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Title: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 10, 2014, 10:46:38 AM
In another thread or two I've seen reference to a "glass dome" in the sky that is believed - by some - to exist. Is this a core tenet of FE hypothesis or only something believed by the lunatic fringe?

Also, do believers believe that this dome is actually made of glass? If not, what exactly do they/you suggest it does, in fact, consist of?

Thirdly, does it encircle the Earth or only encase the "top".
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 11:07:40 AM
It is the "firmament" the bible describes.  It is probably formed like this:

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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 10, 2014, 11:09:42 AM
First of all, not many sibscribe to it. I do and one or two others on here.
The dome is ICE, made up of frozen helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc depending on positition in the natural build of it.
It covers all the solid ground we exist on to a unknown height. Maybe 50 miles high as a wild guess.
There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense.

What does not make any sense is an atmosphere around a ball that somehow stays in place as a gas. It's preposterous and people really need to start thinking for themselves instead of mocking the dome, seriously.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on June 10, 2014, 11:10:36 AM
In another thread or two I've seen reference to a "glass dome" in the sky that is believed - by some
I think it is just scepti.  I very much doubt he actually believes it: he hasn't got much to do, so trolls forums with made up shit.  He likes the attention.

He says it is ice, not glass: it is frozen gas.  The sun is actually at the South pole, and what we all the sun and the moon are just reflections on the ice.  Stars are some kind of radiation, or something, reflected.  Oh, and there isn't anything at all outside of dome - no universe, nothing at all....blah....blah...blah.

He's always threatening to make a diagram of how this bollocks works, but of course never does, as it is all his made up gibberings.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 11:17:58 AM
Crab, do some research on how crystals are formed.  COMPACTED ICE and/or water at high temp.  Crystal is natural glass.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 11:19:49 AM
So with this dome there is a sunset right? The sun is projected onto the side of the dome and there we have it, sunset. So if that is happening then where on earth is someone simultaneously experiencing an overhead noon sun?

Not possible. Good bye dome hypothesis.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 11:24:53 AM
It is never projected on the sides.  The sun doesn't reach that far on the Antarctica rim.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 11:27:19 AM
It is never projected on the sides.  The sun doesn't reach that far on the Antarctica rim.

So then it never reaches near the bottom of the dome to look like a sunset. It also never looks like an ellipse like it should if it was a flat projection. Seriously, it makes no sense.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 11:35:09 AM
As discussed in the other thread recently, it is an ILLUSION that the sun is as low as the Earth landscape.  The reason it is always a perfect circle is because it never gets far enough away from the observer before the landscape cuts it off.  End of debate.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 10, 2014, 11:37:12 AM
So with this dome there is a sunset right? The sun is projected onto the side of the dome and there we have it, sunset. So if that is happening then where on earth is someone simultaneously experiencing an overhead noon sun?

Not possible. Good bye dome hypothesis.
Take a bit of time and actually look into what's been said over time and you might grasp it. You are in dismissal mode and always have been, so you probably won't ever grasp it, which is fine. You have your thoughts, so stick to them. It's all on a plate for you and others, so go with the done work, it's much easier and you have the backing of billions.
I've had the experience of looking at it all, including being brainwashed with the silly spinning globe, yet I choose what fits better and pick my way through it. You are scared to take that step because you fear ridicule like most people do. You're simply not strong enough to think for yourself against what's been drilled into you.
That's not meant as a dig, it's merely saying that most people, including yourself cannot see past one story, because the story fits perfectly in your mind and you are more than willing to accept the get out of jail free cards that have been pulled to make it fit; like air to solid rotation and gravity; warped space time and a whole host of other absolute bull shit that it sickens me to think that people cannot see past this charade, yet here we are seeing it.

The problem is, I was one of you, except I simply blindly accepted it without actually looking deep into it, so I was easy meat, like the billions of others are.
Very few people can actually grasp the workings of a globe.
The best that most will know is we live on a ball and it rotates in space around the sun and gravity makes things fall or stick to the ground. That's it!

People like you have studied it all, which makes you the weakest of the weak, because it shows that your brainwashing is so severe that it's caused you to abandon logic, of which your senses should have kicked in. Maybe one day. Maybe one day.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Rama Set on June 10, 2014, 11:41:04 AM
As discussed in the other thread recently, it is an ILLUSION that the sun is as low as the Earth landscape.  The reason it is always a perfect circle is because it never gets far enough away from the observer before the landscape cuts it off.  End of debate.

Was that the same thread where Rottingroom pointed out that the sun would never get within 10 degrees of the horizon on a FE? And then you invoke an illusion with no evidence so that your world can now fit observation?  That is what you are talking about right?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 11:47:57 AM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 11:56:40 AM
As discussed in the other thread recently, it is an ILLUSION that the sun is as low as the Earth landscape.  The reason it is always a perfect circle is because it never gets far enough away from the observer before the landscape cuts it off.  End of debate.

Was that the same thread where Rottingroom pointed out that the sun would never get within 10 degrees of the horizon on a FE? And then you invoke an illusion with no evidence so that your world can now fit observation?  That is what you are talking about right?
And his equation was wrong for the simple fact that we can see less distance of the Earth landscape than we do distance of objects in the sky.  HEIGHT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 10, 2014, 12:04:33 PM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 12:09:15 PM
As discussed in the other thread recently, it is an ILLUSION that the sun is as low as the Earth landscape.  The reason it is always a perfect circle is because it never gets far enough away from the observer before the landscape cuts it off.  End of debate.

Was that the same thread where Rottingroom pointed out that the sun would never get within 10 degrees of the horizon on a FE? And then you invoke an illusion with no evidence so that your world can now fit observation?  That is what you are talking about right?
And his equation was wrong for the simple fact that we can see less distance of the Earth landscape than we do distance of objects in the sky.  HEIGHT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.

The height of the object in the sky (the sun) was accounted for in the equation. Oblivious.

3000 miles is already absurdly low enough. Any lower and you are getting dramatic ellipses. Period.

The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 12:32:04 PM
Lunatic fringe. Next question.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 12:39:44 PM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.

If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: markjo on June 10, 2014, 12:42:43 PM
Crab, do some research on how crystals are formed.  COMPACTED ICE and/or water at high temp.  Crystal is natural glass.
No.  Glass does not have a regular crystalline structure.  Glass is a class of  amorphous solid (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_solid).  Sceptimatic's "ice dome" of frozen helium, hydrogen, etc., would require temperatures very close to absolute zero.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 12:42:52 PM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.

If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
Almost makes me wonder why you're wasting your time.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 12:46:40 PM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.

If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
Almost makes me wonder why you're wasting your time.

I can't help myself. Oh, and boredom. It's not as bad as wasting time pretending to be a flat earther.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 12:48:57 PM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.

If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
Almost makes me wonder why you're wasting your time.

I can't help myself. Oh, and boredom. It's not as bad as wasting time pretending to be a flat earther.
Pretending?
I'm offended.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 12:51:05 PM
The height of the object in the sky (the sun) was accounted for in the equation. Oblivious.

3000 miles is already absurdly low enough. Any lower and you are getting dramatic ellipses. Period.

The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
No YOU'RE oblivious....to everything I've been explaining to you.   ::)  You accounted for the height but NOT the distance of the sun.  The sun is BEYOND the landscape.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 12:56:16 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 12:56:41 PM
The height of the object in the sky (the sun) was accounted for in the equation. Oblivious.

3000 miles is already absurdly low enough. Any lower and you are getting dramatic ellipses. Period.

The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
No YOU'RE oblivious....to everything I've been explaining to you.   ::)  You accounted for the height but NOT the distance of the sun.  The sun is BEYOND the landscape.

Haha. No.

I accounted for both. I'm sorry that you don't understand basic geometry.

The distance can be anything. You can make it a billion if you want. The sun will still never be below the horizon.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 12:57:46 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen idiot.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on June 10, 2014, 12:59:39 PM
The height of the object in the sky (the sun) was accounted for in the equation. Oblivious.

3000 miles is already absurdly low enough. Any lower and you are getting dramatic ellipses. Period.

The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
No YOU'RE oblivious....to everything I've been explaining to you.   ::)  You accounted for the height but NOT the distance of the sun.  The sun is BEYOND the landscape.
So 3000 miles high, what is the path over the earth at different times of the year?

Beyond the landscape, explain. 

Measured angles of the sun from across the earth are consistent with its location and a round earth.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 01:03:49 PM
If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
I'd like to see YOU try and fit the pieces of a jigsaw this big together BY YOURSELF and maybe a few others.  It'a a lot of damn work and time.  The mainstream model has had more people and more time to put it all together.  It's science fiction, not truth.  I will laugh my ass off when you realize what a fool you've been.  You need to humble yourself and stop being so egotistical and acting intellectually superior. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 01:06:17 PM
So you admit that your hypothesis makes no sense and that earth being round does? Welcome to senseville.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 01:07:57 PM
Haha. No.

I accounted for both. I'm sorry that you don't understand basic geometry.

The distance can be anything. You can make it a billion if you want. The sun will still never be below the horizon.
I see you STILL don't get it.  The point is not ONE distance.  There are TWO...the landscape (dry Earth or sea) and the object in the sky.  TWO DISTANCES.  UNDERSTAND?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 01:08:52 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen, idiot.
Needless ad hominem.... did you do that on purpose?
Fixed it for you as well.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 01:11:54 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen, idiot.
Needless ad hominem.... did you do that on purpose?
Fixed it for you as well.

Of course. I was provoked. I happily tell these guys they are morons. I get banned and come back and do it again. Maybe I'll learn my lesson someday.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on June 10, 2014, 01:12:18 PM
Haha. No.

I accounted for both. I'm sorry that you don't understand basic geometry.

The distance can be anything. You can make it a billion if you want. The sun will still never be below the horizon.
I see you STILL don't get it.  The point is not ONE distance.  There are TWO...the landscape (dry Earth or sea) and the object in the sky.  TWO DISTANCES.  UNDERSTAND?
2 distances from where to where?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 10, 2014, 01:13:22 PM
Get with the program man.  Go read the other threads about the sun if you have to.   ::)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 01:13:46 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen, idiot.
Needless ad hominem.... did you do that on purpose?
Fixed it for you as well.

Of course. I was provoked. I happily tell these guys they are morons. I get banned and come back and do it again. Maybe I'll learn my lesson someday.
All it does is make you seem less credible and more angry.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 01:16:22 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen, idiot.
Needless ad hominem.... did you do that on purpose?
Fixed it for you as well.

Of course. I was provoked. I happily tell these guys they are morons. I get banned and come back and do it again. Maybe I'll learn my lesson someday.
All it does is make you seem less credible and more angry.

Stop confusing me with someone that cares.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 01:22:47 PM
Also, where did you get the idea that people would prefer that we respect lunatics. I think people looking are fine with me ridiculing lunatics.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 01:27:43 PM
Also, where did you get the idea that people would prefer that we respect lunatics. I think people looking are fine with me ridiculing lunatics.
It doesn't offend me or anything, I'm just saying it makes your argument appear less sound when you feel the need to resort to personal attacks on character.
I just wouldn't want to give the lunatics the [seemingly] upper hand.  ;)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 10, 2014, 01:28:54 PM
Also, where did you get the idea that people would prefer that we respect lunatics. I think people looking are fine with me ridiculing lunatics.
It doesn't offend me or anything, I'm just saying it makes your argument appear less sound when you feel the need to resort to personal attacks on character.
I just wouldn't want to give the lunatics the [seemingly] upper hand.  ;)

I'll consider that. I said that I'm right. I never said that I wasn't an asshole.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 10, 2014, 01:34:33 PM
Also, where did you get the idea that people would prefer that we respect lunatics. I think people looking are fine with me ridiculing lunatics.
It doesn't offend me or anything, I'm just saying it makes your argument appear less sound when you feel the need to resort to personal attacks on character.
I just wouldn't want to give the lunatics the [seemingly] upper hand.  ;)

I'll consider that. I said that I'm right. I never said that I wasn't an asshole.
Fair enough. There is no dome around Earth.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 10, 2014, 02:16:20 PM
First of all, not many sibscribe to it. I do and one or two others on here.
The dome is ICE, made up of frozen helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc depending on positition in the natural build of it.
It covers all the solid ground we exist on to a unknown height. Maybe 50 miles high as a wild guess.
There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense.

What does not make any sense is an atmosphere around a ball that somehow stays in place as a gas. It's preposterous and people really need to start thinking for themselves instead of mocking the dome, seriously.

Thanks for the answer. I've no idea how you've determined it to be so. But at least you gave an answer. Though when you say "There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense" you lose me. Science isn't progressed by "what makes sense". Intuition is not a reliable metric for determining reality. Intuition is subjective. We get to truth by following the evidence, wherever it may lead.

On the point of atmosphere around a round ball: The gasses that comprise the atmosphere have mass. The Earth has a gravitational field (as a result of its mass). It's gravitation that holds captive our atmosphere. It's a pretty well understood phenomenon. Gravity works in the 3 spacial dimensions we inhabit (and likely more).
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: evildylan on June 10, 2014, 02:27:29 PM
The game is over. We have proven the earth is round. It's just a matter of seeing a shrink now. I can find some for you if you need me to.
You and most others here are the one's who will need a shrink when the truth is either revealed to the world or you realize it before then.  Either way, makes no difference to me.  I don't go around calling people names and ridiculing them like you do.

Will never happen, idiot.
Needless ad hominem.... did you do that on purpose?
Fixed it for you as well.

Of course. I was provoked. I happily tell these guys they are morons. I get banned and come back and do it again. Maybe I'll learn my lesson someday.
All it does is make you seem less credible and more angry.

Science, physics, geometry and math all do not care how angry he is. The numbers do not lie or care who wrote them.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: evildylan on June 10, 2014, 02:38:07 PM
Haha. No.

I accounted for both. I'm sorry that you don't understand basic geometry.

The distance can be anything. You can make it a billion if you want. The sun will still never be below the horizon.
I see you STILL don't get it.  The point is not ONE distance.  There are TWO...the landscape (dry Earth or sea) and the object in the sky.  TWO DISTANCES.  UNDERSTAND?

I went back and read the thread, it's pretty clear that he accounted for the distance of the sun and the height. Pretty easy to understand, actually.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: QuQu on June 11, 2014, 01:21:47 AM
Calling EarthIsASpaceship a moron is not an offence, it is a compliment.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 01:53:40 AM
Blah blah blah scepti. Your hypothesis makes no sense.
Like I said. It makes no sense to those who ridicule it at first point. Only a deep thinking attitude will gain anyone an insight into it all. Something that most refuse to do. But like I said, it's up to the individual what they go with, as it is with me.

Keeping the science world space theories firmly implanted will gain you no alternative headway. Fir enough I say.

If only you actually did satisfactorily contend our arguments then a response like this would be warranted. If anyone does take the time to read the novel that's on these forums concerning your horrible hypothesis then it's plain as day. You haven't been able to keep your ideas together. You respond with ways to satisfy your theory which breaks other responses. It is unsound. It is incorrect. It is not reality.
Almost makes me wonder why you're wasting your time.

I can't help myself. Oh, and boredom. It's not as bad as wasting time pretending to be a flat earther.
Pretending?
I'm offended.
How long have you said you would play the flat Earther for?
Just go back to your indoctrinated way and stop with the pretence.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 02:05:35 AM

Thanks for the answer. I've no idea how you've determined it to be so. But at least you gave an answer. Though when you say "There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense" you lose me. Science isn't progressed by "what makes sense". Intuition is not a reliable metric for determining reality. Intuition is subjective. We get to truth by following the evidence, wherever it may lead.

On the point of atmosphere around a round ball: The gasses that comprise the atmosphere have mass. The Earth has a gravitational field (as a result of its mass). It's gravitation that holds captive our atmosphere. It's a pretty well understood phenomenon. Gravity works in the 3 spacial dimensions we inhabit (and likely more).
Well, you were curious so I thought I'd tell you. I understand how the mainstream science world cannot be dragged screaming from their beliefs because trust in official givings are paramount to a budding learning scientists future, so why would anyone go against that.

Those who want to find the truth before they expire, will do well to open their minds to many differing possibilities to the ones that are spoon fed into their mouths and drilled into their minds by those at the top who dictate the state of play in life.

The knowledge you believe you possess is only knowledge if it's a true reflection of life, otherwise is the knowledge of fictional stories, or better still, it's the brain memory bank that holds the info that can be reeled off, as and when needed, as a potential fictional story, not a fact.

I'm a different breed, obviously, because I literally believe nothing and question everything and with good reason in my mind.
We live in a world of lies; deceit and disguised oppression, married into some truths, to keep us all plodding along.

Space science in any form is ALL lies, every last bit of it.
The Earth being a spinning ball is complete lies and all the flannel names that go with the ruse of making it work.

Our history is mostly based on lies mixed in with some truths.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 11, 2014, 02:56:18 AM
Back' in the old days it was the church and Jesus.... the inquisition ...

Could it be that,, 'Science; is now the new religion that must not be questioned,    this is business as usual.

The dome of the rock,,, ISRAEL

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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 03:11:44 AM
Back' in the old days it was the church and Jesus.... the inquisition ...

Could it now be that,, 'Science; is the new religion that must not be questioned,    this is business as usual.

