Are "flat-earthers" an actual thing?

Amateur Surveyor wrote:

dumb engineer wrote:

okay, cool

Can you show me a picture from the top of Bear Mtn that shows the NYC skyline and the ocean behind it? If its flat, the ocean should stretch for miles behind the city.

Air is full of precipitation especially over the oceans, and especially at the lowest, densest layer of atmosphere it is NOT transparent. Picture the blurry haze over roads on hot, humid days. Even the best telescope will blur out long before you could see across an ocean.

You need to do that with a bigger tennis ball.

The existing laws of density and buoyancy perfectly explained the physics of falling objects long before Isaac Newton bestowed his theory of

“gravity” upon the world. It is a fact that objects placed in denser mediums rise up while objects placed in less dense mediums sink down.

To fit with the heliocentric model which has no up or down, Newton instead claimed objects are attracted to large masses and fall towards the center. Not a single experiment in history, however, has shown an object massive enough to, by virtue of its mass alone, cause other smaller masses to be attracted to it as Newton claims “gravity” does with Earth, the Sun, Moon, Stars and Planets.

Furthermore, there has also never been a single experiment in history showing an object massive enough to, by virtue of its mass alone, cause another smaller mass to orbit around it. The magic theory of gravity allows for oceans, buildings and people to remain forever stuck to the underside of a spinning ball while simultaneously causing objects like the Moon and satellites to remain locked in perpetual circular orbits around the Earth.

If these were both true then people should be able to jump up and start orbiting circles around the Earth, or the Moon should have long ago been sucked into the Earth. Neither of these theories have ever been experimentally verified and their alleged results are mutually exclusive.

Whoa, this guy took the troll handle I was using month's ago and is now using it to troll people about flat earth.... I'm touched..

Newton also theorized and it is commonly taught that the earth's ocean tides are caused by gravitational lunar attraction. If the moon is only 2165 miles in diameter and the earth 8,000 miles in diameter, however, using their own math and “law,” it follows that the Earth is 87 times more massive and

therefore the larger object should attract the smaller to it, and not the other way around.

If the Earth’s greater gravity is what keeps the Moon in orbit, it is impossible for the Moon’s lesser gravity to supersede the Earth’s gravity, especially at Earth’s sea-level, where its gravitational attraction would even further out-"trump" the Moon’s. And if the Moon’s gravity truly did supersede the Earth’s causing the tides to be drawn towards it, there should be nothing to stop them from continuing onwards and upwards towards their great attractor.

Is this the dumbest thread in the history of dumb threads?

After all, if you end up 10 miles off at your destination it's not the end of the world.

'Not the End of the World' I hope that was intentional.

The moon's gravity doesn't 'supersede' the earth's gravity. The moon's gravity basically just removes a little of the earth's gravity, causing water to pulled down SLIGHTLY less.

The idea that people and standing, ships are sailing, and planes are flying upside down on certain parts of Earth while others tilted at 90 degrees and all other impossible angles is complete absurdity.  The idea of a man digging a hole straight down to reach sky on the other side is ludicrous. Common sense tells us in nature there is an "up" or "down" unlike "everything is relative" rhetoric of the Newtonian paradigm.

Legit question wrote:

The idea that people and standing, ships are sailing, and planes are flying upside down on certain parts of Earth while others tilted at 90 degrees and all other impossible angles is complete absurdity.  The idea of a man digging a hole straight down to reach sky on the other side is ludicrous. Common sense tells us in nature there is an "up" or "down" unlike "everything is relative" rhetoric of the Newtonian paradigm.

Lol!

The turning of the Earth allows it to elude the effect of the gravity of the moon on its waters.

If the Earth suddenly stopped turning it would have the water drawn up into a huge mountain that would eventually go into orbit.

Legit question wrote:

The existing laws of density and buoyancy perfectly explained the physics of falling objects long before Isaac Newton bestowed his theory of

“gravity” upon the world. It is a fact that objects placed in denser mediums rise up while objects placed in less dense mediums sink down.

Why do denser objects sink "down" if there is no gravity?

Legit question wrote:

The idea that people and standing, ships are sailing, and planes are flying upside down on certain parts of Earth while others tilted at 90 degrees and all other impossible angles is complete absurdity.  The idea of a man digging a hole straight down to reach sky on the other side is ludicrous. Common sense tells us in nature there is an "up" or "down" unlike "everything is relative" rhetoric of the Newtonian paradigm.

Copying and pasting directly from this site. well done. You are a troll or a flat earth sheep. Or a troll-sheep hybrid.

Doubler wrote:

Legit question wrote:

The idea that people and standing, ships are sailing, and planes are flying upside down on certain parts of Earth while others tilted at 90 degrees and all other impossible angles is complete absurdity.  The idea of a man digging a hole straight down to reach sky on the other side is ludicrous. Common sense tells us in nature there is an "up" or "down" unlike "everything is relative" rhetoric of the Newtonian paradigm.

Copying and pasting directly from this site. well done. You are a troll or a flat earth sheep. Or a troll-sheep hybrid.

http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2015/08/200-proofs-earth-is-not-spinning-ball.html?m=1

We're all SUPPOSED to be trolling on this one but original material fer Chrissakes!

Planes flying on a spinning ball by Brian Mullen using physics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGE2-USFbwo

yiuygjg wrote:

Is this the dumbest thread in the history of dumb threads?

When people resort ad hominem attacks, it shows that they are unwilling to go after your hypothesis, and instead demand that you present your "credentials" which is another violation of debating a topic known as "appeal to authority".

Legit question wrote:

yiuygjg wrote:

Is this the dumbest thread in the history of dumb threads?

When people resort ad hominem attacks, it shows that they are unwilling to go after your hypothesis, and instead demand that you present your "credentials" which is another violation of debating a topic known as "appeal to authority".

Ok - here's 20 min of video of earth:

Here's a live feed:

Clearly showing it as NOT flat