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Speaking of the ocean, why is the top of a mountain or lighthouse the first thing I see if I'm far away? Rather, if the earth is flat, it should all come into focus at once. But this doesn't happen.
Why can't I see Hawaii from California? I should be able to take a telescope powerful enough, point it flat along the horizon in the direction of Hawaii, and see it from the west coast. But I can't, even though Hawaii is mountainous and far above sea level. Why not?
Further, as I approach Hawaii, when the islands are out of sight, the first thing I will see are the tops of mountains. The shoreline of Hawaii will be invisible. Why? I should be able to see them both at the same time.
Have any of your submarine captains, or anyone else, ever seen the edge of the earth? Where is it? We should have found it by now.
Here's a flat earther who designed an experiment to prove the earth is flat. He admitted that if his experiment failed, it would prove the earth is round. Watch the video. His experiment fails, to the surprise of no one who isn't an idiot.
https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/flat-earther-proves-world-round
When the sun is in the sky, why can't I see it at "night"? I can see the moon at night or in the day, where the hell is the sun at night? Why does it sink "below" a horizon? This makes no sense on a flat planet. If I can't see the sun, no one should be able to see it. Yet when it's night in America, it's day in China. Why? This makes no sense on a flat earth.
We have now gotten to the point where we can build structures that account for the curvature of the earth. The Verrazano-Narrows bridge has cables longer at the top of its pylons than those at the bottom, even though both ends feature pylons pointing straight up. This is to be expected if one lives on the surface of a ball, but makes no sense if the surfaces are flat.
https://www.mathscinotes.com/2017/01/effect-of-earths-curvature-on-suspension-bridge-dimensions/
The sun and moon questions are good and probably one of the more obvious rebuttals since the sun looks like it is rising over the horizon. Flat earthers claim the sun is moving around a round plane.
I listen to the Crrow777 podcast and I think he is a novice astronomer so I am a bit familiar with their claims. He even claims there is a second sun. The flat earthers mostly got banned off the scored forum and I don't argue their points as well as they did.
I used to listen to Art Bell and George Noory on Coast to Coast AM and entertain the idea of big foot, ghosts, crop circles, lochness monster, Roswell, alien abductions and whatever other shit crazies called in about at 3am. Unsolved mysteries was popular along with x files and other shows and then we get ancient aliens and flat earth which was popular around 2015. I think the newest fad is believing everything is just a simulation.
Moving around a round plane? WTF? Why can't I see the sun at night? It doesn't matter what "plane" the sun moves in, round, square, shaped like an octopus, I should be able to see it if we live on a flat surface. If it was night everywhere on earth at the same time, maybe this wouldn't be solid proof, but why is it day and night simultaneously on different parts of the earth if the sun is always in the sky?
There is no second sun, and such a thing wouldn't help your case. Crow777 is full of shit. Think about it. Why can't I see two suns? Wouldn't this make night more scarce on a flat surface? Because now I have twice as many lights? Who comes up with this dogshit?
Wrong again: light does seem to travel forever. We can see light from stars billions of light-years away. There is no reason we would be unable to see the sun in the sky at all times. We can see the moon in the day; the much brighter sun should always be visible to everyone on the surface at all times, if we lived on a flat surface.
The sun does not "compress". No light source compresses. The sun appears to sink below a horizon because it is obscured by the curvature of the earth.
The tops of the clouds would be expected to remain bright long after the ground is dark, because the clouds are higher off the ground! How are you unable to see how this damages the retard perspective? For the same reason, people at the top of a very tall tower (Burj Khalifa in Dubai) can see the sun in the sky when people on the ground can't. The further away from the surface you are, the longer the sun would be visible, because the earth itself is no longer blocking your view. The extreme example of this is a rocket leaving earth and heading away from the sun. Not long into the journey, the sun will be visible over 99% of the time, because now the earth can't block the sun's light unless it is directly between you and the star itself.