Posted on 01/15/2018 3:30:02 PM PST by Kaslin
LOL!
Well, no. That could be a round disk and still be flat; no getting around the need to prove a sphere.
People pay good money to go to the Grand Canyon and see a mile deep hole. Just imagine how much they would pay to peer (or pee) over the edge of the earth into infinite space.
“Probably is but I’ve met some who sincerely believe it. The problem is that there’s no evidence you can present them that isn’t a government trick. As a thought experiment I tried to come up with irrefutable proof the world is round.
Year before last, I flew from New Jersey to Malaysia. The entire flight, the horizon appeared as a curve. Now, I understand that does not in itself prove a round Earth; this does: the curvature remained the same the entire trip!
You see, if the planet is a pancake, from the air it would look round, oval or straight depending on the angle you’re seeing it from whether straight down, oblique or on edge respectively but since the shape of the horizon didn’t change it has to be spherical because only a sphere maintains a constant curvature regardless of what angle you view it from.”
CORRECT, Mr. Stormhill. Thank you for posting that.
And they worship the god & godess named Obama & Hillary. A couple of these claims to be christians but the devotion they give to their political gods exceeds that they give to Jesus!
The “flying spaghetti monster” was making a slightly different point.
Scientology was created to prove how gullible people are.
FSM was created as a example of how, in scientific discussions, if you accept ANY religion you have to accept ALL religions, no matter how silly. Science, by definition is the definition of the rules of the physical universe. Religion, by definition, is the definition of the rules of the spiritual universe as it spills over to the physical universe.
The FSM was a somewhat humorous example created to make that point.
>>No one, I MEAN NO ONE, thought the world was flat in 1491.<<
How do you explain the San Sebastian?
“How do you explain the San Sebastian?”
What about it?
>>“How do you explain the San Sebastian?”
What about it?<<
It was the 4th ship.
It fell off the edge.
(*badaBOOM*)
“It was the 4th ship. It fell off the edge.”
In the course of his four voyages, Christopher Columbus lost nine ships.
http://www.shipsofdiscovery.org/v1/columbus.htm None of them were named San Sebastian. Maybe the fault is in the delivery of your punchline?
True.
There’s still that “North Star” thing. And, related to that, the whole concept of celestial navigation.
"I quite realized", said Columbus,
"That the Earth is not a rhombus.
But I'm more than a little annoyed
To find it an oblate spheroid."
(E.C.Bentley)
There are some people here on FR who believe this crap.
Well it had to be a ship no one heard of.
I got at least one IM with laughter but it is true it is hard to deliver a delay in a BB.
Oh, come on now. Cats are not that large.
I don’t doubt it. There is also one person here in FR who hopes President Trump will lose his reelection in a Fifty State Landslide
Of course, but a lot of people believe in hoaxes.
Search results for Flat Earth in FR titles:
JoeRed: I wonder if there are any flat earthers in Australia.
MosesKnows: The Book of Isaiah 40:22 states: "It is He that sitteth upon the globe of the earth." (Douay-Rheims Bible)
Note: this topic is from . Thanks Kaslin. Ping to all lists.
JoeRed: I wonder if there are any flat earthers in Australia.
MosesKnows: The Book of Isaiah 40:22 states: "It is He that sitteth upon the globe of the earth." (Douay-Rheims Bible)
No one believes it. But some people enjoy a good argument, and making their friends shake their heads.
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