But, but.... what about all these other experiments?
Your points 1&2 are exactly the same.
I suspect you haven't looked if you think we have this big pile of irrefutable experiments.
You see, you have unreasonable criteria - on one hand you'll swallow a consensus views and CGI imagery from government agencies, and on the other have unreasonable criteria never sought on your default belief. What are the best globe earth poofs?
This is cognitive dissonance in action. If you falsify a hypothesis, which this experiment does thoroughly, then that is independent of having to provide an alternative hypothesis. So instead, you would rather cling to a disproven idea unless someone provides you with something to replace that belief with.
You being unable to reconcile it is what everyone who examined the topic has to deal with. Hence the predictable "whataboutism", I called it before and you guys all still went there anyway.
Topic too hard to address. I have more of these by the way, this is just one that stands out because of how well it is put together.
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Best globe earth proofs, off the top of my head, in no particular order:
Ships disappearing over the horizon from the bottom up not just getting smaller until you can’t see them anymore. (Same for mountains or any distant tall object).
The mathematics of navigating using the stars and a sextant that work in the real world but would not work if we were not on a globe.
Plane flight paths which follow an apparently curved route but when mapped on a globe is a straight line. (And no I don’t believe all the private aviation companies in the world are somehow in on the conspiracy.)
A laser beam projected out level to the ground does not stay level but appears to rise at exactly the rate predicted if we were on a globe with a circumference the same as that which we have calculated for the earth.
Our model of the earth which can explain how it formed and what its structure is which is supported by P and S waves from earthquakes.
Constellations getting lower in the sky as you travel south in the northern hemisphere and or as you travel north in the southern hemisphere.
The fact that different constellations are visible in the northern and southern hemisphere.
Those are almost all very baseline arguments for the globe. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't seem like you have looked at what the other side has to say about those examples. Most people really don't care though, which is fine too.
I just find it a bit odd that if one is presented well constructed observations that contradict the globe model (this theodolite is one good example), they wouldn't think "hmmm, that's odd", and instead tend to respond "well, explain how ______ works then".
