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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Q&A => Topic started by: erf on March 02, 2010, 07:07:18 PM

Title: Can you explain:
Post by: erf on March 02, 2010, 07:07:18 PM: -Stellar parallax (why are some measured as being farther away than others?)
-Eclipses, lunar or solar
-Comets
-Retrograde motion

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Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 02, 2010, 07:13:04 PM: Read the Wiki.
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: erf on March 02, 2010, 07:25:56 PM: Quote from: Tom Bishop on March 02, 2010, 07:13:04 PM
Read the Wiki.
Ok, all I saw was a link to create a page about parallax and no mention at all of comets.
Nice job explaining eclipses and planetary motion though!
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: jimspade on March 02, 2010, 07:31:02 PM: Ok tom now answer the rest of his questions. ANTIMOON = WIN
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: 2fst4u on March 02, 2010, 07:34:13 PM: Don't read the wiki, and don't follow Tom's advice. It's never helpful.
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: Tom Bishop on March 03, 2010, 02:22:57 AM: Quote from: erf on March 02, 2010, 07:25:56 PM
Ok, all I saw was a link to create a page about parallax and no mention at all of comets.
Nice job explaining eclipses and planetary motion though!

Comets are stray pieces of debris which come in from beyond the uncharted tundra to circle above our habitable area.

Meteors/meteorites are comets which eventually make contact with the earth's surface.
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: flyingmonkey on March 03, 2010, 02:31:12 AM: You might want to check what you are defining there Tom.

Apparently you are blabbing out nonsense.
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: erf on March 03, 2010, 09:53:48 AM: Quote from: Tom Bishop on March 03, 2010, 02:22:57 AM
Quote from: erf on March 02, 2010, 07:25:56 PM
Ok, all I saw was a link to create a page about parallax and no mention at all of comets.
Nice job explaining eclipses and planetary motion though!

Comets are stray pieces of debris which come in from beyond the uncharted tundra to circle above our habitable area.

Meteors/meteorites are comets which eventually make contact with the earth's surface.
And they just happen to come into our view in a predictable pattern matching a highly eccentric orbit around the sun? What about their coma/tail(visible from the earth)? If the sun is a spotlight shining down on the earth, would it radiate enough energy in the direction of the comet to vaporize the ice/dust into a visible "atmosphere"? If the tail is not caused by the solar wind(which I assume wouldn't exist in this model) pushing gas and dust from the coma away from the sun, than what accounts for the comet's tail?

And our observations of stellar parallax??
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: Sir Mildred Pierce on March 03, 2010, 02:31:23 PM: Quote from: erf on March 03, 2010, 09:53:48 AM

And our observations of stellar parallax??

I think we have to assume Tom has no idea what that is, nor any other Flathead.. Good luck getting an explanation on that one.
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: OmgHAI on March 03, 2010, 02:40:41 PM: name calling is very childish
Title: Re: Can you explain:
Post by: erf on March 03, 2010, 08:46:31 PM: Quote from: OmgHAI on March 03, 2010, 02:40:41 PM
name calling is very childish
True

There doesn't seem to be any explanation for stellar parallax or for the coma/tail of comets ???