42.The distances travelled in Antarctic expeditions are incompatible with a spherical Earth
“In the ball-Earth model Antarctica is an ice continent which covers the bottom of the ball from 78 degrees South latitude to 90 and is therefore not more than 12,000 miles in circumference. Many early explorers including Captian Cook and James Clark Ross, however, in attempting Antarctic circumnavigation took 3 to 4 years and clocked 50-60,000 miles around. The British ship Challenger also made an indirect but complete circumnavigation of Antarctica traversing 69,000 miles. This is entirely inconsistent with the ball model.”
Dubay obviously imagines that the explorers travelled in a perfect circles. Ah Bless.
Firstly, the circumference of the earth at 78 degrees south is actually 24,800 miles, but since the coastline of Antarctica obviously doesn’t follow a perfect circle, the latitude and the circumference at that latitude are an irrelevance.
I have no idea where he gets his 12,000 mile maximum circumference figure from, but let’s go with that for the sake of argument.
Captain Cook, was not attempting to circumnavigate Antarctica, he was circumnavigating the globe looking for a southern continent. That he did circumnavigate Antarctica is incidental, and you can see from his route that he would have obviously travelled more than an Antarctica hugging circumnavigation would have.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook#Voyage
James Clark Ross’s route was not a complete circumnavigation of Antarctica, and was similarly meandering.
See: https://antarctic-logistics.com/2010/08/28/sir-james-clark-ross/
See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Ross-fr.svg
You should also note that both Captain Cook and James Clark Ross were navigating according to a spherical Earth. The distances that they would have experienced on a flat Earth would have been many times greater than the distances that they recorded. It is inconceivable that they would have somehow failed to notice that something was wrong with their spherical Earth navigation. Or maybe Dubay thinks that they too are part of the global conspiracy.
The HMS Challenger may have circumnavigated the globe, but it is a blatant misrepresentation to say that it circumnavigated Antarctica. In fact it was never in sight of it.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition
Eric Dubay is just making things up yet again. He may be deliberately misrepresenting things, or he may just be incapable of understanding what he reads, but either way you can't trust and facts that he quotes.
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Dubay obviously imagines that the explorers travelled in a perfect circles. Ah Bless.
Firstly, the circumference of the earth at 78 degrees south is actually 24,800 miles, but since the coastline of Antarctica obviously doesn’t follow a perfect circle, the latitude and the circumference at that latitude are an irrelevance.
I have no idea where he gets his 12,000 mile maximum circumference figure from, but let’s go with that for the sake of argument.
Captain Cook, was not attempting to circumnavigate Antarctica, he was circumnavigating the globe looking for a southern continent. That he did circumnavigate Antarctica is incidental, and you can see from his route that he would have obviously travelled more than an Antarctica hugging circumnavigation would have.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook#Voyage
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| Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_voyage_of_James_Cook#Voyage |
James Clark Ross’s route was not a complete circumnavigation of Antarctica, and was similarly meandering.
See: https://antarctic-logistics.com/2010/08/28/sir-james-clark-ross/
See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Ross-fr.svg
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| Source: https://antarctic-logistics.com/2010/08/28/sir-james-clark-ross/ |
You should also note that both Captain Cook and James Clark Ross were navigating according to a spherical Earth. The distances that they would have experienced on a flat Earth would have been many times greater than the distances that they recorded. It is inconceivable that they would have somehow failed to notice that something was wrong with their spherical Earth navigation. Or maybe Dubay thinks that they too are part of the global conspiracy.
The HMS Challenger may have circumnavigated the globe, but it is a blatant misrepresentation to say that it circumnavigated Antarctica. In fact it was never in sight of it.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition
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| Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition |
Eric Dubay is just making things up yet again. He may be deliberately misrepresenting things, or he may just be incapable of understanding what he reads, but either way you can't trust and facts that he quotes.
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