Walter Bislin
| Real name | Walter Bislin |
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| Other names | wabis |
| Location | Switzerland |
| Accounts | YouTube |
| Known for | Flat Earth Model being misused |
| NASA salary | infinite |
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Walter Bislin is a glober from Switzerland and is responsible for a lot of flat Earth tears. He is known for providing resources and models that are useful in debunking flat Earth arguments. However, he does not debate himself and does not have a social media presence. His blog has an extensive collection of his interests, some of which is not concerning flat Earth. Wolfie 6020 has left comments under some of his models[1]. StingRay has met Walter Bislin for a discussion IRL.
Background
Walter is an engineer with a masters degree.[2] His educational background also includes software and programming. From his blog:
I am a retired (since 2024) graduate engineer in electronics, measurement and control technology (EMRT) and have a master's degree in systems engineering. I worked as a Senjor Software Development Engineer and as such developed basic software, graphics subsystems and programming languages.
Flat Earth debunking resources
Walter has developed several great web-based resources and models on flat earth topics. Most are intuitive and easy to use and can debunk flat earth talking points.
Flat Earth dome model
One of Walter's well-known models is his "Flat Earth dome model". He created it to demonstrate the illogical nature of flat earth. The model uses an AE type map with a circling sun overhead. Known observations of the Sun will not work with a flat map, so in order to make the model work he had to make light rays from the sun and stars bend and curve, sometimes at sharp curves close to 90 degrees. Making light rays sometimes go straight and sometimes curve to match known observations was the only way for the flat earth model to work. While irregular bending light rays were needed for the flat Earth, straight lines matched globe predictions. A disclaimer at the top of his page explains:
It can do this only by doing all calculations in the Heliocentric Model and then projecting the results onto the Flat Earth Model and bending light in a physically impossible manner.
Some flat earthers misunderstood the point of the model, and have lauded it believing it supports flat earth. Walter had to add a note on his page telling flerfs to stop saying his model is supportive of flat earth. Witsit, Shane St. Pierre, and Steven Alonzo were some of the flat earthers who cited the model. Shane and Steven also copied the code from the model to create their own versions, after which Shane earned the nickname "Shame St. Plagiare". Space Audits would later create another model based on it.
Advanced Earth curvature calculator
Walter has built probably the ultimate in Earth curve calculators. You can find it here
Curve overlay tool
This tool simulates the view of the earths surface from any height and any camera zoom level. You can overlay this simulation on an image you upload and can then compare the horizon you see in the real life image to the predicted horizon based on the mathematics of the globe.
Refraction simulator
This program renders scenes as seen on atmospheric conditions you can provide. It is an accurate simulation of atmospheric refraction for both globe Earth and flat Earth. The simulation predicts what we can expect to observe in reality. Available here.
Distance calculator
Walter has created a calculator to find the shortest distance between two places along the surface of both a flat and globe Earth. In the absence of any flat earther confidently putting forth an accurate map, Walter opted for the AE map for the flat Earth calculation. The calculator takes the latitude and longitude of two points (P1 and P2) as an input, and the distance between P1 and P2 as an output. It allows the user to customise the radius of the globe and the North Pole-equator distance for flat Earth, and can output in units of km, nmi or mi. App link
Flat Earth flight planner
An extension of the distance calculator, Walter's flight plan tool offers flat earthers a way to plan flights over flat Earth. Anyone that uses it will see the flight plans do not correspond with the actual routes flown in real life. Some regularly flown flights should be impossible due to the distances and times predicted by flat Earth. Walter added the note:
This App is an answer to the Flat Earth Challenge - 9 months later Flat Earth Airlines is still grounded from the pilot Wolfie6020 to Flat Earthers, to produce a Flight Plan based on the Flat Earth model, so it can be compared to real Flight Plans. Since after 9 months no Flat Earther was able or willing to provide such a Flight Plan, I decided to create this App. Just for fun.
Resource links
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage | Root page for his website and blog | Link |
| Flat Earth Dome Model | Easy to use model attempting to map real world data onto a flat earth map. | Link |
| Advanced Earth Curvature Calculator | A curve calculator that uses refraction and not just drop from a tangent. It can be used to determine if objects (such as buildings or mountains) should be able to be seen and can debunk many flat earth claims that "we see too far". | Link |
| How Airplanes follow the Curvature of the Earth, Physics Simulation | A great simulator that demonstrates how a plane flies around the globe without having to "dip the nose". More accurate than Angels of Light deceptive flight simulator. | Link |