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Flat Earth Debate / Re: New conspiracy required?
« on: August 31, 2023, 12:55:20 PM »
The difference is, that I understand math. and FET supporters cannot
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So did Ronald Regan, and he's highly regarded as a damn good Republican president.
Freedom > Security.
Very true. But it isn't absolute. You wouldn't want a citizen to have his own icbm program and you wouldn't want to declare butter knives illegal. So where is it reasonable to draw the line?
As someone who was a caregiver for many years to a family member with dementia, it is clear Biden is suffering from a form of dementia. Those around him should be arrested and convicted of elder abuse. Thing is Harris could be worse
What are the clear signs you've seen?
The space program was not a dump of money. The spinoffs from the space program would fill several libraries in a large city.Space programs have only served to fund the activities of states such as producing black money, smuggling money out of the country, and supporting terrorist organizations. Oh sorry, it also feeds internet trolls.
Defense spending? The only thing more expensive is a 2nd rate military. Didn't earn anything from the time leading up to WWII?
Man should ALWAYS to extend his reach.
Not a pilot - don’t get it.
Pikes Peak summit is 14,000’ MSL
Pikes Peak summit is 8,000’ AGL
- if flying 10,000’ MSL = slamming into the side of PP
- if flying 10,000’ AGL = gliding over the summit with room to spare
What am I missing?
And now I've done it, I gave you something else to use as a dodge. In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1Chill. I wasn't dodging anything. I merely pointed out that If you could fly and maintain a strict 10,000 AGL, you would never see Pikes Peak above you. When you are directly over it, you will be at 24,115 ASL/MSL. I hope you allowed enough time for your C182 to make that last very steep climb.
I am not a FEer. My comment was regarding your piloting rather than the OBVIOUS shape of the earth.
What makes this Flat Earth Hypothesis more realistic that the Globe Earth Model?
Very early religious indoctrination, as in, but not limited to The Bible, teaches children to believe that everything must be simple, not complex. This belief in simplicity extends to everything. There is life and death; black and white; good and evil. Critical thinking is not allowed. When schools try to teach nature, including evolution, they revolt against the elitists. They start automatically discarding science and everyone who supports science. COVID and the vaccines are an excellent example. But it goes into all aspects of their lives. Global warming? 911? It also brings about a belief in cult personality leaders. Pastors, televangelists, prophets, the Second Coming, Trump.
You asked, "What makes this Flat Earth Hypothesis more realistic that the Globe Earth Model? ". The real question is "To what kind of person is the Flat Earth Hypothesis more acceptable"? The answer is "A person who has been indoctrinated, usually since early childhood, into fundamentalist religious beliefs".
We rent a single engine Cessna 182 at t Louis Mo, USA. Take off and climb to 10,000 above the ground (AGL) then head west to Pikes Peak, which is 14,115 feet above sea level. (ASL) The distance between the two points is 800 miles.
The earth is a globe, and at some pint we will see the peak BELOW us. As we get closer, the peak will appear to rise up in front of us, until it rises to our eye level and then above us.
If you could fly and maintain a strict 10,000 AGL, you would never see Pikes Peak above you. When you are directly over it, you will be at 24,115 ASL/MSL. I hope you allowed enough time for your C182 to make that last very steep climb.
I used AGL and MSL because, well that is per FAA FAR.This is simply stating you must maintain your altitude based upon that.
FAR 91.121 states that, when operating an aircraft below 18,000 feet MSL, pilots will maintain altitude by reference to an altimeter that is set to
It is not saying that you must report it in all communications as that.
An argument is much more coherent if you keep the same reference, otherwise there is the question of what the reference is.
i.e. hypothetically you could start off at 10000 ft AGL, with that being around 15000 ft ASL, and then as you go along, that 10000 AGL drops to 13000 feet ASL.
So. Been here a few months on this site. It’s interesting what flat earther’s will defend to the death, and what they will completely ignore.
One of those items that gets ignored, or right out lied about, is why it’s hard to ride a bike up hill and keep up speed, and why people need to gear down on a 10 speed. But flat earther’s can move goal posts and muddy waters.
So. Thanks to the modern car and its fuel management system and cruse control, its quite easy to see how gravity affects a car set to a constant speed going from a flat surface to climb up a steep grade/hill.
If gravity doesn’t exert a downward force on the car, why must a car to keep its speed up use more fuel, gear down, and/or use more RPM’s to climb a step hill.
Why does the car use more energy going from a flat surface to up hill as kinetic energy is converted to gravitational potential energy.
If 'gravity' existed throughout the Earth's surface, then riding a bike ON the surface should be the SAME, whether on a flat surface, or up a hill, or down a hill, right?
'Gravity' should be the same over the whole surface, right? Why would it be harder to ride a bike up a hill, than over flat land? Shouldn't 'gravity' act the same way, over the entire surface? It would, if it actually DID exist. It's a made up fantasy force, invented to support the ball Earth fairy tale story. That's why it fails miserably, in every way possible.
When you ride a bike over Earth's surface, why is it harder to go up a hill, than over flat land? Is it not the same surface throughout, with the same 'gravity' throughout? If so, it would not be any harder to go up a hill than over flat land? Why can we glide a bike DOWN a hill without using ANY effort? The 'force' is still the same, over the entire surface, right?
'Gravity' doesn't exist, and this ALONE proves it doesn't.
