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Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
#11
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
You can't fix stupid!
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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#12
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 1:32 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Doesn't hurt to have more people debunking this nonsense I suppose.

Professor Dave has excellent videos on the subject.



Indeed
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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#13
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 11:30 am)The Valkyrie Wrote: If the world was flat cats would have knocked everything off by now.

Theory disproved.

Moving on.
Indeed 


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"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

[Image: Canada_Flag.jpg?v=1646203843]



 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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#14
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 4:03 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Most of the faithful won't believe anything anyway. You have to speak to the uncertain, the fence sitters. Save a few if you can.

If they climbed that fence high enough to sit atop it in the first place, then they would drag down the average IQ here if they then came down on our side.
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#15
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 4:09 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: You can't fix stupid!

Hard to get parts. Arrgghh
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#16
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 2:35 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Take the morons out to sea. Ships approaching your ship will show their masts first and then the rest of the ship gradually rises over the horizon. If that's an optical illusion the ship's radar is deluded as well, because the radar signature gets larger as more hull appears.




Eratosthenes correctly calculated the circumference of the spherical earth by comparing the length of noon time shadow at two different locations.

One could just as easily have shown this is not cause by a tiny sun sitting over one spot point on a flat earth, but rather by an earth that curves away from a sun,  by comparing the length of moon time shadow at three different locations on a meridian.

Modern idiots with access to GPS are apparently too stupid and lazy to do a simple observation that could have been done at little cost 2000 years ago. 
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#17
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 6:09 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(March 29, 2023 at 4:09 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: You can't fix stupid!

Hard to get parts.  Arrgghh


Go look in any intellectual junk yard called a megachurch.
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#18
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
Does an empty space have parts?  [Image: thinks.gif]
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#19
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
(March 29, 2023 at 6:23 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Does an empty space have parts?  [Image: thinks.gif]

There is vacuum energy.


But unfortunately thermal dynamics says it is impossible to make any use of it,  which may explain a lot of things.
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#20
RE: Refuting the Flat-Earth theory
Someone at work believes the earth is flat. Granted, she's a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist who actually believes all the theories. And trying to get her to see reason just doesn't work. Her main reason that we've never been to space is that nothing can bypass what she refers to as the firmament.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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