Flerfers

Posted on November 16, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged flat earth believer, flerfbot, flerfers, Globe, local moon, local sun, oblate speroid, SphereLeave a comment

For some reason some people still believe in a flat earth theory. I try not to argue with them, but some times they come up with such deranged arguments I have to answer back!

Excuse this diatribe I replied with after reading several hundred words of what I called drivel. Perhaps I was too rude. I would like to talk to the correspondent in a balanced way, but I want to pull my hair out!

Here’s what I wrote : Sir you are not explaining science, but using psudo science. Unless I completely misunderstood your unsubstantiated arguments. For instance why is an oblate spheroidal earth unimaginable to you. Why, when planets are visible and are clearly globes, and rotate so you can see their full surfaces, can you not accept the earth is a globe too. If the sun was local it would diminish in size as it moved closer to the horizon. The same with the moon. And in an eclipse why doesn’t the local moon shrink and not completely cover the sun in some circumstances? Maybe your world view is different to mine, and we can agree to disagree, but I can find many more things that are worth talking about, like the state of the world today. I think flerfbots are just trying to distract from wars and politics.

Old Spode

Posted on August 14, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged Black and white, Globe, Life, Light, Photo, spode factory site, Stoke-upon-TrentLeave a comment

Old light and fitting at Spode factory site, taken 4? years ago when I still had my studio there. I like the fact that the photo looks black and white apart from the pale grey/browns on the globe shaped light shade.

I wish I could time travel, go back to when I could do things, climb stairs, move things around. I struggle just to get through my front door. I guess the thing to do is to get on with things the best I can. I’m stubborn, which means I don’t give in easily.

Ice wall?

Posted on March 23, 2025 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Circumference, Confused, Discworld, Facebook page, flat earthers, Globe, ice wall, Life, Sphere, Sun, Terry Pratchett, Thinking2 Comments

For some reason I’ve joined a Facebook page where people debate whether the Earth is flat or a sphere. In the last couple of weeks I’ve read some very odd speculations about how the Sun must be close to the earth and the ocean is held on the earth by an ice wall that is attached to it’s circumference.

I was interested because the author Terry Pratchett set his comic fantasy Discworld series on a similar structure. It sits atop four elephants which ride on the shell of the world turtle, the great a’tuin. To be honest his ideas are more sensible than the flat earthers!

It’s a funny and confusing page, although people do get into arguments. The scientific facts about the globe are repeated over and over again, but they are disputed and often completely contradicted by videos that are nonsensical, with descriptions that are very odd indeed.

Why do I read it? Because it makes more sense than what’s happening in the USA at the moment!

Warm Arctic?

Posted on February 26, 2025 Posted in Memories, UncategorizedTagged arguments, Flat earth, global warming, Globe, Life, north pole, South Pole, Summer, Time, Weather, WinterLeave a comment

I just read a post from a flat earther on a flat earth page asking why people can stand outside in the sunshine with just a tee shirt or hoodie on? I tried to answer.

Arctic and Antarctic summers happen at opposite ends of the year. In the North it’s around June/July and in the South it’s December /January. In the summers the temperature can rise well above zero, because in the summer months the sun doesn’t set (in the winter months it stays dark for several weeks), hence, yes people can wear hoodies and tee shirts. It’s getting warmer because of global warming and it means sea ice takes longer to form. In addition the temperature rises at the poles are happening more strongly than at other parts of the globe.

I hope this makes sense.

Arguments against a flat earth theory.

Posted on July 13, 2024 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Earth, Flat earth, Globe, reasoning, seasons, standard time, Sunrise, Sunset, Thinking, Time4 Comments

I keep seeing posts on Facebook about the earth being flat. So I thought for a few minutes and posted this…. . If the earth was flat the sun would set AT THE SAME TIME EVERYWHERE. There would be no time zones. New years eve would be celebrated at the same time everywhere. Clocks would all be set to the same time. If you live in a big country like America the sun would rise and set at the same time, so you wouldn’t need Eastern standard time and pacific time or whatever it’s called. THERE WOULD BE NO SEASONS, AND THE TEMPERATURE WOULD BE THE SAME ALL OVER THE WORLD. If the Earth is a globe and tipped you get seasons. If it’s a globe and not tipped, no seasons, flat earth? No seasons, no gradient in temperature. And the sun would rise and set at exactly the same time every day… Sorry rant over.

12 years ago

Posted on June 5, 2024 Posted in Fine Art, Sketching, UncategorizedTagged after Escher, Digital drawing, Drawing, Globe, Hand, Imagination, Reflection, View, Wacom tablet2 Comments

Drawn on my Wacom tablet in photoshop 12 years ago. Based on the Escher drawing. I think I was drawn to the idea of a hand holding a reflective ball. This was a real challenge and was mainly drawn from imagination, but I looked at my hand held up in this position to draw it accurately.

The room in the reflection is based on what was in front of me but with added curves to try and recreate the spherical feeling. The room had been ‘edited’ removing some of the clutter. The view is not what would have been reflected in a globe which was a wall behind me. Only my head and shoulders were truly imagined.

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 2023, Flat earth, Globe, Happy New Year, international date line, Life, New year, Night2 Comments

Because the world is a globe some people on the international date line will have celebrated New Years day about ten hours ago. It also makes sense that the world is round because it gives Santa twenty four hours of night to get round the world instead of twelve if the Earth was flat (think about it!)….

I want to wish you all a Very Happy New Year. May 2023 be better for you, better for your family and friends and better for the planet too. X

Stay safe and well. X

Homage to Escher

Posted on June 5, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Digital drawing, Escher, Facebook memory, Globe, Photoshop, Sketching, Ten years ago2 Comments

Digital drawing I did ten years ago in photoshop. Based on a self portrait by the artist Escher who did all those black and white drawings of interlocking /tessellations of birds and fish, or infinitely climbing or descending stairs. It was an interesting challenge to try and draw this from my imagination.

Sunrise, Sunset.

Posted on August 15, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Earth, Geography, Globe, Map, seasons, Sunrise, SunsetLeave a comment

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I’ve looked at maps all my life, but never noticed that it gets dark earlier in the South East in summer than in the North West. Of course I know the Earth is tipped at an angle, something like 22° and I know that at the equator day and night are about the same length and that sunrise and sunset are about 6pm. But I hadn’t noticed the angle that the terminator of day and night is at.

As we are on the Greenwich longitude line I assumed the shadow would run straight up and down the globe. But of course it can’t be if the Earth is tipped. That also explains why we have seasons in the North and South hemispheres.

Mallaband-Brown

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