Why July 8th does not prove the Earth is flat

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  • čas přidán 18. 07. 2023
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  • @DaveMcKeegan
    @DaveMcKeegan  Před rokem +38

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    • @SwitchRoomCafe
      @SwitchRoomCafe Před rokem

      Does the Earth have a strong enough gravity to bend light, accounting for some light wrap that's not only occlusion of the atmosphere? Or is the light past the circumference (from the sun's vantage point) only provided by occlusion?

    • @evolutionCEO
      @evolutionCEO Před rokem +1

      Of course Earth isn't flat, it is a make believe ball of spin. close your eyes and imagine. that's right, a ball, now go on, give it a spin and send it off into space. there we go, weeeeeeeee!!!! mind them flying pigs.

    • @SwitchRoomCafe
      @SwitchRoomCafe Před rokem +4

      @@evolutionCEO I can't tell if you're making fun of flerfs and how they typically respond to questions like mine, or if you're a flerf trying to make fun of me for believing in what has been proven time and again, for thousands of years, that the Earth is, in fact, a spheroid...

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      Typical POS that needs to lie to everyone about what other people believe to get them to hate them as much as he hates them because they believe in something he's afraid of. It's why you are dying and the more you do this the sooner it will come.

    • @evolutionCEO
      @evolutionCEO Před rokem

      @SwitchRoomCafe have fun with people, yes. make fun of people, no. i don't do that. there does come a time, however, when you have to decide whether you want your beliefs upheld or whether you want to know the truth.
      i am an empirical scientist. that means i have to see first hand evidence amounting to a body of proof, before i accept that something is true.
      water at rest is flat and level. that is an empirically testable law of our universe. we are not moving, is another. however, there is no point testing these things if you cannot release yourself from the need to believe.

  • @zar3434
    @zar3434 Před rokem +1768

    The obvious question to flat earthers: if the Earth is flat why doesn't this happen EVERY day?

    • @OGYettie
      @OGYettie Před rokem +126

      I wouldn't hold my breath for an answer, can't explain in so either ignore it or change the subject.

    • @outputcoupler7819
      @outputcoupler7819 Před rokem +263

      I believe the standard answer is "You're a NASA shill, baller! Checkmate! Now where'd I leave that pack of tasty crayons...."

    • @TheSandman.
      @TheSandman. Před rokem +60

      Since the beginning of time humans have had to deal with flat earthers Oh and folk who still think the Sun goes around the Earth

    • @Scudboy17
      @Scudboy17 Před rokem +103

      Flerfs never provide proof or even arguments for a flat earth, all they can do is try to argue against earth being a spheroid.

    • @mangojulie123
      @mangojulie123 Před rokem +53

      Brilliant point! They keep debunking themselves. But I guess logical, critical thinking isn't their strong suit.

  • @lorentz9682
    @lorentz9682 Před rokem +519

    What they read: 99% of humans see sunlight..
    What they heard: 99% of the earth's surface see's sunlight..

    • @phredro1731
      @phredro1731 Před rokem +19

      nailed it.

    • @T0MT0Mmmmy
      @T0MT0Mmmmy Před rokem +10

      Exactly my thought.

    • @ziploc2000
      @ziploc2000 Před rokem +52

      They don't stop to think that dry land is not evenly distributed on the globe, and humans are not evenly distributed on the dry land, because they've already reached their conclusion: Erf be flaaat!

    • @thepapschmearmd
      @thepapschmearmd Před rokem

      @@ziploc2000 yep. The level of ignorance is astounding.

    • @0LoneTech
      @0LoneTech Před rokem +12

      ​@@ziploc2000It's not a conclusion, it's prejudice.

  • @CorwynGC
    @CorwynGC Před rokem +1449

    Totally missing that fact that 1% of the people on Earth NOT seeing the sun is impossible on a flat Earth...

    • @hijtohema
      @hijtohema Před rokem +154

      ​@@GrauenwolfIf they let the sun actually set instead of circling above the earth 100% of the people either see the sun or 100% don't. There's no in-between.

    • @HagenvonEitzen
      @HagenvonEitzen Před rokem +49

      And totally missing that 99% of the people *not* seeing the sun 12 hours later is even more impossible on a flat Earth.
      EDIT: I made the comment before seeing that the 99% include twilight - nevertheless, even with a slightly lower percentage, the discepancy remains valid.
      (Come to think of it, I think that writing "even more impossible" instead of just "impossible" is something that can be justified only in connection with flat Earth)

    • @AnotherKentPaul
      @AnotherKentPaul Před rokem +1

      ​@@Grauenwolfseems that you are one of those idiots who think you can see forever.. And across thousands of miles. Take a lighter in the night and the longest flat field you can find. Give the burning lighter to a friend and tell him to move flat above the field. At one distance you won't be able to see the lighter anymore. Even if it's totally flat. The circle lighted Part you could see before won't be there anymore, of course. Imagine being an ant seeing the lighter will have daylight and night after this Experiment. And will also be not able to see the lighter anymore.

    • @KonradvonHotzendorf
      @KonradvonHotzendorf Před rokem +11

      Molepeople 🤔

    • @theultimatereductionist7592
      @theultimatereductionist7592 Před rokem +7

      @@hijtohema You mean 50% not 100%. A flat earth has 2 sides. A sphere has "infinitely" many sides, or, more accurately, no "sides".

  • @ivanpetrov5255
    @ivanpetrov5255 Před rokem +824

    Fun fact: you can see sunlight even at night, as long as it's not a new moon.

    • @xczechr
      @xczechr Před rokem +64

      Don't forget that the sun is a star, and there are plenty of those visible at night.

    • @Jman99152
      @Jman99152 Před rokem +72

      Moon light is sun light

    • @GGhostStudios
      @GGhostStudios Před rokem +37

      Or if it’s cloudy out.

    • @ivanpetrov5255
      @ivanpetrov5255 Před rokem +28

      @@GGhostStudios Oh, yeah - I forgot about weather conditions 😅

    • @ronik24
      @ronik24 Před rokem +54

      Even during a new moon you might see other planets and satellites reflecting sunlight ;-)

  • @Liquid278
    @Liquid278 Před rokem +353

    I love how these people also don’t take into account that nearly 60% of humans are on the Asian continent alone

    • @getnanaed3161
      @getnanaed3161 Před rokem +7

      That was my first thought too😂

    • @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
      @reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 Před rokem +1

      Asia must be where all those milk carton kids went.

    • @billbill6094
      @billbill6094 Před rokem +11

      There was a popular visualizer that took a map and place a small blue circle that encompassed parts of China and most of India. And that small circle alone contained most of the human population alive, with most of the world and even much of Asia excluded.

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem +3

      They’re not alone. They have each other! 👫

    • @markr8716
      @markr8716 Před rokem +14

      And that 90% of people are in the northern hemisphere. In northern summer, the northern hemisphere is tilted towards the sun.

  • @EbonAvatar
    @EbonAvatar Před rokem +602

    I find it very telling that Dino's animation doesn't spin the globe over the Pacific Ocean. I think most people don't fully grasp just how huge the Pacific really is, it covers nearly a whole hemisphere by itself. Knowing this fact, what the meme REALLY is saying is "over 90% of people DON'T live in the Pacific Ocean," which is a much less provocative claim

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Před rokem +29

      Why else do you think that the British call the Atlantic a ‘pond.’

    • @Neil070
      @Neil070 Před rokem +71

      Vast swathes of the globe are uninhabited, the polar regions, central Australia for example. 99% of the people does not equal 99% of the planet's surface

    • @EbonAvatar
      @EbonAvatar Před rokem +27

      @@Neil070 Exactly, and that confusion right there is what the flat earthers are relying on when they say "it's not possible for 99% of people to be in sunlight at once!"

    • @maliciousbloke
      @maliciousbloke Před rokem +34

      Yeah exactly. The Pacific is chuffing enormous. There's bits of the Pacific where, if you were to drill a hole through the middle of the Earth from it, the place you would emerge on the other side would ALSO be in the Pacific ocean. Something about being a mahoosive stretch of water doesn't lend itself to being a major population centre, I wonder why that could be?

    • @lightningstrike9876
      @lightningstrike9876 Před rokem +13

      Fun fact: there are places in the Pacific Ocean where you can tunnel straight down, directly through the center of the earth, and come out the other side, and you'll still be in the Pacific Ocean.

  • @jameskyle7943
    @jameskyle7943 Před rokem +317

    If the earth were flat, wouldn't the entire planet be in sunlight all the time? Why would this happen only once a year on a flat earth...

    • @marcogentile3392
      @marcogentile3392 Před rokem

      According to their model the Sun simply gets to far to illuminate certain areas.
      And yet they conveniently make it so the Sun magically lights up 50% of the surface making it's light projection a big semi-circle instead of a full circle like it would be in reality...
      Basically, if this is impossible on a round Earth it would be on insane levels of fiction on a Flat Earth

    • @throwawayavclubber7269
      @throwawayavclubber7269 Před rokem

      @blankvision2771 Uh... yeah...

