My best Globe proof debunked??

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  • Recently I made a video arguing that planes being lit underneath at sunset is the easiest proof that we live on a globe ... has Flat Earth been able to explain it yet?
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  • @ctsean
    @ctsean 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +890

    If flat earthers could be convinced with logic and facts, there would be no flat earthers

    • @toxmaster1
      @toxmaster1 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      Exactly, good point

    • @ciszaiogien
      @ciszaiogien 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It goes both ways.
      But the real reason for this conversation is the CIA wants people divided, so we're easier to control.
      What part of it you choose to ignore?

    • @n8ture690
      @n8ture690 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

      Makes me wonder how many there are that would have already switched their position only if they had kept their mouth shut and hadn't told anyone. I bet a good percentage of them just refuse to admit they are wrong and refuse to deal with the monumental embarrassment and humiliation. I'm definitely not a huge fan of being wrong either lol but such is the price of intellectual honesty sometimes.

    • @dickfitswell3437
      @dickfitswell3437 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Flat Brainers have a personality type that has not yet been defined as it is a new one that has evolved. These ppl cant ever be wrong and unwilling to believe math facts that are used to predict solar events and they are not capable of accepting they are wrong. This is the same personality of the Sovereign Citizen and Auditor groups. They are so confident they know the laws they will tell a Judge "let me educate you.... blah blah." They will tell police officers "I pay your salary. You are dismissed." When 96% of them are jobless felons. They have a mix of Dunning Kruger syndrome, narcissism and a hyper social disorder that craves attention and they do not ever feel embarrassment. They see no issue with shoving a camera in someones face and then tell them "its my right to film you tyrants" and not realize their behavior is how a tyrant actually behaves. Nothing will stop them. They think they know how to read court cases and could be in Nebraska and then cite a state court case from Florida and they will say "such and such case 123.5b says the court determined blag blah" even though it may seem like it says that you have to read the first paragraph because that usually tells you a specifc word means ______ only in reference to this case. They will never stop unless the FBI classifies them as domestic terrorists, which they should be, and starts arresting them and sending them for a minimum 10yr sentence. Then they may stop.

    • @Schmidtelpunkt
      @Schmidtelpunkt 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@n8ture690 That would matter if it was about the specific fact. But this is about them being smarter than all the children who were able to pay attention in school. That is why they could not keep their mouth shut. This is also why they have to plaster their opinion all over the web, under every post showing space on social media and under every YT video. It is all about them trying to be smarter than they are to somehow keep up a narrative that the world does them injustice when not offering what they feel entitled to. This is also why those conspiracy theories pile up and they need more and more of them, like an addiction.

  • @Alysm-Aviation
    @Alysm-Aviation 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +536

    Short answer: no.
    Long answer: noooooooo.

    • @Fifasher2K
      @Fifasher2K 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +22

      Longer answer: noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

    • @Cyclonus_3mk
      @Cyclonus_3mk 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Even longer answer: hell nawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

    • @LSA30
      @LSA30 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      Funky answer:
      Hell to the noooooo, to the no, no, no, noooooooooooo

    • @clarenzabalorio8570
      @clarenzabalorio8570 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Even longer answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

    • @nealwright5630
      @nealwright5630 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Longest answer: no∞

  • @jonatanmonsalve11
    @jonatanmonsalve11 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +345

    Oh no, you said the word... you said "the plane has been cruising level for about an hour and continued to fly level for about an hour afterward". Now the flat earthers will say "ahaaa! You said the plane was flying level for about two hours, but that is impossible on a globe because they have to dip a bit to account for curvature! so earth flat!! check mate" and ignore every other explanation you gave on the video

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

      Of course as always they are wrong

    • @StevePemberton2
      @StevePemberton2 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +39

      That's what makes a lot of discussions nowadays difficult, because if you spell it all out carefully in the initial post to make it "idiot proof" then people complain that it's too long and wordy. But if you don't then you have to fight off the trolls that look for any phrase that they can twist to put you on the defensive. You can try and ignore them, but unfortunately if left unchallenged they can confuse some of the other casual readers/viewers who are easily influenced.

    • @patrickspapens5497
      @patrickspapens5497 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

      They always confuse level with flat so it's inevitable. And otherwise they will just spin the words so it fits their argument

    • @V3RTIGO222
      @V3RTIGO222 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

      You can remain parallel to the surface of a spherical object by following the curve around, meaning that you are level with the surface... If you remain ~10,000 feet above sea level in flight you are following the curve.

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      @@V3RTIGO222 What you said there will just come across as white noise to them.

  • @boomie2000
    @boomie2000 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +239

    It is difficult to win an argument with an intelligent person. It's impossible to win an argument with idiots. I cannot believe this is a topic that's still being discussed 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Good on ya, fighting the good fight 😂

    • @h.a.9880
      @h.a.9880 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      Ever since WW1, artillery gunners learned to factor in earth's curvature into their firing solutions at long distance, so they actually hit their target... I guess Flerfers think that's just dedication to the ruse played on mankind. _For some reason._

    • @boomie2000
      @boomie2000 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@h.a.9880 They literally have to be trying to be this clueless. I'm not entirely convinced that the real flat earth conspiracy is that they all know it's a joke and are playing us for fools 😂😂😂

    • @remwastaken
      @remwastaken 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@h.a.9880 the reason most often given for why literally every single: government official, scientist, anyone with a boat, anyone flying planes and probably a fuck ton more professions and random people that i just can't think of are all lying about the shape of the earth is that there's other lands outside of the "ice ring" and the government wants to keep it for themselves for resources and whatnot.
      Now, i really want to ask, why the fuck couldn't they be angry at the government for actually good reasons like, for the USA, inflation, not having free healthcare, the tax system being the way it is just to benefit tax companies' pockets, the fact that the education system is fucked, the whole gun issue, social issues regarding shit like roe v wade, healthcare for trans folks etc.
      No, they have to make up a flat earth conspiracy just to make up something to be mad at the government, absolutely brilliant.
      (i know the reason is that most flat earthers are QANON cultists and by proxy also massive bigots but it's still crazy)

    • @wizardsuth
      @wizardsuth 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@h.a.9880 Modern artillery guns often have an inertial guidance unit, which not only is more precise than GPS and provides orientation in addition to location, but also can't be jammed. It uses intersecting laser beams to detect acceleration, which means it must account for the unit's altitude and latitude, the exact shape of the Earth, its rotation ("A... 15 degree per hour drift"), and tidal effects from the moon and sun. These units would not work as they do on a flat Earth. But flerfs would probably just claim the IGU manufacturers are all shills.

    • @h.a.9880
      @h.a.9880 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@wizardsuth GPS would not work without satellites either.
      I also like to point out that submarines navigate using gravity. They have sensors that register the exact force of gravity, and depending on how it increases or decreases, they can tell where they are.
      This wouldn't work on a flat earth, cause the force of gravity would have to be constant all over the world in that model.

  • @ryanjohnson3615
    @ryanjohnson3615 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +98

    You could put a flat earfer on the ISS for a week and they'd come back home and say it was all VR and hypnosis.

    • @brucethen
      @brucethen 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Lol or that they were on the vomit comet, with LCD screens for windows.
      Completely ignoring the fact the vomit comet can only sustain its microgravity for 30 seconds

    • @ross-carlson
      @ross-carlson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      Even if they said "yup, it's not flat" all other FLERFs will say they are just lying now, paid off, etc. etc. Move the goalposts every time.

    • @robbierobot5799
      @robbierobot5799 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      😅😂🤣🤣🤣 .... 😐 sadly true

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Perhaps the sensation of constant fall would make an impression on them and that they have to work hard to put their feet on "the floor" or not being able to keep their legs straight in their sleeping bag and not being able to tell which way is up and which is down.
      Maybe?

