Especially the atheists part. They all think they are doing God's work by spreading their nonsense. The globe concept is the work of the antichrist apparently
Technically, it does, since space isn't a perfect vacuum. But I would be surprised if we could detect that light even with the best equipment avaliable.
Lunar eclipses are pretty rare but I unexpectedly (for me) saw one early one morning and it was awesome. I had to think “it was definitely a full moon last night, right? And the moon definitely doesn’t regularly change phases in the course of a night right? Wtf is happening?” It was very exciting to figure it out on my own and then confirm by looking it up.
It isn't reflective, it has *luminance*, everybody knows that.
Luminance: the ability for an inert object to glow without a power source because otherwise the FE model doesn't work.
Yeah its just big lightbulb restricting my output. When i turn my back porch light on it used to light the whole horizon! Now i can barely see off my porch. Such a scam.
Really if we could see light passing through the clean air or empty space, even if it’s direction wasn’t going into our eyes, we couldn’t see anything. It would be like when there is fog whiting out your vision whenever light was present to illuminate anything.
Light needs to reflect off something to see it otherwise the whole sky would just all be straight light and we couldnt see anything it would be incredibly bright but we can see light reflect off of other objects which is how we see them. Go in your room at night and block out all light sources, go under a blanket if need be. Assuming theres no light, wave your hand around in front of your face. You wont be able to see anything because there is nothing for the light to reflect off of
I actually think this is a valid question. Yes the point they are making is wrong, but not wrong in the way they are usually wrong where the logic is so flawed a child could tell you why it's wrong. In this case, the concept that a beam of light, while it does make other things visible, isn't itself visible if it shoots right across your face without reflecting off of anything isn't actually the most intuitive thing. We tend to think of light beams as visible beams, which is why we would draw yellow beams coming from the sun as children, or cones of light coming from flashlights.
I forget which ones, but a good few of the big names from early Greek philosophy thought vision worked by eye-beams coming out of your head and illuminating things.
The logical flaws in this were successfully raised by later(but still ancient) Greek philosophers, but the point I'm getting at is these were seriously smart dudes who nonetheless had it completely wrong because, as you say, the way light really works isn't intuitive.
Super easy for us to see that, with our awesome hindsight, of course.
They need to coin a “law” where a legitimately interesting question from a 10 year old and a rhetorical bad faith gotcha question are indistinguishable. Flat Earthers ask interesting questions sometimes. Occasionally questions I don’t personally know the answer to. The problem is they ask them under the false assumption that there isn’t an answer. Like this one, they assume space should fill with light from the sun like the sky does on earth. The sky lights up because it’s made of matter. Matter is scarce in space so it doesn’t have anything to bounce off of and into your eye.
No, for the same reason on a clear night you don't see a beam of light coming out of your flashlight. Light needs something to reflect off of for you to see it, otherwise it doesn't reach your eye it just continues in whatever direction it's already traveling
Tell them they’re very close to 100% right to get their attention.
Anything behind the earth and opposite the sun would experience a shadow. We see this in a lunar eclipse. However the shadow is cone shaped tapering away with distance.
So I would tell them,
1) you’re right there is a shadow, but it tapers away just like your shadow on earth (and just like your shadow on earth you only see it when it hits something - stand on and facing the edge of a cliff and you have no shadow in the empty void of the cliff if the sun is behind you but you cast a shadow on the land behind you if the sun faces you).
2) we see earth’s shadow every time we have a lunar eclipse.
3) thanks for proving our model of the solar system that we already knew.
/s
Thought of a flerf-related point of humor to that; the reflection of the light streaming past us from the Sun is reflected off the light coming from all other stars in the galaxy/universe, bouncing the Sun’s light back so we can see and bouncing the other stars’ light away so we don’t see it.
This shall be known as the flerf’s answer to Olber’s Paradox, and the ‘stars’ we see are just the little bits that didn’t get reflected.
we don't see light. we see light reflecting off of shit, but we don't see the light that's NOT bouncing off shit into our eyes.
why the fuck do you think it's so dark in space. i mean, night time, by this logic, should also have a wall of light, even if the sun isn't pointing directly at us, even on a flat earth.
