Great news for FE'ers!

Quote from: spanner34.5 on May 14, 2009, 09:22:57 AM

Please explain why I should want to put peanut butter in my ear

Because it also exists in round earth theory.

I have read a little of round Earth theory, must say I don't recall any mention of peanut butter.

Could you please direct me to the relevant passage, I wish to learn more.

it doesn't matter if you think FE is fact or pseudoscience for the sake of this prize.  Just what James Randi thinks.  I promise you he and 99% of the rest of science calls FE a pseudoscience.  That's all that matters for the million bucks.  Now....GO GET THAT MONEY!!!!!!   Or continue to waste your time here whining about all the reasons nobody of note believes you.  TIME TO BUCK UP!!!   GO GET THE MONEY!!!

Again, you are not Randi, so stop trying to speak for him.  Even if FET was pseudoscience (which is still up for debate), pseudoscience is not mentioned in Randi's challenge.

Quote from: MisterHamper on May 14, 2009, 04:07:17 AM

Quote from: Tom Bishop on May 13, 2009, 08:31:06 PM

It's obviously flat. The only ones claiming pseudoscience here are the Round Earthers who claim the unobserved and unexperienced without any experimental evidence whatsoever.

 That is why you have to make bullshit theories like "bendy light",

Bendy light exists even in round Earth theory. Read up on mirages.

What do refraction and total internal reflection have to do with FET's bendy light?

Quote from: rrenaissancemann on May 14, 2009, 06:27:06 AM

it doesn't matter if you think FE is fact or pseudoscience for the sake of this prize.  Just what James Randi thinks.  I promise you he and 99% of the rest of science calls FE a pseudoscience.  That's all that matters for the million bucks.  Now....GO GET THAT MONEY!!!!!!   Or continue to waste your time here whining about all the reasons nobody of note believes you.  TIME TO BUCK UP!!!   GO GET THE MONEY!!!

Again, you are not Randi, so stop trying to speak for him.  Even if FET was pseudoscience (which is still up for debate), pseudoscience is not mentioned in Randi's challenge.

That the Earth was flat and there was a huge conspiracy would be 10000x as big a discovery as any "ghost-speaking" weirdos would be - I am 100% certain he will pay the prize for proof of a flat Earth, if you ask him, even if it isn't directly in the rules.

But I will probably have to repeat myself again, since most FE's tend to ignore this part:
1.000.000$ would be NOTHING compared to all the money you would make by discovering, with definitive proof, that the Earth was flat, and then writing a book (or several) about it and the huge conspiracy, getting nobel prizes, getting movies made about this/you and getting royalties, getting interviews, become world-famous, making expeditions, selling merchandise etc etc etc etc

Quote from: spanner34.5 on May 14, 2009, 04:38:45 AM

Quote from: MisterHamper on May 14, 2009, 04:07:17 AM

Quote from: Tom Bishop on May 13, 2009, 08:31:06 PM

It's obviously flat. The only ones claiming pseudoscience here are the Round Earthers who claim the unobserved and unexperienced without any experimental evidence whatsoever.

 That is why you have to make bullshit theories like "bendy light",

Bendy light exists even in round Earth theory. Read up on mirages.

What do refraction and total internal reflection have to do with FET's bendy light?

I regard light that bends being similar to bendy light.

Quote from: dr.spock on May 14, 2009, 10:00:04 AM

Quote from: spanner34.5 on May 14, 2009, 09:22:57 AM

Please explain why I should want to put peanut butter in my ear

Because it also exists in round earth theory.

I have read a little of round Earth theory, must say I don't recall any mention of peanut butter.

Could you please direct me to the relevant passage, I wish to learn more.

Have you read Newtons Philosophi? Naturalis Principia Mathematica? In the first edition it mentions peanut butter explicitly. I suggest you get hold of a copy.

The OP could do with some lurking moar.

Any type of blind faith is pseudoscience. It doesn't matter if it's "the bible told me so" or if it's "the spaceman told me so."

its not called blind faith. Its a type of information. There are ZERO first hand accounts of what happened 300 years ago, but because at the time there were first hand accounts, and they recorded it, they formed a legitimate form of information.

Any type of blind faith is pseudoscience. It doesn't matter if it's "the bible told me so" or if it's "the spaceman told me so."

Sounds like Tom wants to get his hands on that money!