    • @WD-41469
      @WD-41469 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      You’re confusing flat earthers with moon landing skeptics.
      Using one to delegitimize the other is dishonest.
      And the ISS is only in low earth orbit.

  • @Fifasher2K
    @Fifasher2K 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +200

    Flerfs: "Nuh uh"

    • @askthepizzaguy
      @askthepizzaguy 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      Sometimes they also back up their nuh uhs with a very poor understanding of science or math, which, if applied consistently, would result in calculations being wrong and inventions never happening.
      They also cannot produce a single working model of their hypothesis, so it is an untestable hypothesis.

    • @blurglide
      @blurglide 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      Or "C'mon, man! Use common sense! You know it's a scam!"

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      That’s really all they’ve got.

    • @Cbrodela
      @Cbrodela 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Also Flerfs: SHILL!!

    • @loggrad9842
      @loggrad9842 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The most powerful argument ever concocted by man. Completely irrefutable. Try arguing with a 4 year old using this tactic. It is an impenetrable defense.

  • @Eigerknight
    @Eigerknight 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +195

    I live in Switzerland in front of 12'000ft tall Mountains. I see the shadow at sunset going from bottom up. Then the mountain is in shadow, but the plane flying over it at 30'000ft is still in the light of the sun. How should that work on a flat earth?

    • @Kualinar
      @Kualinar 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

      Using the magical flerspective. That's how.

    • @gafrers
      @gafrers 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "refraction" "personal dome" "local sun" and a ton other delusional concepts used by flerfs

    • @daemn42
      @daemn42 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      Well see.. If the relatively low hanging sun goes far enough west above a flat earth then eventually it goes past and behind something even taller than your 12k ft mountains. Namely it goes behind the himalayas (with an average height of 20k ft) and that cuts off the light to your mountains, while it can still shine on the plane above. Check mate. ;)

    • @Techmagus76
      @Techmagus76 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +26

      @@daemn42 nice try. But a real Flerf would know that the sun goes behind the antarctic great ice wall . The light on the plane is coming from the moon that is the reason why it is such cold outside the plane as the moon light has a cooling effect. Really basic Flerf physics knowledge, i swear it is not that hard.

    • @valuemastery
      @valuemastery 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +18

      Don't you know there are spotlights hidden on top of mountains, shining light on the bottom of planes? I thought that's fairly obvious 😊

  • @wizardsuth
    @wizardsuth 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +46

    Flerf: The Earth is obviously flat because it looks flat. Trust your senses.
    Glober: The sun clearly goes right below the horizon, which proves it isn't flying above a flat Earth.
    Flerf: Nuh-uh. That's just an illusion. You can't trust your senses.

    • @Rondigity92
      @Rondigity92 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      If irony were strawberries we'd all be drinking a lot of smoothies 😂😂

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It's not an illusion, it's more like a mirage but in a different way, sort of.

    • @AdamSmart-w4x
      @AdamSmart-w4x 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      th-cam.com/video/gS2aAg-QX0c/w-d-xo.html
      Check 4:17-19. Suppose to be live, constant footage. Did the ai footage(superimposition) fail for a brief moment in recording?

    • @GiovanniGeo
      @GiovanniGeo 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@AdamSmart-w4x Yes, and of course after spending a few millions in editing software, noone watched it to double check and noone thought of removing it. Way to go sherlock.

    • @rustgsrider283
      @rustgsrider283 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      SO YOU ARE SAYING YOU CAN NOT TRUST YOUR OWN SENSES

  • @aaronmicalowe
    @aaronmicalowe 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +280

    Flat Earthers will still not understand. We need Father Ted to break it down for them.

    • @DaveMcKeegan
      @DaveMcKeegan  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +120

      I'm not sure, they don't take kindly to being called "feckin eejits"

    • @blueberryplanet10bfb
      @blueberryplanet10bfb 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      HA!

    • @astronomenov99
      @astronomenov99 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

      Small. Faraway...

    • @freddan6fly
      @freddan6fly 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@astronomenov99 I still don't get it.

    • @tarkadahl1985
      @tarkadahl1985 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      ​@@freddan6fly ah forget it

  • @mirrikybird
    @mirrikybird 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +69

    "Or two if you want to get home" killed me 😆

    • @legacy8728
      @legacy8728 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Sorry to be the pedant, but logically most people would travel on a return ticket, meaning both outbound and inbound travel would be all on the same ticket (number). Two flights, one ticket.
      But I agree, we know what Dave was going for and it was still amusing.

  • @terjeeriksen4120
    @terjeeriksen4120 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    As a Airline Pilot it is fairly common for me to depart towards the west, just after sunset, to observe ( a large portion of ) the sun rise above the horizon during a moderate climb rate , then to see the sun set below the horizon again as I reach cruising altitude. ( During that short time the plane has only traveled a short horizontal distance. ) Have never had a flat earther able to explain that observation. Lol…

    • @JMartJr
      @JMartJr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Folks can recreate it with a drone, and see a double sunset by zooming up right after the first one -- with no horizontal component to the flight at all!

    • @bradmears8464
      @bradmears8464 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      As an airline pilot, you are one of the several million people that are part of the conspiracy. Duh!
      /s

    • @jeffbeck8993
      @jeffbeck8993 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Are any of your airline pilot colleagues flat earthers?
      a. Yes
      b. No
      c. N/A

    • @EdOeuna
      @EdOeuna วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jeffbeck8993- I’ve never met any FE pilots, and I have never been asked about it either, which is a shame. Saying that it’s probably a good thing because I probably would launch into a bit of a triad against them, then get disciplined for un-gentlemanly behaviour by my chief pilot.

    • @terjeeriksen4120
      @terjeeriksen4120 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jeffbeck8993 Never heared about one and I would doubt that persons judmentvas a Pilot if I did come across one. :)

  • @adilsongoliveira
    @adilsongoliveira 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +52

    "... as obviously sunlight is not going to be passing through the metal skin of a plane". Oh Dave, considering the kind of absurd claims a flerfer does. do you think this one is out of the question? You give them too much credit :)

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Listen, though, Wonder Woman has only one plane. 😉

    • @kstricl
      @kstricl 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Ahh, but Scotty introduced transparent aluminum to this world in the 80's. Planes are built of aluminum. Ipso facto, planes must be transparent.
      (Interestingly, aluminum oxynitride itself was patented in 1980, so there is a high degree of likelihood that one of the writers for ST4 had seen a publication on the material.)

  • @SteveWillson-jg6eb
    @SteveWillson-jg6eb 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    Flerfs will never understand because they do not want to understand.

    • @notHere132
      @notHere132 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Their objective is not to understand. Flat Earth isn't even really their goal. Their goal is politics. It's Gramsci-ism from the right, they're here to strip people away from even a basic understanding of reality to groom the public for every future lie the far right will tell them.

  • @savasandoval
    @savasandoval 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +69

    Tea : a few bucks.
    Pastries : same.
    Catching a Dave McKeegan video just as it's released : priceless !
    This afternoon will be good. ^^

    • @smaakjeks
      @smaakjeks 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      lovely!

    • @geekgee
      @geekgee 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I just happen to be finishing up a pasty as I read this. 😁

  • @sharpspike
    @sharpspike วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    Forget planes, flat earth can't even explain sunset and sunrise

    • @BLDM-cv9dk
      @BLDM-cv9dk วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That’s what I’m sayin

    • @JohnSmith-ux3tt
      @JohnSmith-ux3tt วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Or "night".

    • @probuildconstruction
      @probuildconstruction วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Or time zones

    • @powerpc6037
      @powerpc6037 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      They just claim it due to perspective and refraction. They explain most of their nonsense theories using those 2 words. Another 2 words they use to explain gravity is bouyancy and density.