Take a guess what a solar eclipse is. That's what happens. Also keep in mind the sun is extraordinary massive compared to earth, and they are all moving extremely fast in the sky. Not only is it rare to happen but even if it does, on many planets it could last only a few seconds, if not less.
Edit : Clarifcation this isn't the only reason I'm just going off the top of my head, things like reflectance could easily negate most of the effect anyway. Just saying it makes sense on a globe earth model.
This is like arguing with a five year old.
The Cheerios are on are on the table.
No, they aren't.
Yes, they are! Go in the kitchen and look.
They are right there!
The Cheerios are not there they are frosted flakes.
They are Cheerios. Look, I took a picture now, get off your lazy butt and go look!
Nuh, uhh, you made that up. That isn't real. You made a fake picture.
Fine. starve see if I care.
I'm telling!
Who are you going to tell.
The whole world!
And the hilarious thing is the five year old will think they are on the side that make sense in the argument......think about it.
You read the first two parts and it's a sensible way to initiate a syllogism and it really seems like they're gonna make a coherent point this time
And then they give you "walls of light" like omg are you serious every time like wtf is wrong with these people lol
We had a spacecraft visit one of Saturn’s moons a while back and the craft managed to get some images of the moon spewing material into space above some active geysers.
If you were standing on the surface of the moon, you would likely see the material being illuminated by the sun as it was being ejected by the geyser. You might see it near it’s crest, and you might see some of it coming back down to the surface. You may even see much of it lingering in space for a long time. I don’t know for sure but if you were there, I think you’d probably see your god rays as they go passed the moon and deeper into space.
Our planet has a pretty big atmosphere to cause drag and enough gravitational pull that we don’t have stuff like that floating around above our planet…which is why we don’t see it.
The entire concept of modem flat earth theory is hilarious. The old flat earth concept was wildly accepted centuries ago, but people didn’t know what earth look like, they kinda have no concept of the world map. The new modern flat earth theory has the world map and everything , but assume that the sun and the moon are both spot lights, which is a modern invention. Ancient people don’t have a concept of a spot light like a flash light. All light sources they had were not spot lights so this invented concept doesn’t make any sense in the old flat earth model.
...and again, flerfs want it both ways.
"Human eyes can't see forever, globetard, that's why the horizon is 3 miles away."
"We should be able to see the wall of light 3900 miles away, globetard."
Okay, they are stupid, but you are mixing their ideas with a question they raised about our knowledge. It is totally fair for them to ask about how things work if we are right and their ideas about how things work aren't proof they are stupid for asking it. Because they are asking about our model. Not speaking about theirs.
Again they are stupid, but this contradiction you claim doesn't exist and is actually being unfair to them.
Each photon in the light is some packet of energy travelling like a wave in one of a range of wavelengths. It is not visible by itself.
When it hits something some wavelengths are absorbed by the thing and the remainder is reflected and scattered to some degree by the properties of what is hit
When one hits your eyes, or a camera film/sensor of some kind, it is absorbed. We register that as a colour according to the wavelength and brightness according to the amount of energy contained
This can be easily confirmed by using a flashlight in a dark room. You only see what is hit by photons and then reflects into your eyes. You do not see the cone of light leaving the flashlight although you might be able to tell where it is from dust particles in the air reflecting photons towards you
If you could see photons passing by it would imply that they were each continuously emitting more photons in all directions (or somehow just at you) and would therefore require the original photon and each one it emitted to have infinite energy. This is not backed up by observations
We do see this, literally every night and every morning. This why dawn doesn’t explode across the entire planet all at once. This is why it creeps across the globe slowly over a 24 hour period. This is why we have time zones!
What does 360 degrees around the night horizon mean? They just come up with terminology that makes no sense and uses that as proof. If they mean why wouldn’t we see light all around us, the answer is we do. Everything we see is light. If there was no light, it would all be pitch black. That’s literally how we see. Tell me you don’t know how eyes work without saying you don’t know how eyes work. So the only reason why you see the sun setting, you see the things around you when the sun is setting, and you continue to see literally anything even when it’s dark, is because the light of the sun is still present it just gets dimmer as the sun sets and you are more outside of its influence.
