The Flat Earth Society
Flat Earth Discussion Boards => Flat Earth Q&A => Topic started by: Osiris774 on November 04, 2006, 05:32:50 PM
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Edit: This post has been edited for the people with short attention span, people not able to read lots of words in a bunch clearly, or the people lacking in intelligence. I have seperated things into paragraphs. Enjoy!
I'm sorry. I'm not gonna flame or anything. I just find it hard to grasp that there's people that still think the earth is flat. I mean come on. We live in a time where it wouldn't be possible to fool the public on something like this.
I think some people are saying the earth is flat just for attention and others are really lost and out of the loop or maybe even senile. Still others are doing it knowing the earth is round but just like to debate and try to persuade others. Not sure which category you fall in, but i hate to tell you, if you believe the earth is flat, you fall into one of these categories. I'm usually the first to think the government is shady and always up to something but this is going a bit extreme.
The sun isn't disspearing as you so call it....you can see it slip through the horizon. And the moon being a spotlight? Come on. If someone shines a light at you your gonna be blinded. The moon isn't blinding at all. It's just got sunlight shining on it which allows you to see the craters on it which you wouldn't be able to see if it was a spotlight. Not to mention stuff like a crescent moon. Is that a partial spotlight? Did someone forget to change the batteries? NO! It's just sunlight shining on it from an angle.
Go buy a telescope, you can see the moon up close. See the powerful magnification? Now with that powerful of an instrument try to see Japan from the United States. It's not gonna happen and you can think of any bogus excuse as to why but the fact is that the earth is round and you wont be able to see it from there.
The Flat Earth Society is a primitave society with primitave ideas. All our ancestors way back thought the earth was flat cause we didn't know any better. But technology has helped us see it clearly. As we have gotten better equipment and more knowledge we have learned more about our earth. But your society is stuck on that one idea it will never let go.
You could even get invited aboard a space shuttle to look at the earth and I'll bet you'll still come up with an excuse as to why it looks round. Maybe it's an optical illusion? Oh wait, I know.... It's all an elaborate hoax and NASA flew you to MGM instead and put you on a movie set. I mean get real.
You can post what you like as a followup but you'll never sway any RE'ers. It's like telling us we don't exist. It's that obvious to us. There's a reason why the FE'ers are the minority in their thinking.
P. S. It's like the episode of "Who wants to be a Millionaire" where a person had to poll the audience for a $100 question. And even on an easy question like that, there were some people in the audience who had no clue and answered it incorrectly. How does it feel to fall in that category? Oh boy! I hope you guys have some more lifelines left.
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All I see is another mass of words...
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how do you explane that all the other planets are round and not flat. do you even believe there are other planets?
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The other planets are not the earth.
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All I see is another mass of words...
Yeah. Maybe it reflects badly on my but I have strong abhorrence for paragraphs of that general appearance. My brain refuses to be literate whenever I try to read them.
I am afraid this may be the result of my experiences on this forum :(
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how do you explane that all the other planets are round and not flat.
Why should the planets be flat just because Earth is?
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Why should all planets be flat just because Earth is?
That's a loaded question: it implies that the Earth is a planet which, classically, is a ridiculous notion indeed. You might as well ask why all the stars should be flat, just because the Earth is.
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The other planets are not the earth.
lol. so there are 8 planents circling the sun and one flat one...
i wonder what that would look like hrm,,,,
(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7998/untitledxc3.png)
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The other planets are not the earth.
lol. so there are 8 planents circling the sun and one flat one...
i wonder what that would look like hrm,,,,
(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7998/untitledxc3.png)
That diagram is obviously wrong since the sun is a spotlight, not a gigantic ball of fire.
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how do you explane that all the other planets are round and not flat.
Why should all planets be flat just because Earth is?
are you implying that earth is a planet?
if so, The International Astronomical Union defines "planet" as a celestial body that, within the Solar System,[1]
(a) is in orbit around the Sun;
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape; and
(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit;
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Not to mention that if we were that close to the sun, we would die.
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are you implying that earth is a planet?
I did imply that but didn't mean to.
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All I see is another mass of words...
Yeah. Maybe it reflects badly on my but I have strong abhorrence for paragraphs of that general appearance. My brain refuses to be literate whenever I try to read them.