The dome of the rock,,, ISRAEL

(http://www.earthdocumentary.com/pics/dome-of-the-rock-jerusalem.jpg)
For sure, science is the new religion. They can sell us anything they want and anyoner who dares question it will be ridiculed into submission.
They know there's a dome covering this Earth, I'm certain of that. Their telescopes can see what no ordinary amateur can see.

They are allowed to get more ridiculous with space now because the masses are pacified or comatose, so they can basically make anything up and laugh in their faces.
They know there's a select minority that know their game but it's an accepted amount that they know will be ridiculed by the paid shills and comatose sheep who follow that pattern.


Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 04:16:00 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 04:50:30 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 11, 2014, 05:17:40 AM
I went back and read the thread, it's pretty clear that he accounted for the distance of the sun and the height. Pretty easy to understand, actually.
There's actually 3 but I'm talking about the one nobody understands and that is the distance of the sun on the horizon.  Do you not agree that the sun is closer at noon than when it's on the horizon?  You have the 3000 miles (or 62mi/100km that some of us believe) AND the distance of the sun on the horizon.  The angle changes.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 06:04:01 AM
I went back and read the thread, it's pretty clear that he accounted for the distance of the sun and the height. Pretty easy to understand, actually.
There's actually 3 but I'm talking about the one nobody understands and that is the distance of the sun on the horizon.  Do you not agree that the sun is closer at noon than when it's on the horizon?  You have the 3000 miles (or 62mi/100km that some of us believe) AND the distance of the sun on the horizon.  The angle changes.

Of course it is closer at noon. Problem is that with the RE model, it is about .00426 % at noon than at sunset or sunrise. Which easily and readily explains why its apparent size is not noticeable. On the FE model, the sun is about 11% closer at noon than at sunrise or sunset which should be obvious if it was true.

It's really fascinating that even with these obvious proofs that inexplicably destroys the idea that a sunset is possible on a FE that you still hold onto it so dearly.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 06:05:31 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on June 11, 2014, 06:10:25 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.
Yet you cannot produce a coherent description of your version of angles of moon and sun, satellite tv, gps and measured distances without resorting to abuse and rudeness.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 06:19:16 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 06:22:00 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.
Yet you cannot produce a coherent description of your version of angles of moon and sun, satellite tv, gps and measured distances without resorting to abuse and rudeness.
Look. Don't harp onto me about abuse and rudeness. I'm pretty cool with you people. I should actually be abusing you all full on but I sit back and allow you all to abuse me, then watch you all moan then turn it around to make out I'm the abuser.
Man up you little fairy.  ;D
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 06:30:47 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.

I'm actually not referring to arguments about the earth being round or flat here. When I said, "I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at", I was talking about whether or not you understand what an argument is. I hope you understand now. Please post something relevant. The best way for you to prove we are wrong is to prove it. In order to prove it you need to demonstrate it.

You never do that though, you just constantly go on about indoctrination and tell stories about what you think reality is without ever attempting to demonstrate it.

For the record, my demonstration about how a sun cannot set on a flat earth was not memorized or regurgitated. It was demonstrated and it came from me, not a textbook. That is how you demonstrate something.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on June 11, 2014, 06:32:09 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.
How does your computer and the internet work, all gibberish?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 06:49:54 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.

I'm actually not referring to arguments about the earth being round or flat here. When I said, "I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at", I was talking about whether or not you understand what an argument is. I hope you understand now. Please post something relevant. The best way for you to prove we are wrong is to prove it. In order to prove it you need to demonstrate it.

You never do that though, you just constantly go on about indoctrination and tell stories about what you think reality is without ever attempting to demonstrate it.

For the record, my demonstration about how a sun cannot set on a flat earth was not memorized or regurgitated. It was demonstrated and it came from me, not a textbook. That is how you demonstrate something.
You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety.

You merely saying you do this and that whilst I supposedly don't is neither here nor there to me. You're nothing special, you're just an angry little punter having a 10 minute spell every now and again.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 11, 2014, 06:51:47 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.
How does your computer and the internet work, all gibberish?
The computer is real. It's made up of components put together by clever people. The real scientists and engineers of this world.
I don't have any issues with stuff like that. Just the bull shit artists.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 06:56:23 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.

I'm actually not referring to arguments about the earth being round or flat here. When I said, "I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at", I was talking about whether or not you understand what an argument is. I hope you understand now. Please post something relevant. The best way for you to prove we are wrong is to prove it. In order to prove it you need to demonstrate it.

You never do that though, you just constantly go on about indoctrination and tell stories about what you think reality is without ever attempting to demonstrate it.

For the record, my demonstration about how a sun cannot set on a flat earth was not memorized or regurgitated. It was demonstrated and it came from me, not a textbook. That is how you demonstrate something.
You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety.

You merely saying you do this and that whilst I supposedly don't is neither here nor there to me. You're nothing special, you're just an angry little punter having a 10 minute spell every now and again.

Please post an argument. Stop with your irrelevant babble.

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I appreciate that you try. However, I do hope you are aware that it is quite obvious that objects appear closer to the horizon the further away they get. Nobody has a problem with this. You are incorrect though. As demonstrated, it will NEVER EVER get cut off by land or sea on a flat earth. As it approaches the horizon, it will keep getting closer but it will do so infinitely and at smaller and yes smaller intervals forever proportionally to the distance. As it does this, the sun will also get smaller. Neither of these are observed.

The sun stays nearly the same size and it goes behind the horizon even though it is nearly the same size.





Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 11, 2014, 07:02:20 AM
I appreciate that you try. However, I do hope you are aware that it is quite obvious that objects appear closer to the horizon the further away they get. Nobody has a problem with this. You are incorrect though. As demonstrated, it will NEVER EVER get cut off by land or sea on a flat earth. As it approaches the horizon, it will keep getting closer but it will do so infinitely and at smaller and yes smaller intervals forever proportionally to the distance. As it does this, the sun will also get smaller. Neither of these are observed.

The sun stays nearly the same size and it goes behind the horizon even though it is nearly the same size.
That's not true.  Even it it was, it would never be observed because human eyes cannot see infinitely.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: markjo on June 11, 2014, 07:04:52 AM
Could it be that,, 'Science; is now the new religion that must not be questioned,    this is business as usual.
For crying out loud.  Where do you guys get the idea that science must not be questioned?  That's pretty much the exact opposite of what science is all about.  Science wants you to ask lots of questions about everything, including scary questions that religion doesn't want you asking.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 07:07:03 AM
I appreciate that you try. However, I do hope you are aware that it is quite obvious that objects appear closer to the horizon the further away they get. Nobody has a problem with this. You are incorrect though. As demonstrated, it will NEVER EVER get cut off by land or sea on a flat earth. As it approaches the horizon, it will keep getting closer but it will do so infinitely and at smaller and yes smaller intervals forever proportionally to the distance. As it does this, the sun will also get smaller. Neither of these are observed.

The sun stays nearly the same size and it goes behind the horizon even though it is nearly the same size.
That's not true.  Even it it was, it would never be observed because human eyes cannot see infinitely.

I agree. That isn't the observation that matters though. The one that does is that the horizon actually does block out the sun. Which is not possible on a flat earth. As demonstrated. Will you continue to deny this?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 11, 2014, 07:13:13 AM
Even it it was, it would never be observed because human eyes cannot see infinitely.
I agree. That isn't the observation that matters though. The one that does is that the horizon actually does block out the sun. Which is not possible on a flat earth. As demonstrated. Will you continue to deny this?
The main reason being that the sun doesn't change size, correct?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 07:14:10 AM
So do you understand now, that there are TWO distances on the horizon to factor into your math equation?  The distance of the land/sea and the distance of the sun beyond that.  The third would be the altitude of the sun (glass sky it's reflected on).

Do you not understand that the trigonometry used does include the hypotenuse of the triangle in question? Look at the calculator again. All numbers are accounted for.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 07:17:00 AM
Even it it was, it would never be observed because human eyes cannot see infinitely.
I agree. That isn't the observation that matters though. The one that does is that the horizon actually does block out the sun. Which is not possible on a flat earth. As demonstrated. Will you continue to deny this?
The main reason being that the sun doesn't change size, correct?

The sun not changing size is proof that it is astronomically far away.

The sun not changing into an ellipse is proof that its not a projection onto a dome.

The sun being blocked out by the horizon is proof that the earth is not flat. Because flatness will not allow the sun to be blocked. It could get further away, but NOT blocked.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 07:27:59 AM
So do you understand now, that there are TWO distances on the horizon to factor into your math equation?  The distance of the land/sea and the distance of the sun beyond that.  The third would be the altitude of the sun (glass sky it's reflected on).

Do you not understand that the trigonometry used does include the hypotenuse of the triangle in question? Look at the calculator again. All numbers are accounted for.
No, the hypotenuse is shorter in your equation because you ended it at the horizon distance.  There is INCREASED distance when you factor in the sun BEYOND the horizon.

You don't understand it. Did the diagram even talk about the horizon at all? The point below the sun is simply the size of the flat earth, whatever that may be.

The location of a horizon on a flat earth is simply an apparent terminator. There isn't a distinct location for this. It really doesn't matter where it is. What matters is that if the earth is flat the sun never touches it.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Rama Set on June 11, 2014, 07:34:17 AM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.
How does your computer and the internet work, all gibberish?
The computer is real. It's made up of components put together by clever people. The real scientists and engineers of this world.
I don't have any issues with stuff like that. Just the bull shit artists.

That's too bad because once you accept modern computer technology you run in to the conflict of it being based on the science you reject. Awkward...
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 11, 2014, 07:38:12 AM
You don't understand it. Did the diagram even talk about the horizon at all? The point below the sun is simply the size of the flat earth, whatever that may be.

The location of a horizon on a flat earth is simply an apparent terminator. There isn't a distinct location for this. It really doesn't matter where it is. What matters is that if the earth is flat the sun never touches it.
So then no math equation is going to prove one way or the other if the horizon is only apparent.  This debate is futile.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 11, 2014, 07:40:43 AM
You don't understand it. Did the diagram even talk about the horizon at all? The point below the sun is simply the size of the flat earth, whatever that may be.

The location of a horizon on a flat earth is simply an apparent terminator. There isn't a distinct location for this. It really doesn't matter where it is. What matters is that if the earth is flat the sun never touches it.
So then no math equation is going to prove one way or the other if the horizon is only apparent.  This debate is futile.

No, it isn't. Why would a horizon be relevant in an equation about a sun that never even touches it? What we do know is the angle. That is the number we are solving for. It can't touch the horizon unless that angle is zero or less.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 11, 2014, 08:13:57 AM
You don't understand it. Did the diagram even talk about the horizon at all? The point below the sun is simply the size of the flat earth, whatever that may be.

The location of a horizon on a flat earth is simply an apparent terminator. There isn't a distinct location for this. It really doesn't matter where it is. What matters is that if the earth is flat the sun never touches it.
You're right, I looked at the circumference thinking it was the horizon.  I will continue this topic on that thread.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 11, 2014, 02:53:13 PM
Do either of you stop to check if you've actually typed out an argument before you hit the enter key?
Stop panicking and fretting.
Nobody's asking you to respond, just sit back and chill out and enjoy basking in your global Earth bull shit.

Absolutely incapable of posting an actual argument. I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at.
Of course I don't understand what you're getting at. It's all made up gibberish. It's not meant to be understood, it's just meant to be memorised and regurgitated which many of you lot do quite well at.
One day you might engage your brain. I doubt it but it is possible.

I'm actually not referring to arguments about the earth being round or flat here. When I said, "I wonder if you even understand what I'm getting at", I was talking about whether or not you understand what an argument is. I hope you understand now. Please post something relevant. The best way for you to prove we are wrong is to prove it. In order to prove it you need to demonstrate it.

You never do that though, you just constantly go on about indoctrination and tell stories about what you think reality is without ever attempting to demonstrate it.

For the record, my demonstration about how a sun cannot set on a flat earth was not memorized or regurgitated. It was demonstrated and it came from me, not a textbook. That is how you demonstrate something.
You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety.

You merely saying you do this and that whilst I supposedly don't is neither here nor there to me. You're nothing special, you're just an angry little punter having a 10 minute spell every now and again.

Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 13, 2014, 02:49:00 AM
Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Are you people CERTAIN that your Earth is a rotating globe and space is what they tell you? I think your answer would be, "yes we are certain." You will say that without actually knowing, except the indoctrinators told you how it all is, so it is; of that you are certain.

If it's good for the Goose, it's good for the Gander.

I'm 100% certain of the dome. I'm 100% certain space does not exist how we are told. I'm 100% certain that all life on Earth and all the things we see and feel, including sun/moon, etc, are all inside the dome.
We are sealed in. We do not walk about on a silly spinning ball with hot suns and balls of rocks floating around us.
I expect ignorant people to believe this. People that are ignorant of the truth because of the feeding of lies and not having the common sense to bother to see it all for the nonsense it really is.

I would expect anyone who has studied it, to actually clearly see it for the nonsense that it is, yet very few are awake to it and most refuse to question what their masters have put into their brains.

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 13, 2014, 05:01:16 AM
Could it be, that it's all about light ,, no light, no space,, (no space no time,)
think about true darkness,,

Imo it is light that creates this 3D' realm,,

We can't see light, we can only see the effects of it,, from bright to darkness' both aspects of light, as heat and coldness,,

Could it be that nobody knows' what's outer space,, or to say it better' outside our space,,, the big bang was to create the dome,,,,(our dome) ..

Could it be that we are the' center of our' universe,,,
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 13, 2014, 05:30:06 AM
Could it be, that it's all about light ,, no light, no space,, (no space no time,)
think about true darkness,,

Imo it is light that creates this 3D' realm,,
could it be that nobody knows' what's outer space,, or outside our space,,, the big bang was to create the (our) dome,,,,
Could it be that we are the' center of our' universe,,,
Well, we are our own universe. We are cocooned and see what we see from the light reflected over and around the dome which has to reflect back from the dome itself because it cannot enter through the dome into nothing, or like you mention...true darkness.

A medium is always needed to light otherwise it cannot exist as light at all.
That's why the speed of light is absolute nonsense. It's the speed of sound because it's sound that creates light due to friction. No friction, no sound. No sound and no light.
The speed of light from sound is dependent on the energy applied and how frequent.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 13, 2014, 05:38:02 AM
So to see a space you need light, so could it be that light creates space...and if you have space than there is time,,, I'm just googleing the brain,,,,
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 13, 2014, 05:41:56 AM
So to see a space you need light, so could it be that light creates space...and if you have space than there is time,,, I'm just googleing the brain,,,,
Yes, that's a good way of looking at it.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 13, 2014, 05:53:19 AM


so you cant have space without a light to see it,,, a blind man can't experience space,,,

I really appreciated the information you gave me.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 13, 2014, 06:34:49 AM


so you cant have space without a light to see it,,, a blind man can't experience space,,,

I really appreciated the information you gave me.
Basically you can't have space without a medium for light to reflect in. The space we are in is full of reflective properties, which is all the space we will see.

The so called outer space past the dome is nothing. We are simply a cell in suspended animation and our dome reflects everything off it.

It's like sitting in your room at night...no street lamps or anything and you have your lights turned on all bright inside. You can look out of that window and all you will see is what you are in...your own room, reflected back at you.
The outside cannot be seen. You know you can go outside...you know it's there, because you know it's full of matter.

Imagine if it wasn't full of matter. It was simple just true darkness or a true vacuum.
You still see your light reflected off your room window but you can't go out side of it, because your body requires the pressure you live under to operate. If you tried to step outside, your body would have to take the form of equal pressure...which means it would have to equalise with the pressure outside, which is zero...so you expand into zero as your cells open up to try to fill the void.

If that was equated to going up to the dome in a rocket, you would get so far and your rocket would have nothing left to give, because its fuel would simply expand to equalise , just like you would.

Nothing gets in and nothing gets out.

At this time, someone could be chatting just like us on an Earth somewhere in suspended animation just like we are. Maybe not exactly but possibly similar.
There could be trillions of Earth's were people are doing similar things. The problem is, we can only think this because we will never see it due to the perfect void/vacuum which will not allow light to travel.

Nothing can freely move in this vacuum but it can grow and shrink against it.
Maybe it's possible for Earth's to expand into each other like cells, I don't really know.

What I do know, is, we are being lied to and this Earth is not a free spinning ball around a ball of fire in space that has scattered particles. It's so nonsensical, it actually sickens me to think people believe this...as in...it sickens me that intelligent people who study it, actually subscribe to it and somehow are mesmerised into idolising their higher peers.

Logic isn't encouraged. Bull shit is; as long as it's official bull shit.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 13, 2014, 08:25:13 AM
Wow. What an exchange. All that evidence. All those diagrams and all that logic. /s
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 13, 2014, 08:29:05 AM
Wow. What an exchange. All that evidence. All those diagrams and all that logic. /s
Yep, they all help those who can observe reality. Try it sometime.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on June 13, 2014, 09:37:30 AM
Wow. What an exchange.
It must have felt like this in Ancient Greece as the great thinkers of the day took part in Socratic Dialogue.

The raw intellectual power of those two almost crackles off my screen.  It is thrilling to watch all of human knowledge being re-written in front of  my eyes. 

Truly we are in the presence of gods.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 14, 2014, 05:06:39 AM
Could it be that Ancient Greece' isn't that ancient, could it be that your history is a fake one,,,
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 14, 2014, 09:14:30 AM
We've come a long way in just a few hundred years. Does any rational person believe that we shoot into technology only in the past 100 years and yet there were all those absolute experts of planerty observations and what not from 500-ad and onwards just shooting out genius after genius.
I mean, does it seem possible that we just came out of the basic ages only 100 years ago?