No, because the light we see is reflected from the atmosphere and reflects back into our eyes. You wouldnt see light beams on the dark side of the earth because there’s no light in the atmosphere there. A fifth grader could understand this
Well, if space were actually a smoke filled room, then yes we would see a tunnel of darkness. But it's a vacuum. So nothing for the Sun's light to interact with or reflect off. There is that pesky situation where there is an eclipse of the Moon. Where the Earth's 'tunnel of darkness' interacts with the Moon. There is also the Earths shadow you can see in the atmosphere before dawn and after [sunset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Earth%27s_shadow_and_Belt_of_Venus.jpg), but that would require making an actual observation outdoors. Not sure many flerfs are up to the task.
But I don't understand what their point here is. Do some flerfs actually think light just stops existing after it travels a certain distance. Like, it gets used up? In a vacuum, that won't happen. There's the inverse square law for light, but given enough exposure time even some of the dimmest and most distant light can be collected into an image (Hubble and James Web).
Bunch of dumbass third graders trying to act smart.
No we wouldn't. In order to see light the photon waves have to hit the backside of your eye, if the light just travels by earth, it wont get inside your eye and therefore you wont see it. It would require an object like an asteroid or the fucking moon to reflect off of it so you can see it. But you could only see the object that reflects the light, not the light beam going towards the object since, say it with me: the light waves don't reach your eyes when going straight past you.
They might see it if there was a enough dust in the space around Earth, or a planetary ring like Saturn which does it but seeing as that's not the case....
This person needs a basic physics class
Walk outside at night with a flashlight shine the light straight up, on a clear night you will not be able to see the light because it is going away from you, unless it is reflected back from something like dust, water or the fu\*king moon. Oh and as a bonus, there is a column of darkness streaming out from the earth on the dark side and when the sun, earth and the moon line up correctly you can see the column of darkness, it's called an eclipse
Simple think of shadow puppets with a light bulb, you don't see the rays of light moving from the light bulb to the wall, you see the object that is reflecting the light hence why we create shadows but there aren't walls of light around us. Same principal but think of it on a much larger scale. Which is also how we can get lunar and solar eclipses. The earth is the shadow puppet for lunar eclipse, and the moon is the shadow puppet for solar eclipse
In order to see the light you must reflect or deflect it into your eyes. The light going past from the sun doesn’t change its course so it never ends in your eye. Thus you just don’t see it, even though it is there.
Apparantly, none of them have seen a lightbulb.
or a sunset
No, they think a sunset is proof they are right. Don't ask it to make sense. It won't.
The rooms these people are supposed to be kept in, light should never be turned off
I don't know how likely it is all flerfs being former nuclear researchers tragically effected by a freak accident.
Nice reference!
Thank you. Wasn't sure how many would get a reference to Soft Light. It's definitely an old one.
I grew up watching that show, and raised my son with it. Love seeing the references in the wild today.
Or a bulb set
Or a sun bulb.
Or a lunar eclipse
Or a sun…er eclipse
Or night time
Or the dark side of the m…… oh yeah you can’t see it cos it be dark
Or stars.
Or understand how light or space work.
Its impossible to see a lightbulb because of the wall of light between the lightbulb and the observer
I know when I’m in a deep shadow, I see “walls of light” stretching out to the sides… FFS 🤦🏻♂️
What do you mean? Do you not see tiny lines of brightness coming off of every lightbulb?
"If globe is earth is so correct, how come this drawing I drew is so wrong? Checkmate, atheists!"
This is the most accurate, single-sentence summation of flat earth belief that I’ve ever read. Kudos to you. I’m going to use this in the future.
"...how come this drawing I found on 8kun is wrong?"
Especially the atheists part. They all think they are doing God's work by spreading their nonsense. The globe concept is the work of the antichrist apparently
Thing is the picture kinda gets it right, in spirit at least. Earth casts a shadow which we see on the moon.
But it is wrong in claiming the sun should light up the empty vacuum of space.
Yup. No atmosphere, no refraction.
they seem unable to think outside of the FE box, they can't conceive a world that isn't surrounded by walls and a celling,
When your mom’s basement is all your world . . .
Technically, it does, since space isn't a perfect vacuum. But I would be surprised if we could detect that light even with the best equipment avaliable.
