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Globebusters Iru Landucci - ArFlat 1.0 Balloon Launch video shows Earth curvature

Update: January 22,  2019

Globebusters Iru Landucci - ArFlat 1.0 Balloon Launch video shows Earth curvature

On January 19th the Barcelona "Encounter Flat Earth" conference was held in Spain.  About 272 people attended the event (by invitation only, to established flat Earth supporters).  The ticket price was € 12 per person.  Many flat Earth presentations were given.  

Iru Landucci used the conference platform to present and discuss publically for the first time, the results of his ArFlat Balloon Launch.

In the balloon flight video Earth curvature is apparent (see OUR EXCLUSIVE analysis photos below).  

ArFlat Balloon was successfully launched on October 6, 2018.  Over $3,000 was collected in donations for this project.  But during the ascent communication with the balloon was lost at an altitude of 20-km.  The camera payload was recovered a few weeks later. 


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Directo: Analisis de la Recuperación de la Carga // Video
Direct: Analysis of Load Recovery // Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSEZACBbOXk&t=6286s


Other than greater than 20-km up, Iru did not mention the final actual elevation of the balloon at the point where these images were taken.


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Note: We thank our inside contact for analyzing the following still shots from the video, and inserting a straight tangent line for reference.

"My procedure to see if there was curvature or not in the video was the following: I downloaded the full video and opened it with the Photoshop program and look for a moment when at first sight there seemed to be curvature, I lowered the exposure to be able to see more clarity where the earth begins and I actually see that in that frame where the image seems stable and centered there is curvature, then I add the line of reference line and arrows to indicate the curvature."

Our exclusive analysis of several shots in that video are here now revealed..


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"Some people at the conference noticed that the video had parts that could be seen curvature.  Iru Landucci told them the excuse that this was due to the radial distortion."

But based on the following definition (radial distortion) the curvature in the video was not caused by that effect.     

"Radial distortion is most visible when taking pictures of vertical structures (not horizontal) having straight lines which then appear curved. This kind of distortion appears most visibly when the widest angle (shortest focal length) is selected either with a fixed or a zoom lens."


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Conclusion:
Even though the camera is spinning and the video footage presented is short, still frame analysis verifies that curvature is indeed present.
It would be nice to have more video footage for evaluation.
Also, since the camera is not in our possession, we don't know the exact (zoom / FOV) camera setting that were used.  

Notes on the GoPro Hero5 that they used...


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Using the flat /globe Earth calculator provided by Walter Brislins, here is what one should expect to see at the 20 km altitude.
At that altitude, for a field of view of 180 degrees, a curvature of 4.54 degrees would be observable.  Not much, but still present.


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At the conference, here Iru Landucci is trying to explain away the slight observed curvature... 


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Now for comparison, here below is the amount of flat Earth curvature at 20-km, as viewed with a wide angle 120-degree lens.
The globe Earth curvature for the same is 4.543-degrees.
Flat Earth curvature is much less.


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The ArFlat-1 box would have appeared, by planoexistencial
http://www.planoexistencial.com/notas/terraplanismo/aparecio-la-caja-del-arflat-1/?fbclid=IwAR29uCLDEuBdJjU4m5HMovallxPS-yShRyxaSBmWjlDeg4thqKYzT_Q4Bo0

Our prior article on the ArFlat Balloon project.  Great background information so well worth reading.
https://flatearthlunacy.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/998-iru-landucci-globebusters-flat-earth-september-2018-arflat-balloon-launch-fail

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Published on – January 22, 2019

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