July 28, 2025 - Reading time: ~1 minute

I don't use NASA's Globe model. I use one from before NASA existed.

The Kriegsmarine’s 1943 Handbuch für die Navigation (RG 242, T-1022, Roll 2645) states: “Die Erde ist eine annähernd kugelförmige Geometrie mit einem Äquatordurchmesser von 12 756 km und einem Polradius von 12 714 km.”

“The Earth is an approximately spherical geometry with an equatorial diameter of 12,756 km and a polar radius of 12,714 km.”

May 2, 2025 - Reading time: ~1 minute

Here's some cool refraction experiments that show both looming and objects rising above the horizon from over a curve.

May 1, 2025 - Reading time: ~1 minute

I learned today that Io's eclipses allowed a legendary dude to calculate the speed of light in the 1600s!

https://www.amnh.org/learn-teach/curriculum-collections/cosmic-horizons-book/ole-roemer-speed-of-light

March 2, 2025 - Reading time: ~1 minute

To commemorate Blue Ghost just landing on the moon tonight, I figured I'd post the 3 hours of restored Apollo 11 footage. Turns out the only footage "lost" are the SSTV tapes, and the directly converted broadcast tapes survived and allowed this to be produced around 2009.

February 20, 2025 - Reading time: 2 minutes

The coriolis effect isn't normally considered for anything less than 1000 yards, and depends a lot on target size. A great guntuber, TiborasaurusRex, covered this long before Flat Earth took off as a phenomenon in his videos. His firing solutions are good enough to hit a beer can in one shot at over 1000 meters:

Here's his lessons on Coriolis. Great stuff. This includes a reference to a field artillery manual from 1981 which shows both rotational and azimuthal corrections at various ranges:

These generally only work out to a click or maybe 2 clicks on your scope, and generally things like wind are going to quickly overtake that adjustment at range.

Here's flat earth interest over time:

Here's a recent video from Rex on Flat Earth which I hadn't seen until I was looking at this!

He is a Christian and from everything I've gathered a very good man. I really like what he says here. Sounds like he even agrees with moon landing fakery theories but is just tired of flat earth.

If you ever happen to read this, Rex, thanks for Long Range 101 and for making so many great videos over the years!!

I would love to see an experiment from the flat side using rifles to shoot different directions (North and West for instance) on a sled. Show me that without adjusting for Coriolis at say 1500 yards that you can consistently bullseye the target in any direction.

February 16, 2025 - Reading time: ~1 minute

I just thought this was interesting - people say this proves something is fake or whatever. The clip of the spacewalk is of course always presented without any context. The full broadcast says it's a simulation. Whoever created the clip knew that and is therefore a liar, but people sharing it in most cases aren't.

CBS News Special: The Week In Space, June 3, 1966

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