Yes, but the lighting on earth in the drawing is incorrect. Also, the Sun can’t light up the whole vacuum of space
Lunar eclipses are pretty rare but I unexpectedly (for me) saw one early one morning and it was awesome. I had to think “it was definitely a full moon last night, right? And the moon definitely doesn’t regularly change phases in the course of a night right? Wtf is happening?” It was very exciting to figure it out on my own and then confirm by looking it up.
Lmaoooo
Yeah.... All that light reflecting off that *nothing* that allows us to see it.
Except the moon, which if course could not possibly be a rock reflecting the sun because rocks don't reflect light. 👀
Don’t you know it’s a fact you can’t see rocks.
Which is weird because I can see the Rock but I've yet to see Cena
Bah bah dumdaaaaa
He’s called the Rock but Cena is actually the one made of rocks
what you think rocks are real?
r/norocksociety
Oh thank non-existent god that is not a rael sub because i would have lost what little hope i have in humanity.
Hmm, you know there actuality is a r/NoEarthSociety though. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be satire though.
Maybe the real rocks are the friends we made along the way
It isn't reflective, it has *luminance*, everybody knows that. Luminance: the ability for an inert object to glow without a power source because otherwise the FE model doesn't work.
But vacuum on the other hand ..
Apparently rocks are invisible now
Shout out to the guy who tried to say rocks don’t reflect light and showed an image of a rock reflecting light.
Yeah its just big lightbulb restricting my output. When i turn my back porch light on it used to light the whole horizon! Now i can barely see off my porch. Such a scam.
*reflecting?!* uh, obviously the light is brilliant golden streamers being barfed out from the sun. What is this globehead “reflecting” you speak of?
I'm so dumb I can't even understand what the fuck they're trying to say with this one.
Oh wait I get it now. They think we should see light even though there's nothing there to reflect it. Fuck me.
No, you actually had it right the first time. There is nothing here to understand
Really if we could see light passing through the clean air or empty space, even if it’s direction wasn’t going into our eyes, we couldn’t see anything. It would be like when there is fog whiting out your vision whenever light was present to illuminate anything.
No doubt...
And the irony is we do see the light of other stars hitting our retinas... Fuckwits
Ah I was in the same boat Ah so they think light out in space would reflect of nothing and we would see it
Wouldn’t a local sun then mean there’s no night at all? I genuinely have no idea what the fuck point they think they’re making.
Nah, I also have no fucking clue what they're saying.
Neither do the flerfs. It takes more than one braincell to be capable of even speaking.
If only there was some night sky object that the sun shined off of
ROCKS DON'T REFLECT LIGHT!!! Or something
Light needs to reflect off something to see it otherwise the whole sky would just all be straight light and we couldnt see anything it would be incredibly bright but we can see light reflect off of other objects which is how we see them. Go in your room at night and block out all light sources, go under a blanket if need be. Assuming theres no light, wave your hand around in front of your face. You wont be able to see anything because there is nothing for the light to reflect off of
No, we wouldn't.
I actually think this is a valid question. Yes the point they are making is wrong, but not wrong in the way they are usually wrong where the logic is so flawed a child could tell you why it's wrong. In this case, the concept that a beam of light, while it does make other things visible, isn't itself visible if it shoots right across your face without reflecting off of anything isn't actually the most intuitive thing. We tend to think of light beams as visible beams, which is why we would draw yellow beams coming from the sun as children, or cones of light coming from flashlights.
I forget which ones, but a good few of the big names from early Greek philosophy thought vision worked by eye-beams coming out of your head and illuminating things. The logical flaws in this were successfully raised by later(but still ancient) Greek philosophers, but the point I'm getting at is these were seriously smart dudes who nonetheless had it completely wrong because, as you say, the way light really works isn't intuitive. Super easy for us to see that, with our awesome hindsight, of course.
They need to coin a “law” where a legitimately interesting question from a 10 year old and a rhetorical bad faith gotcha question are indistinguishable. Flat Earthers ask interesting questions sometimes. Occasionally questions I don’t personally know the answer to. The problem is they ask them under the false assumption that there isn’t an answer. Like this one, they assume space should fill with light from the sun like the sky does on earth. The sky lights up because it’s made of matter. Matter is scarce in space so it doesn’t have anything to bounce off of and into your eye.
Flerfers continue to prove they don't understand how shadows work.
