments in underground tunnels, particle accelerators, warping the universe, whatever they're doing.
Yeah, I don't think they know everything that they're talking about.
A lot of it's just getting government funding for some more science papers that sound like they know what they're talking about.
Believe me, that's like 80% of science is just bullshit trying to get more funding.
Seriously, that's what they're doing.
Yep, that's what they're doing.
Anyway, you can find more podcasts at healthrangerscience.com, at least until the satellites fall off the coat hangers from the roof in the sky.
If you believe that, you need to really tune into the podcast to learn more real science.
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