The Flat Earth

[Dr Mantis Toboggan]

6 million or so did between 1939-1945

 

[Etty Abrics]

Well if its a globe earth they would be too high pretty quick?

Not if you consider that any difference is negligible under 600 NM, it would only need the odd correction in long haul flights

 

[Stevencc]

If the earth is flat then why has no one fell off of it?

Around 33% of unsolved missing persons cases are believed to be explainable by this very phenomenon.

Johnny told me.

 

[johnnytodd]

Not if you consider that any difference is negligible under 600 NM, it would only need the odd correction in long haul flights

NASA themselves say the earth curves at 8" per mile squared? you have to either constantly point downwards or make regular alterations .........or the earth is not a globe.

 

[johnnytodd]

If the earth is flat then why has no one fell off of it?

you can't get to the edges of the earth its -100 degrees and only penguins and footballers with snoods have been spotted there

 

[silkyman]

NASA themselves say the earth curves at 8" per mile squared? you have to either constantly point downwards or make regular alterations .........or the earth is not a globe.

Where have you got 'squared' from?

It's eight inches per mile. Or a gradient of 0.00157%

Or slightly less than that five miles up.

I don't think it's much of an adjustment.

 

[johnnytodd]

this should be enough to raise some doubts in NASA for anyone

 

[johnnytodd]

If anyone has flew at 35,000 ft they will tell you the horizon is still at eye level.............if the world is a globe it should be well below you.

 

[johnnytodd]

The Bedford levels test, evidence for any non believers out there,

The Bedford Level Experiment was a series of observations carried out along a six-mile length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level, Norfolk, England.
The experiment was often performed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Bedford Level Experiment remains one of the most widely-accepted examples of Flat Earth proof.
http://wiki.tfes.org/Bedford_Level_Experiment

 

[Etty Abrics]

The Bedford levels test, evidence for any non believers out there,

The Bedford Level Experiment was a series of observations carried out along a six-mile length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level, Norfolk, England.
The experiment was often performed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Bedford Level Experiment remains one of the most widely-accepted examples of Flat Earth proof.
http://wiki.tfes.org/Bedford_Level_Experiment

6 miles? Well that's not a large enough distance to experiment with, no wonder they thought it was flat.

Again, the earth can be considered as flat for distance calculations up to 600 nautical miles.

 

[silkyman]

He waded into the river and used a telescope held eight inches above the water to watch a boat with a five-foot mast row slowly away from him. He reported that the vessel remained constantly in his view for the full six miles to Welney bridge, whereas, had the water surface been curved with the accepted circumference of a spherical earth, the top of the mast should have been some eleven feet below his line of sight.

So the accepted curvature of the earth isn't eight inches per mile then? It's 32... If after six miles the top of the mast should have dropped by 16 feet.

After six miles it would have dropped by four feet, and by placing the camera eight inches (and two feet in the second experiment) up, it would have increased the visible horizon difference.

 

[silkyman]

6 miles? Well that's not a large enough distance to experiment with, no wonder they thought it was flat.

Again, the earth can be considered as flat for distance calculations up to 600 nautical miles.

Is that the distance when the overall curve overcomes the effect of local topography?

 

[silkyman]

I can't believe I'm even getting involved as something as fucking stupid as a flat earth discussion, but..

According to the Flat Earth lot, it's the southern hemisphere which is all stretched out.

So how come it takes eight hours to fly the 3,465 miles from London to New York, but only 12 hours (i.e. 150%) to travel from Johannesburg to Sydney? By the Flat Earth reckoning, that distance is around 18,500 miles (but probably far more, as if the earth was flat, you'd be crossing land most of the way, but you don't, so the commitment to the lie means you have to veer a good couple of thousand miles 'rimward' to avoid flying over India etc)

Two issues here. The longest range airliner in the world would crash about 6,000 miles short of Sydney after running out of fuel - and Quantas, at least, sell that trip non-stop - and to travel 15,500 miles in 12 hours would mean travelling at almost double 770 or so of the speed of sound.

So not only have they developed super long range, faster than sound travel... They have decided to only offer it on obscure southern hemisphere to other southern hemisphere routes and not, say, offer direct flights from London to Sydney in 10 hours, or transatlantic travel in three and a half hours.

