Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)

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DakaSha

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Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« on: March 28, 2007, 04:29:37 PM »
Im sure this has been proposed but i just have to say it myself and read the moron "answers":


im not going to use any scientific evidence as you always have the brilliant answer for it: "Part of the conspiricy" so...

Start in new york and use whatever means you FEers have to figure out direction (im sure you dont believe in compasses either) and keep heading west untill you get back to (taaadaa!) New York.

And please dont say your scared of falling off the edge of the... erm.. what DO you call a flat whatever in space?


I know the waterfalls shadow is wrong. Eat a dick you fuckin know-it-all :P
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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2007, 07:47:56 PM »
Actually, if you look at a FE map, it is possible to circumnavigate the disc while going in a single direction (keeping a right-angle to magnetic north for example) and end up back in the same place. You would essentially travel in a large circle, but of course since you would have to use a compass that would always point to the center of the disc, you have no way to actually tell that's what's happening.

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DakaSha

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2007, 05:21:47 AM »
makes sense actually.
but dude then look at the stars while your at it

I know the waterfalls shadow is wrong. Eat a dick you fuckin know-it-all :P
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Midnight

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2007, 05:51:58 AM »
Why?
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

Genius. PURE, undiluted genius.

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DakaSha

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2007, 05:55:04 AM »
actually its a bad argument. i forgot about the giant fish lense in the sky

I know the waterfalls shadow is wrong. Eat a dick you fuckin know-it-all :P
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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2007, 07:52:12 AM »
actually its a bad argument. i forgot about the giant fish lense in the sky

And there's even more terrible reasoning to come!

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Tom Bishop

Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2007, 10:08:23 AM »
makes sense actually.
but dude then look at the stars while your at it

The North Star would still be centered over the north pole on a Flat Earth. By that bearing, East and West would still be curved.

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2007, 10:18:58 AM »
I thought, though it may not have been you who said, that the parallax of stars was explained as the stars moving in relation to earth, I'm not well versed in the North Star but doesn't it, too, show parallax? and if so doesn't that mean it WOULDN'T always be over the North Pole?
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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2007, 01:19:17 PM »
makes sense actually.
but dude then look at the stars while your at it

The North Star would still be centered over the north pole on a Flat Earth. By that bearing, East and West would still be curved.
So is polar direction basically an illusion?

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Tom Bishop

Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2007, 03:33:27 PM »
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So is polar direction basically an illusion?

Nope. What you're not realizing is that you're also curving around the north pole/north star on a Round Earth when traveling in a latitudinal direction.
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DakaSha

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2007, 07:59:00 PM »
what i DID notice is that the earth is a sphere

I know the waterfalls shadow is wrong. Eat a dick you fuckin know-it-all :P
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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2007, 10:08:44 PM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?
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Tom usually says at this point that people have seen the ice-wall. It is the Ross Ice Shelf. That usually kills the conversation by the power of sheer bull-shit alone.

Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2007, 05:48:21 AM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?

Point your car in one direction, and go strait without turning.  Pretty simple.

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2007, 06:27:48 AM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?

Point your car in one direction, and go strait without turning.  Pretty simple.

Imagine how many of these fools actually will do so.
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

Genius. PURE, undiluted genius.

Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2007, 07:37:23 AM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?

Point your car in one direction, and go strait without turning.  Pretty simple.

Imagine how many of these fools actually will do so.

Well unless they're going to be very precise/accurate and are going to traval a rather large distance, then they aren't going to prove anything.

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2007, 07:49:14 AM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?

Point your car in one direction, and go strait without turning.  Pretty simple.
So, how would you know you were going straight?


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Midnight

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2007, 08:00:09 AM »
*sigh*. Alright then, almighty Tom Bishop. Rather than repeating over and over again how standard means of finding direction lead one to travel in a circle, tell us exactly how you would travel in a straight line on the flat Earth. Is it impossible!? Or are you afraid of discovering that you're wrong?

Point your car in one direction, and go strait without turning.  Pretty simple.

Imagine how many of these fools actually will do so.

Well unless they're going to be very precise/accurate and are going to traval a rather large distance, then they aren't going to prove anything.

That as my point.  :P
My problem with his ideas is that it is a ridiculous thing.

Genius. PURE, undiluted genius.

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Re: Take a Trip from New York to New York (Morons)
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2007, 06:05:10 PM »
Look, it's very simple.  Your pilot will no doubt have been bribed to pretend to fly around the Earth.