  • @GymRowboat
    @GymRowboat 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +59

    Thanks, Dave. I'll forward this to a guy who said using a level on a plane proves we live on, well... a plane.

    • @gowdsake7103
      @gowdsake7103 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

      Explain to him how an aircraft actually flies and they NEVER dip the nose in level flight

    • @GymRowboat
      @GymRowboat 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@gowdsake7103 Indeed. Like a scene from "Airplane!". I wonder why science deniers use any technology.

    • @kevinmould6979
      @kevinmould6979 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@gowdsake7103 Better still, it's sometimes necessary to fly with a nose-up attitude to maintain level flight.

    • @perryrush6563
      @perryrush6563 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @gymrowboat - imagine forgetting you live on a plane and opening the door midflight. You're friend is the opposite of Sponge Bob.

    • @incredulity8975
      @incredulity8975 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      I climbed 'down' to the equator and nearly fell off!

  • @jawannacuputty
    @jawannacuputty 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    There's also the easy observation of the sun lighting up skyscrapers top first during sunrise and top last during sunset.

    • @Lassisvulgaris
      @Lassisvulgaris 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Or mountains.....

  • @patu8010
    @patu8010 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +30

    That last point is a great one. If you're inside the plane, you can see that the sun is below the window level.

    • @valuemastery
      @valuemastery 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      That's the reason planes are tubes. So passenger space including windows can be rotated upwards to create the illusion of the sun being below the plane. Of course, at the same time the plane is secretly flying a slight curve to compensate for the change in downward force, so passengers don't notice it 😅

    • @lamoustachedecailles6085
      @lamoustachedecailles6085 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Not sure if this is sarcasm​@@valuemastery, but if so it is brilliant

    • @ctsean
      @ctsean วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@valuemastery based on other FE arguments, an explanation that every single plane flying anywhere in the world at sunrise and sunset banks to create the illusion of being higher than the sun is completely expected.

    • @valuemastery
      @valuemastery วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@ctsean Absolutely. But please don't put me in the FE categorie, but in the "makes fun of FEs" category 😅

    • @Texan1048
      @Texan1048 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      They'll say it's due to the perspective of the refraction or something, while denying any form of refraction that shoots down their claims.

  • @dustinchase9187
    @dustinchase9187 วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Who claims that the earth is flat? Is it navigators? No. Professional pilots, air crew and control tower staff? No. Is it World travelers? Rarely, if ever. Military personnel? Not that I know of. Is it middle-aged bloggers who live at home with mommy and can't hold a real job?

    • @EdOeuna
      @EdOeuna วันที่ผ่านมา

      I also believe many are people who have retired or who are at home all day, living in some sort of retirement misery, on iPads, and are cruising through YT. They come across a video, like Dubay’s 200 “proofs”, and then lap it up. It feeds into their anti-government feeling. This is why, if you ever challenge a flat earther, they never have any original thought, it’s just word for word regurgitation of Dubay / Weiss comments.

    • @kstricl
      @kstricl 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      Shhh.... don't stress them, they're about to play their opening move in checkers...

    • @dustinchase9187
      @dustinchase9187 29 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

      @@kstricl I guess they can't handle chess.

  • @ronthered138
    @ronthered138 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    You overlooked the possibility that aircraft can be made transparent, but it is a secret that nobody knows about. I remember seeing it on "Wonder Woman".
    I have said too much.

    • @adryanclay
      @adryanclay 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      "Hi, i came here to alert you abot the high activity of CIA and FBI secret policemen at your front porch, please refer yourself to the hidden motorcycle at your basement with the fake passaport to Guatemala as per planned, have a great escape :)"

    • @ronthered138
      @ronthered138 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@adryanclay Thanks buddy! I am getting out ri

    • @wizardsuth
      @wizardsuth 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      In cartoons the invisible jet didn't make its occupants invisible, so people could see them flying along in a seated position.

    • @ronthered138
      @ronthered138 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @wizardsuth Ah! A logical thinker, like me. Naturally you would use mirrors to conceal the passengers, or paint them blue. Quite simple, really.

    • @ozemale6t928
      @ozemale6t928 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@wizardsuth they also had visible edges like the 3d models in a CAD program. Way ahead of their time, those cartoonists were.

  • @johnmorris7815
    @johnmorris7815 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    Just for reference, in the flight deck of those aircraft it is still daylight, as a pilot I am very often flying in daylight with street lights visible on the ground below.

    • @ntdscherer
      @ntdscherer 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That alone demolishes the flat earth. It would be completely impossible.

    • @akdb
      @akdb วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@ntdscherer tbh literally every path you take demolishes flat earth💀

    • @ntdscherer
      @ntdscherer วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@akdb That's fair!

  • @muskyoxes
    @muskyoxes 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    The easiest observation is that the moon doesn't dramatically change size. It would have to appear 3x smaller near the horizon than overhead on flat earth. No messing with solar filters, no complaints about being too small to see, no need to get measurements precise, no need to do it on the perfect day.

    • @pierreboissonneault
      @pierreboissonneault 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You forgot the flerfspective, it does magic...

  • @sejembalm
    @sejembalm 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +92

    “It’s hard to win an argument with a smart person, but it’s damn near impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.” - Bill Murray

    • @ElGrecoDaGeek
      @ElGrecoDaGeek 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      This

    • @sejembalm
      @sejembalm 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

      @@ElGrecoDaGeek Similar to this quote by Mark Twain: "Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

    • @GIGADEV690
      @GIGADEV690 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      That's why troll and move on 😂😂

    • @JulianaAndersson
      @JulianaAndersson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I wouldn’t say stupid… I would say it’s damn near impossible with anyone who doesn’t know their mistakes in reasoning….logic, informal fallacies, cognitive biases are the only strategies that “win” these conspiracy theories…

    • @JulianaAndersson
      @JulianaAndersson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Reflections of light are limited distance range restricted… specially when using a camera to capture… specially when talking about sunlight… which will over power any actual reflected light…

  • @drcurioustube
    @drcurioustube 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    Something you will never hear said by a flat earther: "Oh, now I get it. That's so simple. Thanks, man."

  • @tsanggary6422
    @tsanggary6422 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

    Flerf: I reject your reality and substitute my own

    • @jamespruitt4756
      @jamespruitt4756 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      well there's yer problem.

    • @grilledsteeze
      @grilledsteeze 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I absolutely reject your reality

    • @powerpc6037
      @powerpc6037 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      It's their reality too, they just don't realize it.

  • @Meika_Rei
    @Meika_Rei 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +27

    You missed a bigger issue with the skiba demonstration.
    It was done with a fresnel lens. More importantly, the bottom half of the lens.
    A fresnel lens works because of concentric circular lenses that become more dense as you reach the center of the lens.
    Skiba used the bottom half of the lens specifically because it refracts light upwards because the medium of the lens is more dense at the top than it is at the bottom. For the skiba demonstration to work in the real atmosphere, the air density would have to become more dense as altitude is gained

    • @renedekker9806
      @renedekker9806 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      To be precise, a Fresnel lens does not get more dense towards the centre. The individual rings that the lens consists of get less angled towards the centre, just like in a normal lens.
      In the atmosphere, the air would indeed have to become more dense the higher up you go to get the same effect. But when did a testable practicality like that ever stop a flat earther?

    • @h.a.9880
      @h.a.9880 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      It's quite fascinating, light bends downwards in an atmosphere... unless it's a sunray, then it does the exact opposite, just so the flat earth isn't exposed. I guess.

    • @prodromos65
      @prodromos65 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Rob did the same in his 'proof' that the sun appears to set as it moves further away, which he based on a video someone else has done using a lens to simulate atmospheric refraction. The original video used the top half of the lens because it bends light in the same manner of the gradient density of the atmosphere. Rob deceitfully used the bottom half of his lens in his own video.

