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Flat Earth Q&A / Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 01:28:44 PM »

How about something that actually makes sence?

Oh, so not Flat Earth theory then?

I was refering to his 'model' of gravity.

Yup. Because nuclear forces and gravitons make less sense than a perfectly circular flat earth with North in the middle of the Indian ocean and  150ft ice wall around the edge guarded by some generic 'government' that for some reason dosn't want us to know the world is flat?

Yeah. I can see where you're coming from.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Non-Nasa Photos Of the Curve of the Earth

« on: January 11, 2007, 10:49:40 AM »

I've never prostituted an FE photo.  Photo's cannot be used for evidence.

I'd love to see that argument hold up in court.

I can picture it now. You get photographed attacking someone with a knife.

'But photos can't be used as evidence! He was using a low quality camera with a lens that distorted my arm to make it look like I was stabbing him!'

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Flat Earth Q&A / Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 10:38:02 AM »

no theories involve a flat earth

Then how do you explain the existence of the Flat Earth Society?

The same way I explain the existance of people who truely belive in the force from 'starwars' or, well, most religeous practices.

They read it in a book, therefore they belive it, because the explinations given to them are eaisier than trying to reason with the problem themselves.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 10:29:05 AM »

The Big Bang probably sparked the universe's constant acceleration. The speed of the universe will never reach the speed of light, but continue to come infinitely close to it.

No. Because the big bang only exerted a force while it was actually doing the 'big bang' part. After that, it was nolonger putting a force on anything in the universe.

Everything is decelerating.

Wrong. The universe is accelerating. The truth is that the big bang is still happening. Most Cosmologists and Theoretical Physcists, Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking included, subscribe to this fact.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_universe

I was editing my post while you posted that to add more depth, including mentions on the various target universal models. The accelerating universe is one such model - but it is one of many. Again I repeat, none of them involve a flat earth.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 10:20:33 AM »

The Big Bang probably sparked the universe's constant acceleration. The speed of the universe will never reach the speed of light, but continue to come infinitely close to it.

No. Because the big bang only exerted a force while it was actually doing the 'big bang' part. After that, it was no longer putting a force on anything in the universe.

Given the vacuumous quality of space, in theory everything should travel at a constant speed (newtons first law again) and observations in the wavelengths of light from various stars give clues into their realitive speed to our own, which shows the universe is spreading - however, gravitational force between different stars causes the unverse to be gradually slowing. There's a whole slew of different theories and outcomes of the universes eventual position.

But none of them involve a flat earth.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 10:04:53 AM »

Newtons 3st law:

Yep.  (psst!  It's the first law)

Gah. Right suffix, wrong number.

Can a round earther explain to me how gravity works? Not what it does but how it works.

It seems to be an important part of your round earth and yet you can't explain it.

Your theories seem to be based simply on 'explainations'. If you can't think up a logical explaination to anything, you dismiss it. So explain to me this:

Why are there so many theories, books and publications in support of other theories apart from this one? Good luck blaming this one on 'conspiricy' too, because if your conspiricy theory really applied and the government -was- trying to cover this up, why would your little bible still be allowed to be published, and this website exist?

To be honest, 'conspiricy' theories tend to be the twisted dreams of psycotics and the paranoid - though you have austounded me at how the FES has taken this to a whole new level.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Hello

« on: January 11, 2007, 09:58:44 AM »

You said you read the FAQ, I say read it again. It is not gravity that keeps you on the earth but the earth's constant acceleration.

And what is accelerating the Earth?

Newtons 1st law:
A body at rest remains at rest, and a body in motion continues to move in a straight line with a constant speed unless and until an external unbalanced force acts upon it.

This states that for the Earth to be accelerating, there must be a force acting on it, and that force must be in the direction of acceleration.