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Title: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: theearthisrounddealwithit on November 06, 2014, 07:54:42 AM

   If people have climbed mount Everest and survived, why would it not be possible to climb this icewall and see the other side? Surely it does not go on forever? We have the equipment and technology to do so. In the wiki, a quote from Samuel Rowbotham:

"...How far the ice extends; how it terminates; and what exists beyond it, are questions to which no present human experience can reply. All we at present know is, that snow and hail, howling winds, and indescribable storms and hurricanes prevail; and that in every direction "human ingress is barred by unsealed escarpments of perpetual ice," extending farther than eye or telescope can penetrate, and becoming lost in gloom and darkness...."

I find this description of subzero hell a little too convenient to discourage REs from wanting visual proof and actual data of this thing. We can see multiple planets, the sun (even if we need greater magnification than for 3000 miles) and the space station using a simple telescope but we cannot see things like the ice wall? (or the end of it?)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: sceptimatic on November 06, 2014, 08:12:58 AM
If the sun does not send it's waves to that part then no man nor machine is going to have a hope in hell, because it becomes hell itself to even go a fraction closer to it. A tad further than the inner rim is all man will achieve and a machine may achieve a little better before simply ceasing to work.

They made it a ball because it gives the impression that we know what Earth is in its entirety. My guess is, we know about a quarter of it, if that.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: FlatAllTheWay on November 06, 2014, 08:23:09 AM
If the sun does not send it's waves to that part then no man nor machine is going to have a hope in hell, because it becomes hell itself to even go a fraction closer to it. A tad further than the inner rim is all man will achieve and a machine may achieve a little better before simply ceasing to work.

They made it a ball because it gives the impression that we know what Earth is in its entirety. My guess is, we know about a quarter of it, if that.

As always, the stupidity of sceptimatic knows no bounds.  And let's not forget that he is a proven liar, having claimed to be the author of several books, but refusing to tell us the title of even a single one.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 06, 2014, 09:29:46 AM
Who said that nobody has ever been beyond the ice wall? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: theearthisrounddealwithit on November 06, 2014, 10:12:58 AM
Who said that nobody has ever been beyond the ice wall?
Assuming someone has already, don't you think that achievement would merit some form of publishing, data collecting, charting?

What seems more far fetched than an alleged ice wall is someone going there and then keeping it secret.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 06, 2014, 11:24:07 AM
As always, the stupidity of sceptimatic knows no bounds.  And let's not forget that he is a proven liar, having claimed to be the author of several books, but refusing to tell us the title of even a single one.

And don't forget too that sceptimatic claims to have been to Antarctica on a secret research mission.  Now he's saying that man can not "go a fraction closer to it" without perishing.  He seems confused about the "ice wall" and Antarctica—they seem to overlap somehow by definition.  Are they two separate entities, or one and the same with two different names?

Or is the more likely answer that sceptimatic—true to form—was simply lying about his alleged scientific research in Antarctica?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 06, 2014, 12:17:46 PM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Göebbels on November 06, 2014, 02:00:33 PM
What I find confusing is why something as important as the ice wall or edge of earth exist only in the mind of the believers as it they were part of a religion thing? My question is genuine. Wouldn't today's technology make possible to at least photograph this alleged ice wall?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: FlatAllTheWay on November 06, 2014, 02:12:53 PM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.

A map, even a very rough one, would help here.  jroa, can you sketch something for us or at least describe the locations of the ice wall and the edge of the world?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 06, 2014, 02:18:30 PM
Who said there are no pictures of Antarctica?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 06, 2014, 02:23:40 PM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.
Please give the distance between the 2.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 06, 2014, 04:55:59 PM
Who said that nobody has ever been beyond the ice wall?

Has anybody  ever said that  anybody has ever been to the ice wall, much less beyond it ? ??? ::)

Of course it is possible that maybe somebody has ever been to - or even beyond - the ice wall. But they haven't lived to tell about it.
Don't forget those penguins or NASA guards !
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 06, 2014, 05:49:31 PM
Who said there are no pictures of Antarctica?

Who said there ARE pictures of the -Quote-
" Ice Wall "- Unquote. ?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: markjo on November 06, 2014, 09:35:38 PM
Who said there are no pictures of Antarctica?

Who said there ARE pictures of the -Quote-
" Ice Wall "- Unquote. ?

