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Flat Earth Q&A / Flawed at the very core

« on: October 24, 2006, 08:43:48 AM »

Wait wait wait wait wait...

How could there be plates on FE?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Flawed at the very core

« on: October 22, 2006, 01:28:28 PM »

In the flat earth model, how the fsck would that even work? With the system accelerating upwards, magma would come out the bottom, not the top. With the RE model involving gravity, there's no more "down" for it to go! When plates shift, shit comes out. Holes open, and stuff is forced out from the pressure beneath the crust.

With a flat earth, all the magma would force itself out the bottom of the planet, and would have drained out completely within the first few centuries of the earth's existence.

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Flat Earth Debate / My Trip To The Ice Wall

« on: October 21, 2006, 08:31:27 PM »

Yeah, but I didn't KILL him. Which means I have to do it AGAIN if I ever want my "flip out" permit...

And when you read those Chuck Norris "facts" and then you see him on TV advertising bowflex, you think they exaggerate a little. TOTALLY DON'T.

We should ask Chuck Norris what he thinks about flat earth.

And then I could kill him, and then flip out and kill all of you, too.

My legs will be better next week, and my friend has a trampoline, and the space camera is on order. Next time, gravity! Next time!

I may even make it to the moon! =D

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Flat Earth Debate / My Trip To The Ice Wall

« on: October 21, 2006, 02:27:08 PM »

Hey, if there's one method of debate I like, it's sinking down to their level. =D

And besides, I don't even OWN any digital picture editors! I accidentally uninstalled paint when I was trying to remove a virus...

Yes, paint, the program used to add "space" into that last picture of the "ice wall"

I haven't passed my last ninja-test. So I'm not licensed to flip out and kill everyone. But come on. Who the hell assigns "Kill Chuck Norris" as a ninja test?!

My sensei hates me...

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Flat Earth Q&A / Flawed at the very core

« on: October 21, 2006, 01:06:44 AM »

I'm not saying there ever WAS one, I'm just saying that not finding one isn't proof that it wasn't there!

I can search the internet all day for a picture of Laura Croft from the original Tomb Raider and never find one. That does NOT mean, however, that there are no pictures on the internet of the original Tomb Raider's Laura Croft.

I could spend all my life searching for a webcomic that includes a refrence somewhere to something I unconciously did to the author/artist, and never find one. But that doesn't mean that one isn't there.

You could spend fifty years looking for the love of your life, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't exist.

THUS: A theory is never proved or disproved! You can only keep looking disproof!

Also, as far as theories are concerned, you typically must disprove the current one before a new one is even necessary.

Prove that the world is NOT round, and THEN I'll start looking at the possibility that it's flat.

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Flat Earth Debate / My Trip To The Ice Wall

« on: October 21, 2006, 01:02:59 AM »

Okay, I don't like bragging about this but... I'm a ninja. So, I decided to do a little sleuthing of my own.

I took a fishbowl and put it over my head, and put a plant behind my head to hold it steady, and to give me oxygen to breathe. I duct taped the bottoms of it shut, because honestly, duct tape is enough to save me from the lack of air in space. So, I crouched down, wailed on my guitar, and took a truly epic leap upwards. Once I could see the curvature of the earth, I whipped out my ninja camera and took a ninja picture: http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/Hawkril/?action=view&current=earthfromspace.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1

Now, it was taken very near to space, so it isn't all that clear, but if the earth is flat, then africa or whatever the fuck country that is (I can't even tell, it's warped from the curvature.) is on the edge of the planet.

As soon as I regain full use of my legs (landing is a bitch) I'll get a better camera and try it again. This time, I'm going to use a trampoline.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Flawed at the very core

« on: October 21, 2006, 12:46:01 AM »

a theory by defintion cannot be proven, too many hypothisis, and each hypothisis creates more hypothisis, thats why gravity is still a theory. if it has been proven 99% it becomes a law of nature, but then there is still the ablity to disprove it. and they are not scientific theorys if they have been disproven, because they cease to be theorys until re-imagined. come on this is science 101 stuff people.