    • @c.augustin
      @c.augustin Před rokem +55

      @@Grauenwolf Shows that those ancient civilizations weren't as stupid as flerfs make them out to be - they *did* see that the sun not only goes below the horizon, but that it would have to move in an arc from where it rises to where it sets. Since their "world" was quite small, they could indeed guess that it was flat. But at some point they realized that the world was much larger than they originally thought, and that it won't work if it is flat. They didn't have Internet, WWW and CZcams back then, so they could actually see and think for themselves … 😁

    • @cadekachelmeier7251
      @cadekachelmeier7251 Před rokem +25

      Something something refraction something perspective something magnetism.

    • @larrywest42
      @larrywest42 Před rokem +21

      ​@@cadekachelmeier7251you forgot the punchline: *conspiracy!!!*

  • @mjjoe76
    @mjjoe76 Před rokem +176

    Apparently flat earthers (and “demonstrable realists”) don’t understand that sunset isn’t like turning off a light switch.

    • @givmi_more_w9251
      @givmi_more_w9251 Před rokem

      I am always in awe just how poor their understanding of geometry and physics actually is. To be completely frank, I'm amazed they aren't choking on their cutlery.
      They are just so mind-numbingly ignorant and often come across as 'I can't handle geometry/physics/big numbers, so therefore those who use geometry/physics/big numbers must be liars/Nasa shills/paid actors."
      I will never understand that attitude.

    • @greenflagracing7067
      @greenflagracing7067 Před rokem +28

      near the equator twilight is very short, in the northern latitudes it can be very long. not explainable on a flat earth.

    • @niceguy191
      @niceguy191 Před rokem +23

      They tend to misunderstand light in general

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem +3

      Of course not, it’s like fiery steeds coming back to the East via the Netherworld.

    • @ShizukuSeiji
      @ShizukuSeiji Před rokem +7

      "“demonstrable realists”"
      LOL, I think you mean "“demonstrable flat Earthers too scared to admit being flat Earthers”

  • @ianking7511
    @ianking7511 Před rokem +42

    Seemed like an unlikely claim when I first heard it.
    Then I remembered that the Pacific Ocean exists.

    • @givmi_more_w9251
      @givmi_more_w9251 Před rokem +6

      Yep, it took me a second or two to sort out '99% of the population, not 99% of the surface'. After that, I immediately knew that it had something to do with the twilight zones being just right to include the big landmasses on the Northern Hemisphere on each side.

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom Před rokem +4

      hovering in a geostationary orbit above the centre of the Pacific, the planet appears to be >95% covered with water

    • @phillyphakename1255
      @phillyphakename1255 Před 4 měsíci +1

      ​@@givmi_more_w9251the real shocking thing is that australia is less than 1% of earth's population. You tell me 87%, amd I'll believe you. 95% and I'll ask to see the map. 99%? Thats gotta be impossible. What about 'stralia?
      Turns out my preconceived notions about population density were... off.

  • @tomwedge308
    @tomwedge308 Před rokem +235

    Flat earthers don't like to let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy talking point.

    • @RandomRothbardian
      @RandomRothbardian Před rokem

      Like modern democrats constantly hunting trump is it’s no success
      Note: I’m not a republican, I’m a libertarian

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom Před rokem +7

      it seems to me that the conspiracy obsession is more central to them than the (pseudo)science

    • @AwakenedWarrior
      @AwakenedWarrior Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/5ChhJPLU-sg/video.html

    • @Sacrengard
      @Sacrengard Před rokem +2

      yup they wont explain how seasons are possible, or the moon phases, the eclipses, the Coriolis effect, the tides, time zones, or why the north pole is cold, or even the south pole for that matter, or how gravity works according to them... or can they explain why planes travel lines look curved on the maps, etc...
      I'm sure they can try to explain some of those things, but they are most likely going to contradict themselves trying to explain two or three at the same time. So instead they go ahead and call you names and say everyone is lying...

    • @victoralexandervinkenes9193
      @victoralexandervinkenes9193 Před rokem +1

      Tbh, I think most flat earthers are just trolls and don't actually believe that the earth is flat.

  • @deepskymike767
    @deepskymike767 Před rokem +208

    Another expertly explained video. No nonsense, no fuss. Just easily understandable facts. Dave is a master at that.

    • @AwakenedWarrior
      @AwakenedWarrior Před rokem

      Here is the PROOF that everyone says we don't give.
      czcams.com/video/5ChhJPLU-sg/video.html

    • @nightmareTomek
      @nightmareTomek Před rokem

      I like Dave's approach to explain things to flerfers, most other channels only laugh at them, but their explanations are insufficient.

    • @AwakenedWarrior
      @AwakenedWarrior Před rokem

      @@nightmareTomek
      Here are our
      insufficient explanations....
      czcams.com/video/5ChhJPLU-sg/video.html
      Enjoy

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před rokem +1

      It debunks the globe.

    • @mrosskne
      @mrosskne Před rokem +2

      @@liftingtheveil8361 where's your model?

  • @timolynch149
    @timolynch149 Před rokem +210

    "Here is this one thing I can misrepresent which totally pokes a hole into your model and thus my model must be true"
    The summary of most flat earth claims. Unfortunately, this can be explained nicely, as Dave just did and even more unfortunately, on a flat earth the sun should. always. be. visibile.

    • @1ermejo4ever1
      @1ermejo4ever1 Před rokem +40

      They ignore the fact that this phenomena is impossible on a flat earth (like many other phenomena). They are so obsessed with finding things to disprove the globe that they don't realize those very things do not work on their inexistent model

    • @glitch1182
      @glitch1182 Před rokem +36

      This is the number 1 absolute proof that the earth isn't flat, and I can't believe more flat earthers don't look into this: on a flat earth, the sun will ALWAYS be visible. Regardless of size or distance, by definition if the earth is flat then the sun would always be above the horizon, making night time impossible anywhere. Even if the sun were so small as to be no larger than a city, if it's on the other side of the flat disc it would still appear as a point source of light above the horizon. But we don't ever see the sun as a point source above the horizon, it dips below it which completely annihilates the flat earth model. Whichever one you pick.

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique Před rokem

      Well also, depending on the disproof of course, if one thing happens to be wrong or not make sense that wouldn't invalidate the globe nor prove flat earth. Flat earthers would still have to disprove most of the other phenomenon. They will never be able to though, obviously.
      And.. also just ignore that the moon and Mars are spherical. Oh wait, they will just ban you from their chat because those aren't real XD

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Před rokem +9

      Well they are never going to talk about the time that this is the opposite, not as ‘dramatic’ given the populations that live around India and China, where the summer is in the south. This is something that really doesn’t work on the AE map given that the whole edge has to be lit up while the middle has to be dark. This is why so many of them won’t commit to a map as they know no matter which one they pick it’s not going to work. So they resort to going to just word games.

    • @timolynch149
      @timolynch149 Před rokem +20

      @@glitch1182 The "best" attempts at explaining this are something about the sun being a "spot light" which weirdly looks circular regardless how high or low it is unless it starts to vanish behind the horizon and even more weird, never changes angular size OR some other special pleading why the sun gets to behave unlike any other source of light OR a "we don't know what it is". Of course, the fact that parts of the world can have sunlight for 24 hours while another part can have 24 hours of darkness, the change in the length of day etc would require the sun to change speeds and orbits to work. This is just the thing with any attempts at a flat earth model: You CAN explain one or two things at once but then everything else does not fit. So instead of thinking "well, we better should do some of this research and create a model that works" it's always "but whatabout this one thing I don't quite understand / misrepresent in the globe model, this must mean your model doesn't work so my idea must be correct!" That is like saying "my car isn't where it is supposed to be, I think my wife took it" "No, I think it developed wings and flew away" "Well, I called my wife, she didn't take it" "SEE! I was right, it flew away!"

  • @smartinro.
    @smartinro. Před rokem +100

    And how it works in the flat earth model? What makes it possible for July 8th and not for the rest of the year?

  • @SamualRobotham-IWasOnlyKidding

    “Purposefully deceptive”?
    Well obviously 🙄
    They are flat earthers.

    • @craftinghome
      @craftinghome Před rokem +6

      Yep! Gotta lie to flerf...

    • @TheSandman.
      @TheSandman. Před rokem +3

      Since the beginning of time humans have had to deal with flat earthers Oh and folk who still think the Sun goes around the Earth

    • @Biden_is_demented
      @Biden_is_demented Před rokem

      @@TheSandman. The modern phenomenon of flat earth is strictly an anglo-saxon creation, with the vast majority of its elements residing in America. Though you can still find a few individuals of the sect here and there, the rest of the world is virtually flat earth free. So it is not without some irony, that the more "evolved" (according to them) nation of the planet also contains the most idiotic of people. The flat earth phenomenon is borne out of the piss poor state of american education, that allows clueless kids to exit high-school and college dumber than when they went in, and still awards them a degree!
      Having said that, they do provide endless and copious amounts entertainment. 🤣

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před 11 měsíci

      @@TheSandman. Take a photo of sun spots every hour from "sunrise" to "sunset" with a DSLR camera, arrange them in chronological order, then explain how the perspective movement view of the sun spots from your observation point throughout the day could possibly happen on a globe rotating in one direction at a constant speed considering they move slightly as it approaches including anti clockwise aswell as clockwise, make a clear circling rotation then move only slightly again as it moves further away and only a total of 90 degrees.
      Explain that on your ball earth.

