Antarctic Edge: 70º South

[@calgaryfreepress]

To the scale of the Earth. And considering the Earth is doing it's own thing, erosion. Man's effort to anything is insignificant and stupid.

[@Alcor151]

wut

[@josephde-zordi7324]

adding insult to injury be sticking plastic transmitters to those creatures

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

One, you don't know whether the transmitters are made of plastic. Two, address your anger at the oil companies that are polluting the world relentlessly, shamelessly, and on top of that lie to the public saying that climate change isn't real and plastic can be recycled - not at the scientists who are doing whatever they can to save it.

[@lucycat2576]

Its flat

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

The major objection about flat Earth is that it has nothing to give. Nothing in flat Earth improves anything. It has nothing to do with real life. For example: - Chilean here. I cannot see the North Star from my location, not even with a telescope, since the bulk of spherical Earth gets in the way. People in the Northern Hemisphere above 26° latitude cannot see the Southern Cross. But we can see the stars if we travel, either North or South, and see them appear very low in the night horizon. - The Southern Cross can be seen from Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, which have it in their flags. The southern Chilean Region of Magallanes has it in its flag too. There are time lapses in KZbin of that constellation seen from those countries. All of those countries point in different directions in the flat Earth map. - The stars turn counterclockwise around the North Star in the Northern Hemisphere, they turn *clockwise* around a point where there is an almost invisible star (Sigma Octantis) in the Southern Hemisphere. How come that a flat Earth can have two celestial poles? Similarly, Earth has magnetic poles, negative and positive, that's how all magnets and all compasses work. Two opposite poles. - Flatearthers say that the Sun (and the Moon) somehow floats above Earth and it never really sets. Every clear sunset here in Santiago, the shadow of spherical Earth climbs the Andes mountains as the Sun is setting. This can be seen wherever there are mountains to the East, or tall buildings. Also, us the people in the border of flat Earth should see the Sun and the Moon having a semi-circular path high in the sky, instead of a straight one from East to West. - Chile is *very long.* Long enough so that in our Summer (November to January) there are noticeably more hours of daylight in Punta Arenas (Southernmost city) than in Arica (Northernmost city). How come that the Sun stays less time above the center of flat Earth and more time above the border of it? Does it move at two different speeds simultaneously? The opposite happens from May to July, when daylight hours are remarkably short in Punta Arenas while in Siberia, Canada and Alaska they have no night. The daylight differences between Chile's North and South tips can be seen in the Chilean IFIS website (Internet Flight Information System, aipchile . dgac . gob . cl / camara), which has cameras of the Chilean airports from North to South. This also matches the observations of midnight Sun in the Southern Pole, which matches with an spherical planet, spinning on a tilted axis. - In the flat Earth map, the meridians split like the spokes of a wheel. But days, nights, hours, are not consistently longer in the places situated in the borders of flat Earth, all year long. Two places located at the same distance in *degrees of longitude* are at a shorter distance in miles or kilometers both in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere, the shorter the more closer they are to the Poles, and at a longer distance the closer they are to the Equator. Accurate distances matter to every traveler, specially for the ones on planes. - The year 2024 has had northern and *southern* lights, a big solar eclipse, and it is a leap year. All those events cannot be explained consistently in the flat Earth model - which does not exist. There is not a single model in which all flatearthers agree. - All what Flat Earth gurus do is criticize the globe model. If they were right, they should produce the best maps, the best weather forecasts, the best predictions of astronomical phenomena. But, they can't even agree on one explanation for Moon's phases. Not to speak about the cause of earthquakes. That's why we know Earth is a sphere, "we" including every person whose profession or trade has to do with the shape of Earth. Because, since the ancient Greek onwards, we do believe to our own eyes and use our brains instead of believing to some guy in a conspiracy theory video. We *know* it is spherical, as every navigator, pilot, cartographer, meteorologist, climatologist, ecologist, geographer, surveyor, geologist, long-distance communications expert, ballistics expert, etc., knows it. We in the evidence-based world speak about practical reality, which says that no flat Earth guru is a professional in any trade related to Earth's shape. None. No whistleblowers here. Just people who live from videos, clicks, likes, books, conferences. Grifters. I have a very long playlist called "Flat Earth?" and a shorter one "The Final Experiment - Antarctica." Both are chronological. There, you could find answers to the questions you never made or which answers you never googled. By the way, flat Earth gurus say that you cannot go to Antarctica. The Final Experiment people (including 4 flatearthers) went there, and saw the Sun circling above as it happens every year in December, as recorded and testified by everyone including the flatearthers. Flat Earth gurus are saying it's all fake - but they refused to go to Antarctica. They could have proved everything was fake right there, and livestream it for the world to see. They didn't want to. What does that tell you? Grifters.