Flerf Book Review: Distance to the Sun

Added: 2026-05-12

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[00:01:33]Welcome everybody to Tuesday night on a Monday. I got a bazinga for you right here. How do you like this shirt? Um, anyway, this will be another book review of this treacherous pile of garbage. Um, I will I've I'll give you a real short update on the copyright strike, the frivolous copyright strike um update.

[00:01:57]Um, everything is linked in the description to a a flour.info page on on it with the up-to-date info. Nothing in in the last week really. Um uh but to remind you, he he did a strike on two a copyright strike on two of the videos because I did a review and I read some of the book and he complained about that I read some of the book, which of course you do in a co in a book review and that I put a picture of him that was previously posted publicly on the internet and that I I uh pinned a link that somebody else had had done that was a link to the PDF of his book. Those were the three things. Of course, the only one that actually uh could even be in the realm of copyright is reading and showing on screen portions of his book which uh which are completely fair use.

[00:02:45]And then so those two the other two things will get ditched. Um then he did file with the copyright board and and by doing that he paid $40 and the $40 uh then he he he wrote down the things that he complained about. Um, and then all of the stuff was put into the public record and I got a copy of the PDF and I published the PDF on on flirt.info. Uh, which includes a bunch of information that he put into there, entered it into the public record. Um, his personal information is in there. So, it's in the public record. What are you going to do?

[00:03:20]Um, also I did not have copies of the two videos that he struck. So he uploaded copies of them to the copyright board website. So if you want, you have my permission. If you want, you can go to the US copyright board website. You can download those videos and you can post them yourself on your own uh YouTube channel or wherever you want.

[00:03:44]All you want, you have my my permission to do that. Now, you might also then be be the recipient of a frivolous copyright uh suit, which which could be funny. you could hang it up and put on your wall if he ever sends you something.

[00:03:58]Um, anyway, pretty funny. I found it I found it funny that he paid money to basically host host. I don't I'm like, "Oh, I want to host this so people can download it." Oh, I don't need to. He already paid for it. The hosting like awesome cell phone there. Anyway, um, this this was this was made by Arnold.

[00:04:22]This is so funny. I love this Arnold.

[00:04:25]Well done on this particular um it's AI of course, but he made a few others. He made this one here. Um which he's like, well, you can still see the crayons through the little opening at the top there. It's okay. It's okay. I still love it. And then this one here, um the crayon flavored hot pockets. So good. But but yeah, I think the the uh Wild Turkey I don't know. Is Wild Turkey the right thing or maybe Old Crow? I don't know. I I'm most whiskey I just I don't know. Please no. Um some some um like what's it called? Um Pete Monster. Is that right? It is that what it is? Pete Monster. It's like super super like Petey like it's like smoky. I don't know. It but it's it's kind of expensive. I don't know. I tried that once. I liked it. Anyway, not a big fan uh in general. Anyway, this is uh this is the guy right here. Uh these are again public publicly posted on Facebook, so no expectation of privacy there. Um here is him uh um you know when he filed the copyright suit uh strike.

[00:05:46]Poor boy. He's crying. A.

[00:05:50]Oh, it's not playing the Why isn't the the audio going through? Oh, I know why.

[00:05:54]Here. Okay, the it'll go through the next time. Whatever. Um uh one more review here. This is And this is posted on his uh his Flur Wiki page.

[00:06:05]This is him being told about a year ago that he's not allowed on the flat earth uh 247 Discord ladies night because he's so creepy.

[00:06:16]So creepy. Um, anyway, I there's a few other things that he's posted on FA on uh Discord since then. I will come back to at the end of this review portion of it. Um, give you just a little little hint of that. Um, those the the images are on my my Discord server. They're captured and if you want you can go there. It's in the Flurf Wiki uh channel. It's going to be posted on the wiki, but I don't think it is yet.

[00:06:42]Maybe. I'm not sure. I haven't checked.

[00:06:44]So anyway, what I'm covering today is his his attempted treatment of the um the distance to the sun and and how absolutely juvenile it is. It it is like how how can can somebody get to adulthood and and and think that you can write a a book on this topic and be so very dumb. Um uh Peter Markley says, "Please tell me you're not a fan of Big Bang Theory." I am a fan of both the TV show and in general the theory of the Big Bang Theory. Um though that one I'm like I I I don't have the depth in it. So I'll defer to the people that understand it better. But yeah, I love the TV show. I don't know what Well, until Penny cut her hair. Like as soon as she cut her hair, I'm like I'm out.

[00:07:45]What's going on? Why? I I hardly watched it after that. Like I think they got a little feedback from the audience and like Penny grow your hair back and then like the next season but but I'm like uh done. Uh anyway um no not good to prove the actual distance by using inverse square law to show expected lux if only 100 100,000 or 5,000 miles away and distance added over each hour if local. Uh well, yeah, that's certainly an issue, right? Yeah.

[00:08:20]I if not, this is this is the thing. The the title of the book is Welcome to Flat Earth, and so you'd think that in here there is some evidence for flat earth, but none of these things so far have been for flat earth. Well, I I suppose no, not even the sea sparrow. Even if it were true, like even if these things were were well written and correct and not an absolute train wreck, it would still be wrong. It would still not not wrong. would still not be evidence for flat earth. The best thing if any of this was was correct. It's not. But if any of this was correct, the best thing they have is well, it's not uh they they would have falsified the globe of a specific radius. And that's it. That's it. That's the strongest statement they could make if everything in here was 100% correct. So um yes so Kiwi's daughter is seemingly pretty smart does not take after him. So anyway um there is the uh now to remind you this is written from the viewpoint of Betty a Dutch woman um that QE is writing. So when when this this Dutch woman is fawning over QE, uh which isn't in this case here, he gets kind of lazy.

[00:09:42]Um uh it's it's QE fantasizing about a woman fantasizing about him. Kind of gross.

[00:09:51]Anyway, but for the most part, he gets he he forgets that he's supposed to be doing that. And so it'll have like at the beginning of a section a a chunk that's like introducing this from her perspective, right? It'll be like here and then and then page page page page page of just him pontificating, right?

[00:10:09]And then wrap it around to oh and so that's what John would say like Uhhuh. Okay. Anyway, um it just bookends on this this fictionalized real person that actually exists that he's fantasizing about fantasizing about him.

[00:10:25]Uh anyway, so there's the question in bold. Is there any empirical evidence for the distance to the sun? And of course there is. There is significant empirical evidence for the distance to the sun. And I will show it to you here.

[00:10:38]Give me a second. I'll bring it up. Need to make sure I put I mark that page so it doesn't go away. All right. So, here's and this has been I've had this on here for a long time. What do people know about the sun? Radar bounces off the sun. That's that's the essential thing um that I like to look at because it's really easy to understand. Radar goes at a certain speed.

[00:11:03]Speed, time, get the distance. That's it. Right? And so, here's the radar array. Uh this was done in 1966.

[00:11:11]The other one was done in 1961. twice it was done uh using radar directly to the sun.

[00:11:18]Um and so let me uh give you my my analysis of it. In one of the in one of the studies they say it takes 1,000 seconds. In the other study it's uh 980 seconds plus or minus 20. Okay. So this is this is they weren't measuring the distance to the sun with this particular experiment. They were uh probing the nature of the sun. But they do give information in the study about how long it did take. So we can use those two measurements to give us 490 plus or minus 10 seconds for the one-way trip to the sun. We know the speed of light and we know uh distance is velocity times time. So that gives us 146 um million km and then plus or minus we get 143 to 149 million km approximately.