We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on June 14, 2014, 10:38:05 AM
We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.
That, or you are a total fuckwit.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Rama Set on June 14, 2014, 10:56:23 AM
We've come a long way in just a few hundred years. Does any rational person believe that we shoot into technology only in the past 100 years and yet there were all those absolute experts of planerty observations and what not from 500-ad and onwards just shooting out genius after genius.
I mean, does it seem possible that we just came out of the basic ages only 100 years ago?

We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.

One way it the other, you have no idea what you are taking about; particularly with the history of astronomy in the 20th century.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on June 14, 2014, 11:24:34 AM
We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.
That, or you are a total fuckwit.

Jimmy, stop the personal attacks.  Consider this a warning. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 14, 2014, 11:04:35 PM
Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Are you people CERTAIN that your Earth is a rotating globe and space is what they tell you? I think your answer would be, "yes we are certain." You will say that without actually knowing, except the indoctrinators told you how it all is, so it is; of that you are certain.

If it's good for the Goose, it's good for the Gander.

I'm 100% certain of the dome. I'm 100% certain space does not exist how we are told. I'm 100% certain that all life on Earth and all the things we see and feel, including sun/moon, etc, are all inside the dome.
We are sealed in. We do not walk about on a silly spinning ball with hot suns and balls of rocks floating around us.
I expect ignorant people to believe this. People that are ignorant of the truth because of the feeding of lies and not having the common sense to bother to see it all for the nonsense it really is.

I would expect anyone who has studied it, to actually clearly see it for the nonsense that it is, yet very few are awake to it and most refuse to question what their masters have put into their brains.

You're 100% certain of those things, huh?  ::) Right.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 14, 2014, 11:06:46 PM
Could it be, that it's all about light ,, no light, no space,, (no space no time,)
think about true darkness,,

Imo it is light that creates this 3D' realm,,
could it be that nobody knows' what's outer space,, or outside our space,,, the big bang was to create the (our) dome,,,,
Could it be that we are the' center of our' universe,,,
Well, we are our own universe. We are cocooned and see what we see from the light reflected over and around the dome which has to reflect back from the dome itself because it cannot enter through the dome into nothing, or like you mention...true darkness.

A medium is always needed to light otherwise it cannot exist as light at all.
That's why the speed of light is absolute nonsense. It's the speed of sound because it's sound that creates light due to friction. No friction, no sound. No sound and no light.
The speed of light from sound is dependent on the energy applied and how frequent.

Your claims are evolving from insane to bat-shit crazy. How do you know all this about light being sound and so on? It sounds to me like the uber troll is trolling again.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 14, 2014, 11:07:45 PM


so you cant have space without a light to see it,,, a blind man can't experience space,,,

I really appreciated the information you gave me.

Stop feeding the troll. He's already full.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 14, 2014, 11:13:06 PM
We've come a long way in just a few hundred years. Does any rational person believe that we shoot into technology only in the past 100 years and yet there were all those absolute experts of planerty observations and what not from 500-ad and onwards just shooting out genius after genius.
I mean, does it seem possible that we just came out of the basic ages only 100 years ago?

We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.

Of course it's possible. Knowledge and technology aren't linear paths. Once one thing is known or one piece of technology is developed it branches out in many directions. Many of those branches diverge to form even more branches. Before you know it, that narrow bottleneck explodes into the forest of modern technology, with a massive body of knowledge budding in many directions.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 15, 2014, 06:23:47 AM
We've come a long way in just a few hundred years. Does any rational person believe that we shoot into technology only in the past 100 years and yet there were all those absolute experts of planerty observations and what not from 500-ad and onwards just shooting out genius after genius.
I mean, does it seem possible that we just came out of the basic ages only 100 years ago?

We are being told a pack of lies, one way or the other.

Of course it's possible. Knowledge and technology aren't linear paths. Once one thing is known or one piece of technology is developed it branches out in many directions. Many of those branches diverge to form even more branches. Before you know it, that narrow bottleneck explodes into the forest of modern technology, with a massive body of knowledge budding in many directions.
Our technology has been supressed severely in my opinion.

We are living on the dregs of the real technology and given it depending on how they want us to use it.
We are being lied as to how stuff works and lied as to what the reality of Earth is, because to have that knowledge would put people on a more equal path in finding out about the simplicity of science.

It's made as difficult as possible because bull shit really does baffle brains.
In a nutshell; all we are being taught, is how to get from A to B in life by using a spaghetti junction, because the straight path has a gate on which is bolted and guarded.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ocha on June 15, 2014, 07:31:41 AM
Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Are you people CERTAIN that your Earth is a rotating globe and space is what they tell you? I think your answer would be, "yes we are certain." You will say that without actually knowing, except the indoctrinators told you how it all is, so it is; of that you are certain.

If it's good for the Goose, it's good for the Gander.

I'm 100% certain of the dome. I'm 100% certain space does not exist how we are told. I'm 100% certain that all life on Earth and all the things we see and feel, including sun/moon, etc, are all inside the dome.
We are sealed in. We do not walk about on a silly spinning ball with hot suns and balls of rocks floating around us.
I expect ignorant people to believe this. People that are ignorant of the truth because of the feeding of lies and not having the common sense to bother to see it all for the nonsense it really is.

I would expect anyone who has studied it, to actually clearly see it for the nonsense that it is, yet very few are awake to it and most refuse to question what their masters have put into their brains.
You are 100% sure of something you or your FE friends invented, with absolutely no evidence to support it. I don't even know what observations led you to invent that dome thing.
We, on the other hand, are 100% sure of something that yes, we are told, but supported by tons of evidence, like experiments, pictures and videos, etc. And sorry, but it makes much more sense to me that the Earth is round than your "theory", if it can even be called that.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 15, 2014, 07:49:13 AM
Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Are you people CERTAIN that your Earth is a rotating globe and space is what they tell you? I think your answer would be, "yes we are certain." You will say that without actually knowing, except the indoctrinators told you how it all is, so it is; of that you are certain.

If it's good for the Goose, it's good for the Gander.

I'm 100% certain of the dome. I'm 100% certain space does not exist how we are told. I'm 100% certain that all life on Earth and all the things we see and feel, including sun/moon, etc, are all inside the dome.
We are sealed in. We do not walk about on a silly spinning ball with hot suns and balls of rocks floating around us.
I expect ignorant people to believe this. People that are ignorant of the truth because of the feeding of lies and not having the common sense to bother to see it all for the nonsense it really is.

I would expect anyone who has studied it, to actually clearly see it for the nonsense that it is, yet very few are awake to it and most refuse to question what their masters have put into their brains.
You are 100% sure of something you or your FE friends invented, with absolutely no evidence to support it. I don't even know what observations led you to invent that dome thing.
We, on the other hand, are 100% sure of something that yes, we are told, but supported by tons of evidence, like experiments, pictures and videos, etc. And sorry, but it makes much more sense to me that the Earth is round than your "theory", if it can even be called that.
Stephen Hawking can think up any old flannel and you people accept it, even though he can't do anything, or so it appears.

You're living on fantasy theories that you think have been peer reviewed legitimately.
All things start off as a theory. My dome is my theory, regardless of the science world saying that theory is basically fact and I have to prove it.

They fill you full of so much garbage that your heads are literally swimming and drowning in it all. Higgs boson particle was thought up by Peter Higgs, supposedly. He just thought, " hmmm, there has to be a god particle."

Build a big fake LHC and bang, there it is: found after many many years. What a complete load of old flannel.
The bull shit  list is literally endless with what the story tellers come out with. I feel sorry for the actual real scientists of this world who know the truth and can't say nothing, so have to plod away by following protocol.

Don't bother arguing it with me, argue it all with your own senses, because that's what need refreshing. If you didn't live in fantasy land you might actually see some of the stuff for the blatant tripe is clearly is.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ocha on June 15, 2014, 08:08:40 AM
Amongst the gluttony of other wacky ideas you have, you're wrong to claim that "You've demonstrated nothing factual. Nobody really has, because none of us really know the true Earth in its entirety." There IS someone who knows the true Earth in its entirety: YOU! You've said at least twice now (that I'm aware of; I'm 'certain' it's happened many more times) where you are "certain" of the 'truth' of your claims.
Are you people CERTAIN that your Earth is a rotating globe and space is what they tell you? I think your answer would be, "yes we are certain." You will say that without actually knowing, except the indoctrinators told you how it all is, so it is; of that you are certain.

If it's good for the Goose, it's good for the Gander.

I'm 100% certain of the dome. I'm 100% certain space does not exist how we are told. I'm 100% certain that all life on Earth and all the things we see and feel, including sun/moon, etc, are all inside the dome.
We are sealed in. We do not walk about on a silly spinning ball with hot suns and balls of rocks floating around us.
I expect ignorant people to believe this. People that are ignorant of the truth because of the feeding of lies and not having the common sense to bother to see it all for the nonsense it really is.

I would expect anyone who has studied it, to actually clearly see it for the nonsense that it is, yet very few are awake to it and most refuse to question what their masters have put into their brains.
You are 100% sure of something you or your FE friends invented, with absolutely no evidence to support it. I don't even know what observations led you to invent that dome thing.
We, on the other hand, are 100% sure of something that yes, we are told, but supported by tons of evidence, like experiments, pictures and videos, etc. And sorry, but it makes much more sense to me that the Earth is round than your "theory", if it can even be called that.
Stephen Hawking can think up any old flannel and you people accept it, even though he can't do anything, or so it appears.

You're living on fantasy theories that you think have been peer reviewed legitimately.
All things start off as a theory. My dome is my theory, regardless of the science world saying that theory is basically fact and I have to prove it.

They fill you full of so much garbage that your heads are literally swimming and drowning in it all. Higgs boson particle was thought up by Peter Higgs, supposedly. He just thought, " hmmm, there has to be a god particle."

Build a big fake LHC and bang, there it is: found after many many years. What a complete load of old flannel.
The bull shit  list is literally endless with what the story tellers come out with. I feel sorry for the actual real scientists of this world who know the truth and can't say nothing, so have to plod away by following protocol.

Don't bother arguing it with me, argue it all with your own senses, because that's what need refreshing. If you didn't live in fantasy land you might actually see some of the stuff for the blatant tripe is clearly is.
Can you please stop repeating the same shit about us being brainwashed, garbage in our heads, conspiracy, etc., please? The fact that you don't want it to be true isn't going to make it false. Earth is round. Your dome theory is pure BS, even more stupid than the standard FET.
I think about what they tell me. And of course, there are things I don't understand. Maybe a couple of things don't make sense to me, but not a single word of your theory makes any sense, so I'll stick with the round Earth
I don't have to argue with my senses, because I am not guided by them in this. I'd probably think Earth was flat if I did that. But i prefer to use my reasoning. Anyway I don't know how your senses can tell you there is an ice dome covering Earth.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 15, 2014, 08:24:59 AM
Can you please stop repeating the same shit about us being brainwashed, garbage in our heads, conspiracy, etc., please?
I'm only repeating the truth. You are severely brainwashed and do have heads full of garbage where this stuff is concerned. You may be intelligent but your naivety is off the chart.
The fact that you don't want it to be true isn't going to make it false. Earth is round. Your dome theory is pure BS, even more stupid than the standard FET.
Earth maybe round. It's just not a rotating globe.
 
I think about what they tell me. And of course, there are things I don't understand. Maybe a couple of things don't make sense to me, but not a single word of your theory makes any sense, so I'll stick with the round Earth
It doesn't make sense because you refuse to engage your brain into it and are also scared of upsetting your peers if you agree to anything other than what you were programmed to accept.

I don't have to argue with my senses, because I am not guided by them in this. I'd probably think Earth was flat if I did that. But i prefer to use my reasoning.
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.
Anyway I don't know how your senses can tell you there is an ice dome covering Earth.
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
You are scared of seeing science in it's easy form because that makes every person privvy to it all, which then destroys the hype that scientific people put upon each other, believing they are smarter than the average bear. It's nonsense.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ocha on June 15, 2014, 08:50:33 AM
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
Not only you don't provide evidence, but you don't even say why you think there is a dome. How am I supposed to understand you then? You just say "there has to be an ice dome", but you complain that we don't understand you. I have tried to think what would happen if the Earth was flat, but it is a stupid theory to me. For crying out loud, there are a lot of things your "theory" can't even explain!
I am not the one
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.
Don't you realise YOU are the one dismissing any picture, evidence or whatever just because you are absolutely convinced the Earth is flat? I have tried to think like you, I tried, but it didn't make sense to me. C'mon scepti, just try to think for a moment that the Earth is round. You are the one who has to open his mind. You are using your reasoning, that's for sure. But you are using it wrong.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 15, 2014, 09:02:42 AM
He thinks it has to be a dome because he doesn't understand what is meant by the word vacuum. He thinks it means perfect vacuum, and even if it was that, it wouldn't suffice for his purposes since what he means to say is absolute nothingness instead of a vacuum. And even if it was absolute nothingness then there is no reason that an ice dome should be allowed to exist in it anyway. Furthermore, he gets his incorrect interpretation about what is meant by vacuum from RE science anyway.

It's a multifaceted fail.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 15, 2014, 12:00:03 PM
I'm only repeating the truth. You are severely brainwashed and do have heads full of garbage where this stuff is concerned. You may be intelligent but your naivety is off the chart.

No, you're only repeating utter bull crap.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Earth maybe round. It's just not a rotating globe.

Yeah, we know, like a pizza in the sky. Forever tossed upwards towards the great glass dome made of pixie dust.  ::)
 
Quote from: Sceptimatic
It doesn't make sense because you refuse to engage your brain into it and are also scared of upsetting your peers if you agree to anything other than what you were programmed to accept.

I'm pretty sure that no one here is "scared of upsetting their peers" by 'learning the truth'. I'm pretty sure that affliction only plagues you.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.

Reasoning tells us that for the entire world of scientists to be in on some great conspiracy to brainwash the masses into thinking science is "hard" and that the Earth is a ball is absolutely absurd. Science is applied methodology. Science is neither "hard" nor "easy". It simply IS. Anyone with sufficient motivation can actively partake in science.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
You are scared of seeing science in it's easy form because that makes every person privvy to it all, which then destroys the hype that scientific people put upon each other, believing they are smarter than the average bear. It's nonsense.

And, again, your 100% certainty claim of stuff you have no evidence for (other than your own hyper-paranoia brain disorder) makes ME 100% certain that you're either outright lying or 100% out of touch with reality. I'm leaning towards the latter.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: th3rm0m3t3r0 on June 15, 2014, 05:39:23 PM
I'm only repeating the truth. You are severely brainwashed and do have heads full of garbage where this stuff is concerned. You may be intelligent but your naivety is off the chart.

No, you're only repeating utter bull crap.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Earth maybe round. It's just not a rotating globe.

Yeah, we know, like a pizza in the sky. Forever tossed upwards towards the great glass dome made of pixie dust.  ::)
 
Quote from: Sceptimatic
It doesn't make sense because you refuse to engage your brain into it and are also scared of upsetting your peers if you agree to anything other than what you were programmed to accept.

I'm pretty sure that no one here is "scared of upsetting their peers" by 'learning the truth'. I'm pretty sure that affliction only plagues you.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.

Reasoning tells us that for the entire world of scientists to be in on some great conspiracy to brainwash the masses into thinking science is "hard" and that the Earth is a ball is absolutely absurd. Science is applied methodology. Science is neither "hard" nor "easy". It simply IS. Anyone with sufficient motivation can actively partake in science.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
You are scared of seeing science in it's easy form because that makes every person privvy to it all, which then destroys the hype that scientific people put upon each other, believing they are smarter than the average bear. It's nonsense.

And, again, your 100% certainty claim of stuff you have no evidence for (other than your own hyper-paranoia brain disorder) makes ME 100% certain that you're either outright lying or 100% out of touch with reality. I'm leaning towards the latter.

Or he's just trolling you.
Very successfully, I might add.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: robintex on June 15, 2014, 05:41:21 PM
I'm only repeating the truth. You are severely brainwashed and do have heads full of garbage where this stuff is concerned. You may be intelligent but your naivety is off the chart.

No, you're only repeating utter bull crap.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Earth maybe round. It's just not a rotating globe.

Yeah, we know, like a pizza in the sky. Forever tossed upwards towards the great glass dome made of pixie dust.  ::)
 
Quote from: Sceptimatic
It doesn't make sense because you refuse to engage your brain into it and are also scared of upsetting your peers if you agree to anything other than what you were programmed to accept.

I'm pretty sure that no one here is "scared of upsetting their peers" by 'learning the truth'. I'm pretty sure that affliction only plagues you.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.

Reasoning tells us that for the entire world of scientists to be in on some great conspiracy to brainwash the masses into thinking science is "hard" and that the Earth is a ball is absolutely absurd. Science is applied methodology. Science is neither "hard" nor "easy". It simply IS. Anyone with sufficient motivation can actively partake in science.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
You are scared of seeing science in it's easy form because that makes every person privvy to it all, which then destroys the hype that scientific people put upon each other, believing they are smarter than the average bear. It's nonsense.

