News just in; The earth is FLAT!

the keen edge

Interesting, very interesting,

I posted this link in an earlier thread but I think it may deserve it's own thread;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

m@cc@

the keen edge wrote: »

Interesting, very interesting,

I posted this link in an earlier thread but I think it may deserve it's own thread;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

Do you have any opinion to offer to the post as opposed to posting links from Wiki?

Read into this a few months back.. Their forums are pretty funny.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/

Dravokivich

so it's just like the real world map from Civilization II?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

There's probably a bunch of Republicans/Conservatives buying into this....

the keen edge

m@cc@ wrote: »

Do you have any opinion to offer to the post as opposed to posting links from Wiki?

I have just came across this whole idea(flat earth) and find it truly bizarre. If I have broken the forum rules Mod's feel free to remove the thread.

Stephentlig

are they american?

Biggins

Stephentlig wrote: »

are they american?

...and what are they trying to sell?

MaybeLogic

Those Flat-Earthers are just plain nuts.
The Hollow-Earthers have some sensible, believable theories, at least.

mike65

Could be a worse theory, like the one involving a big Turtle...

sdanseo

What a pile of donkey bollocks.

Stephentlig

Biggins wrote: »

...and what are they trying to sell?

I say, because most of the stuff like this comes out of america, my wife would agree and has agreed that its highly possible as she is American herself.

No offence to America of course.

bluto63

mike65 wrote: »

Could be a worse theory, like the one involving a big Turtle...

Don't speak ill of the turtle! Our great leader, Lord Pratchett will one day lead us to enlightenment

Biggins

bluto63 wrote: »

Don't speak ill of the turtle!

Baaa! The flying spaghetti monster will sort him out sharpish I tell ya! :P

bluto63

Biggins wrote: »

Baaa! The flying spaghetti monster will sort him out sharpish I tell ya! :P

Preposterous! Everyone knows turtles overpower flying spaghetti monsters!

eightyfish

If anyone's actually interested in the flat earth idea and its history this book is rather entertaining.

sock puppet

Stephentlig wrote: »

I say, because most of the stuff like this comes out of america, my wife would agree and has agreed that its highly possible as she is American herself.

No offence to America of course.

It started in England but it could be mostly Americans at this stage.

the keen edge

m@cc@ wrote: »

Do you have any opinion to offer to the post as opposed to posting links from Wiki?

Sorry m@cc@. I am a newbie and have only started a few threads. As you are close on 3000 post I give you your dues, and in the future will add my opinion in much the same way as you have in your last started thread;

An interesting job vacancy in Zimbabwe.
http://news.uk.msn.com/world/article...ntid=153040421

Quote:
A backlog of prisoners waiting for execution has built up in Zimbabwe after the sudden retirement of the official hangman.
The man quit his job after he was said to be struggling with his conscience, now the government is desperately searching for a replacement.
About 50 inmates are waiting on death row at Chikurubi maximum security prison outside Harare.
Meanwhile, calls for abolition of the death penalty have gained ground. Earlier this month Shepherd Mazango won the support of human rights groups to appeal his death sentence and demand the abolition of the death penalty in the Supreme Court, the nation's highest tribunal.
"God knows when I am going to be executed. I am anxious about this every day," Mazango, who was convicted of murder in 2002, wrote in a recent court deposition. He said he and some others on death row feel they are losing their minds.
Zimbabwe's last hangman, said to have been an unnamed former Zambian police officer, left after his contract with the prisons service and justice ministry expired. A former top prison officer said that the executioner was always extremely remorseful about his job.
The government has prepared notices and an advertisement offering employment for a part-time hangman which have yet to be published, said Edson Chiota, of the Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender.
The job requires only a high school education but extra training would seem in order since studies have shown execution by hanging involves knowledge of body weight, human physiology, ropes, knots and basic mechanics.


A viable alternative to pissing off to Oz?

Oh burn. For a newbie, that was fekin excellent.

the keen edge

Deleted User wrote: »

Oh burn. For a newbie, that was fekin excellent.

I could of been WAY more cynical, but I'am still licking my wounds from the last burning I received on AH. And so now I post a little more carefully when dishing out sarcastic replies!

recylingbin

Everyone in the midlands* already knew this.

* fao dubs: the midlands is an area of Ireland** outside Dublin located in the centre of the country.
** fao D4ers: Ireland is the bit around Killiney and Dalkey.

marko91

those reptilians with their stupid theorys:pac:

orourkeda

bluto63 wrote: »

Preposterous! Everyone knows turtles overpower flying spaghetti monsters!

