Thinking time

     The solstice was about 12 hours ago. The FE mob will have to do some hard thinking to explain the sun being up all day at both poles on the 23thrd of September, it is only about 12 weeks away boys and girls. Cant wait to hear the bullshit dribbling.

I can't see that it's any harder to rationalise than the sun being up over the south pole constantly for several months of the year. It's all bendy light and liars where necessary.

Maybe it's up all day at both poles because it's up all day at one pole.
Confused?

Maybe there is only one pole. See what I mean? Make sense? Of course it doesn't, because you people walk about on a fantasy ball.

Maybe it's up all day at both poles because it's up all day at one pole.
Confused?

Maybe there is only one pole. See what I mean? Make sense? Of course it doesn't, because you people walk about on a fantasy ball.

1 = 2, make sense? You are indoctrinated!!! Stupid globulites.

Quote from: sceptimatic on June 22, 2014, 04:56:57 AM

Maybe it's up all day at both poles because it's up all day at one pole.
Confused?

Maybe there is only one pole. See what I mean? Make sense? Of course it doesn't, because you people walk about on a fantasy ball.

1 = 2, make sense? You are indoctrinated!!! Stupid globulites.

Yea, the little poor cretin is completely brainwashed by the conspiracy.

Maybe there is only one pole. See what I mean? Make sense? Of course it doesn't, because you people walk about on a fantasy ball.

"You" people = approximately 7,000,000,000 people.
Flat earthers = approximately 400 people.

Notice any trending in those figures sceptimatic?  Other than it being obvious that the flat earthers seem to know [sic] what they're talking about?  Oh... um... errr...........

I can't be the only one who thinks that requiring an idea to be checked by a bunch of people and used productively in some demanding application before taking it seriously makes me less gullible than some (quite hypothetical) person who takes at face value, the word of nobodies, cranks and the imaginatively paranoid whenever their ramblings feel like they gel just right with our (hypothetical) person's intuitions.

Can I?

I've had a fundamentalist Christian call me, pretty heatedly, to my face, that I was just putting my faith in Richard Dawkins (or Darwin or something, I forget) whereas he put his in God, so what's the difference. He was sure that they were absolutely equivalent things. But surely anyone here can see that the scientific method is by definition the act of not taking things on faith. It's being sceptical, forever.

I've had a fundamentalist Christian call me, pretty heatedly, to my face, that I was just putting my faith in Richard Dawkins (or Darwin or something, I forget) whereas he put his in God, so what's the difference. He was sure that they were absolutely equivalent things. But surely anyone here can see that the scientific method is by definition the act of not taking things on faith. It's being sceptical, forever.

The entire flat earth hypothesis, and the flat earth Wiki rely solely on faith.  No accredited scientist has ever conceded that the earth is flat during the past 400 years.  And "faith" is defined as belief without evidence.

Of course, but I just thought the parallel was interesting. That the approach of specifically working without faith is often attacked by the faithful as being "just as" or "more" faith-based than their beliefs.

What are you talking about guv?  The sun is not up all day during the Equinox here in the U.S., let alone the NP.
EDIT
Oh wait, you don't mean a 24 hour day, do you?

What are you talking about guv?  The sun is not up all day during the Equinox here in the U.S., let alone the NP.
EDIT
Oh wait, you don't mean a 24 hour day, do you?

Solstice.

September is the Equinox.

September is the Equinox.

Guv was talking about the equinox.

The FE mob will have to do some hard thinking to explain the sun being up all day at both poles on the 23thrd of September, it is only about 12 weeks away

Quote from: EarthIsASpaceship on June 22, 2014, 05:43:29 PM

What are you talking about guv?  The sun is not up all day during the Equinox here in the U.S., let alone the NP.
EDIT
Oh wait, you don't mean a 24 hour day, do you?

Eh?
In September the sun will be up all day, 24hrs simultaneously, at both poles. In northern summer the sun is up for several months around the north pole and in northern winter it's up for months at the south pole. At no time will it be up all day in the US except the northern parts of Alaska because the rest of the US is outside the arctic circle. Correspondingly, the sun won't ever be directly overhead anywhere in the US as no part of the US is in the tropics. At noon, it will always be a little south of overhead.