After living through the covid and vaccine scam there aren't too many conspiracy theories I'm not considering . However flat earth is NOT one of them.
I have been an amateur radio operator for 55 years. I have talked all over the country and outside the country on short wave (below 30 Mc) radio.
Shortwave radio can go long distances because the radio waves bounce off of the ionosphere. However, at higher frequencies, above the maximum usable frequency,
which varies depending on the time of day and the 11 year sunspot cycle, the radio waves do not bounce off of the ionosphere but go right through it.
Also at higher frequencies the radio waves do not bend. They may refract a little but they do not bend.
Therefore at the higher frequencies, because of the curvature of the earth, radio transmission is limited to line of sight.
That is why TV and FM stations put their antennas as high as possible so that the radio waves can see more of the earth.
That is why an FM station (FM stations are 88-108 Mc) can use the same frequency as a station 200 miles away and they don't interfere with each other.
On the much lower frequencies of AM radio (500-1600 KC) radio waves bend a little around the curvature of the earth but not much but they only bounce off of the ionosphere at night.
That is why many local AM stations are required to shut down at sunset and only a few of the big ones are allowed to operate 24 hours. Otherwise they would interfere with each other at night.
If the earth were flat none of this would be so. FM stations and daytime am stations, operating on the same frequency, would interfere with each other.
Because of the curvature of the earth, no matter how much power an FM station runs it cannot go more than 50 miles or so unless it has a really tall antenna.
Also, I know the people who run the King of Kings radio network (kingofkingsradio.com) in KY. They have 8 stations throughout KY, TN and Ohio. They are linked by satellite dishes.
Also, an Amateur radio association (The ARRL www.ARRL.org) has launched several Oscar satellites since the 60s. For many decades, thousands of amateur radio operators have worked through these satellites by pointing their antennas toward the sky.
So I know satellites are real and orbit the earth.
Does the Bible say that the earth is flat?
The Bible doesn't say either way. It does mention the circle of the earth
It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
Isa 40:22 NKJV
But it doesn't say that the earth is flat. If you were to take this to mean that the earth is a flat circle then you would also have to take literally the verses where God talks about the four
corners of the earth, but this does not fit the flat earth narrative either, because the flat earth narrative shows the earth as round with the South pole surrounding the edges of the earth and holding the
oceans in.
He will set up a banner for the nations, and will assemble the outcasts of Israel,
And gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Isa 11:12 NKJV
After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. Rev 7:1-2 NKJV
Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog Rev 20:7-8 NKJV
The dome you see over the above picture is what those who believe the earth is flat, call the firmament. They get this from Gen chapter 1.
Then God said, "Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters." 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day. Gen 1:6-8 NKJV
Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years; Gen 1:14 NKJV
I believe that there WAS a firmament over the GLOBE of the earth in the beginning, but something changed after the flood.
Before the flood:
For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground. Gen 2:5-6 NKJV
After the flood:
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights Gen 7:4 NKJV
Noah had never seen rain or a rainbow before the flood.
I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth,
that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; Gen 9:13-15 NKJV
Then did the U.S. really go to the moon?
As to whether the U.S. actually landed on the moon, I have my doubts. It's been over 50 years since our last supposed flight to the moon. Wouldn't you think we would have a military base on the moon by now?
Also, since technology has advanced so much in 50 years, wouldn't you think it would be easier to travel to the moon today than it was 50 years ago?
Some speculate we couldn't go because, it would not have been possible to put enough shielding on a space craft to protect the astronauts from the Van Allen radiation belts that surrounds the earth.
We were in a space race with Russia, so maybe we couldn't back down and look bad, so we faked it.