I feel a title bout in UFC coming on.

Michaelrsh

... but the Earth is ... flat. Isn't it .... I mean it makes perfect sense. I mean how do you know that this whole thing about a round earth isn't actually a government conspiracy?

AgileMyth

I love a good conspiracy theory. Which is why I decided to give this one a go.

I gave up quite quickly when I read that these guys don't believe in gravity.
Thats more retarded than the Paul McCartney is dead theory.

Pepe LeFrits

lol, that Hollow Earth site is gas. I'm tempted to start some weird sci-cult myself. I wonder if I could develop a following.

bonerm

What's underneath the flat-earth? Sorry, can't be bothered to read the wiki article in the off-chance there might be an answer.

KevinVonSpiel

bluto63 wrote: »

Don't speak ill of the turtle! Our great leader, Lord Pratchett will one day lead us to enlightenment

Don't follow him for too long without checking he hasn't forgotten where he is supposed to be leading you...

KevinVonSpiel

recylingbin wrote: »

Everyone in the midlands* already knew this.

* fao dubs: the midlands is an area of Ireland** outside Dublin located in the centre of the country.
** fao D4ers: Ireland is the bit around Killiney and Dalkey.

Wasn't flatland Ranelagh & Rathmines?

Shryke

KevinVonSpiel wrote: »

Don't follow him for too long without checking he hasn't forgotten where he is supposed to be leading you...

Uncalled for damn you.

Personally I think the elephants lend some credence to the turtle theory.

jimmycrackcorm

someone should tell the airlines to stop flying those europe - America flights that fly unnecessarily north towards greenland then....

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

the keen edge wrote: »

I could of been WAY more cynical, but I'am still licking my wounds from the last burning I received on AH. And so now I post a little more carefully when dishing out sarcastic replies!

I could HAVE been!!!

There. You haven't been inagurated into AH until you've been burnt by a grammar nazi!

Consider yourself no longer a newbie.

Jazzy

im going to disprove this one with my brain

according to their map, new zealand and south america are like 2 of the furthest away places on the globe um, pancake thingy. a flight then from auckland that departs at 1.30pm arrive in sao paulo at 5.55am (2 stops from what I can see), wheras a flight from dublin to sao paulo (a significantly shorter distance on the pancake map) you leave at 6.00am and arrive at 5.10pm (with no stops). shouldnt the flight from auckland take days to complete instead of around about the same time of being in the air? are airline companies slowing down or speeding up the planes on purpose just to keep up this 'earth is round' myth?


in fact, i have decided to put that question to the society right here
I suggest a game of people trying to think of other ways in which the earth cant possibly be flat and ask this fantastic society about it

Pittens

Ah, Jazzy - they fobbed you off with the "search function, use it" reply.

So no new threads asking sane questions of Flat Earthers, it seems.

I may give teasing them a miss.

Dravokivich

Shryke wrote: »

Uncalled for damn you.

Personally I think the elephants lend some credence to the turtle theory.

but what gender is the turtle?

Dunjohn

Pittens wrote: »

Ah, Jazzy - they fobbed you off with the "search function, use it" reply.

So no new threads asking sane questions of Flat Earthers, it seems.

I may give teasing them a miss.

In fairness, if you were moderating a forum that was likely to attract chancers asking the same questions a thousand times a day, you'd have a FAQ pinned to the top, too.

Q: "How come the travel time by air from South America to New Zealand, via the polar route, is SHORTER than the travel time going North first and then South again?"

A: The airline pilots are guided by their GPS. Remember that satellites don't exist. The replacement data given from pseudolites deliberately throwing distorting all the paths to make it the flights take different times. The curvature of these paths can add or subtract great distances without the overall turning being obvious to someone traveling it.

So yeah, conspiracy. Whoever has a vested interest in keeping the Earth round is doing a damn fine job. To save anyone else having to waste time there:
- Satellites don't exist because sustained spaceflight is impossible. I didn't check why. Possibly because the Earth is constantly moving upwards (simulating gravity) and would eventually crash into the satellites.
- Pseudolites could be anything: Satellites on temporary flights, or radio towers on the ground.

eightyfish

Em- the whole thing is a piss-take.

ocokev

Everybody knows when the world was created during the first 7 day week over approx 6000 years ago.
If the world was flat sure wouldn't it frisbe out of control towards the night sun.

