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Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Debate => Topic started by: MustangGuy50 on February 23, 2020, 07:43:04 PM

Title: Explain this to me.........
Post by: MustangGuy50 on February 23, 2020, 07:43:04 PM
Ok. So if the Earth is flat then why do we have time zones? How can it be daylight up in the extreme north for almost 24 hours a day but less than half that on the east coast? Also this video looks pretty compelling to me.
(http://)
So i guess this is fake too cause i gotta tell ya that earth looks pretty round to me.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on February 24, 2020, 12:20:10 AM
Yes, very clearly curved (note the darkness in the middle is space. Earth is up the top):
(https://i.imgur.com/6L4mMjB.png)
Unfortunately, it is a fish eye lens, which makes it much harder to analyse.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Chevalier on February 24, 2020, 02:05:02 AM
This video is probably faked. Hollywood produces thousands of these every year. Ever heard of studios like ILM?
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Post by: rabinoz on February 24, 2020, 02:56:13 AM
This video is probably faked.
Why would anyone bother to fake a video that proved nothing about the shape of the earth.

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Hollywood produces thousands of these every year. Ever heard of studios like ILM?
So? Is that any evidence that ILM Studios did produce that video?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: MustangGuy50 on February 26, 2020, 06:33:16 AM
So no takers on the time zone issue huh. Thats a tough one to explain
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Curiouser and Curiouser on February 26, 2020, 08:36:48 AM
So no takers on the time zone issue huh. Thats a tough one to explain

Don't be smug that no one has addressed all of your questions when you've shown a total lack of attention to evidence in your "pretty compelling" video that contradicts your premise. If you can't be bothered to check your own evidence, not everyone is going to be eager to engage with you, especially on a question that has been asked many many times.

Also, there is a search function. "Time zones" is a simple search.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 02:07:24 PM
Photographic evidence is not valid evidence.

Time zones are explained by Shenton via the spotlight sun.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: EvolvedMantisShrimp on February 28, 2020, 02:30:06 PM
Photographic evidence is not valid evidence.

What is valid evidence?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 02:37:34 PM
First hand evidence or repeatable data points that is consistent. Any fool can, and has knowingly or unknowingly doctored or misrepresented photographic evidence.

Things that are not might be a better list to help define what is, since any definition will ultimately fail to meet mettle:
Government says so
I saw it on the television
Statements of supposed fact
Popularity of the belief
Anything that qualifies as a fallacy
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on February 28, 2020, 03:01:20 PM
By 'first hand evidence' what do you mean exactly? What about evidence contained in scientific journals or handbooks?  My experience of flat Earth believers is that they dismiss any evidence that does not explicitly support their FE ideology regardless of where it comes from.

FE claim that the Moon is just 3000 miles away without any real explanation for why. RE have repeatedly measured it over many years to be 238,855 miles away using lasers and radar. FE don't accept this simply because it doesn't conform with their own, unverified claims.

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Time zones are explained by Shenton via the spotlight sun.

Isn't the RE explanation of time zones (i.e. its rotation) not equally valid in the sense that it works?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 03:11:23 PM
Yes, both explanations seem to work within their domain.

In my experience, the raw data is seldom if ever published in journals and handbooks. As long as I can reproduce the data, I'm fine with it being considered "evidence." Unfortunately, many peer reviewed journals publish non-reproducible data sets for a variety of reasons; this makes it a bit hard to accept it at face value.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 03:12:51 PM
Also certain activities of scientists make this hard; its is a well known practice to sometimes exclude data that disagrees with your premise, or to use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result. Einstein and Newton both come to mind, let alone the studies that show this is common practice.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on February 28, 2020, 03:12:57 PM
So you are only willing to accept something if you can measure it yourself are you?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 03:16:12 PM
I'm willing to accept other things as well; Popper's concept of collaboration is not lost on me, though I think it gets misused and misapplied too often.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on February 28, 2020, 03:27:45 PM
OK. The BAA (British Astronomical Association) have been publishing their handbook for many years. It is published annually and is a highly respected source of astronomical data and used by astronomers the world over.  In the back of the handbook (p114 of the 2020 copy) it has a list of astronomical and physical constants. The Earths radius (equatorial) is listed as 6,378,136.6m and the polar radius as 6,356,751.9m That gives a ratio of 0.0033528197.

Now that is pretty accurate and not the sort of figures that could simply be made up.  I don't think the BAA is the sort of organisation to 'make things up' or deliberately deceive its paid members do you?

So while it is true to say that there is a degree of flattening due to the Earths rotation it is certainly not true to say that the Earth is flat. Of course if you want to believe otherwise then that is up to you but I would want to see figures from you to the same degree of accuracy that evidence your 'flat' Earth belief.

I don't know the methods used to reach these figures and I cannot make the measurements myself.  However given the nature and stature of the BAA as an organisation I respect their quoted figures and accept them as true.

You can also find the data contained in the handbook here:

http://britastro.org/computing/pdf/Constants.pdf
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 04:29:41 PM
I'd say that is a number derived off the model in use, not an empirical value. I am reminded of Orwell who asked pointedly in 1984:
"Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy?"

As Hartle points out many different laws can be fitted to a given set of data, and we can never be sure that we have attained the correct law.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on February 28, 2020, 04:52:45 PM
Also certain activities of scientists make this hard; its is a well known practice to sometimes exclude data that disagrees with your premise, or to use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result. Einstein and Newton both come to mind, let alone the studies that show this is common practice.
You often make unsupported claims like this.
Would you please give examples with reliable references where "Einstein and Newton" made "use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result"?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on February 28, 2020, 05:03:30 PM
RE have repeatedly measured it over many years to be 238,855 miles away using lasers and radar.
No, they have measured it over many years and found it to vary significantly, by roughly 50 000 km if I recall correctly.

we can never be sure that we have attained the correct law.
I find it is almost always an approximation or simplification.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:04:30 PM
Also certain activities of scientists make this hard; its is a well known practice to sometimes exclude data that disagrees with your premise, or to use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result. Einstein and Newton both come to mind, let alone the studies that show this is common practice.
You often make unsupported claims like this.
Would you please give examples with reliable references where "Einstein and Newton" made "use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result"?


These are well known facts. One related by a biographer of Newton, Richard Westfall, who said some of his work is "nothing short of deliberate fraud" and that "no one can manipulate the fudge factor quite so effectively as the master mathematician himself"
)  and the other by Einstien himself who said "So much the worse for the experiment"  (https://books.google.com/books?id=EIruic7_Ph8C&pg=PT203&lpg=PT203&dq=%22so+much+the+worse+for+the+experiment%22+einstein&source=bl&ots=EsZLJ0noev&sig=ACfU3U3HbPfN2UoJ5qy9JPCPLkn6tyiVsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfgYTbx_XnAhW4JzQIHV0eDkIQ6AEwAnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22so%20much%20the%20worse%20for%20the%20experiment%22%20einstein&f=false)
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:08:18 PM
Sorry wrong einstein bit - putting the kids in bath while doing this. I'll dig up the experiment he faked in a second. I'm pretty sure it was around the gyroscopic ratio.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: sokarul on February 28, 2020, 05:12:36 PM
Yes, both explanations seem to work within their domain.

In my experience, the raw data is seldom if ever published in journals and handbooks. As long as I can reproduce the data, I'm fine with it being considered "evidence." ...

Oh so like if two different people follow a set procedure using a method, they should get the same results?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:14:53 PM
*gyromagnetic ratio would be one. Einstein had picked and published the value that matched his theory. This was related later by someone there at the time.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:16:36 PM
Yes, both explanations seem to work within their domain.

In my experience, the raw data is seldom if ever published in journals and handbooks. As long as I can reproduce the data, I'm fine with it being considered "evidence." ...

Oh so like if two different people follow a set procedure using a method, they should get the same results?
I doubt there is any method to this madness folks call science. Define it for me such that it doesn't exclude legitimate progress that would never have been made but did via science that does not fit said method and I'll gladly concede this point.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: sokarul on February 28, 2020, 05:25:24 PM
Don’t worry I know you are backed into a corner. You wanted repeatability but then say the scientific method is bad.

You are backwards. You want what you say is bad.

Pity
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:28:32 PM
If you say so. I never said scientific method is bad. I said there is no scientific method.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 05:30:29 PM
Its a myth told to children so that the boogeyman doesn't visit them and so that we can have children's education curriculums. So, sokarul. What is this method I hate so much?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on February 28, 2020, 06:22:23 PM
Also certain activities of scientists make this hard; its is a well known practice to sometimes exclude data that disagrees with your premise, or to use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result. Einstein and Newton both come to mind, let alone the studies that show this is common practice.
You often make unsupported claims like this.
Would you please give examples with reliable references where "Einstein and Newton" made "use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result"?


These are well known facts. One related by a biographer of Newton, Richard Westfall, who said some of his work is "nothing short of deliberate fraud" and that "no one can manipulate the fudge factor quite so effectively as the master mathematician himself"
)  and the other by Einstien himself who said "So much the worse for the experiment"  (https://books.google.com/books?id=EIruic7_Ph8C&pg=PT203&lpg=PT203&dq=%22so+much+the+worse+for+the+experiment%22+einstein&source=bl&ots=EsZLJ0noev&sig=ACfU3U3HbPfN2UoJ5qy9JPCPLkn6tyiVsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfgYTbx_XnAhW4JzQIHV0eDkIQ6AEwAnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22so%20much%20the%20worse%20for%20the%20experiment%22%20einstein&f=false)
And it is well known that so-called "well-known facts" often turn out to not be quite so factual.

Richard Westfall writing something does not make is a "fact".
The only fact might be that Richard Westfall said some of his work is "nothing short of deliberate fraud".

That is not evidence. I did find this:
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Sir Isaac Newton: . . . . . . . (https://www.csmonitor.com/1987/0717/znewt.html)
But sometimes the precision reached is far higher than the original data justify. In the case of Newton's manipulations to make his calculation of the speed of sound agree with the measured speed, Professor Westfall accuses the master of ``nothing short of deliberate fraud.''

As Westfall explains, ``Newton consolidated and confirmed the quantitative character of modern science.'' But, he adds: ``Successful polemics [arguments] are the necessary condition of every intellectual revolution. ... Newton comprehended perfectly the nature of the polemic he deployed.'' Thus, in Westfall's judgment, among the reasons for the success of the ``Principia'' was ``the fudge factor, manipulated with unparalleled skill by the unsmiling Newton.''

To keep this in perspective, Westfall notes that, in spite of Newton's peccadilloes, publication of the ``Principia'' was ``one of the major events of Western history.'' Indeed, Newton's work transcended science to permeate Western thought in general.
And on the speed of sound Newton was wrong because at the time the difference between isothermal and adiabatic expansion was not known.

But it should be realised that Newton was at a transition between alchemy and the occult and what we might call modern science.
It is a little unfair to judge him by modern standards.

And some, such as Flat Earth Scientist Sandokhan still seem to get their wisdom in some matters from that source:
Flat Earth Believers / Re: Experiment regarding the biological effects of moonlight « Message by sandokhan on February 09, 2010, 03:10:09 AM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=34082.msg900518;topicseen#msg900518)

Quote from: Sandokhan
Flat Earth Believers / Re: Alternative Flat Earth Theory « Message by sandokhan » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=30499.msg972186;topicseen#msg972186)
GRAVITY IS CAUSED BY THE NEGATIVE COMPONENT OF PRAKRITI, THE TERRESTRIAL RADIATION, ALSO KNOWN AS INERTIA, AND BY THE CONSTANT PRESSURE OF THE VAYU PARTICLES EMITTED BY NIBIRU/TIAMAT.

ANY AND ALL RADIATION TRAVELS THROUGH VAYU, WHICH MAKES UP THE FOUR KINDS/DENSITIES OF AETHER:

http://www.alliancesforhumanity.com/matter/matter_files/image003.jpg

E1 = VAYU / memory/imagination
E2 = TEJAS/PRANA / senses
E3 = APAS / reproduction
E4 = PRAKRITI / metabolism

The positive component of Prakriti is called Assimilation, the process whereby the different nutritive elements of food are incorporated into the body of plant, animal and man.

N. Tesla used Prakriti to send his electrical currents above the flat earth, and also to cause artificial earthquakes.

The human body functions on three levels called octaves: THE OCTAVE OF IMPRESSIONS/THE DIVINE OCTAVE (we receive ojas/ABL+- , prana and generative force through the pineal gland, which IS NOT the third eye of the occultists; the third eye is actually the thalamus gland), THE OCTAVE OF BREATH, and THE OCTAVE OF FOOD.
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W. Reich, in addition to discovering the biggest secret of the nuclear industry (namely, that there is no nuclear industry to begin with, the nuclear reactors are nothing more than aether accumulators), found that the negative component of Prakriti, inertia, also causes the storms in the atmosphere and causes corrosion/decay.

All major discoveries of the 20th Century in quantum mechanics (quark/antimatter/superstring theory), were copied from the most formidable book ever published on this subject:
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/oc/pdfindex.htm
http://www.innerpath.com.au/besant/1Occult%20Chemistry.htm

On the fundamental discoveries from Occult Chemistry:
http://www.esotericscience.org/article5a.htm
www.iiyp.org/The_Amazing_Phenomenon.doc

<< etc, etc >>

It looks as though occult sciences are alive and well:
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FARCE OF MODERN PHYSICS: http://davidpratt.info/farce.htm (http://davidpratt.info/farce.htm)

OCCULT CHEMISTRY, the work copied by Dirac, Gell-Mann, Higgs and many others: http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/oc/pdfindex.htm (http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/oc/pdfindex.htm)

As for the lizard thread, all of you now know exactly what is going on: the reptilian bloodline descendants are the ones who invented the round earth theory, who falsified the entire history prior to 1825 ad, and who currently run Nasa.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 06:36:30 PM
Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual. You asked for the 'well knowness' of my facts. I gave them. Next time ask a better question.

Yes, we agree Newton committed deliberate fraud.

Did you have any other points to make?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 06:37:02 PM
You can format them if you wish with bold and italics?!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 06:37:19 PM
Maybe throw a center in there.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on February 28, 2020, 07:20:50 PM
Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual. You asked for the 'well knowness' of my facts. I gave them. Next time ask a better question.

Yes, we agree Newton committed deliberate fraud.
Is it fair to call it "deliberate fraud" when he simply hypothesised explanations to explain his theory differing from observations.

But this is exactly what flat Earthers do today to explain things that do not fit their model.
Just take a look at Tom Bishop's Electromagnetic Acceleration (https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration) where he postulates "bendy light" to ecplains sunrises, sunsets etc.
Quote from: John Davis
Did you have any other points to make?
Yes.

First, remember that Isaac Newton lived in a time when alchemy and the occult were widely accepted and to just him by modern standards is being a little harsh.

