Flat-Earthers cite solar eclipse as proof why Earth must be flat.

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/shadows-dont-do-that-flat-earthers-offer-absurd-explanations-for-why-the-eclipse-proves-them-right/

“In a traditional globe model,” Notopoulos continues, “the size of the shadow that gets the full eclipse (otherwise known as the ‘path of totality’) is small — much smaller than the size of the moon. Flat Earthers point out that this is seriously flawed — if the globe theory was true, then the shadow should be much, much bigger.”

Because Flat Earthers believe that the sun and the moon are equally-sized objects at equal distances away from the (flat) Earth, the apparent scientific inconsistencies in shadow size provide further that the Earth.

Let's see if I get this correctly:
The Flat-Earth-theory of the solar eclipse is based on Sun and Moon being equal size and equal distance to Earth. According to them, the shadow during the solar eclipse should be much bigger than what we measure. So, the prediction of THEIR theory is incorrect, which means that the OTHER theory must be wrong.

“All those news stories telling you not to look at directly at the eclipse?” an A.V. Club article on Flat Earth reactions to the eclipse reports. “Those aren’t so you won’t go blind by gazing directly into the sun, but so you won’t see what’s really going on in the sky this afternoon.”



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I watched the video on
http://www.avclub.com/article/seriously-how-are-flat-earthers-dealing-eclipse-th-259708
where a Flat-Earther explains what's wrong with "mainstream-astronomy".

I had a strong urge to scream at the monitor:
- "Repeat your shadowing-experiment with something small like a matchstick or your fingertip and you will see that you are wrong!"
- "The Moon sometimes looks red because of Rayleigh-scattering of photons!"