The final intractable problem for the Flat Earthers...24-hour sun at the South Pole.

I've been taking a hard, hard look at the claims of the Flat Earthers on the internet the past couple of weeks, and I am amazed, really, at the case they've built for the flat Earth model. They have resolved to my satisfaction, a whole host of issues that can be explained (EXTREMELY STRANGELY AND ODDLY) equally well with both the globe and the flat Earth models.

Due to all the KNOWN and PROVEN NASA fakery, I'm even willing--until we get indisputable evidence otherwise--to concede that we currently have no slam-dunk proof of the Earth's curvature, which is the one issue I really had a problem with accepting at the start of my personal voyage of discovery. I can also say, as a Christian, that the Bible even leans towards some model that is NOT in line with currently accepted astronomical and cosmological theorems, especially regarding the possible existence of a hard or semi-hard "firmament" or barrier, that prevents space flight beyond low-Earth orbit.

All that having been said, in my mind, the argument really boils down to whether or not Antarctica is a continent or a ring around a flat Earth. I've never been to the South Pole, or anywhere near it (or even south of the equator) so I can't know for sure, but I do know that if The Antarctic has 24-hours of sunlight during the Summer, the same way that the Arctic does during their summer, that the Continent MUST BE a single solid, sea-surrounded land mass at the bottom of a globe, and NOT a ring of ice around a flat Earth.

The standard claim by the scientific community is that, indeed, Antarctica does have a 24-hour sun. See this video, for example:

If that is not faked, and it is indeed located anywhere on the great Southern land mass (for lack of a neutral term) then we live on a globe.

Can we tell for sure that it's in Antarctica. No.

Can we tell for sure that it is in Antarctica but faked. Maybe. I don't have the technology to do that analysis, but it sure looks real enough.

There are other videos that purport to show the 24-hour sun in Antarctica that are OPENLY CLAIMING to be showing the 24-hour sun, but that can be demonstrated to have flaws. Here are a couple examples:

(Warning this one is long and a bit repetitive.)

So, we have pretty good evidence that the 24-hour sun has been either faked or, poorly filmed, by authorities. BUT, we also do not have PROOF that the sun at 70+-degrees south latitude DOES NOT eventually go into a full-24-hour light cycle, ala the KNOWN cycle at the Northern latitudes.

To me, at this point in my search, I am going to default back to globular Earth--which does NOT mean that I buy the "millions of light years, and/or billions of years crap" of standard astronomy, geophysics, astrodynamics, quantum mechanics, and cosmology either.

Try this one on for size, boys and girls!

WHAT IF THE EARTH IS A SPINNING BALL (or a stationary ball, for that matter) with a firmament, and the Sun and stars (as Genesis Chapter one clearly states ) are IN THIS FIRMAMENT zone, neither above or below it.

Here is the Biblical reference:

"14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so."

It says those lights are IN the firmament, not ABOVE OR BELOW it. It says "IN" more than once, and in varying translations as well.

Food for thought, aye?

AND...I haven't decided on the geocentric v. heliocentric thing yet either. No need to really. Sufficient unto today are the current quandaries, for me anyway.

To me, BY FAR, the most fascinating thing about the whole debate is how many GOOD ANSWERS the Flat Earthers have for arguments that should be cut and dried, and not this intractable, 6000-year since the creation. Their long suit, IMHO, are the Southern hemisphere plane routes, disappearing GPS-tracking of southern flights, fake NASA images, and lack of proof of an expected 12,000-16,000 nautical-mile circumnavigation of Antarctica-- with all the known historical circumnavigations known to have been much, much longer than that.

This is by no means the end of the search for me. I am not at the end of the road, but this 24-hour sun thing needs to be PROVEN a hoax for me to flip 58-years of embedded belief, and I haven't been able to find proof of a hoax.

Carry on, fellow truth seekers. I ENCOURAGE SKEPTICISM about everything TPTB tell us, for sure, and have enormous respect for people who are even willing to question such long and closely-held beliefs as the shape of the Earth.