Forwarded from The Flat Earth Reality
Forwarded from The Flat Earth Reality
Forwarded from The Flat Earth Reality
The Earth is flatter than a pancake!
what does that really mean?
In May, 2003, Mark Fonstad, a Texas state geographer studied transections of a pancake and the east-west elevation profile data from the State of Kansas in order to compare their flatness.
On a scale where one (1) is perfectly flat, the geographers used a confocal laser to determine that a pancake had a measured flatness of 0.957. When the State of Kansas was scaled down using a 1:250,000 scale digital elevation model (DEM), Kansas was found to have a measured near perfect flatness of 0.9997.
If the earth were a globe, Kansas would have a bulging arc more than 113,189 feet (34.5 km) above sea level. The fact that the maximum relief in Kansas is only 3,360 feet, means that there is no such bulging arc.
In Jan 2014 Jerome Dobson, President of the American Geographical Society and Joshua Campbell, a geographer and GIS architect at the U.S. Department of State, performed additional research on the issue of the flatness of Kansas and discovered that Florida, Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware were all flatter than Kansas.
The pancake measured in the Fonstad research was 130 millimeters, and its surface relief was 2 millimeters. Apply that ratio to the east-west dimension of Kansas, approximately 644 kilometers, and the state would need a mountain (2/130 x 664,000 meters) 10,215 meters tall in order not to be flatter than a pancake. Since the highest mountain in the U.S is 6,190 meters tall, every state in the U.S. is flatter than a pancake.
Dr. Dobson extrapolated from his own confirmatory research that the entire world is flatter than a pancake. Dr. Dobson had this to say about the research study by Dr. Fonstad: “Our own findings did not refute their conclusion about Kansas but rather proved that their conclusion applies to the whole world.”
Neither Dobson and Campbell’s findings published in the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society, nor those of Dr. Fonstad, have ever been refuted or even challenged. For the United States, on scale, to be flatter than a pancake, necessarily means that the earth must be flat.
what does that really mean?
In May, 2003, Mark Fonstad, a Texas state geographer studied transections of a pancake and the east-west elevation profile data from the State of Kansas in order to compare their flatness.
On a scale where one (1) is perfectly flat, the geographers used a confocal laser to determine that a pancake had a measured flatness of 0.957. When the State of Kansas was scaled down using a 1:250,000 scale digital elevation model (DEM), Kansas was found to have a measured near perfect flatness of 0.9997.
If the earth were a globe, Kansas would have a bulging arc more than 113,189 feet (34.5 km) above sea level. The fact that the maximum relief in Kansas is only 3,360 feet, means that there is no such bulging arc.
In Jan 2014 Jerome Dobson, President of the American Geographical Society and Joshua Campbell, a geographer and GIS architect at the U.S. Department of State, performed additional research on the issue of the flatness of Kansas and discovered that Florida, Illinois, North Dakota, Louisiana, Minnesota and Delaware were all flatter than Kansas.
The pancake measured in the Fonstad research was 130 millimeters, and its surface relief was 2 millimeters. Apply that ratio to the east-west dimension of Kansas, approximately 644 kilometers, and the state would need a mountain (2/130 x 664,000 meters) 10,215 meters tall in order not to be flatter than a pancake. Since the highest mountain in the U.S is 6,190 meters tall, every state in the U.S. is flatter than a pancake.
Dr. Dobson extrapolated from his own confirmatory research that the entire world is flatter than a pancake. Dr. Dobson had this to say about the research study by Dr. Fonstad: “Our own findings did not refute their conclusion about Kansas but rather proved that their conclusion applies to the whole world.”
Neither Dobson and Campbell’s findings published in the Geographical Review, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geographical Society, nor those of Dr. Fonstad, have ever been refuted or even challenged. For the United States, on scale, to be flatter than a pancake, necessarily means that the earth must be flat.