Flat Earth Society

[Steel]

Originally Posted by 2strokebloke

I think it's actually pretty funny. It reminds me when my science teacher would tell us, that you can't prove anything. All you can do is gather alot of data that suggests this is the most probable way things work.

Flat Earth Society is basically science, except that they play by their own rules (hey things that were thought to been "proven" have been disproven in the past) And in the end, like anything else science is just one persons opinions against another's. Though some people's opinions are more backed up than others

yes, you cant prove everything, but you can DISprove anything. its already been shown that flat earth= wrong. They dont use science, they just use conspiracy theories. All those people have watched the x-files a few too many times and took away a bit too much from each episode.

[2strokebloke]

Originally Posted by Steel

yes, you cant prove everything, but you can DISprove anything. its already been shown that flat earth= wrong. They dont use science, they just use conspiracy theories. All those people have watched the x-files a few too many times and took away a bit too much from each episode.

They've been proven wrong by other people's opinions on what science should be.... so long as they go by their own rules - they're still right. (which could be said for both the flat earth society, and "standard" science)

[kublah]

Originally Posted by blue4g2def

you forgot: 11. Does this fit in with the Hollow Earth theory?
Yes. Beneath the Earth, or hanging off the edges, is a land populated by either green-skinned women or Nazis.

Yeah, I should have left that one in. I agree with 2stroke's science teacher for the most part. We really can't be 100% sure of anything, but that doesn't get these guys off the hook. If someone chooses to believe something that stands in complete contempt of EVERYTHING that modern, and even not-so modern science has observed, thats their right. But I reserve my right to think that they, and anyone else who believes something just because they want to instead of forming a conclusion based on actual evidence, is a damn moron.

Every time you look out the window of a tall building, watch a ship disappear over the horizon, or even flush your toilet you see evidence that the earth is round. I'm sure these guys have an explanation for all of these things, but if they're as weak as everything else that I've read from them I don't really care to hear it. They may be able to make up their own scientific rules if they want, but to form these principles to support what you believe instead of forming what you believe based on what you observe again makes them morons. They've got hundreds of years of scientific observation and a very nice, physically consistent model of the known universe to overturn if they ever want to be taken at all seriously. They have a lot of work to do...

[Gafoto]

Your assigned reading is: Terry Pratchet (sp?), The Color of Magic which is where all of this crap came from i'm pretty sure. Either that or Terry used it make a pretty damn amusing novel

[Misundaztood]

Okay, I have a serious question that kinda relates to this. Going by the round-earth theory(which I go by, don't know about you all)what if you built some sort of machine that could drill through the earth(stait through the core & everything)& came out on the other end, how would gravity work into it? Would you flip the minute you arived on the other side or what? Stupid question I know...

[Cavallino]

Why did they decide it was on the back of a turtle? And if it is on the back of a turtle, is it like a giant sea turtle or does it walk, and if it walks what does it walk on? Maybe it walks on a bigger world thats on the back of a bigger turtle which walks on a bigger world......

[kublah]

Originally Posted by Misundaztood

Okay, I have a serious question that kinda relates to this. Going by the round-earth theory(which I go by, don't know about you all)what if you built some sort of machine that could drill through the earth(stait through the core & everything)& came out on the other end, how would gravity work into it? Would you flip the minute you arived on the other side or what? Stupid question I know...

I'm pretty sure the force (pulling toward the center of the earth) would slowly decrease as you got closer to the middle. When you reach the middle it would be zero, then increase at the same rate as you moved toward the other side. If you hadn't already been burned into a little pile of carbon that is...

[GundamExpo]

Slight correction, otherwise your dead on kublah, if you were right in the center you would still have gravity working on you, Gravity from the moon, sun, planets and all other matter in the universe. It just wouldent be very strong. Neato cool stuff if we could go to the center.

What about this idea. You have a planet, that has a solid cooled off core. you drill a hole straight though then jump off the surface on one side though the hole. My thought is that you would keep on going back and forth untill there was enough drag to stop you.

[kublah]

Yeah, you'd go back and forth quite a few times, but that would probably be the last you saw of the surface for quite a while...

[Steel]

yeah, you'd keep bouncing back and forth, less and less everytime, until you finally stopped in the middle and stuck to the closest surface

[Carpie]

I went to the web site for the Flat Earth stuff... I got a headache. So, I took two Tylenol, grabbed my GPS receiver and decided to go for a walk...

... suddenly I fell over the edge of the world right into a huge green-skinned, female, Nazi rally! They started shooting at me because I'm pale-skinned, male, and a Republican, so I ran away. I eventually joined a small resistance fighting group, containing a few other people from this side of the Earth, but mostly made up of escaped slaves who were blue-skinned, male, and democracy-seeking. After six long years of fighting I was able to find the corresponding coordinates on that side of the Earth and was able to return here with the other 'normal' humans. Luckily, the space-time continuum is also severely distorted on the opposite side of the Earth, therefore I returned shortly after the moment I had fallen over the edge.

... I still have that headache, though!

[ac427cpe]

that's some crazy Tylenol...

[-Davo]

I think that FAQ is a joke.
"This FAQ was compiled by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, KSC EMF, Chairperson dei gratia, Flat Earth Society" If I'm correct, he was killed over 30 years ago.

This is almost as stupid as goodfight.org.


*ED*
Re-reading some of those FAQ's, most of what they say is scientifically impossible.
"The reason for this effect is that the Earth's atmosphere becomes denser the further one ascends, after thinning out at about 5 miles."

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as you ascend, the atmosphere because LESS dense, hence the ablity to breath becomes harder. If It got MORE dence, it would be like trying to breathe water, not air. This is because of the electromagnetic field of the earth, the closer the core, the more intense, the furtur away, the less, untill you get into space, no pressure, no air, no gravity. To further illistrate my point, Diamond is made at extreme high pressures, and temperatures deep undergrund. If pressure increase with acsent, then our spaceships, and our astronoughts wouldn't of survived the trips, they would be crushed into nothing (assuming there was pressure in space)

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[GundamExpo]

The air gets less dense because there isnt enough gravity to hold a dense atmosphere up there. The earths magnetic field goes out alot farther then the atmosphere in most places.

Also... if the atmosphere did get more dense we wouldent see light from any stars, no satelites would be able to orbit... nothing to do with space that works now would work then, hell the moon would meet so much air resistance it would come crashing back to earth! Any what about lunar eclipses, where the ROUND shadow of the earth is projected onto the moon?