Behold, the Ice WallTM
(http://simplisafe.com/files/images/blog/the_wall.jpg)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on November 07, 2014, 03:25:01 AM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.
Our apologies for mixing up some made up shit with some other made up shit.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 07, 2014, 05:49:27 AM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.

A map, even a very rough one, would help here.  jroa, can you sketch something for us or at least describe the locations of the ice wall and the edge of the world?

It is likely something roughly like this.

(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/thumb/4/43/Map.png/400px-Map.png)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 07, 2014, 05:52:34 AM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.

A map, even a very rough one, would help here.  jroa, can you sketch something for us or at least describe the locations of the ice wall and the edge of the world?

It is likely something roughly like this.

(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/thumb/4/43/Map.png/400px-Map.png)
Proven distances are wrong.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 07, 2014, 05:58:10 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 07, 2014, 07:44:52 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?

Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: theearthisrounddealwithit on November 07, 2014, 11:37:58 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?
I'm sure this was also argued for a while but it seems that if you were to travel from LA to Hawaii using the FE's "going in circles aroung the North Pole" The travel time would be 22 hours instead of roughly 5 1/2 hours
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 08, 2014, 01:10:04 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?
I'm sure this was also argued for a while but it seems that if you were to travel from LA to Hawaii using the FE's "going in circles aroung the North Pole" The travel time would be 22 hours instead of roughly 5 1/2 hours

How did you calculate these flight times? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 08, 2014, 02:36:03 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?



That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 

(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 08, 2014, 03:05:49 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.
The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?
I'm sure this was also argued for a while but it seems that if you were to travel from LA to Hawaii using the FE's "going in circles aroung the North Pole" The travel time would be 22 hours instead of roughly 5 1/2 hours

How did you calculate these flight times?
With the usual formula.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 08, 2014, 03:07:50 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?



That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 

(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg)
As you know.  Projection.  What is difficult to understand...
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on November 08, 2014, 03:28:26 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?



That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 


Here you go (http://earth.uxclip.com/)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Moosedrool on November 08, 2014, 08:11:46 AM
Some folk that works on the supposed edge of the earth:

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/11/10/science/10dome-span/articleLarge.jpg)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 08, 2014, 10:23:35 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?



That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 

(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg)

It never ceases to amaze me that the so-called flat earthers pretend to be ignorant of such things as "projections" which are various means to represent the earth on a flat or two-dimensional drawing and there are distortions inherent in any type of projection made from the globe. I still think it is only an act. Nobody could really be that stupid. Someone has said "It's so stupid it's funny." If you took the flat earthers as really being serious or that stupid it would be sad. But since nobody really takes the flat earthers as being that serious or being that stupid it is funny.LOL.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: FlatOrange on November 08, 2014, 10:27:56 AM
This is our map. http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/ (http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 08, 2014, 08:38:47 PM

That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 

(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg)

Uh... you must have missed the part where I said I've driven both E-W and N-S across Australia jroa?  And you haven't yet explained how it is the pseudo flat earth map you use shows its length to width ratio as more like 4 to 1 and not "about" twice as long as it's wide.  (Actually 4,100km by 3,180km.)

It seems that all authentic round earth maps and projections, distances, flight times, continental sizes etc are seen as "odd" by flat earthers.  Which should encourage them to consider exactly why that is, rather than simply dismissing the abundance of demonstrable round earth geophysics and geometry as being "rubbish" or "crap" or "bullshit", or accusing round earthers of being government "shills" or "liars" or "idiots".  (Their words; not mine BTW.)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 10, 2014, 06:07:34 AM

That is odd.  This map seems to show that Australia is about twice as wide east to west as it is north to south.  It also shows Greenland to be the same size as Africa.  Maybe your RE maps are not as accurate as you once believed? 

(http://www.mapsofworld.com/images-mow/world-map.jpg)

Uh... you must have missed the part where I said I've driven both E-W and N-S across Australia jroa?  And you haven't yet explained how it is the pseudo flat earth map you use shows its length to width ratio as more like 4 to 1 and not "about" twice as long as it's wide.  (Actually 4,100km by 3,180km.)

It seems that all authentic round earth maps and projections, distances, flight times, continental sizes etc are seen as "odd" by flat earthers.  Which should encourage them to consider exactly why that is, rather than simply dismissing the abundance of demonstrable round earth geophysics and geometry as being "rubbish" or "crap" or "bullshit", or accusing round earthers of being government "shills" or "liars" or "idiots".  (Their words; not mine BTW.)