[00:12:11]This is this is a rough method. Um and it certainly gives us three significant figures. Fantastic. Really nice.

[00:12:19]Excellent way to determine this distance to the sun to three significant figures.

[00:12:23]Now let me let me remind I was thinking about this.

[00:12:27]What what things do we do in everyday life that is correct to three sigfig?

[00:12:33]when you're driving your car and you read 60 kilometers per hour or 60 miles per hour, not kilometers, that's only two. Now, if you're in if you're reading in in uh kilometers per hour, you you're me that's three that's three sigfig. The the the uh speedometer in your car is measuring to about three significant figures, right? Now, are you doing that?

[00:12:55]No. It's built into your car. What if you use a tape measure and you measure the distance of something? um if you're measuring it in inches and and um in imperial, right? So it's inches and then up to about a 16th of an inch, right? So that's within that's about that's about two maybe three sigfig, right? Between two and three behind the decimal point, right? So that's about what we're able to do if you really think about it. It's about what we're able to do in our our everyday life. And it's it's good enough for a lot of the things that we do, right? If you're doing woodworking, you're doing like precise um um high-end furniture, right?

[00:13:40]I I don't do that. I do pine. Um uh but then then maybe you need to get a little more precise about it. And I watched some videos of people that are using knives to to to mark where they're going to make their cut. And then they're using the the edge of the blade of sitting down inside of that knife cut that they did to get precision. Like, wow, that's pretty good. That's that's more sigfig than I can do when I'm doing woodworking.

[00:14:09]So, anyway, three sigfig pretty good for for most people everyday life. Maybe four sigfig if you're if you're being precise about things. And that's about it. That's about it. So, so this measurement here is accurate to about three sigfig. Awesome. Um now, uh I'll I'll come back to this here, but this here uh the astronomical unit determined by radar reflections from Venus. Just a little hint at that. But anyway, I want to I want to show you you've seen it before if you've been around here. Um but this particular um uh measurement here or survey, right?

[00:14:48]Survey, experiment, probing of the sun, whatever it is. They sent they sent a signal. They broadcasted the signal for a about a thousand seconds and then they listened for about a thousand seconds.

[00:14:59]And so this is this is the right here on screen. This is what they re got back when they were listening. This very distinct pattern at a certain frequency range. So it's not noise. It's not random. This is definitely uh evidence that something was bounced back that they sent. There's no question about it because if you're not sending, you don't get this kind of uh pattern. So, where did this come from? It came from a bounce off the sun. That's the only place that it could have come from. This is simple logic. Where else could that have come from? No, nobody has anything.

[00:15:34]Uh right. So, uh and here here's a an overview of several different um several different readings in a row. So, there it is. And see how they line up.

[00:15:47]Of course, they're not perfect. There are things that happen. And so, you've got this noise burst. You've got two a couple different noise bursts and things. And so, you've got um it's a really cool really cool thing that they did. I I I really love this particular um uh experiment and and partly because I really I really do like like they had to build this really big array and you you might have a problem doing this today because of the the output, right?

[00:16:18]You probably could do it from somewhere if you're kind of remote and make sure that there's no people nearby that are going to get any exposure, but even then, right, any animals nearby are going to get uh, you know, birds fly over, it might be a bit of a problem for them. They might get cooked. So, uh, anyway, so the book, we go to the book and he's asking, is there any empirical evidence for the distance to the sun? and he says the only cosmic tape measure assertion um is radar mine. So he's talking directly to me because this is the one that I've been promoting for years.

[00:16:54]Uh the idea of using radar to measure the distance of the sun seems intuitive.

[00:16:57]Yep. But then what's he do? He starts talking about black body.

[00:17:03]Uh quote from somebody else, not from him. So I can quote this and he can't complain. The sun absorbs all the light that hits it. And this is from uh uh Scutter from 2019 on medium.com.

[00:17:19]Uh there's another let's see from science direct. A black body surface completely absorbs external irradiation regardless of direction and wavelength distribution. Its surface absorptivity is always one. So uh uh a * lambda equals a equals 1. the re uh reflectivity of a black body is always zero. Okay. Now he he has he's gone on this one particular quote that the sun absorbs all light um and that it is that he is it's a quote from somebody saying that the sun is black body. Um but is it or is that just uh something that has been said? Now to be clear, there is nothing perfect in the universe. There's nothing that absorbs everything 100%.

[00:18:11]There's nothing that reflects everything 100%. There's there's there's imperfections in everything. So, is the sun a perfect black body radiator? No.

[00:18:22]That would be ridiculous. Nobody would say that it's a perfect black body radiator. There are even, you know, if anybody is going to press in and say, "Yep, the sun is a black body uh radiator." Oh, but yeah, it's not perfect. There's going to be imperfections in that. So now he does not cite one experiment of this. Not one. Not a single experiment.

[00:18:50]I wanna I wanna want to really go back to a previous section of his book here where um he he makes it clear what he thinks about experiments right here. This one here, if you've seen the book or if you have the PDF, the king and queens of natural science are experiment and hypothesis.

[00:19:17]uh a quote not his words the only way things change in physics is experiments everything is based on experiment that's the only way we change our mind um another quote the final arbiter of truth in science is experiment now he did not cite a single experiment in this black body thing not one now how would you experime experiment on whether or not the sun reflects anything or if it's a perfect black body. Um well, I have an idea. You use this thing right here and you send some radar to it and you see if something reflects back and you'll find out that it in fact does. And so when tested by experiment, it has been determined that the sun is not a perfect black body radiator.

[00:20:11]I am simply applying quantum erasers.

[00:20:15]mandatory requirement that experiment is the king and that the only thing that matters is experiment. I agree. You're right quantum eraser in this one.

[00:20:27]Experiment is what matters and you don't have any experiments. Not a single one that shows that the sun is a perfect black body radiator. All you have is quotes from different people saying that who when pressed would also say, "Yeah, you're yeah, certainly it could it could reflect." And uh show them this experiment, they'd say, "Oh, well, turns out it does." That's what they would say because science is always provisional.

[00:20:53]Always, always, always provisional.

[00:20:55]There's never there's never a uh a final this is it. This is it.

[00:21:03]You can't, right? Because as soon as you do that, then that means that if you were to have another experiment that that came out contradictory to it, then what?

[00:21:12]You have another experiment. And experiments are king, right? So you couldn't have two experiments that contradict each other. You can never say something's final. You can never truly say something in science has been proven because experiment is king. According to quantum eraser, an experiment might show up something else. a more precise version of experiment might might find something a different angle to it, a different uh take on it and the other reproduction. Maybe there was there was some uh some blunders in the experiment that was done prior.

[00:21:43]Always a possibility. Anyway, so he goes for two pages, two pages cherry-picking quotes about about the sun, but never once citing an experiment. And that's it. That's the end of it.

[00:22:00]That is all that he has as a uh a method a way to reject the actual experiment that actually did test the thing that he is claiming. Uh so that is that that's a bad that's a fail for you quantum eraser. Um uh he's he's like the complete lack of any direct measurement. Well, turns out there is turns out there is. Um, but now what does he do after that? Right now, there's more than one way to determine the distance to the sun. And if you're familiar with Huygens, you'll know that the the first measurement that was pretty good, pretty well done, had some good um methodology to it, was done by Huygens. Um, there was there were ones prior, they were not that good. When you look at their methodology, there's there's issues.

