Homemade rocket man is about to prove the earth is flat...

dirtychinchilla · 22 Nov 2017 at 13:45

touch said:
Surely a "flat" earth would still have curvature of seas? The gravitational pull will still be towards the centre of mass, so on a disc-shaped object that would be more of a linear pull around the edges rather than perpendicular to the ground like in a sphere. That would mean water would be more concentrated around the centrepoint and have some curvature to it's surface creating a horizon.

mavity is part of the con. They have thoroughly cherry-picked which parts of science they wish to believe in. Honestly, if you have a question then they have a way around it.

As I said before, you cannot apply logic to this situation.

I don't understand what he's actually trying to achieve in his rocket. Anyone know? If he's going up just to have a look at how round the earth is, great - it's round. If not, I don't get it...

FlakGunna · 22 Nov 2017 at 13:51

'MURICANS.

Big Spender · 22 Nov 2017 at 14:11

FTM said:
why doesnt he use a balloon..he could call felix baumgartner (whos own videos from his capsule show the curvature of the earth)

The earth is a flat disc, hence the curved edge...

d_brennen · 22 Nov 2017 at 14:15

Big Spender said:
The earth is a flat disc, hence the curved edge...

So high above the UK you could get a telescope out and see Australia, right?

Raymond Lin · 22 Nov 2017 at 14:33

adolf hamster said:
but it'd need to be constantly accellerating upwards.

quick envelope calculation:
mavity~ 9.81m/s
age of earth ~4.54x10^9 years

so, there's 60*60*24*365.25 seconds per year = 31,557,600 seconds per year

which means over the age of the earth there's been 1.4*10^18 seconds

so, starting from 0m/s (from whatever reference point you like) we're currently doing about 1.4*10^19 m/s

or roughly 4.6 billion times the speed of light.

umm yeah, physics don't work like that....

i guess the only way it could work is if the earth was travelling around a circle to give a centrifugal accelleration but that then begs the really obvious question is what the hell is swinging us around on a magical invisible string.

I never said it was logical !

adolf hamster · 22 Nov 2017 at 14:40

Raymond Lin said:
I never said it was logical !

you didn't, i'm not sure why i put so much effort into that reply tbh, given the people it's targeted at are plainly strangers to sanity anyway

Liquidfox · 22 Nov 2017 at 14:55

V F said:
Those who watched that live, was anyone elses heart really beating when that door slid open?

I got shivers when he saluted to the camera before dropping!

Big Spender · 22 Nov 2017 at 15:11

d_brennen said:
So high above the UK you could get a telescope out and see Australia, right?

Don't be ridiculous. Australia is on the underside of the disc

dirtychinchilla · 22 Nov 2017 at 15:20

Big Spender said:
Don't be ridiculous. Australia is on the underside of the disc

Nope, everything is within the ice wall.

mrk · 22 Nov 2017 at 15:42

Steedie said:
How are people so thick that this “flat earth” is still a thing in this day and age?

The same reason similar groups believe the Earth is only 6000 years old.

d_brennen · 22 Nov 2017 at 16:34

dirtychinchilla said:
Nope, everything is within the ice wall.

And on the back of a giant sea turtle.

I have no issue with flat earthers, creationists and CT nuts (a venn diagram would see many of them where the circles converge

). In fact, the more outrageous the claims they make the better

Malevolence · 22 Nov 2017 at 16:40

peterwalkley said:
The thread here got removed in the end but google "turbotoaster elise of fail" and it should come up with a Barryboys link. Can't link here as their thread contains swearies ... lots of them.

You see the latest video (I think it's the latest) where he's on track and the monstrosity catches fire - again? The dejected delivery of the "Oh no, not again" line as fire once again tries to remove the aberration from history is classic.

adolf hamster · 22 Nov 2017 at 16:53

mrk said:
The same reason similar groups believe the Earth is only 6000 years old.

incorrect ratio of education-lsd?

DomBruv · 22 Nov 2017 at 16:58

Raymond Lin said:
Actually, they believe it’s an ice wall...

Almost like a video game block wall

Raymond Lin · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:08

DomBruv said:
Almost like a video game block wall

I know one of these people on another forum, i kept asking him why are there no photos of such walls. Apparently the answer is that there is some military guarding it and shoots anyone that gets near.

Weird, if the earth is flat, you don't need to get near to see it.

Bunch of crazies.

d_brennen · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:13

Take them to the coast, put them on a boat and set to sail it away from shore. Tell them to keep looking back at the land as it disappears over the horizon. Now you've taught a flat earther that the earth is spherical and simultaneously set them adrift at sea. Win-win

D.P. · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:35

adolf hamster said:
but it'd need to be constantly accellerating upwards.

quick envelope calculation:
mavity~ 9.81m/s
age of earth ~4.54x10^9 years

so, there's 60*60*24*365.25 seconds per year = 31,557,600 seconds per year

which means over the age of the earth there's been 1.4*10^18 seconds

so, starting from 0m/s (from whatever reference point you like) we're currently doing about 1.4*10^19 m/s

or roughly 4.6 billion times the speed of light.

umm yeah, physics don't work like that....

i guess the only way it could work is if the earth was travelling around a circle to give a centrifugal accelleration but that then begs the really obvious question is what the hell is swinging us around on a magical invisible string.

The idea is more like a rotation so centripetal force causes a gravitational-like effect, much like the space ship in 2001

Doesn't change how wacky it is though

Delvis · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:38

d_brennen said:
Take them to the coast, put them on a boat and set to sail it away from shore. Tell them to keep looking back at the land as it disappears over the horizon. Now you've taught a flat earther that the earth is spherical and simultaneously set them adrift at sea. Win-win

I figured whilst it is 'flat', it's out like a sheet of mdf, it still has a dome like covering where there is a 'horizon' per se

Either way, it's always 'you should be proving me wrong, not me proving I'm right' in their arguments

adolf hamster · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:38

Raymond Lin said:
I know one of these people on another forum, i kept asking him why are there no photos of such walls. Apparently the answer is that there is some military guarding it and shoots anyone that gets near.

utterly insane, who's paying these guys, and why would they bother defending an ice wall to nowhere?

adolf hamster · 22 Nov 2017 at 17:48

D.P. said:
The idea is more like a rotation so centripetal force causes a gravitational-like effect, much like the space ship in 2001

Doesn't change how wacky it is though

yeah, that's what i'm meaning in the last bit of my post- what are we spinning around and if mavity isn't real what's attaching us to it?