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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 14, 2022, 07:41:33 AM »

Something terrible, no doubt.

markjo you're literally on the other forum so you don't have to guess. He still writes fanfics of me every now and then and the last thing he said close to the subject was "I'd probably give you one if you visited the UK. So long as you weren't a bitch about it." We're mortal enemies, but Thork will never not be thirsty.

Yo Rooster. I forgot tfes exists.

Hey Gayer! You were over there not too long ago for about 5 seconds. I forgot my account here still existed, but then remembered you can't delete them here unless you ask a mod. I'm not even too consistent on the other site and I got rid of facebook years ago. Hope you and the Glorious Leader are doing well.

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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 12, 2022, 06:49:44 PM »

Geez, you're a grown woman now, I wonder what Thork would say.

You could always ask him, he's over on tfes as well.

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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 12, 2022, 06:10:25 PM »

I am in my 30s. You can find more of us living legends on tfes.

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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 12, 2022, 06:02:35 PM »

Why? I haven't been here in around 7 years. I'm pretty much an entirely different person than the one who used to post here.

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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 12, 2022, 05:49:17 PM »

Holy shit, Roostie.....

Yeah so please stop DMing me on tfes.

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The Lounge / Re: A moment of silence for those who aren't with us anymore.

« on: January 12, 2022, 05:31:28 PM »

Rooster
Thork
Nomad

And a ton more, press F to pay respects.

RIP legends

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Flat Earth General / Re: Free trip to the south pole

« on: January 21, 2015, 10:33:30 AM »

I'm in.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 08:21:06 PM »

Hello. 

The guys here definitely have a say in it. This hasn't been just tfes initiative. Actually... wasn't Wilmore the one to suggest it? I can't remember exactly but I know all this talk started when he popped in to tfes.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 07:32:05 PM »

Well I do mostly post over there and it is close to my heart. I don't care for this one too much because, like I said, it's mostly hostile round earthers who just bicker about administration.

But I never said "my" forum. That would show possession. I definitely feel apart of that community and not this one, but I certainly don't own it. You'll notice I only started posting here again with the news of the imminent unification.

And I never said real or fake. This one has a lot more activity about science and theory,  that one has all the veterans and flat earthers. There's not much use in FET forums when there's not a lot of them here. They both have their merits.

Aside from that, I'm not necessarily opposed to a merger because any merger would still have my tfes babies and they're all I really care about in all this.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 06:29:24 PM »

I never said it was "my" forum. I don't care if we're all on the same forum. I'm posting on both aren't I?

Guv was the one saying this sounded like an invasion rather than a merger. Not me.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 03:48:59 PM »

You don't speak for me, hoppy!

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 02:02:54 PM »

Hard to get? She has 3or 4 invites out for 3somes and foursomes. Nasty.

Why are you exaggerating? It's 2 invites out for 2 different threesomes.

But really one was just made in jest. I'm pretty particular and only really love the 2 boys.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 01:53:45 PM »

Bit aggressive of yah.

One way or another with you guys merging all these round earthers and "newbies" will be in your forums every day posting all up in your threads whether you like it or not.

So I would suggest embracing us, else this place will become rather hostile, dont you think?

Just telling it like it is. There was nothing hostile or derogatory in my post, unless "newbie" touches a nerve for you.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 20, 2015, 06:48:13 AM »

Read this and tell me if it sounds like a merger or an invasion.

The Forums
The two societies' forums will be merged by way of tfes.org inheriting theflatearthsociety.org's database. The resultant forum will remain under the current administration, moderation and rules of tfes.org. The web server, codebase, and technical solutions used will be those of tfes.org. Wilmore and Daniel will also have administrative privileges in the forum, but their role in running the forum will be advisory at most, and likely simply ceremonial. The administrators of tfes.org will be the decision-making organ for all things related to the forum. The reunited forum's URL will be forum.theflatearthsociety.org, but redirects will be maintained for forum.tfes.org and theflatearthsociety.org/forum for the foreseeable future. No content from either forum should be lost.