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před 11 měsíci

      @@craftinghome The sun is all the proof you need that the earth is flat.

  • @johnscarsandstuff
    @johnscarsandstuff Před rokem +96

    This came up as a post on Facebook. Strangely the flat earth crowd went quiet when I pointed out the distribution of the population and the fact that twilight is a thing. I also observed the sunset is impossible on a flat earth with the sun above it, inside a dome. Thanks for the clear explanation, Dave.

    • @muskyoxes
      @muskyoxes Před rokem +21

      If they went quiet, then they don't know how to flerf. The correct response is to complain about something else and declare victory because you didn't prerefute it

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem +3

      Are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 Před rokem +8

      @@muskyoxesit’s either silence or “nuh uhhhhhhh lalala can’t hear you evil NASA reptilian!” 😂

    • @AwakenedWarrior
      @AwakenedWarrior Před rokem

      Really ???
      czcams.com/video/5ChhJPLU-sg/video.html
      Here is how quite we are.

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před rokem

      It is not about the amount of people it is about the amount of the globe that would have to be in some sort of sunlight for this to happen.
      This video presentation proves that earth is not a sphere as otherwise the would happen every day of the year (only the very bottom of a globe would be in darkness as seen in the presentation) and it would be the same every day.

  • @brandonw3499
    @brandonw3499 Před rokem +16

    The real question is what happened to 99% of flat earthers brain cells

    • @tjjones621
      @tjjones621 Před rokem +4

      FE're are good at three things...
      lying and counting

    • @Rev_Erser
      @Rev_Erser Před rokem

      @@tjjones621 that implies that you're one

    • @tjjones621
      @tjjones621 Před rokem

      @@Rev_Erser I was quoting a fe'r. It's called a reverse troll. :)

    • @JohnSmith-ux3tt
      @JohnSmith-ux3tt Před rokem

      ​@@tjjones621They can only count to 20. Not sure why.

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn Před 7 dny

      ​@@JohnSmith-ux3tta few can manage 60 on their knuckles. But three+ digit numbers terrify them.

  • @BlazeSLK
    @BlazeSLK Před rokem +35

    There is a huge difference in claiming that 99% of the earth sees the Sun vs SunLIGHT. That’s what people like LEO miss. Great video

    • @jamescollins8397
      @jamescollins8397 Před rokem +11

      yep.... & it's not even 99% of Earth's surface, but 99%of the population.... it's just something else that they can't grasp.

    • @BlazeSLK
      @BlazeSLK Před rokem +3

      @@jamescollins8397 exactly! The date matters because there aren’t any people in the middle of the gigantic pacific waters.

    • @Sableagle
      @Sableagle Před rokem +2

      I thought grades 2 through 12 were what people like LEO missed.

    • @jocec3283
      @jocec3283 Před rokem

      LEO is NOT "missing" it.
      He is purposedly IGNORING it.
      Just like he has delete frames in a few videos,to match his claims.
      He's just another flat-earth conman...

    • @PeerAdder
      @PeerAdder Před rokem +2

      People like LEO don't "miss" things like this, they deliberately ignore / misrepresent / lie about them.

  • @notright7
    @notright7 Před rokem +29

    What is forgotten here by Dino is that the 2 countries with the most population on this planet are right next to each other that make up over 35% of the world's population. On top of that, you have another region, Africa that is basically right next door to India. So it is not hard to understand how sunlight can hit so many people in 1 day.

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 Před rokem +7

      Don't forget Europe too, Afro-Eurasia has a population some 6.7 billion in total, 54% of the total landmass but 86% of the global population. Thus you hit that 86% with trivial ease pretty much every morning (UTC time) since that entire landmass is illuminated then. Well in the summer anyway in the winter portions of Northern Siberia don't get it when the rest does. But then that doesn't account for a lot of people as the population density up there is not exactly high as frozen Tundra is not the most productive land for farming and the infrastructure is lacking for many other sources of employment with the exception perhaps of mining.

    • @mwperk02
      @mwperk02 Před rokem +1

      ​@@seraphina985and it also manages to get most of the Americas in twilight as well. Really the only large population centers in night are found in Australia and even some of it is in twilight.

    • @MegaBearsFan
      @MegaBearsFan Před rokem +2

      It's less a matter of where the population *is*, and more a matter of where the population *isn't*. As pointed out, only a small fraction of the population lives in the Pacific Ocean, yet the Pacific Ocean is a massive portion of the Earth's surface area.

  • @wangeroogerque2931
    @wangeroogerque2931 Před rokem +75

    Interesting. I live in northern Germany and I didn't know we don't get full night in the summers. But it explains a lot. Today I didn't only see how a flat earther is put in his place, I also learned some cool facts about the sunlight. This is why I love your channel.

    • @givmi_more_w9251
      @givmi_more_w9251 Před rokem +9

      I also relatively recently learned that. And to be honest, given that it's not really noticeable to the casual observer, I guess our ignorance can be forgiven. It's not like the night looks much brighter now that I'm in NRW compared to when I lived in Munich. Light pollution alone makes that impossible, anyway.

    • @wangeroogerque2931
      @wangeroogerque2931 Před rokem +4

      @@givmi_more_w9251 ha, I live in NRW, too🤣. But I lived on Wangerooge for the most part of my youth and it was a bit noticeable.

    • @frankwales
      @frankwales Před rokem +14

      I grew up in Scotland, and I remember as a child noticing that the night sky only ever got dark blue in summer. Fortunately, I took the time to study astronomy to get the right explanation, rather than pulling one from whatever hole flat earthers get their ideas from.

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Před rokem +2

      It even happens in northern UK, When it's not raining that is.

    • @beepbop6697
      @beepbop6697 Před rokem +5

      They may call it "night", but it really feels like twilight for hours and hours on end when I visited Germany.
      Now I know how all the zombie movies filmed in England managed to have completely deserted city streets during the "day" (they filmed those broad city shots at 3am during twilight).

  • @MrOttopants
    @MrOttopants Před rokem +20

    LEO got something else wrong? I'm shocked. What a pantomime.

    • @timolynch149
      @timolynch149 Před rokem +3

      I know, right? He usually does a lot of research, demonstrates why his ideas are correct, boils down the complex maths to simple points that nearly everyone can understand, never lets his personal incredulity show. All around a stand-up guy, Adam.
      Also, I think day drinking is a great idea which is why I started about 6 hours before I wrote this post 🤣

  • @thender31
    @thender31 Před rokem +15

    For those who are wondering, Dino Tinelli is an Italian Flerfer/Conman so the twilight zones were left out on purpose and bad faith

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Před rokem

      Not left out but lit as if they were full daylight.

  • @theselectiveluddite
    @theselectiveluddite Před rokem +17

    I have an astronomy book that was printed in 1847, and it discusses how the length of twilight was used to get a good estimate of the thickness of the atmosphere! And points out that the lack of twilight on the observed Moon, and the way stars wink out instantly when going behind the Moon, shows that it does not have an atmosphere.

    • @vksasdgaming9472
      @vksasdgaming9472 Před rokem +4

      In hindsight how good was their estimate of atmospheric thickness?

    • @theselectiveluddite
      @theselectiveluddite Před rokem +11

      ​@@vksasdgaming9472 From 'A Popular Introduction to Astronomy' by W. Jevons, Junr. Published 1847, Page 39, less than a year after the discovery of Neptune (for the discovery of which he has a devoted section).
      Quote: "The height of the atmosphere is approximately known from the duration of twilight, for twilight arises from the illumination of the higher regions of the atmosphere when the sun is below the horizon, and it is evident that the higher the atmosphere is, the lower may the sun be before we lose his light reflected from the upper strata. Now it is found that twilight begins and ceases when the sun is about 18 degrees below the horizon, which requires that the atmosphere should be about 50 miles high." end quote.
      On this page NASA lists the atmosphere as about 60 miles thick ( www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/atmosphere.html ), so they were pretty close 200 years ago with just observation and calculation. Cheers

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom Před rokem +3

      so about 7 or 8 generations have been born, raised, and schooled since that book was published, and instead of a knowledgeable populace, we are still stuck with flerfers, anti-vaxxers etc

    • @Jan_Strzelecki
      @Jan_Strzelecki Před rokem +1

      ​@@DrWhomThat's is not solely the fault of the education system. In USA, for example, it's being systematically sabotaged, and have been for a long time, because intelligent educated people can make educated decisions about their future, which is bad for the late-stage capitalism.
      Also, some people may decide that scamming gullible people by pretending that Earth is flat is a good business model. As the saying goes, there are two kinds of flat earthers: t-shirt buyers, and t-shirts sellers.