I sure hope you did not use the map I posted when you made your trips across Australia.  You would have been off by a good bit. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 11, 2014, 05:22:42 AM
I sure hope you did not use the map I posted when you made your trips across Australia.  You would have been off by a good bit.

This map is very similar to the one I use as a trip planner jroa.  It's a Mercator projection, and shows the major connecting highways and also the road distances:


(http://www.vidiani.com/maps/maps_of_australia_and_oceania/maps_of_australia/large_detailed_road_map_of_australia_1.jpg)

The distances quoted in the table are virtually identical to those I registered on my odometer over different trips, but usually tended to be on the shorter side by around 5km to 10km.

Can you show me a diagram, or at least a sketch, of how you'd represent this Australian map on the flat earth?  Could you also make an estimate (plus or minus, say, 100km) of the road distances between a few of the state capitals; Brisbane to Sydney, Melbourne to Adelaide, Perth to Darwin for example.

EDIT:  decreased image size.



Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: NiveusLucis on November 13, 2014, 03:58:46 PM
As always, the stupidity of sceptimatic knows no bounds.  And let's not forget that he is a proven liar, having claimed to be the author of several books, but refusing to tell us the title of even a single one.

And don't forget too that sceptimatic claims to have been to Antarctica on a secret research mission.  Now he's saying that man can not "go a fraction closer to it" without perishing.  He seems confused about the "ice wall" and Antarctica—they seem to overlap somehow by definition.  Are they two separate entities, or one and the same with two different names?

Or is the more likely answer that sceptimatic—true to form—was simply lying about his alleged scientific research in Antarctica?
So NOW that he posts the proof you go and deny it

You are children of the lies. Stench of staunch favoritism, the blind dogmatic suffered by years of implementing the Lies to the round/sheep, who refuse to ACCEPT that reality is different that you have been told as a child

[!]
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: sokarul on November 13, 2014, 08:09:11 PM
As always, the stupidity of sceptimatic knows no bounds.  And let's not forget that he is a proven liar, having claimed to be the author of several books, but refusing to tell us the title of even a single one.

And don't forget too that sceptimatic claims to have been to Antarctica on a secret research mission.  Now he's saying that man can not "go a fraction closer to it" without perishing.  He seems confused about the "ice wall" and Antarctica—they seem to overlap somehow by definition.  Are they two separate entities, or one and the same with two different names?

Or is the more likely answer that sceptimatic—true to form—was simply lying about his alleged scientific research in Antarctica?
So NOW that he posts the proof you go and deny it

You are children of the lies. Stench of staunch favoritism, the blind dogmatic suffered by years of implementing the Lies to the round/sheep, who refuse to ACCEPT that reality is different that you have been told as a child

[!]
Sceptic didn't post any evidence. Please note this.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 14, 2014, 12:48:31 AM
So NOW that he posts the proof you go and deny it

You are children of the lies. Stench of staunch favoritism, the blind dogmatic suffered by years of implementing the Lies to the round/sheep, who refuse to ACCEPT that reality is different that you have been told as a child


Can you please link us to where sceptimatic posted his "proof"?  Nope?  What a surprise.

I'm guessing this is just another one of sceptimatic's alts LOL.  Same total lack of coherence and basic logic.    ;D

Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: theearthisrounddealwithit on November 14, 2014, 10:30:47 AM
Proven distances are wrong.

When did you prove these distances, and what were your methods?  Thanks in advance.

The azimuthal equidistant projection map of the spherical earth (which is often used by flat earthers as a "pseudo" flat earth map) shows Australia as being 4 times as as long as it's wide, which is ludicrous on our real world.  In reality, it's 4,100km long east-west, and 3,180km wide north-south.

And yes;  I have driven both E-W and N-S to (roughly) prove these figures.  Or will you now claim my car's odometer was wrong?
I'm sure this was also argued for a while but it seems that if you were to travel from LA to Hawaii using the FE's "going in circles aroung the North Pole" The travel time would be 22 hours instead of roughly 5 1/2 hours

How did you calculate these flight times?

I did not, I estimated the same way FE-ers estimate their map.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 15, 2014, 07:42:56 AM
How did you calculate these flight times?