[00:22:55]Um, Kaitlyn, I think I think maybe we should watch that after this whole thing here.

[00:23:04]Uh, we'll come back. This right here.

[00:23:06]This right here. This is great. I I've Yes, we'll watch it. We'll watch it after. I just I want to focus on the Don't distract me. I want to focus on this here. So, okay. So is is Huygens's um briefly he determined uh by looking at the phase of Venus when throughout its its orbit around the sun it was at a right angle to the sun to from us right so from us to the sun to Venus this right angle here so this the so Venus would would have uh it would be to the side of the sun from our position and so it would be half phase you'd see it a half Venus right so that and then when it's on the other side you'd also see you'd make another right triangle so you can do that and you say okay so we can make a right triangle so we can do some trigonometry what do we need to know well we need to know the angular size of the sun and we need to know the angular size of Venus and we need to know about how big Venus is how Big is Venus? Well, Huygens did not know. He did not have a measurement of it. We've been able to do a better measurement since then, but he estimated that it is the same size as the Earth.

[00:24:29]Okay, a reasonable estimate. So, he estimated that and then looked at Venus as it transited the sun to get the angular size of Venus in relation to the angular size of the sun.

[00:24:44]Now once you know the angular size of something and then you can then you can figure out and and you know one other thing right you this triangle that I described then you can determine this the the whole triangle you solve the whole thing um that's how that's how Huygens did it now he had made some other assumptions uh other than the 95 the 100% size of of Venus it was about it truly is about 95% so It's within two sigfig is is the the results. Um or three sig I think he's within three sigfig but he's pretty close in it. But he had made some other um estimates that were not correct either. But what happened is he kind of got lucky and some of his estimates one way were wrong and some of his estimates were wrong the other direction. And those those estimates balanced out so that his his measurement was pretty close in the end. Now the methodology is great and with determining other things more precisely he's able you're able to use that same method to get the distance to the sun more precisely specifically as I mentioned we know now because of radar the distance to Venus uh right here the astronomical unit determined by radar reflections from Venus this. So, this paper here, this on my website, mcttune.net/son, and you can download this right here.

[00:26:14]It's it's freely published. It's from the 60s. They bounced radar off uh off of Venus. They used the the Doppler shift of the of the radar to determine its velocity towards us and its velocity away from us. and um was able to determine the distance to the sun at that time in the 60s. There is 149 u,598,9 you know 884 km plus or minus 126 km right and that is really close. So uh future improvements have not uh improved it much. Uh so it's correct to within.

[00:26:59]Now that's that's the weighted mean, right? So and and Earth's orbit is elliptical. So it's not always that, right? It's more and less that. So that's going to be right in the middle.

[00:27:10]Um and I don't remember the exact the precise number offhand. uh if maybe somebody knows can drop in the chat the current distance the the AU AU has been defined now since 2012 as a particular number.

[00:27:25]So, hi Penguin. What's going on? You want to come up here? You want to say hi to everybody? Okay, here comes Penguin here. Oh, here we go. Here you go, pup.

[00:27:37]There you go. Okay, you said hi. Thank you. Good girl. Good girl. She had she wanted to come out. She's a little, you know, wants a little attention.

[00:27:48]Okay, good girl. Good puppy. Okay.

[00:27:52]Um, so there are other ways to do it, but but uh but going back to so, so just remember he he relied on quotes experiment for the first part. The second part here where he is talking about how Huygens did the uh the measurement.

[00:28:16]What did he This is interesting. This is interesting. He There's a write up in here that's well written.

[00:28:24]It's actually well written. So, um, and because I've read other things that that have been written in this book and how horrible they are, I'm assuming that this is this is either copy-pasted from somewhere or AI written because it's too well written for Quantum Eraser.

[00:28:42]Um, I won't read it because it is it is his his stuff in the book. Um, right here, this part here, I'm like, that's too well written, right? globe is a certain radius. Celestial bodies are all spherical. U estimate that Venus is is also the same radius. Calculate Venus's distance using its angular size, right? So, um that's where where you have the right angle.

[00:29:12]That's that's the thing, right? So, when you have the right angle from you to Venus, you you know the the distance to it if you know its size. And so, that's the hypotenuse of a triangle.

[00:29:24]Right. Hypotenuse. Now you and now all you need is is uh you have one of the sides and all you need is two angles and you can you get the whole thing. Well, it's a right triangle. So you know one of the angles and now you know you also know from here's the sun, here's Venus, you know this angle. So you've got two angles in one side. You can solve the whole triangle and you get the distance to the sun. That's the way Hans did it.

[00:29:45]Fantastic method. in that paper there, it uses that essential same trigonometry to do it. Um anyway, and then um during a Venus transit, let's see, we get the we compare the angular size of Venus to the angular size of the sun and s and the the sun's radius and is 432,000 miles. Um so there you go. Then we know the angular size of the sun. That's another way, right? and and if we know the angular size of it and um uh then we can and it's uh about a half degree and we know its distance too.

[00:30:25]That's another right. Just more trick.

[00:30:27]Awesome stuff. So he goes over this and he's like, "Oh well Huygens was off on the size therefore the whole thing is garbage." That's not how it works.

[00:30:39]Future versions of this were done more precisely. But flat-earthers are so ignorant that they'll take the seinal way that some particular um thing was done and and and think that's it. Never again has it ever been improved upon and there was some minor error in it.

[00:30:56]Therefore, all gone. Right.

[00:31:00]Ridiculous. That is not how you do things. Um so, all right. Then he goes into radius.

[00:31:09]So, let's go let's go again. And I'm going to I'm going to go back to this here and I'll I'll bring up I think I can think I can bring this guy up here.

[00:31:21]I had an there it is. Okay. The astronomical unit determined by radar reflections from Venus and it's from I won't zoom in from 1962.

[00:31:35]So, um, the, uh, I'll just I'll jump down to the summary here, which is the, uh, up here, summary of results, the upper right, and then table three, combined AU determination from all methods. Now, I know you can't read that. I'll just show you where it is on the paper here. And, um, so you can go look at it at your leisure. And they also measure the distances to other other planets as well as a side effect of this. So, um there you go. An absolute uh ridiculous thing. Like he he didn't look at any of the newer methods like uh like the one I just showed you, which is from 1962, but it's not all that new. It's on my website. I know he's been he's looked at my website because because he his particular um his his attempted first thing that he mentions in the book is is the method that I that I brought right that I as as now a uh expert flat earth debunker since I've I've been doing this for eight years um I I first to my knowledge was the first to introduce that particular methodology ology specifically outputting a number. Right?

[00:32:58]It's one thing to say, well, they use radar. It's another thing to go get the study to get to get the numbers from the study to work through the math and output the actual distance to the sun, which is what I did, and it's on that website. So, I don't know, maybe he never went to that web page. It'd be difficult for him. There's big words and stuff and, you know, real science, uh, science is kryptonite to the flatties.

[00:33:19]So, um, not probably something he wanted to do.

[00:33:24]So I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't actually look at it. But yes, we h there are other methods to do it. And now knowing that the the size of Venus is 95% of the radius of the Earth. Well, there you go. You can improve you can improve that. But will he know? Of course not. He's not interested. He only wants to find one thing that debunks it and then ignore everything else. And if you ever challenge him, what will he do?

[00:33:48]He'll mute you. Of course. Oh, do we have a kitty? Look at this. Oh, Cusco, >> the grayest of all cats. Look at him.

[00:33:58]Look at those eyes. Good cat. Just looking right at the camera. Like you love the camera and love it.