    • @maxdanielj
      @maxdanielj 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      So was he trying to imply that the sun is just a really bright lighthouse 😂

  • @mackemsruleFTM
    @mackemsruleFTM 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +45

    I remember as a kid around 1979/80 I was on my way back to the UK from Florida and The pilot piped up on the intercom telling everyone to open the window blinds and explained that because of the time, heading and altitude everyone in the right of the plane look out and you can see the Sun and everyone on the left was still in darkness and it was due to those factors and the curve of the Earth,

    • @stickiedmin6508
      @stickiedmin6508 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Holy sht! Another Mackem! I thought I was the only one . . .

    • @Erkle64
      @Erkle64 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      @@stickiedmin6508 They don't Mackem like they used to.

    • @symmetrie_bruch
      @symmetrie_bruch 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      a sane person would know that this can only happen on a globe. but flerfs think light magically stops as to give the appearance it´s a globe. it also moves in an absolute bizarre way that makes no sense at all and disregards all of known physics.

  • @Deebus
    @Deebus 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +60

    Clearly the earth is flat and the local sun is just setting into Ohio. Poor people being incinerated

    • @atomcraft4067
      @atomcraft4067 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      It happens at the end of every day. I don't know why you want move there to be honest.

    • @ffwng3992
      @ffwng3992 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@atomcraft4067 That's the main reason I left Ohio. Too much sunburn every evening 😆

    • @rasmodeus1
      @rasmodeus1 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Actually it sets in Arizona, near Flagstaff. That's why the rocks are so red there. (Credit to Bill Watterson)

    • @symmetrie_bruch
      @symmetrie_bruch 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yeah i´ve never heard flerfer adress that. they´probably say it dims automatically. but i´ve also heard them talk about humid and damp and dry light so there is probaly also locally invisible light which is of course why you can´t film or notice it at all in any way.

    • @Texan1048
      @Texan1048 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Ohio? Please. Try the deep south.

  • @astruxium
    @astruxium 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Hey Dave! Just wanted to say I've seen my fair share of "debunker" content and out of all creators, your content is the best in my opinion. Your arguments are extremely well thought out and empirically supported, your demonstrations are superb, and your explanations of photography and optical observations are first-class. I also appreciate the patience and respect you show to the people who you debunk, regardless of how asinine their arguments may be. Doubtless this content takes significant time and effort to create, it's definitely appreciated!

    • @DaveMcKeegan
      @DaveMcKeegan  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Thank you so much for the support

  • @VFRrider
    @VFRrider 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    You've done it yet again, Dave.
    It is just not possible to debunk this..
    Brilliant work, as usual. So pleased you got the Antarctica seat. You really deserve it.
    But flatties, will never understand. Sadly, its most of their income. So its in their best interest to talk bollox...

  • @ReValveiT_01
    @ReValveiT_01 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +23

    A 3,000 mile high sun cannot, under any circumstances, EVER light up the underside of an object that is SIX miles high. Ever.
    Flerfs are ID10T5, "plane" and simple.

    • @michaelsorensen7567
      @michaelsorensen7567 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      Can you get them to commit to the 3000 mile high sun? Cause I can't. Any time you ask for a model, they throw out possible models, but won't commit to them. The 3000 mile sun is one of those, which they'll pull out to say you're wrong, but if you challenge it "that's just an example, it's not the one I think". But they never show the one they DO think, cause none of them work

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      ​@@michaelsorensen7567a few have. My favorite thing to do when they refuse to give a number is point out that, if they don't know the actual height, then they *can't* prove is *not* 93 million miles away.
      There is one dumbass who said that, by using local noon in Atlanta GA and 9am in LA with the angle of shadows by the sun, they've proven its not 93 million miles away.
      It's somewhere between 1400 and 1510 miles apparently.

    • @JMartJr
      @JMartJr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@michaelsorensen7567 Yeah, none of them CAN work since plotting bearings taken on the Sun onto a flat srface creates lines that do not intersect at any one altitude -- or intersect at all!
      (Jos Leys has some fantastic videos on this.) Beautiful as well as elegant.
      th-cam.com/users/josleys

    • @Greg042869
      @Greg042869 วันที่ผ่านมา

      It could if sunlight were reflecting off water.

    • @michaelsorensen7567
      @michaelsorensen7567 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Greg042869 as addressed in the video, since the water isn't perfectly flat, such reflections would be diffused rather than harsh. It's like how a bright light shined onto a white surface can produce soft highlights, as in photography studios. That's very different from shining onto a mirrored surface.

  • @icansciencethat
    @icansciencethat 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

    Easiest observation: watch the sun set. Done.

    • @dwaneanderson8039
      @dwaneanderson8039 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Yup. Even better is to observe the moon. It also passes below the horizon, plus it stays the same apparent size all the time instead of getting smaller as it would if it got father away, and you always see the same side of the moon no matter when you look at it or where you observe it from on the Earth.

    • @icansciencethat
      @icansciencethat 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @dwaneanderson8039 plus you won't hurt your eyes by staring at it.

    • @grilledsteeze
      @grilledsteeze 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Watch the sun set in the Sahara desert on a perfectly clear day. Undone.

    • @Powersd451
      @Powersd451 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Eh, as long as you don't have an ocean view, it could still be argued that the landscape/mountains/whatever got in the way.

    • @christophersamueldearlysih262
      @christophersamueldearlysih262 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Also an easiest observation: Time zones

  • @bullthrush
    @bullthrush 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    If the world was flat, cats would have pushed everything off the edge.

  • @danielcooke9974
    @danielcooke9974 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    People who know we live on a globe know how to predict a Eclipse because they have a real working model and prove what they done and how they did it, flat earthers can not scientifically predict the next 100 eclipses and prove how they have done it.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Correct. The most they can do is...copy what science has done with the predictions lol

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      the maya thought its flat and predicted eclipses... nice try doe.

    • @EBDavis111
      @EBDavis111 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@Yepbutno-yl5bx The Maya didn't predict eclipses, no. That was a bad Mel Gibson movie.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      @@Yepbutno-yl5bx they had their sun go under the earth, so still smarter than you

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@5peciesunkn0wn i just showed to you that predicting eclipses has nothing to do with the model you believe in... so daniel here gets a little smarter because he thought you can only predict them in the helio model.

  • @ffwng3992
    @ffwng3992 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Just as a point of interest, "level flight" is just when the wings are level, i.e. not banking/rolling. Dave is using the term correctly in this context, but I'm seeing some of the other comments talking about "nose up" or "nose down", which is actually independent of "wings level" or "level flight". Anyway, enjoy your day.
    P.S. For those that want more details:
    The motion/velocity/acceleration for flight is split into two groups: longitudinal and lateral/directional. These groups are independent of each other. Longitudinal motion is the speed (usually measured as indicated air speed) and pitch (nose up/down). The lateral/directional motion is the yaw (nose left/right) and roll (banking left/right) and is grouped because the aerodynamics that control yaw and roll are intrinsically linked.
    P.P.S. There is a term used for the kind of flight Dave described called SLUF (Steady Level Unaccelerated Flight). Steady is for a smooth atmosphere (no turbulence). Level is the "wings level" I talked about earlier. Unaccelerated is what it sounds like, no changes in throttle, pitch, flight speed, etc. And (for completeness) flight means actually flying and not just on the ground.