Uh... are you apparently admitting that—given the distance apart of two cities, and the velocity of the aircraft—you're unable to figure out its fight time jroaSeriously?

This is how you work it our:  Melbourne to Los Angeles = 12,730km / 920km/h (Boeing 747-400 cruise speed) = approximately 14 hours flight time.

Can you now show me how you'd work out this Melbourne-Los Angeles flight time on your flat earth model, and by how much the resultant flight time would differ from the round earth time?  Much longer, or far shorter?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 18, 2014, 05:32:55 AM
Uh... are you apparently admitting that—given the distance apart of two cities, and the velocity of the aircraft—you're unable to figure out its fight time jroaSeriously?

I am not a pilot.  Are you? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 18, 2014, 09:20:07 AM
Uh... are you apparently admitting that—given the distance apart of two cities, and the velocity of the aircraft—you're unable to figure out its fight time jroaSeriously?

I am not a pilot.  Are you?

No, I'm not.  But that has absolutely nothing to do with the flight times between cities (other than being another of your straw man rhetorical one-liners of course LOL).

So my questions stands...
Quote
Can you now show me how you'd work out this Melbourne-Los Angeles flight time on your flat earth model, and by how much the resultant flight time would differ from the round earth time?  Much longer, or far shorter?

Can you please either address this, or admit to not being able to work it out without the aid of a round earth map?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 18, 2014, 09:29:11 AM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Rama Set on November 18, 2014, 09:38:40 AM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map.

That is trivially easy.  Which FE map should we use?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 18, 2014, 10:14:53 AM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map.

That is trivially easy.  Which FE map should we use?

You can start by proving your RE map distances, then we can discuss comparing the FE distances. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 18, 2014, 11:32:34 AM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map.

Are you now claiming that the air flight times between major cities are identical whether one uses a round earth map or a flat earth map?

If so, how then do you explain the obvious discrepancy in the Perth to Sydney distance as it's shown on the flat earth map of Australia—when compared to the round earth map?

And as an easy exercise, can you tell me what you consider to be the correct flight time from Perth to Sydney?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 18, 2014, 11:37:07 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.  Perhaps you could prove your side instead? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 18, 2014, 12:33:20 PM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.  Perhaps you could prove your side instead?

Can you please address this part of my earlier comment jroa?
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And as an easy exercise, can you tell me what you consider to be the correct flight time from Perth to Sydney?

I calculate it as 3hrs 35mins.

—Or are you now apparently claiming only an airline pilot is capable of doing this?

Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Lemmiwinks on November 18, 2014, 02:44:41 PM
I have found after reading these posts for the last couple hours that the MO of the flat earther is to come up against a wall, and suddenly disappear or start attacking the person questioning them, leaving their half baked theory forgotten. So I am starting to think maybe I should play devils advocate and work their stupidity out to its conclusion.

To facilitate that, I will now calculate the flight time between Sydney and Perth when using the FE map that I have seen multiple FE'ers post up.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Flat_earth.png)

The distance I know from living here is coast to coast in the United States which is roughly 3,000 miles. The size of Australia on that map is roughly double the size of the United States. So in this fantasy world where the earth is flat, Australia is 6,000 miles long.

The cruising speed of a Boeing 747-400 is 570 mph.

So using simple, provable math, the flight time from Sydney to Perth using a flat Earth map is 6000/570 which equals roughly ten and a half hours.

Wait... but planes make the same trip in roughly 3 hours... how can my impeccably thought out and tested flat earth model be so far off observable real world tests??

Obviously the 747-400s are actually traveling at 1,710 miles an hour, but only in Australia, because they suddenly can make the 3,000 mile trip in 5 hours for the coast to coast trip in America. Because bending light rays, ether and the earths acceleration down.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 18, 2014, 02:56:11 PM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map.

That is trivially easy.  Which FE map should we use?

You can start by proving your RE map distances, then we can discuss comparing the FE distances.
As expected, unable to provide any FE distances.  Enough proof that a flat earth does not exist.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: rottingroom on November 18, 2014, 03:09:07 PM
I think you first need to prove the flight times would be different on a RE map compared to a FE map.

That is trivially easy.  Which FE map should we use?

You can start by proving your RE map distances, then we can discuss comparing the FE distances.
As expected, unable to provide any FE distances.  Enough proof that a flat earth does not exist.

