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The Foucault Pendulum

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chingy1788

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The Foucault Pendulum
« on: February 16, 2007, 05:24:35 PM »
Explain why this happens

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/PHYSICS_!/FOUCAULT_PENDULUM/foucault_pendulum.html

the the Earth is flat

I've seen it

I go to UNSW myself

and now to you I am a conspiring student
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he Earth is round
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chingy1788

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The Foucault Pendulum
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2007, 05:52:12 PM »
bump...

for all the people who cant be bothered cutting and pasting
http://tinyurl.com/4vv2l
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ceadda

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This is a good one!
« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2007, 06:28:34 PM »
I've seen these too. You can even make one and demonstrate it for yourself.
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Pyrochimp

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The Foucault Pendulum
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2007, 10:08:44 AM »
They'll just say it doesn't work.  I've had this arguement before, they think that a Foucault pendulum swings in the same direction in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres (because they've apparently made one personally in both hemispheres).
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Some people are ****ing stupid! ~ George Carlin

Mathematical proof of the flat Earth:
[{(Diameter of Earth)*(tan[distance from Earth to sun/distance from North pole to equator])}2]/0
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