200 Proofs that Eric Dubay is a liar and an idiot

“The Notre Dame Antwerp spire stands 403 feet high from the foot of the tower with Strasburg measuring 468 feet above sea level. With the aid of a telescope, ships can be distinguished on the horizon and captains declare they can see the cathedral spire from an amazing 150 miles away. If the Earth were a globe, however, at that distance the spire should be an entire mile, 5,280 feet below the horizon!” Another unverifiable historic observation from the 1800's As usual his calculations are incorrect but I skip over that here. Dubay copied this account from Thomas Winship's Zetetic Cosmogeny.  The original extract from "Music and Morals" by H. R. Haweiss published in 1871 is as follows: "Pass for a moment, in imagination, from such a  scene to the summit of Antwerp Cathedral at sunrise.   Delicately tall, and not dissimilar in character, the  Antwerp spire exceeds in height its sister at Stras burg, which is commonly supposed to be the highest...

“The lighthouse at Port Said, Egypt, at an elevation of only 60 feet has been seen an astonishing 58 miles away, where, according to modern astronomy it should be 2,182 feet below the line of sight!” Dubay and Winship can't do trigonometry for this unverifiable historic observation As usual his calculations are incorrect. Using the correct figure and calculation, the observer on the ship would have to be at a height of 1569 feet. Dubay copied this account from Thomas Winship's Zetetic Cosmogeny. "Extract from a letter written by a passenger on hoard the SS Iberia, Orient Line.  "At noon on Thursday, 27th of  September, we were 169 miles from Port Said ; by the ship's log, our rate of steaming was 324 miles in 24 hours. At 12 p.m., we were alongside the lighthouse at Port Said, it having become visible at 7.30 when it was about 58 miles away. It is an ordinary tower, about as high as the tower at Springhead (60 feet), lit by electricity." Accord...

“The Cape L’Agulhas lighthouse in South Africa is 33  feet high, 238 feet above sea level, and can be seen for over  50 miles. If the world were a globe, this light would fall  1,400 feet below an observer’s line of sight.” This is an unverifiable 1898 testimony. As usual Dubay and Winship get their calculation wrong, but even with the correct calculation the light would be 645 feet below the horizon. According to Thomas Winship (Zetetic Consmogeny) this "proof" is taken from an article The Natal Mercury of 18th July, 1898. However, this being yet another historic quote from the 1800's there is no way to verify whether this account was accurate so really cannot be considered as proof of anything. Since it is no longer in operation it would take quite a lot of effort to actually perform some verifiable measurements, but that is exactly what would be required to construct a credible proof. There is also good reason to believe that these observations of distant...