We're not even asking him to prove the distances. Just to provide them so we can make a comparison. Lemmiwinks did a fine job with the unipolar map though.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 18, 2014, 04:10:01 PM
I have found after reading these posts for the last couple hours that the MO of the flat earther is to come up against a wall, and suddenly disappear or start attacking the person questioning them, leaving their half baked theory forgotten. So I am starting to think maybe I should play devils advocate and work their stupidity out to its conclusion.


You've nailed it in one Lemmiwinks.

And thanks for attempting the flat earth distance calcs that jroa repeatedly—and so assiduously—avoided doing.

I'll now await his Perth to Sydney flight time calcs.

Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: markjo on November 18, 2014, 06:05:14 PM
You can start by proving your RE map distances, then we can discuss comparing the FE distances.
If you have doubts about RE map distances, then perhaps you should express your concerns to the Rand McNally people.

I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times?  ???
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 18, 2014, 06:14:59 PM
I have found after reading these posts for the last couple hours that the MO of the flat earther is to come up against a wall, and suddenly disappear or start attacking the person questioning them, leaving their half baked theory forgotten. So I am starting to think maybe I should play devils advocate and work their stupidity out to its conclusion.

To facilitate that, I will now calculate the flight time between Sydney and Perth when using the FE map that I have seen multiple FE'ers post up.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Flat_earth.png)

The distance I know from living here is coast to coast in the United States which is roughly 3,000 miles. The size of Australia on that map is roughly double the size of the United States. So in this fantasy world where the earth is flat, Australia is 6,000 miles long.

The cruising speed of a Boeing 747-400 is 570 mph.

So using simple, provable math, the flight time from Sydney to Perth using a flat Earth map is 6000/570 which equals roughly ten and a half hours.

Wait... but planes make the same trip in roughly 3 hours... how can my impeccably thought out and tested flat earth model be so far off observable real world tests??

Obviously the 747-400s are actually traveling at 1,710 miles an hour, but only in Australia, because they suddenly can make the 3,000 mile trip in 5 hours for the coast to coast trip in America. Because bending light rays, ether and the earths acceleration down.

Welcome to the Flat Earth Society Forum. Note the first line of my signature. LOL. That is the reason some of us visit this website.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 18, 2014, 06:33:55 PM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 18, 2014, 09:06:39 PM
Who said there are no pictures of Antarctica?

Who said there ARE pictures of the -Quote-
" Ice Wall "- Unquote. ?

Behold, the Ice WallTM
(http://simplisafe.com/files/images/blog/the_wall.jpg)

Are those towers for the NASA guards ?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 19, 2014, 04:02:20 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 19, 2014, 04:27:23 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 19, 2014, 04:29:11 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 19, 2014, 04:30:11 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 19, 2014, 04:33:12 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?

How am I wrong? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: guv on November 19, 2014, 04:44:53 AM
So if I travel at 3 mph for 2 hours naughty NASA has to tell me how far I walked. SMDDD
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: theearthisrounddealwithit on November 19, 2014, 06:24:19 AM
I have found after reading these posts for the last couple hours that the MO of the flat earther is to come up against a wall, and suddenly disappear or start attacking the person questioning them, leaving their half baked theory forgotten. So I am starting to think maybe I should play devils advocate and work their stupidity out to its conclusion.

To facilitate that, I will now calculate the flight time between Sydney and Perth when using the FE map that I have seen multiple FE'ers post up.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Flat_earth.png)

The distance I know from living here is coast to coast in the United States which is roughly 3,000 miles. The size of Australia on that map is roughly double the size of the United States. So in this fantasy world where the earth is flat, Australia is 6,000 miles long.

The cruising speed of a Boeing 747-400 is 570 mph.

So using simple, provable math, the flight time from Sydney to Perth using a flat Earth map is 6000/570 which equals roughly ten and a half hours.

Wait... but planes make the same trip in roughly 3 hours... how can my impeccably thought out and tested flat earth model be so far off observable real world tests??

Obviously the 747-400s are actually traveling at 1,710 miles an hour, but only in Australia, because they suddenly can make the 3,000 mile trip in 5 hours for the coast to coast trip in America. Because bending light rays, ether and the earths acceleration down.
This is the most ridiculous map one can look at, it shouldn't even be accepted in any argument. Canada's east to west at extreme points is 9306Km while Australia's is 4000-41000Km while this map shows an Australia that is double the width of Canada when it is actually the other way around. These distances are easily measured by any individual, not NASA conspirators like FE-ers would like us to believe. When they can come up with a map that shows accurate distances that can be measured by anyone, then they can start a debate.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: inquisitive on November 19, 2014, 08:07:15 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?

