Brian Cox

[hodge]

Clearly not Hodge. I used to like SWP as he could argue with a Nun but you’ve battered him on this one. Well done.

Cheers Sid C but I've not set out to gain any kind of victory, but merely to defend myself for agreeing with a so called friend of stonerblue who is a flat earther. I have never said what the true shape of the earth is.

 

[Sid C]

It’s eleven to twelve, there’s fish in the bath.

Oh FFS is it not confusing enough as it is.

 

[Sid C]

Cheers Sid C but I've not set out to gain any kind of victory, but merely to defend myself for agreeing with a so called friend of stonerblue who is a flat earther. I have never said what the true shape of the earth is.

I know that mate. Keep your chin up.

 

[hodge]

My chin is definitely up mate no worries or issues here pal.

 

[SWP's back]

SWP are you willing to join in the live debate online on beyond the imaginary curve on a Saturday evening. Yes or No.

Saturday evenings you say?

That sounds like a worthwhile use of my time? So what’s the format? Live call in?

Ps, do those pictures not show you the curvature?

 

[ROCKET80]

Flat Earth? We really have entered another dark age.

 

[SWP's back]

I don't detect any movement of Earth and never will

You may not "detect" the movement personally (in that you're not having to cling on to a tree to stop yourself flying off) but you can see the Coriolis effect several ways, look at water flowing down a plug or look at the weather systems and the fact we have trade wins or more obviously cyclones in the Northern Hemisphere (anti-clockwise storm systems) and anti-cyclones in the Southern Hemisphere (clockwise moving storm systems).

So you say you never will, but you already have, seemingly without knowing it.

I believe like sygnac proved that the ether moves and not earth.

No no, no one has ever disproven gravity, ever.

I have yet to see curveture be it at the ocean or in a plane or 121,000 ft captured on camera.

Two pages back there are photographs of both the straight bridge and electricity pylons across Lake Pontchartrain which clearly show the curvature of the Earth over its 23 mile distance. You can look at all the pictures, you can go there for yourself, you can see it's not aspect ratio or vanishing points. You can literally solve this puzzle for yourself but the fact they have been posted and yet you STILL say "you have yet to see photographs showing the curvature" suggests to me you are outright lying.

The stars are always in the same sky the North star is always in the same place

Well that's not true, as you move towards the equator and Southern Hemisphere then the North Star disappears out of view very quickly and if you visit a country such as SOuth Africa then you won't recognise the night sky in the slightest (which is always strangely unnerving).

even though we are supposedly spinning at over 1000 mph at the equator whilst travelling at over 660000 miles per hour around the sun whilst travelling even faster through endless space,

This is a perspective thing, whilst we do move (relatively by human standards) through the solar system and universe, such are the distances involves that it's impossible to notice movement during a human lifetime. The stars you see are thousands of light years away. That may sound a lot but just picture it again. Humans have been recording history for only 5,000 years. The photons that hit the back of your eye have been travelling at 186,000 miles per SECOND (that's really fast) since before your ancestors were making cave paintings. The universe and even galaxy is so very very big that movement is imperceptible.

now I don't why you think its fine to ridicule me or anyone else who thinks this is absurd

Because you are not thinking logically in any way shape or form and totally ignoring all answers put to you.

I'm a wiser and stronger person than you all think.

Hmmmm. No idea of your strength but the jury is out on the other one.

 

[SWP's back]

Cheers Sid C but I've not set out to gain any kind of victory, but merely to defend myself for agreeing with a so called friend of stonerblue who is a flat earther. I have never said what the true shape of the earth is.

He's taking the piss.

 

[Georgian Maestro]

Are you religious Hodge?

 

[lancs blue]

When you go on a plane and fly say 8 hours and fly say 6000 miles if you take into account climbing and decling that leaves say 7 hours you are cruising at 40000ft at no point during the flight dose the plane tilt back or forwards. Yet after 7 hours you are still at 40000ft, this is not possible if flying on a ball earth. Your altitude must always rise.

Sorry but I can't let this one pass, for a plane travelling at around 400mph the approximate change in height if the plane travelled in a straight line above a curved earth would be around 320 feet per minute or just over 5 ft per second. The correction applied by the autopilot to maintain a constant altitude above a curved earth would not be noticeable at any instant relative to other effects on the attitude of the plane such as even the mildest turbulence. I hope this helps, unless of course you think Euclidean geometry is also a global conspiracy.