A coupleyears ago it was reported by film maker Anthony Powell that there is one easy,objectively provable way to debunk the flat Earth theory.
It is the fact thatboth the North and South poles experience phenomena in which the Sun eitherstays in the sky or stays out of the sky in straight light or darkness for longperiods of time.
The videonotes that in the Antarctic summer from about late October to late February, itis constant daytime on the continent with the Sun above the horizon for 24solid hours a day. The incredible time lapse footage shows the Sun moving upand down in the sky, still fully day-time at midnight.
Somecommenters suggested the footage was doctored or edited, but it seems quiteobjectively provable that there are several months of solid light and severalmonths of solid darkness on both the North and South Poles.
The personwho argued that the footage was probably doctored received a reply that pointedout there is not one, but several videos one can find online of the 24 hour Sunin Antarctica. There is this, and this. A user on Quora commented on thephenomena:
“For us, theSun rises in the East and sets in the West. But at the poles, there are no directions. From the North Pole, whichever way we look itis south, and from the South Pole, whichever way we look, it is north. There is no Sunrise or Sunset at the PolarRegions as we experience at lower laтιтudes. The Sun appears above the horizonin summer and makes a 360° circle in the sky – over a period of 187 days at theNorth Pole 90° North laтιтude.
And inwinter, the Sun is below the horizon for 163 days of darkness and 24 days ofsemi- darkness when the Sun is just below the horizon. It is not exactly sixmonths of darkness / sunlight at the poles.
(InSvalbard, Norway, the northernmost inhabited region of Europe, there is nosunset from approximately 19 April to 23 August, and no sunrise betweenNovember 14 and January 29.)
Needless tomention, when it is summer in the Northern hemisphere, it is winter in theSouth. A solstice happens when the sun’s zenith is at its furthest point fromthe equator.
The DecemberSolstice or Winter Solstice occurring on or about 21st December when the Sunreaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, whenthe North Pole is tilted furthest to 23.5 degrees away from the Sun. The Sun isdirectly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere duringthe December Solstice.”
However,some mysteries in Antarctica most certainly must exist. Some things are readilyprovable and some are not: it is up to the researcher to develop an ability towade through information and decide what is true and what isn’t.
Source (Imagecredit: Quora, Metabunk)
