So the Earth is flat.

[Red Squirrel]

Case closed!

 

[Sonikku]

I learned early on in my RPG playing childhood that the world is square. :hmm:

 

[BurnItDwn]

Well, if I had never traveled out of Illinois I would have believed the world was flat, but, I've seen mountains.

 

[feralkid]

Mountains are just flat parts turned up at an angle.

 

[highland145]

Well, if I had never traveled out of Illinois I would have believed the world was flat, but, I've seen mountains.

You've been here so you know there are rednecks too.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I can theoretically understand that a group of people have a certain reluctance to believe everything that so-called-scientists tell them to BELIEVE from their ivory towers with their LIE-BERAL ARTS degrees that are just a THEORY. And so on and so forth, ad nauseum.

But for chrissakes, if you go up in a plane, you can see the curve in the horizon. And if you don't believe in airplanes, you can climb a mountain.

 

[Ken g6]

It's true, a gyroscope mounted in a sufficiently frictionless bearing moves over the course of a day. So does a pendulum (away from the equator).

There is a reason precision timekeeping is necessary for calculating longitude.

 

[master_shake_]

flat earth people won't believe it's spherical until they drill a hole straight though and see some one on the other side.

 

[BurnItDwn]

You've been here so you know there are rednecks too.

Rednecks are everywhere.
I went to a redneck and gearhead convention last week, it was awesome great jolly fun!
http://www.threshingbee.org/

 

[zinfamous]

Well, if I had never traveled out of Illinois I would have believed the world was flat, but, I've seen mountains.

Holy shitballs that is so true. The unending flatness of that part of the country nearly drove me mad.

You've been here so you know there are rednecks too.

IME, you really only need to head about 20 minutes outside of Chicago proper to find your first herd of wild rednecks. This assumes you are driving in the right direction to find them.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Mountains are just flat parts turned up at an angle.

nah, Flat earth would just be a smoothish spherelike shape
We have a much more crunchy nonflat surface. Though parts are almost perfectly flat. (Like Indiana)

 

[Newbian]

 

[BxgJ]

I don't have the words.....

 

[SSSnail]

Now, that, is comedy.

 

[feralkid]

That's probably why some missing aircraft are never found...they flew up into space.

 

[Paratus]

Vectors man Vectors.

 

[IronWing]

flat earth people won't believe it's spherical until they drill a hole straight though and see some one on the other side.

Let's do it!

 

[Chaotic42]

Where'd you get that?

 

[master_shake_]

Let's do it!

what and let all the gravity out?

you're crazy!

 

[aigomorla]

oh man i had a good laugh on this one... i think he's missing one major physics application discovered by a falling apple.

Also the thing that keeps us from flying off as the world spins @ 1040mph.

 

[Puffnstuff]

I stumbled into this thread because I got flat earth and flat chested confused.

 

[Newbian]

Where'd you get that?

The Flat Earth Society newsletter.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol @ the plane one. In theory I suppose they are right, if the plane was flying at an exact straight line, and assuming the engines were actually powerful enough and had their own oxidizer and that it was flying at a faster speed, then yeah. But in the real world, pilots actually ARE adjusting the plane into a curve (not actually dropping their altitude though!), typically flying towards a certain point relative to horizon, which is technically going to create a curve over a long distance.

As for gyro it would be interesting to set one on a large sphere that turns very slowly. I'm pretty sure there is a certain point where a gyro is going to not be affected by movement because the movement it is getting is so small that it won't "notice". Same idea if you pull a table cloth really slowly, what's on it will move with it. If you pull it fast, it will stay in place.

On similar note, that whole thing where toilets flush another way or stuff drains the other way in the southern hemisphere actually has as science to it. If you have a very still body of water and a drain, it will drain the other way because the rotation of the earth affects it. As for toilets typically the design will overpower that effect though so it will flush whatever way the water is released in the bowl.

 

[lxskllr]

what and let all the gravity out?

you're crazy!

Used to tell new rodmen not to unscrew the cap on the plumb bob, or they'd let the gravity out. I wasn't challenged on that a shocking number of times.

 

[SSSnail]

On second thought, the earth is FLAT!

If it's constantly spinning, why am I not dizzy? Take that science!