And, again, your 100% certainty claim of stuff you have no evidence for (other than your own hyper-paranoia brain disorder) makes ME 100% certain that you're either outright lying or 100% out of touch with reality. I'm leaning towards the latter.

My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ocha on June 15, 2014, 07:19:32 PM
My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.
I think people who created this page don't think Earth is actually flat, but they were joined by people who do and trolls who pretend to be FErs
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on June 15, 2014, 07:27:07 PM
My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.
I think people who created this page don't think Earth is actually flat, but they were joined by people who do and trolls who pretend to be FErs

That sounds about right.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on June 16, 2014, 02:05:28 AM
We are RE's  and the truth , no one comes to the Father but through us,,,

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein


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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: guv on June 16, 2014, 03:10:14 AM
 Might be a tax dodge, cults pay no tax.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Big Blue Marble on June 16, 2014, 01:08:46 PM
I'm only repeating the truth. You are severely brainwashed and do have heads full of garbage where this stuff is concerned. You may be intelligent but your naivety is off the chart.

No, you're only repeating utter bull crap.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Earth maybe round. It's just not a rotating globe.

Yeah, we know, like a pizza in the sky. Forever tossed upwards towards the great glass dome made of pixie dust.  ::)
 
Quote from: Sceptimatic
It doesn't make sense because you refuse to engage your brain into it and are also scared of upsetting your peers if you agree to anything other than what you were programmed to accept.

I'm pretty sure that no one here is "scared of upsetting their peers" by 'learning the truth'. I'm pretty sure that affliction only plagues you.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
You aren't using your reasoning. You are simply regurgitating what has been programmed into your head by whatever means officially put out. Let your real senses guide you and you will see things differently. Don;t even start to do it until you strengthen up, as you are extremely weak minded at the moment. It doesn't always have to be this way. It's basically down to you.

Reasoning tells us that for the entire world of scientists to be in on some great conspiracy to brainwash the masses into thinking science is "hard" and that the Earth is a ball is absolutely absurd. Science is applied methodology. Science is neither "hard" nor "easy". It simply IS. Anyone with sufficient motivation can actively partake in science.

Quote from: Sceptimatic
Because there has to be an ice dome. It is 100% certain. There is no other way. The problem you have is by not understanding why it is this way, because your head is full of ball turning sea and greenery that you allegedly saw in space pictures, going around a humongous ball of fire just burning away in your space.
You are scared of seeing science in it's easy form because that makes every person privvy to it all, which then destroys the hype that scientific people put upon each other, believing they are smarter than the average bear. It's nonsense.

And, again, your 100% certainty claim of stuff you have no evidence for (other than your own hyper-paranoia brain disorder) makes ME 100% certain that you're either outright lying or 100% out of touch with reality. I'm leaning towards the latter.

My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.

It really bothers me that I can't decide which title is more fitting for the FE'ers: Assholes or dumbasses. If they're "flat" out lying they are complete assholes. But if they genuinely deny the world of evidence for a round Earth and honestly believe their rhetoric, well, you can fill in the rest...
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sokarul on June 16, 2014, 06:01:48 PM
We are RE's  and the truth , no one comes to the Father but through us,,,

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein


(http://sarahelengornrealestate.com/media/blog/250/raw/19250_the-pope-makes-history.jpg)

I'm not sure if you are aware of it or not, but he is no longer the pope.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on June 16, 2014, 11:50:52 PM
My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.



Why would you frequent a website in which you don't believe the people there genuinely believe the stuff they are saying?  Are you looking for attention?  Or, maybe it is you who is doing the trolling? 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 17, 2014, 06:11:24 AM
Excellent point Jroa.  It is the REs that come here and talk smack who are the REAL Trolls.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on June 17, 2014, 06:25:33 AM
Excellent point Jroa.  It is the REs that come here and talk smack who are the REAL Trolls.

We aren't pretending to be something we are not. We know the earth is round, we believe it is round and we use arguments about the earth being round.

That is not a troll.

A troll is someone like jroa, thermometer or Vauxhall. People who know the earth is round, believe the earth is round but use arguments about the earth being flat.

The definition of troll is all about false intent.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: guv on June 17, 2014, 07:22:35 AM
   Just off to the hardware to get a flat general purpose metal file. Can anyone remember there name.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on June 17, 2014, 09:38:39 AM
   Just off to the hardware to get a flat general purpose metal file. Can anyone remember there name.

I believe most of mine are Nicholson.  Or, are you asking for the name of the type of file?  If so, I think you are describing a bastard file. 

Excellent point Jroa.  It is the REs that come here and talk smack who are the REAL Trolls.

I am in love with EarthIsASpaceship.  Prove me wrong. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on June 17, 2014, 09:46:22 AM
   Just off to the hardware to get a flat general purpose metal file. Can anyone remember there name.
Yes, it's called a truth file. Don't buy the globufile; they promise you amazing results but fall apart and crumble. The packaging looks superb though.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ocha on June 18, 2014, 02:08:26 PM
A question to the ice dome believers: Wouldn't radars detect this ice dome? Most military radars, airborne, shipborne, ground radars, etc. have a range over 100 miles. Weather radars in commercial aircraft also have long range. Are all of its operators in the conspiracy? xD Or is the ice dome made of an special stealth material?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Moosedrool on June 18, 2014, 02:22:39 PM
First of all, not many sibscribe to it. I do and one or two others on here.
The dome is ICE, made up of frozen helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc depending on positition in the natural build of it.
It covers all the solid ground we exist on to a unknown height. Maybe 50 miles high as a wild guess.
There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense.

What does not make any sense is an atmosphere around a ball that somehow stays in place as a gas. It's preposterous and people really need to start thinking for themselves instead of mocking the dome, seriously.

I remember a while back a long stretched out discussion with you where you where convinced about your own made up thing called denpressure. If I can recall correctly you also mentioned that no matter or human beings can actually exit atmospheric pressure conditions. You stated that things evaporate and fall back into the atmosphere. Is this still your belief?

I'm just concerned about this "dome" that you guys refer to and its composition.

Also if this dome has the ability to accurately reflect things around itself such as the Octans constellation that can be seen due south from South-America, Australia, New Zealand, Madagascar an Southern Africa. Where is the reflection of the Sun itself?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: robintex on June 18, 2014, 07:05:07 PM
My idea (which I won't call a theory,  hypothesis or whatever) is that this website is just run by a bunch of people who no more believe in a so-called "Flat Earth Society" than anyone. But they just think of the most absurd ideas for the sake of argument. And of course they are never going to admit it. If they did , this website would collapse. Either that or Big Blue Marble is right on all counts and they really do have a problem.




Why would you frequent a website in which you don't believe the people there genuinely believe the stuff they are saying?  Are you looking for attention?  Or, maybe it is you who is doing the trolling?


None of the above. I just visit this website for the fun and entertainment from the escape from reality of the FE's. They are the real trolls. I think that may be the general opinion by most visitors to this website. That is , this website is - quote - "Either one big hoax or one big joke."- unquote. That's what makes this website such a fun place to visit.  ;D :D

I haven't checked it out, but maybe there are other websites besides this one   that are also - quote - "Either one big hoax or one big joke." - unquote.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: EarthIsASpaceship on June 22, 2014, 10:29:05 AM
I am in love with EarthIsASpaceship.  Prove me wrong.
What?!  How did I miss this? I'm in love with you too Jroa.  :-*
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Madeleine Alec on July 09, 2014, 04:29:11 PM
First of all, not many sibscribe to it. I do and one or two others on here.
The dome is ICE, made up of frozen helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc depending on positition in the natural build of it.
It covers all the solid ground we exist on to a unknown height. Maybe 50 miles high as a wild guess.
There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense.

What does not make any sense is an atmosphere around a ball that somehow stays in place as a gas. It's preposterous and people really need to start thinking for themselves instead of mocking the dome, seriously.

Gravity makes no sense, but the Sun not melting the ice right away is the definition of logic.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 02:47:52 AM
First of all, not many sibscribe to it. I do and one or two others on here.
The dome is ICE, made up of frozen helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc depending on positition in the natural build of it.
It covers all the solid ground we exist on to a unknown height. Maybe 50 miles high as a wild guess.
There is definitely a dome, of this I am certain, because it makes perfect sense.

What does not make any sense is an atmosphere around a ball that somehow stays in place as a gas. It's preposterous and people really need to start thinking for themselves instead of mocking the dome, seriously.

Gravity makes no sense, but the Sun not melting the ice right away is the definition of logic.
It's only logical to those that are prepared to think and understand what I've already explained about it all.
For clarity, just for you, I'll say this and see if you grasp it, since you wonder about a melting dome.
Ask yourself why the tops of mountains always have snow on them despite the sun being over head.
Ask yourself why you can freeze to death in the hold of a plane at high altitude.

Once you grasp this, you might understand why the dome isn't going to melt, especially when the dome REFLECTS light. It reflects light because it's a perfect mirror.
It's a perfect mirror because the blackness outside of the dome that you call space, is not space at all, it's a perfect vacuum that you see as black, that cannot absorb light nor heat, because it's not a medium and not a colour, except pure darkness to your eyes that you perceive as the colour, black.

Any melting is minor from the inside ice skin due to changes from solid to liquid to gaseous states of the hydrogen/helium gases that are always pushed up and always replenishing , or in your case, always replacing the skin on the inside.

It's like natures window cleaner, or mirror polisher and the drips or icicles that form, fall off as time goes on, then fall back into the gaseous atmosphere of the lighter elements, that you see as shooting stars or comets, etc.

Closing your mind off will render you unable to understand it, because your mind has been saturated to death with the space/Earth science that you trust in, yet cannot verify yourself.
The problem is, the masses think on your lines, so following that train of thought is much easier than even allowing yourself to ever look for alternative answers.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 04:43:46 AM
I'm a little bit sorry about what I'm going to say, but you seem to be really, really retarded when it comes to pretty any kind of science.

Ask yourself why the tops of mountains always have snow on them despite the sun being over head.

Snow absorbs a tiny fraction of the sun shining on it, so it heats up very slowly. What melts snow anywhere else is actually warm air. That's why after winter some heaps of snow can literally take weeks to melt if spring is rather cold(just slightly above 0*C). The mountain tops are covered by snow because air around them is way below 0. Therefore, instead of melting snow, it actually redistributes heat away from it, making it last longer without melting. So, this one was slightly justified, as the snow really does not absorb lots of heat from sunlight, but this is by no means the most important factor.

Ask yourself why you can freeze to death in the hold of a plane at high altitude.

This is hilariously simple. There is no source of heat to help you, but there is incredibly cold air all around you. It can go as far as -50*C at the cruise altitude. It takes away your heat very quickly.

Once you grasp this, you might understand why the dome isn't going to melt, especially when the dome REFLECTS light. It reflects light because it's a perfect mirror.

So is it a perfect mirror, as in reflecting everything and transmitting(if you are not familiar with the term - letting some light pass through it to the other side) or absorbing nothing? And it does not emit any "own" additional light, right? Do i understand it correctly? Then why is it not possible to look up and a bit to the side and see a reflection of the ground lying somewhere else? Have you ever been inside a mirror room? Or seen something like the inside of a mirror sphere? It looks nothing like an almost perfectly black sky you can see at night. Actually if there is any source of light somewhere inside the room(and in your case that would be the Sun, somewhere inside the dome), the only way for the walls to seem pitch black would be for them to either transmit or absorb ALL the light shining on them, reflecting nothing. Or not to exist at all, which is what RErs go with.

It's a perfect mirror because the blackness outside of the dome that you call space, is not space at all, it's a perfect vacuum that you see as black, that cannot absorb light nor heat, because it's not a medium and not a colour, except pure darkness to your eyes that you perceive as the colour, black.

What lies beyond it is completely unimportant in this case. It could be perfect emptiness or blazing inferno, it still wouldn't affect our perception of what this perfect mirror shows us reflected from somewhere on "our"(inner) side of the dome. Or are you now saying it is not that perfect? Either way, whether a mirror is bad, good or perfect has NOTHING to do with what lies beyond it. It could only affect its temperature by heating or further cooling it, but a mirror susceptible to such effects can by no means be called "perfect".

But, maybe more importantly, if this dome is so perfect, how the f*ck do you know what lies beyond it?!
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 04:56:23 AM
I'm a little bit sorry about what I'm going to say, but you seem to be really, really retarded when it comes to pretty any kind of science.

Ask yourself why the tops of mountains always have snow on them despite the sun being over head.

Snow absorbs a tiny fraction of the sun shining on it, so it heats up very slowly. What melts snow anywhere else is actually warm air. That's why after winter some heaps of snow can literally take weeks to melt if spring is rather cold(just slightly above 0*C). The mountain tops are covered by snow because air around them is way below 0. Therefore, instead of melting snow, it actually redistributes heat away from it, making it last longer without melting. So, this one was slightly justified, as the snow really does not absorb lots of heat from sunlight, but this is by no means the most important factor.

Ask yourself why you can freeze to death in the hold of a plane at high altitude.

This is hilariously simple. There is no source of heat to help you, but there is incredibly cold air all around you. It can go as far as -50*C at the cruise altitude. It takes away your heat very quickly.

Once you grasp this, you might understand why the dome isn't going to melt, especially when the dome REFLECTS light. It reflects light because it's a perfect mirror.

So is it a perfect mirror, as in reflecting everything and transmitting(if you are not familiar with the term - letting some light pass through it to the other side) or absorbing nothing? And it does not emit any "own" additional light, right? Do i understand it correctly? Then why is it not possible to look up and a bit to the side and see a reflection of the ground lying somewhere else? Have you ever been inside a mirror room? Or seen something like the inside of a mirror sphere? It looks nothing like an almost perfectly black sky you can see at night. Actually if there is any source of light somewhere inside the room(and in your case that would be the Sun, somewhere inside the dome), the only way for the walls to seem pitch black would be for them to either transmit or absorb ALL the light shining on them, reflecting nothing. Or not to exist at all, which is what RErs go with.

It's a perfect mirror because the blackness outside of the dome that you call space, is not space at all, it's a perfect vacuum that you see as black, that cannot absorb light nor heat, because it's not a medium and not a colour, except pure darkness to your eyes that you perceive as the colour, black.

What lies beyond it is completely unimportant in this case. It could be perfect emptiness or blazing inferno, it still wouldn't affect our perception of what this perfect mirror shows us reflected from somewhere on "our"(inner) side of the dome. Or are you now saying it is not that perfect? Either way, whether a mirror is bad, good or perfect has NOTHING to do with what lies beyond it. It could only affect its temperature by heating or further cooling it, but a mirror susceptible to such effects can by no means be called "perfect".

But, maybe more importantly, if this dome is so perfect, how the f*ck do you know what lies beyond it?!
Just going by the first line of your reply, I feel it's absolutely pointless explaining anything to you. You haven't even answered what I've been going on about with any real purpose, except to say that things get cold, so there.
It's implanted into the heads of you people to let people know they are retards before answering the questions with what you decide is right.

Just say you don't understand it all and you should have asked me to clarify points you obviously haven't grasped, yet decided to answer without any real purpose.
You started off on the wrong foot with me, so stick to your globe and be happy with it. You don't need any clarification on anything, so why are you here, as you obviously have no interest other than to sit behind your computer calling people retards.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 05:28:32 AM
You have seemed confident in your previous posts that you know well why such a dome wouldn't melt, due to it reflecting all the light and whatnot. Then you have created a post which included two simple questions in the beginning, which I have in detail answered, and a tangled, inconsistent mess later. It is from your previous absolute confidence about the behavior of light, reflections etc. followed by the third and fourth partial quote included in my post that I concluded you have no idea what you are talking about, yet feel adamant that what you say is right. This indicates either a temporary lack of ability to think clearly(maybe you haven't slept in a ling time or been drinking recently), or a mental problem. It is like saying "this metal box is absolutely lightproof(is this the right word?) and there is no way for light to go through it, but I see what is inside of it just by looking at its surface". I apologize for being more harsh than necessary in the way I worded it. For that, I am sorry.

I have pointed out why your description of the behavior of light bouncing of the dome and the way it interacts with the dome is internally inconsistent in the most vital points: does it reflect everything, or absorb everything; does it prevent any light from passing through it, or is it perfectly possible to see what lies beyond it. To this part of my post, you have answered nothing.

This time I ask politely: could you please answer the two questions about snow and planes, if you think the real reason is different from what I have written? And then, could you clarify your previous post regarding these subjects about the dome:

does it reflect, or absorb all the light hitting it? If it reflects all the light, why doesn't it look very bright, instead of being pitch black at night? If it absorbs everything and therefore looks black, why doesn't it heat up? Air up there would be bery thin and it almost wouldn't conduct heat at all. Radiation amounts to a tiny part of heat distribution in case of most objects, so it would have to be conducted away through the dome itself. Then why isn't the area around where it is connected to the Earth hot from all the heat "flowing down", but rather freezing cold?

does it prevent any light from passing through it, or is it perfectly possible to see what lies beyond it? If it is perfectly possible to look beyond it, how can it reflect a measurable amount of light at all? If it is impenetrable to light, how could you know that there is emptiness behind it?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 05:53:07 AM
Macpie: Light is waves. Longer waves and shorter waves is what creates the colours we see by the mixing of them. It also creates waves we cannot see but feel.

Mix one set of waves together and you get white light. Mix another set and you get black. I'll go into this bit later. For now though, let's concentrate on the dome and the vacuum of what you people call space.

