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flat earhers
#31
RE: flat earhers
Photographic proof of a flat Earth:


[Image: anyone-else-catch-the-eclipse-today-v0-6...e171f24cb1]
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#32
RE: flat earhers
No such thing as gravity? go jump off the roof!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

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#33
RE: flat earhers
(June 4, 2024 at 5:18 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: No such thing as gravity?  go jump off the roof!

Well there might not be an actual force that makes things fall, maybe things just fall because they're supposed to.
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#34
RE: flat earhers
(June 4, 2024 at 6:22 pm)Ahriman Wrote:
(June 4, 2024 at 5:18 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: No such thing as gravity?  go jump off the roof!

Well there might not be an actual force that makes things fall, maybe things just fall because they're supposed to.

And maybe they fall due to the mutual attraction of bodies with mass. Maybe.

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#35
RE: flat earhers
(June 4, 2024 at 3:56 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: they believe that the Sun is like a projector, like a lightbulb with one of those cone hats on, so that it creates a light cone.

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This picture shows the Sun’s orbit in their model
https://stock.adobe.com/ca/images/flat-e.../355632244


A real believer in flat Earth made a model
https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2020/quotflateart.jpg

But that model does not include the Sun that is "a lightbulb with one of those cone hats on, so that it creates a light cone". It's a sphere.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#36
RE: flat earhers
(June 4, 2024 at 5:18 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: No such thing as gravity?  go jump off the roof!

Flat earthers claim that things fall to the ground because the Earth, Sun, Moon and such as accelerating upwards.
I don’t know, maybe there is some strings holding the Earth and pulling it upwards or there is a rocket below the flat Earth.

However, that doesn’t explain why gravity is not uniform on Earth.
If you have a scale for chemistry, one that has enough precision, the numbers that you get depends if you are at the Equator or closer to the North Pole or South Pole.
This is why such scales need to be calibrated for your location.

Also, a long time ago, I think it was NASA that had designed 2 satellites to map Earth’s gravity. The 2 satellites are in the same arbit. I think they are 100 m apart. As they orbit the Earth, they constantly measure the distance between them and this indicates variations in the gravity field.


Another technique is this
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n...-30976030/

“GOCE orbits the Earth at a mere 254.9 kilometers (158.4 miles) above the planet's surface. At that altitude, there is enough atmosphere that the satellite's orbit will quickly decay, so GOCE continuously fires an ion thruster with xenon gas to keep steady. GOCE carries 3 pairs of platinum blocks that can detect changes in gravity as small as 1 in 10 trillion. Data from November and December of 2009 were assembled into the colorful map above, known as the geoid.”



Another concept that I had heard, this was when the internet was new, I emailed a guy about his idea and he was emailing me.
His idea is that there is no gravity. Things fall down because of the cosmic background microwave radiation. This radiation pushes things to the ground.
The year must have been 1997 or 1998.
I told him his concept is broken. It would mean that you can shield something from gravity. Put an object under a table and it won’t experience gravity. Or go into a cavern or go into a building.
Also, there is the wave property of light. Light won’t interact with objects smaller than their wavelength. So, objects that are 1 m in size and less won’t be pushed by the CBMR.
Also, the intensity of CBMR is pretty low.
After that, he stopped responding to me.
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#37
RE: flat earhers
Flat Earthers?

Round them all up.

Put them in a field.

And burn the bastards!

And that's Pacifist Beccs talking.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#38
RE: flat earhers
If we've been accelerating at 1g for all of time, we would have hit the speed limit long ago.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#39
RE: flat earhers
The science is in.

[Image: Dub.jpg]
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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#40
RE: flat earhers
(June 8, 2024 at 7:57 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: The science is in.

[Image: Dub.jpg]

He didn't try it with a ball the same mass as the Earth!
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!

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