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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Gravity and the UA
« on: April 16, 2007, 10:23:45 AM »
Clearly, the further you are from the surface of the earth, the slower the earth is moving towards you.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Flat Earthers, can you explain this?
« on: March 18, 2007, 04:35:00 AM »
Did Einstein believe the world is flat?
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Please Explain....
« on: March 15, 2007, 08:56:52 PM »
They all seem to have disagreeing theories.
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 08:55:56 PM »Words are like names..."by any other word would smell as sweet." -Shakespeare (this ones for you geordi)
Some people prefer their cucumbers pickled.
I prefer my pickles cucumbered. Rats, cucumbered is not a word. Quickly, help me forge my new coinage into our society.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: "Gravity"
« on: March 15, 2007, 08:24:10 PM »The difference is huge, as I showed you with the .8c and .6c example.Ok, then relatively large fractions of c, namely those above .1c.
What's the difference, besides the obvious speed.
That's a difference in speed. It is a huge difference, thanks for telling me that, but what are the other differences?
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:34:27 PM »Round Earthers are developmentally retarded. It's the only possibility I see that can explain this level of idiocy.
I'm a Flat Earther, I just informed you of my stance change.
Also, your grammar isn't perfect, you've made plenty of mistakes already.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The Earth is infinite!
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:32:48 PM »
ANYTHING is theoretically possible
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:31:43 PM »Its the English language. It does not have to be confined to grammar. So Earther can be a word if you define it to be.
Geordi means a blind black man.
Is geordi a word now, because I defined it to be?
If you wish it to be and it is used often gaining popularity, then yes.
Earther is a popular word?
I don't think crunk is in the dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word
I don't see your definition. Point it out to me if I'm wrong ^^
Just because a term is not included in a dictionary, doesn't make it a word. People used the word rollerblade before it was ever listed in a dictionary. Plus, you can coin your own words. Richard Dawkins coined the word meme and William Shakespeare coined the word assassination, accused, mimic, bedroom... among others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare, and yet these words are now included in any English dictionary.
That doesn't mean that earther is a word. It means that words can be brought into the English language after frequent usage.
I think this forum has used earther frequently enough for it to become part of the English language albeit unofficially.
If you've ever played an MMORPG, they've made up enough of their own words, such as lawl.
The keyword is unofficially.
So, Round Earther, does the "language police" decide what is a new word and what isn't? Or gee, could language change because of NEW WORDS WE USE?
Do you people ever stop and think about ANYTHING?
Does the language police?
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Some new approaches
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:31:04 PM »QuoteAnd neither is the Earth.
Both Earth models are filled with magma, however. Much of the rest is sand, water, and dirt. It's not exactly solid rock.
And how do these composites, when rotated, assume a flattened formation?
Easy.Experiment 1.) Place a mound of sand on a turntable and spin.
Result: Flat sand.
Experiment 2.) Place a mound of dirt on a turntable and spin.
Result: Flat dirt.
Experiment 3.) Dump a cup of water onto a turntable and spin.
Result: Flat water.
Experiment 4.) Place a mound of liquid magma on a turntable and spin.
Result: Die in a house fire.
Flat water? Lmao.
Now I know you're just a troll.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: The Earth is infinite!
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:30:21 PM »I'm hoping there's a version of this world out there where this topic was never posted.
Yes, there is.
There is also, no doubt, a version of this world where you all believe in the Flat Earth, and all laugh at the ridiculous beliefs of some stray Round Earthers.
Then there is also a world where the earth is round.
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:25:22 PM »Its the English language. It does not have to be confined to grammar. So Earther can be a word if you define it to be.
Geordi means a blind black man.
Is geordi a word now, because I defined it to be?
If you wish it to be and it is used often gaining popularity, then yes.
Earther is a popular word?
I don't think crunk is in the dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word
I don't see your definition. Point it out to me if I'm wrong ^^
Just because a term is not included in a dictionary, doesn't make it a word. People used the word rollerblade before it was ever listed in a dictionary. Plus, you can coin your own words. Richard Dawkins coined the word meme and William Shakespeare coined the word assassination, accused, mimic, bedroom... among others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare, and yet these words are now included in any English dictionary.
