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geologylover

plate tectonics?
« on: November 06, 2006, 03:06:58 PM »
Alright, a few questions for you all...
Explain to me, please, how the theory of plate tectonics fits in with the whole "the world is like a pancake" bit...there is a substantial bit of proof that plate tectonics is real, I can go into that if need be...I don't understand, how it would all work out, with continents moving all over the place and seafloor being constantly created and destroyed, if the Earth were indeed flat and a circle. Also, why, when rifting occurs, are there always three rift arms? It is necessary for a spherical Earth to have three rift arms in places where plates or continents are breaking apart, but it would not be the case for a flat earth.
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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2006, 03:09:26 PM »
yak yak yak yak yak. :roll:
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GeoGuy

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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2006, 03:09:41 PM »
Plate tectonics on a FE work in basically the same way they do on a RE.

*Edit* Note my crafty switchage of wording here
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geologylover

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« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2006, 03:16:53 PM »
but why doesn't rifting occur in a single line in your theory, rather than with three rift arms? there have to be three rift arms if the earth is a sphere, try it yourself - take a ping pong ball, and make a dent in it - you see three indents coming from the spot you dented. but try the same thing with a paper plate - you just get a straight crease. why don't we see the same thing on a earth, if it is flat?
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2006, 03:53:48 PM »
Quote from: "geologylover"
but why doesn't rifting occur in a single line in your theory, rather than with three rift arms? there have to be three rift arms if the earth is a sphere, try it yourself - take a ping pong ball, and make a dent in it - you see three indents coming from the spot you dented. but try the same thing with a paper plate - you just get a straight crease. why don't we see the same thing on a earth, if it is flat?


He has a point.  Someone should be along to hand-wave it away soon.
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« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2006, 04:38:46 PM »
Quote from: "BOGWarrior89"
Quote from: "geologylover"
but why doesn't rifting occur in a single line in your theory, rather than with three rift arms? there have to be three rift arms if the earth is a sphere, try it yourself - take a ping pong ball, and make a dent in it - you see three indents coming from the spot you dented. but try the same thing with a paper plate - you just get a straight crease. why don't we see the same thing on a earth, if it is flat?


He has a point.  Someone should be along to hand-wave it away soon.


*waves hand* THE EARTH IS ROUND PEOPLE!

i rember one time kids streched there hands around the earth...
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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2006, 04:47:33 PM »
WATCH OUT!!!!! THOSE KIDS ARE GONNA FALL OFF THE ICE WALL!!!!!!!!
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hy are people so stupid? i guess years of satelite evidence can't prove that the earth is round? satelites are a conspiracy? yea that's why we have cell phones and xm radio.
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« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2006, 05:02:03 PM »
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WATCH OUT!!!!! THOSE KIDS ARE GONNA FALL OFF THE ICE WALL!!!!!!!!


lol.... :D
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geologylover

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« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2006, 08:03:24 PM »
actually, I'm not a he...but that doesn't matter much here ;)
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« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2006, 09:54:19 PM »
Quote from: "GeoGuy"
Plate tectonics on a FE work in basically the same way they do on a RE.

*Edit* Note my crafty switchage of wording here


Not quite. Under the current model, the plates can shift indefinitely, (there are no boudaries to the surface of a sphere). On Flat earth however, when a shift occurs at the edge, the plate would just fall off the earth. So If FE theory is correct, the earth has been destroyed by tectonic activity long ago.
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« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2006, 09:56:19 PM »
Subduction does not mean it's falling off the earth. :roll:
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geologylover

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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2006, 05:50:54 AM »
meaning...that this good and pretty ice wall is on a giant spagetti-O shaped plate, and the other plates are subducting under it? and exactly how would a plate shaped in such a way form?
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phaseshifter

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« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2006, 06:38:43 AM »
Quote from: "geologylover"
meaning...that this good and pretty ice wall is on a giant spagetti-O shaped plate, and the other plates are subducting under it? and exactly how would a plate shaped in such a way form?


My question is more, what the hell would a plate subduct with if it's at the edge? On one side you have the plate being pushed, on the other you have outer space, you'd have to be pretty dumb to actually think that a plate at the edge of a flat world could subduct with something. And that's assuming that subduction would happen EVERYTIME there's tectonic activity at the edge by some strange coincidence.
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« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2006, 08:29:07 AM »
Plate techtonics - discussed at length in the epic "Antarctica" thread.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2739&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
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« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2006, 03:05:23 PM »
I love that thread, so many great memories, back when I argued RE.
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« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2006, 03:12:01 PM »
Poor, misguided soul...
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phaseshifter

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« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2006, 05:20:55 PM »
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Plate techtonics - discussed at length in the epic "Antarctica" thread.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2739&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15


That's not the same thing. It was about Pangaea.
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CrimsonKing

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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2006, 05:58:04 PM »
Well pangaea is very important in plate techtonics, and we talked about plate techtonics plenty too, I remember.
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