Black on Earth is the absorbance of all colour waves. A true black, niot a shiny reflective black, which is key, because there is no light without reflection off something. there has to be something for light to even exist to reflect off, which is why you see what you see.
Heat is light or light is heat. It's waves. It's friction and frequency.

In your vacuum of space that you believe exists, it is a perfect vacuum that my ice dome ends at, due to the last elements Earth gives out being the lightest and most expanded.
Because those elements are fully expanded into their natural state, they freeze against the vacuum which to us is blackness, yet it's only blackness because space is the absence of all light waves. They cannot pass through it because it does not exist as anything. It's not tehre, except in our heads.
Earth is simply in suspended animation.
All the light from Earth itself is reflected back from that dome because the ice itself is a reflector. A solid, clear reflector, aided by the perfect backing a glass can have which is something that cannot pass through it, as in a vacuum, so anything heading that way, is seen by us.

At night when the reflected sun has moved, we see the reflections of Earth's central crystals, as points of light and anything else up there that causes a reflection, as in falling ice crystals that friction burn away back into gases.

By day, the short wave of the reflected sun turns the sky blue so it wips out the smaller points of light we see at night.

As for snow on mountains, it's due to lack of agitation of moelcules due to expansion. There are less to expand and contract , so once the sun moves away, they freeze due to the lack of friction. Once the suns reflected light comes back, they expand a little again and friction starts, which melts the snow/ice a little and it all trickles down.

If you don't understand it, then ask a specific question, one question at a time so I can clarify. Come back with any retard crap again and you're gone, simple as that.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 06:53:31 AM
Mix one set of waves together and you get white light.

Yes, pretty much true. And I realize the visible light is just a tiny fraction of the EM spectrum, but thanks anyway.

Mix another set and you get black.

WRONG. The only way to completely cancel out a wave is by creating its exact copy offset by half its period, so the peaks of the wave will cancel each other out. It would be virtually impossible to cancel out a beam of sunlight by combining it with anything else unless it was carefully aligned first(and I mean both beams).

Black on Earth is the absorbance of all colour waves. A true black, niot a shiny reflective black, which is key, because there is no light without reflection off something. there has to be something for light to even exist to reflect off, which is why you see what you see.
Heat is light or light is heat. It's waves. It's friction and frequency.

I don't exactly know what you mean here. You say a complete black perceived for example in a perfectly insulated, cooled-down chamber on Earth is something different than what we see when looking up at night(barring some amount of light scattered through the air)? Any black you can perceive comes from the same thing - there are no photons of a given color hitting your retinas, regardless of there maybe being other ones, like UV. So a perfectly absorbing Dome, dome perfectly reflecting light to some other place, or no dome at all, would result in the same thing, wouldn't it? No light shining onto you from that particular dimension.

In your vacuum of space that you believe exists, it is a perfect vacuum that my ice dome ends at, due to the last elements Earth gives out being the lightest and most expanded.
Because those elements are fully expanded into their natural state, they freeze against the vacuum which to us is blackness, yet it's only blackness because space is the absence of all light waves. They cannot pass through it because it does not exist as anything. It's not there, except in our heads.
Earth is simply in suspended animation.

So the outside surface of the Dome is the edge of the Universe in the sense that everything that ever was, is or will be, is restricted to happen inside? Seems weird and completely illogical. Such ice would be possible to drill through or melt. What would happen then? If one tried to crawl through such a hole, would he be annihilated upon leaving the boundary, leaving absolutely nothing behind, or would he simple reach an impassable barrier, like the very fabric of space-time tangled around itself? And if the Dome perfectly reflects light, how can you know anything what lies beyond? There is no way to create a true one-way mirror, which would reflect all light towards Earth and let something in from the other side which you could measure or analyze, as it would oppose one of the most basic laws of thermodynamics - it would cause the total entropy to lower. Some scientists claim that such a mirror is indeed possible, but it would greatly heat up until it melted.

All the light from Earth itself is reflected back from that dome because the ice itself is a reflector. A solid, clear reflector, aided by the perfect backing a glass can have which is something that cannot pass through it, as in a vacuum, so anything heading that way, is seen by us.

Again, I don't quite understand. English is not my native language, the second sentence seems too tangled for me to get what you wanted to say. Could you word it in a bit simpler way? I get that the dome acts as a perfectly machined mirror, but I am lost beyond that :(

As for snow on mountains, it's due to lack of agitation of molecules due to expansion. There are less to expand and contract, so once the sun moves away, they freeze due to the lack of friction. Once the suns reflected light comes back, they expand a little again and friction starts, which melts the snow/ice a little and it all trickles down.

What expansion are you talking about? Water even contracts upon melting. That is why you can drop some ice into a glass, fill it up right to the edge with water, and no water would spill as the ice melts - despite some ice was "above" the glass as well. Moreover, friction is a macroscopic thing. On molecular level you can only talk about chemical and physical bonds, as well as oscillations. These oscillations, or average kinetic energy of molecules, are what we define the temperature around. Sunlight does increase the oscillation rate, heating the snow up, but it is way not enough to straight up melt it when the air is that cold. Especially that only a tiny fraction of sunlight is absorbed by snow. There are three ways of heat transport: radiation, for example sunlight or what microwave ovens use; convection, which revolves around warmer and colder portions of fluids mixing and evening out their temperature, and direct transfer between molecules, where neighbouring molecules kind of bump into each other, sharing some of theirs kinetic energy. In case of snow radiation is pretty much irrelevant compared to the cooling from very cold air, as almost no light is absorbed compared to how much cold air can take. If I remember correctly this is one of the reasons why sometimes after long periods of very cold and bright winter weather you can see something looking like thin sheets of ice lying atop a very "empty" layer of snow - the sunlight penetrates the snow a bit, so for example 1cm layer is heated up a bit. The top is constantly kept cool by the blowing freezing winds, but not the lower layer, which can melt a bit. It really does happen, and can be observed pretty often if there was no new snow falling, but the temperature was far below zero.

Sorry for the off-top, if you want to get back to discussing the Dome alone, just say a word. And if I am mistaken about something here, I would be glad if you corrected me describinh what was wrong and what it should be.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on July 10, 2014, 08:39:00 AM
Next time you could say,,

Hi, I am new on here. What an amazing site, stops me feeling so insane and alone. Thanks for such an indepth post, I find it refreshing these days for someone to steer away from bullet points, especially when they have such an engaging writing style. I aren't ready to throw away my helio model yet but even that completely obliterates nearly all known space travel once you scratch the surface. I have read about 80 books on cosmology, quantum physics etc and am hugely embarassed for myself as I have been blinkered. Thanks again, even if your assumptions turn out to be rubbish, it gets you thinking, I think that could be' critical..  ;D
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on July 10, 2014, 08:44:21 AM
An illustration


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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 08:49:45 AM
Macpie: if you are lost on any of my points then ask me the questions on it, one question at a time so I don't have to answer them all together by multi quoting.
Whatever you don't understand of what I'm saying, simply ask one question, then I'll deal with that and then you can ask another. This way it keeps from gettijng out of hand.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sokarul on July 10, 2014, 09:04:14 AM
Black is the absence of light. It is not a mixture of waves. Go into a room at night. Turn on the light and the room will light up. Turn off the light and the room becomes black. Understand?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 09:10:29 AM
Black is the absence of light. It is not a mixture of waves. Go into a room at night. Turn on the light and the room will light up. Turn off the light and the room becomes black. Understand?

Well, it is a good example of what is clearly lacking in scepti's knowledge about essential optics, if he wants to discuss such a thing as a massive sky mirror...
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 09:21:36 AM
Black is the absence of light. It is not a mixture of waves. Go into a room at night. Turn on the light and the room will light up. Turn off the light and the room becomes black. Understand?
Yes, black in the absence of reflected light. On Earth at sea level (for instance) you turn on a light in a dark room and the room will light up if there is something to reflect the light which could be dust particles or a white wall, etc.
In a true vacuum, no light can exist because there is nothing to reflect off. Put an ice dome between it and you will reflect light from it, back at you and around, through atmosphere.

About the waves. there's a primary positive spectrum and a primary negative. Did you know this?
Guess what the primary negative primary colour waves do when mixed?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 09:23:57 AM
Black is the absence of light. It is not a mixture of waves. Go into a room at night. Turn on the light and the room will light up. Turn off the light and the room becomes black. Understand?

Well, it is a good example of what is clearly lacking in scepti's knowledge about essential optics, if he wants to discuss such a thing as a massive sky mirror...
Try to understand it instead of taking the big scientist stance and you may grasp it. I won't hold my breath because you are here for the very same reasons as most. To simply try and ridicule. It only works in your own mind because that stance just makes me laugh.
Either you want answers and debate or you want to argue and attempt ridicule, take your pick so I know your stance and can deal with you accordingly.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 09:36:16 AM
Fine. A straight question, i hope: what observations lead you to the conclusion that there is a perfectly empty vacuum beyond the dome, if, as you claim, there is no way of reaching beyond it?

For all we know, if such a dome really existed and behaved as you say, nothing on the outside could affect us and be measured. A hundred million devils could be sitting on their asses there doing nothing, and there would be no way of finding out. I think the only valid reason for saying "there is nothing there" is after you have checked really well and actually could not find anything. And even then, the best you could do, is "according to our current level of knowledge, and current technological limitations, there seems to be nothing there". Instead, you seem to postulate that there is nothing there, and at the same time agree it is impossible to actually check. That is massive inconsequence on your side.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 10, 2014, 09:43:22 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 10:08:34 AM
Fine. A straight question, i hope: what observations lead you to the conclusion that there is a perfectly empty vacuum beyond the dome, if, as you claim, there is no way of reaching beyond it?

For all we know, if such a dome really existed and behaved as you say, nothing on the outside could affect us and be measured. A hundred million devils could be sitting on their asses there doing nothing, and there would be no way of finding out. I think the only valid reason for saying "there is nothing there" is after you have checked really well and actually could not find anything. And even then, the best you could do, is "according to our current level of knowledge, and current technological limitations, there seems to be nothing there". Instead, you seem to postulate that there is nothing there, and at the same time agree it is impossible to actually check. That is massive inconsequence on your side.
First of all, observations in evacuated chambers with a variety of elements can answer a lot of your questions.
For instance: you know that water can boil under low pressure. You also know that reducing that pressure even more, will also freeze other elements.

The reason this happens is due to expansion of molecules. We know we survive at the bottom of the dome, on land because the molecules in gases or air to us, are dense enough to keep us alive.
We also know that standing in a chamber under a small amount of evacuation will make us expand and die.
The higher you go UP, the less condensed the molecules are, until the vary last molecules or elements hit a vacuum. A true vacuum.
Because the last elements are fully expanded, they create a skin against the vacuum, because the vacuum is void of all matter and the elements Earth pushes out are the last which are pushed towards that vacuum, resulting in the dome of frozen hydrogen/helium.

No devils sat on the top, no free moving objects, except maybe objects like Earth's just like we are stuck in suspended animation, so would they be. All Earth can do is expand and shrink against the void, just like (possibly) trillions upon trillions of similar.

The arrogance of the science world does not allow you to think aloud on this. It's their way or ridicule, no matter how many people argue that they welcome theories. the truth is, they don't.

You believe you know what's what because you bought into the magic they gave out. Magic that your own commons ense should tell you is ridiculous, yet you don't allow yourself to argue it because you believe your work or whatever is based entirely on it being what you are told, which is not the case, unless you are paid to teach the same stuff to people.

I can teach people about the loch ness monster and take them out on boat trips, explaining what to look for, etc. the thing is, I wouldn't be short of parties paying for that privilege  and them asking me if they would be safe or whatever. The thing is, I could be telling them it all and actually believing it myself, because I've studied it.
Do you see how easy it is to be made to go with potential bull crap?

Scientists and wannabe scientists are stuck in their tutored ways and will only look at things that way, where unprovable science is concerned.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 10:10:52 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 10:16:33 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 10, 2014, 10:22:58 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 10:26:28 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 10:28:19 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 10:28:31 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 10:56:26 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 11:00:07 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.

lolwut?

We can see city lights just fine and they are less bright than your pretend light. This makes no sense. Is any of this going to ever make sense?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 11:09:57 AM
Scepti, to sum your last post towards me: you say that I am mislead or naive IF I just follow the teachings of others, but you talk about stuff boiling and freezing in different conditions like you have tested at least some of these things. Have you? I have studied chemistry at the main Institute of technology in the country where I live. One of the biggest and most important courses we had was kinetics and thermodynamics in chemistry - we had theoretical, computational and practical parts of it. I am now not trying to accuse you of something, but simply to ask: have you conducted any experiments regarding various states of matter relative to the pressures, temperatures, composition of mixtures?

There are key "edge" variables limiting what can happen. For example if the Temperature is lower than around -22*C, no matter what pressure you apply, you won't be able to produce pure liquid water. It will either be gaseous, or a solid. A similar thing exists for helium. This time it is pressure; if it is lower than about 2,5 megaPascals, no matter what the temperature is, it is not possible for solid helium to form. You claim that even if there is empty space beyond the dome, it would be absolutely empty. In such case, the ice wouldn't be able to form. And if it was created at some kind of big-bang-like event, it would be boiling vigorously all the time. How does that relate to the alleged composition of the dome? Helium and hydrogen(if I remember correctly that's what it is supposedly made of, the two lightest elements) do not form strong molecular bonds between each other. Helium, in fact, almost doesn't produce any such bonds at all. The dome's surface would become swiss cheese in no time.

By the way, you can see light even if it doesn't bounce off anything. Take a look on a lightbulb, Sun, a candle or a LED.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 11:14:35 AM
It's time for a quiz for your sun scepti....

This is a sunspot:

(http://sevendesktop.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/sunspot-1024x768.jpg)

This is a spectrograph of the sun:

(http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2012/02/spacepress-020112-001c.jpg)

The left part of the spectrograph shows what the spectrograph looks like when is pointed directly at a sunspot.
The right part of the spectrograph shows what the spectrograph looks like when is pointed anywhere else at the sun.

What do you suppose is happening?

Also.... note that in the first image, the outer boundaries of this image of the sun show what clearly appears to me to be solar flames reaching into space. What do you suppose those flamey looking things are if this is all just a reflection on a dome? If you consider them to be any type of flame at all, what do you suppose is happening to your ice dome?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 11:17:11 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.

lolwut?

We can see city lights just fine and they are less bright than your pretend light. This makes no sense. Is any of this going to ever make sense?
You can see city lights from a low flying plane. What's your point here?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 11:20:47 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.

lolwut?

We can see city lights just fine and they are less bright than your pretend light. This makes no sense. Is any of this going to ever make sense?
You can see city lights from a low flying plane. What's your point here?

That much brighter lights than city light should be much easier to see.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 10, 2014, 11:28:51 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.

What experiments are you referring to that show Hydrogen and Helium causing a blue colour down here?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 11:31:20 AM
Scepti, to sum your last post towards me: you say that I am mislead or naive IF I just follow the teachings of others, but you talk about stuff boiling and freezing in different conditions like you have tested at least some of these things. Have you? I have studied chemistry at the main Institute of technology in the country where I live. One of the biggest and most important courses we had was kinetics and thermodynamics in chemistry - we had theoretical, computational and practical parts of it. I am now not trying to accuse you of something, but simply to ask: have you conducted any experiments regarding various states of matter relative to the pressures, temperatures, composition of mixtures?

There are key "edge" variables limiting what can happen. For example if the Temperature is lower than around -22*C, no matter what pressure you apply, you won't be able to produce pure liquid water. It will either be gaseous, or a solid. A similar thing exists for helium. This time it is pressure; if it is lower than about 2,5 megaPascals, no matter what the temperature is, it is not possible for solid helium to form. You claim that even if there is empty space beyond the dome, it would be absolutely empty. In such case, the ice wouldn't be able to form. And if it was created at some kind of big-bang-like event, it would be boiling vigorously all the time. How does that relate to the alleged composition of the dome? Helium and hydrogen(if I remember correctly that's what it is supposedly made of, the two lightest elements) do not form strong molecular bonds between each other. Helium, in fact, almost doesn't produce any such bonds at all. The dome's surface would become swiss cheese in no time.

By the way, you can see light even if it doesn't bounce off anything. Take a look on a lightbulb, Sun, a candle or a LED.
I can't help you. You obviously cannot grasp what I'm saying. Your last sentence confirms you either don't grasp what I'm saying or you're intentionally not grasping it for a reason.

I'm trying to give you the basics of stuff and you come back with what you have.

Superfluid helium (http://#ws)

There's stuff we cannot do on Earth to replicate what happens against a true vacuum because we cannot make a true vacuum.
We can get close to stuff and the rest is up to your own logic.
I don't care how many times you tell me I'm wrong, I know I'm more right than the scientific space nonsense you go with. It's actually not your fault because we were all battered with this stuff from early age.
If you're old enough, it should be time for you to actually start to question a fair amount of what you were told, because some of it is fantasy.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 11:32:35 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.

lolwut?

We can see city lights just fine and they are less bright than your pretend light. This makes no sense. Is any of this going to ever make sense?
You can see city lights from a low flying plane. What's your point here?

That much brighter lights than city light should be much easier to see.
What do you mean brighter than city lights. What are you talking about?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 11:33:51 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.

