A satellite is [i]any[/i] small object orbiting a larger one in space.
The communications etc. equipment put into orbit around the Earth are satellites too, but artificial ones!
Though how the Flat Earthers cope the notion of anything orbiting anything else, I have no idea! It's probably just too difficult for them to comprehend. :-)
@Convivial Unfortunately the age of 'reputable information' has past. This is the age of YouTube, and we now have to accept that different people can freely choose to live in different realities.
I think some flat earthers are in such denial, that if you put them in a spaceship that blasted off and achieved Earth orbit, they would still say that they were in a room with computer generated special effects.
@Fairydust I have had this argument too many times. I don't have the energy to do it again now. The same things get said, over and over, and nobody changes.
I'm 90 percent certain that 90 percent of flat earthers are trolling. To any that are serious about it, what's the purpose of the 'conspiracy'? What does anyone possibly have to gain by 'tricking' us into believing in the earth is round? Are globe manufacturers worried about not making money anymore?
@SarahAndSamantha that’s easy they want us to exercise more like a mouse on a wheel, if the earth is round then we can keep running around in circles . 😂
If you try to challenge them they retreat behind quoting fellow flat-Earth types, insulting you or using using tricks comparable to those used in what UK law calls "coercive and controlling behaviour". (An offence.)
Perhaps being aggressive shows they are frightened of being seen as plain wrong, as they must know they are.
I've encountered enough flat Earth nonsense here that I've assembled a couple of easy cut-n-pastes:
Flat Earth?? Go to Chicago. Head out on Lake Michigan on a calm day. Watch the city sink into the lake!! No, not really; it's just a bit beyond the curve of the Earth.
Go to Lake Ponchartrain.
Check out the power lines. Take some pictures. [media=https://youtu.be/ipqronPSXGM]
Then check out the causeway. Take some pictures. Did they build all these wind turbines partway under water? Nope. Curve of the Earth again. [sep][sep][sep][sep][sep][sep]
I say "NO, the Earth is round, not flat" Here's a bit of the "round Earth" evidence:
I particularly liked this one proving the "eye level horizon" claim is false https://flatearth.ws/water-level-horizon
I also liked this one disproving claim 6 (just google for Ponchartrain power lines; hundreds have shot this image) I liked this one disproving claim 20 And this one disproving claims 34,35 And this one disproving claims 56,57
@Fairydust Such as that you have shown me. Well, I am glad you see it as b******t as well. I was beginning to think you are one of those childish trolls - like those Saras Renee and Johnson - too!
Pity to break the friendship if his clinging to his beloved myths was his only fault.
Ironically most of the flat-Earth and Moon-landings allegations come from Americans you'd think would be very proud of living in such a technically advanced country. The country that was the first and so far is still the only one to have put men on the Moon.
(Though not the first men in Space. That honour goes to Yuri Gagarin, of what was then the USSR, who successfully completed a single orbit of the Earth in 1961 - after a number of preliminary tests using dogs.)
@Dacrowman That must knacker them then if they try walking in the countryside and find the next part of the route in on the reverse face of the map. How do they negotiate the fold?
And this one disproving claims 34,35
And this one disproving claims 56,57
