Live-stream webcams from around the world
Examining the time zones from around the world shown in this experiment will help to determine if the Earth is flat or if it is a sphere.
Locate a desk globe, a wall map, and a bright flashlight. Then find the approximate locations on the globe and on the map where the live-streams shown below are located.
Now, shine the flashlight on the globe or on the map.
Compare the results of your globe-versus-wall-map flashlight experiments. Do the light-of-day and the dark-of-night on the
globe match what you see in the live-stream webcams,
or does the
wall map more accurately reflect what you see in the live-stream webcams?
You will notice that the backgrounds around the live-stream videos on this page change colors as the day progresses, this has been added to roughly emulate the day and night of that location.
Do the backgrounds around the video frames roughly match the live-stream video feeds regarding their local time-of-day?
You can go online and do your own “live-stream” or “live-feed” search for your choice of webcams from anywhere around the world to get a view of that location’s current daylight intensity.
MAKE SURE IT’S A LIVE VIEW: Often, YouTube videos will indicate that they are "live", but are actually only
recorded live.
You can typically detect a true live-feed when the video does not stop or pause after you move the video’s progress indicator to the end.
Some webcam live-streams will occasionally pause and/or show a replay.
Also, live-stream cameras will often automatically adjust lighting sensitivity for better visibility during dark hours, which can make the night sky brighter than it is in reality.
Those who follow Globe Earth theory believe Earth to be a giant spinning ball floating around the Sun. This ball is believed to spin at a slight angle relative to the Sun.
One claimed Globe Earth proof of this phenomenon is the star “Polaris”, more commonly known as “The North Star”.
The reason Polaris is called “The North Star” is because it is believed to be directly over the Earth’s northern pole, or “The North Pole”.
Because Polaris, “The North Star”, is located above the northern pole of Earth, it doesn’t move much in the sky each day (only 0.65 degrees off of center),
and all of the other stars rotate around Polaris from an Earth perspective. The claimed rotation of the Earth is what makes the time zone changes that the Earth experiences on a daily basis.
For this you need to look up in the North sky the same amount of degrees as your latitude.
In the Midwest you will be looking up from the northern horizon roughly 40 degrees.
Find the Big Dipper as shown in the photo. However, the Big Dipper rotates once around The North Star each day. So, its rotational position around The North Star will vary hour by hour as well as month by month.
When you find the Big Dipper, follow the line on the picture to locate The North Star, Polaris.
Once you have located The North Star, set your camera up with The North Star in the center of the view finder or screen, and then take a picture about every 10 minutes or so for a couple hours.
Taking multiple pictures will give you an animated view of the rotation as you flip through the pictures.
If you have a DSLR camera, you can set the aperture to the highest F-stop and have the shutter stay open as long as possible.
If you take a single long exposure picture with a DSLR camera, it will look like the picture to the right.
Lesson 8 Summary - Your Results?
After viewing the live-stream webcams on this page, or others that you have found from around the world, which Earth model makes the most logical sense to you?
Does a Globe Earth better explain the season differences between Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the daylight and nighttime hours you saw in the live-stream webcams,
or does Flat Earth do a better job of explaining the apparent summer/winter daylight differences seen in Australia versus Japan?