This seems to have been missed....

 

[G-Dragon]

Surprise jhonnytodd isn't working for NASA. Seems like he has all the qualifications.

 

[silkyman]

Further question....

What's the deal with time zones then? What, and where is the sun. I can't see it here right now. It's dark. The sun is nowhere to be seen. If I rang my brother in Singapore, it would be there. How does a sinlge point light source only illuminate one part of a flat surface, while also disappearing over the horizon? If the earth was flat, the sun would have to be equidistant in it's orbit, or it would get noticeably bigger and smaller as it drifted around the planet, illuminating the right places at the right times, but if it is, in a circular orbit, everywhere on the planet would experience sunset at the same time.

And it would also be noticeably larger the further south you went as you got closer to it. When I was in Sydney, it wasn't like a huge disk in the sky.

And while we're on that. It's hottest at midday when the sun is at it's highest point. It's hotter in summer when it rises and sets higher than in winter when it's lower down, so why is it so fucking cold at the north pole?

 

[Etty Abrics]

Is that the distance when the overall curve overcomes the effect of local topography?

...yes? Haha all I know is the calculations become noticeably different..

 

[blade1889]

I prefer johnnytodd in this wind-up

 

[Stagat]

The Bedford levels test, evidence for any non believers out there,

Ha. That illustrated curvature over 6 miles.

 

[mnb089mnb]

Ha. That illustrated curvature over 6 miles.

If that's six miles how big is that fella's boat!

How big is that chap?

Dear Lord.

 

[Gladders]

I can't believe a thread on the Earth being Flat has made three pages

 

[silkyman]

I've enjoyed it. It's interesting to see just how blinkered and insane some people can be with their unfounded beliefs, without it meaning attacking their religion... (Something I'm also occasionally happy to do!)

I'm tempted to sign up to that flat earth forum just to see what answers they can come up with.

 

[mnb089mnb]

I can't believe a thread on the Earth being Flat has made three pages

And we're going around in circles.

Ironically.

 

[sl1k]

Yeah it's all gone a little flat, hasn't it.

UNLIKE THE EARTH.

 

[johnnytodd]

Further question....

What's the deal with time zones then? What, and where is the sun. I can't see it here right now. It's dark. The sun is nowhere to be seen. If I rang my brother in Singapore, it would be there. How does a sinlge point light source only illuminate one part of a flat surface, while also disappearing over the horizon? If the earth was flat, the sun would have to be equidistant in it's orbit, or it would get noticeably bigger and smaller as it drifted around the planet, illuminating the right places at the right times, but if it is, in a circular orbit, everywhere on the planet would experience sunset at the same time.

And it would also be noticeably larger the further south you went as you got closer to it. When I was in Sydney, it wasn't like a huge disk in the sky.

And while we're on that. It's hottest at midday when the sun is at it's highest point. It's hotter in summer when it rises and sets higher than in winter when it's lower down, so why is it so fucking cold at the north pole?

your basing all your findings on measurements if the earth was a globe.......the earth isn't a globe as i have proved so i suggest you watch the videos and learn something from actual visible evidence rather than what NASA tells you is correct.............did you know Flat Earth documentaries are totally band worldwide on mainstream TV...........why is that?

 

[johnnytodd]

Yeah it's all gone a little flat, hasn't it.

UNLIKE THE EARTH.

just looked out the window and yep the horizon is perfectly flat still

 

[johnnytodd]

And we're going around in circles.

Ironically.

correct the earth is circular shaped

 

[johnnytodd]

I can't believe a thread on the Earth being Flat has made three pages

I cant believe NASA themselves admit only one photo has ever been taken of the complete earth without being CGI'd before release.

They say they have to alter it so we can see the land properly LOL

 

[johnnytodd]

This seems to have been missed....

like the easiest route to take is missed by EVERY pilot to fly in the southern hemishere seemingly

 

[Cheese & Biscuits]

your basing all your findings on measurements if the earth was a globe.......the earth isn't a globe as i have proved so i suggest you watch the videos and learn something from actual visible evidence rather than what NASA tells you is correct.............did you know Flat Earth documentaries are totally band worldwide on mainstream TV...........why is that?

Perhaps they all have certain standards when it comes to spelling and grammar?

 

[johnnytodd]