But none of this detracts from the proven accuracy of his Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.

Then scientists of today have discarded the ideas of alchemy and the occult.
It does, however, seem that the most knowledgable flat Earth Scientist among us still bases some of his theories (including gravitation) on the occult.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 10:27:09 PM
Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual. You asked for the 'well knowness' of my facts. I gave them. Next time ask a better question.

Yes, we agree Newton committed deliberate fraud.
Is it fair to call it "deliberate fraud" when he simply hypothesised explanations to explain his theory differing from observations.

But this is exactly what flat Earthers do today to explain things that do not fit their model.
Just take a look at Tom Bishop's Electromagnetic Acceleration (https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration) where he postulates "bendy light" to ecplains sunrises, sunsets etc.
Quote from: John Davis
Did you have any other points to make?
Yes.

First, remember that Isaac Newton lived in a time when alchemy and the occult were widely accepted and to just him by modern standards is being a little harsh.

But none of this detracts from the proven accuracy of his Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.

Then scientists of today have discarded the ideas of alchemy and the occult.
It does, however, seem that the most knowledgable flat Earth Scientist among us still bases some of his theories (including gravitation) on the occult.
I'm simply quoting his biography. Is it fair? Perhaps. I think it is. It's really not for me to judge.

You arguments seem contrived. Please, for the sake of your cause, and this is your last chance.

Reconsider your path. Nobody is banging on about alchemy and the occult but you. There is no one here looking for nessy or finding a bigfoot. You can italicize what you'd like, or say this or that is harsh. Modern standards would fair well with Newton - they have learned well from the master mathemagician.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 10:33:17 PM
Long ago when you came here, you sent me a message. I don't remember the sorts, but it was of the order of "do you really believe all this, is this legitimate etc". I told you it was legitimate because in discussion of these odd things we find truth. This truth is unobtainable, but here and within even the most ridiculous arguments. It's ever present.  In eris as much as logos. This is the only way we obtain it - not through orthodoxy which is stagnation, but through random and beautiful imaginative logic. Its not induction, its more than that. To those who have felt it, it has always been defined in ways that match religious experience.

It is what we all, all of us here and not just you, hold holy. We like the bits and logic and the reason. We know this is the Way, and that is why you are all here. Let's build that new Way together.

This is the order of "things", and its not teleologic, its complicated as balls.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 28, 2020, 10:37:05 PM
And no its not fake dinosaurs, or religious literalism. I think we all know that by now. These silly arguments compel us, and the base instincts of man for a reason. Reason is not as reasonable as we might think.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on February 29, 2020, 12:39:10 AM
Nobody is banging on about alchemy and the occult but you.
So you didn't even to bother reading who I was writing about.
It is Sandokhan who brings up "occult chemistry" in his debates! How are we supposed to answer that sort of thing?

markjo, read this thread again: the RE want an A-10 gravimeter.
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The fact that most of their descriptions of MPAs were published several years before physicists even suspected that atoms had nuclei excludes the possibility of their fraudulent use of scientific knowledge about the composition of nuclei in terms of protons, neutrons and mass numbers because no such information existed then, Chadwick discovering the neutron in  1932, twenty-four years after the first edition of Occult Chemistry appeared.  No normal or alternative paranormal explanation of the correlation between modern physics and their ostensible 100-year old observations of subatomic particles appears to exist other than that  Besant and Leadbeater genuinely described aspects of the microscopic world by means of ESP, albeit one disturbed by the act of paranormal observation.

http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_09_4_phillips.pdf (http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_09_4_phillips.pdf)

So all this information from occult chemistry and physics cones fro "ESP, albeit one disturbed by the act of paranormal observation" - to each his own!

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So, if we could describe a microscopic standing wave pattern that appeared particle-like and incorporated a vortex within its structure, we might have the basis for a theory that could unite all the current variants in modern physics. Figure 1 appears to meet these criteria – it is a drawing of a subatomic particle reproduced from Occult Chemistry by Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant, which was first published in 1909, although a similar diagram was published in a journal in 1895. Leadbeater explains that each subatomic particle is composed of ten loops which circulate energy from higher dimensions. Back in 1895, he knew that physical matter was composed from "strings" – 10 years before Einstein's theory of relativity and 80 years before string theory.

(http://www.esotericscience.org/diagrams/5a1-Subatomic-Particle.jpg)
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Figure 7 depicts the subatomic structure of a hydrogen atom (in the 1:3 gaseous phase) and its decomposition through four etheric phases:

•The 1:4-molecules are baryons.
•The large 1:5-molecules are unstable mesons.
•The small 1:5-molecules and the 1:6-phase molecules are quarks.
•The 1:7-atoms (or 1-atoms) are preons.
Leadbeater did not state what the membranes surrounding the molecular structures are composed of, but they are probably 2-atoms or 3-atoms.

(http://www.esotericscience.org/diagrams/5a7-Baryon-Meson-Quark-Preon.jpg)

Figures 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 are extracted from Occult Chemistry by Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant. The book depicts the subatomic structure of every element in the periodic table from Hydrogen to Uranium, including various isotopes (atoms with the same atomic number but different mass numbers). Leadbeater knew that isotopes existed in 1907 – five years before conventional science discovered them.
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I'll just give a link to these recent ones:
Flat Earth General / Re: Solar eclipse of November 23, 2003 « Message by sandokhan on September 07, 2019, 05:04:17 AM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=83098.msg2201395;topicseen#msg2201395)

Flat Earth General / Re: Strongest FE Evidence « Message by sandokhan on December 04, 2019, 11:29:35 PM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=84051.msg2221196;topicseen#msg2221196)

Flat Earth General / Re: Strongest FE Evidence « Message by sandokhan on December 04, 2019, 11:31:17 PM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=84051.msg2221197;topicseen#msg2221197)

And Sandokhan is the one accusing others of posting pseudoscientific rubbish - not his words, I won't stoop that low.



Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on February 29, 2020, 01:30:44 AM
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Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual.

Really?   Please give me an example of a well known fact which is actually not factual.  Because surely if it is well known that a well known fact is not actually factual then that makes it by definition not a well know fact?

You mentioned about figures such as those quoted in the BAA handbook as suiting only the model they refer to.  Can you point us towards a flat Earth model which has figures quoted to the same level of accuracy?  In fact can you point us towards a single FE model which all FE believers accept?  No of course you can't because no such single model exists. You are all too busy arguing among yourselves about which one to adopt.

You go on about Einstein and Newton.  Well it is a 'well known fact' that neither of them were right all the time.  Of course they weren't because they were human beings and therefore not infallible to making mistakes and errors.  Even scientists make mistakes. But at least they are willing to recognise and accept they have made a mistake and do something about it. I have never yet seen an instance when a FE believer has held their hands up and said.. 'actually I could be wrong..'.  What is it like to be super human and to be right all the time?

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 29, 2020, 01:34:14 AM
You really are asking me for a citation that facts aren't facts? How daft can you be.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 29, 2020, 01:35:13 AM
What are you trying to bangin' on about. I'm happy to help; its what I'm here for, but really? The point was that at least they wiped their own fucking ass.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Username on February 29, 2020, 01:37:36 AM
The anger in my post is directed to all of you that don't wipe your own ass. Those that can't be bothered to fuck off with their own idea. Or at least stay home and defend that one. Yet you came here. You english bastards.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on February 29, 2020, 04:05:54 AM
Your anger it seems is just aimed at anyone who holds a different view to your own.  That's the purpose of debates isn't it?  In a debate people should be allowed to have and to voice different views without expecting to have insults fired at them.  If you need to resort to that sort of language to get your opinion over and fire insults off at anyone who has the audacity to express a different view to yours then AR is the place for that surely.

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 02, 2020, 05:35:50 AM
Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual. You asked for the 'well knowness' of my facts. I gave them. Next time ask a better question.

Yes, we agree Newton committed deliberate fraud.
Is it fair to call it "deliberate fraud" when he simply hypothesised explanations to explain his theory differing from observations.

But this is exactly what flat Earthers do today to explain things that do not fit their model.
Just take a look at Tom Bishop's Electromagnetic Acceleration (https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration) where he postulates "bendy light" to ecplains sunrises, sunsets etc.
Quote from: John Davis
Did you have any other points to make?
Yes.

First, remember that Isaac Newton lived in a time when alchemy and the occult were widely accepted and to just him by modern standards is being a little harsh.

But none of this detracts from the proven accuracy of his Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Then scientists of today have discarded the ideas of alchemy and the occult.
It does, however, seem that the most knowledgable flat Earth Scientist among us still bases some of his theories (including gravitation) on the occult.
You admit Newton did this, want us to accept his science (us depending strictly on your ability to judge what is correct and incorrect), yet decry others who do?

Seems rather odd...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 02, 2020, 12:36:30 PM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 02, 2020, 02:27:55 PM
Did you have any other points to make?
Yes.

First, remember that Isaac Newton lived in a time when alchemy and the occult were widely accepted and to just him by modern standards is being a little harsh.

But none of this detracts from the proven accuracy of his Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
They have, numerous times.
The more advanced of these simulations also incorporate the gravitational quadripole moment of non-spherical objects, Einstein's GR and other slight effects.

Quote from: totallackey
Then scientists of today have discarded the ideas of alchemy and the occult.
It does, however, seem that the most knowledgable flat Earth Scientist among us still bases some of his theories (including gravitation) on the occult.
You admit Newton did this, want us to accept his science (us depending strictly on your ability to judge what is correct and incorrect), yet decry others who do?

Seems rather odd...
Not odd at all because:
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Timeisup on March 03, 2020, 12:08:12 AM
Yes its well known that well known facts are not factual. You asked for the 'well knowness' of my facts. I gave them. Next time ask a better question.

Yes, we agree Newton committed deliberate fraud.
Is it fair to call it "deliberate fraud" when he simply hypothesised explanations to explain his theory differing from observations.

But this is exactly what flat Earthers do today to explain things that do not fit their model.
Just take a look at Tom Bishop's Electromagnetic Acceleration (https://wiki.tfes.org/Electromagnetic_Acceleration) where he postulates "bendy light" to ecplains sunrises, sunsets etc.
Quote from: John Davis
Did you have any other points to make?
Yes.

First, remember that Isaac Newton lived in a time when alchemy and the occult were widely accepted and to just him by modern standards is being a little harsh.

But none of this detracts from the proven accuracy of his Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation.
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Then scientists of today have discarded the ideas of alchemy and the occult.
It does, however, seem that the most knowledgable flat Earth Scientist among us still bases some of his theories (including gravitation) on the occult.
You admit Newton did this, want us to accept his science (us depending strictly on your ability to judge what is correct and incorrect), yet decry others who do?

Seems rather odd...

Now I’m not a great reader of the bible but it does have some pretty good quotes like this from the King James Version that I think applies here:-

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.


Flat earthers like yourself love to nit pick away at the tiniest discrepancies in conventional theory while ignoring the gaping holes all over your own ill  thought out random individual ideas. The more one looks into flat earth belief what becomes very clear is that rather than there being one overarching concept every flat earther appears to have their own version. The bottom line is you flat earthers can’t even agree among yourself. Ask them a simple question, like the one I asked John Davis,on how far the moon is from earth and how big is it  and all you will get is evasion. The funny thing is he like others don’t even agree with what they have on the flat earth wiki, as it’s not their own flat earth wiki! The real question you should be asking is what the hell do flat earth believers believe?

Ps.
This is the reason why flat earthers love to nit pick away at conventional science as they haven’t a clue about what they actually believe and why they believe it and are too scared to actually spend time scrutinising their own beliefs.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 03:59:51 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.

Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.

Why don't we have one using Newton's laws?

Because, according to you, even the ones we do have (not to scale) are just fine...even though not valid science...according to Newton...

You are so in love with hocus pocus, abracadabra, and allahkazaam...LOL!!!

And you guys have the nerve to call Sandokhan an alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 04:10:31 AM
Now I’m not a great reader of the bible...
That, among other things...but, I will try not to nitpick...
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.


Flat earthers like yourself love to nit pick away...
Hey, not fair...I just wrote I will not nitpick...
...at the tiniest discrepancies in conventional theory while ignoring the gaping holes all over your own ill  thought out random individual ideas.
Like what?

The ones you label as not your individual ideas...

By the way, how has that been working out for you?
The more one looks into flat earth belief what becomes very clear is that rather than there being one overarching concept every flat earther appears to have their own version. The bottom line is you flat earthers can’t even agree among yourself. Ask them a simple question, like the one I asked John Davis,on how far the moon is from earth and how big is it  and all you will get is evasion. The funny thing is he like others don’t even agree with what they have on the flat earth wiki, as it’s not their own flat earth wiki! The real question you should be asking is what the hell do flat earth believers believe?

Ps.
This is the reason why flat earthers love to nit pick away at conventional science as they haven’t a clue about what they actually believe and why they believe it and are too scared to actually spend time scrutinising their own beliefs.
You just like to fall in lock step...nothing wrong with that boring, dull life...have at it.

Last I checked, one of your threads was in flames...better to go clean that one up, keeping in line with your poor reading of the bible and all...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 03, 2020, 04:42:45 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.
Nobody, but YOU, mentioned "the one Hamzah uses in his icon" so it is disingenuous in the extreme to go on and on about that!

Quote from: totallackey
Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.
Stop accusing others of what you wrote! You said "the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus" and nobody else!

Quote from: totallackey
Why don't we have one using Newton's laws?

Because, according to you, even the ones we do have (not to scale) are just fine...even though not valid science...according to Newton...
There are numerous such simulations ranging from ones that you can run on your home computer to high precision ones needing extremely fast computers to get the speed and precision necessary.

Quote from: totallackey
You are so in love with hocus pocus, abracadabra, and allahkazaam...LOL!!!
You do so love to build your straw-men than burn them down - unfortunately for you, it proves nothing, is useless and dishonest!

Quote from: totallackey
And you guys have the nerve to call Sandokhan an alchemist...
That's right, because he bases much of his current theories on occult chemistry, etc and even writes this sort of thing:
There is a reptilian blood line.
As for the lizard thread, all of you now know exactly what is going on: the reptilian bloodline descendants are the ones who invented the round earth theory, who falsified the entire history prior to 1825 AD, and who currently run NASA.
Really?  ::) ::) ::)"reptilian bloodline descendants who currently run NASA" ::) ::) ::)

Why did you totally ignore Explain this to me......... « Reply #42 on: Today at 08:27:55 AM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=84934.msg2238474#msg2238474)?

Here is a "high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies":
This is not open source but is intended for somewhat more serious applications.
Though it would hardly be up to the standard needed by those working on predicting planetary positions for space missions, etc:
Quote
AstroGrav Astronomy Software (http://www.astrograv.co.uk)
AstroGrav for Windows and Mac is a full-featured, high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies, so that the motions of asteroids and comets are simulated much more accurately than with planetarium applications. The effects of general relativity and radiation pressure can be taken into account, and superb interactive 3D viewing allows you to easily rotate and zoom your view while the solar system evolves.

