This is one of the funniest threads ever on here. But seriously, deep down inside, don't we all know that the world is round and otherkin exist?
This is one of the funniest threads ever on here. But seriously, deep down inside, don't we all know that the world is round and otherkin exist?
Star wrote:
The world is a flat circle
It is a round circle.
The end in all directions is the circumference we call Antarctica.
only in the sense that Antarctica is at the bottom so that gravity pulls everything toward it, including the all the water and air and the ships and planes in them. You seem to be flying in a straight line but are actually spiraling southward.
But the map shows how you can get to Sydney... by tracking the right latitude line.
If you try this you will drift off course, end up south of Australia and only Antarctica will save you from falling into the cold depths of outer space. Only an expert navigator can safely travel in the southern hemisphere, that's why it was the last part of the Earth to be explored.
If Antarctica weren't frozen - indeed if it is melted by global warming - there will be nothing to stop all the water from draining away and destroying all life on Earth. Just to show how dangerous and seditious all this flat-earth nonsense is.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Just to show how dangerous and seditious all this flat-earth nonsense is.
Haha, and it makes you wonder if the MH370 pilots were flat-earthers, trying to get to the edge of the world.
Hello, Legit Question!
A simple solution to the question of whether the Earth is ball shaped or flat shaped was proposed and demonstrated by Colonel Friedrich Kraus von Zillergut who was in a field artillery unit in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I.
His method (and it will sound rather bizarre until you actually try it) was to lay out a straight section of as close to 400 meters as possible, then place a rounded (the object does not have to be perfectly round; von Zillergut used a tomato (some say an apple)) on your head. Walk along the laid out line while keeping your head as still as possible - when you get to the end of the line, note the position of the object on your head by a pencil marking. Now walk along the line in the other direction. At the end, again mark the position of the tomato, or whatever you are using. Compare the two measurements. The result will be definitive.
No, the flat earthers have given way to supporters of the "flat universe theory", by which everything is explicable in material terms by the laws of chemistry and physics, with no irreducible information.
It appears there's one that isn't a troll:
Rapper B.o.B. Claims That Earth Is Flat, Sparks Rap Battle With Neil deGrasse Tyson
Legit question wrote:
During the Apollo 11 Post-Flight Press Conference. Neil Armstrong said that they were not able to see the stars with the naked eye from the surface of the moon, to which Michael Collins looked at him and said you don't remember seeing any? (even though he was allegedly on the command module in orbit and not on the moon?s surface, which was strange). Oddly, in the Apollo 11 Press Conference transcript, Collins? statement was attributed to Buzz Aldrin, perhaps in an attempt to cover for his slip up? Did Armstrong go off script?
However, any professional astronomer will tell you that one can see stars from the surface of the moon much more vividly than from the earth, due to the moon's lack of atmosphere. Even Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com stated this in a radio debate with Joe Rogan about the moon hoax. This is a huge glaring discrepancy in direct contradiction to what the Apollo 11 astronauts claimed, and has never been resolved. Perhaps it was a huge screw up by Armstrong and Collins during the press conference. Even NASA's chief public defenders such as Phil Plait are at a loss to explain it.
What's more, Michael Collins later contradicted himself about not seeing the stars in his book "Carrying the Fire". On page 221, he wrote:
"My God, the stars are everywhere: above me on all sides, even below me somewhat, down there next to that obscure horizon. The stars are bright and they are steady. Of course I know that a star's twinkle is created by the atmosphere, and I have seen twinkle-less stars before in a planetarium, but this is different, this is no simulation, this is the best view of the universe that a human ever had." Michael Collins, Carrying the Fire, pg. 221
It would seem that the astronauts cannot make up their minds about whether they saw stars from the moon or not. Very suspicious, no doubt.
MICHAEL COLLINS WAS NOT ON THE MOON YOU MORON! HE DID NOT CONTRADICT HIMSELF AT ALL.
Metric Miler wrote:
http://www.fossweb.com/delegate/ssi-foss-ucm/Contribution%20Folders/FOSS/multimedia/Planetary_Science/binders/images/fullsize/iss007e10807.jpg
I have seen better CGI in films.
On behalf of NASA, I would like to congratulate "Legit question" for finally uncovering the secret that we have kept hidden from him his entire life (and believe me, it has not been easy). It is true that everything you have been taught in your life is not entirely correct. See, you have been an unwitting participant in a reality TV show. The rest of the world has watched your every move since birth. We'd keep up the charade, but frankly viewership is at an all time low and we can no longer attract sponsors. At the latest check, there were less than 5 households tuned into the live feeds on a regular basis (and that include the rapper BOB). Apparently, most people have lost interest in watching a person spend their days blogging on letsrun.com.
