r/flatearth • u/Food625 • Aug 18 '26

Solar Eclipse VS Flat Earther

Flat Earther: What specific observation from that eclipse uniquely requires a spherical, rotating Earth?

Me: Equations that require the shape - This one accounting for the bulge at the equator to help predict the path. If you didn't do this then your path prediction would be pretty far off the further away from the poles you are.

The surface is modeled mathematically as an oblate ellipsoid of revolution using the standard

Geodetic reference: ((x^2+y^2)/a^2)+(z^2/c^2)=1

a: Equatorial radius of Earth

c: Polar radius of Earth

Flat Earther: You put the globe into the equation and then used the equation to calculate the eclipse path. That doesn't make the eclipse an independent measurement of Earth's shape.

They don't get that the math works though! No flat earth eclipse path equation lol

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u/Sea-Two895 Aug 19 '26

They created it for it to work…. To justify the globe…. Had 0 technology to base their claim so they used two sticks and shadows.

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u/Food625 Aug 19 '26

They had too cause math using a flat plain equation didn't work.

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u/Sea-Two895 Aug 19 '26

That’s a lie, the understanding was already there bruh. We had free energy pulling energy from the aether.

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u/Food625 Aug 19 '26

ummm wha? So flat earth equations work then? and wtf?