What experiments are you referring to that show Hydrogen and Helium causing a blue colour down here?
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 11:40:15 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

So the bluish reflection is literally a reflection of that helium and hydrogen yet at night, we don't see reflections of city lights, we see stars. The same stars that were around before cities were.
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.

but the lights that do cause appearance of the stars are strong enough even though we can't find where they are coming from in a plane?
You can't see where they are coming from because they are invisible to your eye from the centre until they hit something they can reflect off, which is the dome.
You can't any light unless it's reflecting of something.

If someone shone a torch side on to you, you only see the bean because of the matter in the air, like dust and water vapour etc that it reflects off.

lolwut?

We can see city lights just fine and they are less bright than your pretend light. This makes no sense. Is any of this going to ever make sense?
You can see city lights from a low flying plane. What's your point here?

That much brighter lights than city light should be much easier to see.
What do you mean brighter than city lights. What are you talking about?

This is a very simple conversation scepti.

Do I have to teach you how to read as well?

You said that these pretend lights are not visible unless they are reflected.

I said that we can city lights just fine.

You acknowledged that we can see city lights from a low flying plane.

These lights do not need to be reflected.

Your pretend light is presumably brighter, yet it needs to be reflected.

None of this makes any sense.

Answer my question about sun spots.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 11:41:32 AM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.

What experiments are you referring to that show Hydrogen and Helium causing a blue colour down here?
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?

You responded to a question about why the color is blue with some crap about helium and hydrogen. What other conclusion should we draw from your ramblings. Answer the question then. Why is the sky blue?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Rama Set on July 10, 2014, 11:57:31 AM
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?

Weird because it looks like you did:

- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 11:59:16 AM

You said that these pretend lights are not visible unless they are reflected.

I said that we can city lights just fine.

You acknowledged that we can see city lights from a low flying plane.

These lights do not need to be reflected.

Your pretend light is presumably brighter, yet it needs to be reflected.

None of this makes any sense.

Answer my question about sun spots.
What do you think city lights are reflecting off? Have a serous think about it if you think light doesn't need reflection.

What sun spots are these?
When have you see sun spots through your telescope?

The only spots you would ever likely see are negative wavelengths of light blocking out small areas if that.
Show me some genuine sun spots.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:00:31 PM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.

What experiments are you referring to that show Hydrogen and Helium causing a blue colour down here?
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?

You responded to a question about why the color is blue with some crap about helium and hydrogen. What other conclusion should we draw from your ramblings. Answer the question then. Why is the sky blue?
I said the shorter wavelength of the spectrum makes us see blue. Stop making stuff up it doesn't help.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:03:17 PM
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?

Weird because it looks like you did:

- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?
I was on about his bathroom mirror at sea level with a light on, I didn't even address his blue.

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: markjo on July 10, 2014, 12:06:28 PM
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Are you saying that there is a perfect vacuum between the center of the earth where these lights originate from and the ice dome?  If not, then it seems that this light should illuminate various particles suspended within the atmosphere as the light travels from the center of the earth to the ice dome.  In fact, it seems that if you're right, then we should see stars projected onto clouds at night.  Why does this not happen?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 10, 2014, 12:07:26 PM
Fine... No boiling, but rapid melting would happen. How does it help you? After looking up charts for the critical curves of helium I have forgotten that it is the very few materials discovered which are superfluids in very low temperatures and pressures, not gaseous. Massive fail on my side. But what does it have to do with keeping the dome solid? You have just posted a video where you claim that instead of being gaseous in low pressure, it would be a superfluid. How does it change the fact that such a dome would fall apart? Try to look up solid helium and zero point energy and think for yourself whether this was all made up when some scientists heard your claim that the dome is made of H and He, or was in works for a long, long time.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 12:07:47 PM

You said that these pretend lights are not visible unless they are reflected.

I said that we can city lights just fine.

You acknowledged that we can see city lights from a low flying plane.

These lights do not need to be reflected.

Your pretend light is presumably brighter, yet it needs to be reflected.

None of this makes any sense.

Answer my question about sun spots.
What do you think city lights are reflecting off? Have a serous think about it if you think light doesn't need reflection.

What sun spots are these?
When have you see sun spots through your telescope?

The only spots you would ever likely see are negative wavelengths of light blocking out small areas if that.
Show me some genuine sun spots.

1. City lights are various but a small minority of them are reflections but that isn't very relevant. My point is that we can't see the source of star light even though they are more bright. I can see a filament lit up just fine.

2. Show yourself (http://spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html).
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:20:21 PM
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Are you saying that there is a perfect vacuum between the center of the earth where these lights originate from and the ice dome?  If not, then it seems that this light should illuminate various particles suspended within the atmosphere as the light travels from the center of the earth to the ice dome.  In fact, it seems that if you're right, then we should see stars projected onto clouds at night.  Why does this not happen?
The light is emitted through crystals as I said before, in the centre of Earth. It's a super low pressure that is filled all the time, like a vortex.
The light waves through those crystals converge over the centre and are reflected again and again around the dome.
The main source  light (the sun) is the lagest emitted light.
There are no clouds in the centre, just around it, like where we all live around the circle, so they're hardly going to be projected onto clouds.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 12:22:04 PM
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Are you saying that there is a perfect vacuum between the center of the earth where these lights originate from and the ice dome?  If not, then it seems that this light should illuminate various particles suspended within the atmosphere as the light travels from the center of the earth to the ice dome.  In fact, it seems that if you're right, then we should see stars projected onto clouds at night.  Why does this not happen?
The light is emitted through crystals as I said before, in the centre of Earth. It's a super low pressure that is filled all the time, like a vortex.
The light waves through those crystals converge over the centre and are reflected again and again around the dome.
The main source  light (the sun) is the lagest emitted light.
There are no clouds in the centre, just around it, like where we all live around the circle, so they're hardly going to be projected onto clouds.

Refresh my memory, where is this place again?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:27:44 PM
Fine... No boiling, but rapid melting would happen. How does it help you? After looking up charts for the critical curves of helium I have forgotten that it is the very few materials discovered which are superfluids in very low temperatures and pressures, not gaseous. Massive fail on my side. But what does it have to do with keeping the dome solid? You have just posted a video where you claim that instead of being gaseous in low pressure, it would be a superfluid. How does it change the fact that such a dome would fall apart? Try to look up solid helium and zero point energy and think for yourself whether this was all made up when some scientists heard your claim that the dome is made of H and He, or was in works for a long, long time.
It's a super fluid at that temperature. That temperature is what man can achieve down here, not what can happen up against a true vacuum.
Temperature is only relevant to us. A vacuum has no temperature. It where everything ceases to move. No more expansion or friction to create any kind of humanly perceptible temperature measurement.

The building of the dome is a natural Earth cycle using all elements of all density to the very last at the top.
The ice rim starts as a dense ice inner rim then gradually the air becomes more dense and nitrogen freezes , etc all the way to the dome foundation.

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:29:31 PM
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Are you saying that there is a perfect vacuum between the center of the earth where these lights originate from and the ice dome?  If not, then it seems that this light should illuminate various particles suspended within the atmosphere as the light travels from the center of the earth to the ice dome.  In fact, it seems that if you're right, then we should see stars projected onto clouds at night.  Why does this not happen?
The light is emitted through crystals as I said before, in the centre of Earth. It's a super low pressure that is filled all the time, like a vortex.
The light waves through those crystals converge over the centre and are reflected again and again around the dome.
The main source  light (the sun) is the lagest emitted light.
There are no clouds in the centre, just around it, like where we all live around the circle, so they're hardly going to be projected onto clouds.

Refresh my memory, where is this place again?
I can't be bothered to play your game. When you start being a bit more serious I'll oblige. I'm not wasting too much more time typing on you when you ask that question of which you are clearly in the mind of knowing.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Rama Set on July 10, 2014, 12:31:16 PM
You better find more bubblegum then.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 10, 2014, 12:36:54 PM
You better find more bubblegum then.
I'm all out of bubblegum, so you know what that means - globulite.  ;)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 12:39:26 PM
City lights are not strong enough to be relfected back. the reflections are from the centre of the Earth and are focused up and out to the dome. Our eye sight or telescopes aren't that good to pick up piddly city lights.
Are you saying that there is a perfect vacuum between the center of the earth where these lights originate from and the ice dome?  If not, then it seems that this light should illuminate various particles suspended within the atmosphere as the light travels from the center of the earth to the ice dome.  In fact, it seems that if you're right, then we should see stars projected onto clouds at night.  Why does this not happen?
The light is emitted through crystals as I said before, in the centre of Earth. It's a super low pressure that is filled all the time, like a vortex.
The light waves through those crystals converge over the centre and are reflected again and again around the dome.
The main source  light (the sun) is the lagest emitted light.
There are no clouds in the centre, just around it, like where we all live around the circle, so they're hardly going to be projected onto clouds.

Refresh my memory, where is this place again?
I can't be bothered to play your game. When you start being a bit more serious I'll oblige. I'm not wasting too much more time typing on you when you ask that question of which you are clearly in the mind of knowing.

It's not a gamey question. You said it's at the center of earth. Where is that?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: markjo on July 10, 2014, 01:12:00 PM
The light is emitted through crystals as I said before, in the centre of Earth. It's a super low pressure that is filled all the time, like a vortex.
Have you personally seen these crystals or measured the pressure at the center of the earth?

The light waves through those crystals converge over the centre and are reflected again and again around the dome.The main source  light (the sun) is the lagest emitted light.
There are no clouds in the centre, just around it, like where we all live around the circle, so they're hardly going to be projected onto clouds.
But don't those light waves have to travel through the atmosphere in order to get to the dome?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 10, 2014, 01:16:19 PM
But don't those light waves have to travel through the atmosphere in order to get to the dome?

If you don't think it's possible for light waves to get past some clouds with affecting the light then how did these guys (https://www.getsnackeez.com/) get your favorite drink past your favorite chips without getting wet?

(http://)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 10, 2014, 02:13:13 PM
Here's what I know that I didn't need to read any fancy science books to find out:

- No kind of ice I've ever seen or heard of naturally forms into a perfect mirror
- When I do see a regular bathroom mirror and the light is on, I see a reflection of myself and the room, not a featureless blue
Is your bathroom filled with helium and hydrogen that is fully expanded?
You are at sea level pressure, why  would you even try and equate that to the very top of the sky?

And how do you know what the conditions are at the top of the sky?
By how things work down here with experiments and how we sort elements by man made means. All we are doing is what Earth does naturally from bottom to top.

What experiments are you referring to that show Hydrogen and Helium causing a blue colour down here?
I never said helium and hydrogen cause a blue colour. Where did you get this from?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: obviouslyround on July 10, 2014, 05:04:33 PM
If light we see in the sky and believe to be the sun..........how come we can't see the sun on an overcast day? Why can you see the sun behind a cloud?

It doesn't meet the definition of a reflection.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 11, 2014, 01:43:02 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 02:05:01 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
I'll draw a diagram later. The sunsets are when the reflected light (sun) moves over the dome, away from your view through the thick atmosphere.

As for seasons. It's because the super glowing carbon at the centre loses and gains energy which drops and raises it.
This causes changes in the waves through the crystal prisms causing the light to shift angles of reflection.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 11, 2014, 02:39:07 AM
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A vacuum has no temperature. It where everything ceases to move.

Correct, vacuum has no temperature. But things in vacuum DO have temperature, why not? Temperature has nothing to do with what surrounds a piece of matter, it is directly connected to the particles' kinetic energy. Actually stuff already present in vacuum in its stable state(I mean like a piece of metal, for which the preferred state in 0Pa and reasonably low temperatures is solid) will loose heat way slower than when surrounded by anything colder than it. If the state is stable, then no heat will be consumed in phase changes. There would also be no "lower temperature" molecules floating around to take some kinetic energy. The only way to loose energy would be through radiation, and it is a very weak effect compared to others.

Anyways, how would the dome form at all, as some elements require high pressure to become solids at all, even at extremely low temperatures?

And another thing, about your "glowing carbon" stuff. If it is in the center - why cannot we find it? There is no such stuff at the pole.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 11, 2014, 02:43:59 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
I'll draw a diagram later.
No, you won't.  You can't.

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The sunsets are when the reflected light (sun) moves over the dome, away from your view through the thick atmosphere.
How is the sun  moving?  Why do the periods of light and dark change over the year, apart from for people on the equator?

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As for seasons. It's because the super glowing carbon at the centre loses and gains energy which drops and raises it.
This causes changes in the waves through the crystal prisms causing the light to shift angles of reflection.
lol - nice 5th rate sci-fi.  You aren't really trying now are you?  Sounds like a dream you had after eating too much cheese.


How does this explain how different parts of the earth have different seasons at the same time?  Why is it winter in the UK when it is summer in Australia?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 02:57:36 AM
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A vacuum has no temperature. It where everything ceases to move.

Correct, vacuum has no temperature. But things in vacuum DO have temperature, why not? Temperature has nothing to do with what surrounds a piece of matter, it is directly connected to the particles' kinetic energy. Actually stuff already present in vacuum in its stable state(I mean like a piece of metal, for which the preferred state in 0Pa and reasonably low temperatures is solid) will loose heat way slower than when surrounded by anything colder than it. If the state is stable, then no heat will be consumed in phase changes. There would also be no "lower temperature" molecules floating around to take some kinetic energy. The only way to loose energy would be through radiation, and it is a very weak effect compared to others.

Anyways, how would the dome form at all, as some elements require high pressure to become solids at all, even at extremely low temperatures?

And another thing, about your "glowing carbon" stuff. If it is in the center - why cannot we find it? There is no such stuff at the pole.
If you want to understand what I'm saying then you're gonna have to lose the fantasy space that has been battered into your head and the fact that you think a vacuum can have something freely moving in it. Until you get that out of your head, you'll nefver understand it.

Metal or any other thing cannot survive a true vacuum, it would be taken apart unless it's structure can resist it by being completely dense and sealed.

As for the pole. You don't know what the north pole is. You get told what it is. The pole that you know is most probably a massive ring around the centre of Earth that people think is the north pole centre, when it's not.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 03:15:08 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
I'll draw a diagram later.
No, you won't.  You can't.

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The sunsets are when the reflected light (sun) moves over the dome, away from your view through the thick atmosphere.
How is the sun  moving?  Why do the periods of light and dark change over the year, apart from for people on the equator?

Quote
As for seasons. It's because the super glowing carbon at the centre loses and gains energy which drops and raises it.
This causes changes in the waves through the crystal prisms causing the light to shift angles of reflection.
lol - nice 5th rate sci-fi.  You aren't really trying now are you?  Sounds like a dream you had after eating too much cheese.


How does this explain how different parts of the earth have different seasons at the same time?  Why is it winter in the UK when it is summer in Australia?
I think it's pointless wasting my time with you. Just stick to your globe and be done with it. You don't need answers and you are certainly not going to extertain any thoughts no matter what. If it goes against your indoctrination it's dismissed, simple as that, so why are you here?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 11, 2014, 03:25:08 AM
Sooo... You completely disagree with whatever both RE and FErs say about what we call the north pole, and "debunk" some of the most basic laws of physic, just like that? With nothing more than ideas? They are not theories. They are not even justified hypotheses. Good luck with that. I am really amazed how you can survive in the current world, as you see massive conspiracies and steaming piles of bullsh*t everywhere aside from things "you have tested". Is that "true vacuum" something you personally have experienced? Maybe read about somewhere? No?... What a shame. You have absolutely no base to claim it exists and behaves in a way you know. These are your ideas on how to explain stuff. Stuff that does not actually happen anywhere, mind you.

My take on things is that if some theory can be partially backed by evidence, and there is no evidence to the contrary of it, then it quite possibly may be true.
Example: a sample of solid cools down slower the lower the pressure of gas surrounding it is. It seems that no phase change will happen for the sample as the pressure goes down. No one has ever presented evidence that something strange happens at extremely low pressure to any known substance, that cannot be predicted by known laws of physics. All currently known laws suggest a predicted behaviour. Therefore, unless someone proves otherwise(by actually conducting a relevant experiment), it is a safe bet that the tendency will go all the way down to perfect vacuum.

I now partially agree with other guys saying you are a kind of our local jester. A kind of, as real life jesters usually were able to provide cleverly formulated insight into important manners, or ridiculed stupid ideas of their masters in a simple and funny way for them to realize that they sounded like morons. You, on the other hand, usually provide nothing but gibberish and mad babbling.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 03:33:51 AM
Sooo... You completely disagree with whatever both RE and FErs say about what we call the north pole, and "debunk" some of the most basic laws of physic, just like that? With nothing more than ideas? They are not theories. They are not even justified hypotheses. Good luck with that. I am really amazed how you can survive in the current world, as you see massive conspiracies and steaming piles of bullsh*t everywhere aside from things "you have tested". Is that "true vacuum" something you personally have experienced? Maybe read about somewhere? No?... What a shame. You have absolutely no base to claim it exists and behaves in a way you know. These are your ideas on how to explain stuff. Stuff that does not actually happen anywhere, mind you.

My take on things is that if some theory can be partially backed by evidence, and there is no evidence to the contrary of it, then it quite possibly may be true.
Example: a sample of solid cools down slower the lower the pressure of gas surrounding it is. It seems that no phase change will happen for the sample as the pressure goes down. No one has ever presented evidence that something strange happens at extremely low pressure to any known substance, that cannot be predicted by known laws of physics. All currently known laws suggest a predicted behaviour. Therefore, unless someone proves otherwise(by actually conducting a relevant experiment), it is a safe bet that the tendency will go all the way down to perfect vacuum.