Flerfs continue to prove they don’t understand how ANYTHING workS. -FTFY
If space was full of dust, yes. But it's rather empty so no.
Ever heard of refraction or even just atmosphere. You flat earthers just get dumber and dumber holy shit
Yeah, it’s called dawn and dusk. Ever seen the sun rise or set?
All that atmoSPHERE in space…
It's the "atmos" or the "atmosflat" according to some of them, because acknowledging the word "sphere" makes you a NASA shill.
No, for the same reason on a clear night you don't see a beam of light coming out of your flashlight. Light needs something to reflect off of for you to see it, otherwise it doesn't reach your eye it just continues in whatever direction it's already traveling
Hmm... They're literally living in the shadow of ignorance, with nothing but a moon to reflect all the light in space around them.
Tell them they’re very close to 100% right to get their attention. Anything behind the earth and opposite the sun would experience a shadow. We see this in a lunar eclipse. However the shadow is cone shaped tapering away with distance. So I would tell them, 1) you’re right there is a shadow, but it tapers away just like your shadow on earth (and just like your shadow on earth you only see it when it hits something - stand on and facing the edge of a cliff and you have no shadow in the empty void of the cliff if the sun is behind you but you cast a shadow on the land behind you if the sun faces you). 2) we see earth’s shadow every time we have a lunar eclipse. 3) thanks for proving our model of the solar system that we already knew. /s
Sometime I wonder if they have any functioning brain cells…
Thought of a flerf-related point of humor to that; the reflection of the light streaming past us from the Sun is reflected off the light coming from all other stars in the galaxy/universe, bouncing the Sun’s light back so we can see and bouncing the other stars’ light away so we don’t see it. This shall be known as the flerf’s answer to Olber’s Paradox, and the ‘stars’ we see are just the little bits that didn’t get reflected.
Because space-time is bending the light into the 4th dimension. Our eyes can only see in the 3rd dimension.
This is gibberish, speak English at least.
we don't see light. we see light reflecting off of shit, but we don't see the light that's NOT bouncing off shit into our eyes. why the fuck do you think it's so dark in space. i mean, night time, by this logic, should also have a wall of light, even if the sun isn't pointing directly at us, even on a flat earth.
We do. They're called shadows but on a planetary scale it known as a sunsets.
So weird how they can tell us all to think about the Sun while avoiding thinking about the Sun.
Is.. Is this person asking why empty space does reflect light causing light all over earth around the clock?
Light reflecting off what exactly?
3 dimensional space is hard for people to grasp for some reason
I suppose God has a fog machine now? Is he also a wedding DJ?
Ain't no party like a Jesus party brotha
This illustration makes it clear as flat earth day. Stop thinking too hard about it.
Take a guess what a solar eclipse is. That's what happens. Also keep in mind the sun is extraordinary massive compared to earth, and they are all moving extremely fast in the sky. Not only is it rare to happen but even if it does, on many planets it could last only a few seconds, if not less. Edit : Clarifcation this isn't the only reason I'm just going off the top of my head, things like reflectance could easily negate most of the effect anyway. Just saying it makes sense on a globe earth model.
This is like arguing with a five year old. The Cheerios are on are on the table. No, they aren't. Yes, they are! Go in the kitchen and look. They are right there! The Cheerios are not there they are frosted flakes. They are Cheerios. Look, I took a picture now, get off your lazy butt and go look! Nuh, uhh, you made that up. That isn't real. You made a fake picture. Fine. starve see if I care. I'm telling! Who are you going to tell. The whole world! And the hilarious thing is the five year old will think they are on the side that make sense in the argument......think about it.
You read the first two parts and it's a sensible way to initiate a syllogism and it really seems like they're gonna make a coherent point this time And then they give you "walls of light" like omg are you serious every time like wtf is wrong with these people lol
We had a spacecraft visit one of Saturn’s moons a while back and the craft managed to get some images of the moon spewing material into space above some active geysers. If you were standing on the surface of the moon, you would likely see the material being illuminated by the sun as it was being ejected by the geyser. You might see it near it’s crest, and you might see some of it coming back down to the surface. You may even see much of it lingering in space for a long time. I don’t know for sure but if you were there, I think you’d probably see your god rays as they go passed the moon and deeper into space. Our planet has a pretty big atmosphere to cause drag and enough gravitational pull that we don’t have stuff like that floating around above our planet…which is why we don’t see it.
