'Sun, Moon, and Stars Prove the Flat Earth'

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... and Some Pertinent Ballistics and Fire-Control Fundamentals for Long-Range Heavy-Artillery Gunnery*



"The Paris Gun ... was the name given to a type of German long-range siege gun, several of which were used to bomb Paris during
World War I. They were in service from March to August 1918.... The gun was capable of firing a 106-kilogram (234 lb) shell to a
range of 130 kilometers (81 mi) and a maximum altitude of 42.3. kilometers (26.3 mi) -- the greatest height reached by a human-made
projectile until the first successful V-2 [self-guided rocket] flight test in October 1942....

  Comparable damage from similar-calibre cannon-shell-strike

"Since it was based on a naval weapon, the gun was manned by 80 Imperial Navy sailors under the command of [a] Vice-Admiral.... 
[A writer/journalist notes:] 'The projectile was the first human-made object to reach the stratosphere.... It took about three minutes for
each giant shell to cover the distance to the city, climbing to an altitude of 25 miles (40 km) at the top of its trajectory.



" 'This was by far the highest point ever reached by a man-made object, so high that gunners, in calculating where the shells would land, had to take into account the rotation of the Earth [in addition to the curvature of the Earth itself]. For the first time in warfare, deadly projectiles rained down on civilians from the stratosphere.' This reduced drag from air resistance, allowing the shell to achieve a range of over 130 kilometers.' "

--- Excerpted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun (emphasis added)











A fortiori with the titanic Gustav in World War II. Not to even mention today's superguns, which range 100 miles:




"To specify a position on the surface of the Earth we  use a system of
coordinates that consists of two angles: latitude and longitude.
Latitude is the angle measured from the Equator in direction North-South.
Longitude is the angle in the Pole between the Meridian of Greenwich and
that of the considered position.
   A similar system is used for the Celestial Sphere. The angle analogous
to the latitude in the celestial sphere we call declination. The declination is
measured in the plane North-South, from the Celestial Equator. The analog
to the longitude is named Right Ascension or Ra. Like the longitude, the
Right Ascension is measured from an arbitrary Meridian: the Vernal Equinox
Point (a.k.a. first point of Aries."
--- Facetiously excerpted from http://www.tecepe.com.br/nav/inav_c11.htm

Incidentally, it would be a gruesome thing if some intrepid aficionado of the flat-earth model would
attempt to enter into calm, reasonable, friendly parley with these savagely hyper-rationalist skeptics:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/for...p?t=317936
The image of a fuzzy kitten thrown into a cage full of starving pitbulls with toothaches comes to mind
for some reason. Extra bonus points for bravery would be awarded if said aficionado admits to being
a Bring4th'er on top of the flat-Earth thing, as the skeptics have already run Carla & Co. into the ground
for being egregiously loony New-Age-exploiting cult leaders, blatant frauds hawking a patently screwball
phony-baloney "alien" mumbo-jumbo ideology,  and, as well...  they're also shameless pornographic filmmakers
and actors! Now you know. How the mighty have fallen. Alas.

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* Kids, do not try this at home.