I now partially agree with other guys saying you are a kind of our local jester. A kind of, as real life jesters usually were able to provide cleverly formulated insight into important manners, or ridiculed stupid ideas of their masters in a simple and funny way for them to realize that they sounded like morons. You, on the other hand, usually provide nothing but gibberish and mad babbling.
I don't care whether you kind of agree that I'm a jester, a nerd, a nutter, a psychopath, a sociopath, a tin foil hat wearing loner or any other thoughts. You are here for no other purpose than to attempt ridicule like the rest of the indoctrinated. It only works if you think it works. I'm sat laughing at you whilst you attempt this.
When you feel like understanding, come back to me.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Macpie on July 11, 2014, 03:46:39 AM
Well, if there is no way of even getting you to think about what you do by sticking to the subject(like the first paragraph of my last post - how comes you think the "super vacuum" even exists, if you have never encountered it in any way, or even read something clearly defining its properties with some evidence?), what can a man do but laugh at how stubborn you are? I give you examples how your ideas are widely inconsistent with themselves, hoping you would go something like "Hmm... It indeed seems like it is either this or that... But which one?". You scream back how indoctrinated I am. Whatever, even if the Earth was flat, some of your claims contradict each other. It is like saying that some place does not exist, followed by saying that you are already right there.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 03:56:44 AM
Well, if there is no way of even getting you to think about what you do by sticking to the subject(like the first paragraph of my last post - how comes you think the "super vacuum" even exists, if you have never encountered it in any way, or even read something clearly defining its properties with some evidence?), what can a man do but laugh at how stubborn you are? I give you examples how your ideas are widely inconsistent with themselves, hoping you would go something like "Hmm... It indeed seems like it is either this or that... But which one?". You scream back how indoctrinated I am. Whatever, even if the Earth was flat, some of your claims contradict each other. It is like saying that some place does not exist, followed by saying that you are already right there.
Ok, I'll make a deal with you. I'll admit that I can't produce evidence for most of what I say and any evidence I did produce like the one I produced on the ice lake to prove a flat Earth will be classed as no evidence, So here's the deal.

Since I can't directly prove my stuff and can only hypothesise, how about you directly proving that you are right and I am wrong.
Let's start with gravity. All I want you to do is to tell me what gravity is and how the force is provable.
I don't want to hear stuff like, "well things fall." You know, stuff like that. I want direct proof.
So tell me what gravity IS, first of all.
Once you do this, you can then tell me about warped space time and how it's proved. Higgs boson - Dark matter - Black holes- fabric of space - big bang - special relativity - general relativity and E=MC2.

It's only fair I ask for proof of these as it's the only way I can evaluate my own thoughts and see if they are wrong.

Over to you. One thing at a time, so start with. What is gravity?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 11, 2014, 04:01:36 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
I'll draw a diagram later.
No, you won't.  You can't.

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The sunsets are when the reflected light (sun) moves over the dome, away from your view through the thick atmosphere.
How is the sun  moving?  Why do the periods of light and dark change over the year, apart from for people on the equator?

Quote
As for seasons. It's because the super glowing carbon at the centre loses and gains energy which drops and raises it.
This causes changes in the waves through the crystal prisms causing the light to shift angles of reflection.
lol - nice 5th rate sci-fi.  You aren't really trying now are you?  Sounds like a dream you had after eating too much cheese.


How does this explain how different parts of the earth have different seasons at the same time?  Why is it winter in the UK when it is summer in Australia?
I think it's pointless wasting my time with you.
This whole forum is pointless, get over it.  It's a time wasting diversion, that is all.  Grow some balls and play the game properly.

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Just stick to your globe and be done with it. You don't need answers and you are certainly not going to extertain any thoughts no matter what. If it goes against your indoctrination it's dismissed, simple as that, so why are you here?
This is your usual avoidance when backed into a corner.  You can't draw a diagram of your "model", you can't explain cycles of day light and you can't explain seasons.

Your hypothesis is completely broken, and you know it, as you know it all comes from your imagination.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 04:07:00 AM
@scepti, in your "model" why do we have sunsets?  Can you draw a diagram to explain.

Once you have done that you can explain why we have seasons.
I'll draw a diagram later.
No, you won't.  You can't.

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The sunsets are when the reflected light (sun) moves over the dome, away from your view through the thick atmosphere.
How is the sun  moving?  Why do the periods of light and dark change over the year, apart from for people on the equator?

Quote
As for seasons. It's because the super glowing carbon at the centre loses and gains energy which drops and raises it.
This causes changes in the waves through the crystal prisms causing the light to shift angles of reflection.
lol - nice 5th rate sci-fi.  You aren't really trying now are you?  Sounds like a dream you had after eating too much cheese.


How does this explain how different parts of the earth have different seasons at the same time?  Why is it winter in the UK when it is summer in Australia?
I think it's pointless wasting my time with you.
This whole forum is pointless, get over it.  It's a time wasting diversion, that is all.  Grow some balls and play the game properly.

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Just stick to your globe and be done with it. You don't need answers and you are certainly not going to extertain any thoughts no matter what. If it goes against your indoctrination it's dismissed, simple as that, so why are you here?
This is your usual avoidance when backed into a corner.  You can't draw a diagram of your "model", you can't explain cycles of day light and you can't explain seasons.

Your hypothesis is completely broken, and you know it, as you know it all comes from your imagination.
Well just go with that Jimbob and be happy about it.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 11, 2014, 04:08:36 AM
So much for "kicking global arse"   ::)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 04:14:50 AM
So much for "kicking global arse"   ::)
That's already been done since this forum started but let's not dwell on tit for tat's.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sokarul on July 11, 2014, 05:26:22 AM
So you admit darkness comes from lack of light and not from wave combinations? 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 11, 2014, 05:41:19 AM

I can't help but notice that any thread that sceptimatic gets involved with immediately turns into an intellectual, philosophical and deductive cesspool of his ludicrous pseudo-scientific drivel.  Page after page of unadulterated bullshit.

Seriously guys... it's a total waste of time even trying to engage sceptimatic in any meaningful scientific debate.  He obviously has very little understanding of either geophysics or astrophysics, let alone mechanics, optical theory, magnetism and electromagnetism, aeronautics, propagation of light, Newtonian physics, non-Euclidean geometry... and the list goes on.

—Save the wear and tear on your retinas guys, and consign his absurd ramblings to the circular file where they belong.

 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 09:32:25 AM
So you admit darkness comes from lack of light and not from wave combinations?
When you grasp what I'm talking about, then make assumptions, not until.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 09:37:20 AM

I can't help but notice that any thread that sceptimatic gets involved with immediately turns into an intellectual, philosophical and deductive cesspool of his ludicrous pseudo-scientific drivel.  Page after page of unadulterated bullshit.

Seriously guys... it's a total waste of time even trying to engage sceptimatic in any meaningful scientific debate.  He obviously has very little understanding of either geophysics or astrophysics, let alone mechanics, optical theory, magnetism and electromagnetism, aeronautics, propagation of light, Newtonian physics, non-Euclidean geometry... and the list goes on.

—Save the wear and tear on your retinas guys, and consign his absurd ramblings to the circular file where they belong.
I'd be more than content if you never looked at another post made by me and that goes for your like-minded buddies.
Let's see if you can not refer to me for 1 month, at all. Not even to mention anything I say in any form, whatsoever. Let's see how you do.
If you manage the month, I'll be impressed and if you manage that, I think you can manage it for life.

No need to reply to this, just take it onboard and follow your own thoughts.
Responding to anything I say means you are worried that people will be thinking for themselves through what I say. By not responding, I will assume that you are just an ordinary person, simply bored and participating on a forum. Cheers.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 11, 2014, 09:52:04 AM
Well, if there is no way of even getting you to think about what you do by sticking to the subject(like the first paragraph of my last post - how comes you think the "super vacuum" even exists, if you have never encountered it in any way, or even read something clearly defining its properties with some evidence?), what can a man do but laugh at how stubborn you are? I give you examples how your ideas are widely inconsistent with themselves, hoping you would go something like "Hmm... It indeed seems like it is either this or that... But which one?". You scream back how indoctrinated I am. Whatever, even if the Earth was flat, some of your claims contradict each other. It is like saying that some place does not exist, followed by saying that you are already right there.
Ok, I'll make a deal with you. I'll admit that I can't produce evidence for most of what I say and any evidence I did produce like the one I produced on the ice lake to prove a flat Earth will be classed as no evidence, So here's the deal.

Since I can't directly prove my stuff and can only hypothesise, how about you directly proving that you are right and I am wrong.
Let's start with gravity. All I want you to do is to tell me what gravity is and how the force is provable.
I don't want to hear stuff like, "well things fall." You know, stuff like that. I want direct proof.
So tell me what gravity IS, first of all.
Once you do this, you can then tell me about warped space time and how it's proved. Higgs boson - Dark matter - Black holes- fabric of space - big bang - special relativity - general relativity and E=MC2.

It's only fair I ask for proof of these as it's the only way I can evaluate my own thoughts and see if they are wrong.

Over to you. One thing at a time, so start with. What is gravity?

Scepti, it's one thing to have a hypothesis and develop that into a theory based on little to no evidence. In fact, you could argue that's what string theory does. The big difference is that your ideas aren't even internally consistent. When two parts of your theory contradict each other, that's generally considered a problem. If you want to rant about me being "indoctrinated" now for a while be my guest. Being indoctrinated with basic logic is something I can live with.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 10:49:16 AM
Scepti, it's one thing to have a hypothesis and develop that into a theory based on little to no evidence. In fact, you could argue that's what string theory does. The big difference is that your ideas aren't even internally consistent. When two parts of your theory contradict each other, that's generally considered a problem. If you want to rant about me being "indoctrinated" now for a while be my guest. Being indoctrinated with basic logic is something I can live with.
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form. It's hard to completely wipe it all from our minds. It's a constant fight. It's the reason why I don't hold it against genuine people who believe in the rotating globe model.
I've also stated time and time again that my model is not complete by a long shot and requires a lot of addition and fine tuning.
I do this by firstly eliminating the stuff that I consider to be lies or pseudo science - the very science that people stick rigidly to yet don't actually know why or how it really works. I'm referring to the stuff like string theory and all the other stuff I've mentioned.

I do not have any problem with general science as a whole and in-fact I am impressed with mans ability to harness the elements and produce wonders for which we all benefit in terms of comfort and technological advancement.

If I could sit down in front of you and ask you how you know about the stuff I argue against, your only answer is indoctrination by verbal or text or the vision of pictures made available to you, whether still or moving.
Basically you are doing exactly what I am doing and yet you are claiming credit for knowing something that is handed to you on a plate and believe that it puts you on a higher pedestal when up against my thoughts.

This is by no means a dig at you or any other genuine person. It's an observation in life that I see every day, which goes for you and everyone else on the whole.

Most arguments aimed back at me are simply to negate what I try to simplistically put forward, because the science world has taught people to use the complicated way to explain things. Because of this, it's widely accepted to be truth whilst anyone else who has ideas and alternates, are immediately cast off as nuts. I understand that, because it's easier to sell a lie to the masses by saturation than it is for the few to sell them the potential truth or alternate thought to that lie. The lie becomes their truth.
The more complicated the lie, the easier it is for the intelligent to accept, because intelligent people do not want to appear to be the ones not to understand the lie, so they learn the lie and regurgiate that lie. They do this because their brain is trained on that lie, to the point of never accepting any rational explanation for the complicated lies they swallowed unconditionally.

I once went to a show where a hypnotist gathered 10 people from the audience. I was one who volunteered because I was curious to see if I could be made to do stuff against my will and be controlled.
The hypnotist walked along the line of us saying things. Up and down the line he went, sort of saying this and that, which I can't recall the words. He then asked us all to close our eyes and concentrate.
I followed all of what he said, like everyone else.
He walked back along and touched me and told me to go back to my seat, as well as another 3 others. I took that to mean I was too headstrong or whatever, like the others that sat down.

Anyway, the other 6 were made to do all kinds of silly things. Not all on the stage, only some. The rest were told to go and sit back down - but unbeknown to us, he had planted the seed into their heads that they were school kids.

I only found out this when I got talking to one man in the interval who was mentioning being late for school and he can't find his satchel. I thought he was taking the piss but clearly he wasn't, as the others were all displaying the same traits.
The ones on the stage were made to act like babies or do silly things. It was funny and odd at the same time.

What I'm getting at here is... that may have been a hypnotic show but the very same stuff that people buy into can also become hypnotic in terms of a belief system. People can literally be made to believe anything. It's all about the genius of manipulation, whether that's by tutored indoctrination or by study of it with the books, TV, etc.

I was guilty of believing almost everything, especially told by people who I admired and trusted or respected. I spent a lot of years believing everything about space and gravity, etc, etc, etc. I never understood it enough to even bother to argue it. It just was and that was that.
It was like being told as a kid that Ling Jang was a mad man and would chase you with a big knife if you dared walk down the alley past his home. You would dare each other to do so, crapping yourself when it was your turn, all because your mind was filled with re-enactments of him catching and chopping up someone, even to the point of dreaming about it and waking up in a sweat.

Later on in years, you mention it to people and they say, "who?... Ling Jang?...he's harmless. He looks after his mother - and kids used to tease him until he caught one and gave him a good telling off. The problem was, he had a scary look - and the fuel for the fire was fed, so he became a mad man that all kids knew. Even older people that didn't know him personally believed he was nuts...yet he was normal.

That doesn't equate to actualy science does it? It depends on how you view it, because it does equate to brainwashing the mind by setting a tone by one or a few people that gain the minds of the masses over time. Just like a lot of scientific stories that are told as truths and yet cannot be physically verified. Like what we are told space is.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 11, 2014, 11:17:24 AM
Scepti, it's one thing to have a hypothesis and develop that into a theory based on little to no evidence. In fact, you could argue that's what string theory does. The big difference is that your ideas aren't even internally consistent. When two parts of your theory contradict each other, that's generally considered a problem. If you want to rant about me being "indoctrinated" now for a while be my guest. Being indoctrinated with basic logic is something I can live with.
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form. It's hard to completely wipe it all from our minds. It's a constant fight. It's the reason why I don't hold it against genuine people who believe in the rotating globe model.
I've also stated time and time again that my model is not complete by a long shot and requires a lot of addition and fine tuning.
I do this by firstly eliminating the stuff that I consider to be lies or pseudo science - the very science that people stick rigidly to yet don't actually know why or how it really works. I'm referring to the stuff like string theory and all the other stuff I've mentioned.

Why don't you start with eliminating the stuff which is blatantly self-contradictory and illogical first?

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I do not have any problem with general science as a whole and in-fact I am impressed with mans ability to harness the elements and produce wonders for which we all benefit in terms of comfort and technological advancement.

Do you not realize that all this "general science" is based on laws and theories that completely undermine things like denpressure and the ice dome?

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If I could sit down in front of you and ask you how you know about the stuff I argue against, your only answer is indoctrination by verbal or text or the vision of pictures made available to you, whether still or moving.
Basically you are doing exactly what I am doing and yet you are claiming credit for knowing something that is handed to you on a plate and believe that it puts you on a higher pedestal when up against my thoughts.

The whole reason I argue this "stuff", is because I have learned about some of it in detail, and I've seen how the theories work, how they are derived, and how they follow from logic and mathematics applied to empirical facts. That's the beauty of science, that it isn't just a collection of facts that you are forced to regurgitate. Granted, for a higher education there is a lot of stuff you need to memorize. But that's only because to work it all out yourself from first principles to where we are today took thousands of years. Even when you know the right path, it still takes years because it's so complex. [/quote]

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<other various Sceptified ranting>

The education system may have its faults, but you get out what you put in. It's not hypnosis, it's rarely true indoctrination (I'll admit certain private schools, i.e. religious ones, definitely have an agenda), and it's going to continue to go through times of improvement and times where it fails. However, one thing you can be sure of is that telling kids to just go out and make their own theory is not going to produce any significant number of doctors, engineers, scientists, etc. that are going to contribute to the innovation that's brought you the standard of living you enjoy today.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 11, 2014, 11:22:57 AM
Shmeggley: You have totally missed the whole point of my post. Take your time and read it thoroughly then absorb it, then you might grasp what I'm saying.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 11, 2014, 11:35:38 AM
schmeggley understands your post more than you do.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 11, 2014, 11:45:31 AM
Shmeggley: You have totally missed the whole point of my post. Take your time and read it thoroughly then absorb it, then you might grasp what I'm saying.

Nothing in that post explains how your ideas, which don't even agree with each other, much less agree with empirical evidence, can possibly form some kind of workable theory of how nature works.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 11, 2014, 01:26:53 PM
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form...blah....blah...blah...
You seem to have a lot of time for page after page of inane gibber jabber, but strangely can't spare the 5 minutes it would take to make a diagram of how sunsets would work with your ice dome thing.

Why is that?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 12, 2014, 03:56:02 AM

Responding to anything I say means you are worried that people will be thinking for themselves through what I say. By not responding, I will assume that you are just an ordinary person, simply bored and participating on a forum. Cheers.

Oh dear... this is one of the most illogical responses I've seen from you sceptimatic.  And there's been plenty to choose from.   ;D

Unfortunately, there'll inevitably be a tiny percentage of the population who'll momentarily consider that your totally ludicrous opinions on the sciences as actually containing some kernel of truth.  Although, in the majority of cases, even those folks will come to understand that you have absolutely no idea of what you're rambling on about.  "Denpressure" anyone LOL?