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Před rokem +5

      @@theselectiveluddite The language of that NASA page is a bit sloppy, the 60 mile line is usually taken as the dividing line above which "space" starts, but it is not due to all air being below that line, it is just that above that line the air becomes that thin that no matter how fast it flies no airplane can generate enough lift to keep its altitude anymore. So anything above is out of reach of airplanes and can only be reached by rocket.
      But even the ISS at ca. 250 miles needs to get an extra rocket engine push every once in a while as it still gets slowed down by friction with the little air left at that altitude.

  • @coleford4258
    @coleford4258 Před rokem +10

    Here's a very well stated, logical explanation that flerfs will scoff at, ignore, or make claims against using misunderstood or misrepresented science.

  • @MariaMartinez-researcher
    @MariaMartinez-researcher Před rokem +17

    A funny thing about all these flatearthers' use of day/night maps (be real o theirs ones), is the absence of any explanation about why daylight and night darkness have that curved shape. Does the Sun have a curvy lampshade?

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico Před rokem +2

      I've yet to see any of them explain how their sun works on the December Solstice. For example: on Friday, December 22, 2023 at 08:26:00 UTC the southern tips of New Zealand and South America along with all of Africa, Australia, and their "ice wall" Antarctica can directly see the sun. Gleason's map certainly doesn't work in that case.

    • @deborahcassidy3705
      @deborahcassidy3705 Před rokem +1

      @@Tsudico Some say the dome reflects/refracts/bends (I don't know lol) the sun all around the edges, without lighting up the rest of the world (eye roll) and some deny it even happens 🤷‍♀

    • @jamescollins8397
      @jamescollins8397 Před rokem

      @@deborahcassidy3705 The problem flerfers/globe deniers have is that there is no map, model or explanation for anything that supports their nonsensical claims.

  • @tannerbass7146
    @tannerbass7146 Před rokem +80

    The Outer Limits had a great episode where the moon got really bright, and the characters inferred that the sun had exploded on the other side of the earth.
    I feel like most of these people could learn something from watching that one...

    • @kevinmccarthy2793
      @kevinmccarthy2793 Před rokem +6

      Larry Niven did the same thing in a short story, except it was Jupiter that got brighter.

    • @captainlengthwidth6692
      @captainlengthwidth6692 Před rokem +16

      @@kevinmccarthy2793 No it was the moon. The story was called Inconsistant Moon . The later brightening of Jupiter (after the delay caused by the distance involved) was confirmation.

    • @S1nwar
      @S1nwar Před rokem +6

      thats a really fucking scary scenario... you got hours left to seek shelter for an unknwn time...

    • @synthetic240
      @synthetic240 Před rokem +6

      There's a Stephen Baxter novel that opens with Venus suddenly detonating into a ball of fusion-fire. It ends with humans colonizing the moon with the Earth as a second sun.

    • @strayling1
      @strayling1 Před rokem +1

      @@S1nwar The protagonist ends up having one last wild party.

  • @kevinwebster7868
    @kevinwebster7868 Před rokem +29

    Never assume a flerf can read. Also I’ve been watching the volcano in Iceland a lot lately and I would love a flat earther to explain why Iceland’s sunset right now is about 11:40pm their time and sunrise is about 3:40am for them but it never actually gets dark. But where I am, almost directly on the equator, sun sets around 7pm and rises at around 7am everyday without fail and it actually gets dark at night. Why is Iceland so special flerfs?

    • @givmi_more_w9251
      @givmi_more_w9251 Před rokem

      Well, NASA probably keeps it illuminated so the planes that pose as ISS have a safe emergency landing spot ... or something.
      Obviously, I'm joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if any of those crayon-eaters came up with something like that.

    • @CD_Character
      @CD_Character Před rokem +3

      Reasons.

    • @joachimschwabe3301
      @joachimschwabe3301 Před rokem +6

      I've been to Antarctica in what Astronomers call "Austral summer" and it never got dark... strange... Also I did not see any wall or something, just a lot of ice where it should be...

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem +2

      Bjork.

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 Před rokem +3

      They’ll just say Iceland has its own sun on a different circuit

  • @Wolfie6020
    @Wolfie6020 Před rokem +6

    Just more evidence flat Earthers cannot think in three dimensions and fail at Geography too.

  • @Rallarberg
    @Rallarberg Před rokem +5

    Flerfs not actually researching what they're talking about? Shocker! 🤔

    • @Lassisvulgaris
      @Lassisvulgaris Před rokem +2

      But then, why let FACTS get in the way of a good conspiracy...?

  • @xczechr
    @xczechr Před rokem +33

    Do they really not know that the vast majority of humans live in the northern hemisphere?

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Před rokem

      Nope. But some do and they use the numbers to misrepresent what is actually happening. It’s clear that they want to imply that more of the planet is seeing the sun than actually is. 99% of the people can see sunlight but only 50%(not true anyway seeing about 2/3 of the Earth population live around India and China) should be able to! Of course the amount of the Earth in direct sunlight is not the same thing but it means they can pretend otherwise.
      The most clever lie is to tell part of the truth first.

    • @TheSkyGuy77
      @TheSkyGuy77 Před rokem +9

      They also don't know the Earth is a sphere*
      *oblate sphereoid

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Před rokem +9

      They really don't know much about anything.

    • @jamescollins8397
      @jamescollins8397 Před rokem +1

      @@XtreeM_FaiL .... nailed it.

    • @0LoneTech
      @0LoneTech Před rokem

      Nope. There's also a distinct group of conspiracy preachers trying to reassign all discoveries to people in Africa, claiming that's what was done when anything was attributed to anyone in the northern hemisphere, so they're just "correcting for bias".

  • @xxbongobazookaxx7170
    @xxbongobazookaxx7170 Před rokem +14

    I didn't know that fun fact about the UK, I live in the north and I never really questioned why nights were so much brighter in summer than winter, just kinda accepted it

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem

      Because long ago, the King decreed it so!

  • @attila0323
    @attila0323 Před rokem +5

    That dog must be the most clever dog in the world, listened so much physics/science.

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem +1

      The dog ia actually the presenter and a very able ventriloquist. You’ll notice he rarely moves his lips. 🐕

  • @kenbrown2808
    @kenbrown2808 Před rokem +27

    in theory, if you time a full moon, properly, you could pick up most of that last 1%, from sunlight reflecting off the moon.

    • @michaeldamolsen
      @michaeldamolsen Před rokem +3

      It was not a full moon on the 8th of July this year, but interestingly the 4th of June the Sun is in exactly the same position (because it is as far before the solstice as july 8th is after the solstice), just at 11:08 instead of 11:25. On that day it was in fact a full moon. Well, technically it was a perfect full moon almost 12 hours earlier but it is as full a moon as people on the pacific hemisphere will see that month.
      I suppose that even when the moon is not full, people still see sunlight reflected, just a bit less of it.

    • @kenbrown2808
      @kenbrown2808 Před rokem

      @@michaeldamolsen the aim was to have it more or less opposite the sun, so it would be in the sky for people on the night side of the planet.

    • @michaeldamolsen
      @michaeldamolsen Před rokem +3

      @@kenbrown2808 Yes, I understand. All I am saying is that the phenomenon explained in the video happens twice a year, not once. And on the other of those days (4th of June) it ALSO happened to be an exact full moon (within less than 12 hours).
      That doesn't happen every year by far. Next time the full moon is on one of these two special days is in 2036 when it happens on the 8th of July. After that it is 2042, etc.

  • @Boyso5407
    @Boyso5407 Před rokem +12

    It’s funny cause I never knew that there was a date and time that 99% of the world’s population could see daylight but it took me about 10 seconds of critical thinking to realize that it was probably one part of the Earth that is inhabited that was in total darkness and that the population there would be about 1%. Turns out it’s Australia, which makes perfect sense.

    • @JohnSmith-ux3tt
      @JohnSmith-ux3tt Před rokem +2

      You just had to read the headline to get it. Flat earthers watch the whole video and still don't understand. There are flat earthers in this comment stream saying that it's wrong because the illuminates half of the sphere. They just don't read.

    • @aemrt5745
      @aemrt5745 Před rokem

      However, on that day, 99% of the world's fauna that can readily kill you is not seeing sunlight...because Australia...

    • @XtreeM_FaiL
      @XtreeM_FaiL Před 11 měsíci

      @@aemrt5745 Armed penquins are not the only dangerous animals on earth. They are the only ones that can't see the sun that day.

    • @dash4800
      @dash4800 Před 7 měsíci

      For real. I read this and my instant thought was , well light refracts off the atmosphere so yeah

  • @Leongon
    @Leongon Před rokem +7

    And if it were flat 100% of people would see the sun directly at all times.

