The Flat Earth society
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ODonovan
Airman 1st Class
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
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
All he has proved is that in cruise the aircraft remains at the same angle to a vertical line from the centre of the earth.
PS - he is not a f*cking idiot - many of them are smarter. And he is not a complete idiot because he is missing too many brain cells.
If you go to thisistrue.com they call his sort an obliviot - from oblivious idiot
wuzak
Captain
Since Eratosthenes didn't know angles or latitude, he could not have known that the centre of the flat earth was 90 degrees north and the outer edge was at 90 south.
You're right that he assumed a round earth, since it was well established by then
You're right that he assumed a round earth, since it was well established by then
As far as I know, any group of people who thought about it thought the earth was round, especially people who lived near the sea or a large body of water. The only ones I have heard of that considered it flat were in ancient central China, where it isn't obvious that it is a sphere or at least a dome.
wuzak
Captain
If he isn't a complete idiot, then he must be a fraud, since he receives money through YouTube and probably gets donations on his live shows and through methods such as patreon.
Btw, there is video of a co-pilot pouring a wine as the pilot executes a roll.
A flat earth debunker called Wolfie6020 did a similar experiment with a level and some portable instruments, showing that the level was unmoved by some manoeuvres
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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- Jun 25, 2013
I cannot believe a thread over such an stupid thing has gone on for 22 pages...
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
- 5,661
- May 13, 2018
How about UFO's then?
At least that has a much more likely chance of being true and real than the earth being flat its moronic followers.
They are trying to beat the "colour of a model I'm building"
Impossible, that thread will never die.
Hasn't had a reply for half a year.
In the timescale of that thread six months is a short period.
It just amazes me that this type of thing can even believed with what science has taught us. I think it says a lot about our education system. I think people need to believe more in science books than other things.
I think some people are just bored with the facts. They just try to enhance reality with their own facts.
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
- 5,661
- May 13, 2018
Some of the replies are tongue in cheek. Others are merely an academic exercise. Anyone who really believes the Earth is flat had already sent all his money to Nigeria for his lottery winnings and won't be of any consequence.
I think that the promotion of flat earth, creationism, anti-vaxxers, etc. in the echo chamber of the internet is potentially quite sinister and represents an increasing anti-science movement within 'western' societies.
Many of these people are fools or foolish, but there is a core promoting a dangerous agenda.
In the face of increasing measles outbreaks the Italians are the first to ban unvaccinated pre-school children from school. Older children cannot be banned, but their parents can be fined. Cases of measles in the EU tripled in the 2017-18 period and there were 114 fatalities in those two years. I bet those parents wish that they'd vaccinated the children they effectively killed.
In 1967, the year before the measles vaccine was introduced in the UK, there were over 460,000 cases and 99 deaths. Since 2006 there have been just two deaths from measles.
Cheers
Steve
Many of these people are fools or foolish, but there is a core promoting a dangerous agenda.
In the face of increasing measles outbreaks the Italians are the first to ban unvaccinated pre-school children from school. Older children cannot be banned, but their parents can be fined. Cases of measles in the EU tripled in the 2017-18 period and there were 114 fatalities in those two years. I bet those parents wish that they'd vaccinated the children they effectively killed.
In 1967, the year before the measles vaccine was introduced in the UK, there were over 460,000 cases and 99 deaths. Since 2006 there have been just two deaths from measles.
Cheers
Steve