Multi-Purpose
Because it calculates the motions of bodies from their gravitational interactions, AstroGrav is not restricted to just the solar system. Any situation in which gravity is the only significant force can be simulated, and the illustrative sample files that are included with AstroGrav include many examples. Systems that can be simulated include:
  • Exoplanet systems
  • Protoplanets that evolve into planetary systems
  • Rubble piles and their interactions with massive bodies
  • Complex star systems, including colliding globular clusters
  • Projectiles and bouncing balls
But that is just one that runs on a PC, not a professional one that astronomers and those working on orbital mechanics might use for there final planning.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 04:59:22 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.
Nobody, but YOU, mentioned "the one Hamzah uses in his icon" so it is disingenuous in the extreme to go on and on about that!
No it's not.

Here, let me post it here for you...
(https://image.ibb.co/d8otAT/ezgif_com_resize_2.gif)
Quote from: totallackey
Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.
Stop accusing others of what you wrote! You said "the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus" and nobody else!
Are we to take it you subscribe to the idea the model above is legit?

It depicts a Solar System behaving according to Newton's Laws?
Quote from: totallackey
Why don't we have one using Newton's laws?

Because, according to you, even the ones we do have (not to scale) are just fine...even though not valid science...according to Newton...
There are numerous such simulations ranging from ones that you can run on your home computer to high precision ones needing extremely fast computers to get the speed and precision necessary.
No there isn't.

Post a link to one that will render a Solar System in motion.

I dare you.
Quote from: totallackey
You are so in love with hocus pocus, abracadabra, and allahkazaam...LOL!!!
You do so love to build your straw-men than burn them down - unfortunately for you, it proves nothing, is useless and dishonest!

Quote from: totallackey
And you guys have the nerve to call Sandokhan an alchemist...
That's right, because he bases much of his current theories on occult chemistry, etc and even writes this sort of thing:
There is a reptilian blood line.
As for the lizard thread, all of you now know exactly what is going on: the reptilian bloodline descendants are the ones who invented the round earth theory, who falsified the entire history prior to 1825 AD, and who currently run NASA.
Really?  ::) ::) ::)"reptilian bloodline descendants who currently run NASA" ::) ::) ::)

Why did you totally ignore Explain this to me......... « Reply #42 on: Today at 08:27:55 AM » (https://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=84934.msg2238474#msg2238474)?

Here is a "high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies":
This is not open source but is intended for somewhat more serious applications.
Though it would hardly be up to the standard needed by those working on predicting planetary positions for space missions, etc:
Quote
AstroGrav Astronomy Software (http://www.astrograv.co.uk)
AstroGrav for Windows and Mac is a full-featured, high precision solar system simulator that calculates the gravitational interactions between all astronomical bodies, so that the motions of asteroids and comets are simulated much more accurately than with planetarium applications. The effects of general relativity and radiation pressure can be taken into account, and superb interactive 3D viewing allows you to easily rotate and zoom your view while the solar system evolves.

Multi-Purpose
Because it calculates the motions of bodies from their gravitational interactions, AstroGrav is not restricted to just the solar system. Any situation in which gravity is the only significant force can be simulated, and the illustrative sample files that are included with AstroGrav include many examples. Systems that can be simulated include:
  • Exoplanet systems
  • Protoplanets that evolve into planetary systems
  • Rubble piles and their interactions with massive bodies
  • Complex star systems, including colliding globular clusters
  • Projectiles and bouncing balls
But that is just one that runs on a PC, not a professional one that astronomers and those working on orbital mechanics might use for there final planning.
Bogus.

Doesn't depict the Solar System in motion.

Doesn't use the math of Newton, or GR, or even Keplar.

Dirty alchemist.

Where is that ideal rope...?

Isn't that how we deal with alchemists round here?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 03, 2020, 05:26:41 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.
Nobody, but YOU, mentioned "the one Hamzah uses in his icon" so it is disingenuous in the extreme to go on and on about that!
No it's not.

Here, let me post it here for you...
(https://image.ibb.co/d8otAT/ezgif_com_resize_2.gif)
Quote from: totallackey
Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.
Stop accusing others of what you wrote! You said "the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus" and nobody else!
Are we to take it you subscribe to the idea the model above is legit?
No one in this thread claimed that the depiction in Hamzah's signature was a simulation based on Newton's Laws!

I have given you a couple of examples of those that do.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 05:31:11 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.
Nobody, but YOU, mentioned "the one Hamzah uses in his icon" so it is disingenuous in the extreme to go on and on about that!
No it's not.

Here, let me post it here for you...
(https://image.ibb.co/d8otAT/ezgif_com_resize_2.gif)
Quote from: totallackey
Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.
Stop accusing others of what you wrote! You said "the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus" and nobody else!
Are we to take it you subscribe to the idea the model above is legit?
No one in this thread claimed that the depiction in Hamzah's signature was a simulation based on Newton's Laws!

I have given you a couple of examples of those that do.
No, you haven't.

Because if they did, we would be able to see it in this thread.

You would post it.

All you did was claim you could do it.

But you can't.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 03, 2020, 05:36:08 AM
Quote
Post a link to one that will render a Solar System in motion.

OK here's one...

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem

You can set the date, drag to change the orientation and set the rate of animation. Just click on the animate tickbox to get things moving.

The angle on the sky between the north celestial pole and the north galactic pole is 63 degrees.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 05:40:09 AM
Quote
Post a link to one that will render a Solar System in motion.

OK here's one...

https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem
Ok, no it's not...

Does that show the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?

No...it doesn't.

Try again...

That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 03, 2020, 05:43:09 AM
What is the angle between the north celestial pole and the north galactic pole?  I will give you a clue, the north galactic pole is in the constellation of Coma Berenices.  What does that tell you about the actual motion of the planets in relation to the galactic plane? The Sun orbits the Galaxy every 230 million years or so.

Quote
Does that show the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?

It certainly show the planets in motion around the Sun. No doubt about that!

If you want a link that backs up what is shown in the animation previous posted, here is one...

https://www.space.com/3801-solar-system-sails-sideways-milky.html

Quote
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...

Where does it say it doesn't?

Now setting aside for the moment whose 'laws' the planets are or are not 'obeying' , you show me some links which evidence that none of this is true. 
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: sokarul on March 03, 2020, 06:11:51 AM
Why haven't the computer scientists used his laws of motion and universal gravitation to create a CGI model of the solar system in motion?
Why do you ignore what has been explained to you so many times before?

Computer models do exist.
What doesn't (at least not to my knowledge) are to-scale CGI models because you wouldn't be able to see anything in them anyway due to the sizes involved.
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.

Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.

So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.

Why don't we have one using Newton's laws?

Because, according to you, even the ones we do have (not to scale) are just fine...even though not valid science...according to Newton...

You are so in love with hocus pocus, abracadabra, and allahkazaam...LOL!!!

And you guys have the nerve to call Sandokhan an alchemist...

Please note Hamzah’s avatar is from a debunked video/model.

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 08:12:13 AM
Please note Hamzah’s avatar is from a debunked video/model.
Please post a non-debunked one.

One that shows the solar system traipsing about the galaxy...

One that uses Newton's laws and universal gravitation and Kepler and Einstein...you know?

The "all-sciency" one...

LOL!!!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 08:18:43 AM
What is the angle between the north celestial pole and the north galactic pole?  I will give you a clue, the north galactic pole is in the constellation of Coma Berenices.  What does that tell you about the actual motion of the planets in relation to the galactic plane? The Sun orbits the Galaxy every 230 million years or so.
Who cares?
Quote
Does that show the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?

It certainly show the planets in motion around the Sun. No doubt about that!
If it doesn't show the sun in motion, then it does not show the full motion of the planets.
If you want a link that backs up what is shown in the animation previous posted, here is one...

https://www.space.com/3801-solar-system-sails-sideways-milky.html
Who cares?
Quote
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...

Where does it say it doesn't?
It says it doesn't when it doesn't say it does.
Now setting aside for the moment whose 'laws' the planets are or are not 'obeying' , you show me some links which evidence that none of this is true.
Stop the spam...

Either pony up a model, like Hamzah's (but legitimate) that uses the laws of Fig Newton, the math of Kepler, and GR, or just admit you are also lost in the sea of lies promoted by today's science...

You better sit this one out...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: sokarul on March 03, 2020, 08:23:10 AM
Please note Hamzah’s avatar is from a debunked video/model.
Please post a non-debunked one.

One that shows the solar system traipsing about the galaxy...

One that uses Newton's laws and universal gravitation and Kepler and Einstein...you know?

The "all-sciency" one...

LOL!!!
I’m referring to this.

https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/



celestia is a good working model.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 03, 2020, 08:25:02 AM
Please note Hamzah’s avatar is from a debunked video/model.
Please post a non-debunked one.

One that shows the solar system traipsing about the galaxy...

One that uses Newton's laws and universal gravitation and Kepler and Einstein...you know?

The "all-sciency" one...

LOL!!!
I’m referring to this.

https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/



celestia is a good working model.
Celestia doesn't show the solar system in motion.

Please pay attention.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: sokarul on March 03, 2020, 09:13:05 AM
Why does the model need to move?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 03, 2020, 11:41:57 AM
Yeah, the ones I see like the one Hamzah uses in his icon, shows a Solar System in motion through the galaxy.
Unfortunately, it does not depict the Solar System in motion throughout the galaxy using Newton's laws or universal gravitation.
So, the models we do have depicting Solar System motion are bogus, even according to you.
Why don't we have one using Newton's laws?
Just because one that you have seen doesn't mean we don't have any that do.
That doesn't mean all are bogus.

I didn't object to models using Newton's laws (or more accurate versions).
I objected to the to-scale part, as it wouldn't let you see anything.
If you tried to put a to-scale model of the solar system, just out to Neptune, on a 4K screen, the sun would be less than a pixel.
If you had a to-scale model like that, you wouldn't see anything.

You know this.
Yet you keep complaining.


Doesn't depict the Solar System in motion.
Doesn't use the math of Newton, or GR, or even Keplar.
Did you even bother reading what it says?
It seems now you are just in pathetic denial mode where even if something indicates it does use gravity, you will just dismiss it as not using it.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Curiouser and Curiouser on March 03, 2020, 12:13:50 PM
I demand that these so-called "scientists" (if they're that good) provide me with an animated CGI model of the solar system that not only is to scale, but is 1:1 on a distance scale AND doesn't have that speeded up nonsense that fools everyone and must RUN IN REAL TIME. If they can't, they're clearly incapable and incompetent and are just lying.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Stash on March 03, 2020, 02:03:31 PM
Quote
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
Where does it say it doesn't?
It says it doesn't when it doesn't say it does.

If you actually care to do just about 30 seconds of research, you would see that model is Newtonian/Kelparian. Just click on the 'about' link.
The ephemeris provided by this site (which include coordinates, distances from Earth and Sun, estimated magnitude and, for comets, time to perihelion) are obtained from the JPL Horizons service.

Then go check out the JPL Horizons service, it's all there in the documentation.

So when you make a claim "That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein..." please try and back it up with some facts. A step you often skip over.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 03, 2020, 02:09:00 PM
Quote
Post a link to one that will render a Solar System in motion.
OK here's one...
https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem
Ok, no it's not...
Does that show the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?

No...it doesn't.

Try again...

That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"

If you want one, YOU get the code for an "open-source" planetary motion simulator and modify it to allow for the Solar System's motion around the supermassive black hole, SagA*.

Quote from: totallackey
Try again...
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
How do you know that The Sky 3D Solar System Simulator (https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem) doesn't use "use math by Newton"? Have you examined the code?

But it wouldn't use and "math by Kepler" because Kepler's laws only apply to a two-body system.
I doubt that a freebie like that would use Einstein's GR because on the screen you could never tell the difference between using Newton's Laws and GR.

But here is an "open-source" simulator for you:
A brief introduction: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator, introduction (https://open.nasa.gov/data-stories/solar-system-simulator/)
An example of jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)
And a brief description of how it works:
Quote from: Martin Vézina
Building jsOrrery, a Javascript / WebGL Solar System (http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/building-jsorrery-a-javascript-webgl-solar-system)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Velocity
The goal of the project was to simulate the Solar System by calculating the gravitational forces, so the results given by the orbital elements were just the original state of the system at the start of simulation. Now that I had the right positions for the planets, I had to find what their velocities were at that position. The gravitational forces constantly influence the velocity vector of each planet, which makes them have a curved trajectory instead of going straight, so in order to start an animation, I had to know what was the velocity vector to act upon.

My first instinct was to calculate velocity by differentiating positions at different times. After all, velocity is exactly that : the difference between the positions of an object at the start and end of a time interval. If the calculations of orbital elements gave an accurate position, there is no reason why I couldnt get an accurate difference between two positions, even with a small time increment. I figured that a single one second interval would get me a reasonably accurate velocity reading, no need to perform a complex integration. One second at that scale is small enough to be considered instantaneous.

The result was satisfactory, except for one thing. In my Solar Sytem, I included the orbit of Halley's comet. As you may know, its orbit is in the shape of an elongated ellipse: it is highly eccentric. Eccentricity is the parameter that describes the shape of the orbit, with 0 being circular and augmenting towards 1 for flatter ellipses. One of the effects of having an eccentric orbit is that the calculations of the orbital elements become less accurate. It's not a big problem when you want an approximate position, but velocities cannot be inferred from inacurrate positions. So Halley's comet wasn't giving a damn about its trajectory, getting the hell out away in the universe.

Fortunately, there is a principle of physics that was on my side, and permits the calculation of the speed of an orbiting body from its position only : the vis-viva equation. But speed is a scalar, whereas velocity is a vector, so with vis-viva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis-viva_equation) I had the length of the velocity, not its orientation. Further calculations were needed to get the orientation as well, and I ended up with a pretty good system for calculating all the initial parameters to launch the simulation.

Going 3d
Up to that point, I had displayed the simulation only in 2d, with the canvas through Create.js. Doing it 2d was my original intention when starting the project. I did not want a complex visualisation, just the basics to observe the orbits. Due to the nature of the calculations of the orbital elements, I did not have the choice but to use 3d vectors to compute the positions. I chose to use Three.js's Vector3 for the calculations, as I did not want to reinvent the wheel, but did not think further than that. I did my calculations and used the x and y component to display the system from above, occasionally switching to x and z to see it from the side. I was so absorbed in getting the numbers right that it did not even occur to me that I could do better with the visualisation.