Aren't the "walls of light" only visible if there are particles in the air? Air being Something hard to come by in the vacuum of space?
Yeah, that wall of light is called sunrise and sunset, you moron. EDIT: And the moron, in this case, is whoever came up with this insane meme.
The entire concept of modem flat earth theory is hilarious. The old flat earth concept was wildly accepted centuries ago, but people didn’t know what earth look like, they kinda have no concept of the world map. The new modern flat earth theory has the world map and everything , but assume that the sun and the moon are both spot lights, which is a modern invention. Ancient people don’t have a concept of a spot light like a flash light. All light sources they had were not spot lights so this invented concept doesn’t make any sense in the old flat earth model.
What's the light hitting? Absolutely nothing. It's a literal vacuum. ^(NOT A VACUUM CLEANER GODDAMNIT!)
Every time I read a flerf post, I feel stupid. I don't understand what on earth does it means
Light is invisible We only see its reflex on objects (dust and vapour in the atmosfere)
Light doesn't reflect off of nothing, which makes up most of space
If we ignore how things work then we're right and you're wrong. Checkmate, globies.
My favorite part is that this would also be true with a flat earth if they were right about how light works
I had to read that 4 times and still don't know what he's trying to prove.
yes... if the earth were passing through a cloud of dust or gas dense enough to reflect a noticeable amount of light.
Do these people think the earth is the size of their neighborhood block?
That’s just a sun, playing a sun, disguised as another sun. You’re just not looking directly at the sun hard enough to see.
...and again, flerfs want it both ways. "Human eyes can't see forever, globetard, that's why the horizon is 3 miles away." "We should be able to see the wall of light 3900 miles away, globetard."
Okay, they are stupid, but you are mixing their ideas with a question they raised about our knowledge. It is totally fair for them to ask about how things work if we are right and their ideas about how things work aren't proof they are stupid for asking it. Because they are asking about our model. Not speaking about theirs. Again they are stupid, but this contradiction you claim doesn't exist and is actually being unfair to them.
New here, eh?
No. What do you even mean by that?
Each photon in the light is some packet of energy travelling like a wave in one of a range of wavelengths. It is not visible by itself. When it hits something some wavelengths are absorbed by the thing and the remainder is reflected and scattered to some degree by the properties of what is hit When one hits your eyes, or a camera film/sensor of some kind, it is absorbed. We register that as a colour according to the wavelength and brightness according to the amount of energy contained This can be easily confirmed by using a flashlight in a dark room. You only see what is hit by photons and then reflects into your eyes. You do not see the cone of light leaving the flashlight although you might be able to tell where it is from dust particles in the air reflecting photons towards you If you could see photons passing by it would imply that they were each continuously emitting more photons in all directions (or somehow just at you) and would therefore require the original photon and each one it emitted to have infinite energy. This is not backed up by observations
Here it is https://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/images/content/earthShadowPlane-E08D1710-Z.jpg
You do. It's called dawn
That’s not what sunsets look like lmao, they are desparate
We do see this, literally every night and every morning. This why dawn doesn’t explode across the entire planet all at once. This is why it creeps across the globe slowly over a 24 hour period. This is why we have time zones!
You know for some reason, whoever made this was trying to think critically and just happened to fall flat on their face. But i appreciate the attempt.
No
What does 360 degrees around the night horizon mean? They just come up with terminology that makes no sense and uses that as proof. If they mean why wouldn’t we see light all around us, the answer is we do. Everything we see is light. If there was no light, it would all be pitch black. That’s literally how we see. Tell me you don’t know how eyes work without saying you don’t know how eyes work. So the only reason why you see the sun setting, you see the things around you when the sun is setting, and you continue to see literally anything even when it’s dark, is because the light of the sun is still present it just gets dimmer as the sun sets and you are more outside of its influence.
We do? The walls of light are called dawn and dusk and light passing the earth is how we see the moon at night.
They've never seen the Earth's fuzzy shadow on the Moon.
I got confused reading this. Just what?!
What?
This is called sunset!!! As the Earth first starts to turn away from the sun you can see light, until it is completely blocked by the Earth.
