Nothing dumber than a flat earther

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gwheels

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I will be going to NFLD this summer. My parents place looks out over england. I will stand on a ladder on the roof and if I can see England I was wrong. :D

If we get into a bottle of screech and start dancing with the ugly stick all bets are off :) Jiggs dinner and fish and brews.
 
zem

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
nooooo, it's special windows, they make stuff far away look round, but when you land, they make everything look normal again.....but keep that quiet, it's a secret.......
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ok but explain this: I actually took an ex-flat earther to the shore looked over the horizon to a lighthouse with a telescope to see it had sunk below the horizon for at least a 100 feet with only its head protruding from the horizon line. Of course the guy could not explain this observation except by saying it out that the earth is round. I really would like to hear a flat earther's explanation to this...
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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zem said:
ok but explain this: I actually took an ex-flat earther to the shore looked over the horizon to a lighthouse with a telescope to see it had sunk below the horizon for at least a 100 feet with only its head protruding from the horizon line. Of course the guy could not explain this observation except by saying it out that the earth is round. I really would like to hear a flat earther's explanation to this...
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you won't hear anything but bullshit here. they won't believe you until you take them and show them in person. then half of them will later convince themselves that you have a trick telescope....
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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Elon Musk would do the world a great service if he dedicated a test launch to carrying half a dozen die-hard leaders (?) of the F/E cult up for free.
But of course he will need to equip Falcon Heavy with convex windows first.

And I still want to know why things weigh less at the equator than anywhere else on earth.
r/g never got around to answering that one, just an oversight I'm sure.
 
RetiredGuerilla

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Standing water does not curve it defies the laws of physics. We can all agree that physics is science correct? Water does not flow uphill this would also defy the laws of physics. If the earth were a sphere it would require rivers to flow UP to account for the earth's rotundity. Rivers can only flow down. They all flow DOWN a gradient however slight it may be. Once you understand the simple behavior of water then you will realize how laughingly stupid the existence of a spherical earth is. Now ask yourself why. Why do those in power want us to think we live on a spinning ball?
 
MichiganMedGrower

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RetiredGuerilla said:
Standing water does not curve it defies the laws of physics. We can all agree that physics is science correct? Water does not flow uphill this would also defy the laws of physics. If the earth were a sphere it would require rivers to flow UP to account for the earth's rotundity. Rivers can only flow down. They all flow DOWN a gradient however slight it may be. Once you understand the simple behavior of water then you will realize how laughingly stupid the existence of a spherical earth is. Now ask yourself why. Why do those in power want us to think we live on a spinning ball?
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The funniest and most hypocritical part of your argument is that you denounce gravity but pretend it exists below the planet anyway to justify this water argument.

The truth is not rocket science. It’s just earth science. Round earth science.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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RetiredGuerilla said:
Standing water does not curve it defies the laws of physics. We can all agree that physics is science correct? Water does not flow uphill this would also defy the laws of physics. If the earth were a sphere it would require rivers to flow UP to account for the earth's rotundity. Rivers can only flow down. They all flow DOWN a gradient however slight it may be. Once you understand the simple behavior of water then you will realize how laughingly stupid the existence of a spherical earth is. Now ask yourself why. Why do those in power want us to think we live on a spinning ball?
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once you realize there is a difference between a small body of water, and a large one.....you'll have come the first step to reality. one drop of water behaves in a certain way. one gallon in a similar but different way, 5 million gallons has a completely different dynamic, and trillions of gallons are a whole other thing entirely. the oceans do indeed curve. a damn drainage ditch will curve if you look at a long enough section of it. in truth, there is nothing simple about fluid dynamics. but you argue against yourself, recently you were saying that water was seemingly flowing uphill, and wouldn't flow north....as if north was "up"....or was that another nut?
why don't you just tell me why they want us to believe we're living on a spinning ball? i'm very interested in the truth....or what you believe is the truth. what possible secret could be valuable enough to justify keeping it? is it because of orders of the aliens? or the mole people? or the aliens who are now mole people living inside the hollow (but still flat) earth?
 
ttystikk

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
once you realize there is a difference between a small body of water, and a large one.....you'll have come the first step to reality. one drop of water behaves in a certain way. one gallon in a similar but different way, 5 million gallons has a completely different dynamic, and trillions of gallons are a whole other thing entirely. the oceans do indeed curve. a damn drainage ditch will curve if you look at a long enough section of it. in truth, there is nothing simple about fluid dynamics. but you argue against yourself, recently you were saying that water was seemingly flowing uphill, and wouldn't flow north....as if north was "up"....or was that another nut?
why don't you just tell me why they want us to believe we're living on a spinning ball? i'm very interested in the truth....or what you believe is the truth. what possible secret could be valuable enough to justify keeping it? is it because of orders of the aliens? or the mole people? or the aliens who are now mole people living inside the hollow (but still flat) earth?
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Suspension bridges with vertical support towers are a good example.

They're all further apart at the top than the bottom due to the curvature of the Earth.

The top of the Golden Gate Bridge is almost two inches wider at the top than the base because of the curvature of the Earth!

The mathematical Proof:
http://datagenetics.com/blog/june32012/index.html
 
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