200 Proofs that Eric Dubay is a liar and an idiot

"Not only is the disappearance of ship’s hulls explained by the Law of Perspective on flat surfaces, it is proven undeniably true with the aid of a good telescope. If you watch a ship sailing away into the horizon with the naked eye until its hull has completely disappeared from view under the supposed “curvature of the Earth,” then look through a telescope, you will notice the entire ship quickly zooms back into view, hull and all, proving that the disappearance was caused by the Law of Perspective, not by a wall of curved water! This also proves that the horizon is simply the vanishing line of perspective from your point of view, NOT the alleged “curvature” of Earth."  Another unsubstantiated claim The "law" of perspective of course does not explain this phenomenon.  Saying it does repeadedly does not make it so.  Perspective will make things smaller the further away they are.  It will not make them appear to disappear over a horizon.  It would be good if ...

"Another favorite “proof’ of ball-Earthers is the appearance from an observer on shore of ships’ hulls being obfuscated by the water and disappearing from view when sailing away towards the horizon. Their claim is that ships’ hulls disappear before their mast-heads because the ship is beginning its declination around the convex curvature of the ball-Earth. Once again, however, their hasty conclusion is drawn from a faulty premise, namely that only on a ball-Earth could this phenomenon occur. The fact of the matter is that the Law of Perspective on plane surfaces dictates and necessitates the exact same occurrence. For example a girl wearing a dress walking away towards the horizon will appear to sink into the Earth the farther away she walks.  Her feet will disappear from view first and the distance between the ground and the bottom of her dress will gradually diminish until after about half a mile it seems like her dress is touching the ground as she walks on invisible legs. Such...

"Another proof the Sun is not millions of miles away is found by tracing the angle of sun-rays back to their source above the clouds. There are thousands of pictures showing how sunlight comes down through cloud-cover at a variance of converging angles. The area of convergence is of course the Sun, and is clearly NOT millions of miles away, but rather relatively close to Earth just above the clouds." Dubay does not understand what Cepuscular rays are What Dubay is describing is a visual effect due to perspective Dubay’s claim comes from mistakenly interpreting what is being seen as the Sun’s rays shining vertically straight down directly through the holes in the clouds.  They are not.  You only see sunbeams when the sun is relatively low in the sky. The sunbeams are sunlight that is reflecting off particles in the atmosphere and is angled towards you.  Lower down the sunbeam corresponds to closer to you. The beams are all parallel because the sun is so far awa...

"Some heliocentrists have tried to suggest that the Pole Star’s gradual declination overhead as an observer travels southwards is proof of a globular Earth. Far from it, the declination of the Pole Star or any other object is simply a result of the Law of Perspective on plane (flat) surfaces.  The Law of Perspective dictates that the angle and height at which an object is seen diminishes the farther one recedes from the object, until at a certain point the line of sight and the seemingly uprising surface of the Earth converges to a vanishing point (i.e. the horizon line) beyond which the object is invisible. In the ball-Earth model the horizon is claimed to be the curvature of the Earth, whereas in reality,  the horizon is known to be simply the vanishing line of perspective based on the strength of your eyes, instruments, weather and altitude."  Dubay does not understand perspective Perspective works in all directions, not just vertically Perspective does reduc...