I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
She's a round!
Flat like a goblin head - Chelixian propaganda.
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And it lies atop the back of a giant wildebeast, precariously, and might tip over at any time which is why we have to keep the barghests happy, or else we're all done for.
can you sight a source for that statistic. I can believe it just want to read more about it.
She's a round, like a the apple a!
I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
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And the wildebeast stands atop a giant tortoise.
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found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be shitting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
This reminds me of John Oliver's take on Climate Change. About opinions and beliefs versus facts. Essentially this:
“You don’t need people’s opinion on a fact. You might as well have a poll asking: ‘Which number is bigger, 15 or 5?’ or ‘Do owls exist?’ or ‘Are there hats?’”
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found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
You probably believe in the moon landing.
Mr. Anklebiter Doodlebug,
And it compounds! But I submit to you - the sun stands on the shoulder of giants - big giants - bigger than the wildebeast or the tortoise. Giants of so much mass that the wildebeast and tortoise look puny in comparison.
[Smacks Pink Dragon]
Stupid pinkskin! Feeble brain not meant to understand barghests' plan!
found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s$**ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
Yes, it's been around for quite a while. Unfortunately their building burned to the ground destroying everything in it 10 or 15 years ago. While scientifically incorrect, what they had was unique and informative and a great loss.
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You probably believe in the moon landing.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
I believe in math.
Take two pieces of wood, say 6ft. Take one for yourself, give one to your friend. Have your friend drive 500 miles north or south (make him do it, so you can be lazy). Then, at noon on the same day, use a level to get the sticks perfectly straight up and down. Now, measure the lengths of shadows that result.
Now, you've got some numbers AND sticks, you can throw away the sticks. But we need more numbers. The stick and ground form a right angle, which is 90 degrees. You know how long the stick is, 6ft. You know how long the shadow is... whatever you measure it as. Once you know those three things, you can use math to learn the degrees of the other two angles in the triangle. That angle near the top of the stick is important.
Take the top angle from each stick measurement. Subtract the smaller one from the bigger one. The resulting number is the number of degrees of difference between the locations where the measurements were made on the Earth's surface. You could then use that degree difference, plus the known distance of 500 miles to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Neat.
Take two pieces of wood, say 6ft. Take one for yourself, give one to your friend. Have your friend drive 500 miles north or south (make him do it, so you can be lazy). Then, at noon on the same day, use a level to get the sticks perfectly straight up and down. Now, measure the lengths of shadows that result.
Now, you've got some numbers AND sticks, you can throw away the sticks. But we need more numbers. The stick and ground form a right angle, which is 90 degrees. You know how long the stick is, 6ft. You know how long the shadow is... whatever you measure it as. Once you know those three things, you can use math to learn the degrees of the other two angles in the triangle. That angle near the top of the stick is important.
Take the top angle from each stick measurement. Subtract the smaller one from the bigger one. The resulting number is the number of degrees of difference between the locations where the measurements were made on the Earth's surface. You could then use that degree difference, plus the known distance of 500 miles to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Of course, the same geometry can be used to "prove" that the earth is flat, and that the sun is a small-ish ball about 25,000 miles away.
You probably believe in the moon landing.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
Why yes, yes I do.
I still want to go to the moon and establish colonies as a precursor to colonies at the Lagrange points around earth.
As long as the people living in the colonies don't rebel....
Yes, it's been around for quite a while. Unfortunately their building burned to the ground destroying everything in it 10 or 15 years ago. While scientifically incorrect, what they had was unique and informative and a great loss.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s$**ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
I don't know which one disgusts me more. The society's existence or the loss of what they had gathered. Please tell me the fire wasn't sent intentionally.
I don't know which one disgusts me more. The society's existence or the loss of what they had gathered. Please tell me the fire wasn't sent intentionally.Yes, it's been around for quite a while. Unfortunately their building burned to the ground destroying everything in it 10 or 15 years ago. While scientifically incorrect, what they had was unique and informative and a great loss.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s$**ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
It's been a while, but I am pretty sure it wasn't set intentionally. Some of the documents and books that were part of their collection were very rare. While they may not be accurate, that doesn't make them worthless.
