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A Quote From A Climate Expert Liberals Wouldn't Want You Global Warming "Flat Earthers" To See
The Looking Spoon ^ | 6-27-13 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 06/27/2013 12:55:49 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon



TOPICS: Humor; Politics
KEYWORDS: barackobama; climatechange; flatearth; globalwarming
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To: LucyT; maggief; Liz; null and void
Operation Highjump 1946-47
By the end of January, inclement weather had forced the airmen to skip over the existing gap between 150°E and 145°E longitude, which later expeditions would fill in. Mapping missions continued day after day covering a 1500-mile long area between 141°E and 115°E longitude.

That's 26° of longitude.

What is the distance between a degree of latitude and longitude?
A degree of longitude is widest at the equator at 69.172 miles (111.321) and gradually shrinks to zero at the poles. (because we live on a globe, right?) At 40° north or south the distance between a degree of longitude is 53 miles (85 km).

69.172 x 26 = 1798.472 at 0°.
53 x 26 = 1378 at 40° south YET...

From the link...since degrees of longitude are farthest apart at the equator and converge at the poles, their distance varies greatly.

So the article says they measured more miles closer to 66°, which by all accounts it should have been less, than they did at 40°?

21 posted on 09/01/2015 6:06:35 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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The Secret Land (1950) Official report on operation High Jump
35:55..."at Little America"...

38:13...what a horizon line in the distance.

43:30...1200 miles to the east...

Roughly 30° of longitude is 1200 miles at 73° latitude?!

What is wrong with this picture?

22 posted on 09/01/2015 6:36:06 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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45:21...1500 miles to the west...Shackleton Ice Shelf


23 posted on 09/01/2015 6:49:09 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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46:00...what a perfectly flat horizon.


24 posted on 09/01/2015 6:51:35 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: All; null and void

Yet nobody has gone across, just to the "geographic" South Pole and then back to their starting points.

Why not go to the opposite side from where you started and be "the first" to do so? The distance would roughly be the same, according to the picture, and the routes are already there.

25 posted on 09/01/2015 7:34:25 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

I *think* maybe they cache supplies for the return trip on the outgoing leg.

That way they don’t have to schlep the last can of beans all the way across the continent.


26 posted on 09/01/2015 7:43:00 AM PDT by null and void (Send them all back!)
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To: null and void
That way they don’t have to schlep the last can of beans all the way across the continent.

They can't get air drops? They air dropped supplies to the downed aircraft crew in the video I linked and that was decades ago.

27 posted on 09/01/2015 7:50:47 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Salamander
If I remember correctly you're into photography so maybe you can tell me...

Why is there a flat horizon in this guy's (Vadim Makhorov) pictures, when a fish eye lens isn't used that is, when the horizon should be falling away to the left and right? I want to get my head around this so I'm asking.



Every...

...single...

...time.

...no matter where the picture is taken.

28 posted on 09/01/2015 10:12:12 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Salamander
An obvious fish eye lens shot...

29 posted on 09/01/2015 10:22:40 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36

If I were taking the photo, I would use corrective software to level the horizon, much the same as they use for upshots of tall buildings, so as to avoid the viewers getting vertigo.

Could also be a panoramic camera shot.

I don’t know the math but there needs to be quite a large expanse of horizon to be able to see the curvature of the earth.

Can’t say from my own experience as my world is one mountain after another and I have never been able to see more than a few miles of uninterrupted horizon.

Everything here is lumpy.

:)


30 posted on 09/01/2015 10:28:14 PM PDT by Salamander ('Cause We're All Kinds Of Animals Coming Here. [Occasional Demons, Too])
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To: philman_36

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question65.htm


31 posted on 09/01/2015 10:31:30 PM PDT by Salamander ('Cause We're All Kinds Of Animals Coming Here. [Occasional Demons, Too])
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To: Salamander
Your link covers the "x" axis.

That can be seen here as well as "perspective".

...corrective software to level the horizon

I've been back and forth over the bridge this photo was taken from since I was a child.


The horizon has always been flat.
I'm trying to figure the "y" (horizon) axis.

What "corrective software" should I use on my own eyes?

32 posted on 09/02/2015 12:39:28 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: steve86

It depends on the time of year I suppose. Summer seems to be more accurate than winter


33 posted on 09/06/2015 10:27:14 PM PDT by Figment
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To: philman_36

Because every scientist, and every government agency has been lying to us for the past 100 years and the Earth really is flat. What would be the motive to do that?

I’m curious as to why every single astronaut who supposedly walked on the moon will not swear to it on the Bible. Actually I think one did. But the rest didn’t, wouldn’t, couldn’t.


34 posted on 11/30/2016 12:07:03 AM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028
What would be the motive to do that?

It's manipulation.

If you believe one lie without question you'll believe another, and another. You don't question anything and will believe everything someone 'in authority' tells you.

You're guilty of things you didn't do, you're responsible for things you aren't responsible for...and so on and so on.

People are made into mindless marionettes.

Just my opinion.

35 posted on 11/30/2016 5:37:31 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamiin Franklin)
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