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Username: AnthroposRex
Date: 2020-01-13 18:20:17
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What gets me about the concept is this:
Here is the star wheel diagram from some site.

Interesting to me this is called a planisphere.
Here is a time lapse photo of the starwheel.

This link says the north pole star acts like the hub in a wheel.
Does the North Star ever move? | EarthSky.org
So does this make sense when the scientists are saying we travel like this?
Are all the stars moving in perfect sync with earth despite being many light years from each other?
Or is there a sphere or dome of stars that happens to be a LOT closer than anyone thinks it is?
I personally prefer a flat earth explanation. For two reasons. Primarily, I think it is a great philosophical exercise because it shows oneself how much the concept of a spherical earth underpins so much of education and one's awareness of their location.
Also, the level of vitriol for asking these questions and the attempt to publicly deride someone's intelligence for daring to ask the question SCREAMS suppression to me. So I tend to believe there is a large bit of truth to the Earth is a Level Plane concept.
My second reason has more to do with making life exciting.
The concept of the scale of the universe seems designed to make happenings here on earth, and one person's actions in particular, insignificant in scale and meaning.
Look at this map that is usually circulated with FE.

What if the inner circle represents the ice wall, and the outer represents the firmament.
There are many more continents outside us.
What if aliens are just people from those continents. What if giants come over the ice wall. What if the people outside are trying to set us free? Are we in a localized prison system?
The idea that life has stakes this high is exciting to me. It turns real life into something that's better than any movie.
So until someone can show me some pictures of space by NASA that aren't obviously fabricated, (don't get me started on china's space footage) I prefer to place my conscious belief of myself in this world in the paradigm that is more interesting to me.
And while space ships would be cool, I'd make my first flight on one straight south and answer the questions I have.
One more thing. All countries have a treaty about Antarctica. When have any countries followed any treaties without cheating? That defies explanation to me. Russia is the big bad wolf unless it's in Antarctica? Yeah, right.