[00:34:05]>> He's so photogenic.

[00:34:06]>> He is like the eyes like I'm scheming.

[00:34:13]And you He is a He's a tabby. He's all gray, but you can't see it here. There's a the just the slightest little M right up on his forehead here.

[00:34:24]Uh, also he's the softest cat ever. He's like He's like chinchilla soft. You ever held a chinchilla and you've held Cusco?

[00:34:33]They're the same. Basically the same.

[00:34:37]Thank you.

[00:34:38]>> Mhm.

[00:34:39]>> All right.

[00:34:41]>> Have any not on the bazinga here. Um, okay. Well, thus concludes the um the review number four of this particular book. Um another another disaster. Now, I will be doing um I have a plan and you're involved.

[00:35:05]The plan is I want everybody if you feel like you know this book well enough to give it a review on Amazon, I would love for you to give it an honest review on Amazon. And I will be looking at the reviews on Amazon and I will be doing with the help of other people a dramatic reading of the reviews on Amazon. Now let me give you a little bit of uh freedom here. You can write whatever you want. keep it clean, right? Um, something that I wouldn't mind putting on my channel. And of course, Amazon reviews are going to be a little um a little sensitive. But before that, I got another I was handed another cat. This is Cotton.

[00:35:49]He um he's super super social as long as the dogs are away for the night. So, as soon as the dogs are away for the night, he's in here meowing at me. And his meows are half. He doesn't do a full meow. He's like Um, and then he'll he'll come up and he'll uh you know how they do their their paws, you know, um, making biscuits, we say. Do other people say making biscuits? He does that. He purr and makes biscuits on your leg and his claws come out. And if you're wearing shorts, you're going to feel it. So, yeah. Anyway, yeah, we are we are uh babysitting or catsitting while our son is in Scotland. He's still in Scotland until Friday. So, there you go.

[00:36:34]>> All right.

[00:36:36]>> There you go. Thank you.

[00:36:40]>> Uh, all right.

[00:36:42]I don't know what kind of cat he is.

[00:36:44]He's only got two colors, I think. So, whatever. Um, time says, "Do I review the re the real Welcome to Flat Earth or the stolen one?" I don't know.

[00:36:56]Uh, I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't propose that you uh Oh, I got on Amazon.

[00:37:02]Um, I'll be this What do you mean the stolen one? So, there's there I've seen that there's another one that's got a um that's I don't know. There's like there's two paperbacks and two um Kindle versions. The the the one that I that I ordered here, that's the one I'll be reading. So, okay. So, here's the freedom that you have.

[00:37:26]you may sneak in some directori direct tutorial, is that what it's called? Um, guidance in there. So, if you're like, I want this read in in Pierce Broman from uh the world is not enough. I want it read in his voice, right? I'll you you just add that like at the bottom of some or somewhere in the review if you can say read this in uh in Pierce Brozin's voice, right? That's instructions to me to find somebody to do that. Right. And if you want and if you want somebody write reading it in in uh somebody right whatever you want. It doesn't just have to be a voice. It can be whatever. I'll try I'll try to make it happen. Um so that's what I'd love you to do. And so I I have I don't know if I'll do another review. There's a there's a there's a disaster uh in here on on measuring the radius of the Earth. It's an absolute disaster. Um but uh Professor Phil Bell has said he wants to to do a review as well and he's going to cover two things. And so we've got that coming up and we've maybe one more for me. If you guys like this, I'll do another. Otherwise after that, sometime after that, I'll do the dramatic reading of the Amazon reviews of this book. And so you're all invited to do that. Um the more in general the more reviews this book gets the better right because the feedback is important and Amazon needs that and everybody needs to know what is what is the feedback from this particular book so that so that potential buyers can know they need to know uh what's the Amazon link to to leave a review I will allow you to post it um Peter this I'm not I'm not going to take this particular video down. I didn't do anything in here. I didn't read anything from the book. I showed only pictures uh held up the book far enough away that you can't really read it. I showed the cover, which of course isn't any problem at all. So, um uh this this video will stay as is and I'm not going to take it down and if he does strike on it, well, it will be a bit of a struggle for him because uh there's there's nothing in here strikeable. So, uh, Fletcher Boy says, "Post the PDF link to the book." Again, I there's no shortage of of people with the the link.

[00:39:58]And there's the flatearther downward direction. That that is one that uh that shared it. There's another one. Um, Roger Ledwell, according to Elder Bear, has has uh shared it numerous times and is is uh one of the people sharing it.

[00:40:13]Um, though he also claims he isn't. So, um, let's see here. Is that the one, Peter Markley? That does appear to be the the one. Yes, that appears to be the one. And so far, there's uh 25 reviews.

[00:40:35]Um, and my review is the one that I see in the top says 31 people found this helpful. Very nice. Um, thank you for that people. I I appreciate that that when you So that's another thing. When you click that you found a review helpful, it sorts it to the top.

[00:40:54]So please do if there are any reviews that you find helpful like mine, do go ahead and and uh give it a uh this was a helpful review and I will uh I'll appreciate that and so will all the potential buyers of the book. So all right, let me read this here. We got inquisitive infidel says, "Some flurves heard about the problem of the one-way speed of light, so I could imagine one claiming they could argue the measurement is invalid." In fact, uh Nathan and Quantum Eraser have brought that up. Um but the the one-way speed of light is not an actual problem. People just say, "Well, there's no true pure way to know the one-way speed of light."

[00:41:34]But do we think that there is actually an issue with the one-way speed of light? No, we don't. Number one. Number two, it doesn't it doesn't do anything for flat Earth because it's still very far away. It doesn't matter, right? The the it doesn't help them at all. Um because because there are other things, other ways that are not based on the speed of light that confirm the distance to the uh the sun. Oh yeah, and I don't want to forget this. Red's rhetoric and astronomy live measured the distance to the sun using Mars and you can go watch that and and maybe somebody could grab that and pin pin it. Um it's a really good way. Now it is more geometry and trigonometry involved and that's why I like the the radar bouncing one because people understand it intuitively much much better than something with a lot of trigonometry. But that doesn't mean that the way they did it is incorrect at all.

[00:42:35]It just means that it's it takes a little more time and effort to understand and it has a little higher bar to understand. Certainly, um I don't think there's a single flat-earther that could understand that technique. Not one could understand it.

[00:42:49]So, um uh Eric Burn says, "Since you're in Minnesota, are you keeping an eye on the Wild versus Avalanche game?" Um I'm not. I I um I I only I I didn't I mean I knew like a week ago that that they were in the playoffs and since then I I didn't know that they were still in the playoffs. I not much of a sorry uh hockey fan. Um I mean I like hockey of of the sports. I'm I'm a I'm I like it.

[00:43:29]uh you know in in in high school give the choice between a hockey game and a basketball game. I was at the hockey game. So uh Astroate recommends that we watch Mikey Smith. We're going to watch that. I'm gonna pull it up after um in a bit here. Jack Federer says, "I'd like to read I'd like it read in the voice and style of Bob Bobcat Gulweight or Sam Kenisonson." Well, you got to put that in the review.

[00:43:57]Bobcat Gulweight. Um, and if you know, and if you know, you know. Bobcat Gulfweight. Um, I saw Sam Kenisonson. I saw him live. Oh my gosh. Uh, Calder says, "Woohoo. 19 months of continuous seritude." Thank you very much, Calder.

[00:44:17]Um, Calder says, "Go avalanche."