    • @yourguard4
      @yourguard4 Před rokem +2

      except england, because there are always clouds :P

  • @michaeldamolsen
    @michaeldamolsen Před rokem +11

    By symmetry, it should happen the same amount of time before the June solstice as well, on 4th of June at 11:08 apparently. I quickly modelled this in my home made software, and it checks out perfectly. Fun fact: The border of astronomical twilight cuts off Australia with absolute surgical precision.

    • @user-fp7jz4ot6f
      @user-fp7jz4ot6f Před rokem +1

      yea but they didn't mention it so there is probalby a small difference (like 98.5% see and not 99%)

    • @michaeldamolsen
      @michaeldamolsen Před rokem +4

      @@user-fp7jz4ot6f Yes, it is about 7 minutes earlier so maybe some people are still sleeping :)
      Seriously though, there are VERY small differences in how far the Sun is from the tropics at those days, so it theoretically could exclude a tiny amount of people. I plotted it on a high resolution Earth map (8192x4096 pixels) and zoomed in, but the maps of the two days look identical to me.

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@user-fp7jz4ot6f huh, i guess you missed the fact (shown at 7:17) that it's not "really" 99% even on july 8th, but 98.9%? 🤓
      Wait, no, i retract that last part, that was change from previous census data. But doing a simple operation, that 52M-53M figure is _only 0.65%_ of world population, so there's plenty of leeway available for some more areas to be included in there.
      ... And a second correction. No idea what Dave was showing us, but the data from the original source (the timeanddate article about this) is saying there are 79.7 million that experience nighttime at that moment, which is 1.03% of the 7.7B that was the total world pop last year, when they did the math. So now i'm back to the "that 99% was already rounded, from 98.97%, so why not also allow rounding from something like 98.77%?" :-)

  • @tapewormrage
    @tapewormrage Před rokem +5

    Man just explained the concept of summer to flat earthers…

  • @ReValveiT_01
    @ReValveiT_01 Před rokem +62

    Only LEO could show a globe projection example of how this happens then claim it can't work on the globe.
    Literally RIGHT THERE in front of him, yet he completely missed it.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Před rokem +11

      I don’t imagine that irony was lost on him. Maybe I’m too much of an optimist, but I refuse to believe people are that friggin’ dumb..

    • @timolynch149
      @timolynch149 Před rokem +5

      @@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Well, then, depending how you want to look at it: Get out more to meet them OR, and you'll just have to take my word on it, don't because the presence of sufficient stupid can be physically painful 😂

    • @synthetic240
      @synthetic240 Před rokem +3

      But the animation LEO showed was wrong. It shows an Earth with more than 50% of the Earth in daylight, but with an extremely narrow band of twilight.

    • @Tsudico
      @Tsudico Před rokem +3

      @@synthetic240 I think the Mercator projection by Time and Date is what the OP was indicating.

    • @davebritton7648
      @davebritton7648 Před rokem +3

      @@goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      I'm of the opinion that most of them know what shape the Earth is as well as I do. I think some of them are actually _that_ dumb though. I've no idea how many, but I think they are in the minority.

  • @robertgolding
    @robertgolding Před rokem +8

    I learnt everything you said during general science at early high school (US middle school) back in the late 60's. They said with the axial tilt and the Pacific Ocean with low population on the western edge of same, it was almost 99.5%. And they were working without twilight.

  • @Flamer997
    @Flamer997 Před rokem +5

    So they disprove the earth is a globe because the sun can't light up more than half but will still say that a spotlight can't be seen on a flat earth?

    • @Lassisvulgaris
      @Lassisvulgaris Před rokem +6

      Nor can they explain midnight sun in the Antarctica....

    • @jagheterbanan
      @jagheterbanan Před rokem +1

      @@LassisvulgarisWhy explain when they can simply say “fake!”

    • @Isolder74
      @Isolder74 Před rokem +1

      @@jagheterbanan That’s how we know they aren’t really looking for the truth. Everything they don’t like is just dismissed.

    • @Lassisvulgaris
      @Lassisvulgaris Před rokem +1

      @@jagheterbanan Of course. Why let FACTS get in the way of a good conspiracy...?

  • @parasite159
    @parasite159 Před rokem +20

    It's funny that Flerfers will use Atmospheric refraction and reflection when it suits their theories, but deny its existence in cases where it actually happens

    • @deborahcassidy3705
      @deborahcassidy3705 Před rokem +5

      And the same when it comes to perspective

    • @borisp9163
      @borisp9163 Před rokem

      They doing this with everything, also their IDIOTIC claim how you suppose to constantly dive nose of plane to dont fly away from earth 😂😭😭 but in the same time they claim that you are not able to go in straight line on their idiotic pizza model so you constantly turning and go in circle because “pole” in the middle of pizza confusing you and its to big for you to recognize you are turning 🤦🏻‍♂️ 😂 Forget now about atmospheric density and that its impossible to fly away from earth without increasing speed constantly… just take to account size of earth where in globe its not big enaugh for them to dont recognize that you dont fly in straight line, but in their disabled pizza model its suddenly too big for any recognition

    • @murtazatalib3871
      @murtazatalib3871 Před rokem

      Flerfers... I might use this instead of Flat Earther, sounds funnier

  • @FlatfootJohnny
    @FlatfootJohnny Před rokem +5

    You would think LEO would get sick of being proved wrong EVERY single time.

  • @chrisglen-smith7662
    @chrisglen-smith7662 Před rokem +21

    The time between sunset and full dark varies a lot with latitude, it gets dark much faster at the equator because sun sets moving vertically down past the horizon so it reaches 18 degrees below the horizon much more quickly than it does in say the UK where it's moving about 50deg from vertical. I live in the UK and found this really noticeable when I visited Singapore

    • @zoroark567
      @zoroark567 Před rokem +7

      I’ve made the same observation travelling. I would be very curious to hear a flat explanation of this phenomenon. It’s extremely clear what’s happening on a globe model.

    • @ziploc2000
      @ziploc2000 Před rokem +8

      It's another of those little wrinkles that makes perfect sense on a globe but none on a flat surface, so the Flatties have to ignore it.

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před 11 měsíci

      The sun circles between the tropics, the sun goes out of view as it moves further away.
      Take a photo of sun spots every hour from "sunrise" to "sunset" with a DSLR camera, arrange them in chronological order, the perspective movement view of the sun spots from your observation point throughout the day could not possibly happen on a globe rotating in one direction at a constant speed.
      From the UK the sun spots only move slightly including anticlockwise until around 11am, then make a clear rotation as the sun circles, then only move slightly including anti clockwise after late afternoon. They only rotate "perspectively" a total of 90 degrees.
      These observations are impossible if earth were a globe.

  • @FourthRoot
    @FourthRoot Před rokem +5

    It's funny, a non-empirical fun fact based on a spherical model of the earth is being cited as proof the earth is flat. All while real flat earthers support a model where the sun never sets.

    • @M4RC90
      @M4RC90 Před rokem +1

      They don't have a model. At least not a working one. Or one they can all agree on.

    • @FourthRoot
      @FourthRoot Před rokem +1

      @@M4RC90 The individuals do have a non-sensical model that they never bother examining critically.

  • @edwardrosier1805
    @edwardrosier1805 Před rokem +4

    I think LEO also confuses 99% of people with 99% of the planet. He forgets large portions of the world population is concentrated in certain areas. Plus, the animation he showed didn't take into account the tilt of the Earth's access.

  • @TheStupidRaptor
    @TheStupidRaptor Před 11 měsíci +4

    My birthday is July 8th. My whole life people told me that is a horrible day to have a birthday, with the 7th being ideal and 6th 9th 10th being good too. And now my birthday is associated with flat earthers, making it an even worse day. As if there wasn't enough ways I could be so unfortunate. :(

  • @Grimyst
    @Grimyst Před rokem +6

    Oh dear oh dear, you mean to tell me that the video used by LEO was a pantomime????(insert terrible laugh) And not demonstrably real? Unpossible! I refuse to accept that!

  • @AnodyneJS
    @AnodyneJS Před 11 měsíci +1

    Your dog is the real star of the video. When you gesture with your right hand, the paw always goes up, as if to say, "Hey! Bring that hand back. I was enjoying the pets."

  • @thecraigster8888
    @thecraigster8888 Před rokem +1

    I’ve been an amateur astronomer for decades and here are some explanations that assume a perfectly clear sky with no light pollution. Civil twilight starts at sunset when the sky is still bright enough read a newspaper by. Under civil law, you can drive without using your headlights. Naval twilight is when the sky darkens enough for quite a few stars to come out overhead, but right along the western horizon the sky is still illuminated. Sailors (especially in the olden days) used this to track the silhouettes of any ships located in that direction. Astronomical twilight begins when the western horizon disappears and the sky is dark enough to see the entire starry night sky, but (especially in a telescope) there is still some lingering light that interferes with seeing faint objects.

  • @glennmoss3285
    @glennmoss3285 Před rokem +3

    Level Earth Observer is not only deliberately not including the twilight regions, he's also deliberately conflating 99% of the population with 99% of the Earth's surface.
    Typical of him...and other flat earthers.