As for the society disgusting you, there are some seriously worse groups out there compared to hundreds of flat-earthers.
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Mr. Anklebiter Doodlebug,
And it compounds! But I submit to you - the sun stands on the shoulder of giants - big giants - bigger than the wildebeast or the tortoise. Giants of so much mass that the wildebeast and tortoise look puny in comparison.
[Smacks Pink Dragon]
Stupid pinkskin! Feeble brain not meant to understand barghests' plan!
It's turtles all the way down.
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Can't we just agree you are all heretics at this point?
You probably believe in the moon landing.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
Why yes, yes I do.
I still want to go to the moon and establish colonies as a precursor to colonies at the Lagrange points around earth.
As long as the people living in the colonies don't rebel....
I give 'em a week.
I Flatly believe that the world goes round and round.
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I'm absolutely certain the sun is pulled across the sky by a giant chariot. Before anyone tries to refute it with "evidence" that no one has seen the chariot, I contend that the sun is so bright that it makes seeing the chariot impossible.
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I'm absolutely certain the sun is pulled across the sky by a giant chariot. Before anyone tries to refute it with "evidence" that no one has seen the chariot, I contend that the sun is so bright that it makes seeing the chariot impossible.
that chariot used to be parked in africa at night. My ancestors were the direct result of that poorly planned idea.
Of course, the same geometry can be used to "prove" that the earth is flat, and that the sun is a small-ish ball about 25,000 miles away.
Take two pieces of wood, say 6ft. Take one for yourself, give one to your friend. Have your friend drive 500 miles north or south (make him do it, so you can be lazy). Then, at noon on the same day, use a level to get the sticks perfectly straight up and down. Now, measure the lengths of shadows that result.
Now, you've got some numbers AND sticks, you can throw away the sticks. But we need more numbers. The stick and ground form a right angle, which is 90 degrees. You know how long the stick is, 6ft. You know how long the shadow is... whatever you measure it as. Once you know those three things, you can use math to learn the degrees of the other two angles in the triangle. That angle near the top of the stick is important.
Take the top angle from each stick measurement. Subtract the smaller one from the bigger one. The resulting number is the number of degrees of difference between the locations where the measurements were made on the Earth's surface. You could then use that degree difference, plus the known distance of 500 miles to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Math is neat.
Say you lived in a time without precise instrumentation, just wooden sticks that you cut to pretty close to 6ft. Maybe a protractor. Once you've done the previous calculation, and work off the assumption of the Earth being round, it's very possible to calculate the distance of the Moon, while arriving at a fairly accurate answer
Light from a distant object that is blocked by a circle produces a conical shadow. If you take a beach ball, if you hold it up to 108 beach balls high, it creates a shadow that's barely a single point, which increases in diameter as you lower the beach ball. There are also two apparently round objects which cast enormous shadows, the Earth and the Moon. It doesn't have to be a sphere either, it works with disk shaped objects.
On a lunar eclipse, the Earth blocks the Moon from the Sun and creates a shadow. The Moon is completely covered in that shadow, meaning it is smaller than the Earth, but is it large and just barely in the shadow? Or smaller and closer?
Well, if we use the calculation of the size of the Earth from the previous test, we can determine how long the Earth's shadow is. It will be 108 Earth diameters long. The Moon can also cast a shadow on the Earth, therefore it must be within 108 x it's diameter. We can also observe that the Earth's shadow is roughly 2.5 times the size of the moon during a lunar eclipse.
Both shadows are an isosceles triangles, with the same proportions. You can diagram them out and using geometry start figuring out the parts you don't know. It really isn't super complicated, humans have been able to do it for over 2000 years now.
If you use the stick method outlined earlier, you'll probably arrive at an answer that's about 5% off the actual value. Then, if you start applying that same math to the Sun, you get a completely inaccurate result, because there are factors that are hard to measure and account for, but even the ancient Greeks knew the Sun was at least 5,000,000 miles away. The distance to the Sun is difficult to measure with this method due to the massive scale difference (even compared to measuring the circumference of the Earth or distance to the moon) and relative proximity of all the measurement points so far.