[00:44:22]Go ahead. Go ahead. All right. Now, I said that I was gonna show a few of the things that that uh Ky has been whining about.

[00:44:33]Um, and uh, yeah, this is kind of so remember he he's been kicked off of uh, Ladies Night. And so then then somebody on this is on um, I think this is on Ficatoid's Discord server. So somebody's see Quantum Eraser on there. It says, "Still attempting to give me orders, Mr. Magcoo." uh perfect title for your autobiography, right? And so this guy's responding to that and I can't I can't make it.

[00:45:10]This is a screenshot so I can't repageate or re you know anyway so quantum eraser is like now I give you suggestions mister I give you suggestions I don't have any problem with 247 or any other flat earth server 247 did a lot for flat earth they have panels in big server and provide some good show they manage to awake a lot of people I don't understand your problem with them Um, oh this is from Dr. Flatpawn responding to Q. I sorry I Um, so QE doesn't like flat flat earth 24/7 because he got kicked off of it for ladies night. I don't understand your problem with them.

[00:45:54]Just because they're making flat earth evolving doesn't give you the right to talk stuff about their back. Seriously, dude, you guys are just spreading drama.

[00:46:01]You're destroying the flat earth union.

[00:46:02]There's no flat earth union.

[00:46:05]There is none. They hate each other.

[00:46:06]different different tribes. I can tell you with confidence they did way more than you. You probably come from from there.

[00:46:14]You probably come from there, too. In any case, they're not exposing themselves to be shill or anything else.

[00:46:21]Please stop. Look at what you did. You divided the flat earth community. That's exactly what those MF want. I guess that's us. Divided, we fall. United we stand.

[00:46:31]You started to draw him with 247. And now, Nathan, just stop, mate.

[00:46:37]So there you go. There's there's the entry the the entry salvo into this here. Um and Qy responds. Oh, this was the prior one. Um I I sorry I read them out of order.

[00:46:54]Uh oh no, I'm sorry. Correct me. This is responding to that.

[00:47:00]I got you. I do space four exclamation points. You got a server filled to the brim with pretender clown flatearthers.

[00:47:10]Everybody he doesn't like is a pretender clown. Um 24/7 did a lot for flat earth.

[00:47:16]Yeah, cuz I taught those idiots for six years. Oh, he's such he's got such an ego. Moreover, they can't get grade school level arguments right. Neither do you, Kuey. Neither do you. Uh they have panels and big servers provide some good show. They managed to wake a lot of people. I appreciate that. You're welcome. He's taking credit for it. Oh, the ego. The ego. Ego. Um, well, after all the time teaching pretender clown flat-earthers, there's still a small group of weasels.

[00:47:44]AI idiot DJ doofus. Yes, DJ. Yanker, Yoder, Jedi. Like, he has to give names to everybody, right? Who stabbed me in the back because of my Johnson.

[00:47:57]They had Johnson envy. They banned me from the server. So a year ago he was banned from from the um the ladies night and apparently I don't know he was banned from the server completely uh treacherous treasonous backstab backstabinors traitors uh base lots of exclamation points that's why Miguel left I don't know who Miggy left is that's because just because they're making flat earth evolving you mean devolving You have no idea who you're speaking with, do you? Yes. The ego. The ego. Um, the absolute Oh, it's so funny.

[00:48:45]Somebody Okay.

[00:48:49]Um, let's see. Doesn't give the right to welcome to on my show to give account.

[00:48:55]So, he's inviting people on his show where he he he mutes everybody and yells over everybody, right? You you can't go on his show if you're opposition. He won't let you talk. It's stupid. It's it's pointless to to even try, right? He has to have a moderator to mute and unmute him from the beginning. That's the only way because because he's he he refuses to let anybody else talk. His ego. Giant giant ego. Uh seriously, dude, I'm not a dude's son.

[00:49:27]Oh. Oh. All right. You guys are just spraying drama. You're destroying the fly with Union. Sure. That's what Jiren used to say about me. You're clueless.

[00:49:33]Well, Jiren was right. I can tell you with confidence they did way more than you. I made them. He's taking credit for making it. Oh my gosh. Oh. So, so much ego. Uh, he keeps going.

[00:49:49]They're de demonstrated Pretender frauds. remember my mission?

[00:49:55]No, nobody cares about your mission.

[00:49:56]Right. This is So, this is still just screenshots of him just going and going and going on Flatsoid's Discord server.

[00:50:04]Uh the same claim Jiren made with me and there was never Flat Earth Community just hordes of directionless idiots.

[00:50:09]Well, that's true. Uh that's exactly what made those MF want divided by Right. I will not allow cancerous, treasonous, treacherous, backstabbing, traitors, pretender clown, morons to take what I have built. You didn't build anything.

[00:50:25]You didn't build anything. You started drama 247. Nope, they did.

[00:50:33]And now Nathan wouldn't be a Oh my gosh.

[00:50:36]Wouldn't be a Nathan without me. Oh. Oh, the absolute ego is amazing.

[00:50:44]I taught that idiot for years. He still screws up fundamental concepts. Oh, I mean, he is God in his own mind.

[00:50:55]All right.

[00:50:58]It's hard to read Quantum Eraser's writing because he he can't. It's one thing to give an insult, but he has to string together 15 different insults.

[00:51:10]Uh, from what I've been told, the sewer rat weasel's goomer pile, you know, and the rest of the so-called hierarchy were in the back channels. Nancy sewing circles, right? Always adding these these these pokes complaining because I was cutting the knees out from under globers too quickly.

[00:51:32]You mean overtalking them? Yes. But they Sally's wanted the to have the conversation. Well, yes, of course.

[00:51:42]That's the point. Enabling essentially terrorist sympathizing. Oh my gosh, he's equating globers to terrorists here. Of course, I've been cutting the knees out from under Globers since 2016 when the conversation actually ended. Oh my gosh.

[00:51:58]How did it end? Did it end by you not providing an experiment for black body um uh for the sun being a black body?

[00:52:06]Did it Did it end when you didn't have a citation for the distance that the um the sea sparrow radar could illuminate a target? Nope. You didn't have that. Did it end when you couldn't do celestial navigation and you thought it was actually just done with a triangle? And if it was done with a triangle, you'd need to know the actual distance above the flat Earth of the of every star, which you don't know. No, it didn't end ever. You never had any evidence for anything. Never once. Never once you had any evidence. Anyway, so they hash a plan to get me to disrespect one of their pseudo mods because I'm no respector of persons essentially. Well, yes. Yeah.

[00:52:47]Then ban me for disrespect. But of course, they they had to get me outside 24/7 home base because I was a king moderator for good reason on the home server.

[00:53:00]I don't is this the 247 home server? So, the day of the banning in politics server. Okay. Yeah. So, there's a there's a offshoot on the politics server that is a a a room that is for for the that's basically the same as the 247 flat earth discord server, right? So a lot of the same people run it. So politics server goomer Paul you know bumbled fumbled stumbled into the VC when I was utterly Were you drunk?

[00:53:26]Destroying a goober. You mean overt talking immediately muted me like a little miss muppet. I see see how he he oh how he just can't it it ruins the continuity of of a of a of it to constantly to always be putting in like little missuppet muting General Patton right you're just interrupting it anyway I didn't take too kindly to little miss muppet's actions so when he finally admitted to me I destroyed Gomer P you know intellectually never drug him around by in his incoherent short hairs with a little Oh gosh.

[00:54:08]Anyway, so he's retelling how he got booted uh popped in the server with Adam Megan.