That doesn't mean that earther is a word. It means that words can be brought into the English language after frequent usage.
I think this forum has used earther frequently enough for it to become part of the English language albeit unofficially.
If you've ever played an MMORPG, they've made up enough of their own words, such as lawl.
The keyword is unofficially.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The Theory of Day and Night
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:23:55 PM »Your hypothesis is interesting but not totally accurate. The suns (yes, "suns") are actually very small and set into what FE explorers call Earth Pockets. They set at different places and times, creating the illusion of a One Sun.Suns?
Correct. What we call "the Sun" is actually a group of seven suns, each having its own Earth Pocket. And this is only for our local area. Different lands have different sources of illumination- some lands have none of their own, which makes them unbearably cold and dark, unless they are small enough to be located near the path of a sun from another land.
Light creates heat?
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:23:16 PM »I guess we can add "how languages evolve" to the loooooong list of things Round Earthers are ignorant about.
Fg ginhg gdgjngd taignigdas f gidsgngds FEers LoL.
Another REer goes insane.
I changed my mind, I've realized that it's actually a flat earth, but I did so just before that post.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The Theory of Day and Night
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:22:25 PM »Your hypothesis is interesting but not totally accurate. The suns (yes, "suns") are actually very small and set into what FE explorers call Earth Pockets. They set at different places and times, creating the illusion of a One Sun.
You should write your own FAQ, since most of your "facts"/"theories" seem to disagree with most other FEers.
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:20:01 PM »I guess we can add "how languages evolve" to the loooooong list of things Round Earthers are ignorant about.
Fg ginhg gdgjngd taignigdas f gidsgngds FEers LoL.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Some new approaches
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:17:09 PM »If you keep spinning a pizza, it keeps getting flatter. What makes our flat earth not get flatter?
If I keep spinning a basketball, does it become flat (without puncturing it)?
No, but a basketball isn't made out of dough.
Their explanation that spin causes the earth to "pan out" like a pizza doesn't explain why it stopped panning out. Or why the earth isn't slowly increasing in size.
And neither is the Earth.
What makes the earth spread out like a pizza?
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: "Gravity"
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:15:26 PM »Ok, then relatively large fractions of c, namely those above .1c.
What's the difference, besides the obvious speed.
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:13:56 PM »Its the English language. It does not have to be confined to grammar. So Earther can be a word if you define it to be.
Geordi means a blind black man.
Is geordi a word now, because I defined it to be?
If you wish it to be and it is used often gaining popularity, then yes.
Earther is a popular word?
I don't think crunk is in the dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word
I don't see your definition. Point it out to me if I'm wrong ^^
Just because a term is not included in a dictionary, doesn't make it a word. People used the word rollerblade before it was ever listed in a dictionary. Plus, you can coin your own words. Richard Dawkins coined the word meme and William Shakespeare coined the word assassination, accused, mimic, bedroom... among others http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_invented_by_Shakespeare, and yet these words are now included in any English dictionary.
That doesn't mean that earther is a word. It means that words can be brought into the English language after frequent usage.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Eratosthenes
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:13:06 PM »QuoteUnless the sun is 93 million miles away. Then it takes 8 minutes.
It doesn't matter how far away the sun is. The moment the light reaches you is the moment you will feel its effects. I don't know who you are thinking that it's possible to predict a solar flare before its light reaches you. It's impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light, be it heat or radiation.
If you're still persistent maybe you should write a paper on the subject, explaining how you're smarter than Einstein.
WTF? Light takes 8 minutes to get to the Earth from the RE sun. So heat would also take 8 minutes.
He's saying you wouldn't know the difference. Not that it's instant.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Eratosthenes
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:10:53 PM »QuoteUnless the sun is 93 million miles away. Then it takes 8 minutes.
It doesn't matter how far away the sun is. The moment the light reaches you is the moment you will feel its effects. I don't know who you are thinking that it's possible to predict a solar flare before its light reaches you. It's impossible for anything to travel faster than the speed of light, be it heat or radiation.
