Reinventing the wheel?

Quote from: Canadark on March 01, 2010, 08:35:26 PM

Quote from: Roundy the Truthinessist on March 01, 2010, 03:13:03 PM

Quote from: Canadark on February 28, 2010, 08:37:41 PM

@Roundy the Truthinessist


Regarding the production of an accurate map of the Earth: Do you believe that the size, placement, and shapes of the continents and oceans on a globe (read:RET) are accurate except that they actually exist on a flat plane/disc?

I have no idea.  Without a map I hesitate to even hazard a guess.

I'm just talking about your average, run-of-the-mill globe like the kind your eighth grade geography teacher had on her front desk. Most globes that are produced today are almost indistinguishable in how they portray the shapes, placement, and sizes of the continents. If you are unsure, I would refer to Google Earth.

Do you believe that the shapes, placement, and sizes of the continents and oceans are accurate in how they are portrayed in Google Earth, or a modern day globe (minus the fact that they actually exist on a flat surface)?

I just honestly don't know.  Sorry I can't do any better than that.  Actually as a zeteticist, the only way I'd truly be satisfied would be to map the distances myself, and I just don't see that happening.  All I can attest to is that in my region, in the western and northern hemiplanes, the distances appear to be accurate.

I don't agree that the Zetetic approach is scientific. I know this is irrelevant, but I just want to put it out there that it is utterly moronic. Scientists don't reinvent the wheel every time they walk into a lab. If they did, we would still be living in caves trying to understand how to make fire.

Pretty sure the wheel is fine. No need for any square wheels.

Scientists don't reinvent the wheel every time they walk into a lab.

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Scientists don't reinvent the wheel every time they walk into a lab.

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Scientists don't reinvent the wheel every time they walk into a lab.

Irrelevant. You can only ride it in a direction that is perpendicular to the bumps.

Quote from: 2fst4u on March 02, 2010, 09:19:25 PM

Irrelevant. You can only ride it in a direction that is perpendicular to the bumps.

Exactly.  Might it not be a good thing that a vehicle couldn't veer off into opposing traffic?


Edit  I was editing to apologize for going off topic but I found that some nice mod had already straightened it out. 

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Scientists don't reinvent the wheel every time they walk into a lab.

Oh neat... This just got turned into its own topic.

Quote from: Canadark on March 02, 2010, 08:51:42 PM

Oh neat... This just got turned into its own topic.

I thought it was derailing the discussion.  Things were going a little off-topic.

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Damn, I was gonna post that, it was the first thing I thought of when I read the OP!


And besides the "reinventing the wheel argument" I would simply point out that there have been innumerable easy-to-reproduce experiments proprosed by RE'rs here, while the general counterargument is "too expensive."  Why not make this thread a place for Flat Earther's to post their experiments that can be easily reproduced, are descriptively stated, and can be subject to peer review?

Look out your window. Experiment #1 done!