I am afraid this may be the result of my experiences on this forum :(
I have a tendency of separating my thoughts on paragraphs 1-4 sentences long.
I'm sure this post doesn't help you either 8-)
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WoW you guys are right. I just called my travel agent and I'm going skiing next month on the Ice Wall. Woot...Lol......Seriously nobody can be that dumb to think the earth is flat. This is all a mental exercise for the supposed FE'ers. This is my last post. I was amused for a whole 30 min. Good day.
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Not to mention that if we were that close to the sun, we would die.
Not to mention that space doesn't have labels floating around in it conveniently near the things they name.
Chech6: obviously we don't consider the IAU's definition of planet to apply to the Earth.
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The other planets are not the earth.
lol. so there are 8 planents circling the sun and one flat one...
i wonder what that would look like hrm,,,,
(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7998/untitledxc3.png)
That diagram is obviously wrong since the sun is a spotlight, not a gigantic ball of fire.
Only if youre retarded.
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Not to mention that if we were that close to the sun, we would die.
Not to mention that space doesn't have labels floating around in it conveniently near the things they name.
Chech6: obviously we don't consider the IAU's definition of planet to apply to the Earth.
I used to think that at the edge of the Solar System there was a sign that said like
"Now exiting the Solar System." I was like 4 :)
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Wait, is there an actual fe diagram of the solar system? I know there is one for the sun and the moon but i never saw one for the solar system.
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Wait, is there an actual fe diagram of the solar system? I know there is one for the sun and the moon but i never saw one for the solar system.
Too much effort probably.
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The other planets are not the earth.
lol. so there are 8 planents circling the sun and one flat one...
i wonder what that would look like hrm,,,,
(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7998/untitledxc3.png)
That diagram is obviously wrong since the sun is a spotlight, not a gigantic ball of fire.
Only if you're retarded.
You failed to put in the apostrophe. I fixed it for you.
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Only if youre retarded.
My mental health has nothing to do with your fallacious diagram of the sun not being a spotlight.
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It is also obvious that, since Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are sometimes visible on earth, they would have to be on the same side as the sun.
That diagram is quite ridiculous.
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Not to mention that if we were that close to the sun, we would die.
how do you know?
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The other planets are not the earth.
oh yeah, God must have made us specialer than the other planets. i forgot to read the Bible
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I don't understand. What does "God" have to do with the creation of the flat earth?
Please explain your irrational claim.
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Only if youre retarded.
My mental health has nothing to do with your fallacious diagram of the sun not being a spotlight.
The sun isnt a spotlight fuckwit, it IS a gigantic ball of fire.
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Only if youre retarded.
My mental health has nothing to do with your fallacious diagram of the sun not being a spotlight.
The sun isnt a spotlight fuckwit, it IS a gigantic ball of fire.
if the diagram above was accurate...we'd all be burnt to a crisp flat earth or round! try putting the suns flames a bit further away from me next time
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The other planets are not the earth.
oh yeah, God must have made us specialer than the other planets. i forgot to read the Bible
Earth is obviously special, we have life, water, breathable atmosphere, etc.
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The other planets are not the earth.
oh yeah, God must have made us specialer than the other planets. i forgot to read the Bible
Earth is obviously special, we have life, water, breathable atmosphere, etc.
where there is life, there could only be death :cry:
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Only if youre retarded.
My mental health has nothing to do with your fallacious diagram of the sun not being a spotlight.
The sun isnt a spotlight fuckwit, it IS a gigantic ball of fire.
Ok? Go the fuck over there you fucking douchebag shithead and fucking take a picture of the fucking sun you fucking asswipe cocksucker.
That's more like flaming, than your lame-ass 'flame'.
Stronzo di merda.
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i think we can proove the sun is round. by observing the sun spots on the surface we should notice them moving from one side of the sun to the other and eventually dissapearing as it traverses to the other side of the sun. it might take several weeks as the sun's rotation takes about 25 days.
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i think we can proove the sun is round. by observing the sun spots on the surface we should notice them moving from one side of the sun to the other and eventually dissapearing as it traverses to the other side of the sun. it might take several weeks as the sun's rotation takes about 25 days.
well u look directly at the sun for 25 days and tell me wat u see :P
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roger. 8-)