Then one day, like a friggin genius, I realized that I had everything I need to display the simulation in 3d. I had all the numbers in 3d, why not use the 3 components all at once? Instead of creating the scene in Create.js, I'd just create the scene in Three, add a camera and some lightning, and voilà! You can't imagine how the geek in me was thrilled when, in 2 hours, he passed from having no idea that he was going to do his visualisation in 3d to having it before his eyes. All the work was already done, and I hadn't realized it. I mean, I could see the Solar System in my browser in 3d, what's not exciting about that? I almost had tears of joy in my eyes.
<< And much more >>

But if you want the "all bells and whistles" you must go to those that need such things, for example NASA or the ESA.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 03, 2020, 02:18:06 PM
Quote
If you actually care to do just about 30 seconds of research, you would see that model is Newtonian/Kelparian. Just click on the 'about' link.

I rest my case.

To Totallackey I would respond to your 'Who cares' comments, you should care. But, because you refuse to open your mind to any possibility other than what your narrow minded beliefs tell you is true or not you are missing my point entirely.  The fact is that the Sun is orbiting the centre of the Galaxy (taking about 230 million years each time) while the planets are orbiting the Sun at an angle of 63 degrees to the plane of the Suns Galactic orbital plane.  So if you trace out the true paths of the planets through space relative to the Sun you will find they follow a spiral shape.

I am not just throwing random, plucked out of the air numbers at you, I am telling you the facts. The south galactic pole lies in the constellation Sculptor which is also 63 degrees from the south celestial pole.

But if you don't "care" about any of that and don't want to learn something based on reality for a change then that's up to you.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 03:44:05 AM
I didn't object to models using Newton's laws (or more accurate versions).
Youi can't object to something that doesn't exist.
I objected to the to-scale part, as it wouldn't let you see anything.
Look above...you see something that is not to scale, but shows movement.

Something similar, based on the laws and math of Newton/Kepler/Einstein could be done too...
If you tried to put a to-scale model of the solar system, just out to Neptune, on a 4K screen, the sun would be less than a pixel.
If you had a to-scale model like that, you wouldn't see anything.

You know this.
Yet you keep complaining.
Never asked for a scale model...stop strawmanning.

Doesn't depict the Solar System in motion.
Doesn't use the math of Newton, or GR, or even Keplar.
Did you even bother reading what it says?
It seems now you are just in pathetic denial mode where even if something indicates it does use gravity, you will just dismiss it as not using it.
Math is math.

You don't have it...

Bye alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 03:46:12 AM
I demand that these so-called "scientists" (if they're that good) provide me with an animated CGI model of the solar system that not only is to scale, but is 1:1 on a distance scale AND doesn't have that speeded up nonsense that fools everyone and must RUN IN REAL TIME. If they can't, they're clearly incapable and incompetent and are just lying.
You are lying.

I never demanded a scale model.

Does this look like a scale model?
(https://image.ibb.co/d8otAT/ezgif_com_resize_2.gif)
Answer - no

The problem for you and others of your ilk is this.

No such model utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein can be made because the math doesn't work.

Bye alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 03:47:34 AM
Quote
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
Where does it say it doesn't?
It says it doesn't when it doesn't say it does.

If you actually care to do just about 30 seconds of research, you would see that model is Newtonian/Kelparian. Just click on the 'about' link.
The ephemeris provided by this site (which include coordinates, distances from Earth and Sun, estimated magnitude and, for comets, time to perihelion) are obtained from the JPL Horizons service.

Then go check out the JPL Horizons service, it's all there in the documentation.

So when you make a claim "That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein..." please try and back it up with some facts. A step you often skip over.
You provide the fact the model even depicts a solar system traipsing about the galaxy and then come back and write some more...

Until then, toodle pip, alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 03:51:46 AM
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"
Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...

Bye alchemist...

If you want one, YOU get the code for an "open-source" planetary motion simulator and modify it to allow for the Solar System's motion around the supermassive black hole, SagA*.

Quote from: totallackey
Try again...
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
How do you know that The Sky 3D Solar System Simulator (https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem) doesn't use "use math by Newton"? Have you examined the code?

But it wouldn't use and "math by Kepler" because Kepler's laws only apply to a two-body system.
I doubt that a freebie like that would use Einstein's GR because on the screen you could never tell the difference between using Newton's Laws and GR.

But here is an "open-source" simulator for you:
A brief introduction: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator, introduction (https://open.nasa.gov/data-stories/solar-system-simulator/)
An example of jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)
And a brief description of how it works:
Quote from: Martin Vézina
Building jsOrrery, a Javascript / WebGL Solar System (http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/building-jsorrery-a-javascript-webgl-solar-system)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Velocity
The goal of the project was to simulate the Solar System by calculating the gravitational forces, so the results given by the orbital elements were just the original state of the system at the start of simulation. Now that I had the right positions for the planets, I had to find what their velocities were at that position. The gravitational forces constantly influence the velocity vector of each planet, which makes them have a curved trajectory instead of going straight, so in order to start an animation, I had to know what was the velocity vector to act upon.

My first instinct was to calculate velocity by differentiating positions at different times. After all, velocity is exactly that : the difference between the positions of an object at the start and end of a time interval. If the calculations of orbital elements gave an accurate position, there is no reason why I couldnt get an accurate difference between two positions, even with a small time increment. I figured that a single one second interval would get me a reasonably accurate velocity reading, no need to perform a complex integration. One second at that scale is small enough to be considered instantaneous.

The result was satisfactory, except for one thing. In my Solar Sytem, I included the orbit of Halley's comet. As you may know, its orbit is in the shape of an elongated ellipse: it is highly eccentric. Eccentricity is the parameter that describes the shape of the orbit, with 0 being circular and augmenting towards 1 for flatter ellipses. One of the effects of having an eccentric orbit is that the calculations of the orbital elements become less accurate. It's not a big problem when you want an approximate position, but velocities cannot be inferred from inacurrate positions. So Halley's comet wasn't giving a damn about its trajectory, getting the hell out away in the universe.

Fortunately, there is a principle of physics that was on my side, and permits the calculation of the speed of an orbiting body from its position only : the vis-viva equation. But speed is a scalar, whereas velocity is a vector, so with vis-viva (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis-viva_equation) I had the length of the velocity, not its orientation. Further calculations were needed to get the orientation as well, and I ended up with a pretty good system for calculating all the initial parameters to launch the simulation.

Going 3d
Up to that point, I had displayed the simulation only in 2d, with the canvas through Create.js. Doing it 2d was my original intention when starting the project. I did not want a complex visualisation, just the basics to observe the orbits. Due to the nature of the calculations of the orbital elements, I did not have the choice but to use 3d vectors to compute the positions. I chose to use Three.js's Vector3 for the calculations, as I did not want to reinvent the wheel, but did not think further than that. I did my calculations and used the x and y component to display the system from above, occasionally switching to x and z to see it from the side. I was so absorbed in getting the numbers right that it did not even occur to me that I could do better with the visualisation.

Then one day, like a friggin genius, I realized that I had everything I need to display the simulation in 3d. I had all the numbers in 3d, why not use the 3 components all at once? Instead of creating the scene in Create.js, I'd just create the scene in Three, add a camera and some lightning, and voilà! You can't imagine how the geek in me was thrilled when, in 2 hours, he passed from having no idea that he was going to do his visualisation in 3d to having it before his eyes. All the work was already done, and I hadn't realized it. I mean, I could see the Solar System in my browser in 3d, what's not exciting about that? I almost had tears of joy in my eyes.
<< And much more >>

But if you want the "all bells and whistles" you must go to those that need such things, for example NASA or the ESA.
Funny...

they don't have it...

And it won't show up on a computer screen as CGI...

Bye again, alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 03:53:38 AM
Quote
If you actually care to do just about 30 seconds of research, you would see that model is Newtonian/Kelparian. Just click on the 'about' link.

I rest my case.

To Totallackey I would respond to your 'Who cares' comments, you should care. But, because you refuse to open your mind to any possibility other than what your narrow minded beliefs tell you is true or not you are missing my point entirely.  The fact is that the Sun is orbiting the centre of the Galaxy (taking about 230 million years each time) while the planets are orbiting the Sun at an angle of 63 degrees to the plane of the Suns Galactic orbital plane.  So if you trace out the true paths of the planets through space relative to the Sun you will find they follow a spiral shape.

I am not just throwing random, plucked out of the air numbers at you, I am telling you the facts. The south galactic pole lies in the constellation Sculptor which is also 63 degrees from the south celestial pole.

But if you don't "care" about any of that and don't want to learn something based on reality for a change then that's up to you.
You are just throwing out random numbers, because you do not have any CGI representation of what you claim to be happening that is based on the "sciency stuff."

Bye alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 04, 2020, 04:13:15 AM
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"
Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...
But no benefit would be gained for one simulation of the planets orbiting the Sun and then the whole Solar System orbiting SagA* sp no one would bother doing it.

Quote from: totallackey
Bye alchemist...

If you want one, YOU get the code for an "open-source" planetary motion simulator and modify it to allow for the Solar System's motion around the supermassive black hole, SagA*.

Quote from: totallackey
Try again...
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
How do you know that The Sky 3D Solar System Simulator (https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem) doesn't use "use math by Newton"? Have you examined the code?

But it wouldn't use and "math by Kepler" because Kepler's laws only apply to a two-body system.
I doubt that a freebie like that would use Einstein's GR because on the screen you could never tell the difference between using Newton's Laws and GR.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
An example of jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)
And a brief description of how it works:
Quote from: Martin Vézina
Building jsOrrery, a Javascript / WebGL Solar System (http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/building-jsorrery-a-javascript-webgl-solar-system)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Velocity
The goal of the project was to simulate the Solar System by calculating the gravitational forces, so the results given by the orbital elements were just the original state of the system at the start of simulation.
<< And much more >>

But if you want the "all bells and whistles" you must go to those that need such things, for example NASA or the ESA.
Funny...
they don't have it...
And it won't show up on a computer screen as CGI...
Bye again, alchemist...
Who doesn't have what?

Stop being a useless waste of time!
Of course the jsOrrery, WebGL Solar System "shows up on a computer screen as CGI"

I gave you the direct link to the jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)

And it does use Newton's Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation to calculate the motions of the planets.

Your denying everything proves nothing!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 04:18:41 AM
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"
Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...
But no benefit would be gained for one simulation of the planets orbiting the Sun and then the whole Solar System orbiting SagA* sp no one would bother doing it.
LOL!!!

Sheer hilarity!!!

"But no benefit..."

How's about, "WE CAN"T USE A MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION BASED ON NEWTON/KEPLER/EINSTEIN BECAUSE IT ALL FALLS APART!!!"
Quote from: totallackey
Bye alchemist...

If you want one, YOU get the code for an "open-source" planetary motion simulator and modify it to allow for the Solar System's motion around the supermassive black hole, SagA*.

Quote from: totallackey
Try again...
That model doesn't even use math by Newton/Keplar/Einstein...
How do you know that The Sky 3D Solar System Simulator (https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem) doesn't use "use math by Newton"? Have you examined the code?

But it wouldn't use and "math by Kepler" because Kepler's laws only apply to a two-body system.
I doubt that a freebie like that would use Einstein's GR because on the screen you could never tell the difference between using Newton's Laws and GR.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
An example of jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)
And a brief description of how it works:
Quote from: Martin Vézina
Building jsOrrery, a Javascript / WebGL Solar System (http://lab.la-grange.ca/en/building-jsorrery-a-javascript-webgl-solar-system)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Velocity
The goal of the project was to simulate the Solar System by calculating the gravitational forces, so the results given by the orbital elements were just the original state of the system at the start of simulation.
<< And much more >>

But if you want the "all bells and whistles" you must go to those that need such things, for example NASA or the ESA.
Funny...
they don't have it...
And it won't show up on a computer screen as CGI...
Bye again, alchemist...
Who doesn't have what?

Stop being a useless waste of time!
Of course the jsOrrery, WebGL Solar System "shows up on a computer screen as CGI"

I gave you the direct link to the jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator: jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator (http://mgvez.github.io/jsorrery/)

And it does use Newton's Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation to calculate the motions of the planets.

Your denying everything proves nothing!
Capture a screen shot of it showing the sun, along with the planets dutifully in tow, traipsing about the galaxy...

Post it here...

Until then, toodle pip alchemist!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 04, 2020, 05:10:35 AM
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"
Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...
But no benefit would be gained for one simulation of the planets orbiting the Sun and then the whole Solar System orbiting SagA* sp no one would bother doing it.
LOL!!!

Sheer hilarity!!!
"But no benefit..."
How's about, "WE CAN"T USE A MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION BECAUSE IT ALL FALLS APART!!!"
How about showing what would be gained by a single simulation of all of that?

Quote from: totallackey
Quote from: totallackey
Bye alchemist...
Your denying everything proves nothing!
Capture a screen shot of it showing the sun, along with the planets dutifully in tow, traipsing about the galaxy...

Post it here...

How about I only show the planets around the Sun as that is what it simulates.

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/4y5p2gjyb42co5i/jsOrrery%20-%20%20Solar%20System%20Simulator%20-%20Inner%20Planets.jpg?dl=1)
jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator - Inner Planets

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ki3n823pza35h1/jsOrrery%20-%20Solar%20System%20Simulator%20-%20Solar%20System.jpg?dl=1)
jsOrrery: Solar System Simulator - Solar System

And, Mr Totallackey, your "Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ab absurdo) just makes YOU look ridiculous!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 05:24:45 AM
There are numerous simulations of the planetary motion relative to the Sun.
Why would anyone want an accurate simulation "that shows the sun in motion, all the planets dutifully in tow, while simultaneously orbiting the sun?"
Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...
But no benefit would be gained for one simulation of the planets orbiting the Sun and then the whole Solar System orbiting SagA* sp no one would bother doing it.
LOL!!!

Sheer hilarity!!!
"But no benefit..."
How's about, "WE CAN"T USE A MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION BECAUSE IT ALL FALLS APART!!!"
How about showing what would be gained by a single simulation of all of that?
Think of the billions of believers that would be comforted by the truth of the matter...

Because right now, you got nothing...

This why your desperate attempts to strawman the hell out of this...aren't gonna work...

Quote from: totallackey
Quote from: totallackey
Bye alchemist...
Your denying everything proves nothing!
Capture a screen shot of it showing the sun, along with the planets dutifully in tow, traipsing about the galaxy...

Post it here...

How about I only show the planets around the Sun as that is what it simulates.[/quote]
In other words, doesn't show what I asked for, after promising it would...
And, Mr Totallackey, your "Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ab absurdo) just makes YOU look ridiculous!
It is not an APPEAL to ridicule at this point...

I have only stated facts, as evidenced by your failure to produce...

Toodle pip, alchemist.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 04, 2020, 05:37:04 AM
How about showing what would be gained by a single simulation of all of that?
Think of the billions of believers that would be comforted by the truth of the matter...
The billions have no problem! It's you few flat-Earthers who still would not believe it if they saw it anyway!
You'd all claim if was all CGI ;D!

