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I Shall Rise Again From The Ashes Of My Failures.
October 05, 2016, 12:23:18 PM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

How do you know, where you there?

well for example, Eratosthenes in about 200BC calculated the size of the earth, the tilt axis of the earth, etc.  

Don't forget to mention Errortosthenes' calculations also work for a flat stationary Earth with a small Sun orbiting 3,000 miles above!
if you study literally any science outside of flat earth. be it geology, anthropology, astrology or even archaeology you will quickly learn the a flat earth is an outlandish solution for a problem that doesnt exist. humans are currently in the process of colonizing Mars. we have put men on the moon. we have pictures of other galaxies. and you are not sure if earth is round? there is a laser relay on the moon proving there are man made objects on the moon. if you go hiking you have probably seen the curvature of earth. why is this even a question.
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October 05, 2016, 11:31:56 AM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

How do you know, where you there?

well for example, Eratosthenes in about 200BC calculated the size of the earth, the tilt axis of the earth, etc.  

Don't forget to mention Errortosthenes' calculations also work for a flat stationary Earth with a small Sun orbiting 3,000 miles above!

Not if you introduce a third location, genius.
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October 05, 2016, 11:21:26 AM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

How do you know, where you there?

well for example, Eratosthenes in about 200BC calculated the size of the earth, the tilt axis of the earth, etc.  

Don't forget to mention Errortosthenes' calculations also work for a flat stationary Earth with a small Sun orbiting 3,000 miles above!
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Now the money is free, and so the people will be
October 05, 2016, 09:49:01 AM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

How do you know, where you there?

well for example, Eratosthenes in about 200BC calculated the size of the earth, the tilt axis of the earth, etc. 
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October 05, 2016, 03:14:18 AM
Why people still believe earth is flat.lol


So know it is not spinning 1000 miles an hour

We need a scientist in here lol
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Freedom, Natural Law
October 05, 2016, 02:23:26 AM
Why people still believe earth is flat.lol


So know it is not spinning 1000 miles an hour
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October 04, 2016, 11:17:19 PM
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Have you heard the story about Columbus's problems with his crew? As some tell it, the crew nearly mutinied because they regarded the earth as flat, and feared they might sail off its edge.

"It was exactly the reverse," explains Johnson. "There was a dispute out on the ship, but it was because Columbus was a flat-earther. The others believed the earth to be a ball, and they just knew that they were falling over the edge and couldn't get back. Columbus had to put them in irons and beat them until he convinced them they weren't going over any curve, and they could return. He finally calmed them down."

Source: Robert J. Schadewald, Reprinted from Science Digest, July 1980
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October 04, 2016, 10:09:37 PM
^ you need to update that, I'm getting 5.4 million "Flat Earth" YouTube videos.

Enclosing your search term with quotation marks will return exact phrase results.

You'll get 5.4 million without quotation marks; about 1.3 million for the exact phrase "flat earth".

Cheers.
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October 04, 2016, 10:05:57 PM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

How do you know, where you there?
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October 04, 2016, 09:57:31 PM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley

Capacity?  Probably.  Though now we see the Flynn Effect, i.e. an increase of about 15 IQ points in the general population in the past century or so corresponding with a rise in technology; tech is complex and forces us to think about things in complex ways and engage in more complex tasks.

Still, there's an upper limit to how well we can deconstruct and analyze complex situations, and most conspiracy theorists vastly overestimate how good they are at doing this (because they vastly underestimate complexity).
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Now the money is free, and so the people will be
October 04, 2016, 09:32:31 PM
jesus christ, even in the old ages its a myth people thought it was flat.  people had the same mental capacity as now pretty much, Smiley
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October 04, 2016, 09:12:59 PM
^ you need to update that, I'm getting 5.4 million "Flat Earth" YouTube videos.
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October 04, 2016, 04:41:04 PM
Why people still believe earth is flat.lol
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October 04, 2016, 03:08:41 PM
And if you take into account the theory of flat land, how are its followers to the worldwide because in the distant past.
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October 04, 2016, 02:59:37 PM
I feel sorry for the guy. He ran out of arguments ages ago
He is now reduced to someone posting cartoons.
I hope he comes up with a good one soon
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October 04, 2016, 02:13:10 PM


I thought that was a pretty good landing in... China.     Grin
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October 04, 2016, 01:28:38 PM
I was explaining how to levitate small objects with an electric field using a balloon. While atmospheric pressure is the force pushing an object up or down depending on its density, ultimately up and down is defined by the electric field in-between the dome and the ground.

...Dependent upon weight, not density.  We already know and can and have tested that all objects 'float' equally in weightless environments despite having varying densities.  How many times are you going to ignore this? Just watch a video of the inside of a vomit comet.  People wouldn't float around in the cabin during a zero-g maneuver if your idea was true because the air is less dense than people; it's a closed, pressurized cabin.  If you have the cash, take a ride yourself and bring a helium balloon with you; it, too, will float just like everything else in the cabin.
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