  • @truthsmiles
    @truthsmiles 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    As an American, one of my favorite things about Dave’s videos is his frequent use of the word “whilst”. So fancy! 😊

    • @giftofthewild6665
      @giftofthewild6665 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Whilst isn't a "fancy" word, what the hell? 😂

    • @rainbowsnek
      @rainbowsnek 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@giftofthewild6665 american language education in action i think lol (no offense to the commenter)

    • @martinconnelly1473
      @martinconnelly1473 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@giftofthewild6665 You need to be careful of mocking the people in the USA for slight differences in use of English. In Eastern England there is often, what is to me, misuse of the word while. Such as using it instead of until as in "I will be away while Tuesday". There are also tales that some people came up to light controlled level crossings where the sign said "Do not cross while lights are flashing" and then waited for the lights to flash before they crossed. I suspect this was just someone pointing out how wrong this use of while is rather than reality though.

    • @CaramelCraft
      @CaramelCraft วันที่ผ่านมา

      lol I just read it in his voice

  • @ElColt
    @ElColt 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    So excited to see a photo I took as a little push against the disinformation of flat earth and debunk this primitive concept. Thanks for the feature Dave

  • @wattihrvolt-pn3pf
    @wattihrvolt-pn3pf 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    After sundown the turtle sometimes uses a reading lamp for bedtime stories and that's where the light comes from. Checkmate globers.

  • @Techmagus76
    @Techmagus76 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    I am still convinced the easiest proof is sunrise and sunset itself.

    • @JMartJr
      @JMartJr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes, once they admit that the Sun orbiting above and below a disk does not work at all, which most of them now do, having ad hocced their way over to an orbit always above the plane to escape from the consequences of their original "model" not working.

    • @nerden1549
      @nerden1549 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "It's just an illusion!!!"

    • @JohnSmith-ux3tt
      @JohnSmith-ux3tt วันที่ผ่านมา

      I am with you on that one.

  • @mooneyes2k478
    @mooneyes2k478 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    In re the sun on the clouds, when the "explanation" of the sun shining through the clouds came, I went, "And if that was the case, why isn't the sky BLUE then, the way it is in the daytime, when the sun clearly IS above the clouds?"
    And then I remembered, Flat Earthers.

  • @oswynfaux
    @oswynfaux 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Even better but rarer is a plane at sunset casting a shadow on the bottom of a cloud

  • @dgilroy36
    @dgilroy36 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    I love the dog just flops of the chair and hides, almost the moment you say flat earth 😂😂

  • @jonatanmonsalve11
    @jonatanmonsalve11 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Oh, I just remembered, I've seen a neat demonstration of this effect in my own house. I live on a second floor, and my roof is made of zinc sheets. On a section of my bathroom, the zinc sheet is not properly sealed to the wall, so there's a gap between the roof and the wall. During the sunset, the underside of the roof, inside the bathroom, is lit up by the sunlight that enters through that gap. And it's not the light bouncing on the top of the wall inside the gap because the roof shoots out further than the wall by a couple of inches, so the only way that sunlight would light up the underside of the roof inside my bathroom is if the sun is under the roof's horizontal. Pretty neat

    • @martinconnelly1473
      @martinconnelly1473 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I get the same effect from the east facing window in my bedroom. The top edge of the sunlight on the opposite wall when the sun first comes up is closer to the ceiling than the top of the window. Therefore the sun must be lower than the top of the window. My window is about 24m above mean sea level.

  • @Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n
    @Dulc3B00kbyBrant0n วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    If flat earth was real. Flat earthers wouldn’t exist

  • @thelostfountain1678
    @thelostfountain1678 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    My head is still blown that there needs to be a video explaining that the Earth is a globe. A conspiracy of that size would be impossible at levels I cannot comprehend.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Most conspiracies greater than 6 people fall apart because someone talks. This "globe conspiracy" has been a thing for 3k years. That means there's been literally millions of people involved...

  • @g.e.fourie5672
    @g.e.fourie5672 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Perspective!!! The go-to answer for everything flerfs don't want to believe or cannot accept!

    • @Ph33NIXx
      @Ph33NIXx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      As an artist it baffles me people get perspective so wrong...

    • @benj1008
      @benj1008 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@Ph33NIXx As someone with a physics degree (although high school physics should be enough), I think flerfers must have never drawn a light ray diagram in their lives.

    • @nerden1549
      @nerden1549 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I am currently studying perspective and only 1 month of learning is enough to realize that these idiots don't know anything about it

  • @kathleenmccrory9883
    @kathleenmccrory9883 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Life is hard. For some of us, it's even harder. Your patience with flerfs is quite admirable.

  • @concordegaming5037
    @concordegaming5037 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    If the Earth is flat, then show the other side of the "flat Earth."

    • @randomnpc445
      @randomnpc445 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      I can only imagine they don't think there's an "other side." Considering they seem to think there's land beyond "the firmament" that continues infinitely (or at least near-infinitely), I would assume they think the depth of the Earth is the same.

    • @TheSkyGuy77
      @TheSkyGuy77 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      If the earth is flat, how thick is it? 😂😂

    • @jankington216
      @jankington216 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      They think the US navy is out there keeping us from getting to the edge lmao

    • @MickHealey
      @MickHealey 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@TheSkyGuy77 not as thick as a flat Earther.

    • @tonyw4863
      @tonyw4863 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You can't get down there as the rockets accelerating the flat earth at 9.8m/s2 would burn you up. Clearly the dome was put there to protect us from the exhaust fumes.

  • @tetrasphere8165
    @tetrasphere8165 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    I've flown many flights at dusk or right after sunset and can't help but think about how obvious the curvature is.

    • @moon_wobble7782
      @moon_wobble7782 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      But did you see that gigantic wave that obscures the plane on the horizon?

    • @tetrasphere8165
      @tetrasphere8165 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@moon_wobble7782 yeah. And the sun still became visible

    • @jeffbeck8993
      @jeffbeck8993 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Simply by flying in an aircraft, you've led a more interesting, well-rounded life compared to the average flat earther.

    • @tetrasphere8165
      @tetrasphere8165 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@jeffbeck8993 you'd think these youtubers would travel at least a little.

    • @GiovanniGeo
      @GiovanniGeo 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@moon_wobble7782 Bro was flying over tsunami's and said nothing :)

  • @electricdawn2258
    @electricdawn2258 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The motion of sun from rise through noon to sunset. No flerfers can explain how this works on their pizza earth.

  • @aperturius
    @aperturius 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +24

    Literally any photographer who has ever worked in a lighting studio can immediately debunk the flat earth model with the inverse square law. The distance of a constant light source means exponential change in brightness depending on how far away it is. A small sun that's moving across the earth would have to get exponentially brighter as it moves away from a location for it to retain its level of brightness in that single location. This of course would mean it's getting exponentially brighter somewhere else. However, a huge sun that's very far away will provide consistent amount of light across a huge area, every single time.

    • @TheEloquentEye
      @TheEloquentEye 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Im guessing you have never been outside before? Also the inverse square law is not something you globies want to go around talking about, its very harmful to your various other claims about "Outter Space".

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@TheEloquentEyeno. It's not. Because it most obviously effects how much of the area around it a lightsource effects. As long as one photon makes it to your eyes, you can see the lighr source. Oops~

    • @CharlesStearman
      @CharlesStearman 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@5peciesunkn0wn The perceived brightness of the object is determined by how many photons enter the eye per unit of time, so the further away it is the dimmer it will look since the same number of photons are spread over a larger area and fewer of them will hit the pupil. The only way for the perceived brightness to stay constant as the distance changes is for the object itself to give out more or less light.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@CharlesStearmanyes, and when there are *trillions* of them put out every second, coupled with the fact that the further out you go, the less it changes, and the stars are visible just fine. Coupled with the fact that to see some stars you need literal hours of exposure time and oh look. It all matches up just fine.

    • @1Humanoid
      @1Humanoid 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@5peciesunkn0wn The conversation is not about the light source, it's about the brightness and consistency of the brightness. Oops.