But, who cares about all of that? This is the Flat Earth Society not the Geocentric Universe Society!

Simply showing that the Earth is a Globe is all we need!
So here's a photo that does just that and whose original was NOT CGI:
Quote
View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew -- astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander;
astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut
Harrison H. Schmitt lunar module pilot -- traveling toward the moon.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the
Antarctica South polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible
to photograph the South polar ice cap.
Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible.
The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the Northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of
Africa is the Malagasy republic. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the Northeast.


Image Credit: NASA
            (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/images/135918main_bm1_high.jpg?itok=2I8-uSUB)

Good night, loser!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 04, 2020, 05:37:33 AM
Quote
You are just throwing out random numbers, because you do not have any CGI representation of what you claim to be happening that is based on the "sciency stuff."

Your name seems to be quite appropriate here because you seem to have a total lack of ability to accept anything else as true and real other than what your narrow beliefs tell you.  If you'd care to do some investigation of your own for a moment (which I understand is what zeteticists are supposed to be good at) rather than simply slagging off those who actually know what they are talking about you would discover quite quickly that nothing that I say is ever 'plucked out of thin air'.

I can confirm that I am not an alchemist, never have been never will be.

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 05:44:25 AM
How about showing what would be gained by a single simulation of all of that?
Think of the billions of believers that would be comforted by the truth of the matter...
The billions have no problem! It's you few flat-Earthers who still would not believe it if they saw it anyway!
Don't you just love the dutiful and compliant...
Please allow me to shift the subject...
No...

Pony up with the working CGI...you know, the sciency one...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 05:45:15 AM
Quote
You are just throwing out random numbers, because you do not have any CGI representation of what you claim to be happening that is based on the "sciency stuff."

Your name seems to be quite appropriate here because you seem to have a total lack of ability to accept anything else as true and real other than what your narrow beliefs tell you.  If you'd care to do some investigation of your own for a moment (which I understand is what zeteticists are supposed to be good at) rather than simply slagging off those who actually know what they are talking about you would discover quite quickly that nothing that I say is ever 'plucked out of thin air'.

I can confirm that I am not an alchemist, never have been never will be.
You are an alchemist...you follow Newton...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 04, 2020, 05:52:23 AM
No my friend, I follow what my instincts tell me.  How about you?

Which number or numbers are you saying I have plucked out of thin air anyway? If you mean 63 degrees for the difference between the NGP and the NCP then just look on any star chart for the location of the NGP. You will find it at a declination of +27degrees in the constellation Coma Berenices.  Now do a simple subtraction sum 90d - 27d and you will get the angular separation (i.e. inclination) of the galactic equatorial plane relative to the equatorial plane. 63 degrees. 

It's not made up, you just need to know your way around the night sky.  Equally the southern galactic pole lies at -27degrees declination and so you can see already that means the same 63 degrees applies to the southern sky as well.

We can take things a stage further if you want. If you look at the points +/- 27degrees declination you will find that these points on the sky are as far away as you can get from the milky way. Also if you trace out the galactic equator (90 degrees from the galactic poles) you will see that this line passes through a clearly visible dark rift which bisects the milky way in the N/S direction. This rift is visible evidence that supports the view that our Galaxy is a spiral galaxy. How? because we can look out at other edge on spiral galaxies and see a similar dark rift.  Take M104, MGC4565 and NGC 895 as three classic examples.

The fact that the galactic equator is so far out of line with the ecliptic (Suns passage through the sky) is a directly visible clue that the plane of the solar system is highly inclined (almost perpendicular to) the galactic plane. No CGI involved in that at all.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 04, 2020, 07:22:28 AM
No my friend, I follow what my instincts tell me.  How about you?

Which number or numbers are you saying I have plucked out of thin air anyway? If you mean 63 degrees for the difference between the NGP and the NCP then just look on any star chart for the location of the NGP. You will find it at a declination of +27degrees in the constellation Coma Berenices.  Now do a simple subtraction sum 90d - 27d and you will get the angular separation (i.e. inclination) of the galactic equatorial plane relative to the equatorial plane. 63 degrees. 

It's not made up, you just need to know your way around the night sky.  Equally the southern galactic pole lies at -27degrees declination and so you can see already that means the same 63 degrees applies to the southern sky as well.

We can take things a stage further if you want. If you look at the points +/- 27degrees declination you will find that these points on the sky are as far away as you can get from the milky way. Also if you trace out the galactic equator (90 degrees from the galactic poles) you will see that this line passes through a clearly visible dark rift which bisects the milky way in the N/S direction. This rift is visible evidence that supports the view that our Galaxy is a spiral galaxy. How? because we can look out at other edge on spiral galaxies and see a similar dark rift.  Take M104, MGC4565 and NGC 895 as three classic examples.

The fact that the galactic equator is so far out of line with the ecliptic (Suns passage through the sky) is a directly visible clue that the plane of the solar system is highly inclined (almost perpendicular to) the galactic plane. No CGI involved in that at all.
Nobody gives two freaking !@#$ about what you post here...

Either pony up a working CGI of the solar system traipsing about the galaxy or just go away, you alchemist.

Your numbers are hocus pocus...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: MaNaeSWolf on March 04, 2020, 07:33:13 AM
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View of the Earth as seen by the Apollo 17 crew -- astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, commander;
astronaut Ronald E. Evans, command module pilot; and scientist-astronaut
Harrison H. Schmitt lunar module pilot -- traveling toward the moon.

This translunar coast photograph extends from the Mediterranean Sea area to the
Antarctica South polar ice cap. This is the first time the Apollo trajectory made it possible
to photograph the South polar ice cap.
Note the heavy cloud cover in the Southern Hemisphere. Almost the entire coastline of Africa is clearly visible.
The Arabian Peninsula can be seen at the Northeastern edge of Africa. The large island off the coast of
Africa is the Malagasy republic. The Asian mainland is on the horizon toward the Northeast.


Image Credit: NASA
            (https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/images/135918main_bm1_high.jpg?itok=2I8-uSUB)

Good night, loser!

I can JUST about see my house from there, silly clouds are in the way though.

Also, Does anyone know why totallackey is so angry?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 04, 2020, 07:35:41 AM
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Nobody gives two freaking !@#$ about what you post here...

O I wouldn't say that..  there are some people here who are actually interested in what is real and true.  Some are obviously only driven by their tunnel-vision like beliefs and you have made it quite clear that you belong to the latter group.

In fact reading back through many of the responses to your own posts, it seems that what you say about me is more applicable to what others think about you.

You've obviously got a thing in your head about CGI at the moment.  Not quite the style of a flat Earther is it?  That said CGI is about the only way you will be able to create anything that looks like a flat Earth.  And repeatedly callling me an alchemist is not going to change anything. But if it makes you happy then feel free.

BTW isn't it amazing how a question that was originally about how time zones relate to FE theory can get gradually transformed into slagging off match about whether or not the solar system is orbiting around the Galaxy effectively on its side?!?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Curiouser and Curiouser on March 04, 2020, 08:50:04 AM
I demand that these so-called "scientists" (if they're that good) provide me with an animated CGI model of the solar system that not only is to scale, but is 1:1 on a distance scale AND doesn't have that speeded up nonsense that fools everyone and must RUN IN REAL TIME. If they can't, they're clearly incapable and incompetent and are just lying.
You are lying.

I never demanded a scale model.


What am I lying about?

I am stating what I want.

Who cares what you want?

Self-centered much?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 04, 2020, 09:00:29 AM
Flat earthers like yourself love to nit pick away...
Hey, not fair...I just wrote I will not nitpick...
...at the tiniest discrepancies in conventional theory while ignoring the gaping holes all over your own ill  thought out random individual ideas.
Like what?
Like: celestial dome or celestial plane?

Like: things fall because universal acceleration or density?

Like: sunsets because of perspective or bendy light?

Like: finite disc or infinite plane?

Like: flat plane or non-euclidean closed plane?

Like: are the sun and moon round or flat?

Like: mono-pole map or bi-pole map?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 04, 2020, 12:55:25 PM
Youi can't object to something that doesn't exist.
And you wanting to pretend they don't exist doesn't mean they don't.
Also, wrong, you can object to something that doesn't exist.

Something similar, based on the laws and math of Newton/Kepler/Einstein could be done too...
Then go away and do it yourself, as you clearly have no interest in accepting the models which already do exist.

Never asked for a scale model...stop strawmanning.
Follow your own advice.
I objected to to-scale models. You then pretended that meant I thought all models were bogus.

Did you even bother reading what it says?
It seems now you are just in pathetic denial mode where even if something indicates it does use gravity, you will just dismiss it as not using it.
Math is math.
So I will take that as a no, you didn't bother reading it and are just in pathetic denial mode.

No such model utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein can be made because the math doesn't work.
That's a nice baseless claim of yours. How about you prove it?
After all, if the math doesn't work, you should be able to clearly show that it doesn't.
So far all you have are your baseless claims.

Probably because that is what heliocentrists claim is happening...
Where?
What people who accept reality are claiming that the planets are "dutifully in tow"?

Think of the billions of believers that would be comforted by the truth of the matter...
What billions?
Those billions of people who accept reality don't need a pathetic animation to be comforted.
Those like you who reject reality will dismiss the animation.

I have only stated facts, as evidenced by your failure to produce...
No, you have made baseless claims.

You have claimed that the math does not work.
That is not a fact. That is a baseless claim by you with absolutely nothing to substantiate it.

You have shown you have no interest in accepting reality. As such, why should anyone bother wasting their time to produce a model of the sun in motion, just for you to reject it.
If you wish to claim the math doesn't work then the onus is on you to prove it.

Either pony up the proof the math doesn't work or just go away, you alchemist.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 04, 2020, 01:31:55 PM
How about showing what would be gained by a single simulation of all of that?
Think of the billions of believers that would be comforted by the truth of the matter...
The billions have no problem! It's you few flat-Earthers who still would not believe it if they saw it anyway!
Please allow me to shift the subject...
No...
I already gave you a freebie simple Solar System that "does use Newton's Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation to calculate the motions of the planets."

And you won't find and Galactic Simulators that go into the detail of planetary motion in the one simulator for a few reasons:
But that silly "vortex video" of the Solar System's motion through the Galaxy might be eye-catching but it's is just plain wrong!
One major point is that (at present) the ecliptic (the orbital plane of the planets) is tilted at about 60° to the direction of motion.
As a result, the planets do not lag behind the Sun in that helical motion each planet is sometimes leading the Sun and sometimes trailing it - something like this, with the Solar System moving from left to right:
(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ecliptic-vs-Galactic-Plane.png)
From: UNIVERSE TODAY: Is the Solar System Really a Vortex? The short answer? No. (https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/) - that's worth reading too.
Credit : Science Minus Details


And that is discussed at length in here:
Quote from: Phil Plait
No, Our Solar System is NOT a “Vortex” (https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/vortex-motion-viral-video-showing-suns-motion-through-galaxy-is-wrong.html)
(https://compote.slate.com/images/4bdd183c-dae7-4019-9842-b6991a2d9577.jpg)
A still frame from DJ Sadhu’s video claiming the solar system moves through the galaxy along a vortex.
This claim is—to be charitable—incorrect.
Image credit: DJ Sadhu, from the video (https://www.youtube.com/embed/0jHsq36_NTU).

I’ve been getting lots of tweets and email from folks linking to a slick-looking video, a computer animation showing the motion of the planets around the Sun as the Sun orbits around the Milky Way Galaxy. It’s a very pretty video with compelling music and well-done graphics.

However, there’s a problem with it: It’s wrong. And not just superficially; it’s deeply wrong, based on a very wrong premise. While there are some useful visualizations in it, I caution people to take it with a galaxy-sized grain of salt.

Why? The basis of the claim is that the planets aren’t orbiting the Sun heliocentrically, but are instead a vortex going around the galaxy.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 But let’s not argue over semantics. Look at the video again: Sadhu shows the Sun leading the planets, ahead of them as it goes around the galaxy (he makes this even more obvious in a second video; see below). This is not just misleading, it’s completely wrong. Sometimes the planets really are ahead of the Sun as we orbit in the Milky Way, and sometimes trail behind it (depending on where they are in their orbit around the Sun). This is plainly true to anyone who actually observes the planets in the sky; they can commonly be seen in the part of the sky ahead of the Earth and Sun in the direction of our orbit around the Milky Way galaxy.

Again, I’m not arguing some small detail here. The idea that the planets trail behind the Sun as it moves through the galaxy is fundamental to what Sadhu is saying about the helix—as I’ll explain below (in the section “Where Do All These Ideas Come From?”). But first, there’s a bit more to see.

<< It's a long article and I'll not quote any more here >>
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: MaNaeSWolf on March 04, 2020, 09:46:42 PM
I already gave you a freebie simple Solar System that "does use Newton's Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation to calculate the motions of the planets."

And you won't find and Galactic Simulators that go into the detail of planetary motion in the one simulator for a few reasons:
  • It would provide no extra useful information.

  • For the Solar System the Sun's mass is 99.8 per cent of total mass the solar system, so lumping all the mass into the Sun is quite adequate.

  • Numerical precision is always a problem with even long term planetary simulation. It would become an almost impossible problem to simulate an entire galaxy down to the planetary level.
  • And the list goes on.
But that silly "vortex video" of the Solar System's motion through the Galaxy might be eye-catching but it's is just plain wrong!
One major point is that (at present) the ecliptic (the orbital plane of the planets) is tilted at about 60° to the direction of motion.
As a result, the planets do not lag behind the Sun in that helical motion each planet is sometimes leading the Sun and sometimes trailing it - something like this, with the Solar System moving from left to right:
(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ecliptic-vs-Galactic-Plane.png)
From: UNIVERSE TODAY: Is the Solar System Really a Vortex? The short answer? No. (https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/) - that's worth reading too.
Credit : Science Minus Details


And that is discussed at length in here:
Quote from: Phil Plait
No, Our Solar System is NOT a “Vortex” (https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/vortex-motion-viral-video-showing-suns-motion-through-galaxy-is-wrong.html)
(https://compote.slate.com/images/4bdd183c-dae7-4019-9842-b6991a2d9577.jpg)
A still frame from DJ Sadhu’s video claiming the solar system moves through the galaxy along a vortex.
This claim is—to be charitable—incorrect.
Image credit: DJ Sadhu, from the video (http://).
The video does have catchy music.
I dont actually find the video so far off. If you pause the video it does show the planets orbit in a flat plane. Although it seemed that Neptune was a bit off and the solar systems incline is way wrong. But beyond that, its a nice visual demonstration of how we move through the solar system.
What I find misleading is when he goes off about how "rotational motion and vortex motion are completely different things" He pulled that right out of his ass. Try and find any definition of a vortex that does not require rotation. A vortex is simply a spiral that extends along an additional axis

If you view the solar system it is always a "spiral"; orbits in a flat plane. And so is the Galaxy and most other things he shows in the video. The solar system never extends past its plane, neither do any of his other examples that he shows. Not even the frikken flowers. This is some guy that got caught up with an idea, and never asked if it was correct.