Sounds like the new Q+A sandpit rules to me. jroa has done a good job here and this site has 10 times the activity of the other mob. If they took 80% of the folks from here then they must have lost them. You could let off a shotgun over there and not hit a soul.
When this goes ahead I hope this mob will put up a fight just to keep what has worked here.
Thork was on about using the place as a charity fund raiser, bloody good idea.

Feel free to vote against this merger, but this place is mostly just a Round Earth forum with a bunch of newbies. The heart of the forum split off to tfes.org - so we don't have as many people but we're way more active and we're actually Flat Earthers.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 16, 2015, 04:18:21 PM »

Don't you get why people post low content? It's when FE'ers give absolutely awful answers like "none of us were around in 1911", or "maybe someone lied" and so on, where instead of addressing the questions you just deflect, or stick your fingers in your ears rather than wondering why that is yourself. FE'ers call the RE'ers spoon-fed in their beliefs, and accepting sheep - why, there's no better example of not questioning a puzzling phenomenon than right here in your posts.
And we get sick of it, and the low content begins to filter in.

You're being very contradictory. I say we can't be sure of something because it happened a long time ago with very little proof of anything and then you tell me RE'ers aren't the gullible ones?

FE'ers are Zetetics - we can't be certain of anything unless we observe it ourselves. Bringing up two teams that went to a place literally means nothing to me. You might as well argue that we really went to the moon.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 02:02:01 PM »

Welcome to FES democracy.

Yes, I'm not new to the FES. But I'm asking YOU not Pongo why he does what he does.

I thought I would respond to this clearly redundant thread and then the RE'ers started throwing in some low content. It's not really my fault for responding to snide comments and confusing questions.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 01:52:25 PM »

Note for Pongo: although this isn't a Flat Earth Question Or Answer, neither was what Rooster just posted.

Then neither was the Markjo comment I was responding to. Why are you only trying to throw me under the bus?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 12:46:38 PM »

Did you miss the part where some of the vehicles kept going to McMurdo?

I did not.

Then you concede that the traverse was from one side of Antarctica (Novo) to the South Pole then to the other side of Antarctica (McMurdo)?  Glad to see that we're making some progress.

When did I concede that? McMurdo is a point and Novo is a point. They traveled from Novo to McMurdo and then turned around. That doesn't prove a thing.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 11:38:42 AM »

They all end up there independently because that is where they are planning to go obviously.

You're right, you really don't understand the question. Let me illustrate with an example.
If I said, "Hey Rooster! Let's both go to the South Pole separately!" and we set off from different locations at different times and headed towards the rim, what are the odds that we'd end up at exactly the same point on the rim with its 40,000 mile circumference?
Yet that's exactly what happened with Scott and Amundsen. And everyone else.
If you're the first person to reach the South Pole, what makes you think it is the South Pole?

And no you may not have this thread closed, there are still active relevant questions being asked.

Considering this happened back in 1911 and none of us were there then a multitude of things are possible.

Maybe someone lied, maybe they went to two different places, maybe the whole thing was a hoax, maybe they started from two different points but both were traveling towards each other along the rim. It's hard to know something definitively when it happened so long ago, but it's good to keep an open mind about it.

Scott and Amundsen have been brought up in the other South Pole thread. That is why I recommend closing this one, because the other is far more active and has already touched on many of these questions.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 11:07:26 AM »

It was a disingenuous answer. To pretend otherwise is an admission that you couldn't understand the spirit of the question, and are therefore a bit mentally insufficient.
And no they could not be travelling in a circle round the rim. The distances are too great.
And you refer to "locations" - it's just ONE location. One. Not several. Why do they all end up at this single point independently? If it IS a point on the rim, why there?
You know what distinguishes the people who really think the earth is flat from people like those who inhabit this forum? Anyone who genuinely thought the earth was flat would be insanely curious to know the answer to that particular question. But you just shrug it off and are disinterested, so I think we can draw a conclusion right there.

I don't really understand your questions or why you are getting so worked up.

There are several locations within "Antartica", I was not just referring to the South Pole.
They all end up there independently because that is where they are planning to go obviously.
Why is it a point on the rim? I don't understand the question. It's a point on the rim because it's a place on the rim.