There are no facts in realtity then since nothing can be proven..?

Btw: I agree with you on most things you've written so far. However, the earth can be proven round, while it cannot be proven flat.

Actually, no, it can't.

Basically, if you follow politics, it's just like the WMD in Iraq. Just because we didn't find them doesn't mean they aren't there. Just because we don't find the flaw doesn't mean we can assume that no flaw exists.

We can't ever PROVE anything. Just like you can't prove that no pictures of that thing you did last summer exist on the internet, we can't prove that the earth is, in fact, round. We can only keep testing to try and detect some flaw that indicates that it isn't.

We can only find that a theory is INCORRECT, and thus throw it out.

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Flat Earth Q&A / The earth is round

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:49:41 PM »

Of course they wouldn't. If they have technologies that cloud the atmosphere, and are in on every level of government, and can apparantly fake all of the laws of physics, you think a little thing like centripital force wou-

-is headshot-

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Flat Earth Q&A / The REAL proof that the world is round:

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:24:41 PM »

Pendulum.

Go get a pendulum. Make sure it's a large, heavy one in order to ensure that it moves independantly for a long, long time. (Ideally, all day with relatively little slowing)

Now, set up a bunch of dominos or things around it so that the pendulum will knock them down as it swings.

Now, watch and be amazed as on a flat planet, the pendulum would only knock over the first few. The earth rotates, and thus, the pendulum slowly knocks over the rest of them.

On a flat earth, with the sun and moon "orbiting" overhead, the pendulum would not rotate. But it does.

If a flat earth rotated, then centripital force (centrifugal? I forget the word.) would hurl us south, into the ice wall, where we would all be killed by the conspiritors. On a round earth, there's this nice little thing called gravity.

Now do you get it, son?

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Flat Earth Q&A / The earth is round

« on: October 19, 2006, 04:04:44 PM »

That, specifically right there, is a conspiracy by the FEs to confuse us. Clearly photoshopped. Hipocrates.

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Flat Earth Q&A / The earth is round

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:59:34 PM »

The atmosphere is translucent.

Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see SPACE.

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Flat Earth Q&A / The earth is round

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:41:49 PM »

-sigh- I just wish I had stayed around to raise them better...

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Flat Earth Q&A / Go to the beach.

« on: October 19, 2006, 03:38:11 PM »

Go to a port. Any port. You can PICK the port. But it's gotta be a port. Find a ship going in a straight line. Watch it go out into the ocean.

After a while, the boat will shrink and vanish from the bottom up as it goes over the horizon.

I dare you to tell me that that's because the boat sailed THROUGH THE ICE WALL and off the edge of the damn planet.

If the earth was flat, we would be able to look across the ocean and see the other continents. We would be able to look south from wherever we are, and SEE the ice wall. I would be able to stand on top of a tall building in Seattle, and see Japan, no matter how small it was off in the distance. People in japan would be able to see Everest as a lot larger than Fuji.

This is not a "discovered" theory. This is something constructed slowly with an archaic thought that then had epindicycles tacked on to defend it. (Sometimes more literally than when that phrase is usually applied)

I know damn well that I'm not going to convince you wierdos. I don't expect to. But god damnit, I've got to at least say that this is bullcrap. Your theory has been very well thought out, your epindicycles are in all the right places. But honestly, I could use the same logic to argue that I impregnated your mom with you.

DNA tests are a conspiracy.

I brainwashed her afterwards.

Time machine.

What do you have to say now? I just "proved" that I am your father.

Why did I use the time machine just to have sex with your mom? Why would the goverment make up that the world is round? Also: I was bored.

Why are DNA tests bogus? Why would NASA lie? Also: It's a conspiracy backed by Maury Pauvich and other daytime "talk" shows. There is no definite way to compare DNA with that degree of accuracy. They just look at the data and take an educated guess. (Most often, whatever will get the better ratings for that week)

So, I know you will never listen to your parents, but PLEASE at least know that this idea is about as sound as the idea that I'm your father.