  • @pierremarcotte6299
    @pierremarcotte6299 Před rokem +18

    8:23 - it's 36 degrees, not 36%. 18° dusk + 18° dawn is 36°, which would be 10% of 360°.
    Respectfully.

    • @DaveMcKeegan
      @DaveMcKeegan  Před rokem +18

      Thank you for the correction, I did write down degrees when I wrote the script - not sure how I managed to come up with % 🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @laazkoh8099
      @laazkoh8099 Před rokem +4

      since nighttime is 180° of the 360°, 36° wouldn't be more like 20% of the nighttime in twilight ?

    • @JoeDaddyNV
      @JoeDaddyNV Před rokem

      @@DaveMcKeegan ...but you won't correct your 360% error. Would hate to look wrong to your followers. Now go ahead and block my comment.

    • @justamessenger4577
      @justamessenger4577 Před rokem +4

      @@JoeDaddyNV
      Why would he block your comment? If you pointed out a mistake, he will accept and correct it. Just look two comments above yours.
      Your comment has survived a full half hour now. 😂

    • @christasimon9716
      @christasimon9716 Před rokem +3

      @@JoeDaddyNV "Now go ahead and block my comment."
      Projecting what they do on Flat Earth channels?

  • @andrewarnold9818
    @andrewarnold9818 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Also, if the earth were flat, why would the suncast on the earth be shaped that way?
    The reason it works btw is because of the shape of the continents. The Pacific is HUGE, we usually just cut it back a bit because theres not a whole lot of note there

  • @WredFawks
    @WredFawks Před rokem +3

    It's just like when Flerfs say "You don't see the shadow of the earth" like bruh, what do you think night is?

  • @codypieper728
    @codypieper728 Před rokem +4

    Here's what I don't get about flerfs:
    How can they have the (basic) understanding that if everyone could see the sun, the earth couldn't be a globe. But then at the same time not understand the thousands of basic proofs that the earth couldn't be flat. Not to mention the basic understanding that this whole July 8th doesn't mean what they think it means.

  • @osgubben
    @osgubben Před rokem +2

    I think the dog understands this better than the flat earthes ever will.

  • @deliciousgroove
    @deliciousgroove Před rokem +6

    You are so polite with these flat-earth believers, and I respect that. I could not be that polite. Oh, and you're a great teacher and explainer of these concepts! I've learned a lot on your channel.

    • @LoyaltotheNightsky
      @LoyaltotheNightsky Před 11 měsíci +1

      It's easy to be frustrated with them, and understandable. But ultimately we have to see them as fellow humans who are just lost. There's all kinds of reasons people may believe false things, and they aren't usually malicious. Some degree of kindness is the best way to actually change peoples minds.

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před 11 měsíci

      @@LoyaltotheNightsky You cannot change people's minds once they know the truth.
      If you want proof that the earth is flat observe sun spots over a one day period with a DSLR camera, take a photo every hour, you will see that earth could not possibly be a globe by their "perspective" movement throughout the day.
      It is the sun that is moving, not the earth.

    • @liftingtheveil8361
      @liftingtheveil8361 Před 11 měsíci

      People know that the earth is flat, the sun proves it.

    • @SobatSw3
      @SobatSw3 Před 5 měsíci

      ​@@liftingtheveil8361 Nope, the earth is Globe

    • @5peciesunkn0wn
      @5peciesunkn0wn Před 8 dny

      ​@@liftingtheveil8361the sun actively disproves flat earth claims lol. It crosses the horizon. That disproves it circling above. It causes lunar eclipses. That disproves it circling exactly opposite the moon.
      It causes solar eclipses. That further disproves it circling exactly opposite the moon.
      It follows a 15°/hr arc across the sky no matter where you are. Even more disproving of it circling above. Oops~

  • @estevanguzman7456
    @estevanguzman7456 Před rokem +2

    Love your videos, man. You're current, and you directly address every facet of an argument quickly and neatly. Keep it up!

  • @ayz92
    @ayz92 Před rokem +3

    Your way of explaining things is unmatched! Thanks for another insightful video!

  • @Radish_Boy
    @Radish_Boy Před rokem +3

    That's my birthday! Awesome video homie!

  • @iandobbin8068
    @iandobbin8068 Před rokem +3

    My 3 yo grandson has a trick where he squeezes his eyes closed and says "You can't see me! Heehee" LEO would struggle to explain this.

  • @DaveTexas
    @DaveTexas Před rokem +2

    Dave McKeegan’s videos provide me with sunlight 100% of the time that I’m watching! Nothing shines brighter than accurate information and intelligence. A handsome face and a happy puppy help a lot, too…

  • @billbill6094
    @billbill6094 Před rokem +6

    I think this comes down to a more basic, rather dense assumption that each half of the Earth has exactly half of the population. When more than 50% of people live in a small area of Eastern Asia alone, usually visualized with a picture showing a small circle on a map that compares the population inside of it to out. But I suppose flat earthers would actually need to learn about the Earth's population density to know that, and learning is something they're opposed to.

  • @minneelyyyy8923
    @minneelyyyy8923 Před rokem +4

    i believe if you take a flat earth map and shine a flash light on it you couldn't replicate the same lighting that we have in reality.

    • @maxfan1591
      @maxfan1591 Před rokem +1

      That's correct. For example, consider any time around Christmas, when the Arctic is getting 24 hours of night and Antarctica is getting 24 hours of daylight. Take your flat earth map and plot out the parts experiencing night, and its an oval shape *in the middle* of the map, surrounded by daylight. No flashlight I know of could cast light like that!

    • @David_Lee379
      @David_Lee379 Před rokem +1

      Doesn’t their magic flying spotlight have a magic, shape shifting lamp shade? 😂

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch Před rokem +1

      ​@@David_Lee379 Indeed. And part of the magic of the lampshade is that it's invisible and doesn't affect the apparent shape of the Sun's disk.

  • @Gandhi_Physique
    @Gandhi_Physique Před rokem +9

    I knew there had to be something faulty going on, thanks for explaining. That sphere mesh tool is awesome though, I didn't know that was possible to do!

  • @Kenya_Berry
    @Kenya_Berry Před rokem +3

    We can have 100% of the population see sunlight at the same time if we simply move everyone to one place

    • @Lassisvulgaris
      @Lassisvulgaris Před rokem +1

      That place should be Antarctica in winter, during midnight sun....

  • @guyjordan8201
    @guyjordan8201 Před rokem +4

    I’d never heard of civil, nautical, and astronomical fractionalized dawn and dusk. Cool

    • @logitimate
      @logitimate Před rokem +1

      I think that, generally speaking, when most people talk about dusk and dawn, they just mean civil twilight.

  • @Markfr0mCanada
    @Markfr0mCanada Před rokem +3

    Wait, are you telling me that a flat earther made a bombastic claim without known what he was talking about?

  • @RealJiffyCones
    @RealJiffyCones Před rokem +1

    The mere fact 100% of earthlings can't see the sun at all times debunks flat earth completely.

  • @reedjasonf
    @reedjasonf Před rokem +7

    Flat earthers would have really loved Pangean times because they literally all could have seen the sun at the same time. Unfortunately for them it still would not mean a flat earth though. Just that all the land above ocean was on one side of the globe.

    • @michaeldamolsen
      @michaeldamolsen Před rokem

      Another benefit for them: Their science would be cutting edge for the time.

  • @jaimevivesp
    @jaimevivesp Před rokem +3

    Oops... Alyssa got embarrassed and deleted her posts. I love how they will do anything but admitting being wrong.

    • @daddy4934
      @daddy4934 Před rokem

      Ahahahah I like it when they do that, it's a classic coming from those spineless flerfs

    • @Katy_Jones
      @Katy_Jones Před rokem +1

      And will then repeat the same tripe expecting a different result.

  • @peter5.056
    @peter5.056 Před rokem +4

    if the earth was a flat plane, it would be daytime 24 hours a day and everywhere at once.

    • @nathancook2852
      @nathancook2852 Před rokem +1

      Not according to a flerf! But that is what happens when the worlds dumbest 1% of people enter into the same cult together. The utter stupidity feeds off the stupidity of those around them and magnifies.

  • @ringo4419
    @ringo4419 Před rokem +1

    I do love the way you dropped that advert in!
    Classy
    Flat earth, always good for a laugh!

  • @jonathanmarino7968
    @jonathanmarino7968 Před rokem +8

    8:22 I think you meant to say 36 DEGREES in twilight, not 36%. 36 degrees is 20% of the "night" side 180 degrees.
    8:56 Dino's illustration does include twilight. You can clearly see a a band of yellow tint starting from around west Malaysia to the west coast of Australia. The roll-off is subtle, but it is there. And it aligns with the time and date diagrams.
    I think the biggest problem with the 3D representation is that it includes perspective, so as always you don't actually see 180 degrees of the earths face. The parallel light coming from the far-away sun sees a full 180 of earth, and the atmosphere illuminates an additional 36 degrees as you've explained. An orthogonal model would show more clearly where direct sunlight ends and twilight bleeds over.

