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Gravity as a theory is false. Objects simply fall.
In fact, these people will have you believe everything you think you know about the world is wrong and you should blame it on a global conspiracy involving NASA, governments and scientists.
My comment is that there are some people who work exceptionally hard at stupid.
On the danger of starting a nasty debate, this sounds very similar to what some of the global warming skeptics said when I discussed with them:
Hard combination to beat!
A neighbor in our community is one of a number of Flat Earthers I have run across, recently he sent me the following as "proof". I have no way to respond to this kind of thing, I mean how does one combat this? At least civilly.
Airbus A321 cruise speed 515 mph.
23.75 minutes @ 515 mph. is roughly 203.85 miles along the earth's surface.
The pilot should have dipped the nose to compensate for over 5 miles of curvature!
But nope!
Very simple experiment and a very confident guy posting it! Hard combination to beat!
Just to be clear those were his words not mine! But I agree, you just cannot argue with this kind of insanity, facts and logic do not apply! Drives me right round the bend!Not really. What has he shown? He's shown that the aircraft was in level flight and nothing else. His basic premise, that the aircraft "should be constantly dipping its nose forward, to compensate for the curvature [of the earth]" is incorrect and simply demonstrates his ignorance of how aircraft fly. An aircraft does not have to lower its nose to lose altitude. He himself would probably have noticed, if he had bothered to look at his spirit level, that as the aircraft came into land, whilst descending, the the nose of the aircraft was raised, but this did not cause it to zoom off into the upper atmosphere.
He's a f*cking idiot.
Cheers
Steve
the world is spherical ....