It's difficult using the Moon to calculate the distance to the Sun. For one the Moon produces far fewer observable transits, and the distance between those locations is relatively small, so you'd have to make exceptionally precise measurements. It's much easier to use Venus, but that requires certain amounts of technology, like lens making.
The problem with anything from a FE'er is that nothing is consistent and nothing relies on observable facts.
I've probably made some errors along the way so far. I got a D in geometry as a kid. My teacher had a monotone voice and I could never stay awake. I think one time he had to wake me up three times during class... after that his motivation to keep me awake waned. That was the only math class I ever failed a test in.
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I'm absolutely certain the sun is pulled across the sky by a giant chariot. Before anyone tries to refute it with "evidence" that no one has seen the chariot, I contend that the sun is so bright that it makes seeing the chariot impossible.
I, for one, believe him. 'Cause ya can't spell Rawr! without Ra.
She's a round, like a the apple a!
No, she ees flat, like the pancake!
Shes around like my head!
You probably believe in the moon landing.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
I believe in math.
Take two pieces of wood, say 6ft. Take one for yourself, give one to your friend. Have your friend drive 500 miles north or south (make him do it, so you can be lazy). Then, at noon on the same day, use a level to get the sticks perfectly straight up and down. Now, measure the lengths of shadows that result.
Now, you've got some numbers AND sticks, you can throw away the sticks. But we need more numbers. The stick and ground form a right angle, which is 90 degrees. You know how long the stick is, 6ft. You know how long the shadow is... whatever you measure it as. Once you know those three things, you can use math to learn the degrees of the other two angles in the triangle. That angle near the top of the stick is important.
Take the top angle from each stick measurement. Subtract the smaller one from the bigger one. The resulting number is the number of degrees of difference between the locations where the measurements were made on the Earth's surface. You could then use that degree difference, plus the known distance of 500 miles to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
Neat.
Cool story, bro.
Thanks, I think it is too.
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You probably believe in the moon landing.found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
you gotta be s*%+ting me.
Flat earth society is REAL?!!!
Why yes, yes I do.
I still want to go to the moon and establish colonies as a precursor to colonies at the Lagrange points around earth.
As long as the people living in the colonies don't rebel....
Just hope they don't build giant robots out of a rare space alloy.
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So...there's no scientific consensus on heliocentrism, just like there is no scientific consensus on man-made climate change? ;-)
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Why yes, yes I do.
I still want to go to the moon and establish colonies as a precursor to colonies at the Lagrange points around earth.
As long as the people living in the colonies don't rebel....
I hear you can get a chance to begin again on the Off World Colonies.
Just watch our for those glittering C-Beams in the darkness near Tanhouser Gate.
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found your forum for you.I don't know what you're all talking about.
The earth is flat.
At first I was sure the link would be to a Discworld forum.
Anyway, I went over there to see what's the vibe of those people. In the "Q&A" subforum they have a sticky "TOP 10 REASONS WHY THE EARTH IS ROUND debunked" thread, presumably to counter this video. What I found most hilarious is this quote, countering the 7th point - the Magellan effect:
"Again, the Earth isn't in the shape of a Mercator map. That would be silly. Magellan and many others simply made a circle around the disk of the Earth."
:D
The ones built from rare alloys are fine. It's the mass produced one from common materials that are the problem.
We must have watched different series. In Wing, the mass produced ones may as well have been wet paper mache compared to the rare ones. It was like Dynasty Warriors level of winning wars single-handedly.
But who uses the mass produced robots and who uses the Gundams, ignoring the trickery in the beginning of Wing and, well, all of G.The ones built from rare alloys are fine. It's the mass produced one from common materials that are the problem.We must have watched different series. In Wing, the mass produced ones may as well have been wet paper mache compared to the rare ones. It was like Dynasty Warriors level of winning wars single-handedly.
The mass produced ones are operated by soldiers, and the Gundams are operated by children.
Admittedly trained children, but I doubt the soldiers are untrained. I'm sure due to skill and talent, the kids could do okay in a Leo, but I'd only say 5:1 at best. Meanwhile put one in a custom gundam and it's closer to 100:1. I'd say equipment is the deciding factor.