Guy Proves Flat-Earthers Wrong In Best Way Possible

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mattstaff
Oct 20, 2018 9:00 PM EDT

This one is destined to set the internet (of flat-earther's) ablaze with controversy. 

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    Cheezburger Image 9177107200
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    Text - by UselessPickles The general setup: Basketball Plenty of light. Camera on tripod with macro lens (more details next photo) IR shutter remote to take pictures with- out shaking the camera.
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    Text - Method: Used full manual mode on the camera for manual focus control and consistent exposure. Tediously positioned the camera and the ball to get the "horizon" in focus at the maximum range of manual focus with the camera at full optical zoom with the macro lens adapter.
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    Text - Wait for all shaking to stop, take picture with remote, adjust manual focus, repeat many times to get several images cover- ing the full focus range available. Load all images into "Helicon Focus" software for "focus stacking" to produce a final image with a greater range of depth in focus.
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    Cheezburger Image 9177108224
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    Text - Equipment Details: Nikon P900 "superzoom" camera. 83x optical zoom, 2000mm focal length equiv- alent. Stack of step down rings to secure- ly/precisely mount the DCR-150 to the camera. 67mm-62mm, 62mm-55mm, 55mm-52mm, 52mm-43mm. The 52-43 ring is "backwards" - mounted in- side/under the rest of the stack so that the DCR-150 does not sit very far away from the camera's lens. 49mm lens hood.
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    Text - This is the original full image produced from "focus stacking" all the original photos. The section of the basketball's surface in this photo is about 6mm wide. I cropped this image for some additional "digital zoom" The final result. The cropped image of the basketball's "horizon" is probably about 4mm wide
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    Text - I used the zetetic method to examine whether a basketball is really a ball, or is it actually flat. Upon taking a closer look with a macro lens on my Nikon P900, I can only conclude that the surface of a basketball, while bumpy, does not appear to have any curvature. Therefore, basketballs are flat. Their roundness must be some kind of illusion caused by perspective and mirages.
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    Text - by UselessPickles I would like to clarify, that my photo does not prove the Earth is round. It only proves in an easy-to-understand way that the surface of a sphere can appear flat. It proves that the basis of all flat-earthers' beliefs (the horizon appears flat) is insufficient evidence to determine the shape of the earth
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