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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Are there any Sphere Earth believers who used to be FE believers?

« on: January 17, 2016, 05:05:06 AM »

I think im just about done on this site already as i've hit realization that the smartest of FEs that have important jobs in our society (such as the engineer) are actually just trolls who know the earth is spherical and the rest are just lemmings who honestly dont matter to the rest of us.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Are there any Sphere Earth believers who used to be FE believers?

« on: January 17, 2016, 04:50:41 AM »

Maybe you need to go back to prekindergarten, to learn that the earth is a globe?

You should know that TheEngineer thinks the world is round.  He just enjoys being an arsehole, so he joined the Flat Earth Society, where he can indulge his depravity without censure.

Essentially, he likes winding people up on the internet, which is precisely what he's doing with you.

100% this^ some of these guys are legit. Its become obvious to me though that the engineer is actually well educated and must have found something he is really good at: explaining fauxphysics for a cult of less educated half-wits due to his background in real science. It must be fun having that power.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Coincidence

« on: January 17, 2016, 04:44:08 AM »

a three-body gravitational system works perfectly if you look at it as a a four-dimensional "plane" and assuming all bodies are in fourth-dimensional freefall. Which they are. If you have trouble comprehending four dimensions (which is ok. The majority of people do)

Of course it works. There are even stable configurations for 4, 5, 10 bodies (but usually with equal masses). That 4D comparision amazed be,  I have never thougth about it that way.

Its actually quite interesting. If you take that all the planets and everything are "falling" through space-time, you can begin to calculate Gravity as resistance to 4d freefall rather than just an attraction, which is why it often noticably distorts time when in large quantities.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Universal Accelerator - how it works?

« on: January 17, 2016, 04:30:32 AM »

Youre forgetting that acceleration is not an asymptotic graph. And time relativity only matters if youre not moving at the same speed as the object in question. Same speed=same time. Thats the whole point of einstein's relativity which has been proven. Youve just made up a law of physics that cant be tested to explain gravity.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Simple observation that the sun sets below the horizon

« on: January 16, 2016, 05:22:44 AM »

This is my actual favorite thread on here cause it clearly disproves FE unlike any other arguement and yet it hasnt been answered in any thread that it's come up in and this one has been completely ingored by FEs.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Coincidence

« on: January 16, 2016, 05:19:58 AM »

You guys have got to be kidding with this one *facepalm* a three-body gravitational system works perfectly if you look at it as a a four-dimensional "plane" and assuming all bodies are in fourth-dimensional freefall. Which they are. If you have trouble comprehending four dimensions (which is ok. The majority of people do) feel free to use any of the 3-dimensional representations you can find in books, online, or the NOVA program on PBS if you only have access to public television.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Universal Accelerator - how it works?

« on: January 16, 2016, 05:10:14 AM »

Now I don't accept UA, but you have to give it to them that as far as an observer on earth is concerned (and that is all that matters), the earth can continue to accelerate at 9.8 m/s² for ever.

Please tell me you were kidding about that part^ because thats absolutely wrong.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Frisbee Earth

« on: January 16, 2016, 05:06:33 AM »

The most confusing thing is you FEs believe the sun setting is actually it just moving to another spot above the disc. If the sun was always up there we'd still be able to see it at night. If its somehow big and bright enought to light half of the entire theoretical disc at a time then it moving a couple thousand miles to a different location wouldnt make it go dark. And if it didnt, we wouldnt see the sun ever touch the horizon. This is the best thread on here cause its quite simply listed the reasons FE is bull and the hapless fool who is questioning RE epitomises the more intelligent FEs refusal to acknowledge what is obviously true or ever try to address these topics with anything of substance.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Universal Accelerator - how it works?

« on: January 16, 2016, 04:47:19 AM »

Speed only asymptotically nears the speed of light relative to someone who is stationary, because to them the object moving near the speed of light will take literally forever to reach it because time relative to the stationary observer will pass muchhhh slower on the surface of the object. HOWEVER if you were on the surface of the object and were somehow able to continuously accelerate (which is not possible because as you near light speed you actually decellerate) you would eventually eclipse light speed. In this example, the people on earth are travelling at the same acceleration as Earth, because they're on it, so time would move the same relative to them as it does to Earth and they would theoretically witness the Earth surpass the speed of light. Which blows up your asymptotic equation. Because it only theoretically works as percieved by a stationary third party.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Celestial sphere

« on: January 16, 2016, 04:34:35 AM »

Wait. You cant be serious. The curvature of the earth is only 40 degrees between London and Tungska. An explosion at 7km would most certainly be visible from London. Especially one that's very bright because it'll light up the particles in the air just like lightning often illuminates the sky around it (water particles, dust, etc.). The agular distance of London and Tungska with respect to the polar axis doesnt matter. Also what the hell is a seated force and anchored attraction? No-one who argues RE believes in these forces which youre trying to use as evidence that we're wrong about gravity. A friend told me about you guys so i was curious if any of your stuff held up and there's clear holes throughout your theory, so i was just gonna leave it at that. But this absurd physics and geometry youre making up baffles me and i created an account to call it into question, because i'd very much like to know if you think these extra forces exist or if you just think that's what REs believe. Cause we most certainly do not.