I'm not insanely curious because it seems pretty straight forward to me. 

I think this thread should just be closed. I don't think this is in the right board and there is already another ongoing thread about the South Pole.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: My IP seems to be banned for some reason.

« on: January 15, 2015, 11:02:03 AM »

Please tell us where is.

Complete Nonsense and Angry Ranting is where all the fun is at.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 15, 2015, 10:57:25 AM »

You seem pretty noobish, despite your high post count.

You got me. I've been a member for more than 3 years, but I just can't seem to learn. 

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 10:53:43 AM »

Let me address your fails in order.
1. No, it can't because the distances between certain points are known. If you're planning an expedition involving taking your provisions with you it's pretty important to know fairly well how far you have to travel. Or do you deny the existence of polar missions?
2. You do not address my point, you simply give a disingenuous answer (strictly forbidden by the mods) so I win on that one and you should be given a warning.
3. Trans-Antarctic polar missions and a variety of other explorers who have done so. Or do you deny the existence of polar missions?
4. This forum contains no explanation of that phenomenon, other than using Lord Wilmore's map which is easily disproved by other observations (so anything relying on it is also disproved). Parsifal seems to type the words "sky mirror" with no explanation of how it functions or what it is, so again, no explanation. In summary: your answer is a lie.
5. If there is no South Pole, how did the location accepted as being it come to be accepted as it and why did two competing expeditions in the early years of last century both arrive at exactly the same place? If anywhere round the rim is as good as anywhere else, why does everyone end up at the same spot?
Your explanations just aren't explanations.

Almost all of these can be summed up by a pretty simple answer: the South Pole is not what people think the South Pole is. They are taking expeditions to locations that are simply on the rim, not the southern most tip of a round Earth. So yes, they are still taking expeditions to a place.

Regarding #2 - my answer was not disingenuous, you just happened to ask me a question I can't possibly answer.

Regarding #5 - perhaps they are travelling in a circle around the rim. This would bring two separate parties to the same meeting place eventually.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 15, 2015, 09:00:26 AM »

The problem with Thork is he can dish it out, but he can't take it.

I have found a permanoob.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 15, 2015, 07:42:42 AM »

How were the perma-noobs at the new site?  More or less the same here?  I know the upper forums were slower there, but did that do anything to deter them?

Different. Since Markjo didn't have a lot of opportunity to debate FET he just stuck to old man jokes.
I think they were mostly coming here to discuss FET so they should be the same after reunification.

The way I see it is this site is mostly for discussing FET and our site discussed everything else. The reunification should bring back some balance in that regard.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 07:27:08 AM »

Did you miss the part where some of the vehicles kept going to McMurdo?

I did not.

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The Lounge / Re: Flat Earth Society Reunification Poll

« on: January 15, 2015, 07:13:17 AM »

Based on me thinking Thork is a total penguin?  I don't think that is very fair.

Although, to be fair, I don't come here expecting people to be fair.

You have been consistently negative in just about every post I've seen. Thork is at least a good bit of fun.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 06:39:25 AM »

People who have done it.
http://www.antarcticachallenge.com/Pages/5012

So they started at one point on the ice, traveled to another point on the ice, then turned around and came back? That's not proof of anything.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The South Pole

« on: January 15, 2015, 06:16:42 AM »

Which bit of the ice?

"Antartica" covers the entire outer rim. Take your pick.

Why don't they understand they're on a rim?

I couldn't possibly tell you what they're thinking.

Why can the same point be reached from opposing sides of Antarctica?

Who says it can?

How does the sun follow a complete circle round the sky in the summer without appearing retrograde?

I  honestly couldn't explain any astronomy to you. My specialty is geology. But I do know that the sun has been explained in great detail by others. I can't be expected to do your research for you, it is on this site - simply try using the search function or browse at your leisure.

Your explanation just isn't an explanation.

Yes it is. There is no "South Pole". There is just ice around the known rim that we haven't traveled past yet.

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The Lounge / Re: Post an image of yourself!

« on: January 15, 2015, 05:56:45 AM »

This thread is not nearly active enough if there is still a picture of me on the last page.