Flat Earth Society

Vanguard Posts : 4065 Registration date : 2008-08-31

Every heard of these peeps? XD

Its a crack up reading what they write...

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

Vanguard Posts : 4319 Registration date : 2008-09-01

Never heard of them. They look interesting.

Subject: Re: Flat Earth Society December 17th 2008, 2:09 am

Wow, I would feel bad for them in a debate over the roundness of the world.

Forum Legend Posts : 6186 Registration date : 2008-07-07

I have not heard of them either.

Vanguard Posts : 4425 Registration date : 2008-06-05

That's...err...sad.

Super-Human Posts : 3216 Registration date : 2008-08-20

Never heard of them

Vanguard Posts : 4065 Registration date : 2008-08-31

They obviously choose to ignore evidence...

Read this, its hilarious:
its called "Falling Off"

Quote :: As we begin to make this argument, we acknowledge beforehand that we are aware of the property of matter known as friction. Yes, we realize that whenever two surfaces are held together by any force there will be a static frictional force that will resist any motion by either surface in any direction other than parallel to the force. The example we are using is an extreme situation, and would involve the object in question to travel a considerable distance (tens of degrees of latitude) from the "top" of the planet.

Using the "round Earth" theory, setting an object on the earth would be like setting grains of sand on a beach ball. Certainly a few grains would stay - right around the top, the surface is nearly horizontal - but when you stray too far from the absolute top of the ball, the grains of sand start sliding off and falling onto the ground. The Earth, if round, should behave in exactly the same fashion. Because the top is a very localized region on a sphere, if the Earth were in fact round, there would be only a very small area of land that would be at all inhabitable. Stray to the outside fringes of the "safe zone", and you start walking at a tilt. The further out you go, the more you slant, until your very survival is determined by the tread on your boots. Reach a certain point, and you slide off the face of the planet entirely. Obviously, something is wrong.
In order to avoid the aforementioned scenario, (which obviously is inaccurate, as you very rarely hear of people falling off the face of the planet) we are forced to assume that, in the "round Earth" theory, there would be a gravitational field radiating from the center of the planet. All objects, be they rocks, insects, humans, or other planets would have, under Efimovich's theory, have a gravitational "charge" that would, under a certain alignment, cause them to be attracted to the center of the Earth. Unfortunately, like a magnet in a stronger magnetic field, it would undoubtedly require a long time to re-align an object's gravitational charge, were this the case. And so we go to argument four, which deals with difficulties in having different "downs" for different people.

Subject: Re: Flat Earth Society December 17th 2008, 9:23 pm

That is hilarious. XD I read a couple of there things and even had a back-up argument for each one, their points are so weird....

And plus, have they ever heard of sattelite pictures?

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