Convenient Flat Earth Experiments

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Flat Eric

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #60 on: November 14, 2012, 08:19:55 AM »
It is quite simple.

1. Everything on a round Earth would be round. Everything. No exceptions.
2. Everything is not round.
3. The Earth is not round.

it's not so simple.

but you've given a good example of sillylogism. sorry syllogism

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #61 on: November 14, 2012, 08:30:17 AM »
Guys no offense, I've seen many REs here know a lot about physics and other science, but I thought you would be smarter than this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #62 on: November 14, 2012, 08:31:59 AM »
Guys no offense, I've seen many REs here know a lot about physics and other science, but I thought you would be smarter than this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

Yes. I'm aware of Rushy's position in this corner of the internet.
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Rushy

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #63 on: November 14, 2012, 10:14:56 AM »
This may be the stupidest thing I hve heard you say in this thread.

Why would everything be round on a round earth? There is absolutely nothing you can say to support that claim. If I go to a round planet and stick a shovel in the ground, what physics is preventing the planet from being less flawlessly round?

Seriously, please do try to explain yourself a little more.

Gravity supposedly pulls everything into a spherical shape, regardless of its original shape. As you can probably see, we are not sentient spheres.

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ThinkingMan

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #64 on: November 14, 2012, 10:23:22 AM »
This may be the stupidest thing I hve heard you say in this thread.

Why would everything be round on a round earth? There is absolutely nothing you can say to support that claim. If I go to a round planet and stick a shovel in the ground, what physics is preventing the planet from being less flawlessly round?

Seriously, please do try to explain yourself a little more.

Gravity supposedly pulls everything into a spherical shape, regardless of its original shape. As you can probably see, we are not sentient spheres.

Everything? No, everything tends towards a spherical shape above a certain mass. However, humans were not built by gravity. We would not be here without it though.
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Rushy

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #65 on: November 14, 2012, 11:22:14 AM »
Everything? No, everything tends towards a spherical shape above a certain mass. However, humans were not built by gravity. We would not be here without it though.

??? Humans are immune to gravity?

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ThinkingMan

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #66 on: November 14, 2012, 11:48:13 AM »
Everything? No, everything tends towards a spherical shape above a certain mass. However, humans were not built by gravity. We would not be here without it though.

??? Humans are immune to gravity?

No, humans evolved here after gravity had already pulled Earth to shape. Earth wouldn't be a perfect sphere, there's other forces working on it, such as it's surface's angular momentum and the gravity of other bodies, the movement of plates due to convection currents of the mantle and core. The majority of the gravity that is working on humans is from the earth, and gravity is a rather weak force. Why should we be pulled into a spherical shape?
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Rushy

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #67 on: November 14, 2012, 01:15:43 PM »
No, humans evolved here after gravity had already pulled Earth to shape. Earth wouldn't be a perfect sphere, there's other forces working on it, such as it's surface's angular momentum and the gravity of other bodies, the movement of plates due to convection currents of the mantle and core. The majority of the gravity that is working on humans is from the earth, and gravity is a rather weak force. Why should we be pulled into a spherical shape?

We shouldn't be pulled into a spherical shape, because gravity does not exist. Remember, I'm trying to be an RE'er, their theories are silly, I know. Get this, they actually think everything turns into spheres, though they are not spheres themselves. Isn't that awkward?

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ThinkingMan

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #68 on: November 14, 2012, 01:23:27 PM »
No, humans evolved here after gravity had already pulled Earth to shape. Earth wouldn't be a perfect sphere, there's other forces working on it, such as it's surface's angular momentum and the gravity of other bodies, the movement of plates due to convection currents of the mantle and core. The majority of the gravity that is working on humans is from the earth, and gravity is a rather weak force. Why should we be pulled into a spherical shape?

We shouldn't be pulled into a spherical shape, because gravity does not exist. Remember, I'm trying to be an RE'er, their theories are silly, I know. Get this, they actually think everything turns into spheres, though they are not spheres themselves. Isn't that awkward?

No one thinks everything turns into spheres. I thought trolling was supposed to be funny. At least, it always was to me. You're actually not even entertaining.
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robertotrevor

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #69 on: November 14, 2012, 01:27:47 PM »
No, humans evolved here after gravity had already pulled Earth to shape. Earth wouldn't be a perfect sphere, there's other forces working on it, such as it's surface's angular momentum and the gravity of other bodies, the movement of plates due to convection currents of the mantle and core. The majority of the gravity that is working on humans is from the earth, and gravity is a rather weak force. Why should we be pulled into a spherical shape?