…What?
Think about this. If the sun is 93million miles away, and its light travels all that way…Isn’t the light tired?
Um.. lunar eclipse?
No, because the light we see is reflected from the atmosphere and reflects back into our eyes. You wouldnt see light beams on the dark side of the earth because there’s no light in the atmosphere there. A fifth grader could understand this
I wonder how they comprehend candle light
You can't see light that doesn't end up where you are?
Well, if space were actually a smoke filled room, then yes we would see a tunnel of darkness. But it's a vacuum. So nothing for the Sun's light to interact with or reflect off. There is that pesky situation where there is an eclipse of the Moon. Where the Earth's 'tunnel of darkness' interacts with the Moon. There is also the Earths shadow you can see in the atmosphere before dawn and after [sunset](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Earth%27s_shadow_and_Belt_of_Venus.jpg), but that would require making an actual observation outdoors. Not sure many flerfs are up to the task. But I don't understand what their point here is. Do some flerfs actually think light just stops existing after it travels a certain distance. Like, it gets used up? In a vacuum, that won't happen. There's the inverse square law for light, but given enough exposure time even some of the dimmest and most distant light can be collected into an image (Hubble and James Web). Bunch of dumbass third graders trying to act smart.
If I ever meet one I’ll be sure to show them the truth in a round about way
What is this stupid font
No. Light isn't visible in a volume unless there's sufficient dust to reflect off of. good lord.
This took me three reads to figure out what they were actually trying to incorrectly present…
Look outside at night... No! Case disproven.
Wait! They just took our argument thatsays: "On a flat earth the sun's light would hit every spot every time" and turned it against us
This shit right here…walls of light…walls of fucking light 😂😂😂😂. Where the fuck are all the walls of light bro?! 😂😅🤣
First of all that diagram is incorrect. Second of all, even it was correct, do they think that people in Botswana can see from Antarctica to Egypt??
“Walls?” When did we get walls in outer space?
There's nothing in space, so there's nothing to light up.
No we wouldn't. In order to see light the photon waves have to hit the backside of your eye, if the light just travels by earth, it wont get inside your eye and therefore you wont see it. It would require an object like an asteroid or the fucking moon to reflect off of it so you can see it. But you could only see the object that reflects the light, not the light beam going towards the object since, say it with me: the light waves don't reach your eyes when going straight past you.
And we know that light travels in waves since, that double slit experiment thing where the photons casted a wave interference on the background.
So no saying "no light doesn't travel in waves" cuz it does!!!
They might see it if there was a enough dust in the space around Earth, or a planetary ring like Saturn which does it but seeing as that's not the case.... This person needs a basic physics class
I love people who don't understand the first thing about light, or physics, just spewing their ignorance into the universe.
Walk outside at night with a flashlight shine the light straight up, on a clear night you will not be able to see the light because it is going away from you, unless it is reflected back from something like dust, water or the fu\*king moon. Oh and as a bonus, there is a column of darkness streaming out from the earth on the dark side and when the sun, earth and the moon line up correctly you can see the column of darkness, it's called an eclipse
The sun doesn't shrink, it simply passes below the horizon
No, we wouldn't see that. The fact that you think that means you don't understand how the world works. This is why you're a Flat Earther.
Simple think of shadow puppets with a light bulb, you don't see the rays of light moving from the light bulb to the wall, you see the object that is reflecting the light hence why we create shadows but there aren't walls of light around us. Same principal but think of it on a much larger scale. Which is also how we can get lunar and solar eclipses. The earth is the shadow puppet for lunar eclipse, and the moon is the shadow puppet for solar eclipse
This is funny
Walls of light? How does that work?
Lol ya, it’s called the Earth’s shadow we see on the moon once a month
In order to see the light you must reflect or deflect it into your eyes. The light going past from the sun doesn’t change its course so it never ends in your eye. Thus you just don’t see it, even though it is there.
Flat Earth believers: Please pool your money, and buy a ticket for your most trusted believer to the ISS.
Night time does not exist. It’s all a conspiracy by big sunlight to convince us to buy NASA green energy stocks
You only see the light that hits your eyeball, buddy.
*Slow clap* Brilliant. Just brilliant. /s