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RE: The shape of Earth
July 28, 2022 at 4:21 pm
(July 28, 2022 at 2:31 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: How can this still be an argument? Boggles the mind.
Well if you're h311inac311 and your brain resembles this
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It starts to make sense.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 28, 2022 at 4:47 pm
(July 28, 2022 at 2:31 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: How can this still be an argument? Boggles the mind.
Because people are taught to take ancient fairytale texts for granted.
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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RE: The shape of Earth
July 28, 2022 at 6:22 pm
(July 28, 2022 at 9:55 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: (July 26, 2022 at 7:51 am)h311inac311 Wrote: My favorite is zooming in on those little underwater disco-balls you guys call "stars" that hover over our heads at night. I'm sure you'll be surprised when you see one for the first time as they look nothing like their CGI counter parts.
I think this comment is proof of trolling. No-one is this stupid.
These are not mutually exclusive propositions. He could both be trolling and really this stupid.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 28, 2022 at 10:20 pm
(July 19, 2022 at 11:07 am)h311inac311 Wrote: (July 19, 2022 at 11:06 am)Orbit Wrote: As we see from space, it is an oblate spheroid. Why do you ask?
Really? who told you that?
Who is the observer and how high are they?
Pictures were taken of earth from the moon. America had landed there 6 times. Apollo 17 being the last human landing in the program. Probes from other nations have since followed, but no human landings from other countries. The observers were the men who set foot on the moon and took pictures of earth while there. 24 astronauts total orbited the moon, 12 those astronauts set foot on the moon. Between Apollo 11 in 69 and Apollo 17 in 72.
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-man...o-the-moon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mi...he%20Earth.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 4:24 am
Contrary to common beliefs, and foolish conspiracy theories, the Earth is actually a truncated dodecahedron.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 8:23 am
(July 29, 2022 at 4:24 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Contrary to common beliefs, and foolish conspiracy theories, the Earth is actually a truncated dodecahedron.
So, basically you're saying it's flat, right?
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 8:29 am
(July 29, 2022 at 8:23 am)Angrboda Wrote: (July 29, 2022 at 4:24 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Contrary to common beliefs, and foolish conspiracy theories, the Earth is actually a truncated dodecahedron.
So, basically you're saying it's flat, right?
It has flat bits.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 9:26 am
(July 28, 2022 at 10:00 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (July 28, 2022 at 9:55 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: I think this comment is proof of trolling. No-one is this stupid.
The surface of Betelgeuse has been photographed, but I have to ask - what am I supposed to see when I look at one through my telescopes? I have been an amateur astronomer for 45 years, and have some nice instruments. Enlighten me.
Is he getting his tiny brain confused when he sees difraction spikes??
Or maybe what they look like when slightly out of focus?
Bad optics?
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 5:32 pm
(July 29, 2022 at 4:24 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Contrary to common beliefs, and foolish conspiracy theories, the Earth is actually a truncated dodecahedron.
Oh so that's why I keep stumbling and stubbing my toes then? I told youse all it weren't because I were an accident prone klutz.
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RE: The shape of Earth
July 29, 2022 at 11:58 pm
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(July 29, 2022 at 4:24 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: Contrary to common beliefs, and foolish conspiracy theories, the Earth is actually a truncated dodecahedron.
many polyhedrons reduce to a sphere when sufficiently truncated.
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