    • @Puukiuuki
      @Puukiuuki Před rokem

      Funnily enough it is almost right if you look at the proportion of night (sun more than 18° below horizon) which should be 34,5 %, if I have not miscalculated.

    • @michaeldamolsen
      @michaeldamolsen Před rokem +1

      @@Puukiuuki Indeed. The area of a spherical cap is 2*pi*r^2*(1-cos(phi)), where phi is the half angle of the cap. If we take phi as 180 we get the full sphere and the familiar 2*pi*r^2*(1-(-1)) = 4 * pi * r^2. Taking the ratio of the two, 2*pi*r^2 cancels out. Given the total night half-angle is 90-18 - 72, the ratio is (1-cos(72)) / 2 = 34.55%

  • @nightmareTomek
    @nightmareTomek Před rokem +3

    The twilight zones at 0:35 immediately show how the conditions of the event are meant. I love how he instantly followed it up with his animation missing those zones, and then goes "doesn't look right, so can't be true". Prime example of how the flerfers "observing with your own eyes" misses all the details.

  • @drooten
    @drooten Před 11 měsíci +4

    Wouldn't a flat earth model show that everyone always sees sunlight.

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch Před 11 měsíci +2

      Only if you think logically.

    • @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763
      @hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 Před 10 měsíci +1

      They think that for some magical reason the sunlight just stops after a while and vanishes.

    • @therealzilch
      @therealzilch Před 10 měsíci

      @@hmgrraarrpffrzz9763 Hey, isn't that what "vanishing point" means? :)

  • @thisbushnell2012
    @thisbushnell2012 Před rokem +2

    My favorite twilight is when the sky is that deep deep cobalt blue, all of the red and yellow wavelengths no longer visible, just before total blackout.

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem

      My favourite twilight is when all the vampires and werewolves fight each other, but it all turns out to be a vision instead.

  • @bradleybarnett9545
    @bradleybarnett9545 Před rokem +5

    Australia! Proud to be part of the 1%!!
    Oh, wait. Australia doesn't exist, does it? All the convicts were thrown into the sea & we Australians are all holograms.

    • @MrBiggles53
      @MrBiggles53 Před rokem

      That’s right!

    • @kdwaynec
      @kdwaynec Před rokem

      Australia actually did exist at one time but everybody fell off.

    • @bradleybarnett9545
      @bradleybarnett9545 Před rokem

      @@kdwaynec So many feasible notions. I wonder which is true.

  • @joevignolor4u949
    @joevignolor4u949 Před rokem +5

    The width of the Pacific Ocean is about 12,300 miles while the earth's circumference is about 24,800 miles. As such the Pacific Ocean covers about one-half of the earth's surface area all by itself. Therefore, if it's nighttime across the entire Pacific then it must be daytime everywhere else. The reason that at times most of the people on earth are in sunlight at the same time is because they all live on the land, which is all concentrated on one -half of the planet.

    • @overcomingobstaclescreates1695
      @overcomingobstaclescreates1695 Před rokem

      And most of that land is in the northern hemisphere as well, which is why the phenomenon occurs near the NH summer solstice and not the SH summer.

  • @nickd920
    @nickd920 Před rokem +5

    How would sunlight magically curve on the earth if it was "flat"?? LEO should show this but doesn't.

    • @Nerazmus
      @Nerazmus Před rokem

      Atmospheric lensing or something.

    • @c.augustin
      @c.augustin Před rokem

      @@Nerazmus Wasn't this the "personal dome" or so? 😁

  • @thomasmikalishen6515
    @thomasmikalishen6515 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Just a thought: If July 8 is also a full Moon, would 100% of Earth's population be able to see sunlight at the same moment?

    • @Marrrrrko47
      @Marrrrrko47 Před 6 měsíci

      Technically, yes. It doesn't even need to be a full one

  • @AliDraws
    @AliDraws Před rokem +1

    I swear your sponsor ads are so cleverly implemented in the script it takes me aback before realizing I'm being advertised to xD

  • @TheDeadTheories
    @TheDeadTheories Před 11 měsíci +2

    So, the mere existence of astronomical twilight proves a globe Earth with an atmosphere. If either the Earth were flat or didn’t have an atmosphere then there would be no way for the sun’s light to come in shallow enough to bounce off the underside of the atmosphere to create an astronomical twilight. Such simple proof! I’m going to use that against the next flathead I debate!

  • @a_randomguy9677
    @a_randomguy9677 Před rokem +4

    At this point the dog's smarter than flatearthers

  • @ohasis8331
    @ohasis8331 Před rokem

    Lovely segue into your sponsor's message - it was a few seconds in before I twigged.

  • @antonioturner585
    @antonioturner585 Před rokem +2

    I have to watch a second time. I was paying attention to the dog the first go around. I’m sure your explanation was on point.

  • @ilmt
    @ilmt Před rokem +6

    In short : why there could exist a time when 99% of people see some sunlight?
    Because Pacific is bloody huge.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      It would be the same every day DA

    • @h.dejong2531
      @h.dejong2531 Před rokem +2

      @@tommosher8271 No Tom, it isn't. Because of the tilt of Earth's axis, the area that gets sunlight at any one time shifts a little each day. Less posting, more studying.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      @@h.dejong2531 Give me your address and real name and i'll come help you understand it.

    • @h.dejong2531
      @h.dejong2531 Před rokem +3

      @@tommosher8271 Given the content of your posts, you have nothing to teach.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      @@h.dejong2531 Then why are so worried about what I say. If I wasn't saying the truth you wouldn't be here defending the lies you believe which will die with you

  • @c4ashley
    @c4ashley Před rokem +3

    I don't usually learn much from these videos, because the arguments on the other side are usually... uh, naïve and basic, to put it lightly. This, however, was properly fascinating and educational. Very cool.

  • @mooneyes2k478
    @mooneyes2k478 Před rokem +2

    "Seeing sunlight" does not mean "seeing the sun". Novel, difficult concept to most flat-earthers, I'm sure, but there it is. Same thing with "population". That does not mean "surface of the planet".

    • @hartmutholzgraefe
      @hartmutholzgraefe Před rokem +1

      They already failed at "population" when it came to "why are there only very few direct southern hemisphere transcontinental flights; most routes having a transfer stop somewhere in the northern hemisphere instead" ....

  • @merylsmith8297
    @merylsmith8297 Před rokem +2

    I think the core of this misconception is that LEO is thinking of this as a question of astronomical models, but its actually a question of geography and population. The claim is not that 99% of EARTH is touched by sunlight, but that 99% of PEOPLE are touched by sunlight.
    On any given day, there is a significant amount of earth's surface that is in darkness. But people are not equally distributed across the entire surface. If the nighttime area of earth happens to be centered around the south pacific ocean, then of course there is not going to be a very large number of people that are in that night. Again, this is a population distribution problem, not an geometric or astronomical one.

  • @kevinmccarthy2793
    @kevinmccarthy2793 Před rokem +5

    The simple fact that the area in direct sunlight is NOT a circle or oval disproves a flat Earth. The shape of sunlight on Earth matches a globe, but makes no sense on a flat plane.

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem

      Bullshit as always when a globidiot touchscreen the keyboard.
      There is no "earth curvature". It does not exist.
      On clear days you can see from the beach of the german North Sea island Wangerooge (1.60 m viewing height) the island of Helgoland 43.5 km away.
      According to the earth curvature calculator Helgoland should be hidden 115 m from Wangerooge beach. BUT IS NOT.
      There are thousands of examples like this.
      Please do not write bullshit like you forget 8 to 13% refraction.
      Or that was just a mirage.
      From the English west coast to the east coast it is about 480 km.
      Line Norwich - middle of the line approximately at the cities Warwick, Rugby, south Coventry - outermost tip of Wales.
      The stations on the English west and east coast are logically located almost at sea level, maximum a few meters above sea level.
      If both stations on the coast are at 10 meters above sea level, then the towns of Warwick or Rugby, which are located approximately in the middle of the line, should be at a height of about 4.1 km according to the earth curvature calculator (now without refraction and without considering a camera height of 1.60 m).
      But Warwick is only 74 m above sea level and Rubgy 95 m above sea level.
      The highest mountain of England is the Scafell Pike with 978 meters, the highest mountain of Scotland and Great Britain is the Ben Nevis with 1345 meters.
      Therefore, it is clear that the spherical earth is a fairy tale.
      The Suez Canal is 192 km long and connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean Sea without a barrage. Since both the starting point and the end point are at sea level, there would have to be an approx. 700 m high mountain in the middle of the route at 96 km. That means the ships would have to go 1x uphill and 1x downhill. But they do not.
      Please don't bring any crazy stuff a la the altitude is measured from the (never proven) center of the earth or other globe fairytales.
      The engineer W. Winckler wrote in October 1883 in the Rundschau der Erde concerning the alleged curvature of the earth:
      He wrote...As an engineer of many years standing, I remark that this absurd rule is allowed only in school books. No engineer would dream of approving it. I have built many kilometers of rail network and even more kilometers of canals, and this rule has not even been thought of, let alone considered. The rule of curvature means 20 cm on the first 1.6 km of a canal, and multiplied by the square number of the distance in kilometers, that on a small navigable canal for boats, say 48 km long, a curvature of 183 m would have to be planned according to the above rule. Think about it, and please do not trust engineers to be such idiots. Nothing of this kind is considered. We do not think about observing a curvature of 183 m for a stretch of a canal or rails any more than we think about squaring the circle.