How am I wrong?
Please provide details of NASA formulas.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 19, 2014, 11:08:25 AM
You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Nope.  This response of yours is nonsensical LOL.  Check THIS (http://bit.ly/1yproqL) site out.  Pilots don't take "years" to learn how to figure out flight distances and times.  Are you serious with this; it takes them a few weeks.

So... are you now admitting that you're (apparently) unable to figure out the correct flight time from Perth to Sydney using your flat earth map?  And if you are able, then please do so.

I calculate it as 3hrs 35mins.  What do you calculate it as jroa



And as a matter of interest, this is typical of the IFR and VFR maps that pilots use, and both rely on GPS...


(http://laf.natca.org/IFR%20Chart%20Low%20-%20LAF.jpg)




Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 19, 2014, 12:37:50 PM
I have found after reading these posts for the last couple hours that the MO of the flat earther is to come up against a wall, and suddenly disappear or start attacking the person questioning them, leaving their half baked theory forgotten. So I am starting to think maybe I should play devils advocate and work their stupidity out to its conclusion.

To facilitate that, I will now calculate the flight time between Sydney and Perth when using the FE map that I have seen multiple FE'ers post up.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Flat_earth.png)

The distance I know from living here is coast to coast in the United States which is roughly 3,000 miles. The size of Australia on that map is roughly double the size of the United States. So in this fantasy world where the earth is flat, Australia is 6,000 miles long.

The cruising speed of a Boeing 747-400 is 570 mph.

So using simple, provable math, the flight time from Sydney to Perth using a flat Earth map is 6000/570 which equals roughly ten and a half hours.

Wait... but planes make the same trip in roughly 3 hours... how can my impeccably thought out and tested flat earth model be so far off observable real world tests??

Obviously the 747-400s are actually traveling at 1,710 miles an hour, but only in Australia, because they suddenly can make the 3,000 mile trip in 5 hours for the coast to coast trip in America. Because bending light rays, ether and the earths acceleration down.

It's because the Round Earth Conspirators have programmed the aircraft to fly 1,710 miles per hour between those points in Australia.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 19, 2014, 01:10:40 PM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.

A map, even a very rough one, would help here.  jroa, can you sketch something for us or at least describe the locations of the ice wall and the edge of the world?

It is likely something roughly like this.

(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/thumb/4/43/Map.png/400px-Map.png)

That's strange. If "It is something roughly like this." It is strange that "It" is simply a copy of an "Azimuthal Equidistant Projection" of a globe.  You will have to do better than that, jroa. Show "It" as a true "Flat Earth Map" of the whole "Flat Earth."
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: robintex on November 19, 2014, 09:20:09 PM
I think you people are confusing the "Ice Wall", which is where Antarctica starts, with "The Edge of the World", which is where Antarctica ends.

A map, even a very rough one, would help here.  jroa, can you sketch something for us or at least describe the locations of the ice wall and the edge of the world?

It is likely something roughly like this.

(http://wiki.tfes.org/images/thumb/4/43/Map.png/400px-Map.png)

Why do flat earthers even post this as being the flat earth ?
Quote : "It is likely something roughly like this."
When it really something exactly like, quite simply, a copy of an "Azimuthal Equidistant Projection" of a globe ?
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 19, 2014, 09:41:47 PM
Googleotomy, why do you respond to the same post, multiple times I might add, two weeks late and not add any new content? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: markjo on November 20, 2014, 06:17:59 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Not as nonsensical as thinking that it takes years to learn how to calculate flight times.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Jet Fission on November 20, 2014, 10:08:37 PM
Summary of the failed FET's thus far:

-Jroa failed to respond to the fact that the RE map he presented and criticized was a projection.

-Jroa failed to respond to the fact this his flat earth map is completely flawed thanks to Lemmiwinks proof.

-Jroa failed to provide evidence of the supposed "NASA formulas."

-Jroa failed to provide his own data on the Sydney/Perth flight times

-Jroa failed to realize how ridiculous the statement (in context) "You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical. " is.

Good job.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 21, 2014, 04:30:56 AM
I fail to see how any of the RE'ers proved the opposite.  ::)
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: JimmyTheCrab on November 21, 2014, 05:44:15 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Lol!

