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Flat Earth Q&A / what is the proof that the earth is flat

« on: September 07, 2015, 12:57:59 AM »

just curious

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Flat Earth Debate / Occam's razor leans hevily on round earth

« on: September 07, 2015, 12:56:41 AM »

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Occam's_razor
^link for people who don't get it

"Ocams's razor", witch in essence says that the theory that requires the least assumptions is usually the more correct one (to be fair, it is more complex than that, but that's what the link is for)

now lets take a look at all the assumptions we have to make for round earth:
1: that science is (mostly) right about gravity, astronomy, and physics

and all the assumptions we have to make for flat earth:
1:that all the governments of the world have organised a conspiracy to convenience the masses of the earths (false) roundness
2:that the earth is either accelerating constantly in a blatant middle finger to thermodynamics, or that "down" is just the intrinsic direction of the universe
3: that the millions of people lied or were wrong about the direction that a hurricane/tornado was spinning
4: that thousands of people who have looked through telescopes and have seen satellites and other planets lied
5: that the millions of people who have looked at the horizon and have seen the curvature of the earth were wrong, or that light "bends"

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Gravity is real, get over it

« on: September 07, 2015, 12:12:30 AM »

The moon goes around the Earth. If the theory of gravity were true, it would mean that the sun's gravitational force on the moon is much stronger than the Earth's gravitational force on the moon, so the moon would go around the sun. Do you see that happening? if gravity was working on the early Earth, then Earth's gravity would have caused Earth to have been bombarded out of existence with asteroids, meteors, comets, and other space junk being attracted to it. Then there is the question about tides. If the moon's "gravity" were responsible for a bulge underneath the water, then how can anyone explain a high tide on the opposite side of the Earth at the same time? Anyone can observe that there are two — not one — high tides every day.

Sun's gravitational pull on the moon is nothing compared to earth's gravitational pull on the moon. Sun has greater mass but also a ridiculously great distance to both the moon and the earth.

True, that's why the theory of gravity is untrue. The Sun is 864,400 miles (1,391,000 kilometers) across. This is about 109 times the diameter of Earth. The Sun weighs about 333,000 times as much as Earth. It is so large that about 1,300,000 planet Earths can fit inside of it. With a mass that much larger than the Earth, common sense should tell you the moon should be orbiting the sun.

yes, this is indeed correct, if you forget that distance also has a lot to do with the strength of gravity on an object

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: If all of the satellites are only a NASA conspiracy

« on: September 07, 2015, 12:09:19 AM »

Neither rockets - nor anything else man-made - can get into space, so it must be some other technology.

Think about it, then return with Answers rather than Questions & maybe we'll give you the time of day...

Until then, f**k off.

Only I can see satellites and the ISS with my telescope, so... Yeah. I think you get the idea.

How can you be certain that what you are seeing is not just holographic projections set up by NASA? They seemed to convince a lot of people that they landed on the moon in the past using smoke and mirror theatrics.

you do know that holograms need something to be projected on right?

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: I've got a new idea to simplify the debate

« on: September 07, 2015, 12:01:02 AM »

i like how none of the flat earthers have given their evidence

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Is this why there's no map?

« on: September 06, 2015, 11:55:38 PM »

your right, no map will ever be 100% accurate.

Then, why do you people harp on about us not having a 100% accurate map all the time?  Sounds a little hypocritical to me.

i'm guessing you didn't bother to read the rest of my sentence.

what i'm saying is that no 2-d map will ever be 100% right, but 3-d maps can, witch could only work if the earth was round.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Is this why there's no map?

« on: September 06, 2015, 05:25:06 PM »

Maps are a visual aid that help give us a general guide of an area. They are a useful tool in a lot of ways, but no map is ever 100% accurate. A map cannot prove or disprove the shape of the Earth.

your right, no map will ever be 100% accurate. that's why we have globes

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: coriolis effect on flat earth

« on: September 06, 2015, 02:11:58 PM »

I just noticed that nobody has actually answered my question, all that's happened so far is both sides throwing ad hominems at echother. I really want to see how you flat earthers explain this, hurricanes are a thing that I think we can all agree happens, and the fact that they spin different directions depending on hemisphere. This is definite evidence for the existence of the equator, witch shouldn't exist on a flat earth

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Flat Earth Debate / coriolis effect on flat earth

« on: September 05, 2015, 11:48:27 PM »

So I think everyone here knows about the coriolis effect, you know that thing that makes spiney things on one side go one way, and spiney things on the other side go a different way, my question is, how exactly does this work on a flat earth