Dunjohn

eightyfish wrote: »

Em- the whole thing is a piss-take.

Not at all. From the same FAQ:

Q: "Wouldn't the atmosphere be diffused into space?"

A1: In the general model, there is a vector field created during the interaction between DE (Dark Energy) and the Earth. This is known as the Dark Energy Field, which it acts as a containment to prevent DE from affecting objects with mass on Earth. This explains why the atmolayer will not be diffused into space. Here is an explanation on the DEF's structure by one of our moderators.

So, as you can see, the DEF prevents the atmosphere from being taken by the DE but it would also prevent liquids, such as piss, from being taken in the same way. The accelerating Earth will appear to push the piss back down to ground level.

LD 50

the keen edge wrote: »

Interesting, very interesting,

I posted this link in an earlier thread but I think it may deserve it's own thread;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society

There are people who actually believe this?!:eek:

bonerm

LD 50 wrote: »

There are people who actually believe this?!:eek:

I know! Next they'll be telling us the moon landings were faked in Hollywood (or Shepperton Studios depending on the budget).

carrot_flowers

Stephentlig wrote: »

I say, because most of the stuff like this comes out of america, my wife would agree and has agreed that its highly possible as she is American herself.

No offence to America of course.

I'm originally from the USA myself.
However, having traveled the world and lived in 5 countries I can assure you that this is the more ignorant statement.
There are radical groups of weirdos eeeevvveeerrryyywwwhhheeerrreee...and I have seen a good lot of it first hand.

Cookie_Monster

carrot_flowers wrote: »

I'm originally from the USA myself.
However, having traveled the world and lived in 5 countries I can assure you that this is the more ignorant statement.
There are radical groups of weirdos eeeevvveeerrryyywwwhhheeerrreee...and I have seen a good lot of it first hand.

of course there are, there's just a way higher proportion in America :pac:

carrot_flowers

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

of course there are, there's just a way higher proportion in America :pac:

Your ignorance is quite sad. Have you ever lived or even been there yourself and compared it to, say, several other places? Most people base these kind of assumptions off of television programmes and word of mouth. The fact of the matter is that USA just gets more publicity when it does stupid things. It's a huge country, a new country, and a lot of radical things have happened politically involving USA since its birth...not to mention that it's the source of the vast majority of the world's media...so it only stands to reason that when people in America do stupid bollox it gets a lot more attention than when people in other countries do.

Also, don't let me fail to mention that the majority of today's Americans descend from the massloads of IRISH that settled there during the economic drought here, including me-so don't be so quick to judge-your people pretty much shaped the place, hence they are so widely celebrated there.

Cookie_Monster

carrot_flowers wrote: »

Your ignorance is quite sad. Have you ever lived or even been there yourself and compared it to, say, several other places? Most people base these kind of assumptions off of television programmes and word of mouth. The fact of the matter is that USA just gets more publicity when it does stupid things. It's a huge country, a new country, and a lot of radical things have happened politically involving USA since its birth...not to mention that it's the source of the vast majority of the world's media...so it only stands to reason that when people in America do stupid bollox it gets a lot more attention than when people in other countries do.

Also, don't let me fail to mention that the majority of today's Americans descend from the massloads of IRISH that settled there during the economic drought here, including me-so don't be so quick to judge-your people pretty much shaped the place, hence they are so widely celebrated there.

you kinda prove my point, you don't even understand humour

Dunjohn

Touchy touchy

Rabies

ocokev

carrot_flowers wrote: »

Also, don't let me fail to mention that the majority of today's Americans descend from the massloads of IRISH that settled there during the economic drought here, including me-so don't be so quick to judge-your people pretty much shaped the place, hence they are so widely celebrated there.

mass loads of Scots settled there as well and there is nothing more crazy than a scotsman in the sun.

Spiritoftheseventies

So all those pictures taken from Space were like doctored?

carrot_flowers

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

you kinda prove my point, you don't even understand humour

I understand humour just fine. I just don't think nationalism and bigotry are very funny.

carrot_flowers

carrot_flowers wrote: »

I understand humour just fine. I just don't think nationalism and bigotry are very funny.

& let me add to that, that while I realise you are married to an American...there is a fair portion of ignorant Americans that don't have respect for their own nation...I'm sure there's a fair portion of, say, Irish people that think their home country is rubbish too. There's lots of stereotypes ignorant people can go on about, but if you actually get off the computer and into the world a bit you'll find things are quite different than the media makes them out to be.