[00:54:15]A short time later, Adam was having a very cordial conversation with Jedi when Goomemer Pile, I don't know, Goomer Pile is somebody. I don't think that's their real name. Again, bumbled, fumbled, stumbled his way into the conversation, interrupting it within its incoherency.

[00:54:30]Yeah, you're not allowed to interrupt QE. QE does the interrupt. Then muted Adam. I didn't take the kindly rip pile.

[00:54:38]Sloppy blah blah.

[00:54:40]So he muted me a few hours later. I couldn't enter the politics server because I was banned. The recording of what happened all of a sudden vanished.

[00:54:49]Sorry if I'm moving this around a lot.

[00:54:51]I'm trying to make it so you can all read it. Uh maybe I shouldn't then. So then I proceeded to DM who I thought was my friends India who's kind of like the guy that runs 24/7 Jedi heretic matt Madrix Miggy about what went down.

[00:55:08]Checked my DMs for the next three days.

[00:55:09]No response. Yeah, they were tired of you. That's the backstabbing yellow spine cowards. That's pretty much it. So there you go. There is there is his little uh whiny hisspit hissipit on on the the uh his whatever getting kicked from the 247 flatters Discord server. Nobody will miss you. Okay. Now, um Mikey Smith has an amazing uh video that wasn't I don't think it was done by him. I think this was done by um uh by Sam flat earth reconnaissance and go I will start teaching people how to >> Okay, let me get this set up so you can read so you can see it better.

[00:56:20]Okay, here we go.

[00:56:23]This is Oh my gosh.

[00:56:27]Amazing. You You're gonna You're Yeah, Sam Sam made a documentary about Mikey. It's It's uh 5 minutes and 41 seconds long, which is 12 minutes longer than it should be. So, uh that's uh that's what we'll we'll watch here.

[00:56:49]>> I will start teaching people how to pay attention.

[00:56:55]>> I I'll I'll phone him in a second, but he never answers and question everything you look at.

[00:57:06]Yeah. So, Splatter's reconnaissance is Sam.

[00:57:16]It's >> so dramatic.

[00:57:17]>> April 11th, 2023, Saskatchewan Province, Canada. A man with a deep passion for astronomy goes out as he >> a deep passion for astronomy. Oh, so funny. usually does to film the night skies, but this time he accidentally records a video of a star that will destabilize the astronomical community for all time.

[00:57:38]>> What?

[00:57:39]>> No. Nobody cares.

[00:57:43]>> What am I catching here? I've never seen that before.

[00:57:46]>> The star is Alpha Carnis Majorus, better known as Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. But the footage reveals aspects of Sirius never disclosed before. It has a structure and generates some type of electrical impulse.

[00:58:01]>> You can kind of see a faint triangle on this side too when it points out.

[00:58:04]>> Yeah, it flashes off and on.

[00:58:07]>> That man is Mikey Smith, a flat earth activist and an expert in digcoping. The tech >> digiscoping and expert in digoscoping.

[00:58:16]>> Ooh, technique of capturing videos by connecting a smartphone to the eyepiece of binoculars and the very technique he's been using so far to record the night skies. Mastering this method, Mikey Smith soon succeeds in recording more stars, showing identical structures and behaviors like Venus, Capella, Vega, and Jupiter. The Isiscoping even a word, or did he just make this up? I I've never heard it before.

[00:58:42]>> He even gets footage of some sort of static texture behind the stars he calls the firmament.

[00:58:49]>> There's obviously a firmament there.

[00:58:51]here.

[00:58:52]>> It looks to me like like digital noise that's been uh JPEG compressed >> looking at it.

[00:59:00]>> There's so many things wrong with that statement alone. I don't even know where to begin. But his discoveries spark a massive backlash.

[00:59:07]>> But we're doing our own thing over here.

[00:59:09]We're making fun of we're making fun of uh of Mikey, the real star man. Accused of producing distorted shapes of stars due to poor equipment and lack of expertise. He becomes the subject of harsh criticism from flat earth opponents to flat earth proponents.

[00:59:23]>> I'm recording the firmament and the stars that bothers you.

[00:59:27]>> You're not recording the firmament cuz firmament doesn't exist.

[00:59:30]>> I wanted you curious UK debunks. Try to do something more natural. So I went to binoculars.

[00:59:36]>> You have inadequate camera stuff.

[00:59:39]Whatever is doing that, it's your lenses or something like that that's showing those pictures like that.

[00:59:44]>> They refuse to accept that he is the first one to record the night skies like no one ever did. And that no telescope, no observatory, and not even NASA could replicate his work.

[00:59:55]>> Not even NASA could replicate it. Yeah, because they don't have dirty dirty gunk on their their lenses.

[01:00:02]>> The firmament is also stationary.

[01:00:07]>> Where is the firmament? Why haven't we seen it? Uh, why are you the only person?

[01:00:11]>> Wait, how could the firmament be stationary if the stars are embedded in it and the stars move around all night?

[01:00:19]Wait, Mikey, you're not making sense.

[01:00:21]>> In the entire planet, other than Sam, says that they've seen it.

[01:00:25]>> All the telescopes worldwide, whatever their size, are incapable of showing us clear pictures of stars. But on February, all telescopes can't show clear pictures of stars. Says the people that know nothing about telescopes.

[01:00:43]>> February 25th, 2025. Samuel Abukaya, a fellow flatearther from Israel who's been closely.

[01:00:49]>> Okay, this was made by Samuel Ibukaya.

[01:00:54]I've never heard it said said before.

[01:00:56]Now I know how to say his last name.

[01:00:57]>> Following Mikey Smith's work, releases the telescope's conspiracy video series.

[01:01:03]In this series, the ineffectiveness of telescopes and the advantages of digoscoping for stargazing are explained for the first time.

[01:01:10]>> Okay. What is digoscoping?

[01:01:13]Seriously, is this a madeup term? Is dig scoping a madeup term?

[01:01:19]I I go >> validating Mikey Smith's achievement and reinforcing his credibility. All they are showing us are big blood spots of lights and we are being taught that these are the precise shapes of the stars.

[01:01:35]>> Even within the flat earth community, misinformation about the shape of the stars is being exposed.

[01:01:41]>> Oh, Jim, this is the best. His pictures are great. So, you understand? So, there's some kind of a sight up here, you know, going on. Yeah, >> this is a star.

[01:01:50]>> No, it's not in with a P1000.

[01:01:52]>> No, >> that's not a clear star, guys. That's >> So Mikey actually gets this right. He He figured out that that the P1000 zoomed in and out of focus isn't showing the right thing.

[01:02:01]>> It's not a clear star.

[01:02:03]>> The stars are not in water. The water is above.

[01:02:07]>> This is not a clear video of Capella.

[01:02:12]There is Capella.

[01:02:14]>> But Sam doesn't stop there. Conscious of the importance of Mikey's discoveries, he goes out on his own to record the night skies using Mikey's techniques.

[01:02:23]This move is a success as Sam's observations fully corroborate Mikey's discoveries.

[01:02:29]Oh, >> hold on a second. That dancing that >> move is a success.

[01:02:41]Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh.

[01:02:47]I I only watched the first like two minutes of this before.

[01:02:52]Oh my god, they're dancing. Oh my gosh.

[01:02:57]>> As Sam's observations fully corroborate Mikey's discoveries.

[01:03:00]>> I gota I got to get that the original full video to get as much dancing as possible.