We shouldn't be pulled into a spherical shape, because gravity does not exist. Remember, I'm trying to be an RE'er, their theories are silly, I know. Get this, they actually think everything turns into spheres, though they are not spheres themselves. Isn't that awkward?

No one thinks everything turns into spheres. I thought trolling was supposed to be funny. At least, it always was to me. You're actually not even entertaining.

I bet he is having a lot of fun with you though.

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Rushy

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #70 on: November 14, 2012, 01:29:30 PM »
No one thinks everything turns into spheres.

everything tends towards a spherical shape

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ThinkingMan

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #71 on: November 14, 2012, 01:45:00 PM »
No one thinks everything turns into spheres.

Yep but...

everything tends towards a spherical shape

You intentionally took that piece of the quote out of context. Good try though.
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Rushy

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #72 on: November 14, 2012, 02:19:40 PM »
You intentionally took that piece of the quote out of context. Good try though.

??? You intentionally contradicted yourself?

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cartwheelnurd

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #73 on: November 14, 2012, 06:12:36 PM »
No one thinks everything turns into spheres.

everything tends towards a spherical shape

You should make political advertisements. You are great at making people seem like they are contradicting themselves.

You intentionally took that piece of the quote out of context. Good try though.

??? You intentionally contradicted yourself?

The meaning was that large objects where the primary force acting upon them is gravity will tend towards a round spherical shape. A human is a different story, because we have many other forces acting on us, such as our own actions and growth, that are so much stronger than the gravitational pull we experience. If you put a human in an infinite, emplty vacuum, then we will become dead spheres. However, we don't in any way live ina vacuum.
Ravioli is how the universe fills a small part of itself with cheese.

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ThinkingMan

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #74 on: November 15, 2012, 05:22:55 AM »
You intentionally took that piece of the quote out of context. Good try though.

??? You intentionally contradicted yourself?

You intentionally made it seem as though I was contradicting myself, while erasing the other piece of the quote that mattered?

You intentionally took that piece of the quote out of context. Good try though.

??? You intentionally contradicted yourself?

The meaning was that large objects where the primary force acting upon them is gravity will tend towards a round spherical shape. A human is a different story, because we have many other forces acting on us, such as our own actions and growth, that are so much stronger than the gravitational pull we experience. If you put a human in an infinite, emplty vacuum, then we will become dead spheres. However, we don't in any way live ina vacuum.

First of all, you have taken the bait. Second of all, that is wrong. We would not become dead spheres. The lighter gasses that are in our body, such as oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, would escape and tend toward equilibrium at first. The human body does not have enough gravitational influence compared to the rigidity of bones and tension of muscles to pull itself into a sphere, even in an empty vacuum. Remember, we were built to withstand the gravitational pull of the earth, which is enormous. Our own gravitational influence doesn't even exist in comparison. The average human has a mass of about 50-80 kg. The earth's mass is said to be 5.9722 × 1024 kg, or 5,972,200,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. Also, it would not decay, it would remain preserved and freeze. It could float around for a very long time before cosmic radiation disintegrates it into molecules and atoms, given that nothing else happens to it.
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RW

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #75 on: November 19, 2012, 01:04:36 AM »
This is a list of convenient experiments undeniably proving a flat earth. Each one can be performed with very little equipment or technical knowledge. Perfect for anyone, from ditch digger John to quantum physicist Joe Biden, anyone can do them!

Table of Contents:

1 Parking Lots.

2 Bowling alleys.

3 The Stationary Marble.
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have you ever heard of tangents ? All common constructions are tangents of a sphere, bowling alleys, table tops etc

The earths circumference was measured in 240bc, by Eratosthenes will always be remembered for the calculation of the Earth's circumference circa 240 BC, using trigonometry and knowledge of the angle of elevation of the Sun at noon in Alexandria and Syene (now Aswan, Egypt)


http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/eratosthenes.html
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RW

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #76 on: November 19, 2012, 11:04:06 PM »
... just an additional thought, if the Sun is only 3000 feet above the earth, the angle would have been huuuuge.

Funny, I have flown planes at 4000 feet, and the sun still seemed a lot higher.  ;D
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squevil

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #77 on: November 20, 2012, 05:49:07 AM »
3100 miles

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RW

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Re: Convenient Flat Earth Experiments
« Reply #78 on: November 20, 2012, 02:03:35 PM »
3100 miles

ah,  thanks for that.

So  that would still make the Eratosthenes  experiment really dramatic.

The angles would be enormous.  But lets not get bogged down by reality.
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By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. - Galileo Galilei