  • @kenbrown2808
    @kenbrown2808 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    it also bears mentioning that the horizon is definitely NOT at eye level in an airplane at cruising altitude.

  • @thomasherzog86
    @thomasherzog86 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

    I dont know where to put this, because maybe its completely nonsense - but after watching a bunch of your videos, you seem like a lovely guy and maybe it could help in the future;
    the sun has a temperature of about 5800K. we know this because of the colour its emitting, any colder and it would be more red, any hotter and it would start to shine blueish. this direct correlation of colour and temperature can be easily replicated in a lab and is even used to describe the amount of visual warmth that modern led lightbulbs imitate today. if any heat source of that capacity would touch the earth atmosphere, the nitrogen and oxygen in our air would start to form NO2, as this reaction already takes place at about 2 to 3 thousand Kelvin, over 2 thousand K less than the convection heat delivered by a star of said temperature. Not to mention that nitrogen dioxide is responsible for acid rain, its also denser than air (1800 g/l vs 1300 g/l) and would eventually accumulate on the ground, displace the oxygen and suffocate everything as 1000 ppm is already deadly toxic to humans.
    the only possible solution for us being alive is a vacuum between earths atmosphere and the sun.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Well their excuse is "nuh uh"

    • @Slicerwizard
      @Slicerwizard 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      "the sun has a temperature of about 5800K." Surely, you mean the Sun's *surface*, not the entire Sun.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@Slicerwizard The surface is the easiest part to see, sooo

    • @thomasherzog86
      @thomasherzog86 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Slicerwizard
      i may should have specified, but yes. Was talking about the surface.

  • @David-cu3ej
    @David-cu3ej 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Said this before 4 types of flat earthers a) Recalcitrant, b) Stupid, c) Grifters, d) Wind upers and as for globies just a) Correct

  • @Quidisi
    @Quidisi 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You have the patience of a saint. I've given up on these people long ago.

  • @null_s3t
    @null_s3t 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    New ad hoc: planes are fake! 😂

    • @FrikInCasualMode
      @FrikInCasualMode 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Oh, it's nothing new. Conspiretards already proclaimed that planes are smaller than they look, travel only half as fast and most of their internal space is taken by helium tanks.

    • @ffwng3992
      @ffwng3992 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just like the ISS, planes are just planes or drones or something that NASA is flying overhead to make it look like planes fly overhead.
      /s

    • @joerichardson4325
      @joerichardson4325 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ...and "ghey" (whatever that means)!!!

    • @nolaspeaker5656
      @nolaspeaker5656 วันที่ผ่านมา

      What exactly is "a plane"? ;-)

  • @ParaSpite
    @ParaSpite 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    Flerfers vehemently deny that the vanishing point is at an infinite distance, it is not a physical point in real space. They claim things go behind the vanishing point.
    I was baffled when I first heard/saw this explanation because it's just so obviously wrong and stupid that I thought even flerfers couldn't possibly make that claim.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      It's a complete misunderstanding of perspective lol. There's one dumbass who claims you can only see 3 miles from "ground/sea to ground/sea looking perfectly horizontal." He really doesnt like it when you ask him for clarification about when you're looking up or down from a height lol. Because according to his claims, we see in...an hourglass shape??

  • @sdarius6802
    @sdarius6802 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    If you're in a place with a lot of air traffic at sunset, you can often see planes at different altitudes. The lower ones are in shadow, the higher ones are lit up from underneath. This can only be explained by the sun dipping below the horizon. Unless that is you think one is above the sun and one below?😆

  • @DeronDiscord
    @DeronDiscord 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Alright, before I watch this, I predict that a flerf will say something stupid…

    • @-SaKage
      @-SaKage วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      This is like saying fish are gonna swim...

  • @narve7337
    @narve7337 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

    I'm actually kind of jealous..
    Telling idiots straight to their face that they're idiots sounds like a dream job to me and you are basically doing just that.
    Cool business model.

  • @joaohenriqueneuhaus2023
    @joaohenriqueneuhaus2023 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Damn, at this point Dave could easily work designing satellite lenses or military laser, because what this man knows about optics is no joke.

    • @daddy4934
      @daddy4934 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      True, many of us learned a lot about optics and photography thanks to him.

  • @GretgorPooper
    @GretgorPooper 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The only good thing about Flerfs is that they give Dave more material to work with. I love Dave.

  • @inkilingofakind
    @inkilingofakind 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Also something I've always wondered about with flerfs is that the Sun never changes apparent size. It doesnt get bigger or smaller, so wouldnt the only reasonable option mean that it sits at a fixed distance? Cause if the Sun moves away from us or towards us as flerfs believe than it should change apparent size, which it never does. Anything going into the distance on a flat earth would have to appear to get smaller, which the sun never does

    • @mikep9604
      @mikep9604 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      However, flat earthers just ignore reality, and try to use the lie that "the sun gets smaller" to explain how a sunset would work on a flat wonderland.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      You are correct. Flerfs try to claim the change in glare as the sun sets as "proof" it's moving away...despite the fact that would mean the sun suddenly and rapidly moves away from your position over the course of an hour or so. And solar filters show it remaining the same size. Lol.

  • @BubbaBearsFriend
    @BubbaBearsFriend 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Great Video.... But I was distracted since all I wanted to do was pet the doggo. ;-)

  • @Anne_Onymous
    @Anne_Onymous 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Flat earthers could easily put some GoPros on one of those balloons that go outside the atmosphere. Stream the recordings Live and prove us wrong.
    But they don't for some reason 🤔

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They just wait for other people to do it, take the photos, and then "correct the fisheye lens distortion" until it conveniently shows the horizon as flat. 😑

    • @EnglishMike
      @EnglishMike 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      That would take significant time, effort, and money. Flat-earthers could debunk themselves far cheaper and easier than that in several ways, but they don't even do that.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      There's a polish rapper flerf who did just that and said he would post his results right after the experiment. He then went radio silent for several months before posting a 'the Earth is a globe' post lol

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@5peciesunkn0wn Gotta lie to flerf, and it sounds like he was an honest guy.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@NeutralDrow yup lol. One of the few.

  • @kdog3908
    @kdog3908 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    A variation on this is if you live on the coast. Especially if you have cliffs or a steep descent to the water side. On the north east coast of England, where I grew up, I could stand at the waterline just before sunrise, look back inland towards the west and literally watch the line between the dark and the light progress down the walls of the houses on the sea front. When, from my perspective, the sun had actually risen, I could see the shadow cast by my head on the sea wall in front of me.

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The same experiment, and a few more, can also be done on the North Beach of Heligoland island, which has an almost 50m high cliff right behind it and steps leading up to the top of it. It also has a large offshore wind park to the north of it, and you often have ships "parked" with some distance to the island while they are waiting for their time slot to enter Hamburg harbor.
      And especially in early summer you have *lots* of bird spotters there, some with tele lenses that dwarf the P900/P1000. Yet none of that can zoom a partially covered ship hull, or the lower parts of a wind turbine, especially those enough far away for their blades to apparently dip into the water every rotation, back into full view. Moving up or down the stairs *does* change the amount of hidden though.
      Whenever flefs make that stupid "zoom brings ships back" claim I tell how it doesn't do so there. Usually the response then is crickets and tumble weeds, but one very "creative mind" came up with the idea that "zoom back" does not always work, but only in about one of ten cases ...

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      You can see it with any tall buildings in a city of skyscrapers too.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @@hartmutholzgraefe My favorite was a flerf who claimed that Lake Ponchartrain was the only place water curved...