[01:03:06]>> New footage of the skies above the Holy Land confirms the shape of stars Mikey already filmed.

[01:03:14]But with more powerful high-grade binoculars, Sam witnesses much more.

[01:03:18]>> Here comes the pain.

[01:03:21]No pain, no gain.

[01:03:25]>> Stars that spin on their axes.

[01:03:28]>> Oh my gosh. So dumb.

[01:03:30]>> That discharge energy.

[01:03:33]>> All right. Digis scoping is defined as the practice of shooting digital photos or videos with the camera attached to a spotting scope.

[01:03:42]Uh, okay.

[01:03:46]And that show reflections.

[01:03:54]reflections. Oh my gosh, >> you're not recording the fragment cuz fragment doesn't exist.

[01:04:03]>> Yeah, that's right. Curious UK debunks with big fish. V10 says digiscoping is a technique of taking high magnification photos in of distant objects like wildlife by connecting a camera, typically a smartphone, to the eyepiece of binoculars. Okay, it's a real thing.

[01:04:20]>> But the stars do reflect upon a cloaked surface present right behind them.

[01:04:26]We don't know >> or hear me out, they're internal reflections inside the optics.

[01:04:32]>> What it is, but we know what it's not.

[01:04:36]It is not emptiness and it cannot be space.

[01:04:42]But it's the new front line in the war for knowledge.

[01:04:50]Welcome to the front line.

[01:04:54]>> Oh, welcome to the front line.

[01:05:01]Oh my gosh.

[01:05:03]Oh my gosh. And and uh Okay, hold on. Um Max sent the the clip. All right, hold on.

[01:05:16]Let me grab grab the the timestamp.

[01:05:21]The nose oil lens coupling. Oh my gosh.

[01:05:29]>> You know.

[01:05:31]>> All right. All right.

[01:05:36]I got it right.

[01:05:39]Oh, is it is it Hold on.

[01:05:45]Did it drop? Was there Was there a uh uh buffering?

[01:05:52]Yeah. So, um I saw there was buffering on my So, when I have the YouTube play screen up, the the the uh the like the admin studio screen, then there buffering happens every time. There's a time that fills up memory and then it goes and then it buffers. This right here I used to have initially from that screen and then I changed it to be Firefox and now this is an app that I wrote myself in uh so this is an electron window not um not uh Chrome or Firefox that this doesn't have the issue but if I have the YouTube watch page up in YouTube Studio occasionally it'll still do it. So, what I try to do is I try to not have that page up and sometimes I forget because I need to have it up to launch the video and and stuff. So, I had it going. So, anyway, and then I'm pulling it pulling it in. I was going to that page because I need to get to that page to get Mike to get um Max's time stamp. So, there we go.

[01:07:03]And I'll jump out of it. You know, >> grab the time stamp rocking out.

[01:07:10]And all right, now I'll grab it here.

[01:07:16]I'll put it in here, >> you know.

[01:07:22]>> All right. Now, my gosh. And DJ New Moon, he's got his face covered. I mean, if you're a fler, like I don't blame you.

[01:07:37]Why is it I don't want the live chat up.

[01:07:39]All right, whatever. I'll clip it. I'll clip it anyway. Here it is.

[01:07:47]>> Just rocking out.

[01:07:50]>> Oh my gosh.

[01:07:54]Oh, Max XD. I I do martial art, too.

[01:07:57]Kickboxing, everything.

[01:08:01]>> Nice.

[01:08:02]>> He does, huh? I haven't done anything like that in years.

[01:08:06]>> Yeah, you've done nothing like that, Hakee.

[01:08:10]I can imagine Hakee stumbling around like uh like the the uh the Star Wars the Star Wars kid with the lightsaber.

[01:08:20]That's Hakee.

[01:08:22]That's him.

[01:08:24]Oh my gosh. All right, I'll clip that.

[01:08:25]Thank you for that the time stamp.

[01:08:29]Uh it's so bad.

[01:08:34]so bad. Um, all right.

[01:08:38]Here we go.

[01:08:40]Greg Edmund says 30 days in the hole.

[01:08:45]30 days in the hole.

[01:08:48]Is that Oh, that is that one month into the uh the membership. I think that's what that means. Thank you very much for that. You've been around a long time though, so maybe it lapsed or something.

[01:08:58]Um or maybe it's the first time. Uh thank you very much if it is. Jack better says, "I think I held a chinchilla on prom night." Yeah, if you've held a chinchilla, you'll know.

[01:09:07]They're super soft. And so you if you've held a chinchilla and then you come and hold Cusco, you'll know.

[01:09:17]Fletcher Boy says, "Let's call Mikey phon." Oh yeah, let's do it.

[01:09:23]I mean, there's no chance he's gonna answer, but we'll still try, right? Hold on.

[01:09:34]It's supposed to be playing.

[01:09:38]It's not playing.

[01:09:41]All right. Hold on. I'll relaunch the app.

[01:09:46]Oh, you know why? That particular app needs OBS to be running before it it uh plays or before I uh before I launch it. and I did not have OBS running. That's why though I did update OBS today, so maybe that's why. Let's We'll see.

[01:10:19]>> Sorry, it was too loud.

[01:10:26]What time is it?

[01:10:47]All right, we're calling. We're calling.

[01:10:50]I'm sure he'll answer this time after being featured like that.

[01:10:56]I mean, he's he's really he's hit the big time, hasn't he?

[01:11:04]Definitely hit the big time.

[01:11:14]I got it now.

[01:11:19]I wasn't thinking about that.

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[01:11:35]Mikey Smith is your best friend. MC tune. You know, I just watched a video where you've made it big time. You hit big time. Sam Abua Abu Abu I hope that's how Flat Earth Reconnaissance featured you as the real star man. So exciting. You finally hitting the big time being featured on his channel. I mean that documentary on you topnotch. Congratulations. So excited. I know probably Nobel Prize is next. I know. I know. Uh just, you know, when you get there, remember us little guys that helped get you there. Anyway, love you. Bye.

[01:12:12]All right, there we go. Um yeah, he's signing autographs. He's he's probably, you know, working on uh we're hand editing the latte uh for the um for the the paper he's going to present and have it be published in Nature for sure, you know. Um, that's that's how he rolls. And uh uh All right. Eric Burns sent me something. I'll I'll grab that.

[01:12:46]We'll go to downloads with that.

[01:12:51]And what was this?

[01:12:54]Um Oh, yeah.

[01:12:57]Yep. All right.

[01:13:00]Thank you, Eric Burns. I'll grab that.

[01:13:02]Let me get it over here where I can where I can um show it up on screen.

[01:13:18]There we go.

[01:13:23]Live streams 743.

[01:13:27]This is live stream number 743.

[01:13:32]Some people put numbers on the title. I never I never I never like that. I don't think I don't think I need that.

[01:13:43]All right.

[01:13:47]Here is a real photo of a star taken with the telescope. And so they're like, "Oh, it's never there's never been one that's been clear." Yes, there has. Here you go.

[01:14:01]What star? What What is this? Is this Sirius?

[01:14:07]Um, Eric got the sombrero galaxy on Sinko.

[01:14:12]Okay. This is a galaxy, not a It didn't look like a star. It looks a bit more uh galaxy like. Yeah. So, um and and what was this? What was the de the stuff that was this was taken with?

[01:14:27]What what uh hardware?

[01:14:31]Um Bugghazi says, "I've been there." Of course you have.

[01:14:41]Of course you have. Um All right. I'll I'll wait for for uh my uh Eric. Oh, Sea Stars S50 smart telescope. About two hours of data.

