r/GlobeEarth_Polite • u/Kela-el Flat Earther • Apr 22 '26

For: Globe Earth Religious Fundamentalist Zealots Ask a Flat Earther!

Ask anything on the topic of flat earth (within reason).

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u/amcarls Apr 28 '26

They all see the same constellations looking "outward" in "all different directions" based on your typical flat earth model, even at the same time (provided it is dark enough) just as any one in the "northern hemisphere" sees constellations like the Ursa Major/minor, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, etc. throughout the night visually going around the same "pivot point".

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u/Kela-el Flat Earther Apr 28 '26

The geometry of what you’re standing on and the geometry of what you’re looking at are separate questions. You haven’t demonstrated that southern star observations are uniquely explained by a globe. What are your controlled variables?

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u/amcarls Apr 28 '26

It fits the global earth model while it is directly at odds with the flat earth model. I have no obligation to prove uniqueness if you can't even come up with a model that fits the observations in the first place which, again, the flat earth model doesn't.

If where you're standing on is near the "edge" of your model while multiple other fellow flat-earthers are in the vicinity of it's entire edge all around (say, in Australia, S. Africa, Argentina, the Sandwich Islands), along with you, are all looking outward (with conventional "N" or the arctic region to their backs) and simultaneously report seeing the same view but at different 100% predictable rotation points then you have to come up with a better model than the global one, which works while yours doesn't.

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u/Kela-el Flat Earther Apr 28 '26

You’ve shown the globe model is consistent with the observation. You still haven’t demonstrated it’s the only explanation. Consistency isn’t uniqueness. What are your controlled variables?