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Some people just get stuck
« on: February 11, 2013, 03:32:45 pm »
I found this society of people who still think that the world is flat. Just a little bit behind.

http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

Just a little bit...

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2013, 03:35:39 pm »
I remember when some people inm my family still thought that the Earth was flat back when I was kid (in the early '90s) >.<

There's no way that site isn't trying to troll us, though... O.O
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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2013, 04:14:22 pm »
I took a look at some of the threads. Most end up coming down to, "you have to provide proof to your evidence first before we disprove it." Likely because they cannot disprove it. ;)

Though they seem serious. Or are some really good trolls.

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2013, 05:00:45 pm »
Their FAQ is pretty interesting. :P

So according to them, gravity is nonexistent and objects fall to the earth because the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2013, 07:00:47 pm »
Erm...how do they explain flying around earth then?

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2013, 08:29:53 pm »
Erm...how do they explain flying around earth then?

Supposedly, you'd be flying in a large circle :P

Regardless of the fact that the measured distance in spent fuel would increase the further south you go under one map they provide.

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2013, 09:57:02 pm »
Their FAQ is pretty interesting. :P

So according to them, gravity is nonexistent and objects fall to the earth because the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.
What about the other side of the earth?
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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2013, 09:57:31 pm »
Maybe only Dirt?

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2013, 09:58:25 pm »
Maybe only Dirt?
Wouldn't the dirt get loose?
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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #9 on: February 11, 2013, 10:31:02 pm »
Maybe only Dirt?
Wouldn't the dirt get loose?
Maybe roots of plants hold it together? or it is rock?

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2013, 10:32:03 pm »
There is no other side, we only live on the top :P

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #11 on: February 11, 2013, 10:52:34 pm »
Darn, even most elder people know that the Earth is round. They remember Neil Armstrong and stuff and have seen pics of the Earth ever since. If anyone who can use a computer still believes the Earth is flat for real, then they must either have lived underground since they are born but have access to food supplies and computers or they are from some dictatorship countries from which any scientific info is censored from TV and stuff and the authorities brainwashes people.

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2013, 12:35:22 pm »
Wait what?
People still thought that the world was round in the 90s?
That was a thing?
I thought this thought ended in the middle ages.

Erm...how do they explain flying around earth then?

Supposedly, you'd be flying in a large circle :P

Regardless of the fact that the measured distance in spent fuel would increase the further south you go under one map they provide.


Also for us to stay on the ground it would have to be going faster and faster
Centrifugal force would make us go to the side.

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2013, 12:58:31 pm »
So according to them, gravity is nonexistent and objects fall to the earth because the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.
Hmm, disproof:

1] Assume gravity does not exist and that in fact, the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.
2] Ignore the fact that 'up' is defined in relation to the direction of gravity. Assume that 'up' simply means that the earth is accelerating in one direction.
3] Select two objects.
4] Drop object one from a reasonable height, followed by object two.
5] Record the velocity of both objects at any given moment.
6] Note that the velocities are different.

If the Earth was in fact accelerating toward the objects and the objects were in fact not moving relative to the universe, there velocity relative to the Earth would be identical.

It is too bad that it is easily disproven :[ The consequences are mindblowing:
1] Observe the atmosphere.
2] Observe that generally, the atmosphere remains above the Earth.
3] Ask: How does the atmosphere remain above the Earth?
4] By the assumption, there is no gravity and the Earth is moving toward the atmosphere.
5] This means that the Earth is pushing the atmosphere.
6] If the atmosphere is finite, the Earth will push through the atmosphere.
7] Therefore, the atmosphere is infinite.
8] Celestial objects are thus part of the atmosphere and must not be more dense than the atmosphere.
9] What happens to the sun when we no longer see it? o__o

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Re: Some people just get stuck
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2013, 01:17:54 pm »
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We just learnt the Newton laws at school and that's stupefying ! (assuming this word exists)