ok, disprove this:

Quote from: General Douchebag on April 18, 2009, 07:50:55 AM

Nope. FE acknowledges gravitation, just not gravity, plus the joke is just that. So my original statement's pretty all-encompassing.

Except sometimes you need "a little bit" of gravity. For the variations in "g" and tides. It even says so in the FAQ.

Using ad hoc selection (and misunderstanding physics completely) is what makes this whole site a joke.

Hmm... I wonder if the legendary Flat Earth Wiki (FEW) will be any more informative when (if) it goes live.

That first sentence alone proves you're no physicist. Do you think ID is a valid scientific theory too, a closely related cousin of The Big Bang? Why is the DE selective?

Quote from: General Douchebag on April 18, 2009, 10:32:27 AM

Yeah, it is, and it's a more accurate term than DE as it probably isn't an energy.

Wow. Flat earth hypothesis is so wrong you can't even name things right. What hope is there?

Dark Energy (but its not an energy)
UNiversal Acceleration ( but its not universal)

amiright?

For large-scale measurements we utilize Einstein's universal gravitation and special relativity General Relativity (it's much more precise).

Quote from: Robosteve on April 16, 2009, 03:32:38 AM

A word of advice: never join a debating team, you will fail miserably.

I would pay good money to watch you stand up infront of a debating team and say "Gentlemen. Please read the FAQ. Also. Fuck off and die. This concludes my argument. Thankyou for listening."

LOL NICELY PUT. I've been reading some of this nonsense and Robosteve clearly think he's a genius for knowing a FAQ exists.

To make my post relevant, what do you explain when you're on an airplane? The earth is clearly round. I'll actually tell you a how-to because I'm so nice.

First, buy a ticket to anywhere on any airline.
Get on the airplane.
Sit next to a window.
(Robo I know you'll say "What if my seating is not there?" Just stfu and sit next to the window okay?)
WATCH THE GROUND WHILE THE AIRPLANE TAKES FLIGHT. Make sure the government doesn't pull a fast one and give you any illusion.
Ok, now you're flying.
Look down.
 

It's not possible to see any curvature from a commercial airliner. I have travelled by plane many times, and sat next to the window on several occasions. It always looks flat.

Really?

Care to post an image with a horizon that is not clearly obscured by poor visibility?

Neither of those images you posted were taken from a commercial airliner at cruise altitude, and both of them have obvious lens distortion. As for your link, that is easily explained by light bending upwards according to EA theory.

Does that matter?

Quote from: Robosteve on April 19, 2009, 07:38:06 PM

Neither of those images you posted were taken from a commercial airliner at cruise altitude, and both of them have obvious lens distortion. As for your link, that is easily explained by light bending upwards according to EA theory.

Does that matter? It was on the GROUND. Unless you think the ground is somehow part of the government's conspiracy. But I guess you can say that because hell, what haven't you said yet? And lens distortion?

Gravity and gravitation are different, yes, but closely related cousins. Newton's measurements and formulae are inaccurate enough not to be absolute, but accurate enough to be used casually. For large-scale measurements we utilize Einstein's universal gravitation and special relativity (it's much more precise).

Gravitation, however, does not do much to help FET. If anything, it helps RET, and discounting gravity as a whole while embracing gravitation is a faulty line of logic to take. Gravity was useful for it's time at describing the universe, and is still useful today, unlike the selective force of Dark Energy.

The terms gravitation and gravity are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but a distinction may be made in scientific usage. "Gravitation" is a general term describing the phenomenon by which bodies with mass are attracted to one another, while "gravity" refers specifically to the net force exerted by the Earth on objects in its vicinity as well as by other factors, such as the Earth's rotation.

The terms gravitation and gravity are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but a distinction may be made in scientific usage. "Gravitation" is a general term describing the phenomenon by which bodies with mass are attracted to one another, while "gravity" refers specifically to the net force exerted by the Earth on objects in its vicinity as well as by other factors, such as the Earth's rotation.

Quote from: svenanders on April 20, 2009, 02:32:58 AM

The terms gravitation and gravity are mostly interchangeable in everyday use, but a distinction may be made in scientific usage. "Gravitation" is a general term describing the phenomenon by which bodies with mass are attracted to one another, while "gravity" refers specifically to the net force exerted by the Earth on objects in its vicinity as well as by other factors, such as the Earth's rotation.

Using other people's material without citing your sources is plagiarism.