The solar systems rotation can be thought the same way a helicopters blades move the air

Do they rotate or "vortex" (is that even a fucking word!)
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 05, 2020, 01:02:12 AM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
But that silly "vortex video" of the Solar System's motion through the Galaxy might be eye-catching but it's is just plain wrong!
One major point is that (at present) the ecliptic (the orbital plane of the planets) is tilted at about 60° to the direction of motion.
As a result, the planets do not lag behind the Sun in that helical motion each planet is sometimes leading the Sun and sometimes trailing it - something like this, with the Solar System moving from left to right:
(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ecliptic-vs-Galactic-Plane.png)
From: UNIVERSE TODAY: Is the Solar System Really a Vortex? The short answer? No. (https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/) - that's worth reading too.
Credit : Science Minus Details


And that is discussed at length in here:
Quote from: Phil Plait
No, Our Solar System is NOT a “Vortex” (https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/vortex-motion-viral-video-showing-suns-motion-through-galaxy-is-wrong.html)
(https://compote.slate.com/images/4bdd183c-dae7-4019-9842-b6991a2d9577.jpg)
A still frame from DJ Sadhu’s video claiming the solar system moves through the galaxy along a vortex.
This claim is—to be charitable—incorrect.
Image credit: DJ Sadhu, from the video (https://www.youtube.com/embed/0jHsq36_NTU).

The video does have catchy music.
I dont actually find the video so far off. If you pause the video it does show the planets orbit in a flat plane. Although it seemed that Neptune was a bit off and the solar systems incline is way wrong.
A single screenshot is not too bad but the video, with its direction of travel swinging all over the place is my main issue.
I suspect that is also what geocentrists (and esp FEers), like totallacky, find so ridiculous.

The helical model - our solar system is a vortex by DjSadhu

There some simple mistakes, such as at 0:23 where he writes "Our Solar System moves through space at 70,000 km/hr."
If he means the orbital speed around SagA* it should be 720,000 km/hr If not it's much higher.
But my main objection is from 0:33 where the direction of travel apparently swings all over the place then:
At 0:55 He specifically claims that "The sun is like a comet, dragging the planets in its wake."
But this is quite incorrect. The Solar System, as a whole, moves with the ecliptic at about 60° to the direction of movement as in this
Quote from: rabinoz
with the Solar System moving from left to right:
(https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ecliptic-vs-Galactic-Plane.png)
From: UNIVERSE TODAY: Is the Solar System Really a Vortex? (https://www.universetoday.com/107322/is-the-solar-system-really-a-vortex/) Credit : Science Minus Details

Quote from: MaNaeSWolf
But beyond that, its a nice visual demonstration of how we move through the solar system.

The solar systems rotation can be thought the same way a helicopters blades move the air

Do they rotate or "vortex" (is that even a fucking word!)
I guess my "hang up" springs from the way flat-Earthers use it to ridicule the heliocentric system when it's simply an aspect of Cosmology that they can't swallow.

So we have totallacky here and Tom Bishop earlier demanding explanations for things quite irrelevant to either the shape of the Earth or even to the basic Heliocentric Solar System.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 05, 2020, 04:47:49 AM
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Nobody gives two freaking !@#$ about what you post here...

O I wouldn't say that..  there are some people here who are actually interested in what is real and true.
Mainly me.

Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.
Some are obviously only driven by their tunnel-vision like beliefs and you have made it quite clear that you belong to the latter group.
I think we have established who is in blind belief here.

That would be you.

Have no argument?

Easy... strawman, appeal to numbers, etc...
In fact reading back through many of the responses to your own posts, it seems that what you say about me is more applicable to what others think about you.
Appeal to numbers.

NGAS...
You've obviously got a thing in your head about CGI at the moment.  Not quite the style of a flat Earther is it?  That said CGI is about the only way you will be able to create anything that looks like a flat Earth.  And repeatedly callling me an alchemist is not going to change anything. But if it makes you happy then feel free.
Calling you other things would probably make me happier, but I am constricted by the rules of the forum.

You got a CGI model of the solar system (using the math of Newton/Kepler/Einstein, you know...all "sciency!") traipsing about the galaxy or not?
BTW isn't it amazing how a question that was originally about how time zones relate to FE theory can get gradually transformed into slagging off match about whether or not the solar system is orbiting around the Galaxy effectively on its side?!?
Yeah, a topic that was originally derailed by a RE-adherent...as is typical here at the flatearthsociety...here
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and here...
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Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 05, 2020, 04:50:50 AM
Trust me, the models do exist even though I can't prove it.
Nope.

Toodle pip, alchemist.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 05, 2020, 06:52:27 AM
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Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

Why are you so obsessed with a CGI depiction of the solar sytem?  I would have thought that even you would realise that using CGI you can create pretty much anything you want. Hell you can even create a film showing dinosaurs running around and make it seem real.  The film Avatar was made entirely using CGI.  I'm sure you could even create a flat Earth using CGI but what would that prove? 

In reality there ain't no dinosaurs running around in the 21st century and there certainly isn't a flat Earth either.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 05, 2020, 08:06:23 AM
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Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

Why are you so obsessed with a CGI depiction of the solar sytem?  I would have thought that even you would realise that using CGI you can create pretty much anything you want.
Yep.

You sure can.

You can even utilize it for...wait for it...

MATHEMATICAL CONSTRUCTS TO RENDER VISUAL IMAGES ON A COMPUTER MONITOR!!!
Hell you can even create a film showing dinosaurs running around and make it seem real.  The film Avatar was made entirely using CGI.  I'm sure you could even create a flat Earth using CGI but what would that prove? 

In reality there ain't no dinosaurs running around in the 21st century and there certainly isn't a flat Earth either.
Yeah, there certainly is no heliocentric solar system either.

If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

But you can't...nobody can.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 05, 2020, 11:53:59 AM
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If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

So referring back to the link I provided earlier, and to the contents of the 'about' link where it states

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The astronomy.js library by Don Cross is used to compute approximate position of the Solar System objects given their keplerian elements.

How does this not meet with your demands of a model of the 'real deal' utilizing Kepler math?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 05, 2020, 12:50:23 PM
Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.
What bearing does a CGI model have on the truth?

If you think having a CGI model like that is required for truth, then why aren't you out making one?

I think we have established who is in blind belief here.
Yes, you.
You who blindly believes that the math simply doesn't work, even though you provide absolutely nothing to demonstrate that it doesn't.
You blindly believe that the RE model is wrong, even though you have absolutely nothing to substantiate that and no better alternative.

Nope.

Toodle pip, alchemist.
Don't lie about what I say.
Again, you are the one claiming the math doesn't work. You are the one claiming that models do not exist, even though some models have been provided to you.

You are the "alchemist" here. You are the one spouting unsubstantiated nonsense, and not even attempting to justify it.

Again, if you are so certain that the math doesn't work, then prove it doesn't. If you can't, then admit you have no basis for that claim and have no idea if the math works or not.

People not making you a model exactly how you want it is not proof the math doesn't work.

So do you have this proof? Or just blind faith with baseless assertions?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 05, 2020, 01:54:48 PM
All this coming from someone who once claimed that the strongest evidence to him for believing in a flat Earth is by looking out of the window!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 05, 2020, 02:50:07 PM
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Nobody gives two freaking !@#$ about what you post here...

O I wouldn't say that..  there are some people here who are actually interested in what is real and true.
Mainly me.

Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.
If you have such an "interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math" you do it!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 05, 2020, 03:08:08 PM
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BTW isn't it amazing how a question that was originally about how time zones relate to FE theory can get gradually transformed into slagging off match about whether or not the solar system is orbiting around the Galaxy effectively on its side?!?
Yeah, a topic that was originally derailed by a RE-adherent...as is typical here at the flatearthsociety...here
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You might note that my post was in reply to John Davis! Do you suggest that I ignore John Davis?
Also certain activities of scientists make this hard; its is a well known practice to sometimes exclude data that disagrees with your premise, or to use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result. Einstein and Newton both come to mind, let alone the studies that show this is common practice.
You often make unsupported claims like this.
Would you please give examples with reliable references where "Einstein and Newton" made "use clever curve fitting and number fudging to achieve the desired result"?

These are well known facts. One related by a biographer of Newton, Richard Westfall, who said some of his work is "nothing short of deliberate fraud" and that "no one can manipulate the fudge factor quite so effectively as the master mathematician himself"
)  and the other by Einstien himself who said "So much the worse for the experiment"  (https://books.google.com/books?id=EIruic7_Ph8C&pg=PT203&lpg=PT203&dq=%22so+much+the+worse+for+the+experiment%22+einstein&source=bl&ots=EsZLJ0noev&sig=ACfU3U3HbPfN2UoJ5qy9JPCPLkn6tyiVsw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfgYTbx_XnAhW4JzQIHV0eDkIQ6AEwAnoECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22so%20much%20the%20worse%20for%20the%20experiment%22%20einstein&f=false)
And it is well known that so-called "well-known facts" often turn out to not be quite so factual.

Quote from: totallackey
and here...
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That is the SAME post! Look Quote from: rabinoz on February 29, 2020, 12:22:23 PM and Quote from: rabinoz on February 29, 2020, 12:22:23 PM
Quote from: totallackey
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Try again! De-railer extraordinaire!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 06, 2020, 01:55:42 AM
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If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

So referring back to the link I provided earlier, and to the contents of the 'about' link where it states

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The astronomy.js library by Don Cross is used to compute approximate position of the Solar System objects given their keplerian elements.

How does this not meet with your demands of a model of the 'real deal' utilizing Kepler math?
Post an animated gif.

Your ability/inability to do so will answer your question.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 06, 2020, 01:57:15 AM
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Nobody gives two freaking !@#$ about what you post here...

O I wouldn't say that..  there are some people here who are actually interested in what is real and true.
Mainly me.

Certainly not you, as you have zero interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.
If you have such an "interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math" you do it!
Got a reference where I can start?

Nope.

Too bad...alchemist.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2020, 02:22:59 AM
If you have such an "interest in gaining a CGI depiction of the solar system in full motion using Newton/Kepler/Einstein math" you do it!
Got a reference where I can start?
That's your problem.

But I've shown you a freebie simulation of the Solar System and referred you to more professional ones.

But here's a little task for you.

Please show a simulation on your flat Earth model using whatever laws of physics that you accept.
You must specify just what these laws of physics that you accept are.

Your simulation should show at least the detailed movement of the Sun, Moon and planets and predict:
Sunrise and sunset times and directions at any place requested.
The phases of the Moon and the times the Moon rises and sets.

If you have a good flat-Earth model that should be easy.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Unconvinced on March 06, 2020, 06:47:44 AM
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If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

So referring back to the link I provided earlier, and to the contents of the 'about' link where it states

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The astronomy.js library by Don Cross is used to compute approximate position of the Solar System objects given their keplerian elements.

How does this not meet with your demands of a model of the 'real deal' utilizing Kepler math?
Post an animated gif.

Your ability/inability to do so will answer your question.

Here’s a gif of calculated orbits. Not just the planets and moons, but also 18000 asteroids.

(https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/asteroid/20180723/main-animation-16.gif)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7194

Good enough for you?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2020, 01:02:43 PM
Good enough for you?
Not for totallackey! 
He wants it the show all of that moving through the Milky Way galaxy.
Then I guess he'll want it to include the Milky Way's movement through our local group, etc etc.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Themightykabool on March 06, 2020, 01:36:07 PM
Because it cant be modelled it cant exist?

Show me a working model of the human brain how every cell interacts in a dynamic model.
Cant?
Then i believe that Lackless has no brain.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 06, 2020, 01:44:23 PM
Because it cant be modelled it cant exist?
It's worse than that!
Totallackey seems to think that if each and everyone one of us can't model it then the Heliocentric Solar System must be false.

Quote from: Themightykabool
Show me a working model of the human brain how every cell interacts in a dynamic model.
Cant?
Then i believe that Lackless has no brain.
That I'd believe but I'd be satisfied with a working model (or even simulation) of totallackey's flat Earth model that obeys whatever physic's laws he subscribes to - assuming he subscribes to any.

Totallackey's flat Earth model must explain, without unsupported hypotheses, the observations we can all make so easily.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Unconvinced on March 08, 2020, 01:49:37 PM
Good enough for you?
Not for totallackey! 
He wants it the show all of that moving through the Milky Way galaxy.
Then I guess he'll want it to include the Milky Way's movement through our local group, etc etc.

Well that’s just a stupid requirement.  The movement of the solar system through the galaxy won’t affect the orbits by any remotely detectable amount.  Showing it in an animation serves no purpose other than making it harder to see the orbits that have been calculated.

Probably why it’s hard to find one.  Why would anyone waste their time on it?

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 08, 2020, 01:54:08 PM
Got a reference where I can start?
Nope.
You have already been provided with computer programs which use the laws you demand. I would say that is a good place to start.

Now enough about your desired for a particular CGI model.

Again, you claimed that the math doesn't work.
Where is your proof of that?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 08, 2020, 02:01:27 PM
Has anyone yet produced a CGI working model of a flat earth?  Of course not because there is no single flat Earth model which all flat Earthers agree on.

We have a single heliocentric model of the solar system where the Sun is at the centre and all the planets, comets, asteroids, dwarf planets, minor planets, natural satellites orbit around the most significant mass which is closest to them. Because it is a single, universally accepted model it is easy to illustrate and simulate.

So until flat Earth can come up with a similar, universally accepted model of their own and present it then they hardly have grounds to criticise anything else!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 08, 2020, 02:44:32 PM
Good enough for you?
Not for totallackey! 
He wants it the show all of that moving through the Milky Way galaxy.
Then I guess he'll want it to include the Milky Way's movement through our local group, etc etc.

Well that’s just a stupid requirement.  The movement of the solar system through the galaxy won’t affect the orbits by any remotely detectable amount.  Showing it in an animation serves no purpose other than making it harder to see the orbits that have been calculated.

Probably why it’s hard to find one.  Why would anyone waste their time on it?
But all totallackey is trying to do is to make "modern cosmology" look ridiculous even though he cannot make such a simulation of his flat Earth model - what model?

Personally I believe that we should concentrate on the shape of the Earth.
This is because there are no easy observations that prove that the Earth rotates, etc rather the all of the "heavens" (the rest of Universe) rotating about a stationary Earth.

The Heliocentric System was originally accepted because the observed motions of the planets (Mars in particular) did not readily conform to the old Ptolemaic system.
Tycho Brahe did propose a Geocentric Solar System that with slight modification does agree well with astronomical observations.
But stationary Earth in a rotating Solar System does not follow the ordinary physical laws like Newton's and so Kepler and Newton saw the end of Tycho Brahe's "compromise".