[01:14:56]There it is. So yeah, so to get a good to get a good galaxy picture, you need to have a long exposure.

[01:15:02]Inquisitive infidel says a star is an LGBT horseshoe crab in the sky carpet.

[01:15:07]Gosh, naughty. You should not find that funny, people. That's not supposed to be funny.

[01:15:19]Real Jiffy Cone says, "Did Mikey Smith remove his bottom two ribs so he could bend over and huff his own farts like this?" No, that wasn't Mikey huffing his own farts. That was Flat Earth Reconnaissance huffing Mikey's farts. That's what that was.

[01:15:37]You got to you got to get right who's huffing what. Um, unfornicated says Sam using his Alliance of the Dome or Alliance of the Dumb logo to promote digiscoping and raking about himself in the third person through AI voice.

[01:15:54]credibility none.

[01:15:58]Uh, in the Yes, in the life 475 for 15 Australian dollars. Thank you very much.

[01:16:05]Says new moon covering his face so his dad doesn't beat his ass 100%.

[01:16:10]100%. Um, like it's embarrassing. DJ should hide his face.

[01:16:20]Uh, Jack Ver says, "The intellect of a toddler elevated to flirt king." Of course, Mikey's pictures contain no actual pictures, only noise, lens flare, distortion, etc. 100%. It it it's it's internal reflections, it's Vaseline on the lens, it's uh chromatic aberration, like it's a dozen things at the same time. and he and and that that real astronomers try to get rid of because it's not what you're actually seeing.

[01:16:50]You actually if you actually want to see the star, you need to get rid of the con founding variables. But he magnifies them. Typical flatearther, right?

[01:17:00]Flat-earthers wait for the highest refraction um environment, look across water and say, "Oh, look, we can see across the water." But you didn't. and then and then pretend that there's no refraction.

[01:17:14]It's the standard MMO for flat-earthers in the life says has anyone checked on CC? CC doesn't answer my phone either, but I mean I can call call in CC.

[01:17:30]>> Sorry, no one's here to take your call.

[01:17:32]Your name and number. Thank you.

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[01:17:48]>> TC, it's your best friend, MC2, and I'm your biggest fan. You know that. I think you might have accidentally like marked me to not like to send my my calls to voicemail.

[01:18:00]I'm sure that was an accident. You probably What you want to do is take that off. And then my area code is a 612 area code. That's how you know it's me.

[01:18:07]and take that off and then like like put it to your favorite caller so that you know it's me when I'm calling because I know you want to talk anyway CC. Been a long time. Let's talk. Uh uh love you.

[01:18:18]Bye.

[01:18:21]There you go. There you go. Um that's that's that's what we can do. I mean we we could send somebody by to his house to see if he's okay. I I suppose.

[01:18:32]CK says, CK Mama says, "The epic music playing in the background while they dramatically present blurry stuff, star photos as if it's better than anything NASA can produce." Of course, I mean, this this uh sea star, how much is this sea star compared to the the binoculars that Mikey bought?

[01:18:52]That's that's what I'd love to hear. Um, Real Harold says, "Please prove to us you are not Red's rhetoric." Yeah, that RG the artist has has asserted that Reds and I are the same person. Even though we've been on the same stream, we've talked over each other. We uh we have dramatically different voices. It's I don't know. I mean, maybe we don't.

[01:19:18]To me, we have dramatically different voices. Um he has I mean, his his voice drops panties. Mine doesn't. So, I mean, how how could you even compare? You can't.

[01:19:30]Um, all right.

[01:19:33]Do we have pricing? I'm just looking for pricing on the sea star that Eric Burns has.

[01:19:40]Uh, uh, uh, oh, Professor Phil Bell, are you here?

[01:19:47]Here he is. PT Tony, I'm so late.

[01:19:51]Getting ready for some more surgery tomorrow morning. And then Professor Phil Bell and then uh PC Tony says all the best for that. I'm actually in emergency now. What? What is going on?

[01:20:02]Tony, are you okay? I hope you're well.

[01:20:05]Um it's never fun. Even if it even if it's not you, it's never fun in the ER, right? Like they triage, right? They they take the most important stuff first. And if you're like, "Oh, you know, I'm just sitting here with, you know, something." They're like, "Yeah, have a seat in the in the in the room there. We'll get you in three, four hours."

[01:20:27]Uh, uh, Rogosaurus, is that it? Is that what how I say it?

[01:20:35]Rogosaurus says, "Thank you for your cander. I enjoy you."

[01:20:40]Thank you very much for enjoying my cander. I guess I appreciate that. Okay, let me check here. See what did we get any pricing on the sea star? Ah, PhD Tony fell downstairs and twisted his ankle. I hope you're okay.

[01:21:00]Um, Roger Shoemaker, make tune laugh and he'll mod you.

[01:21:10]Uh, yeah.

[01:21:16]Okay.

[01:21:20]checking here.

[01:21:22]All right, here we go. Um, so last week I was gonna on Thursday debate solely from Tik Tok and uh he could not um he had a scheduled challenge and it's a good thing because I also then wound up having a scheduled challenge um on that Thursday. So this coming Thursday, it's been rescheduled 9:00 p.m. Central time. We each are going to be presenting three topics. We have shared the topics with each other. Um, so that's cool. I like this kind of debate. Historically, when this has happened, the flat-earthers have bailed last minute. So, I hope that doesn't happen. Um in fact some of them have have uh requested what is what happens in actual like competitive debates like you don't just send your topic but you like you send your notes and I've done that with people before and every time I've exchanged notes I don't I won't say every time I I maybe every time the flatearther has has uh has skipped out and said, "Nope." Cuz they looked at it like, "Oh, I can't I can't actually I can't do anything. I can't run." Um, so Calder says, "What cast likes debating that idiot?"

[01:22:53]Yeah. Anyway, it'll be a a a structured debate. Um, so yeah, Jiren is is moderating, so there won't be an opportunity for any either side to just overt talk. Jiren will jump in and he's the best moderator I've ever seen. Um, you know, Modern Day Debate has a bigger channel than than a lot, right? It's a debate channel, but but the the moderation there is pretty sloppy. I think it's and the format is just open opening opening and then discussion. That's it. Like, which is really what we're having.

[01:23:29]But I don't like that.

[01:23:32]And I think Lincoln Douglas style is a bit I don't think it would work on YouTube to go Lincoln Douglas style. So anyway, Bruce Wayne says, "I got in trouble the other day for telling a joke. I was told that I had crossed the punchline."

[01:23:53]Uh, all right.

[01:23:56]So anyway, um, that's what I got. That's it for today.

[01:24:02]Um, I'm uh it's a short one and sometimes a short ones what's what's good. So, I'll probably I might just put the You're always free to mirror my book reviews and almost everything. I'm not going to complain. Um, uh, so you can if if you're getting a collection of book reviews on your channel, then get get all of them. Publish them all. Uh, but I probably will uh post just the review portion of it on um on my other channel there. So, let's see here. We got uh Unforticated says Soleie is a filibro. He thinks he's a philosopher. Of course he is. They all They all do. They all do. It's It's adorable.

[01:24:48]So, anyway, people, thank you very much for joining. Um, I'm gonna I'm gonna call it a night early tonight. I got I got so much I got a lot to do and uh you know I do with with the the the virus that's been kicking around and the flatties are like not again.

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[01:25:50]Hear his fragile song helping the shadows. Help him find where he belongs.

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