I do agree that many people will be "thinking for themselves" when they read your drivel, and that's precisely why they'll reject your comments as coming from waaay out of left field.  Sorry, but the truth can hurt.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 12, 2014, 05:39:52 AM
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form...blah....blah...blah...
You seem to have a lot of time for page after page of inane gibber jabber, but strangely can't spare the 5 minutes it would take to make a diagram of how sunsets would work with your ice dome thing.

Why is that?
I was told I can't do one and that it would be pointless me trying, so I decided not to do one, as it would be a waste of time.
I'll do them for those that are interested. You and the other indocs do not fit that category.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 12, 2014, 05:42:45 AM

Responding to anything I say means you are worried that people will be thinking for themselves through what I say. By not responding, I will assume that you are just an ordinary person, simply bored and participating on a forum. Cheers.

Oh dear... this is one of the most illogical responses I've seen from you sceptimatic.  And there's been plenty to choose from.   ;D

Unfortunately, there'll inevitably be a tiny percentage of the population who'll momentarily consider that your totally ludicrous opinions on the sciences as actually containing some kernel of truth.  Although, in the majority of cases, even those folks will come to understand that you have absolutely no idea of what you're rambling on about.  "Denpressure" anyone LOL?

I do agree that many people will be "thinking for themselves" when they read your drivel, and that's precisely why they'll reject your comments as coming from waaay out of left field.  Sorry, but the truth can hurt.
The truth is actually refreshing. It does not hurt. The biggest obstacle is being told the truth...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.
I'm 8 years old with inane drivel, so why are you responding to me when you made it clear that you skip over all my posts. You make yourself look rather silly, Geoffrey.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on July 12, 2014, 06:52:15 AM
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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 12, 2014, 08:21:41 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D

—And how can it be that although you claim that you've got me on your IGNORE list, you inevitably respond to every comment I make?  Can't resist learning something of the real world from someone who knows?
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 12, 2014, 08:29:18 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_WW6YMMxltcc/TB6DUbw79mI/AAAAAAAABCw/Tv5Lk7HUxBA/s1600/australia_censored.jpg)

Apparently Goth now wants to ban input from one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

I wonder why?  A flood of scientific evidence that totally destroys his flat earth hypothesis in one fell swoop maybe?

Or just afraid of a little bit of debating that cuts too close to the bone for his liking?

—And would you care to let us know Goth just how many flat earthers reside in Australia?  Half a dozen?  Twenty maybe?  We're far too scientifically well-educated to fall for the flat earth hypothesis mate.  We can actually think for ourselves.

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 12, 2014, 10:26:29 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D

—And how can it be that although you claim that you've got me on your IGNORE list, you inevitably respond to every comment I make?  Can't resist learning something of the real world from someone who knows?

Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: rottingroom on July 12, 2014, 10:35:11 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D

—And how can it be that although you claim that you've got me on your IGNORE list, you inevitably respond to every comment I make?  Can't resist learning something of the real world from someone who knows?

Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day.

It does irritate me too but millions of scientists reaching similar results independently from each is nothing to scoff at. I do wish he would tone down on asking for citations and using ad populum tactics though. The point of fet is that we are being lied to so I don't find it to be effective to say stuff like that. If the earth actually is flat then there would be a conspiracy and it would be difficult to find citations and people who know "the truth". There are plenty of good ways to embarrass fet without resorting to common logical fallacies.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 12, 2014, 10:49:10 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D

—And how can it be that although you claim that you've got me on your IGNORE list, you inevitably respond to every comment I make?  Can't resist learning something of the real world from someone who knows?

Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day.

It does irritate me too but millions of scientists reaching similar results independently from each is nothing to scoff at. I do wish he would tone down on asking for citations and using ad populum tactics though. The point of fet is that we are being lied to so I don't find it to be effective to say stuff like that. If the earth actually is flat then there would be a conspiracy and it would be difficult to find citations and people who know "the truth". There are plenty of good ways to embarrass fet without resorting to common logical fallacies.

Well said.  Thank you.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 13, 2014, 06:01:38 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D


Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day.

Once again, jroa tries to deflect the significance of the numbers I quote with fancy Latin phrases LOL.  You really need to be addressing why exactly those numbers are so divergent as far as the acceptance of unevidenced flat earth hypotheses and accredited round earth science.

Are you seriously claiming that a mere 400 individuals spread across the entire planet are the only people who know the "real" shape of earth?  And at the same time you can't even name half a dozen academically-accredited scientists who believe the earth is flat?

Your argument about an appeal to numbers and/or authority simply don't apply to the evidence at hand jroa;  you're struggling with the classic straw man as your defence.  Apparently, in a court of law if you were being tried for a crime, you'd use the defence of argumentum ad numerum to claim the jury's decision of guilty was inappropriate, and call for a retrial?  See how silly your argument becomes—even with a dozen people versus one person.

If, at some hypothetical level, there were 2 billion flat earthers versus 5 billion round earthers, your claim of an appeal to the numbers may well have some validity.  Otherwise, forget it.  Sorry.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 13, 2014, 08:05:57 AM
I remember watching a series of who wants to be a millionaire. I remember the person asked the audience for the answer. I think, about 70% gave him the same answer, so naturally he went with that. His answer was wrong.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on July 13, 2014, 08:24:14 AM
I remember watching a series of who wants to be a millionaire. I remember the person asked the audience for the answer. I think, about 70% gave him the same answer, so naturally he went with that. His answer was wrong.
Your point is?

ps. I see discussion and evidence of how things we use everyday work has ended with no fe answers.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: sceptimatic on July 13, 2014, 08:53:34 AM
I remember watching a series of who wants to be a millionaire. I remember the person asked the audience for the answer. I think, about 70% gave him the same answer, so naturally he went with that. His answer was wrong.
Your point is?

ps. I see discussion and evidence of how things we use everyday work has ended with no fe answers.
Are you seriously saying you can't understand the point I'm making?
Let's clarify it.
What I'm saying is, 70% of people, at least can believe they know the answer to something and yet they can all be wrong.
Think of the percentage that could be wrong about other stuff that they believed they knew the answer to.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 13, 2014, 09:03:13 AM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D

—And how can it be that although you claim that you've got me on your IGNORE list, you inevitably respond to every comment I make?  Can't resist learning something of the real world from someone who knows?

Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day.

When you're citing an authority that actually does have knowledge in a relevant area, it's not an appeal to authority fallacy. Maybe not all 6 million scientists study the Earth's shape or have relevant knowledge in that area, but there is a significant number who do. Qualifications do matter. And there appears to be a dearth of Flat Earth "Theorists" who actually have any.

That being said, just pointing at numbers alone doesn't make a very good argument. But it would be dishonest of anyone here to claim that this is the only argument ausGeoff  has made.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: inquisitive on July 13, 2014, 11:07:28 AM
I remember watching a series of who wants to be a millionaire. I remember the person asked the audience for the answer. I think, about 70% gave him the same answer, so naturally he went with that. His answer was wrong.
Your point is?

ps. I see discussion and evidence of how things we use everyday work has ended with no fe answers.
Are you seriously saying you can't understand the point I'm making?
Let's clarify it.
What I'm saying is, 70% of people, at least can believe they know the answer to something and yet they can all be wrong.
Think of the percentage that could be wrong about other stuff that they believed they knew the answer to.
And, so, that does make you right.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 13, 2014, 11:49:26 PM
...something that you and your cronies are incapable of providing.

Uh... you do understand that my "cronies" number 6 million scientists, and 7 billion people across the planet don't you?

Than again maybe not.   

And your cronies?  Hmmm... 400 maybe?   ;D


Once again, ausGeoff tries to impress everyone with an argumentum ad numerum/ ad populum/ ab auctoritate plea.  How sad.  Keep working on your debate skill, mate.  You will get there some day.

Once again, jroa tries to deflect the significance of the numbers I quote with fancy Latin phrases LOL.  You really need to be addressing why exactly those numbers are so divergent as far as the acceptance of unevidenced flat earth hypotheses and accredited round earth science.

Are you seriously claiming that a mere 400 individuals spread across the entire planet are the only people who know the "real" shape of earth?  And at the same time you can't even name half a dozen academically-accredited scientists who believe the earth is flat?

Your argument about an appeal to numbers and/or authority simply don't apply to the evidence at hand jroa;  you're struggling with the classic straw man as your defence.  Apparently, in a court of law if you were being tried for a crime, you'd use the defence of argumentum ad numerum to claim the jury's decision of guilty was inappropriate, and call for a retrial?  See how silly your argument becomes—even with a dozen people versus one person.

If, at some hypothetical level, there were 2 billion flat earthers versus 5 billion round earthers, your claim of an appeal to the numbers may well have some validity.  Otherwise, forget it.  Sorry.


There are well over 500 FE'ers in the current membership register.  And yes, when you have to argue with numbers, you are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.  You used to be better than this.  What happened to you, ausGeoff?  Send me a PM if you are having personal issues that you want to discuss. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 14, 2014, 08:11:52 AM

There are well over 500 FE'ers in the current membership register. 

Oh wow!  I was sooo wrong in my interpretations of the numbers of adherents involved!  Sorry for being so deliberately deviant jroa!

The fact (?) that there's apparently over 500 flat earthers—and not the mere 400 I quoted—obviously changes everything.  That makes it all the more obvious that those 7 billion round earthers must be wrong in actuality.  That additional 100 flat earthers really changes the balance of opinion entirely doesn't it?

And thanks for pointing that out jroa.  It's almost enough to make me accept the flat earth belief now.  (Sorry, that was a mean little joke wasn't it hehe?)

      ;D

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 14, 2014, 11:53:19 AM
99 people could be wrong and 1 person could be right.  Numbers, in this case, do not mean anything.  You sling numbers around like they are definite proof. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Goth on July 15, 2014, 03:49:26 AM
one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.


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Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on July 15, 2014, 09:14:40 AM
First of all, we are all indoctrinated in some form...blah....blah...blah...
You seem to have a lot of time for page after page of inane gibber jabber, but strangely can't spare the 5 minutes it would take to make a diagram of how sunsets would work with your ice dome thing.

Why is that?
I was told I can't do one and that it would be pointless me trying, so I decided not to do one, as it would be a waste of time.
I'll do them for those that are interested.
No you won't.  You are all mouth and no trousers.

You can't do the diagram, as your fantasy "model" is so broken it can't even explain a sunset.  And you know it.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 15, 2014, 11:01:32 AM
99 people could be wrong and 1 person could be right.  Numbers, in this case, do not mean anything.  You sling numbers around like they are definite proof.

Of course they possibly could.  I agree.  But it's unlikely if you know anything about statistical analysis and bell curves.  You're simply talking about the outliers which are normally discarded from any statistical analysis.  In your example, you might discard the top 5 respondents (red zone) and the bottom 5 respondents (green zone).  This then gives us 100% round earth believers.  Sorry.

(http://therabbitway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BellCurve-1024x696.png)

On the Gaussian bell curve the outliers are irrelevant since the bulk of data is in the middle (the average).
Outliers are unlikely and can be safely ignored (since the odds of finding one decrease exponentially as you move away from the average).



At any rate, you example of 1 in 100 is meaningless anyway.  That equates to one percent of the sample group.  Your 500 flat earthers amount to a mere 0.00000714 per cent of the sample group.

Can I assume you know nothing about statistics from this?

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 15, 2014, 11:16:00 AM
one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world.

http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/a6/a62adc62400529788d11c1bb9acb77e8e13b3a24d5fe7312f373df8a350c3963.jpg (http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/a6/a62adc62400529788d11c1bb9acb77e8e13b3a24d5fe7312f373df8a350c3963.jpg)

It's obvious from this that—like most Americans—you know virtually nothing about Australia.  You've even got the population density wrong LOL.

Why don't they teach you guys anything about the world that lies outside of the US borders?  How is it possible in the 21st century that your citizens are so ignorant of any other country?  Do you all leave grade school at age 12 or something?

And you do know that without Australia's three radio-telescope tracking stations (covering the southern hemisphere) the US could never have landed men on the moon don't you?  Or that the US couldn't have locked the ISS into its orbit?  Probably not.

But then they say ignorance is bliss, so I'm guessing you're a pretty happy little smurf?    ;D
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 15, 2014, 01:06:57 PM
99 people could be wrong and 1 person could be right.  Numbers, in this case, do not mean anything.  You sling numbers around like they are definite proof.

Of course they possibly could.  I agree.  But it's unlikely if you know anything about statistical analysis and bell curves.  You're simply talking about the outliers which are normally discarded from any statistical analysis.  In your example, you might discard the top 5 respondents (red zone) and the bottom 5 respondents (green zone).  This then gives us 100% round earth believers.  Sorry.

(http://therabbitway.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BellCurve-1024x696.png)

On the Gaussian bell curve the outliers are irrelevant since the bulk of data is in the middle (the average).
Outliers are unlikely and can be safely ignored (since the odds of finding one decrease exponentially as you move away from the average).



At any rate, you example of 1 in 100 is meaningless anyway.  That equates to one percent of the sample group.  Your 500 flat earthers amount to a mere 0.00000714 per cent of the sample group.

Can I assume you know nothing about statistics from this?



The truth is not the truth because of statistics.  In fact, statistics have nothing at all to do with truth. 

Virtually everyone used to think that blood letting and leaching would "balance the humors" and cure diseases.  Today, most people understand that this is not true.  According to you, it was the truth hundreds of years ago and time caused it to not be true today.  This is a retarded way of thinking.

Do you really not understand that the majority of people can be wrong?  Statistics is not about finding the truth; it is about finding the likelihood.  You should really learn the difference. 
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Shmeggley on July 15, 2014, 01:57:02 PM

The truth is not the truth because of statistics.  In fact, statistics have nothing at all to do with truth. 

Virtually everyone used to think that blood letting and leaching would "balance the humors" and cure diseases.  Today, most people understand that this is not true.  According to you, it was the truth hundreds of years ago and time caused it to not be true today.  This is a retarded way of thinking.

Do you really not understand that the majority of people can be wrong?  Statistics is not about finding the truth; it is about finding the likelihood.  You should really learn the difference.

I have to agree with jroa on this one, the statistics you're citing don't prove anything. Furthermore, there isn't any evidence to back them up. You're assuming that the 500 members all believe the Earth to be flat, and none of the rest out of 7 billion believe the Earth is flat. So to begin with this is a poor way to advance your argument, based on obviously faulty numbers.

Even if you say, and I think we can probably all agree on this, that the numbers are heavily in favour of the non-flat believers, it's still a poor argument. What you need to address is why the majority might believe it. In the case of blood letting, it was a practice that actually did work in some cases, and this theory of the humours seemed to make sense to people at the time since there wasn't a better explanation available. Today, "Round Earth Theory", i.e. modern physics basically, is the best available explanation based on the current data.

What happens as I see it, the best, most sensible theory tends to get accepted by the majority of people. Of course that doesn't make the theory "right" - no theory is ever "right", it's just that now we have more and better ways of measuring things, which should make our theories better at explaining and predicting phenomena.

So now since we have better data, we have better theories. These get adopted by the scientific community as, if not "right", then at least the best avenue in which to direct their time and money researching. Then these get communicated to the public at large. Since most people aren't scientists, they tend to accept these theories as "right" or "true", or at least they "believe".  In this sense then it's the correctness of the theories that inform the statistics.

If I'm right about the relationship between how good a theory is and how many people believe it, then ausGeoff probably does have a point in citing the statistics (if he can actually back up the numbers with real data), but of course what he can't do is say "because 89% of people believe it, then it's true". Which I don't think is what he's saying, although that's what jroa says he's saying. So jroa is probably making a bit of a straw man to knock down here.

EDIT: I GUESS THIS WILL NEED IT'S OWN THREAD ALSO SO HERE YOU GO
http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=61835.0 (http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=61835.0)
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: ausGeoff on July 16, 2014, 02:28:13 AM
So jroa is probably making a bit of a straw man to knock down here.


Which he does on numerous occasions.  He often quotes science, mathematics, geophysics and astronomical theories that are hundreds of years old—as some sort of repudiation of 21st century scientific theories.

His fallacious logic says that because men of medicine first used leeches as a principal means of "curing" illness from around 2,000 years ago—and everybody accepted that it worked—that the 7 billion people today who accept the spherical earth could also be wrong.  Which is a ludicrous argument.

Many scientists were still proposing a flat earth as recently as 400 years ago, like the blood-letting of that era, but we now understand that both those theories were incorrect.

—Well, most of us do, that is.    ;D

Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: guv on July 16, 2014, 02:43:47 AM
The dude on about Australia being 95% un populated, does know Aus is 95% dessert. You can drive for days and not see fuck all living things in the GFA or great fuck all. Imagine driving from Texas to the west coast and seeing a few trees and a shit load of flies.
Title: Re: A glass dome in the sky? Really?
Post by: Son of Orospu on July 17, 2014, 11:28:27 PM
The dude on about Australia being 95% un populated, does know Aus is 95% dessert. You can drive for days and not see fuck all living things in the GFA or great fuck all. Imagine driving from Texas to the west coast and seeing a few trees and a shit load of flies.

Texas to the west coast is nothing but desert.  I don't have to imagine it, I have driven it.