But all of these systems were for a spherical earth and there was little thought that the Earth could be flat back there.

The rest might be in the tl;dr category.

Ernst Mach proposed a completely relativistic system which Einstein called "Mach's Principle" and it proposed that even inertia (or acceleration) was relative.
So under Mach's Principle, the shape of a water surface in a rotating bucket could be regarded as due to the bucket rotating or the whole Universe rotating about the bucket.

Such a system, if valid, would make a geocentric Earth just as correct as a Heliocentric Solar System.
Einstein was attracted toward such a totally relativistic system but soon realised that he could not build that into his Theory of General Relativity.
Einstein's Pathway to General Relativity, John D. Norton.[/b][/url] and especially the section Relativity of Inertia ("Mach's Principle") (http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/teaching/HPS_0410/chapters/general_relativity_pathway/#L4669) go into this in detail.
Though Isaac Newton preceded Ernst Mach by almost 300 years, he considered many of the same thoughts.

So while absolute velocity cannot be measured, even under General Relativity, absolute acceleration (including rotation) can be measured.
Some, even now, question this but the consensus is that for all practical purposes the acceleration due to the rotation of the Earth can be and is being measured.

And there is one obvious result of this absolute acceleration due to rotation and the is the ellipticity of the Earth - it is an ellipsoid not a sphere and even Newton estimated roughly how out-of-round the Earth should be.
He overestimated it, possibly because he assumed the Earth was a uniform density fluid like water but the Earth density is far from uniform with its very dense metal core.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 05:16:14 AM
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If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

So referring back to the link I provided earlier, and to the contents of the 'about' link where it states

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The astronomy.js library by Don Cross is used to compute approximate position of the Solar System objects given their keplerian elements.

How does this not meet with your demands of a model of the 'real deal' utilizing Kepler math?
Post an animated gif.

Your ability/inability to do so will answer your question.

Here’s a gif of calculated orbits. Not just the planets and moons, but also 18000 asteroids.

(https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/asteroid/20180723/main-animation-16.gif)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7194

Good enough for you?
Is the sun moving there, sparky?

Nope?

Try again, hipster doofus...
Well that’s just a stupid requirement.  The movement of the solar system through the galaxy won’t affect the orbits by any remotely detectable amount.  Showing it in an animation serves no purpose other than making it harder to see the orbits that have been calculated.

Probably why it’s hard to find one.  Why would anyone waste their time on it?
Yeah, not only is it hard to find...it is...impossible...

So, yeah, hipster doofus...

Even though you can find plenty of fakes that show the sun moving with planets circling about, you can't find the real one...because the MATH IS FAKE!!!

Toodle pip alchemists...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 10, 2020, 05:26:47 AM
Can you point us towards a similar working simulation of the solar system in action as flat Earthers believe it to be?

No...?  Ok Toodle Pip flat Earthers.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 05:31:13 AM
Can you point us towards a similar working simulation of the solar system in action as flat Earthers believe it to be?

No...?  Ok Toodle Pip flat Earthers.
There is no solar system...

The earth is the center of the universe.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 10, 2020, 05:39:44 AM
Can you point us towards a similar working simulation of the solar system in action as flat Earthers believe it to be?

No...?  Ok Toodle Pip flat Earthers.
There is no solar system...

The earth is the center of the universe.
We're all waiting with bated breath for the simulation of your flat Earth. Remember this!
But here's a little task for you.

Please show a simulation on your flat Earth model using whatever laws of physics that you accept.
You must specify just what these laws of physics that you accept are.

Your simulation should show at least the detailed movement of the Sun, Moon and planets and predict:
Sunrise and sunset times and directions at any place requested.
The phases of the Moon and the times the Moon rises and sets.

If you have a good flat-Earth model that should be easy.
Time to put up of shut up Mr. Totallackey.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 05:46:42 AM
Can you point us towards a similar working simulation of the solar system in action as flat Earthers believe it to be?

No...?  Ok Toodle Pip flat Earthers.
There is no solar system...

The earth is the center of the universe.
We're all waiting with bated breath for the simulation of your flat Earth. Remember this!
But here's a little task for you.

Please show a simulation on your flat Earth model using whatever laws of physics that you accept.
You must specify just what these laws of physics that you accept are.

Your simulation should show at least the detailed movement of the Sun, Moon and planets and predict:
Sunrise and sunset times and directions at any place requested.
The phases of the Moon and the times the Moon rises and sets.

If you have a good flat-Earth model that should be easy.
Time to put up of shut up Mr. Totallackey.
Rab, the moderator strikes again...

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...

But wait...

You guys claim to have all the right math, correct?

Yet. all you can do is drone on and on about how real mathematical constructs of what you claim to be reality that could be so easily rendered in a CGI ... are not necessary.

You are one big hypocrite rab...and an alchemist...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 10, 2020, 07:26:40 AM
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The earth is the center of the universe.

I would agree with you up to a point. However I would say that at a certain time in the past (i.e. the beginning of time), everything and everywhere was also at the center of the Universe. So since the Earth is part of the Universe then yes it would have been at the center.

However I won't go into any more detail than that because you will no doubt disagree with everything that I have said already.  Not a problem.

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ou guys claim to have all the right math, correct?

Which I would say is a little bit more than you have done up to now. Slagging off anyone that has different views to you is what you are good at.  Providing any real and evidenced reasons to back up what you belief in is something that you are not so good at.

Perhaps if FE could come up with some strong, verifiable and coherent evidence for why their beliefs should be adopted as the mainstream over RE then attitudes would change. But so far they haven't.  They can't even agree a single model among themselves.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 08:15:57 AM
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ou guys claim to have all the right math, correct?

Which I would say is a little bit more than you have done up to now. Slagging off anyone that has different views to you is what you are good at.  Providing any real and evidenced reasons to back up what you belief in is something that you are not so good at.

Perhaps if FE could come up with some strong, verifiable and coherent evidence for why their beliefs should be adopted as the mainstream over RE then attitudes would change. But so far they haven't.  They can't even agree a single model among themselves.
If you have the right math, you should be able to render a CGI moving image of the sun traipsing about the Milky Way with all the planets dutifully in tow...

You can't.

Because it is impossible.

Because the math doesn't work.

Don't blame me you are getting insulted.

Fiction writers tend to get insulted for writing faulty fiction.

Toodle pip... alchemist.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 10, 2020, 08:26:16 AM
If you have the right math, you should be able to render a CGI moving image of the sun traipsing about the Milky Way with all the planets dutifully in tow...

You can't.

Because it is impossible.

Because the math doesn't work.
When are you going to do the math and show us a CGI simulation of your favorite FE model? 

You don't want to be a hypocrite, do you?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 08:30:45 AM
If you have the right math, you should be able to render a CGI moving image of the sun traipsing about the Milky Way with all the planets dutifully in tow...

You can't.

Because it is impossible.

Because the math doesn't work.
When are you going to do the math and show us a CGI simulation of your favorite FE model? 

You don't want to be a hypocrite, do you?
I am not a hypocrite:

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...

Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 10, 2020, 08:53:30 AM
I am not a hypocrite:

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...
Yet you demand that we to the math for a CGI version of what RET claims.

This is the Flat Earth Society.

Why should we do the math and create a CGI RE model if you aren't willing to do the math and create a CGI  FE model?

Could it be that FE models are impossible?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 10, 2020, 09:00:17 AM
I am not a hypocrite:

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...
Yet you demand that we to the math for a CGI version of what RET claims.

This is the Flat Earth Society.

Why should we do the math and create a CGI RE model if you aren't willing to do the math and create a CGI  FE model?

Could it be that FE models are impossible?
I doubt it, since the earth is flat.

And that is all we are concerned with, in the end.

I just like pointing out the fact there is no CGI moving image of what the heliocentrist alchemists claim to be reality, when all you need to do is use the math you hold so dear...

Think of the "billions and billions," to be made Opus!!!

Get on it! QUICK!!!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 10, 2020, 09:19:22 AM
Could it be that FE models are impossible?
I doubt it, since the earth is flat.
Then a decent model shouldn't be a problem.

So why has no one made one yet?

And that is all we are concerned with, in the end.
Is it?

Is it really?

I thought that you might be concerned with reality.

I guess I was wrong.

I just like pointing out the fact there is no CGI moving image of what the heliocentrist alchemists claim to be reality, when all you need to do is use the math you hold so dear...
And I'm just pointing out that there is no such equivalent CGI image of what flatists claim to be reality, when all you need to do is figure out the math that you're so terrified of.

Sounds like a double standard at the very least.


Think of the "billions and billions," to be made Opus!!!

Get on it! QUICK!!!
Yes, just imagine the billions that could be made by having a model that shows the reality of the flat earth.

Hurry before Mark Sargent or Jearan Campenella beat you to it.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 10, 2020, 11:26:21 AM
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I doubt it, since the earth is flat.

OK you seem to be pretty certain about that so show us the proof rather than just slagging off anyone who doesn't share your point of view.

You can't because there is no proof available.  And don't start singing the old tune about look out of your window and believing what you see.  That doesn't cut it anymore because it doesn't prove anything about the true form of the Earth as a whole.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Stash on March 10, 2020, 11:40:57 AM
I am not a hypocrite:

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...
Yet you demand that we to the math for a CGI version of what RET claims.

This is the Flat Earth Society.

Why should we do the math and create a CGI RE model if you aren't willing to do the math and create a CGI  FE model?

Could it be that FE models are impossible?
I doubt it, since the earth is flat.

And that is all we are concerned with, in the end.

I just like pointing out the fact there is no CGI moving image of what the heliocentrist alchemists claim to be reality, when all you need to do is use the math you hold so dear...

Think of the "billions and billions," to be made Opus!!!

Get on it! QUICK!!!

Done. Billions have been made.

Check out the American Museum of Natural History - Hayden Planetarium ‘Digital Universe'

Download:

https://www.openspaceproject.com/

You can render simulations like this :



Now, what do you have?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 10, 2020, 12:19:07 PM
I bet that he won't get past this part before he stop reading and cries "FAKE!!"
Quote from: https://www.openspaceproject.com/
Funded in part by NASA...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Unconvinced on March 10, 2020, 12:40:11 PM
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If there was, you could model the real deal utilizing Newton/Kepler/Einstein math.

So referring back to the link I provided earlier, and to the contents of the 'about' link where it states

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The astronomy.js library by Don Cross is used to compute approximate position of the Solar System objects given their keplerian elements.

How does this not meet with your demands of a model of the 'real deal' utilizing Kepler math?
Post an animated gif.

Your ability/inability to do so will answer your question.

Here’s a gif of calculated orbits. Not just the planets and moons, but also 18000 asteroids.

(https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/asteroid/20180723/main-animation-16.gif)

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7194

Good enough for you?
Is the sun moving there, sparky?

Nope?

Try again, hipster doofus...

Moving relative to what?  The virtual “camera” position?  No.  So what?

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Well that’s just a stupid requirement.  The movement of the solar system through the galaxy won’t affect the orbits by any remotely detectable amount.  Showing it in an animation serves no purpose other than making it harder to see the orbits that have been calculated.

Probably why it’s hard to find one.  Why would anyone waste their time on it?
Yeah, not only is it hard to find...it is...impossible...

So, yeah, hipster doofus...

No.  It would be very easy.  No one bothers because such an animation serves no purpose.

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Even though you can find plenty of fakes that show the sun moving with planets circling about, you can't find the real one...because the MATH IS FAKE!!!

Toodle pip alchemists...

The “fakes” are just illustrations to roughly show the movement.  What’s the point in carefully calculating orbits if you can’t see them because the camera is swooping around all over the place?

So is the sole justification for your argument that “the maths is fake” based on your childish demands for an animation that looks exactly the way you want. 

Pathetic.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 10, 2020, 01:11:27 PM
because the MATH IS FAKE!!!
Again, PROVE IT!
So far that is just your pathetic baseless assertion.

If you want to claim it is fake or doesn't work then prove it.

Until then you are just complaining that no one has provided you a specific CGI model you want, which they are under no obligation to provide to you and which you have no made effort to find or make yourself.
That in no way indicates the math is fake.

You have a shown that you are completely unwilling to accept anything provided to you, so why should anyone bother wasting their time making something for you just for you to reject it?

You are the alchemist here.
You cling to pure fantasy and reject reality, all because people haven't made a CGI model with no practical value.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Themightykabool on March 10, 2020, 01:14:44 PM
I am not a hypocrite:

I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...
Yet you demand that we to the math for a CGI version of what RET claims.

This is the Flat Earth Society.

Why should we do the math and create a CGI RE model if you aren't willing to do the math and create a CGI  FE model?

Could it be that FE models are impossible?
I doubt it, since the earth is flat.

And that is all we are concerned with, in the end.

I just like pointing out the fact there is no CGI moving image of what the heliocentrist alchemists claim to be reality, when all you need to do is use the math you hold so dear...

Think of the "billions and billions," to be made Opus!!!

Get on it! QUICK!!!

One
Flat earth map?
Model of the sun?
Lets see it.

Two
How do you financially value such a cgi rendering of the RE galaxy?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 10, 2020, 01:58:54 PM
Time to put up or shut up Mr. Totallackey.
Yet. all you can do is drone on and on about how real mathematical constructs of what you claim to be reality that could be so easily rendered in a CGI ... are not necessary.
No, they are no necessary in the slightest and you have given no reason that they should be.
This is "The Flat Earth Society" and how the Solar System might move in the Galaxy is totally irrelevant.
Even whether the Earth rotates and orbits the Sun (the Heliocentric Solar System) or the Globe Earth is stationary is of little relevance to the shape of the Earth.

Quote from: totallackey
You are one big hypocrite rab.
No, Mr. Totallackey, I'm no hypocrite I've shown you detailed simulations of the Solar System now it's your turn!

So, either you post a working flat Earth as requested or YOU the big hypocrite.

The wider cosmos has virtually nothing to do with what the way the Solar System behaves and is totally irrelevant to the shape of the Earth.

Here I'll repeat it for you:
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Please show a simulation on your flat Earth model using whatever laws of physics that you accept.
You must specify just what these laws of physics that you accept are.

Your simulation should show at least the detailed movement of the Sun, Moon and planets and predict:
Sunrise and sunset times and directions at any place requested.
The phases of the Moon and the times the Moon rises and sets.

If you have a good flat-Earth model that should be easy.

So, it's long past time for YOU put up or shut up Mr. Totallackey.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 10, 2020, 02:15:57 PM
When are you going to do the math and show us a CGI simulation of your favorite FE model? 

You don't want to be a hypocrite, do you?
I am not a hypocrite:
I will grant you I haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims...
Incorrect, you are a hypocrite of the worst kind! You demand that others do what you cannot do yourself.