What kind of retarded pilots take years to master this equation:

distance / speed

Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 21, 2014, 06:00:11 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Lol!

What kind of retarded pilots take years to master this equation:

distance / speed



Are you claiming that new pilots can just take a weekend course or something? 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Rama Set on November 21, 2014, 06:54:21 AM
C'mon Jroa.  You are terrible.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: rottingroom on November 21, 2014, 07:05:44 AM
C'mon Jroa.  You are terrible.

He is.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Lemmiwinks on November 21, 2014, 09:14:19 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?

How am I wrong?

Obvious troll is obvious.

The NASA formula that he speaks of is d/r=t, you know Distance divided by Rate equals Time.

Thats right, he is somehow trying to say NASA has altered reality and thats why only trained pilots can possibly figure out how big a distance is.

And before you post your vague rhetorical response jroa, like any basic middle school algebra equation any of those three can be the variable. If I know the speed of the plane and the time it took me to get somewhere, I can figure out the distance.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Son of Orospu on November 21, 2014, 09:21:20 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?

How am I wrong?

Obvious troll is obvious.

The NASA formula that he speaks of is d/r=t, you know Distance divided by Rate equals Time.

Thats right, he is somehow trying to say NASA has altered reality and thats why only trained pilots can possibly figure out how big a distance is.

And before you post your vague rhetorical response jroa, like any basic middle school algebra equation any of those three can be the variable. If I know the speed of the plane and the time it took me to get somewhere, I can figure out the distance.

lol, I suppose that you have never heard of Einstein's theory of relativity. 
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Lemmiwinks on November 21, 2014, 09:40:18 AM
I already told you that I am not a pilot.
Why would someone need to be a pilot (or even a navigator) to be able to calculate flight times? 

Because then jroa—who's stated that he's not a pilot—can save face and not have to figure out the flight timings question I asked him LOL.   His obvious implication is that only pilots are capable of doing this.  Which is nonsensical.


You, claiming that a lay person can make calculations that pilots have to spend years to perfect, is nonsensical.
Air traffic control people, engineers, scientists can if it is their job.

They use formulas provided by NASA.
Wrong. Why the NASA obsession?

How am I wrong?

Obvious troll is obvious.

The NASA formula that he speaks of is d/r=t, you know Distance divided by Rate equals Time.

Thats right, he is somehow trying to say NASA has altered reality and thats why only trained pilots can possibly figure out how big a distance is.

And before you post your vague rhetorical response jroa, like any basic middle school algebra equation any of those three can be the variable. If I know the speed of the plane and the time it took me to get somewhere, I can figure out the distance.

lol, I suppose that you have never heard of Einstein's theory of relativity.

Wait, back up.

I am going to assume you are speaking of the Special Theory of Relativity and not the General one, so I'll go from there.

Are you saying that in 1905, about fifty years before NASA was formed, and not even in America, NASA made up this formula?

OR, are you saying that because of the planes speed the time it traveled will be so significantly altered that the distance will be off?

If the first, then obvious troll is also not even trying troll.

If the second, then you admit that the theory is valid, and then me and you can sit down and actually crunch the numbers right here, right now on how much of a time dilation there would be at 570 mph.

Though I assume your response will be something along the lines of "what do you think I think?"
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Lemmiwinks on November 21, 2014, 11:27:36 AM
I guess I hit that point where you cant engage me in what I am saying anymore, so you go back to waiting for someone else to use a metaphor that you can then take too literally then respond to their response with a question that rephrases their question but says little.

Only been a member for two days and I can read you like a book. tsk.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: Lemmiwinks on November 21, 2014, 11:53:13 AM
btw, in case you were wondering, after a six hour flight time will have dilated roughly .00000001 seconds total. I think that the sixth grade level d/r=t equation will still be accurate enough. No need to bring Einstein into it.
Title: Re: Everest vs ice wall
Post by: ausGeoff on November 21, 2014, 11:57:24 AM
lol, I suppose that you have never heard of Einstein's theory of relativity.

Before you take this thread even more off-topic jroa, could you please address my earlier posting.....

Are you now admitting that you're (apparently) unable to figure out the correct flight time from Perth to Sydney using your flat earth map?  And if you are able, then please do so.

I calculate it as 3hrs 35mins.  What do you calculate it as jroa?