/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9750689
>Are you using an example of a local light source? That's not evidence for the globe model.
ah yes, as we all know, optics works entirely differently on large scales then on small scales.
I'm providing you with a simple experiment that you can do in your mum's basement, and you're throwing every tantrum you've got in you to have an excuse not to try it. what's the matter, big guy? scared to collect a little evidence?

>Surely, when the sunlight hits the earth, the rays are parallel and cover the entire earth equally, just not those clouds?
the angle of outgoing reflected light is dependent on the angle of incoming light. to return to the magazine model, the entire room is illuminated by the lamp, but the reflection will only be visible if the magazine is in a location where the angles between it and the lamp and it and your eyes are approximately equal.

>Look at the video
turns out some people have gotten to the video before I did and it's got a few problems.
>https://flatearthinsanity.blogspot.com/2017/10/analysis-dogcam-footage-does-hotspot.html
according to the timestamp and admitted location, the sun would have been overhead in Cambodia at the time of the Dogcam footage. how do you reconcile that with the claim that the sun was right overhead in the Black Sea and creating a "hotspot"?

and again, why have the alleged "hotspots" never been observed from within them? and why do observers at different locations see the same "hotspot" in different places?

>>9446551
It's about to solve itself with wind and solar becoming ridiculously cheap over the coming years and electric vehicles generally being seen as desirable because of superior acceleration and lack of local exhaust emissions.

/sci/ what do you think about UFO sightings? Do you think any of them could be legit?

I want to believe, but I have trouble swallowing the idea that a race of aliens capable of traveling from god knows where and back while only being seen by a single person wouldn't be able to disguise/conceal itself from that person

At what point can I legitimately call myself a mathematician? Im a math major, but I feel that's like calling a physics major a theoretical physicist. Do I need to make a legitimate contrabution to mathematics before I can assign myself a title or get my PHD?