You even admit that "haven't done any of the math in order to render a CGI version of anything that FET claims".

You first claim that you are "not a hypocrite" admit that you are!

This is the Flat Earth Society and here you are admitting that YOU don't know how the flat Earth works and explains all that we can see.
Run away and enrol in Flat Earthism 101 at your favourite Flat Earth Indoctrination College or at the FECU Entrance Exam, Flat Earth Community University, FECU (https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJdPxyzOjHU).
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Unconvinced on March 10, 2020, 03:48:40 PM

Run away and enrol in Flat Earthism 101 at your favourite Flat Earth Indoctrination College or at the FECU Entrance Exam, Flat Earth Community University, FECU (https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJdPxyzOjHU).

Clarification needed on question 1-

Is actor David Schwimmer Illuminati?  Or is his character in Friends Illuminati?  Or do they mean the DJ/producer Ross from Friends?

No idea about the actor, but the character is a dick.  The DJ seems nice though.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 10, 2020, 05:10:50 PM

Run away and enrol in Flat Earthism 101 at your favourite Flat Earth Indoctrination College or at the FECU Entrance Exam, Flat Earth Community University, FECU (https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJdPxyzOjHU).

Clarification needed on question 1-

Is actor David Schwimmer Illuminati?  Or is his character in Friends Illuminati?  Or do they mean the DJ/producer Ross from Friends?

No idea about the actor, but the character is a dick.  The DJ seems nice though.
I've no idea. I answered that Mark Sargent and Steve were the Illuminati and was failed and thrown out.
So I'm forced to be a Real Earth Believer because that's much easier to debate - it has all the facts on its side.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 11, 2020, 02:26:49 AM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.

As long as he accepts that not everyone here shares his point of view and several others here have demonstrated and evidenced their reasons for having their difference of opinion.  That is where FE people seem to fall... well flat. Because while they can claim whatever they wish it seems they cannot provide any real evidence that backs up their claims.

Otherwise surely we would all be seeing the Earth as flat, we would be buying flat trays rather than globes of the Earth and sea and air travel times would all be a lot different to what they are. And if the Earth is flat and there are no such things as satellites as (some) flat Earthers maintain then how the heck does GPS work?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 11, 2020, 02:49:06 AM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion".
What makes totallackey a hypocritical, however, is his demand that we show a demonstration of something totally irrelevant to either the shape of the Earth or whether it rotates or not,
yet he refuses to show a similar demonstration of his Earth "model" so that we might evaluate it.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: totallackey on March 11, 2020, 03:32:11 AM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion".
What makes totallackey a hypocritical, however, is his demand that we show a demonstration of something totally irrelevant to either the shape of the Earth or whether it rotates or not,
yet he refuses to show a similar demonstration of his Earth "model" so that we might evaluate it.
Alchemists huddling, wondering how they can deny what they see in front of their eyes everyday, ascribing something beyond 6 miles to fictional fantasy about a supposed curve.

Needing a model of flat when reality of flat is in front of them each and everyday.

"THE MATH IS RIGHT AND ADDS UP, AND YES, WE KNOW WHEN IT IS ENTERED TO RENDER AN OUTPUT, THE WHOLE THING BLOWS UP!", so...

it isn't necessary...

Toodle pip alchemists...
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: JackBlack on March 11, 2020, 04:35:43 AM
Alchemists huddling, wondering how they can deny what they see in front of their eyes everyday
Yep, coming up with pathetic excuses like "THE MATH IS FAKE" "IT CAN'T WORK" and so on, without actually providing any evidence or showing a problem with any evidence provided against their beliefs.
You FE alchemists really need to up your game.

There is literally nothing that indicates Earth is flat.

If you don't think a model is necessary for your fantasy then there is absolutely no reason for you to think a model is needed for the reality of a round Earth. So why the extremely dishonest double standard?
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 11, 2020, 05:27:38 AM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion".
What makes totallackey a hypocritical, however, is his demand that we show a demonstration of something totally irrelevant to either the shape of the Earth or whether it rotates or not,
yet he refuses to show a similar demonstration of his Earth "model" so that we might evaluate it.
Alchemists huddling, wondering how they can deny what they see in front of their eyes everyday, ascribing something beyond 6 miles to fictional fantasy about a supposed curve.
Please keep it civil, Mr Totallackey, your insults, insinuations and accusations don't impress anybody and only indicate how uncertain you are of you own position!

No one, other that you flat Earthers is huddling anywhere.
And I don't need to deny anything that I see in front of my eyes everyday! Everything I see fits perfectly with the Earth's being a Globe!

Please explain just how it is possible for your Sun, presumably circling 3000 miles above the Earth, to rise from behind the horizon as in the following video:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnht4c1r5hh4vx1/Sunrise%20-%20Black%20Sea%20HD%2C%20kalcymc%20-%20sun%20part%20risen.jpg?dl=1)      (https://www.dropbox.com/s/igmdb1pr4nor5az/Sunrise%20-%20Black%20Sea%20HD%2C%20kalcymc%20-%20sun%20%20risen.jpg?dl=1)
Video of Sunrise over Black Sea HD by kalcymc (https://m.youtube.co/watch?v=XwkdmHt_Ez8&t=112s)

Also if the ocean is flat please explain what is hiding the sun as it sets in these photos of mine:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/agflgl8bz3xhwfl/LHG-0693%20-%20Sunset%20Karumba%2020070808%2006.25.02%2C%20300%20mm.jpg?dl=1)
Sunset Karumba on Aug 8, 2007 at 6:25:02 PM
       (https://www.dropbox.com/s/y3l9fm2orxrluxn/LHG-0697%20-%20Sunset%20Karumba%2020070808%2006.25.29%2C%20300%20mm.JPG?dl=1)
Sunset Karumba on Aug 8, 2007 at 6:25:29 PM
       (https://www.dropbox.com/s/cyd7gg5jriln73b/LHG-0698%20-%20Sunset%20Karumba%2020070808%2006.25.57%2C%20300%20mm.JPG?dl=1)
Sunset Karumba on Aug 8, 2007 at 6:25:57 PM
The Sunrise video is from the Black Sea, the Sunset photos are from North Queensland.

And, if the ocean is flat, please explain how all of Bathurst Lighthouse can be seen from 100 ft above sea-level in the left screenshot of the linked video but much is hidden when only 6 to 8 ft above sea-level:
(https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbbnmmcms1x9nr6/Bathurst%20Lighthouse%20from%20100%20ft.jpg?dl=1)      (https://www.dropbox.com/s/05kwhacfbdvfhpc/Bathurst%20Lighthouse%20from%206%20ft.jpg?dl=1)
Video of Bathurst Lighthouse from 100 ft on the left and from 6 ft on the right (https://www.youtube.com/embed/hMvcJK1IrSM)
And please explain how we can see all of the near ship, the EPIC, but the farther ship, the CONTI LYON, has all the hull hidden? Something is sure hiding most of the second ship!
These two photos are from a video of two large cargo ships off the coast near Wollongong, NSW and taken from about 10 m above sea-level.
The nearer ship is all visible but the farther ship's containers are is still very visible but most of the ship is hidden behind something.
And here we have a huge bulk ore carrier quite visible:
(https://i.resimyukle.xyz/bOxy40.jpg)
         And a container vessel with the hull hidden behind something:
(https://i.resimyukle.xyz/H5Pzfb.jpg)
And the maker of the video those screenshots came from wrote:
Quote from: MCtheEmcee1


MCtheEmcee1 Published on Mar 21, 2018

Cargo ship with the entire hull below the horizon. Only the containers are visible.
The background ship called CONTI LYON, and at SEVEN pm,  that ship was at [-34.44074, 151.18053].
The foreground ship - EPIC - was moored at [-34.3693, 151.0004].
The camera location was 34.347°S 150.921°E and 10m above sea-level on Collins Rock, in the suburb of Woonona NSW.
So the nearer ship, the EPIC, was 16.7 km from the camera and the farther ship, the container ship was 26.0 km from the camera. [/size]

Quote from: totallackey
Needing a model of flat when reality of flat is in front of them each and everyday.
Totally incorrect Mr Totallackey! You sure need a model because a flat Earth certainly does not fit with reality.
None of these photos and videos would be possible on a flat Earth with the Sun circling some 3000 miles overhead.

If you disagree, please explain:Don't worry there's plenty more evidence that a flat Earth can never fit the reality that we see around us.

You need to do a lot better than the nothing that you've provided so far!
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: markjo on March 11, 2020, 06:22:21 AM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
He's entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 11, 2020, 06:30:10 AM
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Needing a model of flat when reality of flat is in front of them each and everyday.

Is that really the best you can come up with? Why do you think there is a sharply defined horizon all around you? Do you really think it would be like that if the Earth was flat? 

Yes the horizon is flat. I you had a clear view of the horizon through 360 degrees and you are just a few tens or hundred of metres up from the ground then the horizon will look flat because it is an equal distance from you in all directions and because the rate of curvature of the surface (which gives us the horizon in the first place) is the same. So it will look flat.

You are seeing such a small fraction of the surface area that any real perception of curvature is lost to the naked eye.

However because you believe the Earth is flat, you conclude that because the Earth looks flat to you, that can only mean that it is flat.  You see what you want to believe so no further evidence needed. Conformation bias in action.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Themightykabool on March 11, 2020, 08:01:16 AM
Lackless will never give up any more info beyond "looks flat".
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 11, 2020, 08:34:49 AM
Lackless by nature as well as by name then.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: rabinoz on March 11, 2020, 03:17:52 PM
Lackless will never give up any more info beyond "looks flat".
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Needing a model of flat when reality of flat is in front of them each and everyday.

Is that really the best you can come up with? Why do you think there is a sharply defined horizon all around you? Do you really think it would be like that if the Earth was flat? 

Yes, the horizon is flat. If you had a clear view of the horizon through 360 degrees and you are just a few tens or hundred of metres up from the ground then the horizon will look flat because it is an equal distance from you in all directions and because the rate of curvature of the surface (which gives us the horizon in the first place) is the same. So it will look flat.


A near sharp flat horizon is evidence that the ocean is curved, like this:
(https://i.postimg.cc/qMHghGyM/Scarborough-Beacon-full-res.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/9z1csZLv)

That photo was taken from about 2 m above sea-level and I know that horizon is close because:
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Stash on March 11, 2020, 04:45:59 PM
Mr Totallackey has obviously got his mind made up about what he believes to be true and nothing will change that. That is fine since everyone is entitled to their opinion.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion".
What makes totallackey a hypocritical, however, is his demand that we show a demonstration of something totally irrelevant to either the shape of the Earth or whether it rotates or not,
yet he refuses to show a similar demonstration of his Earth "model" so that we might evaluate it.
Alchemists huddling, wondering how they can deny what they see in front of their eyes everyday, ascribing something beyond 6 miles to fictional fantasy about a supposed curve.

Needing a model of flat when reality of flat is in front of them each and everyday.

"THE MATH IS RIGHT AND ADDS UP, AND YES, WE KNOW WHEN IT IS ENTERED TO RENDER AN OUTPUT, THE WHOLE THING BLOWS UP!", so...

it isn't necessary...

Toodle pip alchemists...

Listen, when, if, ever you actually have a point you can back up with evidence of any sort that would be a landmark moment. Because to date, you have never provided anything except for your personal brand of banal vitriol. Why is that?

What is the point you're trying to make? RE doesn't have a CGI model of the COSMOS and therefore all of its maths, science, explorations, calculations, etc, are bunk? Are you high? Can you not navigate your toaster oven because you don't have a CGI rendering as to how it fits into your city block? Give me a hit of whatever you're smoking, because it must me solid.

Figure out your own shit, your planar non-planet. How it works. Maybe throw in how a sunset works just for measure. In the mean time, we're tracking a gazillion things in space that could harm us while you're futzy around begging for math visualized that you will never understand.

'Toodle pip', I don't know what that means. It sounds a little gay, not that there's anything wrong with that. Just sayin'.
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Solarwind on March 13, 2020, 01:14:48 AM
I don't think you will ever get any real evidence from flat Earthers because lets face it there is none that exists that they can provide. Their 'evidence' is their beliefs and that's as far as it can go. In view of the way this zetecist concept goes that is good enough so they don't consider that they need to justify their beliefs any more than that.

Secretly they know that so to make themselves feel better they just rely on asking for evidence about RE that they know also doesn't exist - such as the CGI model of the entire Universe. Then they use that to defend their opinions. It remains I think that there is a lot more to prove or evidence on the FE side than there is on RE. At least we have all agreed on a single model and we all sing from the same sheet.

RE evidence is based on real data from real observations and beyond that computer predictions that are based or extrapolated from that data.  FE evidence is based on nothing but belief and ideology. That to me is the difference.



Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Macarios on March 20, 2020, 02:39:18 PM
Hundreds of thousands of geodesists all over the world constantly measure the Earth.
They measure, test, check and re-check on each other, and they constantly improve their accuracy.
They know the shape of the Earth very well.

Not knowing what they do and how gives no one the right to claim that the don't do it.
They don't hide it, anyone can ask and learn.

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WHAT IS THE GLOBAL PRECISE GEODETIC INFRASTRUCTURE?

Geodesy is the science of measuring and understanding three fundamental parameters of the Earth
its shape,
rotation and orientation,
and gravity field
and their change over time.
These parameters carry fundamental information about the planet and its workings.
Today this is no longer a three-dimensional problem, but really a four-dimensional
problem in which temporal changes in these quantities are tracked. Geodesists do
this using an infrastructure based on precisely located positions of a set of reference
(“fiducial”) points on the Earth’s surface. Using these reference points, geodesists
create a terrestrial reference system (or spatial reference system)—a common
coordinate framework for which scientists have determined, by calculation, all
the reference points’ exact coordinates at a given time. The primary realization of
the global spatial reference system is the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF).
The ITRF and other terrestrial reference frames are established by equipping selected
reference points with some combination of radio telescopes, laser ranging systems,
Global Navigational Satellite Systems receivers (GNSS, a general term for systems like
the Global Positioning System, or GPS) and radio beacons, and sometimes gravimeters.
In addition, data from observations of Earth-orbiting satellites, the moon, and distant
extragalactic objects known as quasars are incorporated. This combination of ground-based
instruments and satellites constitutes the precise, global geodetic infrastructure.
(from: https://www.nap.edu/read/12954/chapter/3#12 (https://www.nap.edu/read/12954/chapter/3#12))
Title: Re: Explain this to me.........
Post by: Mikey T. on March 24, 2020, 01:45:02 PM


Dr. Richard Feynman dumbs down the scientific method fairly well here, and in consequence shows how not experimenting or not having any way to test the guesses made is worthless.  Educated guess, determine the consequences, test, if not wrong yet you are good for now.