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Flat Earth Q&A / A way to make FE work!

« on: August 12, 2006, 03:17:32 PM »

String theory is neither science nor philosophy; in its present state it is nothing more than math. String theory is currently untestable, but it is not inherently untestable, unlike this four-dimensional hypothesis. So it is not at the moment science, but once we are able to test it, it will be falsified or confirmed, and become science. However this 'theory' of Risratha's fails. Not because it cannot explain the facts- it can. The reason it fails is because, though both it and RE explain the same facts, the RE model predicted many of these currently know facts, whereas Risratha's model only explains them post-hoc. If two theories have equal explanatory power, but one has no predictive power and requires the invocation of a massive assumption in the first place, then that theory fails.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Shouldn't it be obvious?

« on: August 12, 2006, 03:10:37 PM »

More questions-
If satellites don't exist, how does Google Earth cover the entire planet in such high detail? Do FEers realize how many airplane flights this would require?

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Flat Earth Q&A / Shouldn't it be obvious?

« on: August 12, 2006, 02:58:00 PM »

Ok, so in the Flat Earth model the Earth's surface is basically flat and the sky is a curved dome over it. Well this looks pretty obvious at first glance, I mean the sky certainly looks like a dome- you can see it curve over you, heck you can even see where it ends- right at the horizon! And the Earth seems quite flat too, besides the occasional mountain or valley. So, if the sky is a flat dome curving over the Earth- um, WHY is the horizon only a few miles away? I assume you guys agree that the Earth is several thousand miles across, so why does the sky dome appear to end less than ten miles away (depending on the viewer's height of course)? And why exactly do boats appear to sink as they sail away?

How many people here are actually Flat-Earthers, and how many just come here to poke fun at their stupidity? Can anyone actually be that stupid?