If you're still persistent maybe you should write a paper on the subject, explaining how you're smarter than Einstein.
You claimed heat doesn't travel, moron. If it doesn't travel, and is instantaneous, then light would take longer, ACCORDING TO YOU.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: "Gravity"
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:56:41 PM »Ok, then relatively large fractions of c, namely those above .1c.
Sorry, what's FOR?
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The Lounge / Re: "'Earther' is not a word." O RLY?
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:53:04 PM »Its the English language. It does not have to be confined to grammar. So Earther can be a word if you define it to be.
Geordi means a blind black man.
Is geordi a word now, because I defined it to be?
If you wish it to be and it is used often gaining popularity, then yes.
Earther is a popular word?
I don't think crunk is in the dictionary.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/word
I don't see your definition. Point it out to me if I'm wrong ^^
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Some new approaches
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:50:34 PM »for an object to be malleable, it has to be an object first, the earth was created from many different objects colliding into eachother and fusing together .. this is not the same meaning as malleable, once it was big enough, it attracted more and more rock because of it's gravitational pull and kept forming .. even after the moon hit the earth giving us our rotation, we had more than enough form to not spin out into a disc like shape, this is why this worksYou say this statement as though it was a proven fact, that scientists actually traveled back in time, and witnessed this creation. Nobody knows for a fact, how the earth came to be. And according to that theory, if we collected rocks, with a collective mass the same as pluto, and launched them into space where they all hit each other, it would create a second pluto.
According to RE, Pluto is larger than the FE sun. How big is your Pluto?
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Eratosthenes
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:47:41 PM »QuoteYou can't, but from seeing when it happens, and measuring how long it takes the heat from a solar flare to reach the earth, you can get an understanding of how far away the sun is.
Are you an idiot or something?
1.) Heat does not travel through space.
2.) The moment you see a solar flare is the moment you will feel its effects.
So the heat should arrive a lot faster than the light, if the earth were 93 million miles away, 8 minutes before.
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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: "Gravity"
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:46:14 PM »Look at the equation I provided. That is how velocities add. It is accurate all the way to c, whereas Newtonian mechanics is only an approximation at low speeds and inaccurate once speeds reach fractions of c.
The equation is derived from the fact that clocks run differently and rulers measure differently in varying FORs due to a relative velocity between them. This requires that a Lorenz transformation be done on each FOR which will reduce to the equation I referenced earlier.
Any positive velocity can be a fraction of c.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Eratosthenes
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:43:44 PM »QuoteI'm not an astronomer. I don't know how they do it. You are also not an astronomer. You also cant tell. They have there ways. Thats why the can say a star is 1000 light years away. Go ask them, in fact I will. I will report back later.
Astronomers use redshifting to determine the distance of the stars. But deep down redshifitng is still dependent on the length of an Astronomical Unit. If the Astronomical Unit is wrong (the distance between the earth and sun) then redshfting as a whole is wrong. It all hinges on the distance between the Sun and Earth.QuoteLet's use the sun. You see a solar flare. According to RE, it takes about 8 minutes for the light to get here. How long does it take the heat from that flare?
How could you tell the difference between light that left the sun eight minutes ago and one second ago?
You can't, but from seeing when it happens, and measuring how long it takes the heat from a solar flare to reach the earth, you can get an understanding of how far away the sun is.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Other Planets
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:42:43 PM »QuoteThat's odd, Tom would disagree with you.
It's cool how many of your FE theories blatantly contradict each other.
Don't put words in my mouth.
I've always maintained that the planets were spherical and moved upwards in tandem with the earth.
I meant that the other planets are flat, thanks for proving me right.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The good ol' ship disappearing over the horizon question.
« on: March 15, 2007, 06:41:53 PM »Nope... this is just an illusion created by your belief.I did not have any presupposition to this when I observed it.
Impossible. We have ALL been brainwashed into Round Earth belief, unless you live in a shack in the middle of the tundra.
I guess those living before the 1700's were all living in a shack in the middle of the tundra.