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Flat earthers and other retards will be banned from this sub mercilessly.

You wouldn't want to hear my theories, anyways. They involve things like human beings and not space-magic from outer space.

In light of not being a globe-guy now, I often wonder what the Carrington Event was. If man made, or natural. If the latter, what force caused it. The sun, or something else?

> Flat earthers and other retards will be banned from this sub mercilessly. You wouldn't want to hear my theories, anyways. They involve things like human beings and not space-magic from outer space. In light of not being a globe-guy now, I often wonder what the *Carrington Event* was. If man made, or natural. If the latter, what force caused it. The sun, or something else?

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Would you like fries with your ban?

Go ahead and post some flat earth nonsense and I'll gladly ban you.

The Carrington event was caused by a coronal mass ejection.

It was witnessed (by dumb luck) by the English astronomer Richard Carrington, hence its name.

Carrington documented detailed observations of a solar flare on September 1, 1859, before the telegraph lines and everything else blew up. It took about 17 hours to hit the earth, which is faster than normal.

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Fries would be fantastic! Thank you.

But, do I really have to go through the trouble of submitting something just so you can ban me? That's not stipulated in the sub description. All that is stated is you have to be a "Flat earthers [or] other retards"

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Yeah you have to piss me off with something really stupid that can be disproven with grade school math and a pair of eyes, you know, like flat earth theory.

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You can disprove globe earth with basic math, too.

Circumference around equator = ~24,100 miles Extent of viewing distance at 36,000 feet = ~211 miles Formula for circumference of circle = C = 2πr Formula for radius can be derrived = r = C / 2π Radius of Earth given aforementioned circumference = r = 24,100 / 2π = ~3836 miles

You can see a mountain 200 miles away from 36,000 feet (curising altitude of most commercial airliners) 200 miles is ~0.83% of the circumference of the Earth If you travel half the circumference of a cirlc,e you've traveled the entire radius Thus, 200 miles, or ~0.83% of the circumference would be ~1.66% of the radius 3836 Miles * 1.66% = ~63 Miles

Therefore, the mountain you're looking at that is 200 miles away is, allegedly, 63 Miles DOWN the curve of the earth.

Now I wait for the response about "but muh light bending correlois effect!"

You can see a ship sail "down the curve" and watch is descend into the horizon. Makes sense with globe earth theory, but one can take a telescope, or a powerful camera like a P900, and zoom in from the same viewpoint, and see the ship again. How can that be if the light has already bent along the curve of the earth before the photons have collided with your retinas?

The telescope/camera is receiving the exact same photons of light, then magnifying a small subsection of it. How would that magnification, post-bending, affect the light bending along the curve of the earth?

... You can ban me now.