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Velocity 01-7-2011 03:37 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Worlds flat, noted for the future.

trumaestro 01-7-2011 03:46 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
if world flat how explain gravity ?_?

bmah 01-7-2011 03:50 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by robertsona (Post 3390074)
none of you guys have addressed his question really

It's not really a CT question.

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 04:21 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by trumaestro (Post 3390084)
if world flat how explain gravity ?_?

big magnet underneath our flat world if you want to think of it that way but really

there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy -- it is like a giant suction hole and we're far enough away from it to feel gravity but not so close we get sucked in

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 04:22 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by duddychuck@yahoo.com (Post 3390080)
I'm pretty sure people would freak the fuck out if the plain got the the edge of the earth and went into space

well that's because airline pilots don't get close

part of the confidentiality agreement says that they have to take certified routes pre-programmed to get to their destinations even if nav systems show passengers otherwise. if you kept going you might fall off but nobody ever gets that far because it's just water and so our planes never really get near it because you never need to land a plane near a bunch of water do you

knuckles2224 01-7-2011 04:30 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
The world definitely isn't evenly flat.
And remember most of this planet is covered by water, we don't know what the surface is like underwater.

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 04:41 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
right, most of the land is in the middle and the water goes on and on for miles outside of all that

foilman8805 01-7-2011 04:48 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
all you ever need to know

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 04:52 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
thanks man

maybe now we can examine this critically

Zageron 01-7-2011 05:00 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Also explain sailors who circumnavigate.

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 05:02 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
if you get too close to the end of the earth, the supermassive blackhole gravity screws with you. when you think you're going forward towards the edge you're really just turning alongside it at a greater velocity due to the effects of relativity.

Artic_counter 01-7-2011 05:08 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Reincarnate (Post 3389928)
Have you ever actually SEEN the earth from space?

I say that just because we haven't determined it with our own perception, it doesn't mean the thruth is something else.

Sorry if I'm not clear.

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 05:09 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
yeah but you can't show that it's NOT true

Artic_counter 01-7-2011 05:10 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
You can say that about anything which doesn't lead us anywhere.

It's like saying: What tells us that every other human being is not in fact a robot programmed to have thoughts that resemble to that of a human. We can't.

5.points 01-7-2011 05:16 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Who knows? No one.

Everything you know is just what you were told.

**** the physics police.

Crashfan3 01-7-2011 05:20 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
1. Stand in field
2. Hold up mirror
3. See infinity
4. ???
5. PROFIT!

kmay 01-7-2011 05:35 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Now I'm informed. Thank you.

GummyPowPow 01-7-2011 05:59 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Have two people stand on different spots on the equator.
Have them walk towards the north pole. (True, not magnetic)

If the world was flat, they will never cross paths, because their paths are parallel.

But they would cross paths eventually, hence the world is round.

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 06:39 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Artic_counter (Post 3390141)
You can say that about anything which doesn't lead us anywhere.

It's like saying: What tells us that every other human being is not in fact a robot programmed to have thoughts that resemble to that of a human. We can't.

may not lead us anywhere, but hey some things may just be unknowable

but clearly the world is flat

Reincarnate 01-7-2011 06:40 PM

Re: The World is Flat
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GummyPowPow (Post 3390163)
Have two people stand on different spots on the equator.
Have them walk towards the north pole. (True, not magnetic)

If the world was flat, they will never cross paths, because their paths are parallel.

But they would cross paths eventually, hence the world is round.

if they both walk towards the north pole they would intersect at the north pole because they're both walking towards the same place



let the circle represent a theoretical 2d surface, red = north pole, green = person 1, blue = person 2. you say to both people "go to north pole" so they go. clearly they intersect despite it being a flatland. they don't have to be parallel


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