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem

      not one single solid proof of earth rotation !
      Supposedly the earth rotates 1 time a day around its own axis.
      That would be 40000 km in 24 hours at the equator.
      Or 1666.66 km per hour. Or 465.3 meters per second.
      One should be able to measure see hear or feel that.
      The simplest proof that the earth is a rotating ball would be a genuine uncut video from 3 to 40 km height, on which we see the earth, how it rotates at the equator with 1.35 times the speed of sound = 1670 km per hour.
      Up to now this is missing.
      Instead one wants to measure and/or prove the earth rotation with any weak-minded things. Pendulum, red shift, parallax and other fake things.
      At the same time the earth is supposed to rotate around the sun with the hypersonic speed of 108.000 km/h (30 km per second).
      The rotating spherical earth is also supposed to rotate around the Milky Way together with the sun with the hypersonic speed of 800,000 km/h (eight hundred thousand km per hour). 800.000 km per hour are 222 km per second. That would be nearly 650 times faster than the speed of sound.
      In addition the rotating earth together with the sun and the Milky Way should circle at the same time with the hypersonic speed of nearly 2.000.000 km/h (2 million km/h) around the galaxy. That is 555 km per second or almost 1,620 times faster than the speed of sound.
      All of this is supposed to happen simultaneously. At different speeds.
      In different directions. Nobody ever has noticed some of these crazy speeds.
      And in the evening we see the same stars year after year.
      If you can present no plausible scientifically incontestable proofs to it I assume that these alleged phenomena do not exist and has never existed. And the earth therefore is flat and did not move.

    • @mactallica9293
      @mactallica9293 Před rokem +4

      ​@Nehner Bob knodel proved rotation.
      Pendulum proves rotation.
      We don't see the same stars, old star charts show the changes.
      Care to explain why stars move?

    • @mactallica9293
      @mactallica9293 Před rokem +3

      ​@Nehner we can fly new Zealand to South America.
      So why is there not a single flat earth map that has the correct distance, when anyone can confirm the distance traveled

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem

      @@byt4fse2 bullshit as always when schoolboys are stupid gamers Touch the keyboard

  • @tomardans4258
    @tomardans4258 Před rokem +3

    There’s another issue: the Google Earth viewer limits the distance you can go from the earth. There’s perspective at play here: you can’t truly view one half of the earth in that program.

  • @Sableagle
    @Sableagle Před rokem +1

    Two details to add: (1) day is when *_any part_* of the Sun is visible above the horizon, so the edge of "daylight" gets pushed about 16' beyond that "half the globe" position; (2) refraction adds about another 34' to that. From the Hong Kong Observatory: "When the sunlight from the Sun's upper edge reaches the horizon at sunrise and sunset, the actual altitude of the centre of the Sun is about -0°50’ (negative value means below the horizon). About -0°16’ of this actual altitude is the apparent radius of the Sun. The remaining -0°34’ is the effect of atmospheric refraction under average atmospheric condition, leading to the apparent effect of advanced sunrise and delayed sunset." Whether twilight is multiples of 6° _from there_ isn't explained on that page.

  • @daboo123
    @daboo123 Před rokem +1

    The obvious question comes from the dog. "Why do you stop petting me so often? Do your job human. You're here for me."

  • @macrobionic
    @macrobionic Před rokem +3

    Doesn't the fact that there is a Twilight Zone disprove the Flat Earth Theory?

    • @jagheterbanan
      @jagheterbanan Před rokem

      Yep, if the sun sets due to light not being able to travel further as they claim, it would become pitch black immediately after it sets.

  • @UdarRusskihPudgei
    @UdarRusskihPudgei Před rokem +5

    >Dozens of astronomy, geology, military and surveying textbooks that assume globe Earth exist.
    Flatearthers: Meh....
    >An occasional clickbait caption somewhere on the internets.
    Flatearthers: GLOBE BUSTED!

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem +1

      Could you prove the rotating ball earth goofball?
      If yes, then bring me a real uncut video (no fisheye lens) from 3 to 40 km above ground where we can see the earth rotating at the equator with 1.35 supersonic speed = 1666 kmh.
      If you couldn't show a rotation as quick as a fighter jet or a 9mm machine pistol bullet - the spinning ball earth does not exist.
      And Please
      Show evidence that the rotating ball earth rotates simultaneously around the sun with the hypersonic speed of 108.000 km/h (one hundred and eight thousand km per hour). This is 30 km per second or nearly 65 times as quick as a 9 mm machinepistol bullet.
      Show simultaneously around the milky way with the hypersonic speed of nearly 800.000 km/h (eight hundred thousand km per hour).
      This is 222 km per second or nearly 480 times as quick as a fighter jet.
      Show evidence that the rotating ball earth rotates together with the sun simultaneously around the milky way with the hypersonic speed of nearly 800.000 km/h (eight hundred thousand km per hour). This is 555 km per second or nearly 1.200 times as quick as a fighter jet.

    • @UdarRusskihPudgei
      @UdarRusskihPudgei Před rokem +5

      @@Nehner just another flerfer who fails to grasp a middle school physics concept of relative motion. Go read a textbook first.

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem

      @@UdarRusskihPudgei Go prove the rotating ball earth goofball
      If yes, then bring me a real uncut video (no fisheye lens) from 3 to 40 km above ground where we can see the earth rotating at the equator with 1.35 supersonic speed = 1666 kmh.
      If you couldn't show a rotation as quick as a fighter jet or a 9mm machine pistol bullet - the spinning ball earth does not exist.
      And Please
      Show evidence that the rotating ball earth rotates simultaneously around the sun with the hypersonic speed of 108.000 km/h (one hundred and eight thousand km per hour). This is 30 km per second or nearly 65 times as quick as a 9 mm machinepistol bullet.
      Show simultaneously around the milky way with the hypersonic speed of nearly 800.000 km/h (eight hundred thousand km per hour).
      This is 222 km per second or nearly 480 times as quick as a fighter jet.
      Show evidence that the rotating ball earth rotates together with the sun simultaneously around the milky way with the hypersonic speed of nearly 800.000 km/h (eight hundred thousand km per hour). This is 555 km per second or nearly 1.200 times as quick as a fighter jet.

    • @Nehner
      @Nehner Před rokem

      @@UdarRusskihPudgei just another globidiot xassho without an exam

    • @optillian4182
      @optillian4182 Před rokem +3

      ​@@NehnerNo intelligent person measures rotation using MpH.

  • @nctpti2073
    @nctpti2073 Před rokem +2

    There is also the fact that the population is not equally distributed. The Pacific, which you mentioned, is large and mostly empty of population.

  • @drewisgolden
    @drewisgolden Před 11 měsíci +2

    I used to only watch these for the dog but I've grown to like this channel

  • @David_Lee379
    @David_Lee379 Před rokem +6

    Great explanation, Dave. Flerfs will literally fall for anything.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      So will you and you will hate them because a corpse told you to.

    • @David_Lee379
      @David_Lee379 Před rokem +7

      @@tommosher8271 I’ve never fallen for any kind of scam, especially one as monumentally stupid as flat earth. I also have enough intelligence to figure out what I’m seeing when I watch the sun set.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      @@David_Lee379 Oh so you are too smart to be fooled and that is why you can't show some one they have been fooled esp when they don't want to know because their ego will never let them admit it. They'd rather die than do that and you will do that. And you will.

    • @daddy4934
      @daddy4934 Před rokem +5

      ​​@@tommosher8271rovide evidence for FE instead of your assumptions and empty claims.
      The day you guys can agree on a FE model which matches reality then maybe we'll take you seriously.

    • @tommosher8271
      @tommosher8271 Před rokem

      @@daddy4934 Nobody carenwhat you take seriously you are already lost forever.

  • @stevepritchard3970
    @stevepritchard3970 Před rokem +1

    Great explanation Dave. Some people forget the Pacific covers more than half the surface of the globe and not many people live in most of it. I think your dog really enjoyed it as well, what a lovely creature!

    • @dudono1744
      @dudono1744 Před rokem

      According to scientists, Pacific Ocean is big and nobody lives there.

  • @Lemon_Inspector
    @Lemon_Inspector Před rokem +2

    Almost everyone sees sunlight at noon local time, except for me, because I'm trapped in the basement! Please help!
    Take that, atheists!