I imagine that it will go down like this:
- They are really just in a regular plane cruising at a normal altitude
- Passenger shots out the windows are faked somehow, maybe simulated video imagery projected on/in the glass
- Selfie’s of 5 minutes of unedited weightlessness hijinks = Cables
But that all means passengers have to be in on it. Which can work for a while. But in years to come with growing ridership/exposure, they are going to have to figure out how to dupe the passengers too. Projected window sims would be a start. But the weightlessness…? That’s gonna be tough. Maybe micro dose them with ether and ketamine…
I used to think that something like space tourism would have to end the FE movement. But, I've read what people have written in this forum about the impossible flights in the Southern Hemisphere, even in at least one thread someone writing that the people taking those flights are murdered. Proof does not seem to matter. So let me ask FEers. When it gets to the point where hundreds or thousands of civilians have gone on these flights, and they say they have seen the curvature of the Earth, will that be enough to change your mind? If not, can you give me an example of something that would change your mind?
They will just fall back on "Well it only looks round, but is actually flat!" arguments. Not going to be much of a mystery how they will spin it.
Anyway, congrats to Bezos on the successful return of the capsule from their trip to space and the rocket landing too.
That's two trips to space now, or one depending on your definitions, or zero of you just think it's all a Hollywood sound stage.
Ah, someone who has never taken navigation classes, or did any actual navigation on land, sea or air. Fly a compass course from Miami FL, to Portland, OR. Assume fuel is not a problem or you'r flying a large passenger jet. After you pass Portland continue to hold that compass course and see where you next find land. Hint on a Flat Earth it is impossible to there that way. You'll be northwest the Philipines.If you did that you would either pass over Alaska or hit Russia.
Did you mean for them to fly in a straight line? and ignore the compass once they started moving?
Thank you, sceptimatic, but you didn't answer my question. What would change YOUR mind, if anything?I did answer it, sort of.
If I had a level scope and looked out to sea and only saw sky with no horizon, I'd go with a global model.
I do not see that, so by reality the global model we are indoctrinated into, is basically, deadBut, to reply to your post: it seems to me that if I were standing anywhere with water between myself and the edge of the world, I should be able, with a sufficiently strong telescope, to see the edge, since we're on the same plane, would you not agree?Forget about standing near any edge of the world. Let's deal with what you observe in actual reality.
I'll repeat what I said.
If you ere standing with a perfectly horizontally level scope, looking out to sea and you know the Earth should be curving downwards from your point, then over a short distance your water disappears from your scope to be replaced by sky....only (taking into account unobstructed view).
You know in your own mind that you see water and sky. Basically your horizon that appears to suit your scope and eyesight for distance.
You clearly know you do not ever just see sky....so you should clearly understand that your Earth does not curve downwards away from you.
It really is as simple as that. Maybe too simple for the scientific one's who wish to rely on magical mysteries.
According to her bio she moved to live with her husband while he was studying law. Not much of a stretch that she would go into law afterwards if NASA wanted her to move and change careers. In the 80's they didn't have the internet like we do now and may not have forseen that this was not good enough.
Again, listing what the older Resnik claimed to do in the 80's is hardly good enough. You are claiming that she didn't write that she was a dead astronaut and listed some things about what she was doing so therefore she isn't her.
And again, ignoring the phenomenal coincidences of a doppelganger with the same facial tick and super rare name.
There was a man where I worked that looked like one of my great uncles, right down to his gate as he walked. Thing is my great uncle died twenty years before. Another man in our section was the spitting image of my cousin. So much so that we went into great detail of our respective family trees. No relation we could find. I walked into the nursing home where my dad was being cared for, in a surprise visit. He was in Idaho and I in Indiana. This was my first time there. The nurse looked up from the desk, cocked her head, and said, "You're Leo's son. You look so much like him." She wasn't asking, she was making a statement of fact based on what she saw. Everyone I know has similar
stories
Yeah, and how likely is it that your rare doppleganger would also share a name so rare that you are the only other person (or one of the very few) people in the US with that name? And a similar facial tic on their lip? Not too likely.
According to her bio she moved to live with her husband while he was studying law. Not much of a stretch that she would go into law afterwards if NASA wanted her to move and change careers. In the 80's they didn't have the internet like we do now and may not have forseen that this was not good enough.
Again, listing what the older Resnik claimed to do in the 80's is hardly good enough. You are claiming that she didn't write that she was a dead astronaut and listed some things about what she was doing so therefore she isn't her.
And again, ignoring the phenomenal coincidences of a doppelganger with the same facial tick and super rare name.
Ankara to Istanbul trip by land & by air.
What makes you think the data makes sense?
Please explain? Are you saying the maps are not accurate? How can I check your claim? Present evidence please.
Let’s have another serious discussion about what is most important, CURVATURE.
To the opposition here, please tell the readers here, why you nor anyone else can prove the curvature bulge over the center of USA? A near 200 mile high curvature bulge over the USA would indeed be measurable by today’s technology. In fact, there would be established curvature charts of all landmass and showing how they relate to Eratosthenes measurements and these charts would be used to shut down a Flat Earth argument. But, NO, NO, NO.
Please tell the readers why.
Arguments that pertain to Sunrises and Sunset and all other lame arguments do not apply here because it does not prove what you see proves the USA has the miles of curvature bulge over center as dictated by a 3959 mile radius earth. Prove Earth’s radius today and show how it relates to curvature charts.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/17/greatest-photos-ever-moon-landing-shots-artistic-masterpieces
Its a pity how one of mans greatest achievements can be to some a red rag to a bull. With a new revived race to establish a permanent moon base within the next five years, I just wonder how people will feel the day the next man/woman steps onto the lunar surface?
this may help to explain the red rage.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2019/jul/17/why-do-so-many-people-still-believe-moon-landings-hoax-podcast