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Flat Earth Q&A / Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

« on: October 06, 2010, 12:07:11 AM »

What is the FET opinion of those who died long before the RET conspiracy could have been born, but who's works support the RET version of the universe with tested observations and mathematics?

Examples people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler

Please move to Q&A if you are so inclined, I posted in the wrong area.

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Flat Earth General / Virgin Galactic Milesone

« on: July 23, 2010, 09:22:23 PM »

http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/vss-enterprise-makes-its-first-crewed-flight/

Closer and closer to privatized space flight, or a greater perpetuation of the hoax. Did a forum search to see if anyone posted as I am more than a week late.

Discus

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Flat Earth Q&A / Falling objects in FET

« on: March 24, 2010, 05:57:37 AM »

I gleaned from what I have read so far that terminal velocity in FET is caused primarily by the air slowing us down. Is this true?

If I drop a ball down a vacuum tube then, and the earth is traveling at nearly superluminal velocity... ka-boom?

I just want the FET version of the physics on theses two questions, not too much of a debate. This isn't the debate forum.

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Flat Earth General / Commercial Space Launch

« on: March 14, 2010, 01:26:33 AM »

Does the a launching of satellites by private companies using their own rockets in the United States since the Commercial Space Launch Act was signed by President Reagan hurt the integrity of the conspiracy theories that relate to only government agencies are in on the conspiracy? I would seem to considering the difference in the physics of these launches. And the way private companies would use them to circumvent the earths curve when it isn't an issue? They would seem to have definitive methods of proving the earth was flat, and indeed would need to believe it just to use them for their own international communication purposes. At the very least this makes the conspiracy LARGER. Perhaps too large to remain plausible.

The other fact is that since it was signed, the doors really opened up for any random rich person trying to take a cool pic of the earth from way high up might suddenly stumble on the truth. Especially since it was amended in 2004 by President Bush to be even less restricted, allowing Virgin Galactic and other smaller companies to begin to try to find ways to create privatized space tourism.

Would the success of Virgin Galactic or another space tourism company (should it occur) convince any of you FETers that the Earth was indeed round, and if not why?

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Flat Earth General / Size of conpiracy, and it's motive.

« on: March 07, 2010, 01:23:13 AM »

Beyond debates about experiments that can be conducted by members to prove or disprove one or another theory, and the physics and theoretical physics debates that ensue, I have one more thing to debate.

Whether or not a conspiracy such as this could ever be realistically maintained, and what the motive for maintaining it is.

First lets consider the number of people and organizations that have had experiences necessary to completely eliminate the possibility of the earth being round. That's every country with intercontinental flight capability, and every international pilot on earth. There are other methods of proving the distance between places on the surface and such.

We have a lot of countries that hate one another, for reasons that vary greatly. Any one of which could produce irrefutable evidence that the entire rest of the world is lying, and therefore evil. Whichever country breaks the global conspiracy would go down in history has having liberated the minds of the entire world from some dark shadow government or other powerful group that has convinced them all to stay in line. The amount of political capital gained and loss of faith caused would put such a nation in the position to remain stable while all others suffer civil implosion.

So... why are they staying in line?

I ask that because all conspiracy's have a motive. You have some reason to hide the truth. Something you gain by hiding it, or something you lose if you don't. Even if there is a logical reason for them to stay in line, like the nations that benefit most from the conspiracy being able to nuke the dissonant nation into the stone age, what benefit to they gain by maintaining a false model that will hold back the development of technology based around the false physics and faked methods of navigation?

Is there a way in a world containing the internet, the ability to anonymously access it, and the ridiculous amount of reward from people all over the globe given to the person or organization producing irrefutable evidence of the truth to maintain this conspiracy? Is it just too large a conspiracy to be realistic?

This website alone, and the fact that it sights published works, are enough to prove that the Flat Earth movement isn't being stamped out at all costs, and that the internet could be used to transmit the evidence that proves it at last to be true. If I had the evidence I'd post it here during peak hours before I posted it anywhere else just so all of you faithful could download it and start a chain reaction or re-posting it other places until the provable truth reached the masses.

But back to part two, motive. I can't think of a way to drag this out into an informative and insightful paragraph. What is the motive for the conspiracy? This would be the fun part to debate really. Flat Earth proponents get to access the most creative parts of their mind to imagine as many different theories for motive as possible, and while those that doubted them could debate the nature of these rewards VS the benefits of exposure, nobody could really win or lose. Just kind of a fun "What if" geek out thread. But I imagine my first section will dominate the conversation. >.<

I suppose you might guess from the argument I am asking be debated, but I am on the side of the earth being round, just to be upfront and honest. Integrity and all.