/sci/ - Science & Math

>>8964928
realize ball tards never debate just insult and appeal to authority when flat earthers prove nasa are lying over and over and take photos

>>8959323
kek. and were the tin foil cat conspiracy theorists

>>8929445
>inb4 psyop
>inb4 light refraction
>inb4 off topic ban
>Are you suggesting in 100bce that Eratosthenes knew about light refraction from the sun 93 million miles away, and the outer atmosphere of the Earth to account for this non existent refraction when he developed his method of calculating the circumference of the Earth using sunlight and two sticks?

>What would be the resulting circumference of the Earth if Eratosthenes corrected for refraction which was discovered much later?

>Why do we still use the Eratosthenes expirement as proof the Earth is curved, when he wasn't accounting for refracted light which proves the sun isn't far away?

> circumference of the Earth when the geometry doesn't work in detecting a curve on the horizon?

>If the Earth is an Oblate spheroid shouldn't there be less pictures of the Earth from space looking like a perfect sphere?