Chit Chat
Flat Earth
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You'd think you could see the curve.... yes...exactly what I thought too until I looked into it more.
Auguste Antoine Piccard (28 January 1884 – 24 March 1962) was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer, known for his record-breaking helium filled balloon flights, with which he studied Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, Piccard also was the first to witness views of earth from 10 miles up, stating in a 1931 Popular Science magazine that the “It (the Earth) seemed a flat disk with upturned edge” |
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Mcginty
- What are you on about. You have provided a quote almost 90 years old & about a view from a high not much higher than commercial jets. Shall we ignore the next 90 years of aviation, photos, satellite, space travel because of a guy trying to explain something in a language people would understand. Nice link to the quote Mcginty- no need to look at the context. |
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I think Mcginty is just having fun trolling, unfortunately I don't that can be said of some other forum ites on other areas..
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Mex There are thousands of satellite images. of the earth.
That's true, but they are not photos, they are composites made from many smaller photos of the earth taken by a Satellite, then stitched together and applied to the surface of a digital ball, then modified in Photoshop. Images of the earth may seem commonplace, but there are actually very few pictures of the entire planet. The problem is all the NASA earth-observing satellites are in low-earth or geostationary orbit, meaning none of them are far enough away to see a full hemisphere. - Robert Simmon one of the “visualizers” who “stitched together” Blue Marble II- NASA. |
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50% higher than commercial jets just to be pedantic
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Hay
So were you posting garbage when you suggested "your Google " was up the blink? You got your link of Earth @ instructions how to show they are genuine. I see you have ignored their advice. Hay why are you so gullible- did you really fall for that carp from Dr Dale (doctor LOL) Don't be ashamed for your total lack of understanding of basic maths/science. |
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Good point Mcginty & 1931 is less than 90 years so this guy is the expert.
Let's forget all the evidence in the past 90 years. How does a sat-hav work Mcginty? Is it magic? |
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Mex - NASA satellites have took loads of photos of the spherical Earth
I think someone owes me an apology.  |
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Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy Maybe we're crazy Probably |
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Maybe Mexico is crazy
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NASA satellites have took loads of photos of the spherical Earth
with an ultra wide lens?? |
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what an idiot!
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Errrrrrrrr hay
NASA have published loads of photos of a spherical Earth. I'm sorry you don't have the intelligence needed to understand that the Earth is round. Happy now? Will you apologise for posting total garbage? Explain that Dr Dale garbage Hay? |
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tw@t |
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Why doesn't sat-nav work in the middle of the ocean?
Because there are no satellites. |
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How do laser guided missiles work on a curved earth?
I'm no scientist. But am I stupid? |
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I think ships do use satellite navigation these days Mcginty. You may wish to check that one mate
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If you believe that go to the middle of the atlantic and ask the US to drop a GPS smart bomb on you.
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How does radar work on a curved earth?
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[that was to mcginty, damn this new internet techonology with its posting delay and whatnot]
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Thanks for humouring me guys...
Just alot of questions... |
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It's a little known fact that the modulation they use on guided missile illuminators is exactly the same as that used on dentist filling hardening lasers.
Which is why I always demand they close the curtains when I visit my dentist. |
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Just alot of questions...
Well just don't get Mexico to answer them for you, ... |
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Hay
Still crying? Sunrise/sunsets are a different times at different longitude/ latitude because the Earth is spherical & length of day changes as the spherical Earth is tilted on its axis. Generally the angle of incidence of the sun is different for different places on the Earth, How is this explains by the uneducated? |
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How is this explains by the uneducated?
Good question - Well you probably looked it up on google. |
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nice photo, but where's the curve?
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where's the curve on that photo Mex?
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Yes McGinty, anyone looing out of an aeroplane window sees that!
Fishing is not clever. |
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*looking, not looing.
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That photo looks taken with a fisheye which distorts anyway, ridiculous attempt at a troll.
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If the universe was flat it would imply there a is a limit to it in like the Z axis, which makes no sense by any current understanding.
And what would limit it? And any red shift on receding galaxies would be different depending on direction surely? Nope, doesn't make sense. |
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No plane has ever circumnavigated the earth NORTH-SOUTH. (and don't tell me it's too cold LMAO or dangerous)
And if they did a lot of commercial flights would be made a lot shorter. |
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Apatr from say ..?
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2015/january/22/around-the-world-over-the-poles |
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It's about drawing a line, turning 90 degrees, 4 times.
It makes a sphere flat, because you always end up in the same place.... or something. Basically - like nearly everything to do with space, the origins of time and space, etc. We have no idea. Every new visit by probes to an outer planet has completely rewritten everything we knew about the solar system, so how much chance is there of a whole universe? I'll answer that. None. As for the flat Earth stuff. Total Bolllocks. Commercial flights VERY often fly over northern polar regions, because they fly by the "great circle" or the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere - which the Earth is. The don't need to fly over the Antarctic, because it isn't on the way to anywhere. As for being able to - of course they are. |
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Commercial flights going the way they do can get a boost from the jetstream, though it is shorter over the poles.
ICBMs were and probably are routed over the north pole as it's shorter. Maybe the cold war was part of a flat earth conspiracy? |
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I've been longing for the end to non-stop politics on here.
But, ffs, it's being replaced by something nearly as irritating. Mind you, it has created some weird "alliances"  |
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No commercial flights over poles.
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