As of this moment, you are free to roam the earth and, yes, it really is a globe. You'll see that once you leave the soundstage. Don't forget to thank all the actors who pretended to be your family and friends during this show.
We hope you enjoy the rest of your life.
OK, everyone, we can stop pretending now. Somebody call Putin and tell him he can post the real pictures from the space station now.
This is up there with the D III girls partying thread, an all timer. Nicely done.
Can someone please refute what this guy is saying? I don't really have the scientific knowledge to go it, but there has to be someone in this forum that can.
Smarter than me wrote:
Can someone please refute what this guy is saying? I don't really have the scientific knowledge to go it, but there has to be someone in this forum that can.
It doesn't matter. Anything that contradicts what he is saying is either your mind playing tricks on you - things disappearing over the horizon, seeing farther from higher up, seeing a curvature of the horizon... or fraud perpetuated by the vast global conspiracy - photos from high altitude or space, planes flying around the world, surveying adjustments for curvature...
He's impervious to science.
Which is one of the things that makes this thread so awesome. it's fascinating to observe.
The New York City skyline is clearly visible from Harriman State Park’s Bear Mountain 60 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, viewing from Bear Mountain’s 1,283 foot summit, the Pythagorean Theorem determining distance to the horizon being 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet, the NYC skyline should be invisible behind 170 feet of curved Earth.
Legit question wrote:
Apollo 11 was the greatest feat of mankind, we walked on the moon! Note the odd behavior of our heroes. The astronauts looked guilty, sad and reluctant during Post-Flight Press Conference
During the Apollo 11 Post-Flight Press Conference, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, all look uncomfortable with sad reluctant looks on their faces, as if they had been forced to do something against their will. Armstrong especially looked like he wanted to cry deep down. Watch his face during his introductory statements at the beginning of it.
It was very odd for three people who just survived the trip of their lives being the first ever to step on the moon. In that position, I would have been ecstatic, wouldn't you? Yet they were anything but. They act as though they were being forced to lie and go along with a hoax under enormous threat and pressure against their will. Something is definitely not right about their demeanor. It just doesn?t make sense.
You can see this for yourself. Why the guilty expressions?
http://www.american-buddha.com/apollo11.15.jpghttp://youtu.be/9tjCP3myofE
these guys look happy. Are they all liars too?
https://www.google.com/search?q=space+shuttle+pilots&biw=1455&bih=985&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwi8z8mm-szKAhXCLmMKHZFOCpoQsAQIMQLegit question wrote:
The New York City skyline is clearly visible from Harriman State Park’s Bear Mountain 60 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, viewing from Bear Mountain’s 1,283 foot summit, the Pythagorean Theorem determining distance to the horizon being 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet, the NYC skyline should be invisible behind 170 feet of curved Earth.
Ya, if the earth was a sphere, the only way you could see the skyline from there is if the NYC skyline were actually above the earth's surface.
Again, I love this thread so much.
Legit question wrote:
The New York City skyline is clearly visible from Harriman State Park’s Bear Mountain 60 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, viewing from Bear Mountain’s 1,283 foot summit, the Pythagorean Theorem determining distance to the horizon being 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet, the NYC skyline should be invisible behind 170 feet of curved Earth.
Refraction.
not so much wrote:
Legit question wrote:The New York City skyline is clearly visible from Harriman State Park’s Bear Mountain 60 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, viewing from Bear Mountain’s 1,283 foot summit, the Pythagorean Theorem determining distance to the horizon being 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet, the NYC skyline should be invisible behind 170 feet of curved Earth.
Ya, if the earth was a sphere, the only way you could see the skyline from there is if the NYC skyline were actually above the earth's surface.
Again, I love this thread so much.
Wrong, do the math.
as already noted wrote:
Legit question wrote:The New York City skyline is clearly visible from Harriman State Park’s Bear Mountain 60 miles away. If Earth were a ball 25,000 miles in circumference, viewing from Bear Mountain’s 1,283 foot summit, the Pythagorean Theorem determining distance to the horizon being 1.23 times the square root of the height in feet, the NYC skyline should be invisible behind 170 feet of curved Earth.
Refraction.
No telescope, wrong.
A dumb engineer wrote:
as already noted wrote:Refraction.
No telescope, wrong.
No telescope necessary.