    • @stickiedmin6508
      @stickiedmin6508 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I'm still on the North East Coast (East Durham specifically - Billy Elliot Country). I'm lucky enough to live a minute's walk away from the sea front, so I often get the chance to watch the sun come up over the water. It never gets old.
      Most of all, I love the time, just after sunset. If you're on the beach, the sun has gone down behind the cliffs, leaving you in shadow, but is still lighting up the sky. On a clear enough day, the sea reflects the brightness of the sky for a while, making it look like mercury.

    • @kdog3908
      @kdog3908 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@stickiedmin6508 I'm from just up the road really. Northumberland. I can picture exactly what you're describing.

  • @friiq0
    @friiq0 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Hi Dave! I was thinking that when you go to Antarctica if you take a time lapse of the 24 hour sun, flat earthers might claim that it is footage from near the North Pole that has been mirror reversed in post. You might want to include an object that is left-right asymmetrical in the frame of the time lapse to prove that the footage wasn’t flipped. That object might be a camera or something, but you might want to make sure that the manufacturers of the object only produce the object in one orientation and don’t make a left-handed version available.
    Anyway, I appreciate that you’re out here helping to protect people against misinformation. Have fun in Antarctica!

    • @Crazy_Diamond_75
      @Crazy_Diamond_75 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      He talked about this in his earlier video. If he includes footage of, say, a newspaper from the day before, it will be impossible for the footage to have been taken from the North Pole. There won't have been a polar sun there in the time since that paper was published. Dont forget, the north and south polar suns occur 6 months apart, so if you can demonstrate the time you are there, you can easily exclude one of those possibilities.

    • @Jabrwock
      @Jabrwock 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Crazy_Diamond_75 They'll still claim it was faked. If Israel can fake Canadian passports well enough to fool Norway in the 1970s, FLERFs will claim Dan got the "deep state" to fake him up a newspaper.

    • @thepooz7205
      @thepooz7205 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Crazy_Diamond_75he also mentioned having simultaneous recordings of the sun through solar filters so one can see (via sunspots) that they are not inverting a North Pole 24 hour footage. But I guess the claim would then be the results of both could have been inverted…

    • @JMartJr
      @JMartJr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Might as well, but they''l just scream "green screen CGI fake AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

    • @jaychaff1078
      @jaychaff1078 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      make it an asymmetrical analog clock for added complexity.

  • @tommyisrael
    @tommyisrael 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    if after sunset the sun is too far away for me to see it? how can i see its reflection?

  • @paulvinova
    @paulvinova 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Hi mate, great video as usual! Whilst on the topic of planes, I've had another observation that is easy to confirm to anyone that the earth is 'round' or oblate spheroid, if you will...
    Using a tool like ADSB-Exchange and big open space outside, you can check an approaching plane on the radar (before you have visual sight) and check it's Barometric altitude. Normally commercial jets fly constantly at around 36K~ ft. When the plane approaches, the contrails make it look as if the plane is climbing 'upwards', but you can notice that the altitude is constantly at 36ft. As the jet approaches and reaches you, you will notice that the contrails plateau with the horizon. As the jet reaches futher away, you will notice that the contrails and jet look as if it's going 'downwards', yet the altitude remains the same on the flight radar.
    For this to work for anyone testing, you just need the flight altitude to be somewhat constant and for you to have clear visibility and for the plane to have a consistent contrail. A simple but good visulistion that anyone can do :)

  • @larrybremer4930
    @larrybremer4930 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    What a flerfer sees in the airplane example is swamp gas reflecting sunlight from a weather balloon. Flerfers simply cannot imagine anything outside of human scale and fail to recognize that the surface on a huge globe is effectively flat at human scale. Without lies flat earth dies.

  • @wiredforstereo
    @wiredforstereo 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    One small correction. At cruising altitude, planes fly with a pronounced nose up attitude, not perfectly level. This is because at high altitude the air is much thinner and in order to maintain level flight, the plane has to fly with a higher angle of attack than it would a low altitude, in order to maintain lift.
    It's not flying straight and level like a dart or an arrow. It's flying a bit nose up because the air is so thin.
    Kinda shoots holes in flat earthers arguments about planes having to always be going nose down to compensate for earth's curvature.
    They're already falling through the air a bit because the air is so thin.

  • @sicfxmusic
    @sicfxmusic 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    "Am I a joke to you?" -Sun, probably.

  • @spidermike3
    @spidermike3 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    There will be some flatties that will try to debunk this, they are so immune to logic.

    • @JMartJr
      @JMartJr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There will be others who simply ignore it, which is the easiest thing to do.

  • @MichaelSidneyTimpson
    @MichaelSidneyTimpson 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Remind me again how they explain that a local sun just "stays up there" and know how to go around faster when it is in the southern hemisphere?

    • @zntei2374
      @zntei2374 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Guess it's a helium balloon because density and buoyancy duh

    • @EnglishMike
      @EnglishMike 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      There's a lot of handwaving involved, I believe...

    • @Katy_Jones
      @Katy_Jones 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Willpower

    • @federicogiana7430
      @federicogiana7430 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Probably something about flerfmagnetism.

  • @ManwerKr
    @ManwerKr 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    Planes are holograms duh! 😂

  • @aaronmoravek
    @aaronmoravek 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I choose to think guys like this are the real alpha males. He doesn't need to scream his points or talk very fast, he just knows how things work and how to explain things.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      "He who must shout 'I am King' is no king." And all that.

  • @PromoVisionNZ
    @PromoVisionNZ 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I thought that flerfs are all about- "trust your eyes"

    • @NeutralDrow
      @NeutralDrow 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      "Wait, it just means 'trust their preconceived notions?'"
      🔫 "Always has."

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Right up until it tells the exact opposite of their claims lol

  • @officercrown
    @officercrown วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Without Lies.. Flat Earth Dies

  • @Boxbearer
    @Boxbearer วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    Ok, if I understand this perspective thing correct, the further from the truth the flerfers are, the smaller their brains gets…

    • @logic.and.reasoning
      @logic.and.reasoning วันที่ผ่านมา

      The bigger lie they tell and stick to, the bigger their ego and worship from other flerfs.

  • @positiveali9214
    @positiveali9214 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    No more a flat earther. Thanks.

    • @daddy4934
      @daddy4934 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Welcome back to reality, bro.
      Prise you for having enough intellectual honesty and courage to realise you were wrong.
      Many of us fell for different conspiracies eventually, and hopefully went back from them.
      Keep it up 👍

    • @zerox2552
      @zerox2552 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ok, have fun taking the H5N1 vaxx when media wants to take it

    • @daddy4934
      @daddy4934 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@zerox2552Fun fact : 98% of the population is vaccinated and healthy.
      There are many countries with little to no access to vaccines, go there and enjoy your vaccine-free life, then tell us how it went.
      Just a small piece of advice though, don't tell the locals about your opinion on vaccines, as they might not like it much.
      You see, that's the natural consequence of seeing children and loved ones die from diseases which have been eradicated in richer countries.
      And come back with the accurate FE map btw.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@zerox2552just keep eating those lead paint chips buddy. Soon enough you won't have to worry about vaccines...

    • @mientusmien7594
      @mientusmien7594 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      you aint no real master baiter

  • @oysterjohn5669
    @oysterjohn5669 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    In my skydiving days, one of the best loads of the day were the Sunset Loads. Sometimes the plane would take off AFTER sunset. When you got up to altitude (15 min), which was usually 10,000 feet, the sun would be blazing away and a good 5 fingers, or a hands length high ABOVE the horizon, and LOW and behold (pun intended) complete shade on the ground.

  • @rabaohong9492
    @rabaohong9492 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    I enjoy meeting flat earther’s. shaking their hand I get to say: “ this is fantastic. I’m actually meeting someone that admits they are an idiot.”

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      meeting a globe earther is like " Why are you in a wheelchair? Was it the vaxx or putin?
      why cant you move your legs and jump around?"
      funny how dumb the globtards are...

    • @EBDavis111
      @EBDavis111 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I wouldn't shake their hands. They probably don't wash them after using the toilet.

    • @ruor1984
      @ruor1984 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Yepbutno-yl5bx When will that happen? According to "experts" like you everyone who got vaccinated should have died by now. Did you find a flat Earther who was able to debunk every picture of Earth taken from space yet? I hope your journey to Antarctica goes well.

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@ruor1984 according to my ministery of health (germany) i should have died by not taking the vaxx 3 years ago... you can either google it or i give you the quotes and the interviews and everything that should make these people go into prison...

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@ruor1984 the entire german government should be imprisoned by now... every single one... Why arent they and why does now law suit work on them? hm please tell me?

  • @shmehfleh3115
    @shmehfleh3115 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Am I misunderstanding something? If the sun was illuminating the clouds from above, then the sun would be directly visible to someone on the ground, wouldn't it?

    • @mientusmien7594
      @mientusmien7594 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      yes it would clearly the earth is flat

  • @JhericFury
    @JhericFury 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Come for debunking, stay for the interesting science explanation

  • @MrSiciro
    @MrSiciro 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Why do these flat earthers not just climb in a boat and go find the end of the earth

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because leaving mommy's basement takes effort and might actually make them learn something.

    • @ReValveiT_01
      @ReValveiT_01 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Because they actively discourage their cult members from looking for, or coming up with flat earth "evidence".

  • @stcredzero
    @stcredzero 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    If flat earthers want to prove their theory, all they have to do is to come up with one self consistent model that explains all of the data. They've never done this. All they can do is come up with half-baked misunderstandings which they try to frame as "debunks" of the globe.

  • @jonw7214
    @jonw7214 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I think googling a picture of it from space is the easiest

    • @adryanclay
      @adryanclay 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      its so easy that flat-earthers can just say "fake" and ignore every evidence that supports that image, its ridiculous, really

    • @aerbon
      @aerbon 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      that's only proof if you are the type of person to believe anything on the internet, in which case there are also images of a flat earth.

    • @jonw7214
      @jonw7214 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@aerbon I think images from NASA's website can be trusted (not to mention other space agencies). Also there are no images of the flat earth, because they have never provided a working model of one.

  • @mericet39
    @mericet39 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Just a thought: when you see the sun on the underside of a plane, it means that the pilot has forgotten to dip his nose to follow the curvature and accidentally gone above the sun. 😆🤣😆🤣

  • @treadingtheboards2875
    @treadingtheboards2875 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I live near an International airport and I am under a flight path. I see this happen on a daily, or should I say nightly basis.
    Most of the aircraft are flying West / North West and it is something I find a beautiful sight, especially during Winter with the contrails.
    Oh, I am very far inland with no water bodies large enough to reflect onto the plane. It is mostly forest with very little reflection.
    Always enjoy your videos, as someone of the elderly persuasion, I at times learn something new or have something brought back to me that I had forgotten. Thank You.

  • @vincentbarnett4222
    @vincentbarnett4222 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    When I was in Hawaii, I drove to the peak of Mauna Kea at 4207.3 meters (13,803 feet) in elevation. There was a solid cloud layer a few hundred feet below the peak of the mountain.
    That day, I got to see 2 spectacular sunsets. One from the peak of Mauna Kea as it sank beneath the cloud horizon and a second one from the beach as it sank beneath the ocean horizon.
    I watched the top of the cloud layer go from brilliantly lit from above to dark and later watched the bottom of the same cloud layer lit brilliantly from below to dark.
    Spectacularly beautiful and definitive proof of a globe.

  • @Markaras
    @Markaras 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    bro the fact that you see the sun go down and you have night and some guy in australia has day and it is known that the earth is round is enough proof

    • @TheZodiacRipper
      @TheZodiacRipper 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Thats what annoys me the most, they will explain that away with perspective when the perspective is completely wrong for a flat earth.

  • @tussk.
    @tussk. วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Flerfs - Let me demonstrate how sunlight works. First, I'll need a laser, a lens, a glass dome, some string etc etc etc....

    • @karlejnarch
      @karlejnarch 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      An elastic bands, don't forget the elastic bands😉

    • @johnqpublic7608
      @johnqpublic7608 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@karlejnarch
      a used condom and a ballpoint pen. i can mcguyver this!

  • @mickallen899
    @mickallen899 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    At no time in history and nowhere in the world has anyone said the sun comes and goes. It has always been rise and set. In perspective things coming toward you seem to accelerate as it passes overhead and seems to decelerate as it moves away. .. 100 percent of the time... sun simply doesn't do that.

  • @jasmijnariel
    @jasmijnariel 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The harder YOU try,
    The harder THEY cry😂

  • @jitagan
    @jitagan 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    In order to test your claim, flat earthers would, firstly, need to be able to afford a plane ticket and, secondly, need permission from their mother to leave the basement and go somewhere.

    • @Yepbutno-yl5bx
      @Yepbutno-yl5bx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      lol i offered to fly to chile... and now they claim they havent booked anything themself so far... but the dates and costs are SET... cant get more ridiculous...
      if you book a flight from chile to antartica the costs get lower the more people join... but they dont... it doesnt matter if 1 person or 100 go for them... its a joke

    • @leftpastsaturn67
      @leftpastsaturn67 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Yepbutno-yl5bx You didn't make any such offer little boy.
      You don't own a passport, you aren't old enough.
      Your parents would never let you fly anywhere alone.
      You don't have a degree.
      You have no proof for any of your claims.
      You're a failure.

  • @northernbrother1258
    @northernbrother1258 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    How do flerfs explain sunsets and sunrises??? 🥴

    • @logic.and.reasoning
      @logic.and.reasoning วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      They don't, can't, deny and run away

    • @tjjones621
      @tjjones621 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      flerfs don't explain

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      They claim "perspective does it", "that's just how it works", or they don't explain anything and run lol
      Often all three.

  • @sourisvoleur4854
    @sourisvoleur4854 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    It's maybe possible for the sun to shine through certain clouds. But the shadow of a mountain on the underside of the clouds cannot happen on a flat earth.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      They try to claim the shadow is cast by the top of the mountain poking through the clouds.
      ...even when the photo is clearly showing the peak of the mountain *under* the clouds lol

  • @Supreme_Court.
    @Supreme_Court. 20 นาทีที่ผ่านมา

    Back when I was researching flat earth and honestly gave their arguments a fair shake, this observation of the sun lighting up the underside of clouds is what convinced me that it must be a globe. And for those that deny that's what's happening at sunrise/sunset, there are plenty of photos of mountains casting shadows up onto clouds, meaning the sun must be shining from below.

  • @stevep2448
    @stevep2448 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Wait... the Earth reflects light, but the moon generates its own light?
    That's... interesting.

    • @peronkop
      @peronkop 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@Markaras *woosh*

    • @stevep2448
      @stevep2448 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@peronkop I was gonna reply, but your comment is too perfect and concise. Thanks!

  • @ElGrecoDaGeek
    @ElGrecoDaGeek 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Dave, regarding the cloud observation myself and others made previously...
    You can still see the phenomenon on clouds that are arguably too thick to allow light to diffuse through without muting the intensity of the light. Specifically, larger/thicker clouds whose undersides are clearly illuminated from only one direction (west) and not illuminated on the underside of their easterly fronts. The argument against such perceived illumination being the result of light diffusing through the cloud would be that if that where the case you would expect equal amounts of illumination on the easterly sides as well. That's the only reason I would argue it's just as easy, if not more readily observable in a random pre/post dawn sky.
    FWIW, what I've asked flerfs what the cause of this illumination is and they always say reflection... SMH